Meet-Up! Southeastern USA MR Hoedown in October - Page 6

RWood · 10-26-2008, 11:34 AM

Looks like you all had a wonderful time. I wish I could have been there. (Fresh sourdough bread alone would be enough to inspire me.)

Lets see if I remember right:

3+ Meet-ups in Paris
1 in Scotland
2 in Texas
1 in the Washington, DC area

This is getting great!

BookishDreamer · 10-26-2008, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by jerryleejr

Dont tell me you showed up late? They are pretty good about putting up signs on the interstate not to sure about the back roads

JJ

Actually I got there early. The roads were well labeled, but for some silly reason, Google maps thought I might like to take a scenic drive down a twisty turny single lane road that suddenly became a dirt road. Now I don't mind driving on dry dirt roads, but my little car isn't designed to go bogging. Luckily I was soon back on asphalt and found the park with no wrong turns.

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

I've just got to say: Our get-together was wonderful! It was like a family picnic, but with a family you choose.

I agree completely. A technology savvy, quick witted, hugging family.

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Earlier, Slayda took us to the trunk of his car and sliced apart a pbook while demonstrating his able-to-slice-off-a-whole-finger cutter, then back to the pavilion, where he showed us all his amazing double-sided scanner.

A whole finger?! No, that thing could take off the whole hand with no trouble. Luckily it's not big enough to decapitate anyone or slayda would need a "Guillotine on Board" warning sign for his car.

Dreamer

LazyScot · 10-26-2008, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by RWood

Lets see if I remember right:

3+ Meet-ups in Paris
1 in Scotland
2 in Texas
1 in the Washington, DC area

This is getting great!

1 in England (or 2 in the UK if you like) -- the London meetup.

Looks like it was a great time (no trouble from local wildlife....?)

DixieGal · 10-26-2008, 01:57 PM

Wildlife? A bee bothered us while eating. Oh, and there was a big spider in the bathroom.

Oh, I forgot! This cute little old man and his grandson (?) wandered over. He was wearing a US Submarine Veteran hat. He didn't have a clue what was going on, but he hugged all of us girls. So Cute!!

Patricia · 10-26-2008, 08:06 PM

I'm glad that you all had a wonderful time. We all raised a glass to you at the Paris meet-at about 9pm (Paris time) on the same day. It also went rather well.
The book scanner sounds very interesting. I would love to see one of those in action.

slayda · 10-26-2008, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

I'm glad that you all had a wonderful time. We all raised a glass to you at the Paris meet-at about 9pm (Paris time) on the same day. It also went rather well.
The book scanner sounds very interesting. I would love to see one of those in action.

In case you want to investigate further, it is a Fujitsu Scansnap 500. I think the only real similar version available now is the 510. These are not TWAIN compliant (and if that term is meaningless to you - it is just a standard that most programs currently recognize) but it has it's own drivers and produces a PDF file as output. It comes with a somewhat restricted version of the ABBYY Finereader OCR SW. It is a page scanner & can scan pages up to 8.5" x 11" and can scan two sides at once. You can stack up to 50 pages at a time in it. Cost is about $400 on Amazon for the 510.

Fujitsu makes a newer version that is about double the price & is TWAIN compliant.

Patricia · 10-27-2008, 09:05 AM

Thanks, Slayda. I shall do a web search.

Slite · 10-27-2008, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Thanks, Slayda. I shall do a web search.

Only "bad" thing about a device like that is that you have to massacre the p-book to be able to scan it... And thats a "bad thing to do"(TM)

At least as far as I am concerned

10-26-2008, 11:34 AM	#76
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Looks like you all had a wonderful time. I wish I could have been there. (Fresh sourdough bread alone would be enough to inspire me.) Lets see if I remember right: 3+ Meet-ups in Paris 1 in Scotland 2 in Texas 1 in the Washington, DC area This is getting great!

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