If you're anything like us, you'll give it a feature role in a youtube video...
12 January 2008
Hey look, a meme!
It's been a long while since I've done one of these random this and that memes but, like Darren, I couldn't resist this one to make an album cover. The instructions:
1. Article about Live under the sky, a jazz festival in Japan.
2. Quotation by Moliere, "To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to."
3. Photo called "rosary sunset" by the half-blood prince. [Like Darren, I reloaded until I found a Creative Commons image; it only took one reload.]
My album cover:
My results:1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
1. Article about Live under the sky, a jazz festival in Japan.
2. Quotation by Moliere, "To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to."
3. Photo called "rosary sunset" by the half-blood prince. [Like Darren, I reloaded until I found a Creative Commons image; it only took one reload.]
My album cover:
I think the title reads better with live as in "live free or die" rather than "live, from New York..." but I'm pretty pleased that all those random things converged to create a believable album.
09 January 2008
Therapy has a volume level
... and mine seems to be around 11.
My ears are still ringing from the succession of loud, obnoxious music I cranked during the bus ride home, probably loud enough to disturb fellow commuters. I had a busy, frustrating day at work (interesting, at least, but I broke my brain in three places) and I required some very loud tunes to drown out the rest of the world and refocus. Luckily, my mp3 player dished out in rapid succession, Metallica's Enter Sandman; Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch, Outkast's Hey Ya, LCD Soundsystem's North American Scum and Boney M's Rasputin. Awesome.
(**I can't believe I found YouTube links for all of those songs!)
Today, we began the real work on our latest digitization project which involves a number of resources dealing with Victoria's early history (ca. 1855 - ca. 1910). Included in the project are 5 hand-coloured maps of parts of Vancouver Island. Below is a shot of one of our attempts to photograph one of the maps:
We spent almost the whole day trying to get a usable image of that one map from the equipment we have into the computers we have on hand. Not as simple as I had anticipated. Most of the other documents should be straightforward aside from one diary/scrapbook (1874-1907) which is too large to fit on the book scanner (which puts less pressure on the spine), too delicate for our flatbed scanner, and may not lend itself to being easily photographed.
I came home to find that Canada Post, after under-charging me and my asking if the under-charging was correct, decided after the fact that in fact I had paid insufficient postage, thus returning the package I had sent to an etsy buyer on Saturday. I have emailed the buyer with my apologies and I will re-send the package tomorrow.
Happily, it's not all stress and grumpiness in my world. Last night I finished binding the 4oth and final Coffee Haiku book, so now I have to find some buyers! I also made some pendants from some of the "gemstones" (i.e. polished rocks) I bought at the Scratch Patch on Sunday. Today, along with the returned mail there was also a package from Sally Ride Science containing a complimentary copy of the curriculum guide in which my photo appears: Living Green (my photo is on page 29).
Last, but definitely not least, the grad student with whom I will be working for the next month on the above project is easy to work with. When he used the word "grok" in context and without calling attention to it, I knew we'd get along just fine.
My ears are still ringing from the succession of loud, obnoxious music I cranked during the bus ride home, probably loud enough to disturb fellow commuters. I had a busy, frustrating day at work (interesting, at least, but I broke my brain in three places) and I required some very loud tunes to drown out the rest of the world and refocus. Luckily, my mp3 player dished out in rapid succession, Metallica's Enter Sandman; Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch, Outkast's Hey Ya, LCD Soundsystem's North American Scum and Boney M's Rasputin. Awesome.
(**I can't believe I found YouTube links for all of those songs!)
Today, we began the real work on our latest digitization project which involves a number of resources dealing with Victoria's early history (ca. 1855 - ca. 1910). Included in the project are 5 hand-coloured maps of parts of Vancouver Island. Below is a shot of one of our attempts to photograph one of the maps:
We spent almost the whole day trying to get a usable image of that one map from the equipment we have into the computers we have on hand. Not as simple as I had anticipated. Most of the other documents should be straightforward aside from one diary/scrapbook (1874-1907) which is too large to fit on the book scanner (which puts less pressure on the spine), too delicate for our flatbed scanner, and may not lend itself to being easily photographed.
I came home to find that Canada Post, after under-charging me and my asking if the under-charging was correct, decided after the fact that in fact I had paid insufficient postage, thus returning the package I had sent to an etsy buyer on Saturday. I have emailed the buyer with my apologies and I will re-send the package tomorrow.
Happily, it's not all stress and grumpiness in my world. Last night I finished binding the 4oth and final Coffee Haiku book, so now I have to find some buyers! I also made some pendants from some of the "gemstones" (i.e. polished rocks) I bought at the Scratch Patch on Sunday. Today, along with the returned mail there was also a package from Sally Ride Science containing a complimentary copy of the curriculum guide in which my photo appears: Living Green (my photo is on page 29).
Last, but definitely not least, the grad student with whom I will be working for the next month on the above project is easy to work with. When he used the word "grok" in context and without calling attention to it, I knew we'd get along just fine.
08 January 2008
Deconstructing a Computer
Kiddo has been inspired by the list that is in heavy web circulation right now: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do. In particular, she was very keen to deconstruct an appliance and we said we could take apart her old Mac -- we got it for free and it died with the ubiquitous Sad Mac face about 18 months ago. It had just been taking up space ever since.
She had so much fun it was hard to get her to go to sleep....
Meanwhile, I got to play with my camera (the photo above was created using some Fireworks magic) and eventually grabbed a screwdriver and joined in. I have a little stack of leftover innards and bits which I hope to use in some future craft creations....
She had so much fun it was hard to get her to go to sleep....
Meanwhile, I got to play with my camera (the photo above was created using some Fireworks magic) and eventually grabbed a screwdriver and joined in. I have a little stack of leftover innards and bits which I hope to use in some future craft creations....
06 January 2008
Social time, family time, and some accomplishments.
I have no idea how I coaxed what seemed like an extra day out of the weekend, but I managed to crowd in a lot of stuff.
I knocked another item off the Big List o' Unfinished projects by installing (with hubby's help) and configuring e-commerce on one of our Drupal sites (the store is live but not quite ready for promotion yet... ) plus I bound another dozen Coffee Haiku minibooks (and prepped the remaining 15). Plus I tidied up a few things, including, with help again, putting away the remaining Christmas decorations.
We also took time to go to the RBC Museum yesterday (they are having an "admission by donation" promotion that runs until the 9th) and to the Sidney Museum and Mineral World/Scratch Patch today. Both outings afforded plenty of opportunity to test the new cameras.
I really feel like I got lots done this weekend which, while rare, is a great way to kick off the new year.
I knocked another item off the Big List o' Unfinished projects by installing (with hubby's help) and configuring e-commerce on one of our Drupal sites (the store is live but not quite ready for promotion yet... ) plus I bound another dozen Coffee Haiku minibooks (and prepped the remaining 15). Plus I tidied up a few things, including, with help again, putting away the remaining Christmas decorations.
We also took time to go to the RBC Museum yesterday (they are having an "admission by donation" promotion that runs until the 9th) and to the Sidney Museum and Mineral World/Scratch Patch today. Both outings afforded plenty of opportunity to test the new cameras.
I really feel like I got lots done this weekend which, while rare, is a great way to kick off the new year.
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