The Ikea of Technology

  Ask nearly anyone today and they will readily explain that Ikea is the company with the fancy furniture that you assemble yourself from a kit.  They are, at least as of 2008, the largest retailer of homebuilt furniture in the world.  Pretty impressive, and a testament to the willingness of people to build things for… Continue reading The Ikea of Technology

Vacation Photos…70 years late.

During the 1940’s, Kodak made a nifty little item called the “Kodak Miniature Enlarger”  ….no, it was not an anatomical enhancement device…sorry, wrong website.  It was, essentially, all the needed photographic darkroom equipment housed in a convenient case about the size of a portable typewriter. Inside, one found the enlarger lamphouse/negative carrier, lens assembly…a set… Continue reading Vacation Photos…70 years late.