What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
My wife Melissa's page. She's so good with my camera, I wish I had her sense of visual style. Setting it as my homepage keeps me in touch with real communication, so I see it first before I read all the crazy rants and news pings from my RSS feeds with google reader. Another page I recommend is popurls, which lists top feeds from all the major sources, even the top youtube and ifilm videos and flickr photos, all in one easy page with details when you rollover links with your mouse. I've been an avid fan of del.icio.us in the past,
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
The last wedding I was in was the wedding of Andy Tudor and Eunsuk, and I was the best man. I had never been a best man and I didn't really know what it entailed, and I remember looking online to find out what I should do and how best to prepare. The reception was in a mind-blowingly large room at one of Lexington's upscale hotels. I mean, you could play regulation football in this room. And, there was no speakers, no mic, no multbox. It was just me to deliver the speech. The table with the cake was thirty feet from the nearest guest table. I could barely see the last table, with the curvature of the earth at the horizon and all. And I had to give my little speech. Have you ever heard an old speech from the days before microphones? Look for a copy of an old speech from Theodore Roosevelt, or even Franklin D. Roosevelt, and you can tell the politicians were much more akin to opera singers than the thoughtful pondering mumblers of today. I tried and tried to project my voice, but I could tell that I just wasn't getting there.
Later I talked to one of Andy's friends, and he said "I couldn't hear what you said, but your voice rose and fell nicely, I'm sure it was a great speech."
When Melissa and I have a formal ceremony, I'll grin knowingly at my best man as he tries to shout to the crowd.
The link below leads to drawspace, a fantastic website that contains a thorough set of drawing how-tos and tutorials.
Melissa and I ate Sushi from Ginza after I got home from work. We had Spicy Crunchy rolls, and Spicy Scallop rolls, Cucumber rolls, and the very amazing and often elusive Salmon Roe. The Salmon roe are incredible, each tender translucent bubble bursts with favor as you chew them. We both agree that we liked the crunchy rolls just a little more than the scallop rolls.
Instructables.com has a post that describes a cheap way to get fisheye camera results, using a wide-angle door security lens attached to your point and shoot. I'm going to Home Depot tomorrow morning to buy one and see how well it works. Photo posts will be up soon:
http://www.instructables.com/id/EYY1F7X6PCEP287S4U/?ALLSTEPS
Sweetpea, lunch was fantastic today, thanks!
"It is desirable that a man be clad so simply...and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I recently downloaded this bookmarklet that allows me to geotag my flickr photos. So far, I tested it only one photo, one I took of my parents in Oahu, and it works great. You select the photo in Flickr, then click the bookmarklet to bring up a google map interface that allows me to pick the exact point the photo was taken in the satellite view. When you look through your Flickr collection, a new caption appears under photos that have geotags that says, 'See where this picture was taken,' and it takes you to the google map with a pushpin to mark the location. Very clever!
Original Lifehacker post:
Geotag you Flickr photos with the Localize bookmarklet: "
Life finds me happily out of the navy and it's roller coaster ride of adventuresome highs to lamentably depressing lows and more comfortably into civilian life.
Now, we are married and live together and are having a baby. I don't yet know if it's a boy or girl, but I am excited either way. Enid if it's a girl, Jake if it's a boy.
MOBILE LIFE
Man should have perfected a few things by now. He should be able to write, cut, and make fire at all times.
- Wallet- Guess Brown Leather Billfold. Has a bill divider, small bills in front and big bills in back. Kept in back left pocket.
- Phone-
Razr in plastic slide holster on belt, right side just behind the belt
loop. The Razr, not because it's in the magazines, but because it's
tiny and it's a good phone. I don't want my phone to moonlight as a
laptop; there are laptops for that sort of thing.
- Knife- Gerber Applegate Fairbarn Covert folder, or a Craftsman Folding Razor knife.
- Multitool- Leatherman Wave with pocket clip, clipped to back right pocket.
- Pen- Parker Jotter. Silver classic with the fancy arrow pocket clip. Clipped to chest pocket or t-shirt neck. Space pens are nice, but the clip is terrible and who really needs to write underwater or on fire? Gels write nice, but sometimes explode, staining hands and clothes.
- Pencils- Ticonderoga tri-write or Mirado Black Warriors. Old-fashioned, no-click pencils. Go in left ear.
- Thumbdrive- 1 GB Ativa with attached cap- no lost caps!
- Multilighter- Swiss army knife with blade, file, scissors, and butane lighter in one.
- Watch- Skagen slim-profile titanium bezel watch with date dial. Big, easy to read face, but sliced so thin its almost two-dimensional; alternately, Citizen Blue Angels watch.
- Belt- black/brown convertible flat square buckle.
- Sunglasses- Jublo Micropores for cold climes, Maui Jim polarized for summer. Use croakies, wear around neck.
