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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Mar 26, 2010 - 12:05am PT
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It is better now and thanks for asking; I was without work for 13 months and rototilled through one hell of a lot of money waiting. Busy now at least. Best to you K!
p.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 26, 2010 - 12:10am PT
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Now wait a minute Peter-
You can't start tweaking Boo's photos, you're my go-toguy with all my old and funky slides. Boo has a million and Hennek two million and if McClinsky ever gets on here we are in deep trouble. So Boo, this is a one time gratis from Peter and don't get any funny ideas. Yah hear me Buckwheat? LOL
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Bruce Berryhill
Trad climber
Tulare California
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Mar 26, 2010 - 12:15am PT
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What ever happened to Russ McClean?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 26, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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Many of us have been working relentlessly to get him on ST- so maybe, with a little luck he can come up sometime and tell all of us. Seems like he has some problems with the speed of his modem connection? Now that is a classic McClinsky excuse to the max.
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Berdette Robison
climber
Green Valley, AZ
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Hi Ken ~
The miracle of the internet. I went to the Senior Prom with you at Canoga Park High School in 1963...how have you been the last 47 years? Actually, I last saw you in 1968. So, it's really only the last 42 years! I've been reading your Forum dialog and see you're living in Hawaii and have a beautiful daughter, Brianna.
Berdette
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oh La La, the Boo went to his senior prom, gotta see those photos! Was he wearing white bucks or climbing shoes? Probably last time he dressed up? Or did he?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, thanks for the nice bump, i don't think i ever saw this...
nice to learn more... :)
god bless...
:)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Really, Joe, for sure. Imagine if McLean, Boche, Hennek dumped their collections on me all at once, I would be so f**ked--- there must be between just those three guys, tens of thousands of images. And there is your monster collection which we haven't even really gotten into. And then there is Doug Robinson's... which is gigantic too and totally unordered according to him.
This situation would be like one of those temporary lakes formed by an avalanche in a narrow high valley, only to tidal-wave out at some point. And because the problems of these images vary so much, developing Photoshop automatic batches wouldn't be all that efficient either.
But digitizing has to happen and happen soon as the damned things are rotting away as we write. Soon, Buds, they will be no more, you know... If nothing else at least scan the bastards in the highest res your scanners can perform and save as TIFFs. Correction can happen whenever later you know. It is the business of capturing and archiving in these TIFFs that is so time-sensitive.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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The gospel has been spoken by our Salvage Master-let the scanning begin!
Just imagine guys, those slides are turning to sh#t as you read this.
Oh yes, and has been recently revealed-McKlinsky has appeared on ST. Miracles do occur.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Does Ken Boche come from Thyang-boche, and is he part Sherpa? Just wondering.
Joe, Peter et al are correct on the "scanning old slides" thing. One option is to buy or borrow a decent scanner, and do them yourself. Another is to get a commercial place to do them for you. You'd probably want to get them all prepared and organized and cleaned. But it seems to work.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Boo Ya Dawg! Dig into that slide box NOW! The fuse is burning on those slides and you likely have some gems! Bite the bullet and digitize at least the good ones because you alone know what's what!
We would love to check it out!
Cheers-Steve
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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And additionally, a bad-assed scanner that not only does slides and transparencies but can do all sorts of regular bedscanning of opague media like pages of articles, paper etc, is well under $200, for christ's sake. And the thing will act as a copier for you too.
They usually can create PDFs, do OCR (optical character recognition), email right out of the device and so forth as well as quite a variety of corrections. Your output can also be in quite a variety of forms including RAW! I recommend Canon's CanoScan 8800F which can do up to 4800 dpi x 9600 dpi and is an LED unit so it can scan instantly without having to warm up for a minute or two. I have this scanner's earlier version that is not LED and its been great for years. I use VueScan as the driver for it because it is better than anything Canon or anybody else includes with their hardware. Plus Hamrick is all the time updating their driver to keep it cutting edge.
Here is a link for vendors for the scanner:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=canon+scanner&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=16562959047936590824&ei=8xcyTLHcKKWMnAeNtPmOBA&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CFIQ8wIwBA#ps-sellers
and here is a link for VueScan:
http://www.hamrick.com/
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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OK! OK! OK! I've been workin' on it! Too slowly, I guess, what with the rest of life.
Thanks for all of you for encouraging me to move my stories along a bit more steadily.
The resurfacing of this thread caught me by surprise over this weekend, but old threads seem never to die here on the Taco Stand.
Anders: No, unfortunately, Boche comes from Wiesbaden, Germany. I've been trying to think of a clever word-play with Thangboche for years... Still no luck... Carrying heavy loads really isn't my favorite thing tho we've all had to do it, of course...
Berdette: Don't let Guido or some of these other guys fool ya' for a minute! Most are soft and caring under their rough, rock-hardened exteriors. I wonder if I still have our old prom picture...
Peter, thanks for the scanner info; I'll keep it in mind, tho I have a slide scanner now, tho I may upgrade it. But Hennek has been shopping for a scanner, and McLean is moving forward as well...
For anyone who hasn't heard, I'll probably be makin' a road trip from the Bay Area to the East Side between about Aug. 20 - Sept. 1 or later. I'm hoping to have a digital slide show (PowerPoint) ready to show to whomever, wherever, but I'll be posting some of that stuff between now and then...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Berdette,
Ken is still kinda happen' it appears but is not as cute as he was 42 years ago. Guido and I however are still drop-dead amazing.
Look see, here Berdette. Here we have Ken before and after hanging out with Guido and I recently. Notice a certain freshening, joie de vivre and even je ne sais quoi with this ovah hea:
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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There's one thing that I've noticed about one's good, long-term friends: they razz one mercilessly AND they don't let us change from who we were when we first knew them to who we've become. But it's all in good fun. We just have to give it back as well as they dish it out!
Now in order to defend my so-called reputation, Guido states that I've never been dressed up since my 1963 prom. Well, I've got news for him:
1963: My high school senior picture.
1978: Dressed up for a posterity photo after having declared, "I'm never gonna wear this monkey suit again."
1987: My wedding, traditional Hawaiian wedding attire.
1990: At my brother's wedding.
2000. Aloha shirt and silk sarong, high fashion in Polynesia.
2010: I got dressed up for a choral performance of 60's music with Waimea Community Chorus, complete with make-up. After intermission, we changed into more free form 60's outfits. I chose a "60's in Hawaii" aloha shirt.
So, Guido, that's about FIVE TIMES I've been dressed up in the last almost 50 years. That's not too bad, tho I HAVE put on aloha shirts often enough as well.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Gee thanks for all these ne'er-seen-before images, KB. It is going to be hard for Guido and I to not just right away ask, what the hell happened to you??? You used to be such a nice boy.
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Berdette Robison
climber
Green Valley, AZ
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Guido, Peter, Ken -
Ken's senior picture is just how he looked at the Prom...and I'm sure he wore real shoes! Not much of a change except for the gray hair...not bad for 47 years later. However, we went out to dinner first and he didn't have enough money to pay for dinner! Sorry I interrupted your climbing reminiscing...what a great site for you all to reconnect and stay in touch.
Berdette
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Berdette
Dam-Boche pulled his infamous dinner trick on you. The nerve of that guy.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2010 - 10:57am PT
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More importantly Berdette, in our never ending fascination with all Boche, all the time, where is the picture of you on prom night?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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In my own lame defense, let me say that the prom was just my 3rd date in my life. And I'll keep mum on just why we went where we did for dinner that night and the surrounding details... If only I had a credit card in those days...
I looked for the prom pic, and I didn't find it, so unless Berdette has it and is willing to post it, you guys'll have to be content with my senior pic which Berdette says is what I looked like. And you guys'll have to fantasize how lovely SHE was in her short, white dress, orchid corsage, deeply penetrating brown eyes, soft melodic voice...
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