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| QUOTE (Lippy @ Sep 16 2005, 06:13 PM) |
| My digital camera died in my hands today. I spent a good part of the afternoon at J & R, looking at the various models and left thoroughly confused. |
i hear good things about the olympus c-770 and its sibling the c-765 ($100 cheaper, loses a couple of, to my mind, unnecessary features). i am considering the cheaper sibling myself. after reviewing my ladakh pictures i have determined i need a camera with a better zoom and better low-light capabilities.
Paul bought me a new optical mouse. He thought it would be a snap to hook it up. I wanted him to wait until after I had finished working on my current book -- multiple Word files that can take 30 minutes or more to open all together, so I have not been shutting off my computer, just saving the files at the end of the day and picking up again the next morning. I told him that if he DID want to install the new mouse this weekend, he should get up earlier than me and do it then, the implication being that he should NOT try to do it as "just one more thing before finally going to bed," because at 2 or 3am, he gets careless. The implication was lost on him. He installed the mouse around that time, fucked up and closed all my files, had to reopen them, fucked up one of them, etc. And didn't even reopen all that I had open before. (He also wiped the Google desktop search off, but at least that was easy for me to recover.) So not only did he screw up my stuff, he had to stay up at least an hour later than otherwise -- which he does way too often, and I worry about his health. 
And then this morning, when I found out what he had done, I was so upset that I inadvertently closed all the files again.
Which is why I have so much time to bitch here: I can't do ANYTHING Word-based while the files are reopening. 
I'm not sure whether I'm more upset about his staying up too late too often, or that he screwed up my work. 
Ah -- looks as though the files are open again.
Back to work!
And then this morning, when I found out what he had done, I was so upset that I inadvertently closed all the files again.
Which is why I have so much time to bitch here: I can't do ANYTHING Word-based while the files are reopening. I'm not sure whether I'm more upset about his staying up too late too often,
or that he screwed up my work. Ah -- looks as though the files are open again.
Back to work!
Why do your files take so long to open?
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Sep 17 2005, 08:27 AM) |
| Why do your files take so long to open? |
apart from gigantic image files i can't think of any good reason.
more people should use star-office.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Sep 17 2005, 02:27 PM) |
| Why do your files take so long to open? |
And why does she keep them open all the time?
My oven died yesterday!!! While I was using it. I have no idea what happened. It was on. I roasted my beets. Made a noodle kugle. And at then it just died. I didn't realize it when I put the fish in because of the residual heat. But as I took it out I noticed the thermometer said 200F. Thank goodness for the toaster oven.
A note has already been left with the super. And Rosh Hashannah is two weeks off.
Aaaarghhhhh!!!!!!!
A note has already been left with the super. And Rosh Hashannah is two weeks off.
Aaaarghhhhh!!!!!!!
| QUOTE (chefzadi @ Sep 17 2005, 11:25 AM) | ||
And why does she keep them open all the time? |
I don't know why they take so long, and the people at that particular publishing house don't know,
but every book I've worked on from them has been the same: presumably the virus scan is what holds things up. (They probably use Macs, which we are seriously considering switching to.)If I closed the files at the end of the day, I'd have to spend a half hour the next day waiting for them to open again -- not billable time.
So I leave them open, and leave the computer on, until I've finished the book.As for Paul, he got a whole 6 hours of sleep last night, so that's a bit better. But he'll be away for the next week, and I won't be able to yell at him about his lousy habits.
Bloviatrix -- maybe it's just the internal thermostat? Very easy to replace. Wishing your oven a speedy recovery!
| QUOTE (Lippy @ Sep 16 2005, 08:13 PM) |
| My digital camera died in my hands today. I spent a good part of the afternoon at J & R, looking at the various models and left thoroughly confused. |
Hmm... No longer convinced that the camera is dead. It may just be that I need a new lithium battery. I've ordered a cheapie clone on-line "guaranteed" to work with my camera, so I'll be able to test it. Lithium batteries have a lifespan of 2-3 years, apparently, from the time of manufacture, not from the first use.
Here's what's annoying: I brought the camera with me to J & R, a store I normally trust, (and where it was originally purchased 1 1/2 years ago) and demonstrated the problem to a number of salesmen. They all said it was a mechanical problem that would cost a lot of money to repair. They also said that the Olympus 300 is out of production. That does not seem to be the case, according to the Olympus website. I understand that the store is in the business of selling, but, aren't they also interested in keeping customers? If the problem is solved with a new battery, the owner will hear from me.
Lippy, I have had better experiences at B&H than at J&R...
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
It's on 9th Ave. near 34th St.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
It's on 9th Ave. near 34th St.
Since B&H opened, J&R has been history to me. I stopped going there for audio and video stuff years ago, after similar repair issues; now, there's no need for them at all, as far as I'm concerned. I like B&H, but only in NY would a place like that not be the subject of a million photos itself.
Back to annoyances: incorrect DiFara's information on various websites. Grrrr.
Screamie started translating ingredient lists into French. The probelm she has a problem with plural and singular in French. Now she's demanding I fix it first thing this morning. Of course I should have just done it to begin with for at least a few recipes and then she would have had a simple template to follow.
Football season. The only sport I actively dislike watching, but of course the sport most of my friends get worked up about. Oh well. Joey Harrington is still hot.
Patriots lost
Red Sox lost or are losing big
Yankees are winning
Tomorrow is Monday
Red Sox lost or are losing big
Yankees are winning
Tomorrow is Monday
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Sep 16 2005, 04:36 PM) |
| Football season. The only sport I actively dislike watching. |
Um. Have you ever watched Cricket? Curling? Team Tiddly-Winks?
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Sep 16 2005, 01:32 PM) |
| Back to annoyances: incorrect DiFara's information on various websites. Grrrr. |
Back to annoyances. Posts that I don't understand in any wise.
The NYTs has started charging for editorials, news analysis and other good features. I can't really be annoyed as I'm shocked I have had free access to this for as long as I have. If you get home delivery (insert joke about some EG thread I never saw but seems to be highly entertaining) you don't have to pay.
| QUOTE (Miguel Gierbolini @ Sep 18 2005, 04:00 PM) |
| Patriots lost Red Sox lost or are losing big Yankees are winning Tomorrow is Monday |
Yankees not being as absurdly lucky as usual - Johnson thrown out of the game, they still scrape a win; then Wright hit by a broken bat, and they lose by a run.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Sep 19 2005, 10:03 AM) |
| The NYTs has started charging for editorials, news analysis and other good features. |
I'm often able to get access anyway. Sometimes googling the title of an article yields a link to a cached version, which the Times seems slipshod at protecting. Other times I find a link to another newspaper that picked up the story.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Sep 19 2005, 08:03 AM) |
| The NYTs has started charging for editorials, news analysis and other good features. I can't really be annoyed as I'm shocked I have had free access to this for as long as I have. If you get home delivery (insert joke about some EG thread I never saw but seems to be highly entertaining) you don't have to pay. |
ah, the crack dealer business-model strikes again.
Boss's major oversight caught in nick of time.
Boss now angry with me that his oversight was not caught earlier.
Fly
Boss now angry with me that his oversight was not caught earlier.
Fly
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Sep 19 2005, 09:40 AM) | ||
ah, the crack dealer business-model strikes again. |
LA Times has done this on selected content, but then has relented on some. Most entertainment stuff has a fee. Initially most food stuff did, but now most of it seems to be free. I doubt they'd ever try to charge for op-ed stuff (I understand the NYT is gonna charge for Krugman & Brooks) cuz nobody would pay.
| QUOTE (Maurice Naughton @ Sep 19 2005, 05:30 AM) | ||
Um. Have you ever watched Cricket? Curling? Team Tiddly-Winks? |
Yeah, I've watched curling. Cricket I might like if it made any sense.
I'd like the Detroit Lions, if they were likeable
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Sep 19 2005, 12:34 PM) |
| Cricket I might like if it made any sense. |
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Sep 19 2005, 11:46 AM) | ||
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she is young, drug-addled and listens to the gangsta-rap.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Sep 19 2005, 01:47 PM) | ||||
she is young, drug-addled and listens to the gangsta-rap. |
That could describe the only professional cricketer I have ever known (except rap didn't exist in his day -- german "progressive" rock instead).
People who forward whatever crap arrives in their email, as long as it says "forward this to everyone you know."
In just the past week, I've received 1) tips on avoiding rape (e.g., don't wear pigtails, because rapists love to grab you by them, or overalls, because it's easy for rapists to snip the straps
); 2) an urging to pester my doctor for some blood test that most physicians consider unnecessary (they do), even though it detects ovarian cancer early (it doesn't); 3) photos of Katrina approaching Mississippi (real photos, wrong storm).
Maybe I've gotten so much of this junk that I can spot a hoax after the first 3 words. I keep telling people to check snopes.com but I suppose it's more fun for them to hit 'forward.'
In just the past week, I've received 1) tips on avoiding rape (e.g., don't wear pigtails, because rapists love to grab you by them, or overalls, because it's easy for rapists to snip the straps
); 2) an urging to pester my doctor for some blood test that most physicians consider unnecessary (they do), even though it detects ovarian cancer early (it doesn't); 3) photos of Katrina approaching Mississippi (real photos, wrong storm).Maybe I've gotten so much of this junk that I can spot a hoax after the first 3 words. I keep telling people to check snopes.com but I suppose it's more fun for them to hit 'forward.'
I don't know which category of spam is more voluminous: get a university degree or get a larger penis. The last thing I need is more university degrees.
Er...
Er...
Mortgages. Every son of a bitch in the world wants to give me a mortgage. I have enough trouble with the one I already have, thank you.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Sep 19 2005, 03:33 PM) |
| People who forward whatever crap arrives in their email, as long as it says "forward this to everyone you know." |
Even more annoying are people who forward whatever crap arrives in their mail, whom you have already told on other occasions to check out snopes.com
And of course they don't bcc their enormous list of personal contacts, so you can see another five or so people that you know will ALSO forward you the wretched thing...
Fly
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Sep 19 2005, 01:46 PM) |
| Mortgages. Every son of a bitch in the world wants to give me a mortgage. I have enough trouble with the one I already have, thank you. |
and they sound increasingly aggrieved. spam now begins with phrases like "you didn't call me" etc.
| QUOTE (flyfish @ Sep 19 2005, 03:56 PM) |
| Even more annoying are people who forward whatever crap arrives in their mail, whom you have already told on other occasions to check out snopes.com |
YES. Last time I mentioned this to my sister - one of the worst offenders - she said, "oh, I forgot."
I've given up on reforming my mother's cute-but-dumb boyfriend. One of the least computer-literate people ever, yet he's a master of the forward.
| QUOTE (flyfish @ Sep 19 2005, 11:43 AM) |
| Boss's major oversight caught in nick of time. Boss now angry with me that his oversight was not caught earlier. Fly |
Boss is a Jerk. How did he get to be a Boss?
this was supposed to be the day when i began my process of gradual withdrawal from discussion forums and began reading for/writing my book. 9 hours to go!
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Sep 19 2005, 02:22 PM) |
| this was supposed to be the day when i began my process of gradual withdrawal from discussion forums and began reading for/writing my book. 9 hours to go! |
Perhaps you could do a book about discussion forums.
Since when has the standard pronounciation of thank you become thenk yo ?
any email that starts out
"Dear Everyone"
"Dear Everyone"
Maybe it was wrong of me, but I was annoyed when I went to a falafel joint near my house and saw a flyer for a Katrina fundraiser at a nearby bar, only the fundraiser was for animals. I am an animal lover, but at a time when so many people are suffering I just can't see siphoning off money for lost pets. I guess my priorities are different than other peoples.
Yoday was one of those so-cruddy-it-was-almost-funny days. Almost funny.
| QUOTE (Behemoth @ Sep 19 2005, 04:55 PM) |
| Yoday was one of those so-cruddy-it-was-almost-funny days. Almost funny. |
Is this an entry in Yoda Like Talk?
I'm telling you, just stop it not will.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Sep 19 2005, 05:50 PM) | ||||||
That could describe the only professional cricketer I have ever known (except rap didn't exist in his day -- german "progressive" rock instead). |
Yeah, I'll listen to that shit too.
It's raining. I hate rain.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Sep 19 2005, 03:33 PM) |
| People who forward whatever crap arrives in their email, as long as it says "forward this to everyone you know." In just the past week, I've received 1) tips on avoiding rape (e.g., don't wear pigtails, because rapists love to grab you by them, or overalls, because it's easy for rapists to snip the straps ); 2) an urging to pester my doctor for some blood test that most physicians consider unnecessary (they do), even though it detects ovarian cancer early (it doesn't); 3) photos of Katrina approaching Mississippi (real photos, wrong storm).Maybe I've gotten so much of this junk that I can spot a hoax after the first 3 words. I keep telling people to check snopes.com but I suppose it's more fun for them to hit 'forward.' |
Oh, that's nothing compared to the fun you get when you subscribe to a group e-mail list. We have one for my chorus and there are very few who know how to post properly. My favorite offender is the one who hits reply when they want to respond to one person, e-mailing their private message to everyone in the group (and then sending a follow-up e-mail apologizing). But we also get the urban legend posts, the "sign the petition" posts, the back-and-forth conversation posts, etc.
It's a wonder anyone reads the important e-mails.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Sep 17 2005, 07:39 PM) |
| Since when has the standard pronounciation of thank you become thenk yo ? |
It started just after people began saying "tor" instead of "tour," "yore" instead of 'your' (or "you're") and generally mispronouncing many words with "ou" in them. but not pronounciation, which is still prounounced, and spelled, pronunciation.
Yes, yes, my typo.
But what about this thenk business?
And the inflection that goes along with this thenk yo is particularly annoying.
The thenk is higher in tone, and the yo is a bit extended.
But what about this thenk business?
And the inflection that goes along with this thenk yo is particularly annoying.
The thenk is higher in tone, and the yo is a bit extended.
| QUOTE (Maurice Naughton @ Sep 20 2005, 11:33 PM) | ||
It started just after people began saying "tor" instead of "tour," "yore" instead of 'your' (or "you're") and generally mispronouncing many words with "ou" in them. but not, pronounciation, which is still prounounced and spelled pronunciation. |
Wasn't it Charlie Chester or Max Wall (British comedians of the 1940s and 50s) who used "I thenk yo" as a catch phrase ?
| QUOTE (macrosan @ Sep 20 2005, 05:24 PM) | ||||
Wasn't it Charlie Chester or Max Wall (British comedians of the 1940s and 50s) who used "I thenk yo" as a catch phrase ? |
see also groucho marx a decade earlier in "a day at the races". thank you--thank yo!
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Sep 20 2005, 09:12 PM) | ||||||
see also groucho marx a decade earlier in "a day at the races". thank you--thank yo! |
So, the concept of "thenk different" was entertained for several decades before Apple decided to spell it properly?
| QUOTE (mcj @ Sep 20 2005, 08:15 PM) |
| So, the concept of "thenk different" was entertained for several decades before Apple decided to spell it properly? |
iBeg your iPardon?
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