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DHS himself

Dave and Claudia’s condo in Tacoma

Dave's Sweetie: Claudia

Welcome to Dave Straayer's home in cyberspace.
Well, it’s about time for another update! (Saturday, January 5th, 2008)

Finally bought a new camera today!  After how many years of the old Ixus I bought in Amsterdam.  The new Samsung has video capture mode, and you can see a short video tour of our condo.  Just right-click here and save the avi file to your hard disk.  When you get it (it’s big, about 108 megabytes – you’ll need a broadband connection to do this!), you should be able to double-click on the .avi file and, with luck, some program like Microsoft media player will open it and play it for you.  Pictures taken with new camera are here.

Claudia’s movie from her  trip ( sort of )

My mother passed away on Friday, August 17th, 2007.  See her obituary.

We have moved to Tacoma Washington!  I accepted a teaching position at Tacoma Community College, to teach Math.  I’ll start my second year in September.  

We bought a condo in March of 2007.  See pictures of it here.

Our address is:
            6020 N Highlands Pkwy #25
            Tacoma, WA 98406-2152

253.759.0158 (home)
253.720.4811 (Dave’s cell)
253.720.8695 (Claudia’s Cell)
My email address remains mail@dhstraayer.com, Claudia’s is Claudia@dhstraayer.com, and you’ve already found the website. J

Claudia’s website is here.

Click here to view web-photo story about Dave's Lithuanian grandparents, and their parents, which includes photos from Lithuania in the 1800's.

The Photo Gallery is now over 9000 images! It is maintained by an evolving program I am developing in Visual Basic. The program traverses a directory tree of images, building screen-sized copies for web viewing, plus "Proofsheet" images that allow you to click your way through the library. It also builds the HTML pages that link it all together to make the library accessible from the web.

Recent photos are in Recent Times

 

taken with my pocket-sized digital camera:

Send Mail to mail@dhstraayer.com

To download Rotates, which includes RotateRight and RotateLeft (Programs I wrote to put in the "SendTo" directory so you can rotate images from PicViewer), click here .

To download Proofsheets, the program I wrote that maintains and publishes my photo library, click Setup.exe and its ReadMe.txt file.

and the PAD (Shareware standard description) for ProofSheets.