Wednesday 08/14/2024
Went for the standard walk (3 miles for the day). Then settled in to a spell of computer work, at my desktop machine.
(The desktop machine is a 27-inch iMac, bought in 2015. Apple discontinued the 27-inch in 2022, and today it can’t be brought up to the current level of the OS. If I want a modern desktop with a big screen, my only option is to buy a big monitor, the Apple Studio Display or comparable from Samsung or LG, and drive it with a Mac Mini. I refuse; I want the elegance of the one-piece iMac. But currently iMacs only come as 24-inch screens. Today I read a rumor that Apple is planning a new, “iMac Pro” model with a thirty-inch screen, ooh boy. When? Oh, 2025, maybe. Or 26. OK, the old one still works, although it is a bit slow. Patience.)
The work was, to clean up a large folder in my Dropbox named Camera Uploads. For the past year plus, whenever I had a photo I thought worth saving in my permanent collection, I’d put it into Camera Uploads. I can do that from any of my machines because the Dropbox is shared among them all. The idea was that “sometime” I would go over these pics, sharpen and crop and tweak them, and put them in sensible topic folders in the Pictures folder. There were about 75 of them.
I spent about 4 hours today doing that: discarding some, improving others, filing them. Very satisfying work. Then I printed two more Thames Bridges pictures and updated the gallery outside my room. Didn’t do much else but it felt productive.
Codgerville 