Greetings, hypothetical reader of my journal, thank you for stopping by.
Today I hung about umass after my class this afternoon to see a guest lecturer who's trying for a position in the department I'm taking a class in. I'm trying to get a position in that department myself, as a grad student, therefore I go to such events as this to make myself visible, to show an interest in departmental goings-on.
Between class and the lecture I headed over to the library to read a bit from a book that's on reserve for my class and entirely failed to do so because I got off on a random floor to sit down a few minutes to eat my lunch, and I noticed a stack of bound editions of this old newspaper; the one I picked up was from 1930. I opened it and leafed through the pages, read a couple of little articles, but what really grabbed me were the cigarette and car advertisements. They were really clever and had great design. Despite the virtuosity in design that's possible today with computers, we've really missed the golden age of design and are now really in the age of the photograph.
When the lecture was over I went back to the library to get that book, and as I could only have it for two hours I just photgraphed the whole thing with my digital camera. Took about 20 minutes and my camera hand started to cramp up a bit. I felt kind of like a Russian spy stealing classified information with a Minox camera, worried just a little bit that a couple of guys in uniforms might show up and give me a "come with us please, sir" but really there's no reason why that would happen, as it's no different really than copying a bunch of the book with a xerox type machine. Occurs to me that this might be a good solution for students who can't afford their textbooks. Buy it photograph it return it. But the big publishers are working hard to shaft you in that respect, they shrink wrap their books and include useless software that their sales reps persuade professors to order. I was in the college bookstore industry for much too long and I could tell you stories.
don't have a cow, man.
Today I hung about umass after my class this afternoon to see a guest lecturer who's trying for a position in the department I'm taking a class in. I'm trying to get a position in that department myself, as a grad student, therefore I go to such events as this to make myself visible, to show an interest in departmental goings-on.
Between class and the lecture I headed over to the library to read a bit from a book that's on reserve for my class and entirely failed to do so because I got off on a random floor to sit down a few minutes to eat my lunch, and I noticed a stack of bound editions of this old newspaper; the one I picked up was from 1930. I opened it and leafed through the pages, read a couple of little articles, but what really grabbed me were the cigarette and car advertisements. They were really clever and had great design. Despite the virtuosity in design that's possible today with computers, we've really missed the golden age of design and are now really in the age of the photograph.
When the lecture was over I went back to the library to get that book, and as I could only have it for two hours I just photgraphed the whole thing with my digital camera. Took about 20 minutes and my camera hand started to cramp up a bit. I felt kind of like a Russian spy stealing classified information with a Minox camera, worried just a little bit that a couple of guys in uniforms might show up and give me a "come with us please, sir" but really there's no reason why that would happen, as it's no different really than copying a bunch of the book with a xerox type machine. Occurs to me that this might be a good solution for students who can't afford their textbooks. Buy it photograph it return it. But the big publishers are working hard to shaft you in that respect, they shrink wrap their books and include useless software that their sales reps persuade professors to order. I was in the college bookstore industry for much too long and I could tell you stories.
don't have a cow, man.
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artrob:
I see your a firearms enthusiast...excellent. I can't wait for the weather to warm up so I can go shooting outside.
jaxs1984:
...I'm pretty impressed with your gun knowledge 
It sure is a "small" world and everyone thinks their little unique individual snow flakes 
LOL Welcome to SG ..
It sure is a "small" world and everyone thinks their little unique individual snow flakes LOL Welcome to SG ..