Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I’m working on a decoration for my kayak. Preliminary sketches here and here.
It’s supposed to be a loon, but it looks more like a merganser to me. Actually, that design is too similar to the one I copied – I’m going to be changing the interior of the body some as soon as I figure out how to make smoothly curving lines in Photoshop.
At today’s picnic for Entertainment Imaging employees, I got at honourable mention in the photography contest for one of my 
crow pictures.
I used the 25 dollar gift certificate to pay for some film I’d just had developed. I got some new and better pictures for my
Standing Stones gallery (starting on page 2) and for my 
Crows gallery (again, starting on page 2).
I also got some pictures back from the Alaska cruise, mostly from the whale watching part. Most of the pictures don’t grab me that much, but a couple might be good if I crop them down and blow them up. Oh, but those are on the Picture CD I left in the car, so hopefully I’ll get those uploaded later.
Last night on the drive home from Ottawa, I was thinking about some pictures I’d like to try taking when I get kayaking again. One of the things I like to do with photography is get unusual camera angles, and I came up with some good ones that I could use the unusual folding nature of the Coolpix to good advantage.
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My favourite computer accessory store, FrozenCPU.com, now sells PolyGFX Case Skins to customize your case. Even better, they’ll let you submit your own imagery and they’ll print you up a custom case skin.
I’ve never been all that tempted by some of the “Pimp My Box” stuff like cold cathode tubes or water cooling systems, but I’m sorely tempted by this. My gigantic Linux full tower sits up on my desk to keep it from getting clogged with dust, but it’s sort of overwhelming there.
I’ve been playing around a bit with Photoshop Elements to make a couple of candidate images. Here are a couple of small copies of the huge images I’ve made: Early morning departure and Clouds
The originals are 49 inches by 17 inches at 300 pixels per inch, so they’re pretty damn huge. I’m not going to stress my cable modem by putting links to them here.
I grabbed the highest resolution satellite images I could get off of Terraserver, and stitched together a mosaic, and colourized the water, so now I have an Irondequoit Creek Map. It might be useful to carry this around on the river.
