The boxes are landing, bit by bit.
The floors are done! This is the original flooring from ’48.
The Petrs are finishing up the moulding. There are only a few details left in their part of the project.
Nearly
Phone
And in other news, my phone saga keeps on giving! Our long-standing number was successfully transferred to the new house after much gnashing and wailing; sometime last week we noted with surprise that our answering machine appeared to have ceased picking up. Calls to the number were not picked up in test calls, and tonight I finally had the bright idea of calling the number while looking at the phone. No ring – but a busy signal!
To my aggravation, when I picked up the phone to call my cell, the number that registered on caller ID was some number I had never seen or heard of. Qwest verified with me on the phone that this was some sort of error and will investigate. Argh.
Not in the cards.
Upon inserting the Elph’s 1gb card into my card reader, only a subset of the files I knew were there appeared in the Mac OS. Upon reinserting the card into the camera and hitting playback, I was pleasantly informed that there was “No File.”
So I shot some more test pix.
I had been planning a card experiment anyway, as Viv has been pestering me to learn how to get pictures from her phone, a Nokia 6220, on to her computer. When I bought the phone, it was supported by iSync; now, however, it is not, and in fact, there is no Google-able solution for easy data exchange to the Mac with this phone at the moment.
(Unless, by now, there is! via burning paper. crazy!)
The phone is much mocked for the idiotic placement of the SD card, buried deep beneath the battery, so even should this methodology work it’s less than desirable.
Happily, her card read fine and I was easily able to grab all the video and pictures from it. Unhappily, sometime in June, she started shooting to the internal storage of the phone. The phone does provide a mechanism to shift photos from the internal storage to the card, but only one at a time, and the procdure requires several button presses to complete for each image.
Once this had been attended to, I reinserted the Canon’s card.
Once again, the dreaded words: “The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in ‘IMG_0001.JPG’ could not be read or written.” Sigh. Looks like I need to do some research, or maybe actually insert the Canon-supplied software disc. At least this time it didn’t nuke the images.
It's Here.
You know, I’m just gonna quote Fantagraphics Head Shill Eric Reynolds in full.
“It’s Here:
Alas, he provides no buying link. Also, I’m puzzled by ecto’s willy-nilly use of offsite image embedding. I should fix this, but instead will sleep.
So close
Wednesday is the projected completion date on the remodel. They started setting the moulding saturday, and should have gotten at least two coats of clear finish onto the floors today, for a final sanding tomorrow and cleanup on Wednesday. It’s moving time.
Say, my server may be down; shoot!
(It appears I was correct, btw. something bumped my router off the ‘net at about 11pm.)
books
Jon Konrath appears to have apologetically assembled a thoroughly interesting holiday booklist. I shan’t be setting MasterCard to bookspine for quite a bit given the move (20 boxes of bound matter and counting), but Konrath’s unfazed by his, it seems.
Fool
As I impatiently waited for my Treo to complete an interminable media sync, I idly wondered where the pda’s usb datacable was. Perhaps it had wandered to the deepest inner reaches of my bedside table.
As I peered into the murk, what should I spy but the formerly lost D’image camera. I am a fool.
oof
ah geez, too much to cover.
– remodel in final stages
– spoke to parents
– transient business problem resolved
– new camera in hand (elph 450, pace jon)
– move started
– lawn mowed again
– met neighbor’s mother and ex-homeowner
D'ohmage
The night before Thanksgiving, while out carousing with a subset of the usual reprobates, I appear to have lost the Minolta D’image that i so valued for its’ image quality and movies. Front runner for replacement is a current-gen Elph, but the proprietary rechargeable battery gives me pause.
This also means I have to bust out the feared Kodak to document the end of the house project until I can finalize my camera decision.
Space
No sooner did I read Tom’s interesting analysis of his decision to go back to wintel for his laptop needs than I am presented with a low-space dialog regarding this laptop’s internal 70gb drive. Tom notes that from his perspective, Powerbook HDs are not upgradeable. As someone who once performed a hard-drive upgrade on an original iBook, my bet is that upgrades are actually possible, but a giant pain in the neck.
Some research on the subject, for reference. Interestingly, most of this info clearly concerns older Powerbooks.