The inventive process
Today, I decided to revisit my digitization process for negatives. The desktop scanner can handle such tasks. Barely. Turns out that the digital camera has superior resolution, and when I pulled the scanned image up for a quick comparison, there was no doubt. I’ll be staying with my original method, even if it takes much longer. The proof really is in the image.
I have to give credit to the entrepreneurs of this world. Lacking in such drive, myself, I forget how it takes a particular sense of self-worth to keep on flogging your product through multiple iterations. Talking with a friend who is several years into a particular project, and heavily dependent on third-party financing. At a glance, there is as much energy spent on convincing tight-fisted money people to invest as is actually spent on the inventive phase. Perhaps that’s why I shy away from the whole model.
Tonight, another first on the BBQ. I know; I’m like a kid with a new toy. But, I prepared “almost” a dozen sausages without any burns or flareups. Compared to the last appliance, this one is gold.
In the “no joke intended” section of the news, I learned that the Palestinian swim squad trains in a pool that is only half the length of a regulation basin. Guess we can look forward to some mad turning skills! Could be the secret weapon to capturing gold. Less than four days until the Opening Ceremonies (possibly the best part of the whole Olympics, for those of us missing the “mad about sports” gene.
