Back to work

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.

It’s been a while

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).

Marrow

There are some people for whom bone marrow, bread, and salad is not an excellent meal for a Winter Storm Warning evening. In this household, however, live none of those people.