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I hate Spotify too. And not necessarily from a financial standpoint, but as a consumer of music. I think it is made for people who don't care about music, and helps groom new people to stop caring about music. I thought mp3 downloads made music more disposable than ever, but streaming doubles or triples that. The myth of the desirability of endless choice and convenience. It sounds crazy, I guess, but listening to music inconveniently is far more rewarding, because you make a conscious choice to listen to a discreet selection of songs released as a coherent unit. You put that effort in, and that immediately means you've taken a conscious interest in what you're doing. If you just type in a genre and stream **** and are happy with that, then you don't really care, it seems to me. Streaming and or ipod shuffling is good when you can't do it any other way, like during travel, camping, etc.
Somehow, I don't guess the younger generation feels this way. I could be wrong and it just seems this way to me because I grew up in a different era. I do sometimes hate the fact that two of my lifelong favorite activities: going to record stores and book stores, and buying physical items, seems to be something that has died or is dying. It was way more fun and exciting to stumble on some record you'd never heard of in a used shop, then to go on eBay and You tube and find damn near everything that exists. The hyper availability of everything is somehow nowhere near as gratifying to me as it seems like it would be.


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8 great leaf-peeping compromises
By Katia Hetter, CNN • Updated 26th September 2013
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The smell of fall is already in the air in some parts of the United States. That means it's time to pack up the car and drive to wherever the leaves are changing colors.
Or is it?
For some, hiking through the woods looking for leaves to slowly, slowly, slowly change colors and eventually fall off is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
This so-called "kidnappee" is only observed on leaf-peeping trips "when dragged there by someone else," according to Yankee Magazine's
Introduction to Leaf Peepers
. A leaf-loving spouse or parent or friend has often conned this hater of quiet nature into a leaf-focused trip.
Is there a way to honor the wishes of those travelers who appreciate the amazing beauty and science of trees hunkering down for the winter and those would rather do something else? The leaf lovers could choose to travel solo. That's a fine option.
But may we suggest a compromise for those in mixed marriages and other foliage-fraught relationships? Give the nature lovers some designated time to enjoy the leaves, then try something a little less organic. Or at the very least, pick a destination with a layer of history or adventure on top of the leafy beauty.
sip of Maine
If your family is heading to Maine, you likely have some hard-core leaf enthusiasts among you. This fall foliage giant has a state
website dedicated to the changing leaves
Head to
Camden Hills State Park
for the view from the 800-foot summit of Mount Battie, made famous by Maine poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and enjoy the views of Camden Harbor, Penobscot Bay and the surrounding hillsides covered in fall color. The hike to the top can take two hours, or you can drive. From the top, you might even be able to spot Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park.
The compromise:
Head to the nearby town of Belfast to enjoy a pint at
Marshall Wharf Brewing Company
on Belfast Harbor. The brewery serves their product at its tasting room (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and its adjacent brew pub, Three Tides (4 p.m. to about midnight). Walk and shop off your drinks on Belfast's Main Street.
through New Hampshire
Everywhere you go in New Hampshire, there's another stunning hike capturing the majesty of the changing season. Head to Lake Winnipesaukee for a scenic drive.
"Driving around the lake, you get to explore the quintessential towns of Wolfeboro and Meredith," says Jim Salge, Yankee magazine's
fall foliage blogger
. "Wolfeboro bills itself as the oldest summer resort in America. On the Guilford side, there's Weirs Beach, a popular lakefront attraction, and Ellacoya State Park." It's mostly a driving route, with places to get out and walk in towns and parks along the lake.
The compromise
: Head down the road to
Gunstock Mountain Resort
, where the resort's zipline tours can get your adrenaline going. If you only have time for one activity, the zipline rolls peeping and adventure into one.
Pennsylvania's Civil War histor
Gettysburg National Military Park
's beauty as the park's leaves start to change color stands in dramatic contrast to the bloody history of what happened on the park grounds 150 years ago this year. Visitors to the national park can enjoy guided or self-guided tours or horseback tours this fall. Expect the most beautiful fall foliage in mid- to late-October.
The compromise:
The leaves are certainly not the main story at Gettysburg. Learn more about the Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's historic Gettysburg Address. Although many events were held in July during the
150th anniversary of the battle
, there are still plenty of anniversary activities to experience.
New Mexico's extraordinary artist
The changing colors of New Mexico's landscape are brilliantly captured by many of the artists who have called the state home. Head to the popular Aspen Vista Trail in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains for peak aspen tree leaf-peeping season now through the end of October. The trailhead is located on Artist Road #475, about 13 miles from Santa Fe.
The compromise:
For another unique jolt of color and form, visit the
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
in Santa Fe. Starting in October, the museum will host an exhibit showcasing O'Keeffe's depictions of Lake George (New York), where she had a rural retreat. The exhibit runs through January 26, 2014. Or tour O'Keeffe's
home and studio in nearby Abiquiu
. (Spots are limited so make sure to make reservations in advance.)
North Carolina's small
town culture
At an elevation of 6,684 feet, the Mount Mitchell summit in North Carolina is a spectacular vantage point to view the changing leaves of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The highest point east of the Mississippi,
Mount Mitchell State Park is at an altitude of more than a mile.
The compromise:
Drive into the town of
Blowing Rock
for respite from the quiet of the leaves. Blowing Rock is filled with art galleries, performances, festivals for almost every interest, and nearby farms. Consider a zipline tour at
Sky Valley Zip Tours
for a more adventurous trek.
Montana's hunting and food scene
There's nothing like Glacier National Park for seeing nature at its wildest, and the trees on the
Going-to-the-Sun Road
are heading into full fall foliage splendor in late September. Head there quickly before winter descends upon the park.
The compromise:
After a stint in the forest, you might be inspired to hunt for your meal. For the sports enthusiast, there's fly fishing and hunting based out of the nearby town of Kalispell. Foodies will appreciate Kalispell's
Festival of Flavors
(September 19-28) and the nearby town of Whitefish celebrates German beer and food at its annual
Great Northwest Oktoberfest
(September 26 through October 5).
An artist's view of California
California's rugged fall foliage is unlike anything you'll see in the northeast and it's happening right now. Drive up to Bishop Creek Canyon in California's Eastern Sierra, near Mammoth Lakes. There you'll see "spectacular displays of lime, yellow, orange, red and crimson-quaking aspen reflected in tourmaline blue lakes and surrounded by saw tooth granite peaks," writes John Poimiroo, who
blogs about California's fall foliage.
The compromise:
After all that peeping, visitors can head to the town of Bishop to see how celebrated photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell see the landscape at
Mountain Light Gallery
Vermont's ice cream
What leaf-peeping enthusiast could leave out Vermont? It has an official "Foliage Forecaster" in Michael Snyder, commissioner of the state Forests, Parks and Recreation department.
Start in Burlington and head east toward Waterbury and Stowe, where you'll see good early fall color driving through the Champlain Valley (Interstate 89 or Route 2). After spending the first half-hour in farm country and the foothills of the Green Mountains, head north to Waterbury on Route 100.
"This week's forecast looks great, and the onset of cool nights and some frost is what really kicks in the next level of vibrancy," Snyder says. If that good weather continues next week, "that drive within an hour's radius of Ben & Jerry's will afford viewing opportunities of every stage of fall color."
The compromise:
That's right. He said
Ben & Jerry's.
Stop by the plant in Waterbury for a tour and some ice cream. You'll get to sample the ice cream flavor of the day and buy more at the factory Scoop Shop. And where did you favorite flavors get buried after being eliminated? The factory's flavor graveyard (which is only open through October).
Because it's Vermont, and we think you should soldier on a bit longer (you non-leaf fans), we add Snyder's extended tour: From Ben & Jerry's, take the classic foliage tour on Route 100 north up to Stowe, where the color is already more advanced. Head up Route 108 through Smuggler's Notch, another fall favorite, to quickly spot more advanced color.
Check the
Vermont foliage website
before you to to ensure that fall hasn't turned into winter yet.
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Everything about it seems in harmony with the goings on outside ones window these days.
Its traditional blotchy buncheong style holds ones attention. Most bowls of this style seem to emulate the onset of spring, the colourful blotches representing the blossoming spring flowers outside. This bowl is not your ordinary buncheong bowl.
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The CRREL team has been involved in the basic physical properties of the core (including detailed density and ultrasonic velocity measurements, thin section studies of crystal size and shape, c-axis orientations, and entrapped air bubble characteristics) as a function of depth in the ice sheet. A major part of effort has also centered around the age dating of the core. This has been accomplished by continuous stratigraphic analysis of the core based on annual layer counting and correlations with other data sets that also provide an annual signal. This project has been carried out with close collaboration with researchers from Penn State University (R.B. Alley) and the U.S. Geological Survey (J.J. Fitzpatrick).
Recent Accumulation Rates
On 27 July 1990, 20 stakes were emplaced at intervals of 0.5 km along a line due south of the GISP2 drilling site in order to measure accumulation rates. Measurements over the last several years show remarkably uniform snow deposition of about 70 cm annually equivalent to 24 cm water. This uniformity of accumulation is consistent with the very low scale of surface relief observed around the GISP2 site. A number of snow pits were excavated beside snow stakes to evaluate stable isotope variations and depth hoar occurrence with respect to measured increments of snow accumulation at the stakes. Winter and summer accumulations appear similar in magnitude but the distribution characteristics of the winter snow fall is not yet known. Current measurements taken by the Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) may resolve seasonal accumulation rates. Accumulation measurements continue to be collected by researchers involved in ATM work at the GISP2 site. Back to Contents
Depth-Age Scale
A preliminary depth-age scale to 2811 m for the GISP2 core based on annual layer counting has been completed by D. Meese and the dating committee. Annual counts based on visual stratigraphy was initiated in the field and completed at the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in Denver. This work was facilitated by use of a focused fiber optic light source that illuminated stratigraphic detail permitting essentially continuous layer counting to 2811 m, corresponding to ice at least 85,000 years old. Comparison of visible stratigraphy, electrical conductivity measurements (ecm), laser light scattering of dust and oxygen isotopes (only in the top 300 m) revealed an excellent correlation between these annual signals to a minimum depth of 2500 m. Correlation of the various methods provides the most accurate depth-age scale possible as questionable signals can be compared and the strength of the signals can be weighed. We are now in the process of completing the analysis on the ecm and laser light scattering records on the remainder of the core. These data will be merged to obtain the most continuous and accurate scale possible. As such the GISP2 depth-age scale constitutes the longest and oldest continuously dated stratigraphic sequence ever obtained and has provided the time scale against which the high-resolution GISP2 climatic record is being evaluated.
In collaboration with Ed Waddington, John Bolzan and Nadine Cutler the annual layer thickness data is being converted into accumulation. This will provide information as to how accumulation rates at Summit varied with time and with climatic fluctuations. Back to Contents
Ice Density
Ice density was measured every 20 m throughout the depth of the core and have been completed to 3040 m (Fig.1). Ice densities increase with depth in the core and start to level off once the firn-ice transition has been reached. This is attributed to hydrostatic compression of the entrapped air bubbles. However, in the deepest portion of the core the bubbles had begun to get very small and fewer in number an observation we attribute to pressure induced diffusion of gas into the ice, probably via a gas hydrate or clathrate mechanism similar to that originally postulated for the disappearance of air bubbles in cores from below 1100 m at Byrd Station, Antarctica. Temperature-corrected densities of deeper bubble-free ice have attained values close to 0.921 Mg/m3. A significant decrease in density following several months relaxation is clearly evident throughout the core. Ice densities and ultrasonic velocities are being remeasured on a regular basis to determine the amount and rate of relaxation in the core. Back to Contents
Crystal Structure
Analysis of the GISP2 core at Summit has included detailed examination of its crystalline structure, an important property in determining the rheological behavior of the ice and its potential impact on the preservation of paleoclimate records in the deeper parts of the ice sheet. Cursory crystal structure investigations including crystal size measurements and c-axis fabric analysis of horizontal thin sections have been substantially completed to 3040 m. Mean crystal diameter increased approximately linearly from 2-3 mm at the firn-ice transition (75-80 m depth) to 7-8 mm at 1000 m (Figure 2). Below 1000 m the crystal size remained fairly constant until the onset of the Younger Dryas event at 1678 m at which depth the crystals underwent a significant 2-3 fold decrease in size (Figure 2). A progressive clustering of crystallographic c-axes towards the vertical accompanied the crystal size changes, including a small but measurable increase in the degree of clustering of c-axes downward into the Younger Dryas (Figure 3). Increased dust levels that characterized Wisconsin ice has contributed to the maintenance of the generally fine-grained crystal texture which, with its strong vertical c-axis fabric, persisted to 2990 m. Beginning at about 2800 m, in regions of dust-poor ice, layers of coarse-grained ice begin to appear. Below 2990 m the ice becomes entirely coarse-grained, consisting of crystals 50-60 mm in diameters and larger (Figure 2). The growth of very large crystals, attributed to dynamic annealing recrystallization at elevated temperatures in the basal ice was also accompanied by a degrading of the c-axis fabric from a strong single vertical pole pattern to one exhibiting a ring-like or girdle-like distribution of c-axes about the vertical. A transition to much finer-grained ice, 13 m above the bed, occurred coincidentally with the appearance of silt-rich ice and a return to a strong vertical c-axis fabric. Back to Contents
Ultrasonic Velocities
The ultrasonic velocity profile through the ice in both the longitudinal and horizontal directions was measured on 10 cm of ice every 10 m throughout the length of the core. Ultrasonic p-wave velocities measured in the vertical direction of the cores increased progressively with depth to values exceeding 4000m/sec. This, and a progressive increase in the velocity difference between the vertical and horizontal directions of the core both signify the onset of a clustering of c-axes in the vertical, consistent with the optical characteristics of the crystals as observed in thin sections. Back to Contents
Below 2811 m
Below 2811 m visible stratigraphy proved difficult to impossible to decipher. Layering was frequently distorted into s-folds (Fig. 3) and structures resemblent of boudinage and was accompanied by intermittent inclined layering, with inclinations often exceeding 20ˇ. At this time it would appear that irregular ice flow below 2811 m, leading to the observed distortion of layers, could have disturbed the environmental record that may have existed in the basal 250 m of ice at GISP2. The extent of this disturbance is currently being evaluated in terms of the distorted layer/crystal structure relationships of the bottom 10-15% of the core. Generally clear glacial ice continued to a depth of 3041 m before transitioning abruptly into brown silty ice (Fig. 4). This silty ice, which contained a number of clear ice bands, continued for an additional 13 m before rock was encountered. The top 10 cm of rock showed signs of weathering (Fig. 5a), the top portion of rock is probably a boulder. At approximately 37 cm, 5 cm of till was encountered (Fig. 5b). This was underlain by bedrock which is composed of gray gneissic granite (Fig. 5c). A total of 1.5 m of rock was collected before drilling was terminated. The contrasted petrographic characteristics of the silty ice and the underlying bedrock poses major questions as to the origin of the silty ice and the mechanism of entrapment of the contained debris. Apart from a few pebbles (up to 2 cm in diameter) and the widespread occurrence of sand-sized particles the silty ice consisted primarily of fine-grained material whose color darkened appreciably as the bed was approached. Despite the dark appearance of the silty ice it's debris content generally represented less than 0.5% by weight of the core. A temperature of about -9ˇC was measured at the ice/bedrock interface which is about 6ˇC below the pressure melting point. The question of just when and where the silty ice was accreted must await more detailed examination (ongoing) of the precise nature of the debris, including its petrographic and textural characteristics, the nature of its disposition in the enclosing ice and the physical properties of the ice itself. Back to Contents
Figure Captions
Figure 1. Density profile from 0-3050 m from the GISP2 ice core. Small scale fluctuations in densities reflect relaxation effects of the core prior to measurement.
Figure 2. Photographs of horizontal thin sections showing crystal texture variations as a function of depth in the GISP2 ice core. Thin sections photographed between crossed polarizers to delineate individual crystal outlines. Color changes reflect changes in the orientations of crystals as they respond to englacial deformation. The enlarged size of crystals at 3001 m is attributed to annealing recrystallization in warmer basal ice. Smallest scale subdivision in all six sections measures 1 mm.
Figure 3. C-axis fabric profile of the GISP2 ice core showing changes with depth. All fabric diagrams (point scatter plots of individual c-axes) based on measurements on horizontal thin sections.
Figure 4. S-folds evident in the stratigraphic layers in the GISP2 core at 2545.77 m. The distance across the core is 12.3 cm.
Figure 5. The silty ice core. Notice the sharp transition between the clean ice and silty ice.
Figure 6. a) Top of rock core. This is probably the weathered surface of a boulder; b) Section of till between the boulder and bedrock; c) gneissic granite bedrock.


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Floyd James Kline Jr., 56
Floyd James Kline Jr., 56, of Marion Center, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Marion Center, Pa.
A son of Floyd James Kline Sr. and Harriet (Henderson) Kline, he was born Dec. 12, 1953, in DuBois.
Floyd was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He was a lifelong dirt track racer, car builder and mentor to a lot of racers. He worked by his son's side at their business, "Dave Kline Motor Sports." He loved his Harley and his dogs.
Surviving are his wife, Jacqueline M. (States) Kline of Marion Center; his parents, Floyd Sr. and Harriet Kline; three children: Christina Fairman and husband Jason of Punxsutawney; David Kline and fiancé Trudie Myers of Marion Center; and Angela Kline of Marion Center; five grandchildren: Tyler James, Emily, Rachel, Melina and Aidan; three sisters; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents: Loyal and Della Henderson and Chuck and Birdie Kline; and a daughter-in-law, April (Pearce) Kline.
Family and friends will be received at the Harry J. Bence Funeral Home in Clymer on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, from 2 to 6 p.m. His funeral service will follow visitation at 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be private.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
From the VW Archives: Boris and Bela
While going through a portfolio of some old artwork recently, Donna found this drawing that I did back in 1990. It was done at the dawn of VIDEO WATCHDOG time, at the tail end of the same time I drew several pieces for our very first issue, for the simple reason that we weren't able to illustrate everything. This piece was going to accompany my review of Greg Mank's book on Karloff and Lugosi, and depicts them in their respective roles as Hjalmar Poelzig in THE BLACK CAT (1934) and Ygor in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939), because I intended to note in my review the coincidence of their success during the 1930s with the foreignness of their respective personas. I remembered this piece as almost photo-realistic in its perfection, but now, more than twenty years later, it looks a good deal less accomplished and I'm glad it didn't see the light of print.
That said, I'm happy to share it with WATCHDOG readers here, now, as a page you didn't see.
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A domestic dispute at a west Erie apartment Saturday night led to an assault that killed a 51-year-old woman, Erie police said Wednesday.
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook ruled the death of Mary Smith a homicide after an autopsy by Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey, M.D., on Wednesday.
The exact cause of Smith's death is pending additional information, Cook said.
Smith is Erie County's 14th homicide victim this year, with 11 of those deaths occurring in the city.
There were eight homicides in the county in 2011, including six in Erie.
Erie police filed a new criminal complaint Wednesday against Jeff A. Selby, 51, charging him with criminal homicide in Smith's death.
Selby, of the 1000 block of Peach Street, was also arraigned before Erie 6th Ward District Judge Dominick DiPaolo on charges of aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and unlawful restraint/serious bodily injury.
DiPaolo returned Selby to the Erie County Prison without bond, and scheduled his preliminary hearing for Dec. 5.
Selby has been in jail since Sunday morning, after he was arraigned before DiPaolo on attempted homicide and other charges. Those charges were withdrawn when the new criminal complaint was filed.
Police said Smith and Selby had dated off and on for about three months.
The two were found in the bathroom of Smith's apartment at 428 W. 17th St. by officers who were summoned there at about 6:20 p.m. Saturday to investigate a reported domestic dispute. A neighbor called police after the neighbor said Smith told the neighbor that Selby would not let her leave, and she needed the police.
The neighbor said Selby pulled Smith back into the apartment and locked the door. Officers who responded entered the apartment through a window after no one answered when they knocked at the door, and officers saw and heard movement inside, police said.
Smith was unconscious when police found her in the bathroom. She and Selby were taken to Saint Vincent Health Center.
Smith suffered multiple injuries to her upper body and neck, including three fractured ribs, according to the criminal complaint. Officers observed injuries including multiple wounds to her right rib cage; bruising on her right hip, right elbow and right armpit; and bruising and scratches on her neck, detectives wrote in the complaint.
Smith was brain-dead when she was admitted to the hospital, according to police. She was pronounced dead at Saint Vincent on Tuesday at 2 p.m., Cook said.
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Heat the oven to 400 degrees F and arrange a rack in upper third.
Pat the pork chops dry with paper towels and put on a cutting board. Using a small paring knife, cut a 2-inch opening horizontal to the cutting board, halfway up the meat in each chop. Move the knife back and forth in a fan motion to open the interior of the pocket without significantly widening the opening. (You don't want to pierce through the meat but simply create a pocket for the stuffing.) Brush the exterior of the chops with oil, season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste, and set aside until the stuffing is ready.
Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large ovenproof frying pan over medium-high heat. When the oil shimmers, add the shallots and cook until softened. Add the mushrooms, season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and cook, stirring rarely, until browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in the parsley and remove to a plate to cool slightly. Wipe out the frying pan and return it to the stove over medium-high heat. Taste the stuffing and adjust the seasoning, as necessary. Stuff half of the mushroom mixture into the pocket of each chop. If the filling is falling out, secure the chops closed with toothpicks.
Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the pan over medium heat. When the oil shimmers, arrange the stuffed chops in the pan and cook until browned, about 4 minutes. Flip the chops to the other side and transfer the pan to the oven. Bake until the pork is cooked and an instant-read thermometer, inserted into the center of the chops, registers 160 degrees F, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven and set the pork aside on serving plates to rest. Return the pan to the stove over medium heat and add the vermouth. Cook, scraping the bits from the bottom of the pan with a spatula, until the alcohol smell is cooked off and is slightly reduced, about 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat, add the butter, and let it melt. Taste the sauce and adjust the seasoning. Drizzle the sauce over the chops and serve with a gratin, mashed potatoes, or polenta, if desired.


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Now I am amongst all the interesting genealogy blogs here.
I feel honoured!
I celebrate by showing this old photo.
It is my mom's grandfather and grandmother.
Fredrik Niklasson, born Marbäck jan 19, 1848, dead Gällstad july 1, 1928
and Anna Lovisa Andersdotter, born Länghem dec. 12. 1850 dead may 5. 1912 Gällstad.
And now: it is the time to bake a cake..!
Tosca Cake
2 eggs
125 g sugar
100 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
100 g butter
2 tbsp cream
50 g butter
100 g sugar
2 tbsp cream
2 tbsp flour
50 g flaked almonds
75 g hazelnuts, chopped
75 g almonds, chopped
Preheat the oven to 175°C.
Butter and flour a springform pan, about 24 cm in diameter.
Beat eggs and sugar until very fluffy.
Melt the butter.
Stir in flour and baking powder with the eggs, and then fold in butter and cream.
Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes.
Meanwile, prepare the topping.
Just mix all ingredients in saucepan and bring to a obil.
Spread it on top of the cake, and bake for another 15 minutes.
Let it cool more or less completely before taking it out of the pan.
I hope you like it. It is a typical cake in Sweden.


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My favorite episode is on my sidebar if you haven't already seen it.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm glad to be introduced to him.
Well if I've introduced ONE person out there to Ask a Ninja, then my blog efforts have all been worth it. He's hysterical. I just figured he'd been around long enough everyone already knows him.
Wikipedia has a list of all the episodes.
Thanks again, Michelle. This guy is funny.
And wise. "Why do I suck at life? Because life sucks at you."
That's "thought for the day" right there. For the year!
(And, I think you must have missed my cheeky, playful, Calvin and Hobbes tease over at hamelife *sigh*)
I haven't heard of him! Your blog mission in life is now complete. Thank you for filling the void in my life with ninjas. Too speechless for anymore typing. I'd offer to giv eyou my car I'm so grateful, but I don't think you'd want it.
Finally! The answer to my whole problem in life!! I let Life suck at ME!! This is a riot Michelle - thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, that was hilarious.
I loved "How do ninjas raise their children. From the dead!"
I've never seen this before. I love it!
That was seriously hilarious! I've never seen that guy before. Thanks for the laugh!
OHMYGOSH. Thanks for the laugh. Can you believe I've never heard of him??!!
I love the one about how to kill a ninja.
I always laugh out loud every time I see him. That guy is absolutely hilarious. I'd never seen that clip before!
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Revisted boo today. Much much happier with it. May tweak it later but it's definitely done for now.
I have to say that, I have to be so careful right now... because so many awesome tv shows are starting up again. C'mon entertainment industry... not cool... New Top Gear, new Curb Your Enthusiam, Breaking Bad is starting up, the truly awful True Blood is going, new Jon Benjamin has a Van, Penn and Teller Fool Us is going (sucker for magic shows), new Louie eps... just so much amazing entertainment. I just went two months with a no tv rule, and now that this stuff is back I just keep losing huge chunks of time and I don't really realize it. Thank goodness for being able to multi task with a dual monitor set-up. Anyway, this is just a giant lead-in so I can just express how excited I am for new Breaking Bad episodes. Look forward to that as much as Dexter episodes.
In the next day or two I'll be streaming. So keep an eye posted on the twitter.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Boo - SotD 143
Revisted boo today. Much much happier with it. May tweak it later but it's definitely done for now.
5 comments:
- ИMLSS said...
Hi Mike!! I've seen a bit (maybe 15 or 20 pages) of your blog and I'm pretty impressed. I'm an amateur illustrator, and I'd like to ask you for some advice.
You use Photoshop. Ok, me too. But.... how you do it to make your illustrations so smooth and dirty at the same time? I mean, you can't clearly see the strokes on them but they look kinda granulated. And I love how does that looks.
Do you use some kind of brush made by you? It's just the opacity? Any texture picture to apply on the final result of the illustration? I'll try to watch you live the next time you're on to see you anyways.
And sorry for this fucking big comment (and for my english).
- July 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- Mike Puncekar said...
No worries, thank you.
It's mostly a combination of custom brushes and photo textures. I'll gladly go into a bit more detail if you e-mail me, but it probably would be easier just to catch a cast. The Goomba is saved, so if you visit my casting page you can watch it at your leisure. Pokey is also saved, but not as recommended. The process on that one was a mess.
- July 14, 2011 at 12:51 AM
- Mr.Wednesday said...
Excellent work! As always! :) Keep it up!
- July 14, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Melisa Des Rosiers said...
ho man... this boo is BADASS. I CAN HAZ BOO PRINT?! Hurry, hurry!! Take my money!
- July 18, 2011 at 10:33 PM
- vladyjr said...
WOW! I love the detail on the picture. you can actually see his SCULL ON HIS HEAD! amazing work! I would love to see mario fighting these guys. they look so creapy!
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One of the managers at work is in charge of bringing the dessert to his family reunion every year. After attempting to make some less than impressive shark cupcakes a la Hello Cupcake the year before, he decided this year to hire me instead. He wanted a "cool scene", so we eventually decided on another beach theme. I was excited for another chance to play with fondant! And I loved how they came out!
How cute are they??
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During my traveling from Chicago to Belgrade, when I was in transit in London, I had a serious health problem, blood pressure and chest pain. I was taken to the hospital in London. I was at the hospital for just the afternoon and I was discharged early the next morning. Medicare and my supplemental insurance denied my claims and I was forced to pay not a small bill to the hospital in London. So my question is, was I insured during my presence at the airport in London? If I am does, insurance include health problems? Can I submit to the airport in London my request for reimbursement?
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The London airport would cover your health problem, if it were caused by something that the airport was responsible for. For example, they would cover your care if you broke a bone falling on their stairs. They will not cover a health problem that you happened to have while you were there.
If you regularly travel outside the United States, you may want to switch your supplemental plan to one that covers emergencies abroad. Standard Medigap Plans C, D, F, G, M, and N provide foreign travel emergency health care coverage. See Medicare's website for more info about supplemental plans and travel.
Chances are you are stuck with that hospital bill. If you have a left over Health Savings Account, you can use those funds to pay it. You would have to spend 10 percent of your adjusted gross income on medical expenses in order to deduct it from your taxes. Since you have Medicare and a supplemental policy, you are unlikely to spend that much.


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Friday, May 05, 2006
The Birthday Party & Smoked salmon pâté
It's not every day that a girl gets to celebrate her 25th birthday all over again, so I had a small party at my place on April 24th. I only decided that I'm not too old to make a bit of fuss about my birthday a few days earlier, but despite the rather short notice, a very impressive 22 friends turned up. I had fantastic time, got lots of flowers (including a very special bunch delivered very early in the morning by a courier;), lots of chocolates to satisfy my chocoholism, and some lovely presents. Thank you all who came by, emailed/called/texted me or left birthday wishes on my blog..
Here's what my friends were nibbling while drinking bubbly and chatting away:
* Grissini sticks wrapped in paper-thin prosciutto slices
* Crostini with pesto (spread on crostini before they are put in the oven)
* Crostini with a salad of salted Estonian chantarelle mushrooms (yum!), minced shallots and sour cream
* Carrot sticks with hummus
* Salmon and cream cheese canapés that I tested just few days earlier.
* Crostini with goat's cheese, smoked salmon and parsley (below)
And then there was the mocca and almond cake, obviously. Devoured in an instant:)
Smoked salmon pâté
This simple but gutsy spread was inspired by a recipe in Rachel's Favourite Food for Friends. I replaced crème fraîche with sour cream and used goat's cheese instead of cream cheese. I'm not a great friend of fennel either (although I love dill), so my pâté had parsley in it. As it can be made up to a week in advance, it's great for parties.
100 grams of organic smoked salmon
50 grams Welsh soft goat's cheese
100 ml sour cream
a handful of parsley
sea salt
crushed black pepper
a squeeze of lemon juice.
Whiz up chopped salmon, goat's cheese, sour cream and parsley in a food processor. Season with salt and pepper and refresh with a squeeze of lemon juice.
Spread on crostini or crackers and garnish with some parsley.
For more great finger food ideas, check out this recent post by Angelika of the Flying Apple and all those fabulous canapé recipes by Johanna of the Passionate Cook.
11 comments:
- Pamela said...
Belated Happy Birthday wishes!!
- 3:45 pm, May 05, 2006
- ilva said...
wow, sounds lovely, you make me want to celebrate my birthdays!
- 7:40 pm, May 05, 2006
- K & S said...
Happy Birthday! What a lovely gathering and all those beautiful tulips! Delicious food and good friends what a nice way to celebrate.
- 2:49 am, May 06, 2006
- mae said...
Belated happy birthday! Bubbly... canapes... sounds like a party i would like to go to. Maybe i'll get an invite next year! Hihi.
- 3:32 am, May 06, 2006
- Kala said...
hau'oli la hanau (happy birthday) - those flowers are georgous - r they real? Its a great photo!
- 4:08 pm, May 06, 2006
- Michèle said...
Hi Pille, happy happy birthday! Your tulips look gorgeous!
- 6:44 pm, May 06, 2006
- paz said...
I can see that everyone had a good time, including the birthday girl!
Have a happy birthday year!
Mussid(is that the correct word?)
- 9:50 am, May 07, 2006
- domestic cat said...
Happy birthday dear Pille! and I wish you a long and healthy life with your loved ones:-)
- 8:08 pm, May 07, 2006
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
With a bit of delay, I wish you a happy birthday!
I've never celebrated my birthdays in that way and I really loved the way you did it...
- 9:55 am, May 08, 2006
- Pille said...
Thanks to your kind wishes, everyone! I promise not to fish for birthday wishes again for another year now:)
Paz - 'musisid' would have been correct, but no worry, with 14 cases we don't really expect anybody to get our grammar right:)
- 6:22 pm, May 09, 2006
- paz said...
Thanks, Pille, for the correction! I want to get it right.
Paz ;-)
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Originally released on Rough Trade in 1991, Dondestan was an entirely solo and somewhat subdued-sounding album of distinctly personal and openly political compositions, many of them arrangements of poems by his wife Alfie. Re-released in 1998, Dondestan (Revisited) is a re-mixed, re-sequenced and re-mastered version of the original that invites a total re-appraisal of what is now an album that ranks with the best that Robert has ever produced.
Wyatt claimed he "ran out of words" so by basing half of the album's tracks on her beautifully fragmented lyrics, began a song writing collaboration with wife Alfie Benge that flourishes to this day.
Unlike its predecessor, Dondestan also reunites Wyatt with the top half of the drum kit, which makes for typically inventive, lively and reflective accompaniment. Overall Dondestan is understated in feel and has the most fireside and introverted ambience of Wyatt's recordings. Occasionally desolate in its subject matter and composition its rewards and textures are many when allowed to seep in. Most engaging of all is the sense of bloody mindedness that was revealing itself in Wyatt's ability to make records when, how and about whatever he wanted; a modus operandi that coincided with his reputation as an artist of phenomenal integrity, modesty and compassion.


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The heartbreaking story of a college football star who helped his team fight their way to the championship game after his girlfriend died of leukaemia has been unveiled as a hoax.
The story of linebacker Manti Te'o captured national attention and was described as "the inspiring story of the college football season".
The University of Notre Dame player helped his team to victory after his long-distance girlfriend Lennay Kekua - whom he met online - apparently suffered serious injuries in a car crash.
A few months later he was told she had leukaemia, and when he learned she had died he once again played on and helped his team clinch a win.
He even played on the day of her funeral, believing it was what she would have wanted.
His story captivated America, making him a hero with slots in Sports Illustrated and on CBS This Morning.
But the whole thing turned out to be a hoax - with Te'o himself the apparent victim.
Lennay Kekua never existed, and the picture on her Facebook page and Twitter account turned out to be of another woman.
Te'o never actually met her in person, just carrying out a long-distance relationship via social media and by phone.
The University of Notre Dame said someone using a fictitious name had "apparently ingratiated herself" with Te'o, then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had died of cancer.
The university said the "proper authorities" were now investigating a "very cruel deception" against the American football player.
Te'o issued a statement saying: "This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online.
"We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.
"To realise that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating."
Notre Dame lost the BCS title game to Alabama 42-14 on January 7 - the team's only loss of the season.
Te'o, who graduated, is now preparing for the upcoming NFL combine and draft at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, this week.


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Honestly I just think people can't understand her more then anything, she may not have had the worst life but what people fail to realize even if that's true what's happened to her has effected her more so psychologically then any other character (except Hinamori but she's out of commission anyway), it's because of these thats she's so desperately trying to be of use because she's afraid of all the other people she knows and cares about will either leave her or end up dead, through it all she's always putting on a cheerful face that everyone else sees through but no one's really tried to help, to Ichi and the rest they feel as though just being besides Orihime is enough but they don't realize the very depth of nurturing she needs because of her lack of a real family growing up which is generally why she acts so childish for her age, and she clings onto Ichigo because first off obviously she's in love with him but because she's afraid that if she doesn't that he'll just forget about her or she'll lose what she may consider the only 'family' she has left.
I can see why people really dislike her but I really don't think she's really had a time to truly express herself, sure she's actually given a large part of the storyline (majorly this arc) but throughout it all what depth have we actually seen of how she is really feeling, about all we're really told is that A. She's afraid of being useless (and thinking that her friends will abandon her, a good support of this is when the store clerk guy who's name I can't remember right now tells her that he's leaving her out of the fight against the Arrancar, she's really yet to truly realize how frighteningly powerful she really is and she took this as that she's useless when as we already know it was meant to avoid her getting targeted by Aizen). And that she really cares about Ichigo the rest of it (such as living alone or her parents/brothers deaths) is only mentioned every so often.
I really can't guess where her character is going, honestly I can see a few outcomes among those being that she dies a very pitiful death which is the only time she really gets a chance to express herself (this would likely be done in order to advance the overall storyline and get Ichigo really, REALLY pissed off), the other ideas I have for her future are really going to be based off what happens in the rest of this arc honestly.
One other thing I'd thought I'd mention has anyone noticed that her powers almost resemble that of a child's idea of a power? What I mean is that it's as if her powers (no matter what they are as we still don't have any kind of idea how/where her powers came from, Chad also has strange powers but we got a general idea of his already) are actually a physical form of a family she always wanted to have, not only that but as to the childish aspect they are fairy's that cast magic spells, it's almost as if it'd be in a child's picture book or something like that, I really think that has meaning that we have yet to really see. Thinking about it, it may be far to soon to consider killing her off.
And if she continues to live past this arc I've really got to wonder... what would happen if something WOULD (if only temporally) happen to Ichigo? Thinking about it I get 3 outcomes, the first is that she breaks down completely is becomes completely lost in her own mind, the second is that she goes completely insane and massively kills whoever hurt Ichigo... the third... well... it may depend on whatever happens in the future but honestly I can see her losing control of her powers in such a way that the rest of the cast has simply no choice but to kill her...
Yes I feel sorry for Orihime.
|2007-06-20, 19:48
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If orihime was in any other manga she just might be the most tragic character, but hey, this is bleach, almost everybody have a sadder life than her. Besides, she have her brother who she knows will always love her, a whole bunch of friends who are always their for her.I mean, as long as she stop the whole emo and "kurosaki kun" thing, she's a very lucky person. I'm not saying this as if I don't like her and stuff, it's just that I really can't think of any reason why she should be pitied. (because her crush doesn't like her back? Then she seriously need to get a life)
|2007-06-20, 20:01
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Sympathy or pity hardly. Orihime is one of the few side characters in bleach I just want kubo to kill off. Not in a dramatic way just kind of anti-climactic, oh well she wasn't really that important any way. You know kind of like how they kill off side characters in gundam, from friendly fire or cross fire durng another plot. But unfortunately, the chances of that happening are slim.
|2007-06-20, 20:33
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Yeah, I'm sorry if this is gonna sting those die-hard Inoue fans out there but the only development I can think of her is to maybe sacrifice herself - just to show that she's useful for something.
I mean, she IS useful, her powers are extraordinary but, MAN, she's gotta grow some backbone, be more confident of her power and tone down that mad obsession she had with Ichigo (it's driving me nuts, makes me wanna reach out to her, grab her collar and slap some sense into her).
It's not like she's weak, come on, she slapped Ulquiorra, right, but she's just.. man.. dumb. She needs to sort out her priorities. There's so much tragedy that one can take and trust me, she's not the ONLY one with issues.
|2007-06-20, 21:56
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Not really I'm bored of her character and her whole place in the story she's obviously strong but keeps telling herself shes weak and can't do anything. it seems she wants people to be sorry for her and I'm just tired of her acting like an idiot all over the place.
|2007-06-21, 01:24
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I agree on the "orihime trying to have other people feel sorry for her" part, but it is against her original character, orihime is supposed to be a strong and caring person but some how now she's just a emo who always think she's weak. Who's fault is that? KT, everybody KNOWS that he have a thing for big boobs and orihime, after the SS arc, KT have been repeatingly trying to move the attension to orihime and trying to make everybody like her, but now all it did is to turn orihime into some kind of person who is stubborn, dumb, and just sad all the times. the fans are probably now all tierd of her whenever she appears
|2007-06-21, 14:50
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I guess the reason i picked "yes" was because her character is getting really pathetic and annoying. I mean she turned into a real "damsel in distress" and is practically useless right now. All her friends right now are fighting and she's just sitting and crying about how much of a burden she is. Yet i don't want her do die because she still has potential to be one of the most powerful characters in the series. Aizen said it himself, her powers can "enter the realm of gods" or something like that, yet she has yet to use that potential. Heck even her "healing powers can probably be offensive if she learned how. If she wanted she could whip someone from existence like she planed to with the Hōgyoku. Wasn't it said that the strength of her heart gives her "faireies" strength. Every time tsubaki is defeted easily is because of her lack of a killing intent and her getle nature. What if she had the killing intent of kenpachi, think about how powerful tsubaki might be. I'm really hoping her character improves and she gets a backbone instead of everyone always saving her.
|2007-06-21, 17:59
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*sigh* I'm also getting bored and tired of her passive and child like attitude.
Either she contributes to the group, or she doesn't and she either fades into the background, or gets killed off by the enemies to provoke Ichigo and perhaps the other group to fight.
I can sympathize with what she went through, but I'm so tired of the way she keeps making it an excuse with the way she is acting. To me, Inoue isn't in 'love' with Ichigo, she uses him as a shield to her 'fears', that is why she clings to him. I agree that her lack of family could have contributed to her feelings of abandonment, but other characters didn't have much family either, look at Rukia, Ishida, they had crappy and hard lives, and their "family" life was so unstable, that is if they would be considered 'real family'. All of the characters experienced alot of pain and with people 'abandoning' them. It isn't fair to the other characters.
|2007-06-21, 22:30
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Am I the only one who actually likes this girl? I mean if you can see past her faults, you can see that Orihime is a nice and sweet girl, who's just trying to protect her friends, but she can't. So what if she keeps crying? She's 15, I mean if you were in enemy territory at age 15, wouldn't you shed a tear?
|2007-06-21, 23:31
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|2007-06-22, 00:38
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You know I'm not seeing how Orihime has been more of a "Drama Queen" then most of the other characters. All of her "emo" moments have been because of real things she has been helpless to prevent. 1) A person she deeply cares about (Ichigo) has become more and more depressed and withdrawn or a long time span (about a month) and she can do nothing to left his spirits.
2) When a friend comes along that is able to help his depression she at first is jealous of her (but she never acts on these feelings) but then starts hateing herself for feeling that way in the first place.
3) She finds out that Azien is planning to destroy everything she holds dear and when she asks to help she is basicly told "you're useless and not to get involved"
4) she is held hostage with the threat that her capters will kill her and everyone she holds dear if she does not coperate and she has little hope of ever returning to her life.
5) A group of her friends has come to get her and she has been feeling them "die"
Remember form her kidnapping to the currnt chapter has been 3 to 4 days at most and she had return to normal well before it happend after she started her month long training with Rukia. I don't know about you but I would find any one of the things that have happend since she was kidnapped fairly depressing and all of them have been happening one right after another so that every time she has a chance to begin to regain her balance something worse happens
If she is emo the so is just about everyone else in the show. Ichigo wollowed in selfpity for a month because of his hollow side. Chad nearly broke down in tears when Ichigo impleyed he was useless. Rukia was even worse then Orihime when she was impriosoned, she had lost the will to live and thought she should die. And reacted simalerly when she thought Ichigo or Renji had died. Orihime has at least stood up to her capters.
She has never used her emotions to envoke pity on others infact she tries to hide them but fails misrably, how can one be a drama queen if you aren't playing up emotions. Orihime has always worn her heart on her sleave. You can always tell when she is happy or sad or the most rarest of all down right pissed and inspite of a tragic past has tryed to look at the bright side of life but events have made it so that for right now there is no bright side.
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|2007-06-22, 00:47
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I kinda agree with Forever Young and Geta Boshi. I don't quite hate orihime per say buy she's annoying me with all her whining and uselessness. Other characters have had their share of bad experiences, if not more than orihime. Yet they all get stronger from them and don't cry about them so much. When she was told truthfully by urhara that she would be only a burden in the up coming battle, instead of crying about it she should have tried to get stronger. I mean this girl has powers that could very well equal that of a god's yet she's doing nothing with it. Im just hoping she gets a backbone and actualy becomes useful. Instead of a weak crying damsel in destress who always has to be rescued all the time. I hoping she improves instead of stay the same or she dies. It would be pretty cool if she killed an arrancar.
|2007-06-22, 01:21
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And who was going to help her get stronger? Urhara, and Yoruichi by extention, basicly said "you're useless and don't get involved" that was when her break down happend. By the time she talked with Hatachi she had desided to get stronger on her own and then Rukia offered to help her and she spent a month training with her only to be kidnapped by someone who can beat Ichigo to death without breaking a swaet.
Orihime's main combat problem is that her atack power is based on her wanting the person dead and how strong her weapon is. She has only been in 3 fight in the manga the first one was with a fairly strong hollow that nearly killed ( or prehaps did kill) her best friend, she killed it in one hit. next was in SS verus a 3rd seat which she had nearly no killing intent behind, which the fairy yelled at her for. and finaly verus a espada which she was clearly outmatched power wise.
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The weekend just past featured the screening the San Diego division of the 48 Hour Film Project, a film festival for extreme film-making (41 films shown all Saturday.) Like last year, CineForm sponsored the event by providing HD projection and up conversion services for all the submitted films. 90% of HD teams even submitted CineForm AVI or MOVs, making our job so much easier -- a thank you goes to all those teams. Also huge thanks goes to Wafian for loaning us a HR-F1 as a mobile playback server. While this unit is normally for on-set or field recording, at has a really neat new feature (in beta) to simplify festival projection. I had wireless access to a play-list, so I could fully control the Wafian's playback while sitting in the auditorium with all the paying customers. I used my laptop to start and stop the projection, jump to particular films, seek to startup frames while the presenters spoke, and select entire playback lists for automated projection. The same can done using any WiFi hand-held like a iPhone. Have you wished to have a remote control that worked in a full movie theater? That the power I had, it was great fun. Looking for forward to next year's innovations.
Monday, August 18, 2008
My 48 Hour Weekend
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Hi Dave,
I loved the festival this year.
I have a question though. The projector seemed to be very blurry this year compared to last. Also, the framing at the bottom of the screen dropped down in a diagonal from left to right, the right being much lower than the left, and the image had to be cropped at the bottom and right side to compensate for this.
Was there some sort of technical problem with the projector causing the image to be so blurry and in need cropping?
Again, I really loved the festival, this year, and greatly appreciate your's and everyone elses efforts at Cineform this year to put on a great show.
Thanks, Dave.
- David said...
There where some blurry SD films, but the HD stuff should have looked about the same. It was 2K projector not a 4K, but 1920x1080 was displayed both years, they would have looked similar. Threater and screen was much larger this year, that would have had a impact.
As for the weird cropping, that was due to the digital projector was off center, and the curve amplifies the distortion. I could have zoomed in more to clean up the left corner, but we would have lost a little more on the bottom right. The was no off center correction like you have on many domestic projectors.


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Let's start with a 2008-2009 example! Unluckily I haven't found any 2008 good pictures to share ( I had a bad digital camera and I deleted my flickr account the past year), but I can say my style between 2008-2009 was practically the same. When I started wearing lolita I only wore black and white dresses, after some months I added red in my closet but only for sweet prints, my favorite brand was absolutely Btssb.
I lost a lot of weight from the begining, I also added in my closet brown and I bought my first Aatp dress, my style changed from "btssb sweet" to something more gothic and casual.
I also beginned wearing fake bangs ahah. I bought a shameful amount of dresses in 2010 :°D
My style become more various in 2011, I started wearing something ott sweet and I added a lot of accessories in my outfits. I bought a lot of MmM and Aatp prints, it was definitely my gothic year ahah maybe I felt too old to buy more sweet prints or maybe I wanted something different from the previous years. I also started to wear wigs!
The 2012 was really strange, sometimes I felt really tired of lolita and I wore it less times (I was a full lolita in the past years) and I was also tired of my outfits, so I started to mix them with kera style and I also created some really elegant outfits, more classic then my usual.
After this post I can say I improved a lot my lolita style! I also hope to continue improving, especially in classic and gothic, in the next months I hope to make something ott in these styles :)


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Okay so I admit, I'm new to blogging. I've never really read too many before, but lately I've been delving into the wonderful world of blogging. One thing that I like to check out is the Blog's Alexa Ranking to see how well they are doing (it gives me hope for mine) and I'm shocked at how many blogs that I see that have a high ranking and are using Blogger.
I have never used Blogger, but it's my understanding that if you use it then you don't own the domain name right?? If I'm right, then why work so hard to get that ranking when you don't even own it? Especially when it's so easy to buy your own domain name and your own hosting. There are lot of good hosting companies out there that you can get plans that are $5 a month.
Host Gator, Blue Host, Go Daddy to name a few. You can buy the domain name through them, they all have an easy wizard that installs Wordpress for you and your set. Plus wordpress has a lot of plug ins if you ever want to expand your blog to include a community, forum, seo, etc it's unlimited.
The great thing about having your own hosting is if your blog does start getting a lot of traffic you can have them move it to a virtual server, so your site can handle it without slowing down.
I've also heard stories about Blogger deleting peoples blogs, which I guess they can do because they own it.
Anyway, I hate to see all your hard work go to waste. It's really worth paying $5 a month to host your own blog.
What do you think?
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i am using blogspot.. and i bought my own domain from them too..
That's good that you own your own domain. I see your point, since Google owns Blog Spot and they are also the ones that calculate Page Rank. I don't know, but I would guess that Google would automatically index blogs on blog spot since they own it?? Of course, google offers Google Webmaster tools so you can submit site maps and see how Google sees your site, even if you don't use Blog Spot.
It seems that Google's Page Rank has a lot to do with the number of sites that link to your site and since you own your own domain, if you switched hosts it wouldn't mess up all those links to you. So I would think that as long as you have a site map and you submit it to Google (via Google Webmaster) then it wouldn't change your page rank at all. Maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject or someone who's done it has more to say on the subject.
I think, though, the most important thing is that you own your own domain, so you can switch hosts and still have the same url. What I was seeing was a lot of sites with high rankings that are just a sub domain of blog spot ( example: http://thisismyblog.blogspot.com) and I couldn't understand that. If they moved hosts they'd lose everything. I was just wondering why they would do that.
I just recently moved hosts, I was using Network Solutions to host my site and it was incredibly slow. After at least 2 months of hacking away at my site to make it lighter, it still didn't speed up too much, so I decided to change hosts. I looked into Blue hosts, Go Daddy, and Host Gator... I think they are probably the top 3 and biggest. I went with Host Gator just because they had a service where they will move your website for you and they gave me a month free to test it out. After I moved it, it was a whole lot faster. One day, I hope to need need my own Virtual Server and if that day does come I might go with Go Daddy because it was cheaper.
Although I hate to say it, I think there is a definite advantage with a bigger company because since they have more business they can afford the newest and best equipment and can offer it a lower price...at least that has been my experience.
I wouldn't hesitate to use Go Daddy.
The only thing I liked about Network Solutions over Host Gator is NS had automated backups of my site and with HG I have to do it myself.
Anyway, after changing hosts, my Alexa Ranking improved significantly.
You have a great Alexa Ranking, maybe you can give me some advice :) I've only been at it a few months. I spent quit a while learning some coding and website design before I started since I really like that kind of thing.
I haven't had any issues. My rank is climbing steadily and I love my blogger blog. I do have my own domain, but I don't pay for hosting.
I noticed that whenever I really like the way a blog looks, and how it is set up, it is a blogger not WP blog. I know the push is to WP, but I am not convinced.
As far as the seo argument goes- I am doing really good so I don't see the incentive. If you are .blogspot though, I think it is more than worth it to get your own domain.
I use blogger without a domain name. I do have one but just a bit lazy to set everything up. While it may seem simple to "just pay $5 per month" for a blog there's more that goes into it besides that. I use to host my own domains so I know having your own web host takes management even if your letting someone else do all the technical behind the scenes stuff. For me it's just easier to use blogger at this stage of my blogging life.
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Well, I'm on the $5 a month plan but I'm sure I'm getting way less traffic than you. You're probably on a virtual server, right? or do you need even more. I hope by the time I get to where you are that I will be making money to offset the costs :)
I'm using Joomla, but I have played around with Wordpress.
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I adore WordPress.org! So glad I switched, Howeva... $5 a month? Were do I sign up! I am with Hostgator, who I love and ahem.. it is way more than $5 a month!
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I've looked at all your sites, and it's really encouraging to see that you all are having a lot of success. It's nice to see others like me making it.
I really like creating. I've spent a few months learning Joomla, html, css and I have a background in databases, so that is why I've gone the route I have. I want it to be all mine. :)
the most important thing is to own your own domain name. then it doesn't matter too much if you start in blogger because you can always move it later on. i've learned everything on the web.
if you go to http://www.blogelina.com she has a $5 class about blogging that teaches you everything
Hmm, this discussion has me really worried. Since I am fairly new to the blogging world, I don't know much about the intricateness of each blog site. For example, I use blogspot because I have gmail and go through Google. However, I didn't know that I don't own my blog site name. I will make sure I get it registered with GoDaddy. But everything else really makes me wonder where to find all the details. Please forgive my naivety but really, where did you learn all you know about blogging?
I am on blogspot. I have no desire to NOT be a blog. I am NOT a website, I am a blog. I want the blogspot on my url so that everyone knows this is a blog, and a human writes it every day. I also have no desire to move from blogger to WP because if it ain't broke I ain't fixin' it. I have thousands of subscribers, make money, am a member of several ad networks, participate in paid blogger programs, and have a page rank of 4. I haven't seen one *really* compelling reason to change platforms. That, and blogger has a dummy-proof interface, and I do not have to know html or css to do it, cuz I'm old and don't have room for that crap in my brain.
My background is as an ad agency creative director, and as a creative, and I have no issues with working with the parameters that blogger sets for doing a nice design. I am happy with status quo.