technology and i
July 7, 2007since i’ve been in california, i’ve really started to lose touch with anything tech. i hardly ever use my computer. my camera is packed up more often than not. i watch no t.v. i lost my ipod on the train out here and never really cared that it was gone. i think its because there is so much else that i do on a daily basis and because there are so many people doing so many different things around me. to sit down and write a post or even an e-mail has become incredibly boring. this is good in that i could probably get rid of most of my technology tomorrow and be alright. i’ve been turning my cell phone off for days at a time and not missing it. it’s bad in a way because i’m more out of touch with the world beyond hopland than ever before. must achieve balance!
but on the up and up, i finally figured out the problem in communication between my camera and flickr. for the longest time, i would shoot photos in high resolution but would lose quality when i uploaded them to flickr. through controlled experiments, i’ve found that iphoto is the problem. if i put the photos on flickr right off my camera, there are no troubles. but when i upload to iphoto and then to flickr, it gets all small. so the plus is that i can address the problem from here and get back to shooting photos. the downside is that most of my old photos are only on iphoto and can’t be restored to their original bigness. but i guess i don’t really need big photos for everything.
now it’s off to oakland for the permaculture convergence! yah whoo!
yay! so when do i get to see the wedding photos?!
cocopuff annie and gagne both send their love. we missed you tremendously! glad you are inching away from technology….so good for the soul. but the photos, keep that shit up. you’re talented and it gives us a window into your most fascinating and strange world. can’t wait to come home so i can roll down the dirt road to visit you and bring your presents whenever i want!
the more i think about it, the more i realize that i don’t want to have electricity (wind, solar, etc) on the land that i eventually buy. for a while i thought i’d get a small setup and only power the stuff that’s necessary, but then i realized that NONE of it is really NECESSARY. so, i’m going to go without and see how that goes.
as far as flickr and iphoto, that’s a weird problem. very wierd. i ALWAYS upload my photos into iphoto first, get rid of the bad ones, and then drag them from there into 1001 to upload. i never have the kinds of problems you are describing, so you might want to do some google searching and see if anyone else is having the same problem. either way, it’s good to have you back on flickr.
about the photos – it’s the whole me not hanging out with technology thing. i’ve been dumping my pictures on my computer and not thinking about it beyond that. i guess it just hasn’t been a priority – i’ve been busy learning how to make soap and playing d & d. i’ll get them up there someday.
i think that i’d like to have some form of electricity generation. being here for three months has made me appreciate having light at night to do things. i don’t need it more than a night a week (normally i wake up with the sun and go to sleep once it gets dark since i’m pooped), but it’s nice to be able to stay up and cook or read. since i’ve been here, i haven’t been reading as much simply because i’m not in a normal house. i’d like to give it a try without power though – it’d be sink or swim right off the bat, but i think once i got use to it it would be easy.
and i’m a dipshit. i wasn’t pulling picture out of the “originals” folder of my picture section. i think was pulling the version that iphoto resized for when i view it through the program (not thumbnail, but something else). i’m glad that i didn’t lose the originals.
i’ve been running into this problem… i’ve been uploading from a “data” folder in my iphoto library. where are the “originals” kept?