Today’s Breakfast:
· Trader Joe’s Dark Roast (Sumatra, I think?) brewed in a Bialetti Moka with organic 2% milk in a Bodum Canteen.
· Two Eggland’s Best Organic Eggs hard boiled to perfection. (No green skin on yolk, even.)
· Two bars of Weetabix with organic milk.
For one I finally feel like I’m eating a wholly healthy breakfast. Also, the only non-organic food here is the coffee itself. I’ll have to try and change that.
Yay! My Sequentix P3 is finally complete! This afternoon I was surprised to find one of the typically labeled packages from Sequentix waiting in the mailbox. I’d been waiting for the wooden end cheeks for the P3 I’d finished a few months ago and they are finally here. I’m really, really happy with them, too.
As you can see above, they make the sequencer look really finished. This project can also now be considered totally, completely finished. Yay!
Can any of you recommend a Win32 RSS / Atom feed reader? I’m liking Vienna on OS X, and Google Reader, but Google Reader just suddenly breaks all too often. And by breaks I mean fails to update feeds for long periods of time, if ever.
And Firefox sucks for feeds, because if I nest a bunch under one bookmark toolbar entry I have to drill down to each to check if there is anything new there.
<wipes brow>
I just finished raw scans of five trays of 110 slides. Wow. Now to get them cropped / adjusted.
I really wish I had a small light table and loupe right now. :\
Oh, can anyone recommend a nice, and reasonably priced, light table and loupe? The prices seem to range from $15 to around $90, and beyond temperature controlled lights, I can’t really tell the difference.
I know that most of you don’t care, but here are some photos of the mikroElektronika EasyPIC4 which arrived today, along with some other PIC dev tools: mikroElektronika EasyPIC4 (photo gallery retired)
The downside to a nice scanner is that I can see precisely how the Kodak Pocket Carousel slide projector grabs the slides. Top-center, leaving a couple small scratches on almost every frame.
On second thought, it may be from the processing. There’s no marring of the carrier at that point, and it seems to go under the carrier. Hmm.
Here’s one unretouched scan of a 110 slide (13mm x 17mm) which I just scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V ED. In short, I’m very impressed. For an almost 30 year old, tiny negative to… that. And film grain is visible.
Now, to find out how to get good correction for Ektachrome’s horrible reddening problem properly implemented. And to scan ~600 slides.
Darn. I was hoping for somewhere around an order of magnitude cheaper. Then I would have purchased one:
Dear Steve:
Thank you for your interest in Jarvis Products.
Net price to you for the HBD-1, part number 4022028 is $ 4,630.00. To ship
UPS ground the charge is $ 15.00 for a total of $ 4,645.00.Please let me know if you require any further information.
Best Regards
Peter Gwyther-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Vigneau [mailto:c0nsumer@nuxx.net]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:33 PM
To: sales@jarvisproducts.com
Subject: Pricing on HBD-1 Hog Bung DropperHello,
Could you please tell me the pricing for one HBD-1 Hog Bung Dropper? I
would need this shipped to zip code 48315, which is in the Metro Detroit
area.Thanks very much...
-Steve Vigneau
c0nsumer@nuxx.net
586-524-1675
For reference: HBD-1 Hog Bung Dropper, under the section Bung Cutting. Demonstration video here.
