This one is me again, apparently I’d done something to cause me to be dumb (not hard, really ;-)). This is also amplified by the balloon with the sad face, because Kelly hates balloons!
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Category Archives: Photographic
Boone’s Picture
This one was a crab and some fish professing their love for Boone, Kelly’s sister. I think it’s cool, especially with the seaweed surrounding.
Twiddle the Snowman
This week I’ll post some more of Kelly’s fine MS Paint artwork, and given the near-end of Winter, I decided to post this one first. Me as a…snowman?
Twiddle Broke the Interwebs
Yep, I broke the interwebs. I messed up a firewall script on the smoothwall box while trying to make the proxy transparent (and failed, I might need to ask for some assistance on this one..) and the internet stopped. Not a huge deal, needed to reboot the router which wasn’t a major issue, but while I was gone trying to make it work without a restart Kelly made the picture on the righ left of me with the “interwebs” that I had pulled apart and broken..
Asked her to send it to me so I could post for the humor value.
Miley, Miley, Miley…
My brother in law, Matthew, hates Miley Cyrus and her character, Hannah Montana, with a passion. Every mention of her name brings up loud streamings of strong dislike about her, and why. It was with this in mind that his April Fools Day ‘gift’ was birthed.
I am a nerd. I admit it. Everyone knows it. I have a proxy server that I use with my computer systems for the purpose of speeding up windows updates and such, but I usually only use it myself.
Tonight I set it up to ‘replace’ every URL for a JPG or GIF file that passes through it. That is, 90% of images seen on the internet viewed via the proxy server will be replaced with images of my choice. In this case, Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana pictures. Still not making sense? Allow me to demonstrate. Let’s start with Youtube. Here is how Youtube’s main page looks through my replacing setup.
Still not making the point? Lets try Google Images. This is where the one or two non-jpg/gif files slip through. Here is a search for images matching the search term “Pooping”, according to my system:
On *that* one, I think Matt will agree, she is pretty poop-like 😉
Give Us, This Day, Our Daily Serenity
So, for the last month or so my most recent project has been under fairly tight wraps. Partly for fear all the related domain names would be taken, and partly because I feared someone would take the idea as a whole.
No more shall I fear, as I launch a new website: The Daily Serene Image.
To quote myself:
Daily Serenity was an idea conceived by demigail in 2008. Made into a reality by Zeke in October of 2008, the site went public in the following month.Accepting any images from both amateur and professional photographers alike, Daily Serenity survives photographically based on its contributors.
Every day a new image is randomly selected from the list of those available (having been screened and approved by administrators). A brief description provided by the photographer is displayed with the image, along with a link to the photographers website (where applicable).
Published images are also archived indefinitely, with a static link available for each one. All published images are also available for download, both in widescreen and standard versions. These are sized appropriately for use as desktop wallpaper/backgrounds.
What Daily Images will be needing is contributors to provide photos and images for the site. Registration is free, and while no payment is provided for images supplied or used, no payment is required either. The terms and conditions of uploads are available when registering to provide photos, and all photos are checked and approved before they will appear on the site.
Are you a photographer? Consider some free publicity by contributing some of your work to Daily Images. If the Daily Serene Image takes off, it may grow into multiple sites of a similar nature, covering different themes.
Washington Monument
The Washington monument, the pool of reflection.
Often called the nations…er…member, one must consider that while it is a large building, it’s also incredibly small with regard to the size of the country.
This photo is edited, although only with relation to coloring.
Taken from the Lincoln Memorial, towards the Washington Monument. Almost invisible at the other end of the Pool of Reflection is the WW2 memorial.
Taken with the S9600, recolored using the tools in iPhoto.
More Squirreling
This one was too cute to pass up. This is from the same trip as the last picture, in May while my parents were in the US.
This squirrel was seen posing with the tree. Looks like it wants to be in Playboy or something.
You guessed it, S9600.
Quack, Quack
On another trip to the District of Columbia, some time was spent at the monuments. These two ducks are just 2 of the many that are in and around the pool of reflection. Unfortunately there are also more than one or two floaters in the pool also. One is lead to wonder what the cause of their succumbing was..
S9600.
Squirrels
Having just been to the Holocaust museum in Washington DC (Part of the Smithsonian, I believe), we saw this little guy on the street. I know they’re almost like birds here, but I’m not used to seeing them so often, so here is one of my many photos of them.
S9600.