Selfie by Star
Nice shot really, but I am disturbed that she knows how to use my iPhone well enough to take a selfie. Though that might explain all those long distance calls in the middle of the night.
PDF optimization sucks
I know adobe invented it and owns it but why do their products do such a crappy job of compressing PDF’s. Come to think about it why does photoshop do such a crappy job of compressing jpgs? With recent design favoring rich, large images, either as backgrounds or page content, you would think the latest version of Photoshop would compress an image in such a way that is condusive to those uses. Well it dont. In fact Ii have taken to copying images over to Fireworks to compress them to jpgs. Fireworks will save 40 to 70 percent on average – AND – adobe is discontinuing Fireworks! Figures…
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Lomo Photos of the Past
Does anyone else remember the “Lomo” camera? (link) I never got into it but a buddy of mine did (Take a bow Justin Anderson) and he took these wonderful photos of my office in The Colonial Warehouse. Check them out…
Square POS
This is so cool – I had to post it – I gotta try it out and see if it works.
A gift from Hong Kong…
I am going to do a couple of test posts and what better to post than some of my favorite gifts I have received from my friend Tony Ho in Hong Kong. I keep trying to find something here to send back but have not found anything as remotely interesting as what he sends me – I mean its Minnesota… What is unique about here? Wild rice? Minnetonka Mocs and Tonka toys are made in Hong Kong now I think…
Anyways here is an awesome present I received from Tony which was described as a bottle for “White powder”. He apologized that he sent it empty but he wanted to make sure I got it and didn’t get arrested for it… You can’t see it in this shot but in addition to that beautiful jade stopper is a small spoon (Made of Ivory) that is kept inside the bottle. Hand painted and expensive I don’t think its antique but I most certainly think of it as a treasure…
He wrote an awesome note that came with it which I might post later as well… BUT I have a couple more treasures to post which were sent from Hong Kong by Tony which I will post if you like this one… Let me know.
“Big Trouble” on “Firefly”
Who watches sci-fi? Lots of you I hope – so I thought I would mention something I noticed while watching Firefly again that I thought I should pass on. In the Firefly episode “Heart of gold” S1E12, I noticed that a character performing on a stage appears to be wearing the same clothes as David Lo Pan in “Big Trouble in Little China”. It appears to be the exact outfit and hat but with the addition of a renaissance collar of some sort.
Besides needing something to post for testing purposes I was thinking of starting a string about the use of props between movies. Cross-Propping. Ok. So I need to work on the name for the string…
Wooly tracks
I always forget the name of the tree that sheds these things and I have to tell the truth its kinda fun rolling a wheelchair through! Makes quite a mess! You end up wearing half of them. I am pretty sure that i am the only person (not delivering water or office supplies) that uses this ramp so I didn’t feel like I should mention they should sweep it like the rest of the sidewalk.
Contact Google For Google Apps Support
Who knew!?!? This is actually the first i heard of google having a phone number! You can call Google for help! For all those out there who have not been able to figure out how to contact Google for support with apps, here you go. Though their sites are not good at telling us how to get help – once you get them on the phone they are actually quite helpful.
