The Real Reason Film Photographers Don't Chimp

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:23:04 -0400

We have all gone through the disconcerting experience of hearing or reading for the first time the phrase "to chimp". You have heard it, haven't you? No, not the short name for chimpanzee, but the act of chimping by photographers.

If you look up "chimp" in the Wikipedia, you will find only information on the chimpanzee. If you look up "chimping" however, you will find a full description of the term and its history, related to digital photography. Wikipedia claims the term was coined ten years ago by USA Today staff photographer Robert Deutsch, so it's amazing how slowly some news travels even in this very connected period we live in.

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Ways to Handle Pesky Telemarketers

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:18:18 -0500

Yesterday I answered an unusual, but insufferable, 17 calls from telemarketers. Mind you, not sales persons that knew my name making a professional sales call. You will probably recognize the following types of calls. I will also tell you how I deal with some of them.

If you're as busy as I am, you surely don't have time to waste on nuisance calls. And I almost had a car accident trying to answer one of these calls because the number looked like a possible client.

Options for response -

1. Just hang up right after they ask for the person handling the bottled water account, or any such nonsense.

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The Real Reason Film Photographers Don't Chimp

Ways to Handle Pesky Telemarketers