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. ☺

Rant

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

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.

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)

Soooooo many.

I Have collected a whole bunch of quotes over a few years and decided that I needed a blog post, I mean wanted to share them with you. (I'll post 10 per post so it seems like there are less, even though there are *cough* 150. I'll also be posting any future collections.) Some are funny, some were copied when I was up way to late…. ENJOY!

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! -Tom Lehrer

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable,
as one's hat keeps blowing off. -Woody Allan

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. -Robert Orben

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -Benjamin Franklin

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. - Antonin Artaud

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.-Dick Cavett

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. -Doug Larson

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. -National Lampoon

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. -Larry Hardiman

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. -Bill Watterson