Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/20/05 7:45 AM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> typed: > Add 'how did you find out about the LUG?' > > Op 20-nov-05, om 16:43 heeft Kyle Cassidy het volgende geschreven: > >> >> who is rat_sassy? >> >> what lugger can you turn to if you need a complex alpha mask made >> in 15 >> minutes? >> >> how many photos does graham battison take in a day, and are they >> all THAT >> GOOD? >> >> what lugger knows the most about bees? what one has photographed GeeBee of course! I'm ok Just as long as I get my ten second delay. Extract foot from mouth and come up with a better one. And spell check. I don't get these on the sidewalk running into an old friend. For times though on the LUG I need longer than a ten second delay. I save it to the drafts folder to sleep on it. However I often don't check my drafts folder. So half of those drafts never see the light of day. They're just accidents waiting to never happen. The other half I fine tune beyond all recognition. Watch out! "drafts are drek" somebody says. Rewrite rewrite rewrite Location location location. Taking into account the hours I spend laughing at my own jokes. I can spot on my first cup of coffee in the morning all my fuzzy punchlines with undotted I's or T's needing crossing. Seems like the email business is all about not making an ass of yourself on a very fast first draft. But sometimes like in a letter we just have to deal on a higher plane. (and get miles) I just hope live conversion on the internet does not hit me here and take over soon because I'll unplug right there; preferring to let my fingers to my talking. I'll write letters! Someone calls me or I run into them on the sidewalk I say "I'm on the run email me!". Then I can Jeeves things I find to be inscrutable and get them back with something even more inscrutable. Mapquest any mentioned location location location. And Google-Image any and all visuals and save them to my Filemaker database. My PowerBook is arriving soon that I'm sure will change my lifestyle in ways I'll never anticipate. I might live in a tent with a solar panel close to a Starbucks. It will be several times faster and in all ways more powerful than this G4 I'm typing into. A 340 MHz I think. I'll be Photoshopping on the fly. ad-libbing ITUNES Unpremeditated POWERPOINT. EXCEL Extemporaneously Impulsive PORTFOLIO-ing BURNING DVD'S with no with little or no preparation or forethought Laid-back QUICKENing MICROSOFT done by one's own choice when the power and so on. off-the-cuff FINAL DRAFT Some free and uncompelled IPHOTO. Improvised INDESIGN EMAIL unconstrained by rigid standards or ceremony NORTONing as it comes natural WORD without prompting, or planning Web Surfing on the spur of the occasion. Unrehearsed PDF'ing. Snap! Adobe Creative suite CS2 I'm going to Play It by Ear Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/