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More work in, and looking out for rain...
Oct. 23rd, 2015 11:59 pmIt was a pretty active day, today. I took an hour to go visit my old workplace and remind folks of what I look like (and actually had someone walk by my and not recognize me!), although the actual purpose had more to do with getting particulars on potential work.
When I got back to the house, Galina had left to go supervise some repairs over at Natalie's house, so I took the opportunity to stop by the Barnes & Noble to take a look at a copy of The Explorers Guild by Jon Baird and Kevin Costner.
It is a book with heft; a graphic novel in hardback. I am a little leery of the way the pages of the book have been manufactured to look as if they are old and yellowed—I have enough such books, which look that way because of the cheap paper used in printing—but more than a little intrigued, as some of the illustrations remind me of a style I cannot quite put my finger on; perhaps something I saw in a work by Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Anyway, I managed to OCR the new stuff that came in, which provides yet another data point for that part of the work process, along with the observation that I'm getting better (read: faster and more accurate) as I go, because I'm realizing just exactly where I can slack off. The end client pretty much insists that I replace complicated math expressions—anything that requires DTP or even sub/superscripts—with a 5-dot ellipsis, and that display equations, numerical table content, and figures not be included, either. This makes for a somewhat thinner payday, but (in theory) also makes the work go faster.
Between hurricane Patricia coming in overland from the Pacific and our own local variety of moisture, the local weather wags are warning us'ns that we're about to get a soaking of somewhere between 11 and 16 inches (about 28 to 40 cm). Between my own gut feeling and the lack of buzz in the neighborhood (as people might generate if they were taking extra special precautions or evacuating), I figure this will be a poor weekend to organize a garage sale, but otherwise, we should be okay.
Cheers...
When I got back to the house, Galina had left to go supervise some repairs over at Natalie's house, so I took the opportunity to stop by the Barnes & Noble to take a look at a copy of The Explorers Guild by Jon Baird and Kevin Costner.
It is a book with heft; a graphic novel in hardback. I am a little leery of the way the pages of the book have been manufactured to look as if they are old and yellowed—I have enough such books, which look that way because of the cheap paper used in printing—but more than a little intrigued, as some of the illustrations remind me of a style I cannot quite put my finger on; perhaps something I saw in a work by Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Anyway, I managed to OCR the new stuff that came in, which provides yet another data point for that part of the work process, along with the observation that I'm getting better (read: faster and more accurate) as I go, because I'm realizing just exactly where I can slack off. The end client pretty much insists that I replace complicated math expressions—anything that requires DTP or even sub/superscripts—with a 5-dot ellipsis, and that display equations, numerical table content, and figures not be included, either. This makes for a somewhat thinner payday, but (in theory) also makes the work go faster.
Between hurricane Patricia coming in overland from the Pacific and our own local variety of moisture, the local weather wags are warning us'ns that we're about to get a soaking of somewhere between 11 and 16 inches (about 28 to 40 cm). Between my own gut feeling and the lack of buzz in the neighborhood (as people might generate if they were taking extra special precautions or evacuating), I figure this will be a poor weekend to organize a garage sale, but otherwise, we should be okay.
Cheers...
