MMMM 483 Can We Be Saved? Saving Our Memories. And remembering Brownie.

Nobody I know wants to force churches to same-sex marry.

     Amid all of the stories about Alabama becoming the 37th State where same-sex CIVIL marriage is now legal was this Associated Press one that included this quote:

"I think this lady judge is scaring the daylights out of these people," Orange Beach businessman Dean Young said. "The people are very thankful that Judge Moore is standing up."

I don't know where the AP picked up that quote, but "businessman Dean Young" is hardly a disinterested passerby. He worked alongside Roy Moore when he was thrown out of office for refusing to remove his 10 Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building. 

NPR reporter Debbie Elliot quoted Young in her story...but correctly identified him as a "close ally of Moore."

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Saving our memories seemed to be a theme this week. A Google Executive started the fray with the concern that digital everything is about to fade away!

“We don’t want our digital lives to fade away. If we want to preserve them, we need to make sure that the digital objects we create today can still be rendered far into the future.”

      That warning came the same time I read a story about librarians working overtime to digitize their records!
      And how fast will all this happen? Well, here is the oldest surviving color videotape. It is from a Presidential news conference. In 1958. (The video turns to color about 15 minutes in.) Not all that long ago when you think about it.

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Taken at a Montgomery Flea Market: $15 for the original Brownie.

And finally, a reminder about the earliest personal way of creating picture memories of our lives!

The BBC has the story of the Brownie camera. 

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