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Re: What happened?
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:55:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
Jeff Stembel wrote:

P.S.  If you are really bored and want to see what I do, go to:
< http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ocs/text/MAP-COLL.htm >
and check out scans of historical charts.  :)

    Those are marvelous!  I'm off to London on Tuesday to do work in the
British Library Map Library and the War Office...er, DoD.  So I do historical
charts too, in a sense...I just look at charts of colonial holdings and
dissect them in a dry, boring manner.

  LFB

For the record none of the ~350 images I've cleaned have been uploaded yet.
Anyways, what I do is take a scan of a chart and remove extranious pixels and
lines from them.  It is by far one of the most boring jobs in the world, but
the pay is decent.  :)

Jeff



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  Re: What happened?
 
(...) Those are marvelous! I'm off to London on Tuesday to do work in the British Library Map Library and the War Office...er, DoD. So I do historical charts too, in a sense...I just look at charts of colonial holdings and dissect them in a dry, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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