08-25-2008, 02:44 PM
Shlama all--
Baruch just sent me a jpeg--I can't attach it here--of the raw pages of Mari/PEACE. It is now printed with three hole key punch--not obviously the form you all will have it in--but just to let you all know that it is now a physical reality and not just an abstract in pdf-land.
Here are his own words, emphases mine:
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:12:07 -0700
Shlama Khati Shali and Akhi Andrew,
So I got to the printers on Friday morning and they told me that it would take a couple hours to "rip the file" and digitally print it so I thought this was great. I had to be at the couriers before 4 pm to do an overnight to you... so I figured I would be just drive back at lunchtime and pick up your copy.
I get back and the tech department head tells me that file is still ripping and he doesn't know how long it will take because there is no gauge on the computer but that it shouldn't be much longer. He assures me that they have the latest and fastest computers and Xerox printer and yada yada, so I go for a drive and at 3pm head back to the printers, giving me an hour to still meet the 4 pm courier. The file was still being ripped, not even one sheet had been printed... so long story short, at 5:04 pm, a few minutes after their office closed I got two copies of Mari in digital format so tomorrow I'll courier some copies to you. What I should have done was contact an on demand digital printer in your area and had it done in your local, but...it's all part of the saga of trying to get it out in short order.
Yes I did receive the revision and footnote and it has been added. I've had a hardcopy of Mari all weekend and have been flipping through the leaves and found a few boo boos, having the pages is rather invaluable, so I've been going through book by book, mostly small stuff but a nasty spelling blooper in a footnote in Mark.
So hopefully you and Shali will have copies on Tues or Wed. I had them blow up the pages to full 8 by 11 for ease of reading/proofing.
I was gone for the weekend because they are now renovating the house on the weekend so I stayed with a friend, he had a nice group of people over for a bible study and I could have sold my only digital copy for a hundred bucks to several folks. There were a few folks tugging on it so I trust this is an indication of what the future holds for Mari. <!-- s
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I took a foto of the digital copy, it was much thicker than I thought but fits ok into a 3" binder so I'll pass this pic along in an email.
I'm just collecting some emails now because I've not had internet access since Friday morning.
Blessings,
Baruch
Stand by--here we go!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
Baruch just sent me a jpeg--I can't attach it here--of the raw pages of Mari/PEACE. It is now printed with three hole key punch--not obviously the form you all will have it in--but just to let you all know that it is now a physical reality and not just an abstract in pdf-land.
Here are his own words, emphases mine:
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:12:07 -0700
Shlama Khati Shali and Akhi Andrew,
So I got to the printers on Friday morning and they told me that it would take a couple hours to "rip the file" and digitally print it so I thought this was great. I had to be at the couriers before 4 pm to do an overnight to you... so I figured I would be just drive back at lunchtime and pick up your copy.
I get back and the tech department head tells me that file is still ripping and he doesn't know how long it will take because there is no gauge on the computer but that it shouldn't be much longer. He assures me that they have the latest and fastest computers and Xerox printer and yada yada, so I go for a drive and at 3pm head back to the printers, giving me an hour to still meet the 4 pm courier. The file was still being ripped, not even one sheet had been printed... so long story short, at 5:04 pm, a few minutes after their office closed I got two copies of Mari in digital format so tomorrow I'll courier some copies to you. What I should have done was contact an on demand digital printer in your area and had it done in your local, but...it's all part of the saga of trying to get it out in short order.
Yes I did receive the revision and footnote and it has been added. I've had a hardcopy of Mari all weekend and have been flipping through the leaves and found a few boo boos, having the pages is rather invaluable, so I've been going through book by book, mostly small stuff but a nasty spelling blooper in a footnote in Mark.
So hopefully you and Shali will have copies on Tues or Wed. I had them blow up the pages to full 8 by 11 for ease of reading/proofing.
I was gone for the weekend because they are now renovating the house on the weekend so I stayed with a friend, he had a nice group of people over for a bible study and I could have sold my only digital copy for a hundred bucks to several folks. There were a few folks tugging on it so I trust this is an indication of what the future holds for Mari. <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> I took a foto of the digital copy, it was much thicker than I thought but fits ok into a 3" binder so I'll pass this pic along in an email.
I'm just collecting some emails now because I've not had internet access since Friday morning.
Blessings,
Baruch
Stand by--here we go!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth