Photo Restoration…

jopema — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:04:57 +0000

I have some moderate skills with photo restoration but I am by no means an expert. Recently I had a photo that I needed restored that was beyond my skills (and patience). I searched online for a a company/freelancer that would be able to perform the work that I was incapable of. I found a company called Radix based in India that looked like they could handle the work. They appear to be primarily web/general programmers but they also perform restoration (samples). I contacted them and they sent me instructions for uploading the photo so that they could give me a quote. The quote came to $40 USD. Using paypal I sent them the funds and a few days later they sent me this:

Radix provides one free revision but I didn’t see anything that I wanted revised so I approved their work. After approval they sent me appropriately cropped files for 5×7, 8×10, and 12×18 prints. The approval email also contained a full-size image.

Use the “Request Free Quote” section on their main web page to get started.

Cheers,

-J.

On perception…

jopema — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:44:04 +0000

As part of the project to archive all of the paper I have from business school I am building a database of the documents. The fields that I am looking for are pretty simple: Title, Source, Author, and Date. Many of these documents are photocopies of sections of books (textbooks or otherwise). One such copy is called “A Perfect Failure: The Bay of Pigs” and in looking at it I thought that I saw an author name. It looked like a perfectly good Italian name and in reading it in my mind it sounded like “Fee-As-Co-Eys”. After I added the “name” to my database I realized that it was not a author’s name, but a section name, “Fiascoes”.

What’s the point? The point is that the confirmation bias is everywhere, even when performing the simplest of tasks.

“When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.”

Cheers,

-J.