Recent ideas and where generally going, or if it seems aimless, likely in a way it is with some direction.
I hadn't imagined myself in another office environment doing something clerical by nature, but I took the opportunity to apply since this were what I did before even if I hadn't formally worked in a job like this for several years. While I've hobbied around music and sound synthesis in terms of creations, I've wanted to take a break from this...same for programming. Although I considered briefly...amusing myself with this possible career field...getting some sort of portable scanning device (you know supermarket handheld price check scanners), and delving into a bit of database programming (SQL) for uploading Amazon used book marketplace prices for used book marketplace salvaging...although I hadn't originally seen an article on the matter (in Slate) on this subject matter, I later found that I weren't the only one whom had this idea. Which should amount to hopping to garage sales, thrift stores, and the like for resell opportunities. While it seems other possibilities such as free book donations, could exist, but generally would work better if I had set up shop in more old fashioned brick and mortar confines. Anyways, sort of studied the idea, but compared to the Slate articles author's city, mine were smaller, and it would seem even in Kansas City there collector hounds all over the place (found this to be true for LP/vinyl at least)?! Anyways, might provide small income supplementation...Then I've managed to consider digitizing a personal library (personal use only). Actually not as bad as thought it might be, although it might be nice to have some sort of personal scanner bot setup cheaply enough to flip the pages of a book, Amazon's created apparently flight based delivery drones, why not something like this (if it hadn't already existed on the cheap). Adobe Acrobat Pro provides nice scanned image to portable document file conversions in batch...which would nicely take a folder of images and process theses (interpreting text, auto page rotating, and so forth) in batch, reducing leg work of creating an e book. You can do pdf to ebook reader conversions using another program called Calibre (mentioned this in the past). Sort of wanted to do this for music books since, tablets are now getting cheaper and larger screened, and eventually would like to be able to replace physical paper with a decent sized tablet for electronic reading of sheet music. Also had the ambition of setting up a database for given sheet music, categorizing by key, artist, song, genre and so forth. Mostly interested in the idea of creating random set lists of songs, and then given that over the years, tunes are buried in now fairly large sheet music stacks. My memory isn't so keen for titles at times here. On the upside with little scanning work experience, managed to scan in a 135 page songbook in less then an hour, and get this compiled into a rough draft pdf e book version in less then one hour (Acrobat). I spent another hour and half or more getting pages formatted (including crops, page image re size, and so forth). The book is a still a bit crude looking (as in light discolorations, especially difficult since today working with glossy paper seemed to force me into grey scale imaging as opposed to black and white, even with high contrast settings, and grey scale manages to leave all sorts of light tonal variations on any given page image). Still all of this weren't as much work as I thought it might be. Sort of excited since I have some old out of print stuff falling apart at that the seams literally, that I'd like to have stored digitally. As to other job/hobby/pursuit interests...not really sure where I might be going from here...
I hadn't imagined myself in another office environment doing something clerical by nature, but I took the opportunity to apply since this were what I did before even if I hadn't formally worked in a job like this for several years. While I've hobbied around music and sound synthesis in terms of creations, I've wanted to take a break from this...same for programming. Although I considered briefly...amusing myself with this possible career field...getting some sort of portable scanning device (you know supermarket handheld price check scanners), and delving into a bit of database programming (SQL) for uploading Amazon used book marketplace prices for used book marketplace salvaging...although I hadn't originally seen an article on the matter (in Slate) on this subject matter, I later found that I weren't the only one whom had this idea. Which should amount to hopping to garage sales, thrift stores, and the like for resell opportunities. While it seems other possibilities such as free book donations, could exist, but generally would work better if I had set up shop in more old fashioned brick and mortar confines. Anyways, sort of studied the idea, but compared to the Slate articles author's city, mine were smaller, and it would seem even in Kansas City there collector hounds all over the place (found this to be true for LP/vinyl at least)?! Anyways, might provide small income supplementation...Then I've managed to consider digitizing a personal library (personal use only). Actually not as bad as thought it might be, although it might be nice to have some sort of personal scanner bot setup cheaply enough to flip the pages of a book, Amazon's created apparently flight based delivery drones, why not something like this (if it hadn't already existed on the cheap). Adobe Acrobat Pro provides nice scanned image to portable document file conversions in batch...which would nicely take a folder of images and process theses (interpreting text, auto page rotating, and so forth) in batch, reducing leg work of creating an e book. You can do pdf to ebook reader conversions using another program called Calibre (mentioned this in the past). Sort of wanted to do this for music books since, tablets are now getting cheaper and larger screened, and eventually would like to be able to replace physical paper with a decent sized tablet for electronic reading of sheet music. Also had the ambition of setting up a database for given sheet music, categorizing by key, artist, song, genre and so forth. Mostly interested in the idea of creating random set lists of songs, and then given that over the years, tunes are buried in now fairly large sheet music stacks. My memory isn't so keen for titles at times here. On the upside with little scanning work experience, managed to scan in a 135 page songbook in less then an hour, and get this compiled into a rough draft pdf e book version in less then one hour (Acrobat). I spent another hour and half or more getting pages formatted (including crops, page image re size, and so forth). The book is a still a bit crude looking (as in light discolorations, especially difficult since today working with glossy paper seemed to force me into grey scale imaging as opposed to black and white, even with high contrast settings, and grey scale manages to leave all sorts of light tonal variations on any given page image). Still all of this weren't as much work as I thought it might be. Sort of excited since I have some old out of print stuff falling apart at that the seams literally, that I'd like to have stored digitally. As to other job/hobby/pursuit interests...not really sure where I might be going from here...
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