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  Sunday, May 15, 2005

What a Pair

I remember when my grandmother would meet someone, and sooner or later the purse would open and out would come the plastic fanfold with all of her wallet photos. It would unfold into a long series of panels. That was how people shared their photo albums.

A week ago my wife and I attended the wedding of one of my wife's friends, a former co-worker. The wedding was held at a golf course in Petaluma. I called it "the marriage trap at the 19th hole". All joking aside, it was a nice wedding, with great food, and entertaining dancing.

At the reception we sat next to another of my wife's friends, also a co-worker. Laureen is an optician, like my wife, and fun to be with. When it came time to share photos, did she produce a fanfold of family photos? No. She simply took her digital camera from her purse and stepped through the images, showing us the ones she liked in the camera's display. This is the modern world.

One of Laureen's photos was of her niece's dog, a creature that appeared to be the product of a chihuahua and a donkey. Don't laugh until you see the photo. The dog's name was Bambi. My cat is probably twice Bambi's weight.

Aside from displaying shots immediately, there's anoother benefit to using digital cameras. I popped the SD memory card from Laureen's camera, slid it into my phone and copied Bambi to the phone. Instant photo copies. Days like this, I thank the fates I was born in an age of gadgets.


"I could so take that cat!"


"He he he he he! Stop! You're killin' me!"


Blog Tag: Chatter   Blog Tag: Images

8 Comments:

At 5/15/2005 7:20 PM, Blogger meg@mandarin said...

Just testing the comments. I want to know how you do that picture thing.

 
At 5/15/2005 9:38 PM, Blogger Terri said...

What dog? I don't see no stinkin' dog??

 
At 5/15/2005 11:24 PM, Blogger Michelle said...

OMG, these photos are wonderful!!
I love your pussy! No wonder you have a fixation :o)

 
At 5/15/2005 11:57 PM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

Terri & Michelle: lol! :)

meg: You rock! Thanks for the help! I'm still learning this newfangled CSS stuff. I'll publish the code for the comment author photos sometime this week, on my Blogger Hacks page.

 
At 5/16/2005 12:19 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

I shouldn't complain so much about gadgets. I'm also guilty of passing my camera around to share pictures. It's just so convenient.

I have to agree with Terri. That Donkey-rat creature ain't no dog. That certainly is a pretty kitty, though. Is she as spoiled and pampered as she looks? My guess is that she lives on caviar and sleeps in bed with you.

 
At 5/16/2005 3:46 PM, Blogger meg@mandarin said...

I like your Blogger hacks page, especially the way you describe how to put the CSS in a separate file. You make it so simple.

I'm using Haloscan for comments right now. Does Blogger comments work well for you? The ability to add the photos is awesome. Brings the comments alive.

The name Bambi does fit the little lappy yappy dog.

 
At 5/17/2005 12:34 AM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

Thanks, meg. Haloscan also supports photos, but I don't know how you do it. When I post comments on beFrank and GemmaK and other sites with Haloscan, I notice that Gravatar photos are displayed.

You can probably get that in your comments by turning on Gravatar photos somehow, or maybe you need to un-obfuscate the email address, which Gravatar uses to look up which avatar to use. I don't have Haloscan in my blog, so I'm not familiar with its configuration.

Blogger comments display photos from the Blogger profiles in the comment entry form and popup window, but if the popup window method isn't used, you don't get the photos, and you never get them from non-Blogger comments. So I rolled my own. The drawback with my method is that it only works for the comment authors I've programmed into the javascript.

 
At 5/21/2005 4:21 PM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

The code for putting the photos in the Blogger comments is now at Comment Author Photos.

 

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