This past Friday was a fun milestone: I broke 400,000 photos tagged in Photoshop Album — Album is reporting 400,307 photos tagged through today.
Here are the dates on which I took each 25,000th photo as well as the number of days between each 25,000th photo.
| 25,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 150,000 | |||||
| January 12, 2004 | October 20, 2004 | April 10, 2006 | April 20, 2007 | December 4, 2007 | February 7, 2009 | |||||
| 282 days | 537 days | 375 days | 228 days | 431 days | ||||||
| 150,000 | 175,000 | 200,000 | 225,000 | 250,000 | 275,000 | |||||
| February 7, 2009 | July 4, 2009 | April 14, 2010 | September 4, 2010 | June 23, 2011 | December 23, 2011 | |||||
| 147 days | 284 days | 143 days | 292 days | 183 days | ||||||
| 275,000 | 300,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 375,000 | 400,000 | |||||
| December 23, 2011 | August 24, 2012 | June 2, 2013 | February 17, 2014 | March 21, 2015 | November 13, 2015 | |||||
| 245 days | 282 days | 260 days | 397 days | 237 days | ||||||
Here’s updated stats for my two cameras. I now also use my work iPhone for photos sporadically, but those numbers are not represented here. Perhaps I should pull those in next time I do a stats post.
| Samsung SL30 | July 27, 2009 – October 1, 2015 | 2257 days; 6.18 years | 20,772 photos | $70 | 9.2 photos per day | 0.34¢ per photo |
| Nikon D90 | February 26, 2010 – November 15, 2015 | 2088 days; 5.72 years | 196,539 photos | $780 | 94.13 photos per day | 0.40¢ per photo |
| 252,751 shutter releases | 121.05 shutter releases per day | 0.31¢ per shutter release |
And the usual graphs… Number of photos taken by month, log scale y-axis:
Same thing but with a linear y-axis (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU):
Total number of photos taken through time (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU):
And amount of time between 1000 photos (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU, so it starts at 131,000):
Here’s the 400,000th (tagged) photo. It’s our electrician getting a wire through the ceiling so we can replace the second-floor panel with a better one.
Which (finally) brings me to the fun we’ve been having with our house.
One of the things the inspection for the house (before we bought it) brought up was the lack of grounded outlets, and general knob-and-tube wiring, on the second floor of the house. Obviously, since I work from home with computers, and we have 6 computers between us, it was pretty important to get this remedied. We got quotes from quite a few electricians, and eventually settled on Patco Electric, as Pat was very thorough and also friendly and easy to get along with.
He comes Thursday to start the work, and things proceed reasonably.
Once the knob-and-tube wiring is out and the panel disconnected, we run into a minor snag upon discovering that the first floor’s living room light, foyer light, and porch light are also fed from the second floor. Not too terrible though… easily fixed by running a wire down from the second floor. (We were pulling up the floors anyway to avoid cutting holes in the plaster walls, so pulling up a few more boards wasn’t an issue.)
Friday, the work continues, and I took the day off work to sit in the house and be available in case things go wrong. The first part of the day proceeds awesomely… they successfully fish the new main wire to the second floor through the first floor closet and into the basement, then through the (finished) basement ceiling and around most of the room to get it into the panel.
It took a couple of tries, and eventually required cutting a hole in the ceiling as the fish stick was able to get through but the thicker cable wasn’t — cutting revealed that the stick was passing through a ~1cm gap between beams that the cable couldn’t have. But that was fine, and the rest of the work proceeded mostly as expected.
The problem came up when they turned the power back on to the second floor. The ceiling light fixtures in three of the four rooms didn’t come back on, even though they hadn’t previously turned off when cutting the knob and tube power. Cue lots of searching by the electricians. A few hours later, it turns out the previous electricians had done some mess of wiring — the ceiling lights have a hot wire coming from somewhere else (probably the third floor), but their neutral line was going through the second floor knob-and-tube wiring. This basically meant they were not shut off via the second-floor circuit breaker, but were dependent on it to complete the circuit, so its removal meant they no longer worked.
The electrician is coming back next weekend to rewrire those lights as well, but yeah… yay for horrible previous people doing horrible things. I guess that’s what we get for buying such an old house. :P
Saturday was a nice break from things, and we spent the day at William’s house where David was having an “experimental music birthday party”. For us non-musical people, it was mostly hanging out and talking, which was interesting anyway. Here’s a fun photo of Vincent in Wiliam’s basement stairwell.
I have an urge now to shoot people in bright clothing against a white background (maybe with board game components?), blow out the saturation for effect, and then print and frame these photos for the game room or something. Perhaps a project like that will happen at some point.
