Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for February 03, 2010
February 02, 2010
February 04, 2010
Transcript:
Cathy: Stop taking more pictures with your phone! You haven't even printed our Christmas pictures! Irving: Oh, that was finished a long time ago, honey. Cathy: You printed them all?? Irving: No! Printing's finished! End of an era! It's over! The 4x6 print is a thing of the past! Cathy: And the thousands of 4x6 prints we already have?? Irving: Simple! Just scan them and pop them into online albums!
I shoot digital pictures of my motorcycle adventures, then select, crop, adjust, etc., on the computer, and then take the card down to the local Target to print ‘em on real photo paper, which I know will last at least twenty or thirty years without degrading (can’t say that about ink-jet or other color printers). Then I stick ‘em in albums with notes explaining the story. That way, visitors can read ‘em (or not); much better than inflicting a slide show (even a computerized one) on them… and when I’m old and senile and sitting in The Home, I can look at these albums and say, “what an interesting life that guy had… I’d like to meet him some time…”
When Cathy and Irving are old and senile and in The Home, she’ll be going through all her clothes and saying “what a thin and attractive person owned this stuff… I’d like to meet her some day…”