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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 Do you have a teenager living in the household or next door to you? Just ask them, they'll whiz through anything you ask of 'em! Glenn  |
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United States
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Kids shouldnt be on the computer all day, but if you balance out playing outside during the day and using a computer or playing videogames for a bit before going to bed, there would be a lot less obese kids in this world.
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United States
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One of the greatest Christmas presents I ever got as a kid was my Atari 2600 back in 1981. I tell my kids that today and they give me a rather weird look right before they go back to their Facebook and their DS... I think they are getting on the internet to research nursing homes when I'm not looking...  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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My first experience with computers in college was before the punch cards Punch cards were around long before computers, running weaving machines. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I'd really love to learn how to post some sweet coin photos! take pix DL Irfanview (free) crop everything that isn't a coin save as jpg see "upload image" under the composition box |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Using a typewriter to do school papers was a huge pain especially when you made an error toward the end of the page, time to star over.  Girls that could type got a lot of attention back then (how sexist can I get) but that's a fact. But really posting pics isn't much more difficult than going on this site. download the pic to your desktop and right click on it. You probably have photo software you don't even know about.Click on "open with" and see what you have. Most programs let you crop and resize to get the photo down to size for CCF to accept it. Try it you'll see. Edited by upstate
07/25/2011 6:21 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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slide rule = portable log tables. Our 9th grade math class was so far ahead of the others, we took a couple of weeks to learn them.
As a senior, the chemistry teacher told us we'd need to learn to use one, asking for a show of hands. I heard snickering, looked around and I had the only hand up.
"You know how to use a slide rule?"
"Yup"
Hands me one, asks a half dozen questions, gets instant answers.
"OK, you take that half of the class, I'll take this one."
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm 52 and don't tweet or go on Facebook. Ther's more to life than trying to keep up with all that stuff.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Using a typewriter to do school papers was a huge pain especially
when you made an error toward the end of the page, time to star over. School papers were a piece of cake. Try printing a coin pricelist with columns on a Gestetner duplicator on a Smith-Corona or other manual tripewriter. Hit the keys hard enough to tear the fiber, but not so hard to tear the o and d out. I can understand why dizzy blonde secretaries liked them. Mistakes got covered over with goop that could get you OFF. In kolidge, I got to teach myself new toys for offset printing. IBM selectrics (we got balls), IBM Executive D with proportional type (i=2 spaces, W=5.) 17-cpi Hermes (beautiful). Jusified type. The cheapest Windows computer or word processor does it by clicking the layout button showing type going edge to edge. Back then, you did it manually (a real trick using proportional type) or paid $5,000 for an IBM composer, which was 50% manual. Good thing I taught myself, I could do it twice as fast as a professional secretary. Ended up being the first person to be published at my branch campus, the lead article in Scholastic Editor Graphics Communications monthly. |
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biggfredd => thanks for trying to teach me how to post sweet coin photos ... I was with ya up until "take pix"
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anyway => I have a "typical" digital camera ... will this be good enough? (thanks)
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Pillar of the Community
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biggfredd => sorry, I was being a bit dense => I have stumbled my way into the "Coin Photo" forum, so I should be able to read-up on taking photos, etc (man, this site is becoming a full-time activity) ... I think I'm gonna go outside for a few hours and enjoy the sunshine and walk my hound.
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United States
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Unless your camera has a macro setting, no. In any case, hold it steady (tripod or braced against the desk) and take your time.
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 United States
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biggfredd => sorry, I was being a bit dense => I have stumbled my way into the "Coin Photo" forum, so I should be able to read-up on taking photos, etc (man, this site is becoming a full-time activity) ... I think I'm gonna go outside for a few hours and enjoy the sunshine and walk my hound.
Walk the dog first. Always walk the dog first. Coin photography generates its' own gravity; once in the gravity well you're going to find it difficult to escape very often, and you don't want accidents on your rug. |
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Thanks for your tips, "biggfred and SuperDave" => sounds like a potential crime-fighting duo? ...
Maybe I should just stick to taking photos of my dog, rather than trying to take photos of my coins?
=> "generates its own gravity" => man, now I'm scared sh*tless of coin photography! (but thanks again)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Do you have a teenager living in the household or next door to you? Just ask them, they'll whiz through anything you ask of 'em!
Glenn I was working on putting a new clock on one of my old cars. After that it wouldn't start and I tried everything for hours. Then a kid walked up to my car and asked what I was doing. He was about 12 years old. I told him it just wouldn't start. He said his Dad always puts his in N or P to start theirs. I did and it worked. DUHHH. Kids are just smarter than us old people or they look closer. |
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Posted 07/25/2011 1:42 pm
