Archive for February, 2006

Not far from Arcade/Knowledge Drop.

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Apparently when you put Atlanta’s MARTA rapid rail map through the anagram-o-matic (actually, this guy did the work), hilarity ensues! Also see here. I think ‘Shaby’ is a bit of a stretch, though. Don’t really care that much about the City Too Busy To Have An Opening Day? There are also these maps of other [...]

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Way less Turner-y.

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I woke to headlines this morning from the AJC (and the WSJ, and elsewhere):
Turner Quits Time Warner Board
Time Warner Inc. announced that CNN founder Ted Turner has decided not to stand for re-election to its board.Mr. Turner joined the board after his Turner Broadcasting was acquired by Time Warner in the mid ’90s. But his [...]

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Metadata where none was.

Monday, February 20th, 2006

We went on this terrific trip to Africa in 1999, and, long ago that it was, Sammy shot some three dozen rolls of 35mm slides, which until recently have been languishing in boxes, largely unedited, but nicely sorted and labeled. And although we had a slide scanner, its cranky SCSI connection made it a less [...]

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Sizzling coverage.

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

The first couple of days of the 2006 Winter Olympics, we watched scenes of Torino come in to our standard-definition analog-cable-connected Sony in dismay. Instead of pristine HDTV pictures smoothly downsampled for our old-fashioned TV pleasure, Atlanta affiliate WXIA seemed to be providing some of the worst digital images I’ve seen in some time…overenhanced, “sharp” [...]

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Turner time.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I went to college, first in Vermont and then in the southeast Ohio appalachians, and maybe then arguably for a third time in my first real job, at WTCG, Channel 17 Atlanta. Yes, the SuperStation, ask for it by name!
There, in the late 70s, in a beat-up old studio on West Peachtree Street, I certainly [...]

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