Old Crank
Old Crank's JournalSome old work
For a time I did a fair amount of work with Kodak IR film. Both 35 mm and 4X5.
Here are 3 from a small circus series I shot. Nikon FM2, 70-200, f2.8. flash covered to cut visible light.
Girl on trapeze. This was from a summer circus camp.
Has the pro-gun crowd been lying to us?
An armed society is a polite society. They have spouted that for decades. No these people want millions more for security.
We have more than one gun for every person, not just adult, but person in the US. Sounds like an armed society to me. Why do we need more dollars for security and protection of officials. Shouldn't be more polite than Canada by now?
Two flowers from our new flat.
These are by the front door. I was moving a couple of boxes before the move. Dodging the rain while doing so.
I meant to take these flowers Friday but....
Here is the development of phone cameras. Both of these flowers were moving in the breeze when I hit the shutter.
I can remember back in the days of film waiting for a short break in the breeze and camera on a tripod to get images this clear.
Arrgh! Lebkuchen and Stollen
Are already in the stores. Lebkuchen is the larger gingerbread cooks. Many times with a chocolate icing. The small ones are here also.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the sell by date in a couple of different brands. They should all last past Christmas.
Easy salmon
I was told this was from Jacques Papain by a friend who showed me this technique.
I have no way of documenting it.
In a cold skillet place salmon fillets skin side down. If I have skinless I smear a thin coating of a neutral oil on the pan first.
Season the salmon with salt and pepper. I sometimes add some paprika or some other spice.
Put a lid on the pan. Turn the heat to medium high and leave the fish alone.
I like a glass lid as I can see the salmon. The skin will turn crisp. Skinless will develop a slight crust.
Cook to your liking.
Why are roads dangerous?
Perhaps it is because police and DAs don't take vehicle crimes seriously.
The driver killed 2 and injured 17 people. Gets 1 year in jail, 180 day license suspension and a few years probation. The DA decided they didn't have a case. The driver lied about the collision in the arrest documents.
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/09/05/man-sentenced-deadly-2023-cyclist-crash-goodyear/
The move begins in earnest.
From our rental apartment to our new flat.
We bought a barrier free place. So while we are moving in the elevator is down for 3 weeks as it get rebuilt after 24 years. Perfect. Fortunately we are paying movers to handle the stuff.
We have ordered most everything new for the kitchen we need.
And will be putting some large appliances up for sale.
PAck, pack, pack.
Do it yourself video additions for safety.
My nieghbours are a very nice Chinese couple. They have their first car now that he has his driver's license. Since he is a new driver he is on a probationary license for a year. He has added some video camera enhancements to the normal proximity sensors.
Two cameras are on his outside rear view mirrors paired with two small screens at the base of the A pillars. No blind spots. He has a center rearview mirror/monitor that is installed over the existing mirror. When the video is off/fails it is a mirror. It has a forward facing camera that records and in case of a crash stores the video where it doesn't get erased. It also has a plug for his rear camera. The cost for the mirror set up came in around 100 euros. Just amazing.
Musk can't deal with the nitty gritty of running a competitive business.
Keeping ahead when people are chasing is hard. Tesla is loosing ground in the market, old designs fewer cutting edge features and price are cutting into his market. Not to mention his political views that he broadcast out.
Tesla seems to be planning a move to robo taxis, which they are behind in, and humanoid robots.
"Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package.
Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bored with making them. With the exception of the struggling Cybertruck, Tesla hasn’t released an entirely new electric car in five years. Musk has indicated that he wants Tesla to primarily focus on building robotaxis and robots. Autonomous-vehicle technology “is the product that makes Tesla a ten-trillion company,” he told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. “People will be talking about this moment in a hundred years.” All the while, Tesla has continued to make almost all of its money from selling cars.
But now it’s clearer than ever that Tesla’s future is not in selling cars. The company’s latest “Master Plan IV,” which was released earlier this week, makes no mention of any new electric cars in the works. It is instead a technocratic fever dream, predicting a future in which humanoid robots made by Tesla free us from mundane tasks and create a utopia of “sustainable abundance.” To the extent that cars are mentioned at all, it’s in the context of robotaxis, or the batteries that power them. In other words, Tesla, the biggest EV company in the country, wants out of the car business."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/tesla-elon-musk-master-plan-robotaxi/684122/
The move begins
I have been putting off scanning a bunch of pictures. I still have a few hundred. Also stuff on photo CD. Not sure how I will read them since I no longer have a CD reader for my computer. I may have to buy a cheap USB one.
Here is a partial of the work to be done. There are at least double the slide boxes and 25-30 plastic binder pages. That should give me something to do this winter..
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