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. ☺

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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)

Helichopters.

Ever wanted to fly the helicopters in Microsoft flight simulator?
Well, now it's not quite as much of a pain.
Just hook up a game pad and follow the instructions!

1. Get a game pad.

2. Get some ductape.

3. Get a marker. (or some sort of stick.)

Put ductape around one end of the marker (or some sort of stick) and then put it on the right side of the game pad's joystick.
Then change your controls so that the throttle axis is on the left up and down stick, the rudder axis is on the left right and left stick, and set the aelerons as the stick with the marker (or some sort of stick).

There ye go! A much easier way to fly helicopter.... finally.

DUCT TAPE!

Ever need a case for something or a holder for something but
you didn't care enough about it to buy a case?
Well... again, duct tape saves the day!
Here is a case I made for a first gen ipod shuffle

Here I just cut a hole for the headphone jack and folded the sticky part over to make a flap for easy opening! (I'm starting to sound like an infomercial) BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

It usually works pretty well to wrap the duct tape tightly around the object with the sticky side out and then just wrap another layer around that to make it "un-sticky"

From sd cards....

TO PENCIL HOLDERS!!! ALL YOURS FOR ONLY THE 2 MINUTES TO READ THIS + THE TIME THAT IT TOOK YOU TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT + THE TIME TO FIND WHERE THE DUCT TAPE IS + THE TIME TO MAKE IT! ORDER TODAY!

Teeheehee

A normal model car?

Or secret junk hiding place! (I call this method of storing junk "junk upon junk.")

A normal can?!

Or another junk hiding place! ( I call this method "Junk-in-a-jar")

Fin

Work disguised as fun

Things I've learned from building models: They take too much time, they usually don't turn out quite as well as you had hoped they would,they get glue all over the place, you do actually have to wait for paint and glue to dry :P, and big pieces would make things a lot easier. (The end.(Just a short rant)

VROOOMM!!!

Sorry, please click here.

POP! OW!!!!!

Blorp!

TOTALLY MOO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

As hard as I was on it, it really should have broken a lot sooner. :P

A close up, what's interesting is that by the 123 there was another grey spot, but it went away after a couple of days. O.K. I kind of figured that this would be a longer post... hmm... Oh well.

OH! here we are.... a pointless clip from a song.
A dying elephant.

Back away from the computer, and waste no more time.

Macro shots are sweet....

YAY!

After the pre-stated incident, I bought two palms, one to sell and one to keep....

MMMMM.....

MMMMM....marshmellows

O.K. sorry, it is a monocle post.

WOOOOOO! PARTY!!!!!

I kind of forgot the camera in the car... the car was cold... the house was warm... Cold+Warm=FOG... who would have guessed?!.. Nevertheless here are a few picts from the Langemann's Christmas party/luncheon...hmm, no that's far to big of a word for me to have used correctly I'll stick to PARTY!!

GERBIL!!!

Well, several months after leap day, I finally found my gerbil...

...I wondered why my horn sounded funny.