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All and sundry family related to my grandma, and you know who you are, we are buying grandma a digital picture frame for xmas, one of the jobbies where you add a bunch of digital pictures to the darned thing and it cycles through the pictures. In order to make it even MORE fun, we'd like family members to send in digital pictures of themselves and their kids and whatnot for the purpose of loading these pictures into the digital picture frame so that it will be IMMEDIATELY READY TO USE.

We'd like everyone to participate, please. You can email them to me, please. If you do not have my email, you can call the office. If you do not have a digital camera and cannot get digital pictures BUT have pictures that are hard copy that you'd like to include in the picture project, please contact me via email and I will see what we can arrange.

Also, special for Dad: You did order the picture thing for grandma, right? And what's the size constraints on the files? What's the display area? I'm starting to get pictures sent to me already, you see, and it'd be nice to have something to hand out to people besides "send me digital pictures" so that when I get the 25Kb cameraphone pictures that are 60 px by 60 px, I can tell people that those are not sufficient unto the task.

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Dinner this evening -- You know, Livejournal and Blogspot and whatever have created a nation of Pepys... the interesting things about Pepys were that he kept a pretty regular journal AND that it was one of the very few day-by-day records of the times. It was a window inot the small history of London from 1659-1669, a long and fairly detailed window into the past.

Big history, people know about that. It gets recorded and there really aren't that many Look on my works, ye mighty folk around the place. If you were Big History (tm), you probably made it into the books without Pepys. The stuff that used to get lost was the day-to-day crap of how people actually lived, and Pepys did that. Now, we've got a nation of Pepys, each telling what they had for dinner and who they beat at cards.

I'm happy to do my part.

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I've gone over this before, somewhere, but it was a while ago and I've lost where I put it.

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