A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright when she opened a jetliner’s cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage.
Archive for October, 2008
DesignLive has a great collection of Photoshop tutorials for making people into zombies, creating spooky-looking text effects and what not. I’m going to give them a try tonight. 
The ‘evil eye’ tutorial looks promising!
My starting image will be this:
Instead of a little girl in the car with him, a screaming Uncle Sam. Maybe I’ll put ‘Socialism’ on the front of the car, and a highway scene behind the bumper car.
Just for the record I’m not much on Halloween. No I don’t think its the Devils night or anything but it just doesn’t appeal to me. Even when I was a kid I really didn’t participate too much. Yeah, I’m a total bore.
So I was surfing thorugh the net checking out Halloween costumes and came across these skimpy outfits for…teens? WTF?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/62474
Who is designing these? Hugh Hefner?
Continue reading ‘Halloween night or Pimp night out? And other ramblings’
After several years of good ideas, aborted novels, short stories and screenplays, I have finally set my mind to something and finished it. Mainly because, after two years of owning the domain name and unbridled laxity, I have had a flurry of activity in the last week and finished the last half of the thing.
Basically it’s a thousand-year timeline of an imaginary world that should allow me to experiment with different writing styles, artwork and so forth. Oh yeah, here’s the link:
The McCain campaign pokes fun at Obama’s three-network infomercial tonight (NBC, CBS, Fox… ABC said no):
(H/T: Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
Due to not wanting to rely on the uncertainty of waking up in time to vote before work on Tuesday, I took the time to vote in-person absentee today at our local elections office. Virginia still requires legitimate reasons to vote absentee, among which are illness/disability, and caregivers of those with illness/disability. Although my wife is in the hospital (day 29 of 70 - baby is 29/30 weeks today - so six weeks to go is the goal), our afternoons after work are spent at the hospital, meaning we would not be able to get to the polls in the afternoon.
Our jurisdiction here has but three questions on the ballot: President/Vice-President, U.S. Senate (a race between two popular former governors - Democrat Mark Warner, 2001-2005, and Republican Jim Gilmore, 1997-2001), and the 10th Congressional District race (a rematch of the 2006 race between incumbent Republican Frank Wolf and Democrat challenger Judy Feder).
As has become custom, I took our four-year-old daughter in with us, and after making my selections, I let her touch the green cast ballot button. For her effort, she got her “I voted” sticker - they even gave her her own sticker. The elections personnel are some of the best people - it was the third time I had been in their office this month, with the prior two being to turn in my wife’s absentee application, and then her ballot. They take the time to verify identity and the voter rolls before allowing the voting machine to be turned on. The machine initially gave two choices - “Citywide” or “Presidential Only”. As it turns out, “Citywide” in this case meant the full ballot. I don’t know if the precinct machines for election day itself have this option - I don’t recall it from 2004. (We voted absentee in the 2006 mid-term election as we were in Key West)
I expect all here on BP to vote. I don’t expect everyone to be as public as I have been with their choices, though there should be no fear about revealing choices, no matter what they are - BP is still an open forum.
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