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So we were killing some time and walking around goodwill, i needed an RF adapter for my Super Nintendo, and I was looking in the electronics section. I found an old digital camera that didn’t use regular flash memory, it has a PCMCIA card. I noted that it said there were 40 some pictures already taken on the memory card and thought “this is too interesting to pass up”. Being Yellow Tag day, it was 50% off, so I got it for only $5. Five dollars is way to good of a deal when morbid curiosity is on the line. So I busted out my old windows laptop. which has a PCMCIA slot, and loaded the card.

Turns out, the pictures are in a special format, and need to be translated. Luckily there is a Mac OS program to do it. Unluckily, it’s for OS9 and older. So I was using the windows laptop to pull pictures off, and copy them over to floppy disk, which I then put onto my iMac with my usb floppy drive. Then the floppy drive went dead. I thought “maybe I should reboot” and so I did. However, my computer did not want to come back up. It took 22 DVDs to back up everything crucial, and I didn’t get to save my tivo’d shows even. Looks like I will be getting a
backup drive this year. That’s the last time I want to go through that mess.

In the end, the pictures were what looked like a bunch of kids goofing around at camp. Oh well. Delete and take some new ones. I thought it must be possible to get an interesting effect from the camera being so low resolution. At least I have a story to tell, and a mess to clean up.

Bianca, the one eyed kitten, is proving how Siamese she is. She’s been running all over the place trying to eat anything that isn’t nailed down. Trying to chase anything string-related. She also has a completely unhealthy fascination with walking on my iBook while I’m trying to type. For some reason she thinks the power cord is the tastiest thing in the house.

We should get around to putting up the lights and decorating our tree tonight. It’s been sitting in the living room just being green and drinking a ton of water.

Finally finished moving out of the old place. As we were closing the door on it, we thought “wow, this place looks clean… bring all our stuff back in”. Eh. Better where we are now. Much better. We also went and got our Christmas tree on Sunday.

Time to go to bed. I’ve been up too late.