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Posted on May 7, 2006

Dave! It's 11:00am and I haven't gotten out of bed yet. Well, I did get up to go to the bathroom, but that was only because I had to. I simply must invest in adult diapers for Sunday mornings (and to think I was embarrassed to buy toilet paper).

Last night my trusty photo scanner broke. It was old and slow, so I suppose I should be okay with the situation... but it was a bummer to have to spend all morning trying to decide on a new one. I think I have it narrowed down to a cheap-ass Epson, because I couldn't find what I really want, which is a tabloid (11" X 17") scanner.

The entire ordeal started when I went to sort through my photo negatives so I can get another batched scanned by DigMyPics. Eventually I realized that a large number of film negatives are missing. This means that a huge chunk of my life exists only on paper photos that are going to fade and fall apart. This is not okay.

If the pictures are gone, how can I see what I looked like 20 years ago at Expo 86?

Dave Expo 86

Or remember how beautiful a Maui beach is at sunset back when it wasn't jammed with people?

Maui Sunset

Sure photo scans are not as good as having the film negatives scanned directly, but I guess I have the memories to go with them, so it's better than nothing. I wish I could go back in time and hand myself a digital camera.

Okay, time to eat a Pop-Tart for breakfast...

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Comments

That's a nice bonnet of hair you've got there, Dave :)

Posted by Neil T. on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Good GOD! That hair!!!!! Bwaaahahahahaha!

Posted by Karen Rani on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Don't forget the pierogies later, k?

Posted by RW on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Gee... I really hope you are joking about the first pic... ;)

Posted by kilax on May 07, 2006 | Reply

I keep looking at my photo box and thinking I must spend some time scanning them, purely so there will be a version of them about should anything happen... BUt, oh the effort involved... Makes me want to be on that beach...

Posted by Bec on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Wow, that Maui photo is spectacular. You're right, a scan is better than nothing. One of my greatest photos is of me and Ozzy Osbourne and it's a Poloroid shot!

Posted by Eve on May 07, 2006 | Reply

While you're handing yourself a digital camera, you may also want to take the flobie away ... just sayin...

Posted by Bre on May 07, 2006 | Reply

That bowl haircut, Dave... :::shudder:::

And I love the Maui picture. I'm envious.

Posted by Mooselet on May 07, 2006 | Reply

What a great sunset and what a fab Jennifer Love Hewitt hair do!

Stop it with the Pop Tarts already!!! You're killing me with that.

Posted by nancycle on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Holy Abomination of all that is good and holy!!

What is that hair??

Posted by adena on May 07, 2006 | Reply

I saw THE most amazing sunset last year while sitting on a beach in Cape Cod waiting for the fireworks display to start. And you know what? I had forgotten to bring a camera.

I'm going to go cry now.

Posted by Rabbit on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Awwwww. I LIKE the hair, Dave. It just longs to be mussed.

Posted by Mocha on May 07, 2006 | Reply

I was just talking about that with some friends of mine the other day... how many memories are lost forever because 1) nobody even had a picture phone, 2) nobody could tell if the pictures even came out until the film was processed.

Nice camera strap.

Posted by Chanakin on May 07, 2006 | Reply

i was 16 in '86. bowl haircuts were da bomb!
okay...not really. sorry, Dave.

Posted by apryl on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Hmmm... in 1986 I was... um... 33.

That's kind of an "Ouch" - but I DIDN'T have a bowl on my head....

Posted by RW on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Hmmm... I think that it must be the angle, because I never had a "bowl cut". I am photographing somebody sitting down, so you are seeing more of the top of my head that usual...

The actual horror is far worse...

Dave Hair

Posted by Dave2 on May 07, 2006 | Reply

Did you have to get out of bed to get the Pop Tarts?

Posted by sandra on May 07, 2006 | Reply

These photos clearly demonstrate you were very fashion forward-Daisy Dukes before the year 2000.

Posted by FrancesDanger on May 07, 2006 | Reply

No, Dave, the reality is far less frightening than the bowl cut we were all picturing. In fact, you were quite the cutie in your little sexxayy running shorts. ;)

Posted by jenny on May 08, 2006 | Reply

In '86 I was . . . in first grade.

Posted by Rabbit on May 08, 2006 | Reply

Ok, the pictures in the comments are of typical 1986 hair....I'll give you that.

However, I did not think there could be a worse horror than bowl cuts...well, maybe mullets....or a combination mullet/bowl cut....or maybe THIS guy:

http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/

But...it appears I was wrong....

WHAT IS UP WITH THOSE SHORTS??? :)

Posted by adena on May 08, 2006 | Reply

Oh God Adena, there's no "percent gay" high enough for that Peter Pan guy! Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by Jeff on May 08, 2006 | Reply

Yes, do you still have the bowl that went with the haircut? I do like the pic of you holding the camera on the beach with the oh so serious slightly pouty, "darn it, that I couldn't go to vietnam and live the true life of the war journalist", look.

Posted by Elizabeth McClung on May 08, 2006 | Reply

Rabbit's comment just made me feel REALLY old.

Posted by mikey on May 08, 2006 | Reply

Oh Adena, that link is frightening--there should be a disclaimer.

Dave, you are a brave man for posting old pictures of yourself. I have my 80s perm pictures locked away, safe and sound.

Posted by Holiday on May 08, 2006 | Reply

What a coincidence that you should write about this subject. For the past three days, I've been looking for a packet of photos from August 2002. I can't find it ANYWHERE. These are photos that are especially irreplaceable, and I'm sick with worry. All I can think is, if only I'd scanned them into my digital library.

Posted by SJ on May 09, 2006 | Reply

Thanks, Adena. Look what you made me do.

Posted by Chanakin on May 09, 2006 | Reply

Ummm... yeah. Somehow it seems to work on Cartoon Dave more than it does on a real person. :-P

Posted by Dave2 on May 09, 2006 | Reply

My parents had season tickets to Expo 86, so we went a few times. I was really young (younger than Rabbit), and I thought Expo 86 was like Disneyland. A year later, I asked my parents why we never went anymore and was sooooo disappointed when they told me it didn't exist. My little world crashed down around me...

Posted by kusems on May 11, 2006 | Reply

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