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Originally Posted by Ceili
I'm with you!! I love the fireworks in the sky... anything else, not so much! For me, a lot of this has to do with losing a good portion of my hearing in one ear at age 7-walking by a window grate that someone thought would be a great place for an M-80. I was always told I was lucky it was just my hearing and not an eye or more... but having worked for bosses that NEED to whisper without their lips moving... having missed an awful lot of sweet nothings whispered (well, maybe not a lot  ), and never knowing what's going on in a show or movie where they're talking but the "background" music is at Metal Concert level... never seems to feel as lucky as it should.
Of course this might explain why I don't much care for going to the movie theater.... if I can't hear it anyway, why bother?
Hopefully things quiet down for you real soon! |
you know, i find it oddly reassuring that other people hate those stupid things as much (or more) as i do. this time of year i sometimes start to get the impression that i'm the only one...
i'm very sorry about your hearing though, that really sucks.
it makes me hate those things even more than i did already.
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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Yeah, the system Google used is non destructive, since they were doing library books, and there's plans for a homemade one using digital cameras and plexiglass at www.bkrpr.org . However, I don't have two digital cameras for the bkrpr one, and Chris won't have time to build the frame anyway for another two years or so (when he finishes the masters degrees....).
I used my flatbed for the one I did - but it took FOREVER. The speed you get is amazing to me. |
i'm also pretty impressed with the bkrpr system but i don't have the materials or the patience to set it up... and taking FOREVER, yes, that is precisely why i haven't started digitising all my old paperbacks. alas.
