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01/22/2005 20:37 #31592

My biography, haha
lwist: (don't make me ghostwrite your biography. I'm no good at that.)

01/22/2005 18:21 #31591

Birthday Day
I need a serial cable so bad. if anyone has one an dis coming to the party tonight. I really need one. They look like this, I threw all mine out during thee move.

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Thank you (e:twisted) for the new scarf. It is very warm. Here is a pic of me wearing it. I decided to morph my face into a jackson face. I was totally inspirered by Latoya's emotional appeal to buy her new CD last night on 20/20.

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I finally got my Basic Stamp II to get power from an adaptor I pulled apart.
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Here is proof that it is now getting the needed 5v.
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It is snowing so much today. I heard it won't stop till tomorrow, and until we have another foot of snow.

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I guess it makes sense seeing as I was born in the blizzard of 77 . HEre are some pics from that year. These are houses. It was the only snowstorm declared a national emergency.

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01/22/2005 01:57 #31590

I am 28 now
I hope everyone show up at my party tomorrow. In the mean time I am going to go ahead and freeze while dreamng about my basic stamp. The API works with PHP 4 + again.

01/21/2005 16:35 #31589

I have learned my lesson
I decided to clean out my office desk today after "letting it go" for three years. I found this contract I signed when I was young and stupid. I have since learned from this experience never to make contracts like this. I am putting it here as an example of what not to do when being contracted out for a job. I have also learned that my time is worth so much more money!

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01/21/2005 15:27 #31588

Doing homework
Today I spent most of my office hours making exmaples for class homework assignments. This one was an assignment for my intro to digital media rts class that requires students make a CD label.

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I used images from to make this cd cover. It was so hard not to cheat. I have only taught them the most basic tool for selection in photoshop. We did layers, the history pallette, layer masks, the eliptical and rectangular marquee, the polygonal selection tool , and the lasso tool. Imagine, no pen tool paths, no filters, adjustments, etc.

This is what i cam up with. The volcano / mountain to the right is actually from van Goh's cypress tree knots.