Today I received an email that said, in part:
As Kodak has needed to continue to reduce costs, our sponsor has let
the Kodak Camera Club know that it will no longer be able to use the
facility in Building 28. As a result, the Kodak Camera Club will permanently
shut down the Digital Workstation Facility on June 29, 2007. The B/W
Darkroom Facility ( Read more... )

Tuesday, May 1, saw the birth of Carestream Health Inc.

What was formerly the Health Group of Eastman Kodak Company was bought by a Canadian investment firm, Onex, and is now Carestream Health.

For the employees, like me, things are good.  We're doing the same job, for the same pay and roughly the same benefits.  We're working in the same buildings ( ( Read more... )

After twenty-nine years, nine and a half months, today was my last day at Eastman Kodak.

It was a very different company when I joined on.  The big news that summer was that Kodak had bought Spin Physics, a maker of magnetic recording heads, to get the technology they needed to build 8mm cameras and projectorsfor home movies with sound.  Kodak was ( Read more... )

Pictures from FilKONtario and Dorsai Thing are on our website.

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We arrived home Friday from a two week safari (Swahili: "journey") in East Africa. Here are some random facts and thoughts about the trip,

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The idea for this song came to me a year or so ago after hearing Daniel Glasser sing "Me 'n Jenny and the Lovely Marilu".

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See them here. Click the "Gafilk 2007" link


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What is a sun?  In Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns the answer isn't always what you expect.

The great balloon that is called Virga is three thousand kilometers in diameter.  It is filled with a mix of air, rocks, and water, all in free fall, and is home to many nations of people.  People build their own fusion "suns" to warm their communities.  Towns ( Read more... )

A friend of mine recently posted that she had some new Userpics. Looking them over, I realized that not one of them was a recognizable picture of her.

I then looked at mine and realized all my Userpics are pictures of me, and most of them are quite recognizable:

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