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This cartoon from 2003 is as relevant today as the day it was made. The norm in the United States is still to outright lie to our children about the effects and results of drugs. Let’s be clear, weed isn’t a good idea, but it is less dangerous (to the user and society) than alcohol, cocaine, and many pharmaceuticals (ever read that list of side effects?).
Thanks to www.dustinland.com for permission to post this comic.
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April 8th, 2008
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If this doesn’t make you laugh, I dunno . . .
Oh yeah, the fun (upgrade price) is only $200.
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April 8th, 2008
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1. Laura Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
2. Kiss You Off Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
3. Take Your Mama Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
4. Big Parade Rotery Downs Change Of The Chariot
5. Sin of the City Duran Duran The Wedding Album
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April 7th, 2008
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April 7th, 2008
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#3 was my Vegas slot machine anthem.
1. I Can’t Decide Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
2. She’s My Man Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
3. Laura Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
4. Take Your Mama Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah
5. Spider Pig Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie OST
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April 6th, 2008
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When Ramengirl showed me a clip of The Mighty Boosh’s “Old Greg”, I had no idea how popular the clip was (I’m not a tubee). Apparently these guys loved the clip so much that:
update (4.15.8) - It’s spelled Old Gregg. Ooops.
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April 5th, 2008
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First time blogging from high altitude. This post won’t post until I connect to the high speed in the hotel room, but what’s the difference? I wasn’t sure I was going to make it to Vegas. Internet thieves, Kafka-esque bank red tape, incompetence on my part (ask RamenGirl what driving me to the airport is like), and a delayed plane from St. Louis all banded together in an un-american show of solidarity to try and fuck me right out of a gig that won’t come around for a while if ever.
Las Vegas has never held any attraction to me outside of my appreciation of Soderberg films (and I use the term film loosely). But fun is fun (that’s right, fun is fun). Gambling has yet to pique my interest as well. Living in texas (not Texas), and not knowing or caring how to play any form of poker has already numbed me to the disbelief that I will encounter when I admit my lack of card playing knowledge. I’m going for work anyway. If I come home having lost an amount equivalent to my earnings I am allowed to come home and in good graces. If I lose more, look for a new web development company starting in Nevada. That might be easier than coming home empty handed.
Back to the high altitude reference: 45 minutes or so into a 3 hour sojourn. Looking out the window seat I’ve snagged, to the polite displeasure of an attorney from Louisiana, I have noticed now three wind farms. NPR would have me believe Texas is leading the nation in adoption and implementation of this anti-bird, pro-shit-ton-of-land-owner but I had never seen the proof. With only trips to the east coast in the last year, DC and Orlando, I guess I missed the wind belt in texas. Headed straight west is a different story. Out of the three farms I noticed, the largest appeared to have 13 or so turbines. The white towers held some contrast against the brown and green (kinda) background of the texan countryside, while the propellers powering each turbine were almost impossible to make out.
I realized I was viewing a wind farm when it occurred to me that utility poles aren’t massive white structures that only built in parallel and facing the south (in thw case of the last farm I noticed).
Time to wrap up this wordy post from the skies. Expect a running total of my wins and others’ losses.
Time for Vegas baby!
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April 4th, 2008
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While digging a submission about Linus Torvald’s problems with fedora and youtube an i appeared instead of a number. Maybe the data type was returned to the digg button instead of an actual integer. Who knows . . .
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April 1st, 2008
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Every time Adobe releases a new version of their Creative Suite thousands of us lust after the expensive upgrade until we get it and promptly use none of the new features. One of the new feature sets in Photoshop CS3 is frame by frame animation, quite similar to what was previously offered in ImageReady but much more integrated and powerful.
I have been looking for a good way to animate a series of jpegs into a movie since January. Running through the images of our Disney vacation in Lightroom or Bridge always looks like a stop motion film and I wanted to actually turn them into a stop motion video. Enter PS CS3’s new features:
- Export my jpegs at a reasonable size.
- Import the jpegs into an image stack in PS (File menu >> Scripts >> Import images to stack
- In the animation palette select ‘Convert Layers to Frames’
- Also in the animation palette select ‘Reverse Frame Order’
- Select all frames and choose delay (I went with 0.1s)
- File >> Export >> Render Video . .
I ran 479 jpegs through this process and then re-encoded the resulting quicktime movie in Flash Video Converter (there are free apps that will do this - ffmpegx on mac, and several ffmpeg gui’s for linux and windows), and spit out a 6mb flv file that streams fine.
http://drennonfamily.com/blog/?itemid=49
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March 30th, 2008
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I ran across this lego tribute to Eddie Izzard’s “Death Star Canteen” bit. Eddie Izzard is by far my favorite comedian and whoever put this stop motion lego together did a great job, it’s hilarious.
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March 29th, 2008
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