Archive for July, 2007

Flying Out

I am flying out of state tonight. I don’t expect to have Internet access, so the blog will probably be without any new posts for about a week and a half. If I’m feeling particularly crazy, I might prewrite some posts and schedule them to go up while I’m gone, just to keep […]

Two Southern Ladies

From: Dilbert Blog
Two Southern ladies, Maribelle and AnneMarie, were sitting on the porch drinking mint juleps. They have the following conversation, best imagined with an upscale Southern drawl:
Maribelle: AnneMarie, do you see this huge diamond ring?
AnneMarie: Yes.
Maribelle: My husband bought this for me.
AnneMarie: Isn’t that special.

Google Image Labeler

Google Image Labeler is a brilliant, simple, and addictive answer to a common problem: identifying images. If you’re like me, you’ve often found image searches less than helpful. Unfortunately, without insanely sophisticated software, the only easy way to recognize images is by human interpretation. Since it is far too expensive to try […]

Red-Eye Reduction Fails

Note: On October 12th, 2007, I wrote a post about a solution to the red eyes, so you may want to check it out if you are having similar problems.
Try as I might, I couldn’t get my camera’s red-eye reduction to make my eyes nice again… For several weeks I’ve been having problems with my […]

A lady ran over a friend (accidentally) when he told her she was too drunk to drive. That will teach all you do gooders! Friends let friends drive drunk, unless wanting to be run over!
A man trying to stop a friend from driving drunk after a block party was run over by the […]