A tsk and a tsk

On a simple rant...what the hell is happening to Star Jones? I say she just go back to being overweight and possibly die of a heart attack like most people.

6-39-2006

Today the Missisippi River felt like home. The almost repulsive smell of rotting fish and the sights of rich boater folks passing by as they waved as become something common. Though we were without our Boat today, we had a much bigger and powerfull boat that unfortunately had a broken microwave...forcing everyone to eat any cold food they took to work that way.
E.V cooked his noodles by splattering it with squeezed lemon juice and hot sauze...crazy bastard.
Whats the best thing about working on a boat? Watching all the office types as they come out for a walk and stare at you wishing they were out on the MISSY riding the stern of a powerful boat and doing it like a pirate.

A day in the life...

Welcome to a day in the life folks,a day in the life of a deckhand; not glamorous but damn well adventurous.

Some facts about being a deckhand.
- You don't get to rest often
-you learn how to tie knots and throw twirls until you're almost too good
-The river is sweet to be on
-Your boat usually has a very stupid name
-Your captain's usually sickly and wouldn't cont'd... stand a few hours jumping from barge to barge like you do.
-Bumps are the scariest things next to the flow of the river on a windy day
-feeling like huckleberry finn.
A few facts...
Did anyone know a barge can carry about 169 semis once fully loaded. They look pretty small from outside but they are huge.
-Confined spaces are nothing to mess with
-Being a deckhand means sitting and enjoying the river when you have a few minutes of downtime out of 10-12 hours

These are just a few moments in the life of being a DeckHand. More to come soon

doodle in imageready

Yesterday I doodled around in Adobe ImageReady for 10 minutes and made a ball bounce...I'f only I could master Swift.

Click on Image to view Ball Bounce

Just a Thought

"Why is this my life...?" is almost everybody's question
and I've tried everything but suicide
but its crossed my mind
I prefer peace..wouldn't want to have any worldy possesions
but essentially I'm an animal and what do I do with all the agrrrression
Life is a one way street aint it? if I could paint it I could see myself going in the right direction
So I'll go all the way, like I know where to go but I'm only guessing
it's even dark in the day light
when I'm lost and find myself looking in the *** direction
......but it was just a thought

Photoshop lesson 1 (Create a 3-D picture)

A while ago while making the banner for my blog I noticed something cool. I produced something remotely similar to a 3-D image. I refined the process and documented it for a lesson.
1.
-I opened two images
-The first one the ORIGINAL IMAGE and the second one a PHOTOSHOP (psd) document of the same size as the original
2. Next, drag layers from the original image to your empty canvas....about 3-5 layers will do; depending on how trippy you want the picture to be. Postion the layers exactly above each other.
3. Create a new layer (shift+ctrl+n) and paint it about the same background color as your image using the Paint Bucket tool.
4. After positioning the layers in order, open the Layer properties menu and go to BLENDING OPTIONS. Give the first layer an OPACITY of 25% if you have 4 layers; I had 3 layers and therfore gave mine an OPACITY LEVEL of 30% instead.

After playing with the OPACITY, move the layers around a bit to create the effect.
-Move the bottom layer about six spaces right using the right arrow key
-Move the second layer about four spaces
-Move the top layer about two spaces
-Last of all....experiment and make it your own, move it around..do something
Anywho..HERE ARE THE IMAGES IN SUCCESION.
5. Finished Image

A new look

Today....its' finnaly done a new look for my blog. I've completed a new banner and used the image of one of my favorite ladies...Ms. Angela Davis, and a rose for her if you asked. I like the new look....very something-centric.

PEACE

A comparison in photoshop

Once again I saw fit to toy around with Photoshop. This time I compared how I saw Jimi Hendrix and the beautiful music he created versus the original picture I had snatched off the web.
1. Original Image
2. My Rendition

Black Sun Rising

Yesterday night I felt restless, so I opened Photoshop and after going at it for more than 4 hours, I cam up with this picture of New York....I christedned it "Black Sun Rising"

Language school

Today I'll start learning a new langguage. XML...only preparing for the launch of my syndicated website. After that I'll be moving on to PHp in order to build my own applications for a fully interactive site.

Someday

Someday I'll find a simple solution to a common problem.
--what the problem is, I don't know--

A rant and a rave

Today I happen to have a rant and a rave....Here goes.

All internet web surfers...if you're reading this page using internet explorer,
you're probably accumulating spyware as we speak. Since I discovered FIREFOX I havent gone back.
It's customizable, faster, safer...and doesnt innundate you with un-needed little
tid bits like IE.

SO HORRAY FOR FIREFOX

Rant: Star Jones, yes her

I would really like to know how its possbile for someone to look more terrible after losing weight than they did when they weighed more than your average obesed person.

CASE IN POINT

Guitar Practice II

Practicing scales, learning licks and fooling around

Geekster Jokester

Yesterday I got an E-mail from one of my online Delta Force: Land Warrior buddies...named the list of viruses. Enjoy this people even if you have no computer humor.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMPUTER VIRUSES

• The George Bush Virus - Causes your computer to keep looking
  for viruses of mass destruction.


• The John Kerry Virus - Stores data on both sides of the disk
  and causes little purple hearts to appear on screen.


• The Clinton Virus - Gives you a permanent Hard Drive ; with NO
  memory


• The Al Gore Virus - Causes your computer to keep counting and
  re-counting


• The Bob Dole Virus - Makes a new hard drive out of an old
  floppy


• The Lewinsky Virus - Sucks all the memory out of your
  computer, then
  e-mails everyone about what it did


• The Arnold Schwarzenegger Virus - Terminates some files,
  leaves, but will be back


• The Mike Tyson Virus - Quits after two bytes


• The Oprah Winfrey Virus -Your 200GB hard drive shrinks to
  100GB, then slowly expands to re-stabilize around 350GB


• The Ellen Degeneres Virus -Disks can no longer be inserted


• The Prozac Virus - Totally screws up your RAM, but your
  processor doesn't care


• The Michael Jackson Virus - Only attacks minor files


• Last but not least The Lorena Bobbitt Virus Reformats your hard drive
  into a 3.5 inch floppy...then discards it through Windows(can someon please tell me who this bobbit person is?)

Storm stories

Duck Crossing

Today while driving back home I came across something that was a bit funny yet touching. Sitting in a car across from me was a car and in this car was the THUGGEST, ROUGHEST, Gangbangest thug looking dude I'd ever seen. He was parked right there in the middle of the road, what the hell? I thought.
On a second glance....I saw a group of about two or three ducklings crossing the street to get to the lake on the other side of the street.
I must have sat there about a good minute and stared at this dude after the ducks had walked off....it was funny and human at the same time