I just haven't been satisfied with my Flickr photo conversion. I was missing more than a thousand photos and the albums were spread out to 732.
The total number of photos I have on the Flickr server is 13,401. My previous AI generated photo extraction wasn't perfect so I did a full Flickr download, which generated 27 zip files of ~500 items each.
Then I unpacked everything into 27 Albums, and Gemini and I created a Python program to iterate over each Album, and convert every photo into high quality .webp images.
A Gallery containing 27 albums is so much more manageable than 732.
Shelby is upset with me. She's throwing a Poker Party at the Gun Store tonight, I had a seat at the table, and I bailed on her.
It's totally due to weakness on my part, I just don't have the strength to be around drinking, smoking and cannabis mocktails, yet. I guess I don't trust myself, even though my commitment and drive are strong.
I'll be there eventually, but not now.
Here are the New Album shows within the Flickr Gallery
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Another great day, number 10, many walks on a beautiful day. Even walked to Publics for supplies, and the dollar store for protein drinks. And two solid badass workouts.
Shelby offered to drop Zinny and Poppy of for eight hours, but the girls couldn't have kept up with me. Speaking of Shelbs, she's here now packing up dishes in the kitchen since we have to be out of here in two weeks.
I honestly have no idea where I'm going to live. Assisted living is out of the question since I failed to get Medicaid, and I don't need assistance in living in the slightest. I can cook my own food, carry my own groceries home, and they couldn't keep up with me now anyway.
I'm trying to get a small trailer with Riley's help, and a place to park it. Being within shopping distance would be a big plus. We'll see what happens in two weeks, and in the meantime I'm going to be in the best shape I've been in a long time.
I'm entering day nine clean and sober. My liver pain is almost gone. I'm alone, and fine with it. Working out hard twice a day. Walking bare shirted around the hood three or four times a day, getting my tan ready for a Florida Summer.
I have my possessions trimmed down and packed up, ready to transition out of this townhouse. My mind is clear and I've been sleeping and dreaming great. I'll be 79 in a couple months, and fuck everyone of you who think I'm just a worthless old drunk!
I played around with another AI Image Generator today, called 123rf.
Here's Shelby's stock photo:
Here's the first pass:
Here's the enhanced version:
I've created Rotating Image shows for all three of my Galleries.
Here are the Individual Album shows within General Gallery
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Here are the Individual Albums shows within AI Gallery
bangles basket ccclogo coffeecap dsa eagle future future2 gla goat hillhouse homer jclogo marketman newmoons newshelby oldbunny oldcatjim olddogjim oldeaglejim oldfoxjim oldgoatjim oldwolfjim omj2 omjdesert omjeats omjim omjindrag omjlogos riley sadomj shelby shutfup thecart time tipsy vrange yvette
Here are the New Album shows within the Flickr Gallery
Flickr01 Flickr02 Flickr03 Flickr04 Flickr05 Flickr06 Flickr07 Flickr08 Flickr09 Flickr10 Flickr11 Flickr12 Flickr13 Flickr14 Flickr15 Flickr16 Flickr17 Flickr18 Flickr19 Flickr20 Flickr21 Flickr22 Flickr23 Flickr24 Flickr25 Flickr26 Flickr27
I've also made some major tweaks. After a Gallery or Album Rotate Show runs for 10 seconds it will drop down into the main program at the appropriate spot. A browser back function returns to the Blog, which puts a wrap to:
Tip: Drop into OMJShow and set your slide interval...
I was walking back from Publixs with three big bags of groceries when my text beeper went off. So I stopped in the shade and saw these two on my phone from Riley. Made my day!
Walked down to the Market and got my tamale fix on. It's a beautiful Saturday here in Pensacola and the place was jammed, so I sat on the curb and ate them in the street. Day six clean and sober, my liver's better and the walking does it good.
I just created a fun little program that takes all of the 732 thumbnails in my Flickr gallery and rotates them around the screen. It's amazing on a desktop at 1/10 of a second transition, and cool on a phone, which lacks the processing power to achieve that speed, but still fun.
Update: I slowed the above show down to a half second rotation, and created a new program that deals with all images within an album, also at a half second
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Floppy disks are in the news lately, as they're still being used by Air Traffic Control systems today. I laugh as news reporters state that most people don't even know what they are.
Then they hold up a 3½-inch floppy to the camera, and I have to laugh again. Those little hard plastic disks with a sliding metal shutter were invented in 1981 by Sony, took a while to get popular, and lasted into the early nineties.
But the original floppy was an 8-inch black thing, introduced in 1971 just as I entered the IBM Sys 3 business in the Bay Area. They stuck around until 1976 as the 5¼-inch floppy disk hit the market. In fact, my early software was distributed on the 5¼'s in the early eighties.
Here's some from a 1985 product:
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