Without Prejudice 2

[Rob C]

With a fixer stain? 

Nah, the bloody glazer plate wasn't properly cleaned and the print stuck! Fire that assistant! Or, send her in to the darkroom beasts!

;-)

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Just saw an abstract for a study of "dark-room disease" in radiology personnel... !

Anyway, from last weekend:

[Rob C]

Just saw an abstract for a study of "dark-room disease" in radiology personnel... !

Anyway, from last weekend:

I like that photograph: makes me think of quickly abandoned halls of justice; even takes my mind to the famous diner in New York that nobody could ever find after it was painted (Hopper's Nighthawks.) The people therein became even more famous than the ones in Doisneau's Kiss, and there has certainly been much speculation about their relationships! Sadly, Doisneau's offering turned out to demonstrate the truth that one should never believe a photograph.

Ain't art wonderful?

I really do enjoy pictures that mean a lot, or could equally mean nothing! A wonderful mental tease.

Rob

[GrahamBy]

But did you notice the ghost?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

But did you notice the ghost?

I can find at least three ghosts. Look quick or maybe they'll go away.

[Rob C]

I see one in the middle, and what could be one, wearing a headband, on the extreme right edge. But Eric's a mathematician, so his arithmetic is guaranteed to surpass mine.

I'm also intrigued by what you may have learned about darkroom ills re. radiology staff; maybe too close a proximity to X-ray machines - but in the 'privileged' nature of the info, I don't expect you to post!

Rob

[GrahamBy]

Nah, not one of our studies. If it was the radiation the effects would be long term and probably have no immediate symptoms.

Sounds more like a ventilation problem when you get to the end;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996102/

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

But Eric's a mathematician, so his arithmetic is guaranteed to surpass mine.

Sorry, Rob, but I stopped being a mathematician about twelve years ago. Since I retired, I refuse to do arithmetic. When we eat at a restaurant, my wife (the English major) has to compute the tip.

And note that in another thread titled something like "Two Images," I was the only responder who didn't notice that there were actually three images shown (if I counted correctly...)

[Jeremy Roussak]

Sorry, Rob, but I stopped being a mathematician about twelve years ago. Since I retired, I refuse to do arithmetic. When we eat at a restaurant, my wife (the English major) has to compute the tip.

Does she have to compute it, or just choose from the pre-calculated options at the bottom of the bill?

Jeremy

[GrahamBy]

I was a mathematician before I demoted myself to statistician, but it was waiting tables in a restaurant where the staff were required to know all the prices and add them in their head that taught me to be good at arithmetic!

Anyway, you beat me, I could only find two...

[Rob C]

I was a mathematician before I demoted myself to statistician, but it was waiting tables in a restaurant where the staff were required to know all the prices and add them in their head that taught me to be good at arithmetic!

Anyway, you beat me, I could only find two...

I wouldn't trust on-the-wing addition too far: you began from a point of mental advantage most waiters never know. But, a more impressive trait of experienced waiters is how some can remember an order without writing it down, even on a busy day. However, I fear that skill will vanish soon: the trend now seems to be the use of horrid little electronic 'aids'... and you know what, I've repeatedly been offered the wrong order in places that use those devices; incredible but perfectly true. I only go to those glitzy, overpriced joints when somebody wants to be kind to me and drags me off for a coffee and cake. If only there was some polite way to point out that they simply don't understand, that I have my own routine that keeps me truckin', places I frequent because I have grown to enjoy them and the company of the staff and owners, mostly the same folks!

Ah... !

Rob

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Does she have to compute it, or just choose from the pre-calculated options at the bottom of the bill?

Jeremy

You'll have to ask her. I don't like to look at the bill.   
And most of the places we eat out don't have the fancy software to print suggested tips on the bill anyway.

Eric

[GrahamBy]

back to photos (although still peeking through windows):

[Jeremy Roussak]

You'll have to ask her. I don't like to look at the bill.   
And most of the places we eat out don't have the fancy software to print suggested tips on the bill anyway.

Very sensible.

I thought the printing of calculated tips on the bill had become universal in the US. It certainly seemed that way when i was last there, a couple of years ago.

Jeremy

[Rob C]

back to photos (although still peeking through windows):

I think she's just happy to see you, as Mae West once said.

Saul owes us! Or is it vice versa?

Rob

[armand]

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[GrahamBy]

Saul owes us! Or is it vice versa?

[armand]

I want to break free

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Peppy little guy, isn't he?

[armand]

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