It's For My Health, Sweetie!

I'll grit my teeth and somehow force myself to endure this horrible, horrible, horrible daily health regimen.

A Whole New Angle

I've read plenty of material about the war, much of which was perfectly predictable. Today, however, I read something along an entirely new angle (well, new to me anyway).
Seth Godin looks at the war as a marketing war, which is, as I said, a completely new tack to me.

Yawn

I set my TiVo to record the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards show. Kathy and I waited a while after the scheduled start, as is our habit, so we could fast-forward through the commercials. About 10-ish, we started watching.

We gave it up as a lost cause very quickly thereafter. Brittney looked like crap; she's a perfectly lovely girl, but she just looked completely embarassed to be out there on the stage. If she'd had even a smidge of self-confidence she might have pulled it off, but if she didn't think I should be wanting to look at her then she's probably right.

There was no energy in the main room there, even after Chris Brown's performance. He looked good, but if that couldn't wake up those people then there's no hope for them. All in all a complete waste of our time.

MTV => boring.

Upgrade Your Router Part 2

Oh! And how about some antenna lurv, while you're at it? I'll trade a little tinfoil for 10dB worth of antenna gain.

Upgrade Your Router

From the guys at Lifehacker comes this pointer at a process for upgrading your router. I'm looking at boosting the signal and saying "yeah, that's worth a bit of my time." At the moment, I'm looking at trying this over the weekend.

High Altitude Photo

Now that's a cool shot.

Maybe I've Been Doing This The Hard Way

How to use the Extract filter in Photoshop. I might have been working too hard.

I Nearly Peed Myself

I have rediscovered my love for the Dissident Frogman, solely because of one hilarious instructional video. I smiled from nearly the first frame, and laughed out loud (disturbing others around me, I'm sure) at several points along the way.

Two thumbs waaaay up, Dissident Frogman!

Note To Self

Don't reinstall Windows more than once. Ever again. Ever.

That Went By Quickly

Dr. Hans Rosling gave a presentation at TED 2006 concerning myths around the third world. Here's the link to his presentation. It runs about 20 minutes, and it was a very quick 20 minutes that I thoroughly enjoyed. Have a look.

Well Of Course She Was

Nicole Richie spends a whopping 82 minutes in jail. For her second DUI. Jebus farking crap, it really pays to be rich if you're otherwise worthless and a danger to those around you.

For the record, I've spent more time in jail awaiting bond hearings than did Nicole for DRIVING UNDER THE F@#@&#^ INFLUENCE. There ain't no justice.

Ooooh! Shiny!

How about a little eye-candy? Check out the demos for Flipping Book, a page-fliping UI element. Click on either products "Try Demo" link, then click-n-drag the pages to turn them in the book. Neat!

Are You Kidding Me?!?

I think I have bought my last Chinese-made item. According to MSNBC, Chinese officials knew about the dangerous toys months ago. I will now be taking my consumer dollars elsewhere, and the Chinese economy can go right back into the tank, for all I care.

It was one thing when they allowed industrial waste into their pet food products, but to endanger our children? If there's one thing that Americans are incredibly sensitive to, it's child endangerment, and the Chinese have certainly stomped over that line with abandon here. I can only hope that it rebounds to their detriment.

Man, I Need More Hours In The Day

Holy crap! I'm going to be busy, it appears. That's a whole lot of drawing turorials, and I definitely need to upgrade from my current "stick people" level of ability.

More PS Trickery

I don't spend nearly enough time with Photoshop. I looked through this set of movie effect tutorials and only knew about the Cars one. I'll have to put down the Pokemon for a while, I guess.

Sweet Jebus

Is this for real? Jebus fargin christ, I'd like to shoot someone.

Online Backup

Looking for an online backup service? Me too. So far, I've gotten recommendations for http://mozy.com/. I'll give it a shot and post my findings soon(ish).

Learn Something New Every Day

I had never heard of the Orton effect until today, when a post showed up on the MS Photo alias. I recognized the results, but didn't realize it had a name. Luckily for my education, my colleagues included a tutorial. Yay us!

Look for examples soon.

I Want My Damned Glowball Worming!

So Kathy and I were watching the news last night, and the big story is about the "heat wave" that (apparently) some people are enjoying. It's all part of this "glowball worming" we keep hearing about, I guess.

It was 56 freakin' degrees when I left the house this morning. Kathy and I are seriously discussing if we ought to turn the heater on; we don't really want to because it seems ridiculous to have the heater running in August, but on the other hand it's cold. Al Gore promised me some global warming, and damn it if a little wouldn't be welcome right about now. Seriously ... how are my tomatoes supposed to ripen if it doesn't get above 70?

Ooooh! Shiny!

I have no shame ... I will cheerfully admit to mad lurv for the cheesy text effect. I will be diligently working my way through all of these 80 Photoshop text effects tutorials in my spare time.