Here you are coming back day after day hoping to read some witty blurb I've fabricated and I have the same ol' motorcycle photographs and nothing else.
I swiped this picture just for you since you deserve to look at something other than motorcycles for days on end. Thank you lol cats for the picture.
Next week: motorcycles
Speaking of having a Ninja and a dream.. have you seen the 2009 650 Ninja?
Read and see a few more pictures here.
Reach out and touch spinach. Things go better with cactus. Motor oil, I want it all. Only a fool breaks the feather. It's a new sponge everyday. Semper Vapour.
My favorite so far: All you need is a Ninja and a dream. Amen to that!!
Concoct your own slogans here.
Back around Christmas time when I wrote about doodling on my Nintendo DS I may have mentioned that I was waiting to install another drawing program that was a little more sophisticated than what was included in the Brain Challenge game. I finally got the R4 card for the DS.. along with the software to program the micro SD for it as well.
I crossed over to the dark side to use a PC momentarily to program the micro SD card I need for the R4. This process was easy once I watched this little video that some guy made and posted on the web page where I bought the R4. My assistant was along on the assignment as note taker.. together we make an unbeatable team!
Finally up and running this is the first screen you see when you power up the DS. Big THANKS to these guys who made the how-to videos on the R4 card because they saved me from lots of frustration and head scratching in figuring out how to make this run.
Ahh, the Colors program at last! Colors was made by Ben Jacques, and this is his website. If this application interests you and you have a DS or iPhone/ iTouch you can buy the Colors app thru the Apple iTunes store. If you have a Nintendo DS you can download a "lite" version from here.
Once you start the program you see this welcome page. Below is a picture of the color picker, pen size slider, and stylus pressure slider. On the upper part of the DS screen is a diagram of the various tools accessed by the toggle switch or buttons.
Here is a quick sketch of one of my birds. One neat thing that this program does is it records your pen strokes while you draw. After you save the drawing you can press a playback button to see a little movie of how your drawing was made. I can't show that part yet because I don't have the right program on the PC to change a .drw file into an .avi file.
Somewhat blurry, but you get the idea. If I come up with an interesting drawing I'll film it with my digital camera so you can see the movie that the DS records. In the mean time take a look at the Colors gallery and the amazing art that people are creating on their DS, iPhone & iTouch.
I have crawled out from beneath my rock to find that Parelli Natural Horsemanship has a blog.
Visit Daily Parelli to learn what Natural Horsemanship is all about.
Parelli logo used without permission and copied from Daily Parelli website.
Make twitter. The magazine also has a blog.
The image is from the twitter blog background.
Thanks to Poopeeshmoopee's twitter for this. :))
To see a larger picture of this click here.
Thanks to Absolute Valency for posting this.
The symmetry tool in this drawing program called Sumo Paint is pretty cool. I made these on my laptop w/o the use of a tablet and stylus. Drawing with a stylus would be much easier. I managed to spend plenty of time doodling online the other day. Check out Sumo Paint and become a slacker like me.
And speaking of being a slacker... the Santa Fe pics aren't up b/c I've not downloaded them from the camera. I'm mildly paranoid that if I post nice pictures some troll will grab them and use them for themselves. Paranoia or valid concern???
"When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know. "
I'm really liking this blog. I hope you guys like it too.
I've been traveling again, which is why there hasn't been much blogging going on. I'd like to post from the road but I find that flying with the laptop to be more trouble than it's worth, so I press on without the technology and make mental notes about future blog posts and accompanying photos instead. Boring, no? Here is a tease from this trip:
This is the San Francisco de Asis church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico as painted by Georgia O'Keeffe. Stay tuned.. more pictures coming.
Then you will love this...um, if you also like Feta cheese.
Here is the scoop: Take a cube of Feta cheese and cut it up into cubes -doing so makes it easier to blend in the garlic while you mash the cheese with a fork. If your cheese has been out of the refrigerator for a little while this isn't necessary.
Squeeze in 1 or 2 cloves of garlic on top of the cheese. Start mashing it up with a fork. Add a dollop of mayonnaise - this is only to hold the mixture together so go easy with it. You don't want the cheese crumbly, but you don't want this to turn all creamy with the mayo either.
Serve on tomato slices. That's it!
I have recently used the Feta/garlic mixture on pasta with pitted and chopped black olives. Think nice olives, not canned. If you have a market with an olive bar look for pitted Niçoise, or herb covered black olives. I'm sure the green olives would work also if you prefer those. Yum!
Ben Jaques is the author of ColorsDraw, a Java based repainting application for paintings done in Colors!. Colors! was developed by Jens Andersson. Check http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/about.php