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#3501 mongo_jones

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 12:25 AM

Lippy, on Sep 16 2005, 06:13 PM, said:

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.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 02:11 PM

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, :lol:

or that he screwed up my work.

Ah -- looks as though the files are open again.

Back to work!

#3503 g.johnson

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 02:27 PM

Why do your files take so long to open?

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#3504 mongo_jones

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 03:10 PM

g.johnson, on Sep 17 2005, 08:27 AM, said:

Why do your files take so long to open?

apart from gigantic image files i can't think of any good reason.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 03:25 PM

g.johnson, on Sep 17 2005, 02:27 PM, said:

Why do your files take so long to open?

And why does she keep them open all the time?

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 04:37 AM

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.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 01:09 PM

chefzadi, on Sep 17 2005, 11:25 AM, said:

g.johnson, on Sep 17 2005, 02:27 PM, said:

Why do your files take so long to open?

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!

#3508 Lippy

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:04 PM

Lippy, on Sep 16 2005, 08:13 PM, said:

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.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:06 PM

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.

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#3510 Steve R.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:24 PM

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.

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#3511 omnivorette

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:32 PM

Back to annoyances: incorrect DiFara's information on various websites. Grrrr.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 04:33 PM

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.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 06:36 PM

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.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 09:00 PM

Patriots lost
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Yankees are winning
Tomorrow is Monday

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Posted 19 September 2005 - 05:30 AM

NeroW, on Sep 16 2005, 04:36 PM, said:

Football season. The only sport I actively dislike watching.

Um. Have you ever watched Cricket? Curling? Team Tiddly-Winks?

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