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No one would ever confuse me with a serious digital photographer like <lj="dd_b">. I'm just a geek in a very dangerous position - no job to keep me occupied, but a paycheck still coming in (due to extremely generous Cisco severance package). Just before I went on vacation, my nice little multi-purpose printer decided to stop printing in color. So when I got back from Spain, I had to deal with this. None of the recommended maintenance procedures had any effect, so I decided to just buy another printer - they're practically giving them away these days, expecting to make all their money on the ink. However, I couldn't just throw away the old one and replace it with a new one, since the old Xerox XK35c still works just fine as a black and white copier/printer and flatbed scanner. So I needed to rearrange my office to make room for a second printer.
Well, one thing led to another, as is often the case with old houses. I made the mistake of plugging in the vacuum cleaner, which blew the only outlet in the room, which was behind a 600-pound desk that could only be moved if I took everything off it... Anyway, it took about a week of hard work, but I now have a new outlet, a clean office, 3 new pieces of tinker-toy furniture from Office Depot, and a really cool new printer.
If anyone is in the market for a low-end photo-quality printer, I recommend this one: Canon S-520. It's last year's model, so you probably won't be able to find it in stores (I couldn't), but I managed to buy it for $85 online. According to the online reviews I read, it has better print quality than Canon's follow-on model (which costs more) and is WAY faster than the comparable HP models. I'm not crazy about the Canon software, but when I finally bypassed the annoying "print wizard" and monumentally stupid "album mode" I was able to print borderless 4x6 photos that are almost indistinguishable from photo prints from a photo shop. Yowza!
Of course, once I had the print technology, it was time to spend yet more money on a new camera to replace the one that was stolen in Spain. The old one was a Canon S110, picked because it was the absolute smallest mid-range digital camera on the market at the time. Now there's an even smaller one - the Minolta Dimage Xi - which I now own. I've only had it two days, so I'm still learning how to work it. Some things about the new one I like better than the Canon, other things not as well. So that's my new obsession - I apologize in advance for making a nuisance of myself trying to take pictures of people with a camera I don't quite know how to work. I'm sure it's every bit as annoying as the new Palm-owner trying to enter everybody's addresses in Graffiti script ("Wait, don't give me the address yet... okay, New Entry, um... D.A.V.I.... no wait, don't give me your phone number yet...oops. Why did that happen? Okay... no, not yet, I'm still on the name...")
Well, one thing led to another, as is often the case with old houses. I made the mistake of plugging in the vacuum cleaner, which blew the only outlet in the room, which was behind a 600-pound desk that could only be moved if I took everything off it... Anyway, it took about a week of hard work, but I now have a new outlet, a clean office, 3 new pieces of tinker-toy furniture from Office Depot, and a really cool new printer.
If anyone is in the market for a low-end photo-quality printer, I recommend this one: Canon S-520. It's last year's model, so you probably won't be able to find it in stores (I couldn't), but I managed to buy it for $85 online. According to the online reviews I read, it has better print quality than Canon's follow-on model (which costs more) and is WAY faster than the comparable HP models. I'm not crazy about the Canon software, but when I finally bypassed the annoying "print wizard" and monumentally stupid "album mode" I was able to print borderless 4x6 photos that are almost indistinguishable from photo prints from a photo shop. Yowza!
Of course, once I had the print technology, it was time to spend yet more money on a new camera to replace the one that was stolen in Spain. The old one was a Canon S110, picked because it was the absolute smallest mid-range digital camera on the market at the time. Now there's an even smaller one - the Minolta Dimage Xi - which I now own. I've only had it two days, so I'm still learning how to work it. Some things about the new one I like better than the Canon, other things not as well. So that's my new obsession - I apologize in advance for making a nuisance of myself trying to take pictures of people with a camera I don't quite know how to work. I'm sure it's every bit as annoying as the new Palm-owner trying to enter everybody's addresses in Graffiti script ("Wait, don't give me the address yet... okay, New Entry, um... D.A.V.I.... no wait, don't give me your phone number yet...oops. Why did that happen? Okay... no, not yet, I'm still on the name...")
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Date: 2003-05-03 04:09 pm (UTC)On a slightly different note, I have some hope that a message I posted to natter earlier in the week might eventually appear on natter (Since I posted from an address that isn't subscribed to natter, Dean has to approve it before it will make an appearance). The message was about a recent job posting on the Unisys job site. You came more or less immediately to mind as someone who would be well qualified for the job, but probably not interested in the job. Anyway, something to keep an eye out for. Or not.