Donated by Michael O'Leary (nephi):
I was thinking about things that I could donate for the auction when I
started thinking about this super high quality scanner that I have sitting
here on my desk. No, I'm not about to donate the scanner, but I am
willing to donate a dozen scans. 8^) I was thinking that the winner
could send me his or her pictures and I could arrange for him or her to
get the digitized form via email, ftp, http, or even a floppy disk. I can
scan at any resolution or color depth, and I have some rather high powered
image editting programs (including Adobe Photoshop), so if the winning bid
is high enough, I am willing to retouch each picture to the winner's
specifications.
I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I am sure that the winner will be quite
pleased with the results.
A couple examples of my work can be found at
http://www.accessus.net/~nephi/pics/mike4.jpg
and
http://www.accessus.net/~nephi/pics/naggle4.jpg
22 responses total.
And I'll start off at $20.
(What? Only one bid? Do you know how much it would cost if you went to your local copy shop and did a dozen scans right? *Big* bucks! 8^)
(Actually, I don't. How much?)
$25.00 US
Was that a bid, or an answer to my question? >8)
(i'd imagine a dozen high quality scans would costs, what, $4.99 each, so 12 would be around 60 smackers...)
Kinko's charges $24/hr to use their do-it-yourself scanning system, and for high-quality scans (600dpi), it is *slow*. Even 150dpi scans probably take 5-10 minutes ($2-$4) each, when you factor in the pre-scan, brightness adjustment, scan, and transfer to your own media.
Alas, it was a firm bid -- a high price to pay (snicker, snicker) but it is for a good cause (and I can use those scans for HVCN) snicker snicker). I repeat: Twenty five ($25.00) and no/100 dollars. This is a bid. <snicker>
If I need something scanned, I usually type it myself, unless I can get Marlene to do it for me. ;) Can I auction off Marlene?
You can use the scans for whatever you like. 8^) You can even send me pictures of nude women to scan. 8^) 8^)
$30, then.
(except you might not get the nude woman pix back =} )
Re 9: Nope, no auctioning people off. Sorry. ;)
even ourselves? somebody did auction off themselves for menial labor, no?
that would be me.
Current bid is $30 from robh, made two days ago.
for reference, i had 16 negatives scanned onto cd-rom. fantastic!! results and almost $60 for the bill.
For clarification, nephi, will you need the eventual winner to send in the photos, or the negatives?
I think that I can only scan photographs (although I have scanned logos off of T-shirts, and with Photoshop, I bet that I could take the inverse of the negatives, making positives. 8^)
Three days to go until robh's bid becomes final.
You're so self-referential. :)
The bidding is closed, the item is SOLD to robh for $30.
Congratulations!
robh, we trust you, in fact we love you, so don't bother sending
the money, Grex will pay for the whole thing!
<a GrexBat materializes before robh>
Is this a GrexBat I see before me?
robh, make your check payable to Cyberspace Communications and
send it to:
Cyberspace Communications, Inc. ****************
P.O. Box 4432 * NEW ADDRESS! *
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432 ****************
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