Want your picture to look like one of those little model train set photographs? Just follow this simple tutorial. And then you can submit the photo to this Flickr group (where there are over 600 posted) or you can see a Virtual Earth engineer’s transformation of photos of real places.
I Might Have An Excuse To Resurrect the Flickr Account
Why? I got myself a new toy. Basically, it’s a basic camera cell-phone, which is far superior to the piece of crap, horribly dated Nokia I was using (that was being held together by a chunk of packaging tape). With a bit of work, I can get the thing so it’ll e-mail my Flickr account so I can have cell phone photos online like other cool kids.
Note To Self: Don’t Joke About Meth Habit Within Earshot of Rent-a-Cop
I know that’s an obvious headline, but anybody who knows me knows I’m a very sarcastic, outspoken person. It’s occasionally been known to bite me in the butt.
I generally got to the same grocery store here in Bend because their food is bar far the cheapest. I know the folks there, they all know me. I went there tonight in hopes of getting some Sudafed for my wife, who is having sinus problems related to her allergies. They no longer sell it at the store, because they were told they had to get rid of it in preparation for the pending move to require a prescription for the drug (one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard — so I have to go pay a $25 co-pay to get a 3-buck drug? No thanks I’ll buy it online). So I, obviously jokingly, said to my cashier friend there (when asking about the location of the pills) “How else am I going to cook up my meth and feed my crack habit?” The cashier laughed, but the rent-a cop kept following me around the store — subtly, but he was certainly keeping an eye on me, like I was just going to go nuts and start killing people because I didn’t get my fix.
Yes, meth is certainly a serious problem, and while I know that, I now know better than to joke about my decongestant of choice. I’ll just go to Costco and buy the bucketload of it before they get rid of it, too.
Wish I Thought Of This
Shannon‘s Husband’s killer collection of local shirt designs makes my feeble attempt seem pretty lame. Oh that’s right, because it is.
My personal favorites have to be this one, this one, this one, and this one, though I think the last one would be better with a cartoon-type drawing of Bob Shaw right on it.
We Could Only Hope
After Apple CEO Steve Jobs becomes Disney’s largest individual shareholder (after Disney completes it deal to buy Pixar), Apple could make a bid to buy Disney. Man, if we could only be so lucky…
Coming To Playboy
Girls Of MySpace (Obviously Not Safe For Work).
The Ultimate Computer Desk
While these are pretty sweet workstations, I think having the computer built into the desk would be pretty dang sweet.
Home Improvement Craziness
My parents, for many years, have always given us gifts of labor (my parents working, not hiring anybody) and materials for projects around the house that we are tremendously grateful for. My dad’s a contractor, and is good at a lot of things and does the bulk majority of the hard stuff (with my mom just making sure he keeps on task). Just the same, they helped us get this giant shed in our backyard moved to a better place so we could lay down a patio in its place. They helped us put up crown molding and paint our bedroom. They’ve helped us with a bunch of little things around the house.
The thing is, they’ll say they’re going to do something, and we have no idea when it’s actually going to be done. This isn’t a problem, generally, as they’re being generous, and we’re in no hurry for things. What usually happens is that they’ll just randomly call, out of the blue, and decide they’re going to come over and work on it. That’s what happened yesterday…
Who Are These Folks?
Has anybody ever heard of The Bend Weekly? Simone came across a job posting for them on Craigslist, and it looks like they’re looking for a graphics guy, too (though I don’t know how comfortable I’d be applying if you’re like me and have a family to feed — I don’t know about the longevity or pay). The thing is, despite their claim of “approximate readership is 31,200”, I’ve never once seen their weekly printed edition.
Anybody know anything about this?
Writers Versus Editors
In the long run, the editors always win. Thanks Barn for the link.