Amazing step by step tutorial for painting and working with Photoshop.
Me & Louie's Sister - Page 1
June 2006 Archives
I have added pictures from Devon's Skating Party on June 24th 2006.
Cick the picture below or right HERE to go to the gallery.
This is a very cool little media center computer that will be coming out sometime in the Fall.
Kapsel Media Center
I might just have to invest in one of these!
Big Jason is sure to be an owner soon :)
This thing plays every video and audio format known to man!
More information from Gizmodo:iUbi Blue PMP2500B - Gizmodo
Finally! A music label that has a clue. Magantunes allows streaming of all of it's music collection and you set the amount that you are willing to pay for the music. Killer site thats worth checking out!
Magnatunes
Very useful calculator for figuring out IP addressing and subnetting.
IP Calculator / IP Subnetting
Flying with out an ID!......
Wired News: The Great No-ID Airport Challenge
Being a coffee drinker I got a kick out of this story from a fellow Fat Frogger that is deployed in Kabul. Here's the excerpt from his blog....
"The events starting this week with my encounter with the coffee can. Sunday night I was the victim of a CCBIED, Coffee Can Born Improvised Explosive Device, it was about 0100 and I thought a cup of coffee would be the thing to get me through the next eight hours of the work day, we work half-days; if you consider 12 hours is half of a day. Well anyway, I decided to have some coffee that one of the Australians brought back from his rest and relaxation (R&R) in Italy. For the record we get to go to Qatar – it’s like going from Idaville to Burnetsville for vacation (for those in Virginia it’s like going from Creeds to Pongo to visit the big city). As a gift to the collection work center he brought back some fine Italian coffee (out of guilt I suspect). It was in a decorative, three pound vacuum packed can. I thought that Sunday night would be as good of a time as any to have the coffee so I thought I’d open the can and have a good cup of Italian coffee. What I didn’t consider was that much of Italy is at or just a few 100 feet above sea level and Kabul is at about 6,000 ft. As I was at the moment I broke the seal, I am suddenly blinded and hear a loud bang – yes, in that order. Within a matter of a split second, as my eyes were burning and I was unable to see, I realized that the can must have exploded. I blindly felt around for the box of bottled water, grabbed two bottle of water and headed for the door, I got out of the door and stumbled down the stairs and got outside to flush my eyes. After two bottles of water I was able to see shapes and after a couple of more someone brought me I had good 20/300 blurred vision. I’m can’t think of anything to compare the experience with, which might provide it justice. I can say that I’ve had the PRK eye surgery were they take a electric toothbrush apparatus and grind the epidural off your cornea to perform the surgery and I’d rather have gone through that again. Over the remained of the night I continued to flush the eyes and went to medical when it opened in the morning and they broke out the Q-tips to swab my eyes and get the remainder of the grounds out. After about four days my eyes stopped burning. I will also tell you that consuming straight coffee via the eyes will certainly give you the jolt you might be looking for in a cup of coffee, but I don’t recommend it. I also had coffee in every pore of my being; I was sweating coffee when I got home. . When I returned to the work center from the initial eye flush everyone on watch was up cleaning the work area and said there was coffee every where. I didn’t get to see what the detonation area looked liked before they cleaned it up, but the can had just blown out the top seal and was about half empty."
You can see this post on his blog by clicking
HERE
The direct URL to his blog is here:
http://spaces.msn.com/chriselogandeployed/
What would someone from the 20's think of some of the things we do every day. My favorites: The Cell Phone Neck and the Smokers Outside the Building
Column in PC Magazine by John Dvorak
The 50 Mile Loop.....
Despite the fact that the signs are up for the route I have been unable to dig up an actual map for the final Va Beach 25/50 mile bike loop. Searches on Google, VBgov.com, VBfun.com, and the Tidewater Bike Assoc sites were fruitless. The closest thing that I could come up with is a proposed 50 mile loop. I am unsure how much of the route on this map varies from the final 25/50 route, but the bottom end of it around the Sandbridge Rd/New Bridge Rd is not accurate.
Click here for the Route Map.
The North End 23 Mile Cue Sheet....
Click here for the cue sheet for a nice 23 mile bike route on the north end of Va Beach. It includes a couple of hills for those that want a challenge. This cue sheet was done by one of the members of the Fat Frogs Race Team. (Thanks Bill!)
Guess I'm not the only one that thought that this was a cool looking product. Now if they will only tie it in to a pair of bike shoes and GPS :D
The post on the new Nike-Ipod product on Jason's site.
A very interesting site with "tours" of WWII battlefields and areas surrounding Chernobyl. This site is worth setting aside a fair amount of time to browse. There are also several video clips that are worth watching.
The Site
This is video footage of the Chernobyl site during the first days of cleanup. It is shocking, people doing the clean up with no protective gear.
severedays.mpeg (video/mpeg Object)
An interesting quest, this guy wants to find a sponsor for his trip around the world. What sets him apart is that he wants to do it on a motorcycle and he only has one arm.
Helpmearoundtheworld.com
