Cool Picts

You can still get cool pictures...

... without spending $500+
It helps to have a computer though. With the help of free paint programs (Gimp, Paint.net) you can still get cool pictures without having to lug around a giant camera.
Below was the original.

Sometimes you can make a bad picture good just with a few minutes on the computer. It might take an hour messing with all the features of a paint program to learn what you want to do, but once you've done it once, it doesn't take nearly as long to make a nice photo that will make you all happy like.

Rotating or cropping an image can make the biggest difference in a photo. The nicer the camera the easier it is to crop it without it becoming blurry. Next comes hue, saturation, and brightness. Making a picture just a little brighter with deeper colors can turn a sad panda into a cool lookin' picture of a sad panda!

Next, blurs, brightening a section, rendering cool stuff like rays, and adding lens flare can make a picture that looked like it was taken by a point and shoot (which it was) into a nice picture from a high end camera.

(I'm not trying to say good cameras aren't good, I'm just saying
that the high end cameras are more than what most people need. It's like putting a cake in a box. and then shaking it... all you get is splattered cake.(hmm, I think I'm getting my metaphors messed up.)

Ok, I'm done being nerdy, now you can get back to work. ☺

Annoying-ness

Getting tired of IE's constant popups that say things as confusingly as possible and then tell you things you already knew? (specifically the one on blogger comments that always pops up)

Can't figure out how to get rid of it? About ready to switch to Firefox or worse... Google Chrome? (Google is trying to take over the world with it, that's why its worse.)
Well WONDER NO MORE!! You can get rid of it in JUST 8 EASY CLICKS!

1. 1. Hit the alt key to bring up IE's menu bar.
2. 2. Click the "Tools" button.
3. 3. Go to "Internet Options" at the bottom.
4. 4. Pick the "Security" tab
5. 5. Open "Custom level..."
6. 6. Scroll down to the "Miscellaneous" catagory and find "Display Mixed Content" and click "Enable"
7. 7. Click "OK"
8. 8. And Click "OK" again. (that button isn't obvious at all is it)

And you be done!

It can make some sites less secure but the chances that you lose something because of it is almost impossimable. ENJOY!

(my posts are starting to sound like infomercials.)

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Oh, wait. Nope. Nope. There's not. (Unless you comment... (hint hint))

Google Earth.... literally.

Google knows just about everything now... Where you live, what's in your refridgerator, and even includes pictures of your house with you mowing your lawn so people know what you look like. The newest privacy leak is Buzz. If you can find the name of someone... anyone....

You can follow them and see all of thier posts and sometimes thier email... without them even allowing you to. As soon as you post something on Buzz; anyone can find it and then have any of the names of the people who commented on it.

Noramlly I don't really care about stuff like this, in fact I don't plan to do much about it other than this post, but it seems strange that a company as large as Google would give your email address and all of your "buzzes" out to anyone who randomly types in your name. The only thing that can help is that it lets you hide your email address and the people who follow you

(tutorial found here.)

I'm not saying Google is evil... afterall, I'm using it right now to post this. :P

It just seems strange that they would share with the world my email address and all the people I frequently contact.

If you've seen a way to keep everyone from seeng all your buzzes or have any thoughts... (including not abandoning facebook quite yet) Leave a comment.

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Spending money

Aaaahhhh spending money to go up and down a mountain, get really cold, and get really sore. How could you possibly use your money more wisely.

And of course who couldn't love GIANT pointless stickers that advertise things you didn't even know could exist.

MMMmmmmm... sea kitten sticks.

Newbury....Quotes 18

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. -Dame Rose Macaulay

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled
through snow. -Jeff Valdez

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

-George Burns

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find
one at the end of your arm.' -Sam Levenson

There it was, hidden in alphabetical order. -Rita Holt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know
whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' -Theodore Roosevelt

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. -Hesketh Pearson

Biography lends to death a new terror. -Oscar Wilde

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. -Unknown

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. -Edmund Wilson

Newt

To celebrate a slight bump in visits I decided to reward the occasion with a blog post and a picture of fireworks.

However, as much as I want to take the glory, I know that this couldn't have happened without you.

Thank you.

New York

Since Joe, and Joe have a boat. I figured I should join in.

However I didn't really want to go the sailboat route so I thought I'd go a different one.

By building a (drumroll) BIKE BOAT!!! (A pedal boat only a bike.)

So far all I have is the plans and a bike. But maybe, just maybe, if I'm not too lazy. I might actually build it.

If any one wants to add some modifications or look at the 3D version using google sketchup;
here's the file,
and google sketchup is here.

Newark

Because I have been so regular in posting, many viewers voted on the latest poll.

Out of an incredible number of 7, 4 of you decided it best to

"Quickly eat it before someone else did."

Congratulations, I believe that this was indeed the best thing to do with such a bug.

"If I saw the above insect in my house I would most likely:

Quickly eat it before someone else did 4 (57%)

Snap a photo, then smash it 1 (14%)

Snap a photo, after you smashed it 1 (14%)

Feed it to the cat 1 (14%)

Scream and run 0 (0%)
Call for help 0 (0%)
Let it outside 0 (0%)
Snap a photo, then let it outside 0 (0%)
Give it to a friend 0 (0%)
Smash it with a book 0 (0%)
Smash it with a tissue 0 (0%)
Smash it with my hand 0 (0%)
Grab the killing jar for future mounting in my collection 0 (0%)
Pin it to a mounting board while it’s still alive 0 (0%)
Capture it in a jar with a lid until it died 0 (0%)
Post it on my blog with a funny caption 0 (0%)
Post it on my blog with a survey. 0 (0%)
Capture it with ventilation and feed it for long-term observation 0 (0%)
Using the previous, film a documentary with it in the starring role 0 (0%) "

New

Strange things happen when it's late....

Quotes 17 NOW WITH PICTURES!!!

With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where on earth did you get that banana?' -Mitch Hedberg

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. -Scott Adams

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. -Pat Paulsen

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. -E. V. Lucas


A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. -Evan Esar

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. -Ambrose Bierce



The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. -Victor Borge


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas A. Edison


Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'. -Michael McClary


Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? -George Carlin

The next installment... Quotes 16

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' -Jack Handey

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. -Solomon Short

When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom! -Laurie Anderson

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. -Ellen DeGeneres

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. -Doug Larson

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. -David Broder

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. -Paul Beatty

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. -Robert Orben

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -W. Somerset Maugham

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. -Evan Esar

OBAMA!!!!

(Yes, I know, I'm evil...
(and sorry about the formatting...my blog doesn't seem to like Hulu.))

Feebldeegloble! Yeah, you heard me.

WOW! MY BLOG IS STILL HERE!? RATS!!!! I guess that means I need to post something. Although if you count the number of days I was away (365) and divide them by my number of posts (50) ... I still posted about every week. Plus I realized I had to post since this is the one year anniversary.
(The posts should be backwards so you don't have to scroll all the way down to get to the beginning.)

Well, it was a long trip away from the "blog-o-sphere," but I guess I'm back, so click the pict!

1,000, 2,000, and 2,000+!

Well, I must thank you for all of your clicking, it has made my blog feel somewhat cared about. All those who contributed shall receive this honorary tendinitis reward!

(Huh, Blogger isn't working right now, I'll give you the award in the comments one day.)

Rant

O.K. Here's a rant (every blog has to have at least one)... sorry you have to suffer through it.

GAMES! and the such as.

As you can see here in this super cool panorama (Yeah, I like panos a bit too much) I am using 2 computers that are side by side. (I know, C.R.T.s... but I haven't seen any cheap L.C.D.s that I wanted)
Anyway, if you ever get the chance to have 2 computers at the same time... You can install something on one while playing games on the other. You could even play 2 games at once. :D! It's GREAT!
O.K. O.K. Kind of a pointless post, but it is really nice to have 2 computer.... even nicer than 2 monitors. :D

Panoramas galore!

Here they are (finnaly) I put together some old pictures I took from the canada trip and a

few others that I took here and there. I used autostitch, it's really easy to use and it's

free. All you have to do is open the picts you want

"panoramaed." and PRESTO CHANGO! You have a nice panorama picture.

CAKE!

Cake:

Cartoons

Just for the record, I made these before Steve started stick with it, so I can't be blamed for copying him. :D


MORE TO COME! (If I ever get around to drawing them)