- Vintage Watch Services is a Swiss watchmaker who does restoration of vintage wrist watches. His YouTube channel is a deep dive into the restoration process and is fascinating.
- QLog looks to be a solid amateur radio logging software that runs under Linus and other operating systems. I am confident that I will end up with a Linux box again, probably as my main computer.
- This brace from Animal Ortho Care has potential for helping with Sera’s recovery. She ruptured the ACL/CCL of her left knee on Thanksgiving Day. She will have surgery soon.
Category: remainders
Remainders: 21 December 2024
- Dan Schimpf Software produces an excellent journaling/writing tool called MacJournal. When I was keeping an electronic journal, that was the preferred tool.
- I am considering a knee brace for Sera. Animal Ortho Care makes custom braces.
- My buddy got me started looking at watches because he knows I like mechanical things. The Caliber Corner has lots of data about watch movements.
- Project Farm is one of my favorite YouTube content creators. He/they also maintain a website as well. He uses good practices to measure the performance of various tools and other useful items. They are not laboratory-grade tests, but they are based on good practice.
- This Penco Drafting Pencil looks like a good addition to my EDC. I am not currently carrying a pencil and they can be handy.
Remainders: 07 December 2024
It is the first day of the week, Sunday 24 November 2024 and I am beginning this week’s (ha!) list of remainders.
- MrLeica is a YT content creator and blogger who treats Leica cameras and glass, among other things.
- Andrews Leatherworks makes some fine looking holsters.
- After a couple of decades of being afraid to eat ham and bean soupr (DiL… “Oooh, that’s bad, Dad!”), I fond this recipe. I am going to try the the trick of using canned navy beans and washing them before making my soup to see if I can avoid a disaster (so to speak).
- As part of their holiday sales event, Simpleshot (makers/purveyors of slingshots) did something I really do not care for — they shared my contact information with other small business in the outdoors market. I forgive them; it is easy enough to unsubscribe. One of the new vendors is Wazoo Gear. It made me chuckle when I free-associated “out the wazoo!”. Their offerings look OK to me. Simpleshot is recommended too.
- Apple Music and its predecessor, iTunes, continues to lose the album art for my music collection. I have thought for a while now that I might want to disengage from the music connection to Apple. This list of music players might be an option.
- Here is another set of iTunes alternatives. I think there might be a full entry on my love/hate relationship with iTunes and Apple Music.
Remainders: 23 November 2024
It is Sunday, 10 November 2024, as I begin to write this entry. I was working on my image library a bit ago and the topic of exiftool came up again. It is a tool used to read and write EXIF data store in image files. EXIF data are stored with the image and record the settings in-camera used to make the image. This provides a record of camera settings for the photographer to use for whatever purpose.
- I used to write
DOSbatch files, a script of commands to be executed in sequence to accomplish more than one task that are repeated on one of more files. this list comprises the commands available for a WindowsCMDshell. - Project Gutenberg belongs on everyone’s bookmark list. At least it should be if you read.
- Satellite Map provides a real time display of Starlink, OneWeb, and GPS satellites.
- Starlink has a new, small system called the Mini. It has all the performance of the larger units at a much smaller size and power requirement.
- Warlander Enterprises makes some very nice blades.
- The New American Standard Bible is one of my preferred translations. This Cambridge is very interesting.
- New music arrived this week. One album, The Company You Keep by John Gorka, was part of the arrival. He is a favorite singer/songwriter and has been for a decade or more. The song Let Them In was written by him based on a poem. It was covered by David Wilcox, another old favorite, more than 20-years ago. I did not realize that Gorka wrote the song (but not the poem).
- Quartzfest is coming soon!
- LT Wright Knives hit my desktop a couple of years ago. They were recently promoted by SimpleShot, a slingshot (catapult) company that produces very nice slingshots. Both make excellent products.
Remainders: 09 November 2024
- Campcraft Outdoors makes some very interesting waxed canvas camping gear.
- I have a Tamron 103A, 80-210mm f/3.8–4 Zoom Adaptall 2 in my inventory. I think this is a pretty good lens, but it needs a hood to have the best contrast. I ordered one from KEH this week.
- I have been thinking a lot about my EDC kit. This YouTube Video is an example of a well thought out kit that clearly serves the needs of its developer.
- I will need hearing aids some time soon. I will spare the details. One consideration is that I love music and will want to listen to it and have some enjoyment from my decent systems. This thread offers some insight.
Remainders: 02 November 2024
Well, another week, another list of remainders…
- Here is a lovely recipe for a white chili.
- Mark’s story is inspiring.
- I need a soft start circuit for the air conditioner in my camper. I thought I was going to have to find one that fits into the mechanical compartment, but this plug-in might do the trick.
- I have the f/1.7 instance of the 50mm Contax, but the f/1.4 version appears to be a suitable object of lust.
- I rediscovered MFLenses.com this afternoon. I have a lot of vintage manual focus lenses in my collection.
Remainders: 26 October 2024
Well, my last remainders post was a couple of weeks ago. I wonder where the Interwebs will take me this week?
- I know that I have some hearing loss. The tinnitus is a pretty good indicator. I saw a news bite somewhere that indicated my Apple Airpods Pro 2 can work as OTC hearing aids. The how is explained by Dr. Cliff Olson.
- Father Nomad is a maker of adapters to connect water filters to water containers.
- I have an Elecraft K3 transceiver for amateur radio use. This link describes how to set the Automatic Gain Control of my rig.
- In my YouTube wanderings, the algorithm presented a video by James Fleet. He is a British photographer living in the Philippines. I have not yet explored his YT channel (but I will), but his article comparing the Fujifilm X-T5 to the X100VI for street photography is good.
- The shutter tool is valuable for reporting the number of mechanical shutter actuations of a digital camera. Why is this important? I am preparing to sell some of my digital bodies and it is standard practice to report the number of shutter actuations.
- I stumbled on W.G. Snuffy Walden several years ago. He turned up on one or two guitar music collections and I noticed his playing. It is quite tasty. Then I learned he scored The Stand. It is a good score.
- Rick Oleson maintains an antique web page that has information of interest (at least to me). It is worth a look.
Remainders: 28 September 2024
- I forgot to post this, but there is a DC Power Transmission Line that runs from the Oregon/Washington border to Los Angeles. I was unaware that direct current was in use for power transmission. But, it has some advantages. Cool!
- Someone mentioned that the reports of eye irritation/damage might be from a infrared laser, such as the PEQ-15. This could be malicious or just an error.
- I might have posted this before, but I am working with the JS8Call mode (ham radio). The JS8Spotter utility has a lot to offer in support of JS8 operations.
- This set of JS8Spotter videos is an introduction to using the tool.
- I need to visit Burney Falls. Maybe I can do it this fall before the snow flies.
Remainders: 21 September 2024
OK, where in the Internet will I go this week?
- I have a need to install Python scripts (sometimes). Package installing provides utilities to accomplish this.
- I think I need to assemble a VHF/UHF radio for field operations. Armaloq has a frame for my Kenwood TM-V71A that will provide protection and relocation of back panel connectors.
- I might have posted this before, but
exiftoolis an excellent (but complex) tool for editing EXIF data in image files. It is a command line utility, which no one likes anymore. (Well, except for command line geeks like me.) TheexiftoolGUIPython program provides a GUI for the tool. This website provides a few examples for usingexiftoolfrom the command line. - In futzing about with some vintage lenses, I went to the Camera Wiki to look up the Konica Autoreflex T camera.
- That led me to Rick Oleson’s website because he has some information about Konica cameras and lenses.
- This Ago Film Processor is on my list of possibles for processing my own film.
Well, it is clear that I was puttering with my lens collection a bit. That led me down a rabbit hole.
Remainders: 13 September 2024
Although I have been around the Internet since my last remainders post, apparently I did not capture a lot of the sites and include them here. Hmmm…
- Hugin is an open source panorama stitcher for landscape photographers.
- Howard Merklinger is an author of a book on focusing in general and a second on focusing the view camera. They are quite technical, but very good.
- JS8Spotter is turning out to be a useful utility for JS8Call.