Archive for Photos
Today would have been my mother’s 80th birthday. I can’t really imagine her at 80—she died at age 37. What would she have been like if she’d had another 43 years? I can make guesses—I imagine that, like many other people, she would have stayed fundamentally herself, while still growing and changing over time—but still, […]
I’ve now labeled all 39,801 photos and videos in my collection. Whew. …I don‘t know if I ever really explained what I mean by “labeled” in this project. I mean that each item now has a descriptive title (although often the titles are just things like “View”), and each item has one or more categorization […]
Last night, I was on my way to bed at a somewhat-reasonable-for-me hour when I noticed that the Google Photos app had generated a “best of 2017” album and was offering to turn it into a printed photo book for me. Intrigued, I took a look and found that it had also generated several other […]
My company doesn't have sabbaticals per se any more, but they do allow people to take extended unpaid leave, with...
Last month, I posted about the Olsons—my grandmother's mother and aunts and uncles, at least twelve of them in all....
About a year ago, I started going through the then-newly-digitized photos of my grandmother Helen's family. And I got a...
The last time I shaved off my beard was 1997. It was for our New Year's 1947 party. Our...
I've been meaning for months to post about an awesome new feature in Google's Picasa photo-management software: Given a set...
I'll post at some point about yesterday's adventures. For now, suffice it to say that alpacas really don't look real....
A while back, I was delighted to find out about the face-detection/recognition system in Picasa Web Albums. It's really good...
A bunch of my Facebook friends are doing the thing where they temporarily replace their profile photo with an image...
I wonder which there are more of on the the Internet: cute animal photos or porn photos. Anyway. Kam and...