Random photos, comics, etc.

[Randy Stankey]

I'm impressed with the fact that your wife's quilt has been valued at $1,000!

My girlfriend knits and crochets and she often makes blankets and things. She'd be hard pressed to pull down a hundred, let alone a grand!
She's very good at it and has even won prizes at the local fair.

Sewing and knitting are different things, of course, but I know how much work it takes to make something like a king size blanket. It takes weeks and, sometimes, months, for Hannah to make a full sized blanket but, still, it would be nigh on impossible for her to get that much for one of her creations even though she does top notch work.

Tell your wife, good job! Thumbs up! She must be proud!

Deservedly so!

[Frank Cox]

My wife makes fancy quilts and she donated one to the Agricultural Society Fair to raffle off as a fundraiser.

First prize is her quilt.

Second prize is a pig!

I told her she now has proof that her quilts can beat out the pigs!

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[Harold Hallikainen]

You used to be able to get batteries from Radio Shack. They had a transistor radio 9V battery that had "higher lumen output." Perfect for projectors!

[Leo Enticknap]

By my calculation, Young Boozer II would have had to violate the Volstead Act to have lived up to his name!

Changing the subject somewhat:

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So Barco Alchemy certificate batteries are a "health and beauty" product, according to Amazon! Knowing that an ICMP won't bork, resulting in a panicked call or email, is not bad for my health, I guess, but I'm still not sure that I get the beauty part...

[Martin McCaffery]

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Young Boozer?! I hope the minimum drinking age in Alabama lives up to his name...

That's Young Boozer III. Given that he is 75, I think we are up to Young Boozer VI at this point. Very prominent name in Alabama.

[Harold Hallikainen]

Right now, we're listening to "pig radio" https://www.kpig.com/ .

https://w6iwi.org

[Jim Cassedy]

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Ham Radio?

[Frank Cox]

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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

The chemical aspect of it was partly true here as well. Am pretty sure it was the adhesives used that caused that. But I also like to think that problem could have been.overcome if they really wanted to.

[Allan Young]

Mag is always best. DTS on 70mm only came to exist as a cost cutting measure because the studios and distribution are a bunch of cheap skates

I've got a vague memory that mag striping was made illegal due to the toxic nature of the chemicals involved, but having had a quick search, the only reference I can find is from this very site back in 2010...

It seems apparent that as the volatile chemicals used in stripe application also hasten the fading of Eastman prints and possibly other manufacturers too. This volatility has also been outlawed as it is considered a pollutant and therefore there will no longer be any magnetic prints made-hence the uptake of DTS optically timecoded 70mm prints.

I visited the mag striping lab at Technicolor London back in the 90s and judging by the thick brown sludge coating the walls, it looked like quite a hellish environment in which to be working.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Mag is always best... DTS on 70mm only came to exist as a cost cutting measure because the studios and distribution are a bunch of cheap skates. After mag is applied to the film, it has to be aged before the sound can be recorded on it, hence 70 mag is a slow process. I'm surprised Nolan hasn't revived mag sound yet. Even Imax used to be 6 track mag via 35mm full coat.

[Mark Ogden]

Projectionist and occasional poster David Kornfeld introduces 2001: A Space Odyssey from the stage of the Somerville Theatre outside of Boston. The Somerville has a 70mm house print of the film that they bought when WB sold off the prints from the 1999 restoration that were shown in 2001. The mag sound was superb, to my ears better than DTS. Visually, the print is much better than the Christopher Nolan non-restoration prints from 2018.


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[Leo Enticknap]

Seen in the staff break room of a theater that closed during the pandemic and hasn't reopened since, four years later:

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The HVAC was off and the temperature in that room must have been in the 90s when I took that photo. I do not want to be the one who has to open up that machine and clean it out!

[Jim Cassedy]

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[Paul H. Rayton]

Having a "meh" day?
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