Thursday
Today was a good day.
It was good ‘n’ hot, too: 93° (when I checked).
I acquired a few boxes and some tape from work for the move – there’s a lot of media to be packed. Worked. Didn’t work. Worked some more. Didn’t work. Took a CD and birthday card for Mom to the Post Office…

I have been doing some work on the pictures that I took for Kris’ graduation. Mom wanted a CD of them for her birthday. Simple enough. So, I (lazily) got to work on it. I finished the pictures yesterday morning and was doing some batch operations in Photoshop to prepare to: a) copy them to CD and b) upload them to my site. One of the operations that I had done had resized all of the pictures to 350×263 for a gallery. Definitely something that I didn’t want. So, I decided to overwrite the smaller pictures with the ones of the sized that I wanted.

That’s when the fecal material met the oscillating blades.

The overwrite went…. “ka-ka,” as Al would say on Quantum Leap. All of the pictures that I had worked on were now 350×263. This was very inauspicious. I attempted an Undo operation. It didn’t work. Nothing that I tried worked.

*braincramp*

I was planning on dropping the CD at the Post Office on the way to work. That plan was shot squarely to Hell. I wrote a quick email to Mom and told her what had happened and that I would redo the pictures. Whoop-de-damn-doo. I was up until almost 3:00 this morning, but I got them done. And burned to CD. Without the stupid resizing issue.

Tonight, , , , , , and I (along with a few other friends) are going to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This could be something of a mixed blessing, as I am craving cotton candy again. But, nonetheless, it will be fun.

NPR and Other News
Talk of the Nation: D-Day
All Things Considered: L.A.’s Reserve Officers, on the Front Lines
All Things Considered: Indian-American Stories on Film: ‘Cosmopolitan’
Marketplace: Fifteen Years Later: Tiananmen

Stray Toasters

  • I was doing some research earlier and came across this, specifically “Hero” (the second entry down). That’s what it’s all about.
  • posted a link to this in his journal.
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
    What ever happened to parents actually taking an interest in – no, simply paying attention to – what their kids did, watched or listened to? Nine Hells. I take this as yet another indication that civilization is circling the drain.

    They say there is strangeness too dangerous
    In our theaters and bookstore shelves.
    That those who know what’s best for us
    Must rise and save us from ourselves.

  • From Slashdot: The Mathematics of Futurama
  • Killer Robot DVD
  • Spam… as poetry

And now, off to the Quidditch matches!

Namaste.