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Skriven 2009-10-25 10:03:08 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Nancy Backus
Ärende: Re: surgery   was: DR's appt.
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Hey Nancy!
-> 
->  ->  hn> A lofty goal these days! Great Yellow Father
->  ->  hn> is not often in a genrous mood anymore!
->  -> Around here, it was usually refered to as Great Yellow Mother... or, to
->  -> some of us wives, as the Great Yellow Mistress, when there was 
excessive
->  -> overtime...  But yes, the generosity is long past... it certainly is not
->  -> the company it was when Richard started working there...  That was
->  -> becoming obvious by the time they laid off my brother, and glaring by
->  -> the time they laid off Richard... 
->  -> 
->  hn> Most of the folks that I have known who
->  hn> worked for the company call it Great Yellow Father.
->  hn> But most of them were not based in Rochester, rather
->  hn> they were regional folks for the company.
-> 
-> There were days when it was a benevelent company, and everyone else
-> looked to what was Kodak giving before their unions went into bargaining
-> sessions... And yes, even here it did indeed used to be called the great
-> Yellow Father, or the Big Yellow Box...  ;)  I guess I was remembering
-> more as things were going sour...  Maybe the good feelings lasted longer
-> outside the area...  :)
-> 
I'm sure they did. To those of us who used
the products, our relationships were not with
the "company" as much as with the regional
folks we dealt with, and for Kodak, they had 
great folks "out in the field"; always a pleasure
to work with and responsive to input from the 
pro's who were using their products.

->  -> Slowed down on shooting, or went to digital?  Are there still
->  -> some situations that you prefer the film?
->  ->
->  hn> Went digital. I still have over 50 cameras and
->  hn> I prefer using film for lots of my stuff but
->  hn> customers usually demand digital these days.
->  hn> Used to be that no Art Director would even look
->  hn> at anything but a slide, now you can't get them
->  hn> to look at anything other than digital!
-> 
-> That's the story I hear from others, so I'm not surprised.
->
20 years ago you could not get any
art director at a magazine or other 
publication to look at anything other
than a slide (usually a "dupe" or 
duplicate slide), when digital first
appeared you could not talk them
into letting you send them a high
res .Tiff file or gif or jpg...now you
are hard pressed to find any AD's
who will look at anything OTHER
than a high res digital file.  The industry
standard has changed and that's what
killed film for the most part.
 
->  hn> Have my post-op appt with the surgeon
->  hn> tomorrow (friday) and we'll discuss how it
->  hn> went, and what is next. I have questions and
->  hn> hopefully she'll have good answers!
-> 
-> I hope that things went well?  What's the prognosis?
-> 
-> 
Pretty well, I'm progressing pretty much
as the dr expected, she showed me photos
of the procedure and what the tear looked
like before and after. I did a bit too much 
walking around yesterday and my knee 
really complained last night, so much so that
I took two pain pills before bedtime AND 
iced my knee for an hour just to get the 
pain to subside. 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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