March, 2018
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
My green plate was deemed “too faded” at inspection this year, so today I had to trade it in for the modern red white & blue plates. I’ve had this one since my first car in 1991 so I’m sad to see it go.
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Sunday, March 25th, 2018
We went for a lovely walk on Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River and saw this big statue of the man himself.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2018
We were in DC this weekend for our nephew’s wedding. Here we see the happy couple during the pyebaek ceremony, a Korean wedding custom which (for this wedding) took place between the Western ceremony and the reception.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2018
JohnK likes his espresso machine. He does make a nice latte.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2018
The cherry blossoms in DC have not really started yet, but we did manage to find a few.
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Monday, March 19th, 2018
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Sunday, March 18th, 2018
After burrowing under the blanket, Ferrous set himself up like this.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2018
I have finished processing photos as far back as when my parents were kids. Now I’m going back in time: on the left I have Larricks from the early 20th century and on the right the Gelsanliters (my dad’s mom’s family) from that timeframe. I don’t have anything this old from my mom’s side.
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
At least it *looks* comfy.
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Saturday, March 10th, 2018
It’s been a while since I disassembled a failed hard disk. I take them apart (and destroy the platters) to prevent anyone from recovering my data, and also to harvest the two super-strong magnets held inside (upper left in this photo). This particular 2TB drive had a “spinning time” of 7+ years and was still working, but the OS noted a quickly-increasing amount of read errors. Not much has changed since the last time I did this: you still get the pretty shiny platters and a couple precision aluminum rings to separate them, the lightweight head-arm assembly, the aforementioned magnets, and a metric assload of stainless steel screws. I’d never seen the blade-like things at bottom left (slotted between the platters, presumably for airflow management or heat extraction).
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