September 2006 Archives
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
And it's not me. It's Smudge. I was sitting on the couch and looked over at him and he's neck fluff was all wet and he had made three wet spots on the cushions from his drool. Now, I've had cats drool before. When Freesia goes for long car trips she drools the whole time and comes out of the carrier soaking wet. But Smudge hasn't gone anywhere. We haven't had new/different/unsual cleaning supplies out. I haven't seen him eat anything (though of course that certainly doesn't mean he didn't). So, I called the 24-hour vet. The gentleman was very
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I finally posted the photos I took from E's birthday trip to the New York Botenical Gardens. We went on his birthday, back in July. I've been shooting RAW for awhile now. I definitely like what controls it offers me in PhotoShop. But it means that I have to process the images in PhotoShop. Which greatly increases the chance that the RAW files will just sit on my hard drive instead of make their way to Flickr. I've also noticed that I've reached the ends of my PhotoShop skills. I feel confident in adjusting the exposure and highlights and lowlights
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Egads I hate Windows. And I don't just mean that in the typical Mac-zealot type way. I finally came clean and got (well, AP got me) a copy of Visio, which I run via Virtual PC. It's not the best set up in the world (especially after seeing Todd run Windows on one monitor and OSX on another yesterday), but it does let me work with client files, and files from my PeopleSoft days. So, this morning, without really thinking, I popped the new CD into the drive, booted up Vitural PC and started the install process. Once it was
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
This afternoon E and I watched Red Planet. At some point I decided that it would be a good idea to add this to my Netflix queue. I really don't see why I did. E and I did have fun poking fun at the movie the whole way through. At one point I turned to him and said "this has all the trite sci-fi plot situations: mechanical failure, mutiny, death of (at least one) teammate, and we haven't seen aliens yet." A few mintues later, he says "we forgot BATSHIT CRAZY!" And the aliens did appear in the last 1/3
