Drat All These Photos

You'll note that I have named the photo (Master'sDegreeDad7.jpg) wrong. I hope you will all rename it. Dad says that this was his Educational Specialist Degree. The photos showing Dad with Shawn prior to his mission were his Master's Degree and those showing Shawn after his mission were his Ed. Specialist Degree. Sorry about that.

Kirsten wrote: Yes, it was his ed specialist--notice the ring on mel's finger...  That's what I remember about this graduation was that it was right after Mel got engaged.  :)

Now see, you should have all been at my shoulder when I did these. I am doing my albums page by page because everyone wants the OLD photos rather than the new ones. I am tired of making all those CDs. You can compile them and make your own. Hehehe.

Of course, being the blue person that I am, I will gladly make you a CD, IF you want me to. Eric wants the CDs. Any other takers? E-mail me a request.

As an aside, why can Melanie only receive one photo at a time on her email? If I send two, the message comes back as undeliverable. The same is true of Jim and Karma.

Todd wrote: Answer to your last question... I answered already and here it goes again. Your emails are pushing people over their quotas. They can't receive any emails including this response until they download the photos to a local copy on their PC. I believe, if you want to know proactively who would rather have a CD, look at your bounce-back notices and those that say they are over-quota are all good candidates for CDs. Thanks for scanning in the photos. It will likely take a number of weeks and months to do this knowing the volume of photos you have. Sounds like a good process of checks and balances could be set up so that you don't send duplicates and yet are able to disperse the photos. You might think about uploading them to a site where you can control who is seeing the photos. There are any number of sharing spaces our there from DropBox to Picassa. You would need to check them according to security. 

DropBox is a popular one. Once you fill up the free space, you could give everyone a few days to copy down the photos they want and then you can clobber the space with new ones. Google, BING or Yahoo for "free online storage". There are a lot of options out there. Of course, you already know about this quota stuff and online storage. I know I am pointing out the obvious. 

Myrna wrote: AnnMarie doesn't think there is a safe site. Yours and Jim and Karma's are the only ones I have received back, so far. 

Todd wrote: There are safe sites. 

Kirsten wrote: I agree.  Maybe just don't post the ones with AnnMarie's family online to respect her wishes. Kirsten

Myrna wrote: Talk to AnnMarie about it. She deals with people who take little kid's photos off of facebook and make them into porn.

Kirsten wrote: They can only get them off if your settings are open and/or you befriend sickos.

Myrna wrote: Not true. If your friend's friends befriend sickos (and you don't always know who is one) they can get them. By the way, just so you know, I have four convicted child sex offenders on the two blocks surrounding my house. They all started out with family members and moved on to the world in general.

Kirsten wrote: Actually, I have my facebook set to only friends.  Not even friends of friends can see what's on my page.  You can also adjust your settings to say that only a select list (besides your friends) can see your posts, page, etc.  The number one problem of people who get hacked or have their pictures abused is that they don't know how to protect it.  But, we're not talking about having you store on facebook.  You can use Walmart, you can use Sam's club, you can use PicasaWeb.  All are protected (if you make sure you select the right settings each time you upload).

Just my two cents. Kirsten

Todd: You can prevent friends friends in most cases. If you can't -- just don't use that location. Where there is a will, there is a way. 

Why are you resending all these?

Myrna wrote: The others are too small a dpi. These are not. Discard the earlier ones because they are pretty much useless.

Todd wrote: Yup. Your e-mails are too large.

Yes... larger and chewing up even more of my e-mail space. I love seeing these and am very thankful that you are scanning them in. The flip side to that is that you have successfully brought mine and Amy's e-mail to a grinding halt. I don't know about everyone else, but I have a server quota and that quota doesn't decrease at 4am, because we aren't awake with our computer on at 4am when you are sending them at 2am. Better to send on a CD, in my opinion. 

Myrna wrote: OK. For you, it is a CD. Thanks for letting me know. Any others out there? I am not going to do CDs for people who have told me that they just discard them. That is a waste of my time. Yes, I do still value my time.

I will make a CD for you. You can do as you wish.

Kirsten said that, if a photo is ever to be used for anything that requires it to be enlarged, it needs to have a larger dpi. She suggested 1200 dpi. That is what we (Donette Smith and I) also had to use (at the media department's request) to submit photos to the BYU for Grandpa Ray's service with the national guard in the conflict with Mexico. I have dumbed these down to between 600 and 750 dpi. They cannot be used for movies but will be OK on home DVDs. (I think that no one but family will care about that.) Some email service providers can accommodate the 1200 dpi, like BYU and the U of U, for example, but most cannot. I am doing my best to preserve records for the future. I hope it works because I will not live forever. As ill as I was last year, I thought that I would soon join Garth and Richard but, thanks to the tender mercies of my Heavenly Father, I think Dr. Thorpe has found a way to make my life more pleasant. If I eat right and take my $75 per month meds, I should be around for a few more years. Therefore, I am trying to get done what I think I should do. I know it comes as a surprise to all of you  but Dad and I are getting older. We still have some kick, mostly Dad (except for his one knee), but the list of things that I can no longer do is growing. Gone are the days of French fries and foot races (and rootbeer).

Kirsten wrote: f you want to send them to me as large as you can (I'm not sure mine can do 1200 dpi), I can compile CD's for those who want them...  My email won't get overloaded (or hasn't yet) and iPhoto is a wonder to work with...  Happy to help any way.  You could do google or picassa (I think that's what google uses, right?) like Todd suggested and just turn on the privacy settings. Kirsten

Myrna wrote: You do realize that it takes quite a bit of time to burn CDs for 9 people (including one for myself). I have been doing it for years and have learned that few of you really want them at any rate. Maybe one or two photos every few months but that is all. The only way to send a 1200 dpi, other than to the Y, is to burn it to a CD.