Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Image library..... and backup

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Image library..... and backup

This morning I began backing up my photograph catalog from the big computer.... in excess of 36,000 images and over 80 gigabytes. It's being backed up to a portable hard drive, in preparation to moving it over to my laptop. Yesterday I installed new photoshop software to the laptop, and I plan on spending some time reviewing those photos.... deleting and editing.... till the herd shows more quality than quantity.

Watching that countdown timer move across the screen as the software does it's job.... 6% done..... 8% done...... for an hour or more, I've been thinking about the images I will find in that catalog. Sure.... guns, shooty stuff, food, flowers, ships, machines.... but there is more. Past loves, people now gone, good times and bad. In that mass of photos I'll find the last few years of my life laid out for display.

I will go through them, and I will edit ruthlessly.... and I will be flooded with memories while I do it.

2 comments:

William the Coroner said...: Be interesting to see. Keep 'em. Hell, they have anthropological value. Make an interesting coffee table book (perhaps posthumous, but still); November 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Carteach said...: The editing will be done on the laptop. The backup catalog stored two other places will remain intact. Even the poor photos... I'd just as soon not lose.

I can't imagine anyone else would be interested in most of this, but I've started printing and framing some of them for myself.; November 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM

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I have this philosophy.... All humans are faced with a choice.

They can become students of human nature, trying to recognize the good and bad within themselves... or they can choose to ignore human nature, and act simply on drives, desires, and instincts. The former is what sets mankind aside from animals, and the latter is to act as an animal.

Making the first choice is harder, more complicated, and creates a difficult path to follow... for it's the basis of knowing right from wrong. There are those who study human nature, and themselves, and actively try to better themselves and do what is right. There are others... people who study human nature, note the flaws inherent to the unthinking herd, and use them as a means to control.

There is no danger greater than the refusal to see, and to think. Doing so leaves one a pawn to anyone awake, aware, and driven to power over others.

Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.