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I had a really bad day.

I accidentally sliced the top of my middle finger almost all the way off.  Luckily, they managed to sew it back on at the clinic.

I am still in that "shock" mode, and am looking to distract myself.

It doesn't hurt but I have that vaso-vagal thing that makes me faint when I  see blood, etc, so I am lying down and trying to get over the whole thing

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:33:12 PM EST
Ouch !!

I recommend a large glass of wine, followed by another....and another. Repeat until full bodily anasthesia is accomplished

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:41:32 PM EST
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Consider the source on that advice, zoe.  Helen would recommend that even if you were perfectly well. :)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:44:47 PM EST
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you 2 make me laugh
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:57:49 PM EST
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Laughter is at least a secondary function of ET, especially in times where one's piano playing abilities are challenged.  I'm sure i speak for all, or at least myself, in wishing you a speedy recovery.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:51:02 PM EST
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as the Swiss say "merci vielen Mal."
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:14:40 PM EST
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And the problem with that is.....?

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:59:29 PM EST
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No problem at all in my book.  Just sayin'.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:04:06 PM EST
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this reminds me of how people in different languages say "Ouch"

in French, it's ayoye or Aïe!

I would have thought that it was a reflex and that everyone would say it the same way.

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:16:35 PM EST
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this was the Chinese character of the day:

http://tinyurl.com/4cpxz

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:44:38 PM EST
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the page won't open but it was the simplified Chinese character for "shit!"
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:41:55 PM EST
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I am not sure that onomatopoeic equivalents for 'ouch' exist in Finnish. The only exclamation I hear is 'Perkele', meaning Devil. It is blurted out with explosive consonants, fully rounded and with extended trilling of the 'r'. The collapse of anything that was previously going well is accompanied by 'Saatana' - again meaning Devil. The double 'a' can be extended in proportion to the entropy. This is one of those rare occasions when a Finnish word is NOT pronounced exactly as it is spelt.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:31:48 PM EST
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Oh, that's nasty! I was once the only adult male on an island when one of the ladies put a knife through her hand while filleting fish we'd caught. Queasy though I was for a moment, I realised I had to take charge before mass hysteria descended. I became totally calm and focused, thinking logically as I had never thought before. In the aftermath, after we stopped the bleeding, there were speedboats to be organized, kids to be reassured and so on.

I must have released about 20 cc of noradrenalin, and a flood of other useful mind modifiers. I didn't sleep that night ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:56:51 PM EST
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so where u this p.m. when I needed you ;-)
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:59:21 PM EST
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Picking up my new 24" iMac ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:02:30 PM EST
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oh, ok then
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:04:14 PM EST
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Would you believe that it's been sitting in its box in full view for over 4 hours, and I haven't opened it yet?

I've promised myself not to install it until I've sorted out the spaghetti of cabling and rationalised the power connections. It is not something I am looking forward to.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:06:00 PM EST
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I thought a big part of the appeal with iMacs was the end of the spaghetti of cabling?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:10:00 PM EST
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LEGACY cabling ;-)

I have everything hooked up to everything else for making movies, music etc. 14 outboard devices in all.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:19:13 PM EST
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Ah, okay, I see.  I just couldn't keep up with all of that.  I salute you.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:21:52 PM EST
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I am never as happy as when I get equipment and software to do something for which it was not intended. I've been tryng to do that for myself also, with less spectacular results ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:21:56 PM EST
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Grief, I have problems enough trying to get things to do what they're supposed to. It took me two hours of deep and intense swearing before I got a scanner to work.

I. HATE. COMPUTERS

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:25:34 PM EST
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But you used to work in computers/IT?

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:40:26 PM EST
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It is a common problem in the branch ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:41:39 PM EST
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its a necessary part of dealing with them. Often the only way to get them to work properly is to threaten them with extreme phyisical violence, and they have to Really Know that you actually mean it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:46:50 PM EST
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I was customer support and empathised with the customer base very well cos I shared their dislike of the things.

I was the person they'd send to the snarling difficult ones who were frustrated beyond control (not uncommon with the BBC desktop). I always used to say that if you fix the user, you don't have to fix the computer. But if you fix the computer and don't fix the user, you've wasted your time.

I didn't know (and still don't) know much about computers, but I know how to deal with people. Far more important when you're dealing with people cos they care how you treat them, computers don't.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:53:56 PM EST
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A lot of customer support people could learn a lot from that.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:57:11 PM EST
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It's not so much the people, companies don't vaule customer support. We've got yer money...now p"ss off !!!

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 03:00:15 PM EST
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too true

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 03:22:13 PM EST
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Phones 4 U kept calling my mobile about half a dozen times a day and then I gave in and answered, launching into my usual 'I am deaf, I can't hear you, can you take me off your calling list?' but he carried right on with his script saying that I'd asked for them to call me.  I pointed out again that I'm deaf and would not have asked them to call and could he please take me off the list and still he carried on.  Then I said that I'd not had a good experience with phones 4 U when I got my contract and will deal directly with the provider and he just hung up me!  Obviously missed out on charm school.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 03:29:04 PM EST
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Now me, I love manuals.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:41:05 PM EST
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well, there's your problem.  they're scared of you ;-)

you have to cajole and praise, and give them treats when they perform well.

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:42:39 PM EST
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A 16 pound sledge hammer to take out the adjacent wall and a threatend three story trip to the skip in the car park is the only thing that really gets compliance from them.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:49:11 PM EST
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What a beautiful machine Sven.  May you produce gloriously upon it.  Caol Ila drunken in salute and best wishes, and i may even open the 27 i got last night.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:57:23 PM EST
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Thank you, sire!

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:09:26 PM EST
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I got one of those.  It is absolutely wonderful,  I just LOVE having all that screen real estate for when I am working with Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Indesign, Photoshop, and the 3D programs.  And the silence--my old Mac was a noisy thing so I revel in the quiet.

May you have a long and creative relationship with your new toy.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 03:07:50 PM EST
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I need a few more hectares ;-) I have two big Samsung Syncmasters, because it is quite hard to work with Final Cut Pro without them. But I am relegating the old G5 to fun use and will stick one of the Samsungs with it.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:13:17 PM EST
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Any of you pros have advice on colour calibration?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:23:20 PM EST
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Hmm, I could do with finding out more about colour calibration - it isn't cheap to invest in a calibrator.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:26:41 PM EST
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On Macs, the Display Calibrator Assistant in Expert mode does a pretty good job. And unless you are in a totally dark studio, there will always by ambient and physiological colour effects which impinge on calibration and how it is perceived.

The DCA does a good enough job - certainly as far as offset printers are concerned. On bigger jobs we always go down to see the first sheets off to make adjustments. It shouldn't happen, but unfortunately there are a few pairs of interfering eyeballs between you and the printed result.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:41:30 PM EST
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My field of vision is such that I seriously doubt that I can use much more than a 24" screen.  I have always disliked the dual screen set-up--I have had it twice and didn't like it either time.  Further, I first learned Photoshop on a 640x480 64k screen, so I know how to get along with limited space.

Of course, I have a real Broadcast-spec monitor for video editing but I don't even try to get the monitor to match it (I set my monitor for printing/Internet.)  But even that doesn't get used much.  If the footage was well-shot, there isn't much need to fix it in post.  I work with one cameraman who would probably throw a fit if I messed with his color anyway.

Apple set the monitor at the factory so that pictures from a digital camera will look good--that use is the most demanding requirement of the iMac market.  I don't know if they have an Apple store in Finland, but the one near here had the iMacs lined up with rotating full-screen photos selected by the VERY fussy Apple graphics department.

BTW, did you see that Apple announced the new iMacs TODAY.  You may be in a position to bargain for an upgrade / price drop--just tell them you want to return the one you just got and see how they respond.  

When I got mine, Apple had just released Leopard and like the trendy I am, I immediately upgraded.  THAT was a mistake.  I had software I could not get running right for three months.  But some application programs had updates, Leopard itself has had two, and importantly, there was a recent firmware update so everything is now running full speed.  I upgraded the memory to full capacity (4 gigs) before I ever plugged it in the first time.

My iMac is, by FAR the best computer I have ever had the pleasure to run.  It is beautiful, quiet, and blazingly fast doing difficult things.  I hope it lasts a LONG time.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 09:52:12 PM EST
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I've used the same Apple dealer for years now for company use and brought them customers - so I get a good deal. They threw in the 4 gig max.

For video editing I use an ancient Sony pro monitor which I also take sometimes to the studio - I know the feel of the picture. It's like having a favourite vocal mike that you are used to (U87 - though there's an AKG I like with my own voice. I do a lot of voiceovers and I have persuaded some clients to let me record at home. This makes me feel better about not driving into town.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Apr 29th, 2008 at 11:37:41 AM EST
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I was once the only adult male on an island when one of the ladies put a knife through her hand while filleting fish we'd caught.

You never told us you'd been on reality TV?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:28:58 PM EST
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now that's funny
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:48:20 PM EST
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good job you've got a spare hand to type with or that would have been nasty ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:25:02 PM EST
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I only have 2 hands, with no spares.
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:45:42 PM EST
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you could probably manage without the odd finger though couldn't you?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:10:12 PM EST
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or the opposable thumbs ;-)
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:21:59 PM EST
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Hope your finger heals fast. Ice can help. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 02:57:05 PM EST
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thanks Fran.  
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:20:38 PM EST
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or in simplified Chinese

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/np/nc_thankyou.htm

xie xie ni

(pronounced shie shie ni in Mandarin)

by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 04:41:04 PM EST
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Geezz, zoe!  I hope you are dreaming by now and it's well bandaged.  Heal quickly.

If you want a distraction and a good laugh, get the movie "Mauvais Esprit".  It´s a chortle.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 06:41:56 PM EST
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thank you.  I'll have a look for it
by zoe on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 at 06:49:26 PM EST
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