Sunday, November 08, 2009
Saturday, November 07, 2009
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Some Recent Shots
Wahey, I've discovered a little programme designed to quickly and easily resize images on my Mac (one area where the PC wins hands down - Powertools, Resizer, install, right click, resize.... no faffing needed) - thanks to nplima (Nuno - Nuno Lima?) on macrumours for leading me to smallimage. I've not correctly installed it on my machine yet but I'm getting there. Anyway, some examples:
Daily M**l Readers in Public
Whoops, back again - couldn't resist it (and things going a bit slowly over on 5000k - no offence Alan, I know you are busy). Anyway, from a comment regarding the Daily Mail, Britain's most hateful paper (and that is saying a lot):
"I don't know what it is about Mail readers, but they always annoy me more than any other people reading papers in public. All those middle-aged, puffy-faced women, soaking up the hatred on the northern line, as they read about the latest manufactured moral panic - it's a bit like watching someone shooting up smack in the seat next to you."
A perfect description of how they make me feel.
"I don't know what it is about Mail readers, but they always annoy me more than any other people reading papers in public. All those middle-aged, puffy-faced women, soaking up the hatred on the northern line, as they read about the latest manufactured moral panic - it's a bit like watching someone shooting up smack in the seat next to you."
A perfect description of how they make me feel.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
A new meaning for the word "enhanced".
Apparently threatening to kill someone's children and rape their spouse is an "enhanced interrogation technique". How marvelous. How brilliant. How humane. Well done to everyone involved - mainly Americans and Brits no doubt.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Bolithium
Is there anyone left in the world who hasn't made a documentary about lithium production in Bolivia? For the love of god, we know they have a lot - good luck to them with it, they could do with a break. Now, isn't there something else to talk about?
Physiology Major
Every so often (more and more as it happens, but we'll let that pass) I get swelling around my upper or lower lip. I believe it is a food allergy, possibly yeast*, but it is happening with increasing frequency so today I thought I'd look up what other possible causes there could be. To this end, I am grateful to the Wellcare Site for this incisive and helpful pointer:
"One can easily differentiate between the Upper (Labium superiors) and lower lip (Labium inferioris). The lower lip is somewhat larger."
Apparently you need a degree in Yin-Yangery to be able to spot this, though with years of practice I reckon most people could achieve a better-than-50-50 result if they studied hard enough.
*When I was a kid, my father used to work in the Flour Milling and Baking Research Association in Chorleywood and as such he was partially responsible for developing the Chorleywood Process, used in the creation of the plasticky white bread that, at times, we all have a yearning for, especially toasted with peanut butter. Anyway, every Friday he would bring home a still-warm loaf of freshly baked bread which we children loved and would devour almost instantly. I now wonder if there were all sorts of different yeasts and chemicals used in these - it seems likely, though I guess I will never know. I was wondering if these loaves were somehow responsible for my current annoying ailment - probably not, but it makes for a bit of a story. If it were true, I would guess that my bro and sis would have similar problems, but aside from an allergy to olive trees they don't so unless there was olive oil put in the bread (and heaven knows this is so unlikely - we're talking about the early 1970s here) this appears to be a blind alley.
"One can easily differentiate between the Upper (Labium superiors) and lower lip (Labium inferioris). The lower lip is somewhat larger."
Apparently you need a degree in Yin-Yangery to be able to spot this, though with years of practice I reckon most people could achieve a better-than-50-50 result if they studied hard enough.
*When I was a kid, my father used to work in the Flour Milling and Baking Research Association in Chorleywood and as such he was partially responsible for developing the Chorleywood Process, used in the creation of the plasticky white bread that, at times, we all have a yearning for, especially toasted with peanut butter. Anyway, every Friday he would bring home a still-warm loaf of freshly baked bread which we children loved and would devour almost instantly. I now wonder if there were all sorts of different yeasts and chemicals used in these - it seems likely, though I guess I will never know. I was wondering if these loaves were somehow responsible for my current annoying ailment - probably not, but it makes for a bit of a story. If it were true, I would guess that my bro and sis would have similar problems, but aside from an allergy to olive trees they don't so unless there was olive oil put in the bread (and heaven knows this is so unlikely - we're talking about the early 1970s here) this appears to be a blind alley.
Well now...
I am currently operating both a Mac and a PC at home and therefore see this blog on both from time to time. What is striking is how much better the pictures look on the Mac. Shiny, rich, alive. The old Vaio makes them look washed out and anaemic. I don't know if there is much I can do about this but it is a shame that the pictures are not going to come across as well to the 93% of the population that use PCs and not Macs. Perhaps I can jigger with the colour space or something - I will have to look into it.
FWIW, the Mac remains annoying from the "old dog / new tricks" aspect, but I am speeding up on it. The most annoying aspects remaining at the moment are the absence of a maximise button and the lack of an option to resize a picture (and keep the original)at the right-click of a mouse. Other factors (processor speed, portability, shut down and start up speeds) are great, although I don't know how much they are due to a change of OS and how much they owe to the fact that technology has moved on in the last few years and the spec would be better on any machine I bought in a similar price bracket.
BTW, the reason I've not posted more pictures on here with the Mac is because of the lack of an image resizer and the issues I'm having sorting out an alternative method - I know I could duplicate, then resize and then post but I'm looking out for something neater; if I can't find anything in a day or so though, I will sort some pics out anyway via one of the cumbersome methods.
FWIW, the Mac remains annoying from the "old dog / new tricks" aspect, but I am speeding up on it. The most annoying aspects remaining at the moment are the absence of a maximise button and the lack of an option to resize a picture (and keep the original)at the right-click of a mouse. Other factors (processor speed, portability, shut down and start up speeds) are great, although I don't know how much they are due to a change of OS and how much they owe to the fact that technology has moved on in the last few years and the spec would be better on any machine I bought in a similar price bracket.
BTW, the reason I've not posted more pictures on here with the Mac is because of the lack of an image resizer and the issues I'm having sorting out an alternative method - I know I could duplicate, then resize and then post but I'm looking out for something neater; if I can't find anything in a day or so though, I will sort some pics out anyway via one of the cumbersome methods.
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