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Mar. 13th, 2007 07:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickHearings today for 202 and 216. The 216 one is the junkie who never got the electric service put in her name and has been heating the place with space heaters on our dime. The windows have been open a lot The other one, at 202, is the one who accused me of making her hot water break because the rent wasn't paid. If only I could do stuff like that...
I file a landlord-tenant complaint. Usually my complaint is that the rent money isn't being paid. Sometimes my complaint is different -- too much noise (code for drug dealer), tenant has cat or dog on property, tenant has not put utilities in his/her name, tenant has people not named on the lease who are living there. Mostly, though, my problem is that the rent isn't being paid. If I have other problems in addition to the rent issue, I put those on the complaint, too.
At the hearing (which takes a while -- we filed on Heroin Addict on March 1 and the hearing is today, March 13), I will ask for the money owed and possession of the property. District Justice Bingham, whom I am not a huge fan of, will "award" me the deposit (which I was going to take anyway) and possession of the property. I have to wait like ten days after the hearing to file an Order for Possession. If I am very lucky, Heroin Addict will do me the favor of leaving before I have to pay for the constable. I have a feeling that I am not going to be very lucky. *sigh*
Tonight is also the photography club meeting, which I am actually planning to make it to. Yay! And I have samples of my work, as if anyone wants to see those. I got 'em printed out at WalMart which had (a surprise to me, let me tell you) special auto-pimpage for my pictures. Now, I do not make any claims toward being an artiste or whatever, but I am not a big fan of auto-pimpage. I don't want my pictures auto-pimped. I don't want the fucking kiosk to tell me that it's improving my pictures. If I want them improved, I'll do it myself. When I press PRINT on the kiosk, I want the kiosk to print what I gave it, not make its own decisions about color saturation and cropping. Also, I'd like to have the option of 5x7. I'm willing to pay for it. 4x6 is an asstastic size.
I didn't get really pissed until I realized that the kiosk was fucking with my pictures without my consent and without telling me until I hit the PRINT button. *sigh* Why does WalMart have to be such an asshat about this? Correct my colors? Fuck, no. I may not be very good at taking pictures, but I want my work, not the work of the fucking kiosk AI, all right?
They should have a sign up: Warning! This kiosk does not print your pictures. This kiosk "improves" (I am only using the phrasing it gave me) your pictures and prints the "improved" version. It does not tell you about any of this until after you have hit the PRINT button, either. If you've done something interesting with the color balance or lighting of your shot, the kiosk will attempt to FIX it. Your colors will be jacked up like they're intended for toddlers. The kiosk will tell you that this is to make your images more vibrant but the general effect is that of a four year old girl tarted up like a Bratz doll. Also, the kiosk will not print your whole picture. It'll print the middle of it. The kiosk will also not tell you this ahead of time. You have to go home and compare the image file to the print to see what it's done to your work.
Fuckers. FUCKERS. FUCKERS FUCKERS FUCKERS. I would not be so mad about this except that the damn thing does not TELL you any of this until after you've pushed PRINT. They never do tell you about the cropping, just the color enhancement and improved color balance shit. I didn't find out about the cropping for real until I got my ass home and compared the prints to the actual files on my computer. I mean, the prints looked like they were smaller and less well-framed than I remembered them, but I figured maybe that was just because I hadn't seen 'em on paper yet. Not so. The kiosk did not print what I gave it. It printed the middle of what I gave it.
I am not getting my pictures printed out at WalMart ever again.
I file a landlord-tenant complaint. Usually my complaint is that the rent money isn't being paid. Sometimes my complaint is different -- too much noise (code for drug dealer), tenant has cat or dog on property, tenant has not put utilities in his/her name, tenant has people not named on the lease who are living there. Mostly, though, my problem is that the rent isn't being paid. If I have other problems in addition to the rent issue, I put those on the complaint, too.
At the hearing (which takes a while -- we filed on Heroin Addict on March 1 and the hearing is today, March 13), I will ask for the money owed and possession of the property. District Justice Bingham, whom I am not a huge fan of, will "award" me the deposit (which I was going to take anyway) and possession of the property. I have to wait like ten days after the hearing to file an Order for Possession. If I am very lucky, Heroin Addict will do me the favor of leaving before I have to pay for the constable. I have a feeling that I am not going to be very lucky. *sigh*
Tonight is also the photography club meeting, which I am actually planning to make it to. Yay! And I have samples of my work, as if anyone wants to see those. I got 'em printed out at WalMart which had (a surprise to me, let me tell you) special auto-pimpage for my pictures. Now, I do not make any claims toward being an artiste or whatever, but I am not a big fan of auto-pimpage. I don't want my pictures auto-pimped. I don't want the fucking kiosk to tell me that it's improving my pictures. If I want them improved, I'll do it myself. When I press PRINT on the kiosk, I want the kiosk to print what I gave it, not make its own decisions about color saturation and cropping. Also, I'd like to have the option of 5x7. I'm willing to pay for it. 4x6 is an asstastic size.
I didn't get really pissed until I realized that the kiosk was fucking with my pictures without my consent and without telling me until I hit the PRINT button. *sigh* Why does WalMart have to be such an asshat about this? Correct my colors? Fuck, no. I may not be very good at taking pictures, but I want my work, not the work of the fucking kiosk AI, all right?
They should have a sign up: Warning! This kiosk does not print your pictures. This kiosk "improves" (I am only using the phrasing it gave me) your pictures and prints the "improved" version. It does not tell you about any of this until after you have hit the PRINT button, either. If you've done something interesting with the color balance or lighting of your shot, the kiosk will attempt to FIX it. Your colors will be jacked up like they're intended for toddlers. The kiosk will tell you that this is to make your images more vibrant but the general effect is that of a four year old girl tarted up like a Bratz doll. Also, the kiosk will not print your whole picture. It'll print the middle of it. The kiosk will also not tell you this ahead of time. You have to go home and compare the image file to the print to see what it's done to your work.
Fuckers. FUCKERS. FUCKERS FUCKERS FUCKERS. I would not be so mad about this except that the damn thing does not TELL you any of this until after you've pushed PRINT. They never do tell you about the cropping, just the color enhancement and improved color balance shit. I didn't find out about the cropping for real until I got my ass home and compared the prints to the actual files on my computer. I mean, the prints looked like they were smaller and less well-framed than I remembered them, but I figured maybe that was just because I hadn't seen 'em on paper yet. Not so. The kiosk did not print what I gave it. It printed the middle of what I gave it.
I am not getting my pictures printed out at WalMart ever again.
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Date: 2007-03-13 02:20 pm (UTC)Icon is my new favorite picture I've taken recently - of Fuzzy the cat, switched to black and white in photoshop.
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Date: 2007-03-15 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-13 03:05 pm (UTC)printers that'll give decent output for photos are <$150. linda got one of these (http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=37472319) (@$400) which she's extremely pleased with.
per cost printing versus doing it online
Date: 2007-03-14 04:41 pm (UTC)I like the idea of having a handy thing to do it with at home, but uploading it and letting someone else worry with cartridges, tape, etc., is very appealing to me right now.
Re: per cost printing versus doing it online
Date: 2007-03-14 05:07 pm (UTC)cost is variable, depending on what's being printed, paper type, the colors, glossy vs matte, etc.
the benefit of having a good printer in-house is that you can play with things - things rarely print the way they look on the screen the first time 'round... (colors vary between printers and monitors (or even between monitors and monitors, but particularly between printers and monitors because they build the colors differently - CMYK vs RGB).
for hundreds of the same (i.e. sending out image as a card, etc.), it's a pretty fair bet that you'll get a better deal through shutterfly (or through a local printer). but even then, my tack would be to get a good print off my printer, then take that and the file to a local printer and place an order, giving the good print as the thing to match (color varies between different printers and different inks).
for a dump-to-paper of 5 years worth of snapshots, probably shutterfly or some such service is a good option.