Pentax K1000 loaded with Kodak Portra 800. My first time trying Portra. It’s probably a waste of high end film, but oh well.
Film
Tag: kodak
The Dryer is Running
The dryer is running. I disconnected the exhaust hose from both ends, expecting to replace it. I realized quickly that the hose we bought yesterday isn’t going to be long enough. I found out shortly after that the hose we bought yesterday doesn’t fit through the hole in the wall. M’kay.
So I used the cleaning snake kit thing we bought yesterday to clean the SHIT out of the hose. There was so much lint. So. Much. Lint. It’s as clean as I can get it now though so that’s good. I collapsed the hose as much as I could and ran it directly from the dryer to the vent, rather than having it snake up the wall, across the ceiling and out. I was just trying to eliminate as many angles as I could.
I hooked the old hose up to the new hose we bought yesterday and then hooked the new hose up to the dryer itself. Then I hooked the other end of the old hose to the vent in the wall. Finally, I taped the shit out of every connection. I turned the dryer on for a 50 minute timed run. The last couple of times I tried that it stopped with an error message after a few minutes. It’s been running for over 20 minutes now without issue. I threw a load of laundry into the washing machine so I could run a second load through the dryer to make sure we’re good, assuming the first continues and doesn’t halt itself.
Fingers crossed.
Also, on a totally unrelated note…
I think I am ready for Disney in January. Film, babie! Film is not dead! At least not in my little idiotic, ass backwards world.
Sailing
The search function on the new Flickr is pretty awesome. The search function on the new Google photos is better. Google photos’ search page prompts you with faces, places, and things. One of the things on my search page is sailing. Here’s a bunch of examples of what it found…
For comparison’s sake, here are a few of what Flickr found when I searched for sailing.
Well… I can’t actually post anything because Flickr’s search didn’t actually find anything when I plugged in sailing. How about sailboat?
Again, nothing. What about if I search for Boat?
I went back to Google Photos and searched for Boat. Google’s results returned much faster, but there weren’t as many hits. Both sites had a ton of false positives but I think Flickr had more.
So there is a wicked unscientific comparison of the search functions built into Google Photos and Flickr that is really just an excuse to put a ton of pictures into a blog post.
Christmas Through the Years
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Owl has been the highest ornament on every tree since 1977.
2012
And Owl too.
2013
And Owl too.
2014
And Owl too.
Eight years worth of trees from three houses. One for each year that my wife and I have been together. I cannot tell you how lucky I am that she and her kids have let me be a part of their family. No one is more blessed than I.
Old Orchard Beach Pier
I forgot I had this. This is the Old Orchard Beach pier. This is the place I was thinking of visiting for a sunrise pic this summer. It’s the only beach I know of around here (its actually an hour away from here) that has a big pier. I’m off work on Tuesday… maybe I’ll go for a sunrise-by-the-pier pic then.
Random Flickr Pic
I haven’t seen this one in ages, but someone viewed it on Flickr tonight.
Old Orchard Beach in 2009. Taken with my old Kodak Z740.
Interesting
Interesting, a set on Flickr.
Did Flickr change their “interestingness” algorithm? It seems to me that for ages most of my top 20 were taken with my iPhone, and most of those were bad panoramas. Now my top 20 is down to only three iPhones and one Kodak. The rest are from the D90. I don’t know when that happened, but I just noticed.
Inside the Red Head's Head 