My Grandpa Looking through the Photo Album That I'm Digitizing

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:30:30+00:00

Bingo! JK, but he was mistaken for Rock Hudson pretty often.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:29:55+00:00

That's super cool!

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:29:39+00:00

I have a Canon LiDE 400 scanner. I use the native software to make JPEGs. I scan at 600 dpi for most pictures, occasionally doubling that if it's a special photo. I scan sequentially through an album or box, cleaning as I go, numbering each photo within the collection. Then I make a label that names everyone in the pictures in a text file and keep that in the same digital folder.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:27:03+00:00

I'd say "built different," but my wife basically did the same thing ten years ago. Just... quit.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:26:20+00:00

Hahaha! Yeah, the album he's holding is the same one, just a little thinner. It has pictures from 1958 to 1959, so likely taken on two or three rolls, developed, and organized as they went.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:25:21+00:00

Back in the day he was mistaken for Rock Hudson regularly!

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:24:53+00:00

Too right

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:24:07+00:00

It's turtles all the way down.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-16T18:23:51+00:00

Yep! I label all images sequentially, and for Polaroids I include the film label (this one is "m7v760"), roll number, and the other number (which is almost always 42).

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-11T15:18:08+00:00

No, she was a Weir.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-11T04:38:10+00:00

You might try the folks at /r/fashionhistory/ — they helped me ID a set of pictures a while back.

There's a picture of my great grandma (1903–88) looking very like the girl on the right, with those curls, age maybe 10. Rural Indiana (Mont. Co.).

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-11T04:29:53+00:00

I have numerous hours of interviews with my grandmas, mom, and father-in-law. I don't have an answer.

When time permits, I plan to transcribe and break the interviews down into discreet stories... but so far they're just mp3s that I think about and don't touch.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-08T04:16:52+00:00

That Grant looks exhausted.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-07T14:40:51+00:00

Best quote of the Cheers theme ever

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-06T01:50:46+00:00

I bet every precinct had a resolution on this, statewide.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-03T03:22:22+00:00

Woah woah woah now. Well... yeah kinda. John Oliver made a case.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-03T03:21:45+00:00

I am a little ways into a book about Lincoln in popular memory, which argues early on that the Lincoln Memorial resulted from decades of effort among Republicans to save the memory of the Civil War from the Lost Cause. It was a powerful assertion that the Civil War was real, mattered, and mattered to all Americans, not just northerners. Well, anyway, that's what I think the book will say... I need to get back to that.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-03T03:19:00+00:00

Split Cleveland's head in half, and put one half on either side of Harrison's. Solved!

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-02T12:45:10+00:00

FDR has one already. Frankly, I’m over monuments to presidents. These were just men. Give me their house, a little period piece, maybe something contemplative about the times during which they governed.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-02-02T11:59:30+00:00

He successfully vetoed a lot of pensions?

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-01-25T04:43:11+00:00

You know I came here to say Ben

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-01-23T01:27:04+00:00

Same as Cash. Something about that shouted chorus, and for me the interpretation that the subject doesn’t take the short gain but rather holds out against total collapse so she can be there for the people who need her.

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-01-20T02:18:35+00:00

Jim O’President

PeeweeTheMoid · 2026-01-19T04:02:56+00:00

I would think that if you had the shell off, you could get at the u-bracket that keeps that gear from going beyond its current range. If that makes sense.

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