Set to the task of documenting & preserving the lion kingdom's baseball souvenirs from 40 years ago.  Harder than it looks, without the right gear.  The glare problem came to a head.  The internet advice for getting it right in camera was all replaced in the last 3 years by selling AI tools for removing glare.  Documenting how something appeared in real life has all been replaced by generating images.

 




 The best results were from ambient light, angled camera to maximize the resolution, over exposed 1 stop, F8, 200mm to minimize parallax, ISO 200. Sadly some softness in the edges.  The signatures are actually more visible in the photo than real life.

 

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The surviving bobble heads need to be reinforced where chips weakened the material.  Otherwise, they can probably be stored with foam stabilizing the heads.  The points where the heads impact the necks are the trouble spots.

For repairing ceramic, they recommend B-72 for adhesive, a pain in the ass resin. The trick is making the adhesive weaker than the ceramic & colorless.  Lions don't have the space to store it, but it might be useful for other jobs.

 For replacing missing pieces, they recommend milliput with a boundary of B-72 between the putty & the ceramic.  

 The lion kingdom's surviving bobble heads probably aren't valuable enough to invest that level of conservation.  They have pretty low grade paint jobs.

 

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 The falling head isn't subsidizing the rising head as well as it used to.  On the 1 paw, the effect of quantitative easing is clearly visible on the falling head after 2008.  It still continues to subsidize the rising head.  On the other paw, there could be a limit before the bottom head starts rising.

 


 Long distances continue to be bruisers compared to years ago, probably due to the hamstring tendon degradation this year.  The posterior tibialis last year wasn't as destructive. Temperature was 79F.  It might have been too hot for the speed. 

 Toenails did really well with the bare EVA patch, after a long period of struggling with that.  Hamstring tendon actually wasn't painful the next day, though sciatica abounded.

 

 

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