2-shortening

Dear CNN graphics intern. It's ok to just cut them below the knee, really. Simulating fore-shortening is tough. It's nice that CNN is hiring little people to host shows. Very progressive.

Rappy Ralloween!

Halloween Greetings for 2010!

Avast ye Maties

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Painted a pirate-y sign for our themed neighborhood picnic. Jack Sparrow even showed up. Acrylic paint on stained scrap 1/4" plywood.

Big Fan

Bad photos of a good thing. Traffic on 696 East was backed up as everyone slowed to gawk at the three gigantic wind turbine blades on semi trucks that had pulled off and parked on an exit ramp. Each blade had to be at least 50' in length. You can see the relative size to the tractor cab in the bottom picture. Just huge.

Timism #17

It's not what you know. It's not who you know.

It's who you know who knows you know what you know.

Itsy-Bitsy Arrrrrghhhh!!!!!!

We had a hatch of tiny baby spiders hanging from the screen door handle the other morning. Very cool. And spidery.

Snap Shot - Snapper laying eggs

It's egg-laying season again for the turtles. We have to keep an eye out for trutles crossing the road. They lay their eggs on dry land, often a good distance from the water. We have snappers and painted, probably others. The snapping turtles get pretty big. The one pictured was about 18 inches tail to head. Luckily, they are as shy as they are hazardous. Lots of swimming in the lake and no turtle attacks ;)

I took this picture last year. She picked a spot where we had just had a stump ground out. We kept an eye out, but never saw hatchlings.

Caught a Bass

...with my camera. This fella was just lazily prowling the lake shore. Looked about 14 inches long.

It's Only Trivia Until You Need It

Another Tim-ism now on a nifty bumper sticker- available now in the ol' Emporium.

Build a Floppy Clock

Just posted an Instructable on how to build the floppy disk wall clock I made last week.



Make a Floppy Disk Wall Clock - More DIY How To Projects

Ronald McDonald Deserves a Break Today

There is a group that wants McDonalds to drop Ronald as their spokes-clown. Made me think of this doodle of mine from 2005.

Fun fact: The very first Ronald McDonald was created and played by Willard Scott, later of ABC's The Today Show fame.

Death Panels Indeed.

Conservative pundits and Republicans in congress adopted an "ends justify the means" approach to defeating health care. Now that they did not achieve their ends, it's even clearer that there is no justification for their cynical fear mongering.

Pappou-Palooza

My Dad had this 2.5 inch by 1.5 inch snapshot of his father (my grandfather, or Pappou in Greek) in his wallet for years. Years ago I took a crack at cleaning it up a little.

Scanning the original at 1200 dpi, playing with the levels and doing some strategic clean up of the most distracting blemishes I was able to get the above as an 8 x 10. My grandfather passed away long before I was born. I feel a little more connected to him having spent the time cleaning up his photo.

Spring Soon, Right?

Getting kinda pointy out on the deck.

Fun With Fractals

Cool ice thaw on the water earlier in the season. Danielle saw synapses.