DarthTofu Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I vote that, if we form a whole new branch of awesome for Eagle, Jahled should at the very least be included in it. The fellow's been making animated gifs since before Tex was eligable to be a member of the AARP! 12/14/07Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCL Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I vote that, if we form a whole new branch of awesome for Eagle, Jahled should at the very least be included in it. The fellow's been making animated gifs since before Tex was eligable to be a member of the AARP!Actually, Jahled has numerous titles in the SWR peerage--but they were mostly, if only used by many of the old-oldies (i.e. Elvis, Scath, UntimelyDemise, Trej, etc). Supreme Chancellor of Gibberish was one such title. SOCL: Putting the BE in BEAK.Read the Forum Rules - Welcome the New Members - Rebellion Reloaded - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 ... Jahled should at the very least be included in it. ...Thanks guys, but Jahled is and will stay the master of the animated GIFs! I´ve just started and I´m still only a Padawan. Who cares at all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 That last pic was brilliant J!!! http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Supreme Chancellor of Gibberish was one such title. I had forgotten that one!!  It still holds, I guess! http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCL Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Supreme Chancellor of Gibberish was one such title. I had forgotten that one!!  It still holds, I guess! Quite so! SOCL: Putting the BE in BEAK.Read the Forum Rules - Welcome the New Members - Rebellion Reloaded - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Supreme Chancellor of Gibberish was one such title. I had forgotten that one!!  It still holds, I guess! Quite so!  My! I love votes of confidence!  Say in other news, today I went to the Zoological Society's Strongroom today to fetch a certain First Edition book:   Click for bigger (103KB) We were curious how much it goes for on the market place: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/ListingDetails?bi=830758309 Yes, you read that right, £25,000!!! I had a biscuit tin lent on it to keep it open!!! http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCL Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Marvelous! You are very lucky! Aren't you concerned it might fall apart, though, with too much handling? SOCL: Putting the BE in BEAK.Read the Forum Rules - Welcome the New Members - Rebellion Reloaded - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Now you are lucky J!!! I would love to have a look at one of those books! http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 To be fair, it was rebound many decades ago, and is in good condition. It's a myth you need white gloves to handle books from the nineteenth century for example unless you are handling colour plates or their condition really has taken a turn a turn for the worse. The printing press was well established by the time that book was published, to the extent that most books published prior to the introduction of the paper back were/are far more durable than their modern paperback relations. Our strong room has two machines on constantly to protect these marvelous old books, a dehumidifier and of course something to keep the place nice and cool. So that book has a lovely home, when i'm not balancing biscuit tins on it. I actually had no idea of it's financial value when I took that, it was only I asked my colleague how much a first edition was worth, and we investigated online, did our respective jaws drop. Ok, we appreciated it's value to science, but for that to be reflected financially for a book so recent was a revelation! To quote AbeBooks though: "First Edition of the single most important biological book ever published." I can't tell you how much respect that little book was afforded by me afterwards..  If it was a cat it would have purred when I carried it back to it's shelf. http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Rob Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 J, I say it every time, but you have the sweetest job of all of us. Hands down. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! My Website http://fp.profiles.us.playstation.com/playstation/psn/pid/BigBadBob113.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 J, I say it every time, but you have the sweetest job of all of us. Hands down. Cool Rob, it's nothing but a pleasure to work with books that have quite frankly shaped modern history. The bonus our the finds i've been coming across, i've posted here for you guys!  That book by Roosevelt, the one by Napoleon's brother, and the one the one on Japanese Fishes that would have completely passed me by unless I noticed it's date, 1852, and it's subject reference, Commodore Perry, where upon my knowledge of military history kicked in.  Holding a book in your hand writen by a member of Commodore Perry's expedition to wake up Japan is incredible when you consider what happened next. Fifty years later Japan was industrialized enough to sink and entire Russian fleet in 1904, and in another fourty years attack Pearl Harbour and rouse a sleeping giant..  ..and to think the guy was drawing the fish he was seeing, with detailed accounts as this history was taking place!  You're not wrong Rob! I'm seriously glad I went for this job as opposed to the governmet chauffeur service one I was juggling with. I had two scientists who work in the institute of zoology actually ask me to take their pictures with that first edition Origin of the Species, when I asked them if they would like to see it; one of whome said she would be sending the picture to her mother in New Zealand.  No probs I replied. http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTofu Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Jeeze... Serving coffee is so dull by comparison... 12/14/07Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Jeeze... Serving coffee is so dull by comparison... Heh.. stick with those studies Tofu and I can assure your adult life will be sooo much more interesting. I did it the hard way, leaving school with not much to show and wasting my time in the transport industry doing this and that during the nineties, all of which got me nowhere other than being bored out of my brain. It's taken me until my thirties to discover my calling in life, namely conservation and a genuine realization I really give a damn about wildlife, for me to at last feel content and mellow after a day's work, given such efforts, besides balancing biscuit tins on books valued at $50K, actually have some effect in preserving the beauty we have left, be it simply helping scientists locate research material, or Photoshop images back into a state of repair. Keep that brain active fella, study hard, and when you'll be my age, life should have every chance of being a thoroughly interesting breeze. That and the coffee will be served to you.. http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCL Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 It's really there but I cna't say no to the book is awesome, j! SOCL: Putting the BE in BEAK.Read the Forum Rules - Welcome the New Members - Rebellion Reloaded - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I think the value of our collection is dawning on me... and there is no way on earth I was going to photograph anything 'as evidence,' or even link the abebook site as to what i'm referring to, but I had half a million pounds worth of books on my desk this afternoon. ~$1,000,000. In four volumes. Yes, four volumes. That's four books. Four books. (ok, they were rather large) Two, volumes one and two, each were listed as £200,000 on that book website, an Italian book for £64,000, and the other brought up the remainder. After being gobsmacked, it actually began to dawn on me the financial status of what i'm working with. Obviously our collection is priceless to science as a collection, but I had no idea of the financial implication of what I was a custodian of. It's almost frightening! La_Forge needs to give me a crash course in being a Ninja! http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWR Staff - Executive Evaders99 Posted August 31, 2007 SWR Staff - Executive Share Posted August 31, 2007 Quick - get insurance now. And some protection.. fire, thieves, etc. Evaders99http://swrebellion.com/images/banners/rebellionbanner02or6.gif Webmasterhttp://swrebellion.com/images/banners/swcicuserbar.png Administrator Fighting is terrible, but not as terrible as losing the will to fight.- SW:Rebellion Network - Evaders Squadron Coding -The cake is a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 We're insured to the hilt E, and there are two buttons to press simultaneously that alert the Police in an emergency; never far away from when I have the time to post gibberish here! But I just wish my rather scatty boss had explained to me quite the value of some of the stuff i'm handling! Â It's sort of unnerving to suddenly realize i've been in a lift with more value than my house, fetching stuff from from the strong room for the academics and scientists who use this stuff for research! I was completely blown away earlier today. Â No more pics on this front in future chaps, the paranoia has just set in! http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Hm, I allways thought you are working in a Zoo, where you have to take care of animals, Jahled. Or do you take a look at these books in your lunchtime? I´m a bit confused right now. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/c020.gif Who cares at all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTex Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Just the opposite Eagle. J works with the books, and visits the animals (which are "next door" so to speak to his work) Â I'm sure J will come and clear this all up Finally, after years of hard work I am the Supreme Sith Warlord! Muwhahahaha!! What?? What do you mean "there's only two of us"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahled Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 A banana you have? http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1188669845/Yodey.jpg Eagle: London Zoo is an off-shoot of the Zoological Society of London, which has been around since 1826. I work in the library of the Society which holds around 200,000 books and journals since it's founding. So I spend a lot of my time helping the society's scientists obtain research material from this collection. The other half of my time is spent in Photoshop repairing photographs so we can sell them and raise money for our conservation projects. Bit of a cool job really!  Most of the zoo-keepers who look after the animals have MA's after their names these days; ie: highly educated and into research, as opposed to simply tossing gibbons the odd banana! http://www.jahled.co.uk/smallmonkeywars.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budious Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Jahled, I hear that books loose significant value if they have been "flagged" by use as bathroom reading material. I hope you're keeping those on the desk ;PÂ Buds rips out a page and runs for the bathroom yelling "I got TP for my bunghole!" "In the future it will become easier for old negatives to become lost and be 'replaced' by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten." - George Lucas, 1988. [u.S. Congressional hearing testimony on film preservation.]Â My old Rebellion site (very web 1.0) - Bud's Korner and Rebellion Strategy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Ok, I got it. Looks like I´ve missed that. Who cares at all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTofu Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Nice new picture, Jahled. I've posted so much of your work on Facebook, now, and this will likely not be an exception due to its greatness... 12/14/07Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la Not gone, merely marching far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOCL Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 If I moved to London, does Jahled think he could get me "the hook up", as it were? SOCL: Putting the BE in BEAK.Read the Forum Rules - Welcome the New Members - Rebellion Reloaded - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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