… if it’s the last thing we ever doooooo!
Post sunset to the west
Post sunset to the east
August 28, 2007
Now it’s sunset
And we’re eating
Look you can see the sun right through the federal building
Early Evening
Yes, we’re still here. Working and waiting on our food.
and the other direction
View from work
I’ve been working crazy hours trying to get a software release out the door. Hopefully it’s winding down now but the one benefit is all us developers are working in a conference room with windows. This is a 16th floor, north facing conference room with a view of lake Erie, which is pretty cool. It would be perfect if it weren’t for the federal building just north of us.
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen just about every possible summer sky including a hail storm so bad it sounded more like a gravel storm against the windows. I wish I had brought my camera in before today but here are some views from the window here.
Another plus – the air show is coming so we’re starting to see all the strange planes coming it to burke.
August 10, 2007
I love this description
of the reason’s the GOP is in political jeopardy (although it should be criminal jeopardy) from a post from the daily KOS.
social moralizing, beyond-the-pale cronyism, an unhealthy dose of nativism and racism, corruption so blatant it has become institutionalized, a borrow-and-spend budgetary philosophy, and redistribution of wealth to the very rich that has appalled all but the Christianist right and some very wealthy allies
Here is the KOS entry as well as the Economist article they were discussing.
August 2, 2007
This is really geeky, I know
But I was playing with paint.net, a free, open source graphics program for the .NET platform and I created a button graphic in the apple-like glassy style. I think it’s so cool I want to write an application around it. Here it is:
I typically use Paint Shop Pro but since they were bought by Corel their app pesters me everytime I run it to upgrade. So I’m looking for other options. I’d like to move to photoshop but it’s way too expensive.
Speaking of which, given how expensive it is, why is almost every tutorial on the web for doing various graphics operations written for photoshop? Why does it seem everyone has it? They can’s ALL be professional photographers or graphic designers can they?
And, speaking of tutorials, I followed one of the few non-photoshop tutorials on the web to create this button