Okay, one more entry for today: I remember nine (!) years ago, when I spent my second summer working at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, those of us working in the photography department (or, as it was formally known, the "News And Information Service") thought we were elite, because we had our own private phone line and a 2400 baud modem! (A few years later, the year-round staff members got excited when the local electricity co-op started acting as an ISP, because they no longer had to make long-distance phone calls to Albuquerque or Raton for their Internet.) I routinely denied requests from staff members in other departments to develop their personal pictures, because we knew that if we did it for one person and the word got out, then sooner or later we'd spend all of our free time doing it for everybody. (We didn't have a 35mm minilab and would have had to print all of their pictures by hand, meaning that the most we could have practically done was to hand them back a loop of processed film and say "now get these printed somewhere else". That still didn't stop them from complaining after we said no, though.)
Nowadays, backcountry staff members can blog direct from the staff lounge at Camping Headquarters during their time off -- and complain about how the photography department won't let them upload their digital photos.
The more things change, the more they stay the same ...
Posted by Kevin at June 17, 2004 08:32 AM