Slovenian woman rides around the world solo on BMW F650. She wasn't going for speed, either--took a few years, a very circuitous route, and accumulated some amazing new experiences along the way. Be impressed, and be sure to check out the photography--from 74 different countries on every continent. :) (From motorcycles)
For V Day, from Steph & Matt, I got a box of Reeses Cups, a box of a single large Reeses heart, and a two-pack of movies--Stir of Echoes (Kevin Bacon, Thriller/Horror, "In every mind there is a door that has never been opened") and The Ninth Gate (Johnny Depp, Horror/Thriller, "Leave the unknown alone"). Watched Stir of Echoes last night with parents; it was pretty good. Will watch the other eventually.
Today, worked 11-7:30, free Pizza Hut pizza! Woo!
Caught part of the Grammys during dinner.. eh. Pop is nondescript, rap sucks, I still like John Mayer, and my mom didn't think Dixie Chicks should've won for Country (but I forget who she wanted to win--a particular guy.)
Noticed that due to a recent code change, mutual friends on one's "friend of" list are no longer bolded, which sucks--though they're sitll bolded on all -other- userinfo pages, so it doesn't even make sense from a "Database load decrease" standpoint. Don't yet know if it was intentional or a side-effect.
Oh hey, that friends-of bold change is annoying. I had earlier made the offhand observation that something was different, but I didn't think about it hard enough -- it was just a visual association thing. Damn. I hope they reverse that change.
I mean, there are workarounds--see a recent post/comments in lj_nifty for one--but it was nice having it all easily visible on an official page. I've yet to see any support voiced for its removal..
I took it one step further and adapted one of her photos for my wallpaper ... only problem was the original was at a weird angle, so I photoshopped it up. Works with a black background at 1024x768.
Photoshop, ha.. I have a copy on CDR somewhere, but I use Paint and Photo Editor to play with my images. :)
Easy enough to straighten images, yeah.. but come to think of it, when I take angled pictures, my intent isn't to have a tilted viewing, but simply to frame what I want and view the photo tilted as you've done for your background.
Yes, yes, I know. I have, in fact, downloaded the Gimp, which was a pain--I want one file, clearly marked, to download, which gimp.org doesn't provide. Three downloads later, I have things sitting on my desktop that, in all likelihood, will sit there for months before I get around to installing them.
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Nah, you don't have to go look at the comm, here's the link: Friends list analysis
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http://63.170.23.152/pix/montenegro.jpg
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Just took some perspective to line up the vertical steeples with reality here.
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Easy enough to straighten images, yeah.. but come to think of it, when I take angled pictures, my intent isn't to have a tilted viewing, but simply to frame what I want and view the photo tilted as you've done for your background.
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http://files.akl.lt/veidrodis/Grafika_Foto/GIMP/gtk+-1.3.0-20030115-setup.zip
then download and install this:
ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/gimp-win/gimp-1.2.4-20030119-setup-1.zip
all done! it's actually very easy.
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gimp-gif-1.2.3-20020310.zip
gtk+-1.3.0-20020912-setup.zip
gimp-1.2.4-20020907-setup-2.zip
Don't remember which is which or what for. :)
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then the GIF one if you want to use GIF but um that's illegal sort of.
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