[HN Gopher] Wizard with a Time Machine
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Wizard with a Time Machine
Author : walterbell
Score : 73 points
Date : 2022-08-07 05:56 UTC (1 days ago)
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| overthemoon wrote:
| This inspired me. I think this kind of work would be fascinating
| and deeply satisfying.
| soylentcola wrote:
| There are services that will do this, but I would imagine that
| many of them only handle formats where there's enough demand to
| justify the necessary gear and setup. It's definitely the sort
| of work where someone really into that specific thing can
| devote more resources than your average video/film/etc
| production and distribution house.
|
| I've done a bit of this with personal material (friends,
| family, my own stuff). Even then it's just when I have the
| necessary equipment already. Currently it's just a flatbed
| scanner, VCR, cassette deck, and capture card.
|
| They don't get a ton of use, but when someone mentions having
| old tapes they can't watch anymore, I usually try to give it a
| go.
| JediPig wrote:
| rarely talk about this, there is another wizard that lived in
| friday harbor.
|
| I spent most of my youth and 20s with this man. He taught pain
| alleviation and hypnosis. I spent 6 years learning from him, 2 as
| an intern. When I left, the whole hypnosis community made me
| sick. It is filled with false hoods and people lusting for power.
| Tony Robbins hired my mentor, the guy the book Monster's and
| magical sticks was about, "dave".
|
| I occassionally saw patients with burns and cancer treatments.
| While till this day, I have no real idea how I can allevate their
| pain, they do. I stopped after an ass named wolf of wall street
| jordan belfort, used a portion of it to scam people out of
| millions.
|
| My last phone call was with him, I asked him if he was going to
| let his current "life mate" if she was going to told the last 2-3
| missing pieces.. He laughed, and said no, it should go our
| graves. I am conflicted , cause i want people to know he FOUND
| the secret, but realized it was like a nuclear weapon of
| communication. Politicians are already manipulative, but to make
| an army of them that has near god like abilities... would be
| socially resposible.
|
| Thus I hide on the internet, rarely complain, and speak about the
| other wizard in friday harbor.
|
| may he rest in peace, and Ill take to my grave what he left out.
| The night where I saw the magic he was trying to keep secret. He
| grabbed me in the throat and made me swear not to tell. I kept my
| promise old friend, my 2nd dad.
| walterbell wrote:
| Is there no defensive value? Would your/his position change if
| it was already being used for offense? This is akin to the
| zero-day debate.
| carapace wrote:
| Some secrets keep themselves.
|
| "The history of mankind is the history of war between gangs of
| hypnotists."
| sleepybrett wrote:
| The san juan's seem to both collect and produce wizards
| abruzzi wrote:
| My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in
| the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them
| myself with Pentax DSLR, and macro bellows with slide copying
| attachment. It been pretty fun--I was 5-6 at during this time, so
| some of it lines up with my oldest memories. I've found that the
| Kodachrome slides have have held up much better than the other
| (mostly Ektachrome) slides. The colors on the Kodachrome look
| like they were shot yesterday.
|
| My father also has a bunch of super 8 shot by his parents, but I
| really don't have anything to convert those well, so he sent them
| off for conversion. Among other things it includes footage of
| mygrandparents vacationing in Cuba before the revolution.
| _tom_ wrote:
| I have a similar situation, but no Pentax. I've been trying to
| figure out how to scan thousands of my grandfathers slides. Too
| expensive to send out for processing, I think. But there don't
| seem to be any good auto-feed scanners and the thought of
| scanning 5000 slides five at a time is daunting! It's annoying
| that the slides are all in trays for automated playback with a
| slide project, but there are no scanners that feed from trays!
|
| I'm thinking of setting up a slide projector on auto play and
| recording that output. At least that would batch by fifty.
|
| Any suggestions?
| _tom_ wrote:
| I also have a few daguerreotypes to scan. Hard to find a
| scanner that supports them!
| egypturnash wrote:
| Where does this wizard's money come from? I've read about his
| bikes many times in the past but this is the first time I've ever
| really stopped and thought about the price tags. "I rode around
| the country on a 1.2 million dollar computerized bicycle",
| sheesh. Then he shifted to a couple of computerized yachts. His
| film/video digitizing setup discussed in this article is a _mere_
| $10k.
|
| (Wikipedia is a dead end, his computer bike is wikinotable but he
| is not, so there's nothing to see there about where this money
| might come from. Wealthy family? Wizardly levels of persuasion?
| Crime? I dunno.)
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| https://computerhistory.org/profile/steven-k-roberts/
|
| >Prior to Steve's life as a technomad, he owned a consulting
| engineering business in the Midwest and published three books
| on microprocessors and industrial control system design.
|
| That alone could make you wealthy, if he also invested in the
| field he could be super rich.
| Syonyk wrote:
| First, if you do a lot of the work yourself, "valued at" and
| "What it cost to build" are two very, _very_ different numbers.
| Never forget that news articles will tend to be lazy about
| "Oh, XYZ cost that much new, OK, add that in..." when someone
| like Steve is going to have a better line on used equipment at
| a good price, or perhaps some sponsorship deals.
|
| Second, he's a big fan of the "nickel generator" projects -
| something that, once done, will generate some trickle of income
| more or less indefinitely on minimal additional labor. And he's
| got a _lot_ of those in various forms.
|
| Third, he lives simply. Quite so. And he's been around for a
| lot of years. All those add up to both a lot of connections,
| and likely a decent stockpile of cash for projects.
|
| I met him some years back. Great all around technowizard!
|
| How much do people on HN regularly spend on a house/car?
| 0x445442 wrote:
| It's not a wheel, it's a time machine, a carousel...
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| I emailed with the "Wizard" last year or earlier this year about
| 5000 slides my father took of WW 1 forts and battlefields in the
| 80s (most not on maps or accessible). His attention to detail is
| insane, even by email.
|
| I have not pulled the trigger yet because he tripped me up when
| he asked if the slides are cataloged in any way. They are, but
| the notes are scattered and it's going to take me a significant
| effort to reconstruct which slides are of which location.
| Ultimately I'm not sure I'll get to it and the slides will
| probably remain as slides until I die.
| iainmerrick wrote:
| It's not even the main focus of the article, but I love how this
| mentions in passing that Steve Roberts was the original digital
| nomad! I remember seeing his custom recumbent bike with built-in
| computer in a TV documentary decades ago. Amazing to hear that he
| has continued to be a trailbreaking innovator.
| walterbell wrote:
| (bike) _Computing Across America_ , 1983-1987,
| https://microship.com/category/caa/page/5/
|
| (boat) _Building the Microship Trimaran_ ,
| https://microship.com/microship/
|
| _> The Microship project spanned a decade, with three
| different labs and multiple design revisions... at last
| yielding an amphibian pedal /solar/sail micro-trimaran. This
| massive project was fueled by about 160 corporate sponsors and
| a team of brilliant geeks_.
|
| His books, https://microship.com/product-category/publications/
| wglb wrote:
| I chatted with him at the Dayton Hamvention way back when his
| first book came out. He had his bike there at the time, along
| with his girlfriend.
| larrywright wrote:
| I probably saw the same documentary and found it fascinating. I
| remember being excited when I found his blog many years later.
| He's definitely an interesting guy.
| misterprime wrote:
| I'd love to know what you all think is a good method to store
| these digital files at home in such a way that they can be: 1.
| easily viewed at home. 2. easily passed to the next of kin. 3.
| optionally: easily and selectively shared remotely with others as
| the owner sees fit.
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