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Re: Computer woes and character delays
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Sun, 22 Apr 2001 02:53:32 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Shiri Dori writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanna apologize. I had about 100 or more pictures of some totally awesome
> characters in my grasp, and I let them slip.
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> Let me explain. For the past year or so, Chris Maddison has been making
> minifigs, including some modified figs, and has had amassed quite the
> awesome collection (IMHO). But he doesn't have a digital camera, and
> attempts to take pictures with a normal camera didn't turn out well.
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> This February I went to Chris's house and brought my digicam. We took tons
> of pictures - for his story, you may recall - and wanted to take more, but
> my battery ran out (ugh)! We were upset at the time, but figured "no
> problem, we'll see each other again in April, so we'll take more pictures • then".
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> April came to Boston, and Chris came to Boston, his minifigs also came to
> Boston. My camera was working nonstop, we were working nonstop. We created
> backdrop settings, took photos of figs and more figs, and more figs... and
> more figs. And some more. And... you get the picture. I lost count of how
> many times we put pics on my computer in order to reuse the disk, and how
> many times we needed to recharge the battery. Seriously. That many. It was
> probably somewhere between 100 and 150 pics. Maybe more.
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> On Thursday morning, we *finally* finished. Chris posted about his space
> stuff (ick!) but he wanted to keep the castle pictures offline until he has
> all his bios written out. We planned that, when Chris gets home, I'd ICQ him
> the pictures.
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> BUT... last night, right after Chris called me to say he got home safely, my
> computer - a five-year-old piece of junk, just barely running - shot some
> sparks out of it, made a loud noise, smoked up, started whirring (it was
> off!) and then died. Now it won't turn on at all, it's totally dead.
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> So there go five years' worth of stuff, including last copies of my mom's
> programs, all my ICQ history, lots of pictures and movies, and most
> annoyingly... all those pictures that we just took. Ugh! I mean, UGH... how
> annoying. And how frustrating...
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> So, guys, I'm sorry, but it's gonna be a while before you see them all... I
> don't know when, my mom is going to try and salvage the computer, and Chris
> might borrow a digicam from a friend. Otherwise though, it might be July til
> we retake the pictures...
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> So, I apologize for my computer burning up. Now, I need to get back to
> downloading all my programs...
>
> -Shiri
That's awful! If it's that important, and no one else can get the files off,
try to get a professional computer repair company to get the files off the hard
drive. This is the thing that inspires people to get a CDRW Drive, so they can
make hundreds of backup copys.
NICK
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