OT: Good news, bad news
As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Road trip! ann On 12/23/2011 10:29, Stan Halpin wrote: As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Now that would a handy thing to have somewhere nearby. I've got about 10,000 slides to scan ... ;-) G On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Sounds like they were quoting from the Product literature in describing that equipment. A more perhaps realistic assessment can be found in the reviews on bhphotovideo's site. Example: - - - Am getting fairly experienced with this scanner now that I have had it for two months Here's what I've figured out so far. 1] Universal Slide Tray is the only way to go...only problem is Pacific Image can't keep them in stock...this is the only tray that will not jam...the below mentioned 100 slide carousels jam like crazy...the supplied 50 slide tray jams almost as much, though not quite...as above, the Universal Tray is the only one to use. 2] Annoys the hel out of me when scanning hundreds of slides and the auto crop feature misfires and scans way way way more than your slide image..so you have to crop that crab out of their in the post scanning processI'd pay somebody a million dollars if they could solve this issue for meHelp with the Auto Crop...anybody out there have any suggestions... 3] As others have noted...after about 130 scans or so, the scanner just stopsthat would be bad enough, but it gets worse...the only way you can get it going again is to de-power it..and have it reboot itself...this takes the better part of five minutes...and then you loose you place in the process...so you've got to do a test preview or two..to be sure you have the next slide in the sequence cued up...to be sure you don't either duplicate the last slide scanned or to make sure you don't skip the next slide to scan...this will also annoy the hel out of you... As you can tell, like most of us...I have thousands of slides to scan..so #2 and #3 above are real issues If anybody out there can assist...please post... Finally, I am scanning at 720dpi (a compromise of my time)...and I can do 50 slides in 22 minutes..but then I've got to re-crop 10 of them .. for an additional time issue... - - - end of review Interesting too is the fact that this model is no longer available. The 5000 would seem to be the equiv. new model: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/762308-REG/Pacific_Image_PS5000_PowerSlide_3650_Slides_Scanner.html Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The DMax of 3.8 is not stellar either, but for the money compromises need to be made. I suppose getting good enough scans DONE as opposed to few (or none) ever getting done at higher quality is the real world issue for many. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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If they allowed you to use the machine 24x7 you could get it done in a week. From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Now that would a handy thing to have somewhere nearby. I've got about 10,000 slides to scan ... G On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: ?The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Seems like all the reviews on BH, whether good or bad, start out the same way ... I bought this to scan xx thousand slides ... Got me to wondering what happened to the used scanners once they'd finished scanning their slides, so I looked on eBay. Weren't as many as I expected, but there's at least one. Not a bad price, but it's a Buy It Now with no returns accepted. Bargain if it's actually working, sort of a rip-off if it's not, although it's covered by eBay Buyer Protection. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Seems like all the reviews on BH, whether good or bad, start out the same way ... I bought this to scan xx thousand slides ... Got me to wondering what happened to the used scanners once they'd finished scanning their slides, so I looked on eBay. Weren't as many as I expected, but there's at least one. Not a bad price, but it's a Buy It Now with no returns accepted. Bargain if it's actually working, sort of a rip-off if it's not, although it's covered by eBay Buyer Protection. I found a bargain: someone on another photo forum posted a note saying, I've scanned all the film I'm ever going to scan. My Nikon Coolscan V has done its job. It's four months old, who wants it? $700 I bought it, and sold my Coolscan IV for $300, a bit more than I paid for it. $400 for a Coolscan V ED is a serious bargain for one of the best scanners in the business. But it's not a volume scanner without an expensive attachment or two. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Though not in actuality, but in spirit, we are a Pentax Camera Club. As such, I propose that as many of us that have copious slides to scan pool our funds, buy the thing, pay the $179 for a three year warranty, pool our Universal Slide Trays, and pass it around. We could draw straws of a digital kind to see what order the machine should be used, or go by need, or second letter of the last name, or the like. I can't afford $1500 right now, but I can afford $300 - $400. If one of those who would be interested has never used Bill Me Later and has a good credit rating, the costs could be defrayed over a six month period with no fees, no interest. It has to be paid by six months or all accrued interest will be added at a high interest rate. So no fooling around, and no jumping in if you can't swim. There are two concurrent rebates available for this machine, which reduce the price another $300, to $999.99, plus the $178 warranty price for 3 yrs, $359.98 for 5 years. The machine must be purchased by 12/31/2011, and the rebate forms mailed by January 14th, 2012. If the need is there, and you have the time to spend a week or a month or two scanning all your 35mm slides for the historical record, and if you have a large enough hard drive to hold the results, get in touch. On Dec 23, 2011, at 08:29 , John Sessoms wrote: If they allowed you to use the machine 24x7 you could get it done in a week. From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Now that would a handy thing to have somewhere nearby. I've got about 10,000 slides to scan ... G On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: ?The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On the other hand, the 35mm 120 film scanner model Pacific Image Prime Film 120 Multiple Format Scanner after rebates is just $1500, free shipping, USA. I also found that the previously mentioned Pacific Image Powerslide 4000 CCD Scanner is also sold under the Braun banner at BH with less resolution, for $200 more, or $1699.00 with no rebates. On the good side is they have a refurbished unit for $899.00. I wonder about the BH writers who compose these catalog listings. Here they are selling a $1300 scanner (the 5000) and the big print is supposed to put one in rapture because the listing tells you that the $18.95 Universal Slide Tray is included FREE!!. On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:43 , Joseph McAllister wrote: Though not in actuality, but in spirit, we are a Pentax Camera Club. As such, I propose that as many of us that have copious slides to scan pool our funds, buy the thing, pay the $179 for a three year warranty, pool our Universal Slide Trays, and pass it around. We could draw straws of a digital kind to see what order the machine should be used, or go by need, or second letter of the last name, or the like. I can't afford $1500 right now, but I can afford $300 - $400. If one of those who would be interested has never used Bill Me Later and has a good credit rating, the costs could be defrayed over a six month period with no fees, no interest. It has to be paid by six months or all accrued interest will be added at a high interest rate. So no fooling around, and no jumping in if you can't swim. There are two concurrent rebates available for this machine, which reduce the price another $300, to $999.99, plus the $178 warranty price for 3 yrs, $359.98 for 5 years. The machine must be purchased by 12/31/2011, and the rebate forms mailed by January 14th, 2012. If the need is there, and you have the time to spend a week or a month or two scanning all your 35mm slides for the historical record, and if you have a large enough hard drive to hold the results, get in touch. On Dec 23, 2011, at 08:29 , John Sessoms wrote: If they allowed you to use the machine 24x7 you could get it done in a week. From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Now that would a handy thing to have somewhere nearby. I've got about 10,000 slides to scan ... G On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's notes was a bit different: ?The Media Development Center in 213 Hale Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all faculty/staff and students. Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. Photons were one of the earliest particles to develop, but I don't think any were able to escape for a little bit more. Once they could, there would have been a flash during expansion. No one would notice, of course, for another 4.2 billion years. Now we are trying to catch up by looking out, and back in time to that infinitesimally small fraction of a millisecond in an attempt to see what caused that singularity to become the Big Bang. This attempt will fail in any visual way, as the furthest galaxies and elements are now moving faster than light by recent theory, making the information sought beyond a theoretical event horizon. — update to the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I thought about exploring the Quality issue, but then decided that such details had no place in my sudden fantasy about thousands of slides perfectly, and automatically, scanned. But thanks for the info! stan On Dec 23, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Darren Addy wrote: Sounds like they were quoting from the Product literature in describing that equipment. A more perhaps realistic assessment can be found in the reviews on bhphotovideo's site. Example: - - - Am getting fairly experienced with this scanner now that I have had it for two months Here's what I've figured out so far. 1] Universal Slide Tray is the only way to go...only problem is Pacific Image can't keep them in stock...this is the only tray that will not jam...the below mentioned 100 slide carousels jam like crazy...the supplied 50 slide tray jams almost as much, though not quite...as above, the Universal Tray is the only one to use. 2] Annoys the hel out of me when scanning hundreds of slides and the auto crop feature misfires and scans way way way more than your slide image..so you have to crop that crab out of their in the post scanning processI'd pay somebody a million dollars if they could solve this issue for meHelp with the Auto Crop...anybody out there have any suggestions... 3] As others have noted...after about 130 scans or so, the scanner just stopsthat would be bad enough, but it gets worse...the only way you can get it going again is to de-power it..and have it reboot itself...this takes the better part of five minutes...and then you loose you place in the process...so you've got to do a test preview or two..to be sure you have the next slide in the sequence cued up...to be sure you don't either duplicate the last slide scanned or to make sure you don't skip the next slide to scan...this will also annoy the hel out of you... As you can tell, like most of us...I have thousands of slides to scan..so #2 and #3 above are real issues If anybody out there can assist...please post... Finally, I am scanning at 720dpi (a compromise of my time)...and I can do 50 slides in 22 minutes..but then I've got to re-crop 10 of them .. for an additional time issue... - - - end of review Interesting too is the fact that this model is no longer available. The 5000 would seem to be the equiv. new model: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/762308-REG/Pacific_Image_PS5000_PowerSlide_3650_Slides_Scanner.html Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Seems like all the reviews on BH, whether good or bad, start out the same way ... I bought this to scan xx thousand slides ... Got me to wondering what happened to the used scanners once they'd finished scanning their slides, so I looked on eBay. Weren't as many as I expected, but there's at least one. Not a bad price, but it's a Buy It Now with no returns accepted. Bargain if it's actually working, sort of a rip-off if it's not, although it's covered by eBay Buyer Protection. I found a bargain: someone on another photo forum posted a note saying, I've scanned all the film I'm ever going to scan. My Nikon Coolscan V has done its job. It's four months old, who wants it? $700 I bought it, and sold my Coolscan IV for $300, a bit more than I paid for it. $400 for a Coolscan V ED is a serious bargain for one of the best scanners in the business. But it's not a volume scanner without an expensive attachment or two. -- Godfrey Keep me in mind when you are finished with it. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Keep me in mind when you are finished with it. I will, but it will be a long while. I bought it because I recently acquired a Leica M4-2 and like shooting with it occasionally, so I need a good scanner to take my negatives into digital domain with on an ongoing basis. For bulk scanning, I'm going to bundle most of everything up and ship it to http://www.scancafe.com. I've done a few sets that way ... they do as good or better a job as I can, it costs far less than my time does. My time is too limited for bulk scanning ... I'm not retired! :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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From: Godfrey DiGiorgi On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Seems like all the reviews on BH, whether good or bad, start out the same way ... I bought this to scan xx thousand slides ... Got me to wondering what happened to the used scanners once they'd finished scanning their slides, so I looked on eBay. Weren't as many as I expected, but there's at least one. Not a bad price, but it's a Buy It Now with no returns accepted. Bargain if it's actually working, sort of a rip-off if it's not, although it's covered by eBay Buyer Protection. I found a bargain: someone on another photo forum posted a note saying, I've scanned all the film I'm ever going to scan. My Nikon Coolscan V has done its job. It's four months old, who wants it? $700 I bought it, and sold my Coolscan IV for $300, a bit more than I paid for it. $400 for a Coolscan V ED is a serious bargain for one of the best scanners in the business. But it's not a volume scanner without an expensive attachment or two. I have a CoolScan IV ED that I bought in 2003. I paid somewhere between $400 and $600 for it. Don't really remember how much it was now. I was going to use it to scan slides as I took them instead of trying to attack any big backlog. But, before I really got any use out of it, I got mobilized, bought the *ist-D and got sent to Iraq. I'd have never got any use out of it over there, because I had no way to get film processed other than to mail it home to the USA. I still use it occasionally though when I get the rare urge to shoot 35mm film. I'm thinking about a flatbed for MF, LF old photos. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Mark, I hope Lisa recovers quickly and swiftly! On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Sorry to hear that. Hope she heals quickly. Paul On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:55 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Damn it! Best to Lisa. Jack --- On Sat, 1/30/10, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: OT: Good news bad news To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:55 PM Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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What a bizarre accident. Speedy recovery! --Original Message-- From: Mark Roberts Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List ReplyTo: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Good news bad news Sent: Jan 30, 2010 11:55 PM Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? Oh shit! Send Lisa my best wishes for a speedy recovery. That sounds really nasty! BTW, she's going to have to come up with a better story as to how she broke her wrist. Shoelace? Moving sidewalk at the airport? No: She was skydiving and the main 'chute didn't open and at the last moment she got the reserve to untangle and she hit the ground too fast. Or maybe she was doing a bit of winter training in the southern hemisphere, like in the Andes somewhere and she was descending on the Pinarello at about 95km/hr and hit a bit of gravel on a long sweeping curve and she went over the guardrail and miraculously only broke her wrist. Be imaginative. But a slow moving sidewalk will never do. ;-) Seriously, keep us abreast of her progress. Thinking of her... cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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2010/1/31 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Be imaginative. But a slow moving sidewalk will never do. Frank, for some of us, explaining that we couldn't get the cleat loose from the pedal would suffice. Not for you though. :-) Those moving sidewalks are never risk free. Neither are shoelaces. Fingers crossed she mends well, Mark. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Mark Roberts wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? Not too interesting, I hope. I especially hope that it does not affect her work. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Sorry to hear about Lisa. I hope she mends quickly and is not too discomforted. -- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:55:16 PM, you wrote: MR Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st MR and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the MR 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. MR Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and MR attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving MR sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know MR in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. MR Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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That's no good! Hope she doesn't need surgery and it heals quickly. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:55 -0500, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Ouch! Been there, please pass on my commiserations. I'm astounded how easy it is to have a break like that. Mine was caused by me slipping while mowing the grass. On the plus side, I don't feel obligated to mow as often as I used to Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Hope Dr Lisa mends quickly. Dave On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Good news: The house in Pittsburgh is sold. Closing is on March 1st and we'll be looking for somewhere in Boston that's bigger than the 2-bedroom apartment we're currently occupying. Bad news: Lisa went to Pittsburgh to do some clean up on the house and attend to other business. She got a shoelace caught in the moving sidewalk in the airport, fell and broke her wrist - badly. We'll know in a couple of days if they're going to want to do surgery. Interesting times, eh? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
