Random Thought Thread

[rootabaga]

My wife categorized our old pictures and put them into plastic containers. Mostly they are grouped by child... we had four. I carried around one of those suitcase size vhs recorders and captured everything the kids did. I told my son once that I planned to transfer them to dvd so the kids could watch them. He looked me in the eye and said "dad, nobody has a dvd player anymore". So much effort for not.

Know what my mother did the dvd thing for the older generation of my Grandparent's and it was worth it, I got to say if you keep a DVD player around, your kids can watch it over and over too. My mother upgraded my photo album, an eight by ten to a monster one that is deep enough to keep in even more memories she photographed.
It is well worth the money and effort too. You can also do a youtube video link for them to keep them forever, I know I did a few of them in my youtube videos.

DVD is a great format, but like CDs the ones we burn are not all that stable. So the DVD is a fine idea (most people I know own a player), but be sure to have a "raw" copy of it on a backup drive or thumb drive or both. Awful example: my wife dug out some CDs a few years ago that her ex had burned which contained virtually the only pictures she had of two beloved dogs; she stored them properly in a dark, cool place, and yet they are sadly unreadable. I was still working then and took them into work and tried them on various systems, including one with LE recovery software on it, all to no avail.

 

[Milo Willamson]

DVD is a great format, but like CDs the ones we burn are not all that stable. So the DVD is a fine idea (most people I know own a player), but be sure to have a "raw" copy of it on a backup drive or thumb drive or both. Awful example: my wife dug out some CDs a few years ago that her ex had burned which contained virtually the only pictures she had of two beloved dogs; she stored them properly in a dark, cool place, and yet they are sadly unreadable. I was still working then and took them into work and tried them on various systems, including one with LE recovery software on it, all to no avail.

That is very sad. This is reason number a billion, I do not have any exes that got so close that they entered my home, because this is the only place I knew.

 

[rootabaga]

I've done a lot of wrenching in my day, but never on heavy equipment.

Especially anything this heavy.

 

[Milo Willamson]

I think that sometimes people just need to understand, sometimes when it is enough talking with them, they will learn to walk away.