Cameraphone pictures

My phone had started throwing up this message whenever I tried to go to my message inbox: “Memory is 99% full. Please delete some files and messages before continuing.” I kept clearing out my inbox but it didn’t make the message go away. I turned my phone all the way off and back on, because I’m of that “Did you try restarting it?” generation. When even that didn’t work I was thinking maybe this was the beginning of the end – maybe I needed a new phone. Then I mentioned it to my brother, who told me that pictures and messages use the same memory and maybe I had too many pictures. Well, I did have something like 350 pictures in my phone, so on my Bart ride into work the other day, I set to work deleting the ones I didn’t need.

I deleted a lot of pictures that I’ve already uploaded to Facebook or here. I also deleted all the blurry shots of, say, a woman wearing a bat-wings headband, or a picture of someone’s cute dog, or a lot of food pictures. I also decided that if I couldn’t remember what a picture signified, then I would delete it.

After deleting over 100 blurry, duplicate, or pointless pictures, I still have a good representation of the last year or so. Here are some of the “significant” photos I chose to keep.