It’s the time of year when people are walking carefully around here. There was just enough sunshine yesterday to start melting some of the couple feet of snow we got, but it gets cold enough again every night to refreeze it all. That makes for big ice-slicks in the parking lots and on sidewalks. I haven’t seen any pratfalls yet this spring, but I’m expecting one any time now. Probably from me.
But it’s actually starting to feel like spring. Sure, there’s still a bunch of snow, but the days are noticeably longer, and unless there’s a crisis, I’m now seeing sunshine both going to and coming home from work, and that’s improved my mood a lot. Plus, as I note in the last link, baseball has started, and that’s a good sign, too.
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| False Creek Panorama |
Today’s photo is one from the fall of 2002, shot in Vancouver, BC. I’ve been playing with the stitching abilities in Photoshop, and turned a bunch of old photos into panoramas. This is one of those little things that makes me a happier boy. When I tried stitching these photos back in 2002, it was a lot of work, required specialized software, and the results still didn’t make me all that happy. Today, it’s a lot easier, and the software needed does a lot more than just stitching pictures together. And I can do it without throwing away resolution, which all the tools did five years ago. I’m hoping to get out with the camera this weekend and shoot some really big panos, just because I can.
- Need more cowbell? Rad Monkey Electric Cowbells claims to have the answer. [metafilter]
- Want something soft to sleep with, but feel you’re too old for a teddy bear, and think latex love dolls are more than a little skeevy? Teddy Babes has the answer, for a mere 700 clams. Not entirely safe for work. [metafilter]
- A blog called Kit Up lists items servicemen have found indispensible during deployments. There’s some cool gadgets there. [metafilter]
- Ooh. At $15k, the BRP Can-Am Spyder Roadster looks like a pretty darned cool toy. It’s a tadpole, which is cool, even if the riding position is more café-racer than ’bent. [metafilter]
- Tales from the DEWLine. Cool cold-war bits o’ historical goodness. Plus there’s a whole raft of other info: The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland. [metafilter]
- An Open Call From the Patent Office?
The government is about to start opening up the process of reviewing patents to the modern font of wisdom: the Internet.
Wow. [scripting] - Heh! Today’s Mallard Fillmore made me laugh out loud this morning!
