@sumudu But how often does that really happen?
Or is she more the paper kind of person?
Cycling to the film lab every week will get my endurance up quite a bit, I think. So much downhill on the awy there that I barely have to pedal — it’s a 5-minute ride in smooth traffic from the university — but on the way up, it easily takes me 20 minutes.
Still, I don’t feel as bad as I did last time, so that’s a nice improvement. Should also be a litlte more bearable as the weather gets cooler…
Scared the absolute shit out of me, and this is doubtless one of the disadvantages of a ground-floor flat: someone just knocked on my window. Twice. Not sure what they wanted; I obviously didn’t acknowledge them. They wouldn’t have been able to see who I was, given my thick veil curtains. Hope it’s just someone who’s having problems getting home and not something more sinister…but the concierge is open 24/7 and is literally next door…
Huh. It seems that making an Automator app to take images and output a single PDF takes less memory than opening 300 individual images in Preview, cmd-a, export as PDF (which makes 300 individual PDFs).
/rreply 71623 Indeed. Preview took my entire system to a halt by hogging 32GB of memory — I thought I only had 16! Unbelievable.
I’ll never understand why it takes Preview on a Mac Pro so long to convert 200 PNG files to PDF. 4k resolution. Hardly demanding work.
@indigo Indeed…I’ll never understand people who make it hard for others to give them money.
@kdfrawg I was head of wine society in Paris, so I had full control, but we were on a much stricter budget and I charged people less for entry, so it was basically more intimate (10 people vs 150) and the wine usually a little cheaper, and I did a self-serve system whereas here, it was a proper sit-down tasting — each person was given printed list of the wines served.
Obviously, the tiny university in Paris barely had a venue — we just did it in the common room, which was where all the events were held. This university has multiple (very lovely) venues and a proper set-up. I sort of wish I could’ve been head of wine society here: that would’ve been amazing. But I don’t regret my rare experience in such a small university, starting with a 100€ budget (I managed to end on 150€, so I’d say I did quite well).