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"THANK YOU didn't seem to express my gratitude enough for Louisa's help and creativity on our project! She was excellent and so easy to work with, and really made understanding our goals her priority–something so rare to find these days!"
"Louisa's video was the best piece of marketing to explain and promote our PAYS model that we've ever had since creating this program over 20 years ago."
"I honestly don't know how one person can have so much talent! Louisa's drawings, and knowledge of music and technology, combined with her impeccable attention to detail, all brought my vision to life. Through the entire process, she was incredibly patient and encouraging. Best of all... she did an amazing job of conveying my message to the viewers of this adorable video. Thank you so much, Louisa!"
"On Friday we premiered our new Whiteboard Video for the entire team, and it was received extremely well. Our goal going into the project was to develop a "client-centric" video, that provided us a different visual impact for the viewer - and Louisa knocked it out of the park. Not only was the product fantastic, but working with her was a joy. She has a gift to be able to grasp diverse and complex processes, listen well, and translate those concepts to the screen. She is also patient - 36 emails back and forth on our project - yet acted with a sense of urgency - we completed the project in 6 weeks. I couldn't be more pleased with the results. In closing, I'll share a quote from our CFO that speaks to the value of her service: "That was the best money we have ever spent in Sales & Marketing!"
"Louisa's videos for Clarino and Tirrenina turned out amazing! We needed a simpler way to explain how our material was made to help us stand out from the competition. Louisa helped us do exactly that. She took our jumbled bullet points and notes and turned it into a fascinating video that's not just informative, but also very professional and beautiful. Her communication was prompt and she easily understood the concepts we were trying to communicate. I'm definitely planning on more video collaborations with her!""
"As the Seed Huntress I travel the globe searching for ancient sacred seeds that hold the stories of our ancestors and the hope for all future generations. The telling of these tales is a gift that must be shared with all—with that intention, by serendipity I was led to the visionary, brilliant artistic wizard and wordsmith Louisa Clayton. Working with a minuscule timeline and a Herculean amount of content, Louisa helped me whittle a monumental treatise of plant stewardship through the generations down to the most salient points. In an animation that is only a few glorious minutes long, we were able to convey the complicated topic of the vital importance of the global conservation of biodiversity with ease. From script, to sketch to scene, she handled all of the nuance with such a joyous enthusiasm and a truly unmatched professionalism! It was nothing short of an ABSOLUTE delight to work with her—anyone who does in the future should count their lucky stars to have arrived in her most capable & creative hands!"
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It is very difficult to please my Board of Directors. Louisa's video received a round of applause when debuted at our first Board meeting of 2018. I could not be more thrilled with the video or Louisa's services. I will be using CCA at the first opportunity in the future! THANK YOU!"
"Louisa, thank you for all your work (and patience) as we brought our whiteboards to completion. You'll find our English version proudly displayed on HUD's main page in the slideshow. Yay you!"
"Working with Louisa has been wonderful -- this entire process was so seamless and I couldn't be more happy with the end result. I really appreciate all of her help as well as her excellent work."
"Louisa helped us produce two animated whiteboard drawing videos. They both turned out beautiful and unique and our client loved them. The whole experience was reassuring and positive where Louisa had a well-structured process to manage expectations and keep us all on track. She kept open communications and encouraged us to do our due diligence at every step. She was flexible and accommodating. The project was an exemplary mix of imaginative creatives and a disciplined journey. We had no surprises and when it came to viewing the end results, we were all excited and very happy. We would certainly work with Louisa in the future and recommend CCA to any business looking for creative videos."
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Whiteboard videos are a great way to engage your web visitor. Your viewer is instantly put at ease due to the casual and informal feel and they continue watching because they want to see the drawing completed and experience the final product. Drawings are a primary and very basic way of communicating and people are drawn (sorry for the pun!) to them. When your viewer is relaxed and engaged, they will take notice and connect with your message and you'll be more likely to make a sale.
Whiteboard animations are completely custom and can be crafted specifically to reflect your branding, but in that folksy, familiar style. Whatever your message or brand, it is reinforced in a positive, fun way. You can't go wrong.
What's the point of putting your message on the web if it's not going to grab people — and let's face it — entertain them? You want to be memorable; you want to sell your product. With whiteboard animation, your message stays with your visitor and they are more likely to remember and choose you over your competitor.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and moving pictures are worth even more! Animations are the exact opposite of text on a page. Viewers connect with the drawings on an immediate and emotional level. Also, search engines take note when people stay on your site to watch your animation, giving your site better rankings.
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Web designers use a variety of different tools depending on what part of the production process they are involved in. These tools are updated over time by newer standards and software but the principles behind them remain the same. Web designers use both vector and raster graphics editors to create web-formatted imagery or design prototypes. Technologies used to create websites include W3C standards like HTML and CSS, which can be hand-coded or generated by WYSIWYG editing software. Other tools web designers might use include mark up validators and other testing tools for usability and accessibility to ensure their web sites meet web accessibility guidelines.
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Marketing and communication design
Marketing and communication design on a website may identify what works for its target market. This can be an age group or particular strand of culture; thus the designer may understand the trends of its audience. Designers may also understand the type of website they are designing, meaning, for example, that (B2B) business-to-business website design considerations might differ greatly from a consumer targeted website such as a retail or entertainment website. Careful consideration might be made to ensure that the aesthetics or overall design of a site do not clash with the clarity and accuracy of the content or the ease of web navigation, especially on a B2B website. Designers may also consider the reputation of the owner or business the site is representing to make sure they are portrayed favorably
User experience design and interactive design
User understanding of the content of a website often depends on user understanding of how the website works. This is part of the user experience design. User experience is related to layout, clear instructions and labeling on a website. How well a user understands how they can interact on a site may also depend on the interactive design of the site. If a user perceives the usefulness of the website, they are more likely to continue using it. Users who are skilled and well versed with website use may find a more distinctive, yet less intuitive or less user-friendly website interface useful nonetheless. However, users with less experience are less likely to see the advantages or usefulness of a less intuitive website interface. This drives the trend for a more universal user experience and ease of access to accommodate as many users as possible regardless of user skill. Much of the user experience design and interactive design are considered in the user interface design.
Advanced interactive functions may require plug-ins if not advanced coding language skills. Choosing whether or not to use interactivity that requires plug-ins is a critical decision in user experience design. If the plug-in doesn't come pre-installed with most browsers, there's a risk that the user will have neither the know how or the patience to install a plug-in just to access the content. If the function requires advanced coding language skills, it may be too costly in either time or money to code compared to the amount of enhancement the function will add to the user experience. There's also a risk that advanced interactivity may be incompatible with older browsers or hardware configurations. Publishing a function that doesn't work reliably is potentially worse for the user experience than making no attempt. It depends on the target audience if it's likely to be needed or worth any risks.
Page layout
Part of the user interface design is affected by the quality of the page layout. For example, a designer may consider whether the site's page layout should remain consistent on different pages when designing the layout. Page pixel width may also be considered vital for aligning objects in the layout design. The most popular fixed-width websites generally have the same set width to match the current most popular browser window, at the current most popular screen resolution, on the current most popular monitor size. Most pages are also center-aligned for concerns of aesthetics on larger screens.
Fluid layouts increased in popularity around 2000 as an alternative to HTML-table-based layouts and grid-based design in both page layout design principle and in coding technique, but were very slow to be adopted. This was due to considerations of screen reading devices and varying windows sizes which designers have no control over. Accordingly, a design may be broken down into units (sidebars, content blocks, embedded advertising areas, navigation areas) that are sent to the browser and which will be fitted into the display window by the browser, as best it can. As the browser does recognize the details of the reader's screen (window size, font size relative to window etc.) the browser can make user-specific layout adjustments to fluid layouts, but not fixed-width layouts. Although such a display may often change the relative position of major content units, sidebars may be displaced below body text rather than to the side of it. This is a more flexible display than a hard-coded grid-based layout that doesn't fit the device window. In particular, the relative position of content blocks may change while leaving the content within the block unaffected. This also minimizes the user's need to horizontally scroll the page.
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541511 Web (i.e., Internet) page design services, custom
From road signs to technical schematics, from interoffice memorandums to reference manuals, graphic design enhances transfer of knowledge and visual messages. Readability and legibility is enhanced by improving the visual presentation and layout of text.
Design can also aid in selling a product or idea through effective visual communication. It is applied to products and elements of company identity like logos, colors, packaging, and text. Together these are defined as branding (see also advertising). Branding has increasingly become important in the range of services offered by many graphic designers, alongside corporate identity. Whilst the terms are often used interchangeably, branding is more strictly related to the identifying mark or trade name for a product or service, whereas corporate identity can have a broader meaning relating to the structure and ethos of a company, as well as to the company's external image. Graphic designers will often form part of a team working on corporate identity and branding projects. Other members of that team can include marketing professionals, communications consultants and commercial writers.
Textbooks are designed to present subjects such as geography, science, and math. These publications have layouts which illustrate theories and diagrams. A common example of graphics in use to educate is diagrams of human anatomy. Graphic design is also applied to layout and formatting of educational material to make the information more accessible and more readily understandable.
A graphic design project may involve the stylization and presentation of existing text and either preexisting imagery or images developed by the graphic designer. Artistic pieces can be incorporated in both traditional and digital form, which involves the use of visual arts, typography, and page layout techniques for publications and marketing. For example, a newspaper story begins with the journalists and photojournalists and then becomes the graphic designer's job to organize the page into a reasonable layout and determine if any other graphic elements should be required. In a magazine article or advertisement, often the graphic designer or art director will commission photographers or illustrators to create original pieces just to be incorporated into the design layout. Or the designer may utilize stock imagery or photography. Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design. Another aspect of graphic design is to have good research skills, analyzing a work of art and simultaneously seeing it in new ways. Graphic Design need skills such as power to convince the audience and selling the design. Communication is a key part in graphic design. The process of graphic design include the "process school" which is an approach to the subject that is concerned with the actual process of communication; it especially highlights the channels and media through which messages are transmitted and by which senders and receivers encode and decode. Semiotic School on the other hand, is message as a construction of signs which through interaction with receivers, produces meaning; communication as an agent. The process school is like the way in which a message is brought out to society.
North American Industry Classification System For Graphic Design Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning, designing, and managing the production of visual communication in order to convey specific messages or concepts, clarify complex information, or project visual identities. These services can include the design of printed materials, packaging, advertising, signage systems, and corporate identification (logos). This industry also includes commercial artists engaged exclusively in generating drawings and illustrations requiring technical accuracy or interpretative skills
Illustrative Examples: Commercial art studios
Graphic Design NAICS Index Description
541430 Art services, commercial
The term whiteboard animation comes from the process of someone drawing on a whiteboard and recording it. The actual effect is a time-lapse, or sometimes stop-motion. Actual animation is rarely used but has been incorporated. Other terms are video scribing, and animated doodling. These video animation styles are now seen in many variations, and have taken a turn into many other animation styles. With the introduction of software to create the whiteboard animations, the process has many different manifestations of varying quality.
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Marketing and communication design
Marketing and communication design on a website may identify what works for its target market. This can be an age group or particular strand of culture; thus the designer may understand the trends of its audience. Designers may also understand the type of website they are designing, meaning, for example, that (B2B) business-to-business website design considerations might differ greatly from a consumer targeted website such as a retail or entertainment website. Careful consideration might be made to ensure that the aesthetics or overall design of a site do not clash with the clarity and accuracy of the content or the ease of web navigation, especially on a B2B website. Designers may also consider the reputation of the owner or business the site is representing to make sure they are portrayed favorably
Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change[Note 1] by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The illusion—as in motion pictures in general—is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon. Animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation. Animation can be recorded with either analogue media, a flip book, motion picture film, video tape, digital media, including formats with animated GIF, Flash animation and digital video. To display animation, a digital camera, computer, or projector are used along with new technologies that are produced.
Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures. Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second. Computer animation processes generating animated images with the general term computer-generated imagery (CGI). 3D animation uses computer graphics, while 2D animation are used for stylistic, low bandwidth and faster real time renderings.
Video editing
The term video editing can refer to: The process of manipulating video images. Once the province of expensive machines called video editors, video editing software is now available for personal computers and workstations. Video editing includes cutting segments (trimming), re-sequencing clips, and adding transitions and other Special Effects.
Linear video editing, using video tape and is edited in a very linear way. Several video clips from different tapes are recorded to one single tape in the order that they will appear.
Non-linear editing system (NLE), This is edited on computers with specialised software. These are non destructive to the video being edited and use programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Avid.
Offline editing is the process in which raw footage is copied from an original source, without affecting the original film stock or video tape. Once the editing has been completely edited, the original media is then re-assembled in the online editing stage.
Online editing is the process of reassembling the edit to full resolution video after an offline edit has been performed and is done in the final stage of a video production.
Vision mixing, when working within live television and video production environments. A vision mixer is used to cut live feed coming from several cameras in real time.
Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures. Images are displayed in a rapid succession, usually 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second. Computer animation processes generating animated images with the general term computer-generated imagery (CGI). 3D animation uses computer graphics, while 2D animation are used for stylistic, low bandwidth and faster real time renderings.

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"Enabling access to household refrigeration services through cost reductions from energy efficiency improvements." Energy Efficiency (2019)..
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deTerra Wood Kitchen Installation & Aftercare
Real wood kitchens are certainly something to sing about. They're simply the best, and we just can't get enough (we just can't get enough!). Do remember, kitchen comrades, that to keep your fabulous new components looking top-notch and in beautiful condition, we highly recommend a thorough read of our natural kitchen installation and maintenance guides. It's mighty important that wood kitchen installation is carried out correctly, so please carefully consider this handy compilation of need-to-know nuggets.


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Open 7 Days a Week Starting 12/15 for the First Time in Silverton's History!
Silverton, Colo. — It has been snowing almost every day of the past week and there is no better time to get the legs in skiing shape and enjoy winter fun than right now. For the first time in the history of Silverton Mountain, the ski area will be open 7 days a week. From Dec 15 through Dec 30 (excluding Christmas day). Silverton Mountain will be open every day for the holidays. Runs currently slated for Opening day are Colorado, Riff, Raff, Ropedeedope, Grande, Grassy and Butter Bowls.
Skiers and boarders can also earn free skiing by stomping down the snow (bootpacking) in the avalanche starting zones Dec 17, 18, 19, and 20. One free, unguided ski day will be given for each day of bootpacking. Those who like to pack it hard and deep all 4 days can earn up to 4 days of free skiing. No experience required, but everyone must have a beacon, shovel & probe. Limited rentals are available at the mountain. Free ski tickets must be used during 2012/13 unguided season only and are not valid as any type of credit toward guided skiing. Packers should show up at the base area at 8:15 a.m. with pants duct taped to boots (no joke) ready to stomp. No bootpacking reservations are needed. Bootpacking is a great way to learn the mountain while getting plenty of fresh air.
Please don't miss HOPE FOR THE SLOPES, January 6th, to benefit the American Cancer Society. Put a team together or come alone.
Silverton Mountain Opens December 15 With Expert Runs
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Madson A Workorse Reliever
Roy-O is on the mound to begin the homestand tonight. His first game with the Phillies (July 30) was a loss in Washington, DC. Since then, he is 6-1 with a 1.98 ERA in nine starts.
By pitching tonight, rather than Saturday, he'll face the Braves next Wednesday.
Washington is no pushover. They're fresh from taking two of three in Atlanta where the Braves have the best home record in the NL.
Ironman Reliever
Since August 1, Ryan Madson has pitched in 28 of 43 games, 2-1 with 1 save. Perhaps that broken toe early in the season was a blessing in disguise. He was on the DL for a long time (April 30-July 7) so he was fresh and strong when he returned.
15-4, Phillies record since losing four in a row at home to the Astros in late August. Perhaps that series was a wake-up call.
12-3, Phillies record this month, best in MLB.
33-24, Phillies record against the NL East, including 18 wins in the last 23 games. Remaining 15 games are against the East.
Wet Night
Lakewood was rained out last night. So, they meet Greenville in Game 3 tonight at home. Best-of-5 series is tied, 1-1.
Game 4 will be Saturday at 4:05 p.m. If Game 5 is necessary, it will start 45 minutes after Game 4 is over.
Tickets are available at BlueClaws.com.
Happy Birthday
Old friend Bobby Wine, who is 72 today. I'm six days older but he looks much older.
Tomorrow: C Don McCormack (55), RHP Roger Mason (52) and Ryne Sandberg (51). Mason called and will be coming to next Friday's game with the Mets along with his family.
Sad News
Wayne Twitchell, an All-Star pitcher with the Phillies in 1973, died yesterday from cancer. He was 62.
When asked about his favorite memories while playing with the Phillies, "Twitch" had listed the "Division Championship 1976. Ballpark, fans, teammates, front office, representing the Phillies in the 1973 All-Star Game."
Condolences to his wife, Barbara, and their sons, Matthew and Patrick.


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Black Hat 2009 Highlights
All eyes are on Vegas this week.
The Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 is in full swing and it's been a doozie so far.
Aside from all the security experts being pwned, there appear to be some very interesting presentations going on.
See this Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 // Archives page for PDF whitepapers, presentation slides, and a few video/audio files as well.
Here are ones that I found particularly fascinating:
- Bill Blunden's "Anti-Forensics: The Rootkit Connection" [White Paper] (PDF) and Presentation Slides (PDF).
- Alfredo Ortega & Anibal Sacco's "Deactivate the Rootkit: Attacks on BIOS anti-theft technologies" - [White Paper] (PDF) and Presentation Slides (PDF). Fascinating look how CompuTrace technology that "protects" systems in event of theft could actually be exploited while the system was "safe in custody" of the owner.
Lots more there as well covering both traditional technology, social-engineering, software, and even hardware lock-picking forensics. Neat stuff!
Bootkit Fun with Stoned-Vienna
Remember when we were all looking at Kon-Boot: Bypass Windows Login Security (and some helpful blocking solutions) and Kon-Boot post (minor) update? The Kon-Boot application was a "boot-kit" that allowed complete bypass of Windows user authentication password. In the follow-up post it appeared that whole-disk encryption solutions and/or TPM enablement on supported systems prevented such an attack from working.
Well…not much longer (at least for True-Crypt).
- Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption - The H Security
- Stoned-Vienna.com - Peter Kleissner's project page for this latest boot kit iteration. Lots of very good technical information.
- White Paper (PDF) and Presentation (PDF) – Peter's Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 presentations on Stoned-Vienna. The white paper is particularly detailed in technicals on how the injection process occurs as well as the methodology. Great stuff and must-read material for boot-kit researchers.
- 4.16: Kon-Boot – Piotr Bania never did publish any technical information on how the Kon-Boot process worked. Luckily for us, Peter's got the stuff to sort it out for us. If you are still wondering how Kon-Boot works, this is the reading material source to go to for now.
- Stoned Bootkit Blog – Peter's ongoing updates on Stoned Vienna developments.
I didn't get to see the presentation, and I'm still trying to find the time to pour though the technicals but it appears (and I am open to correction here) the following facts are in play with this "True-Crypt bypassing boot kit":
- It is a boot kit as it injects itself into the Windows kernel after the BIOS by hi-jacking the bootloader process,
- It does not bypass the need for the user to still authenticate themselves to the TrueCrypt volume; by that I mean it does not "break/crack" the encryption itself,
- It does co-exist with the TrueCrypt boot-loader, survives that process, then goes on to actually "infect" the kernel post-loader to do whatever the "payload" offers.
- It could, possibly, be crafted to intercept and capture the passphase/id and send those to the attacker, thus providing them future authentication credentials needed to bypass WDE in future local attacks.
Those second and third points seem critical because in my Kon-Boot mitigation testing, the boot kit could not share the same memory space (in most BIOS'es) as the WDE boot-loader so either one or both failed…thus protecting the system.
The last one is just conjecture based on my current level of reading of the boot kit.
Stoned-Vienna is able to work around that successfully. In theory it could also possibly work (with development) against other commercial whole-disk encryption solutions/products as well. The encrypted volume would still need to be authenticated to but once past, the boot kit could go on to do its thing.
And to be clear…this isn't a blast at any TrueCrypt weakness, it's really still a function of how (most) Windows systems/deployments are weakened by the bootloader/kernel hand-off process. Unless the boot-loader file as it loads into memory can be authenticated, along with the kernel files (see VBootkit vs. Bitlocker in TPM mode for a great example) the basic vulnerability will exist. Disk encryption developers can only do so much to protect their own boot-loaders; the rest seems to be a Windows architecture issue.
Stay tuned as I am sure this will be dissected more in the coming weeks.
Malware Watch
- H1N1 Shortcut Malware - F-Secure Weblog – Clever malware file masquerading as a "link" shortcut file. Though it looks like it is seeded with junk, there is enough executable code (batch-file stuff) that it can actually ftp the payload (a vbs script) when clicked.
- Malware embedded in the Windows registry - Eternal sunshine of the geeky mind – Lead link to executable malware in the Windows registry of all places.
- Malware IN Registry a.k.a If It Can't Be Done, Why Am I Looking At It? - Security Ripcord – Don Weber provides a technical examination on just how this malware exists and executes from an embedded state (as opposed to a call to an executable file) in the registry.
- Persistence is futile - SophosLabs blog – More notes on the malware.
That all reminded me of another (different technique…similar result) technique for hiding malware launch points in the Windows registry from a few years ago.
- Reports: Long Registry Names Could Hide Malware - eWeek
- Updated Windows Registry Concealment Info;Symantec AV Vulnerability - SANS-ISC Blog – more analysis and a link to the "LVNSearch.exe" tool which can scan Windows registry hives and display long value names that typically do not display correctly in Windows (and thus hide the malware launch point) from regular reviews.
- Panda USB Vaccine with NTFS Support - Panda Research Blog – Notice of an updated version of the Panda USB Vaccine tool that prevents a USB device from being infected by a autorun malware modifier. This new version now supports NTFS formatted USB devices…not that common to the general public but often seen in IT shops.
- Panda SafeCD 18.104.22.168 Released - Panda Research Blog – New LiveCD boot disk that allows for "off-line" scanning and cleaning of an infected system.
- New Virut Strain Blocks AV/Security Web sites - Fortinet FortiGuard Blog – Great analysis of a new malware strain that does some tricky things to both stay alive/hidden as well as block access by the local system to anti-virus/anti-malware websites.
Don't just stay safe; stay informed!
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Top Chef: Restaurant War Is Hell
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There are only three things in life that are inevitable: death, taxes, and "restaurant wars," the annual challenge where Top Chef contestants must create a restaurant in a day. It always ends in disaster.
And last night was no exception, except it was kind of a nice disaster. It's like if your village got bombed by a bunch of German airplanes and you were all sad because your village was gone, but then you look down and the bombing created a hole just large enough for oil to start seeping out. Yes, your home and possessions were destroyed, but now you're rich, motherfucker! Take that, German biplanes.
Last night our story started with a premonition. All the chefs assembled around a table with a crystal ball in the center, and Richard Blais put on this giant purple padded hat that he wore once for a Carnac the Magnificent costume. "Please join hands, and let the seance begin." As they all joined hands and closed their eyes, the lights began to flicker and the French door slammed open as a breeze howled through. The curtains started to flutter violently and Richard said, "Is there a spirit present? Who am I speaking to?"
"It is I, the ghost you all call Antonia. Beware, I am cursed. Whoever should cook with will have their spirit unleashed and go to the other side. I am cursed. I am cursed. WhooooHHOoohoowwwhoooooooooo...."
And then her spirit disappeared and they all piled into whatever car was sponsoring last night's episode and went to world-famous fish cafeteria Le Bernardin. Anthony Bourdain was there. "Hey guys, I'm going to do the Quickfire challenge today. Padma, well, she couldn't make it. We were all set to leave and she started screaming about not wanting to go to anyone else's kitchen and how she likes to be in charge and how she won, and I quote, 'this motherfucking show a motherfucking Emmy,' and she refused to get in the van. She even threw a boot at a PA. Anyway, I'm here and you have to cut up a bunch of fish."
The challenge was to butcher two fish in ten minutes and do it to the standard of Justo Thomas, the chef at La Bernardin who butchers 1000 pounds of fish a day. Chop, chop, chop; boring, boring, boring. And the winners are Dale, Marcel, Richard, and Mike Isabella, who is pretty much the human version of Charlie the Tuna. Now those four have to cook a dish using all the scraps of their fish, and the winner of the challenge will get immunity.
OK, this was a really cool challenge—having to use the scraps and all—but why are they messing with this long-ass, two-part challenge during Restaurant Wars when there wasn't even a Quickfire last week? They just went fishing, that was the "challenge." Couldn't they have had this challenge when they, you know, had to cook their own fish or something? Just a thought.
As they're cooking we learn that Richard learned all his culinary technique at his first restaurant job, when he was a seafood chef at Omaha's premier seafood establishment, McDonald's. Marcel whined and carried on and was a dick. Marcel is like a broken toe. It is annoying as shit, but you go to the doctor and he says there's nothing he can do. So you just have to tough it out until it goes away, so you wince through the pain, day after day, the searing, annoying pain, knowing one day you will finally be rid of it. That's Marcel—you try to tune him out, but he's right there, throbbing in your shoe.
Dale made an impromptu shrine to his fishmonger ancestors and said, "I make a sacrifice to you, great fishmonger ancestors. You were cooking gills and collars and fins and fish livers before it was even cool, and I ask for your guidance." And a plume of steam seemed to ooze out of the floor and take hold of Dale's limbs, guiding his every move as he whipped up two wonderful dishes. Of course Dale wins again, with a little bit of assistance from the spirit world.
Then they return to the Top Chef kitchen to talk to Padma who has been waiting there the whole time, probably in a fit of pique. As they enter the room, the little butcher's block island she's always standing next to is rustling. Two figures quickly rise up. One is a handsome Frenchman with tattoos down his arms and he's buttoning the top two buttons of his chef's jacket. Padma is straightening her dress and tosses her mussy hair back with both hands, she's standing a bit cockeyed with only one boot on. All the chefs are standing there stunned. "What!" Padma says. "We weren't fucking. Got that?!"
A production assistant runs up with a boot in one hand, "Ms. Lakshmi..." "Drop it right there!" Padma yells. The PA drops it on the spot and scampers away.
"Alright, jerks," Padma says. "This is Chef Ludo. I am not going to say his last name because it is strangely devoid of vowels. We were not fucking. Remember. You saw nothing. Oh, you're doing Restaurant Wars. Split into teams." Then she hobbled over to get her boot like no one noticed.
Since he won, Dale gets to pick the other team captain. In a stroke of genius, he picks broken toe Marcel. No one wants to work with a broken toe and forcing five people to be hobbled is basically crippling the whole team. Dale is assured a win. He gets Richard, Carla, Tre, and Fabio. Marcel takes a mallet and breaks the toes of
Black Tiffany and Charlie the Tuna. He tries to break Angelo's toe and he says, "Marcel, let me do that for you. I love inflicting pain on myself." Marcel swings and swings at the ghost Antonia's toes, but she is a ghost, and she has none.
Plan, plan, plan; boring, boring, boring. They arrive at the Foundry, which is a wonderful outdoor space. It looks like the scene in a romantic comedy where the hero feeds the heroine under lanterns and they realize for the first time they don't hate each other. We discover that the diners will be eating at both team's restaurants and they will vote to decide the winner, not the judges. Whoop-de-doo.
Marcel's restaurant is called Etch and they're serving Mediterranean-inspired food. Doesn't a team do this every season and always ends up losing. Can't you people come up with a new fucking concept already? Dale's team is called Bodega and it's a spin on food that you'd find at a corner market. I have no idea how this is possible, because their menu does not include Hostess Cupcakes and Bravos, which are they only things I want to eat at the corner market at 4am. Whatever, at least it's original.
The Bodega folks are all getting along and working on their dishes. Everyone is very silent, except for Fabio, who, every five minutes are so pipes up and says, "Are you guys sure you don't need gnocchi? In Italy you only buy gnocchi at the bodega!" They all just roll their eyes and go back to work.
It's quite the opposite over at Etch, where no one is getting along. Team captain Marcel is barking out orders and telling people how to do things and, like Fabio asking to make gnocchi, everyone is just rolling their eyes at him. But then he's getting pissed off and annoying them more. Broken toe, broken toe, broken toe. The squabbling is already beginning. It's sketchy, man. Etch is sketchy.
Fabio and Tiffany are appointed to lead front of house for their respective restaurants. Fabio, of course, knows how to work it, to talk to the waiters, and to make sure everything is running smoothly. Tiffany is just basically stuck with this duty and hates it and you can tell. She has no fucking clue. I hate that someone has to play host. To paraphrase Fabio, this isn't top maître d'.
Service, service, service; boring, boring, boring. And the judges show up. It's Anthony Bourdain, still with the scent of a Thai brothel on his jacket; Tom Cohostio; Padma; and her little boytoy, Ludo. They sit down at Bodega and Ludo is playing footsie with Padma and touching her thigh gently under the table. She's laughing and smiling and playing with her hair and everyone is happy that she's in a good mood for a change. They love all their food. Bourdain even says it's the best stoner food he's ever had, other than Hostess Cupcakes and Bravos. For a man who knows his way around a Thai opium den, that's a high compliment.
Then they go over to Etch and it's a mess. There aren't any waiters, they can only hear Tiffany giggling, and Padma is starting to get a little testy. Tiffany walks over to the table to greet the judges. "Hey! How're y'all..."
"Bring me some fucking food!" Padma shouts, leaning more than halfway across the table.
Tiffany runs back to the kitchen and gets Padma some fucking food. But the problem is the fucking food. The judges hate it. They hate all of it. And it's not just the judges. It's the diner's too. I don't know if they invited every bitchy food blogger in Brooklyn to this dinner, or just most of the bitchy food bloggers in Brooklyn, but they were cunty. We're talking Padma on a bad hair day when her bunyons are acting up and her town car isn't waiting for her outside cunty. They were harsh on everything. I'll admit, I was into it.
And then the bombshell went off. The waiters arrived from the kitchen with bowls with steam coming off the top of them. "Oh, Christ!" we heard someone from the judges table scream, and it wasn't even Padma, it was Tom Cohostio. You know if Tom thinks something is stupid then you are really in for it. Padma, apparently distracted by the deep pools of Chef Ludo's eyes, didn't see what was going on. "What?" she said and whipped round to look at the waiters. "Oh, hell no. I am not putting anything steaming in my fucking mouth. Especially dessert." Yes, this was Marcel's avant-garde dessert that was like peaches and coconut and mint frozen in a bowl. It was stupid.
Off to judging. Team Etch is first. Marcel thinks it's because they won. The ghost Antonia says that he must be on drugs. Ha, maybe if they were on drugs they might have made some stoner food that Bourdain would have liked more. No, of course Team Etch lost. Everyone hated it. The judges cuss them out on just about every dish, but especially Marcel's bombshell dessert and the nasty fish thing that he made. That's when everything falls to pieces. At first the team is silent, trying to gloss over the fact that they lost because they all had broken toes. But then Charlie the Tuna finally goes for it and says everything was fucked up because Marcel was a poor leader and was shouting at everyone. Marcel tries to save himself and says that he told everyone that their dishes were bad but they just didn't listen to him. Oh shut the fuck up, Marcel. You were too busy just cooking and causing a throbbing pain to be an effective leader, and that is why you lost. Tiffanni is also in trouble because her egg dish sucked and she giggles too much.
Bodega comes into judging. They win. Richard wins. The war is over. Win, win, win; boring, boring, boring.
So the judges come back and Marcel, that broken toe you have been walking around on for months, is gone. It's like dipping your toe in the fairy spring and miraculously it's healed. I think the reason they really sent Marcel home is because of the foam. Seriously. If he hadn't made that foam, it would have been Tiffany, because the front of house person always gets the ax. But, no, Marcel had to be a stupid cliche with his foam and his steaming dessert and he just became a parody and they sent him home for that.
On his way out, Marcel can't stop talking about how everyone thinks he's a giant jerk, but he's really just misunderstood. God, that makes him the worst kind of person. At least people who are assholes but own up to it are self-actualized enough to know they have a problem. Some even try to correct it (hello, Dale's anger management classes). Not Marcel. No, he's under the mistaken impression that he's a good guy. The problem must be, well, everyone else. Wrong, Marcel. The problem is never everyone else, it is you. And if everyone thinks you're an asshole then, guess what, you're probably a giant fucking asshole.
Marcel packs up his knifes and on the way out, he thinks about all the awful things he said to the chefs, about all the foams he made, and all the dessert bombs he dropped. He pats himself on the back, thinking that he did a great job. He did the best job and it's just the world that misunderstands him. That is his cocoon, and when he gets home at night, he'll curl up and keep himself warm in the papoose of his delusion. He thinks that one day, everyone will wake up and realize he is right, but he isn't. That day will never come. That constant ache in his lower extremity is worse than any broken toe. It's a shot in the foot.


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Friday, March 30, 2012
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
The "I Don't Care If This Lives Or Dies" Approach To Gardening
Some of you may have recently heard me mention (more precisely seen me post or comment) that I have come to the conclusion that I hate gardening. Don't get me wrong ... I love gardens. I love looking at various flowers & picking them to put in my home. I love the scent of flowers & of freshly tilled earth. I love seeing the butterflies flying about. I love eating fresh veges I've grown myself. These things are great things! It's the work involved in gardening itself that rubs me the wrong way.
You can see a photo of our front yard at the top of this blog. This photo was taken the summer we moved here. Since that time we've planted quite a few trees & bushes, made a few garden beds, & had professional landscaping ... which turned out to be poorly done ... around the foundation of the house. You can only hook so many hoses together to water things. For the rest you need to drag buckets of water (2 buckets at a time) here & there, there & here, to water them. Since the summers have been pretty drought stricken these past 3 years you can imagine what we've been up against.
Gardening here means getting outside in the miserable, oppressive, never ending central Kentucky summer heat & humidity which seem to hang over us like a death shroud morning, noon, & night. It means dealing with the miserable, oppressive, never ending central Kentucky sun beating down on you & from which you can find no escape. It means battling the gigantic central Kentucky spiders ... mostly huge ugly brown things although there are a few menacing looking fat bodied black ones with white dots on their backs. Then there are the black & yellow striped ones the size of a saucer who like to hide deep inside or back behind a plant & then terrorize you by charging out & coming at you like a semi zooming down the interstate. It means wearing tennis shoes, long pants tucked into socks, long sleeved shirts tucked into pants, long sleeves tucked into gloves, & spraying or rubbing yourself profusely with some sort of Tick Away product which in the end doesn't keep any ticks away but instead is probably alternating the makeup of your cells in some freakish way.
John & I had quite a vision planned for this place ... the Hill botanical gardens. Alas, it was not to be so. In the summer of 2010 we got so tired of pulling weeds that multiplied like rabbits & lugging buckets of water hither & yon in the aforementioned miserable, oppressive, never ending central Kentucky summer heat & humidity that we gave up the fight. One day while mowing the yard, disgusted with our unreached goal of gardening nirvana, I decided to just ride the mower over the rose garden. The rose garden had grown so high with weeds that you couldn't even see the rose bushes anymore but I knew they were there. It was very cathartic to hear the crunching of the rose bushes as I drove over them ... not once, not twice, but several times with the mower blades set at the lowest level. I wanted to make sure those bushes where totally obliterated. Imagine my surprise last spring when there they were ... 9 little rose bushes, healthy & happy, reaching toward the sun, growing like the weeds that had overpowered them the year before. I was both surprised & horrified. I mentally revisited all the places we've lived where I tried to grow beautiful rose bushes, babying them with special foods & soils, just to see them quickly wither & die. Yet here in the devil's playground I totally ignored them ... mowed over them for pete's sake ... & they were flourishing. I didn't let this deter me. I did not want to deal with the never-ending water buckets & weeding in yes, that miserable, oppressive, never ending central Kentucky summer heat & humidity again, so once more I ignored the roses & mowed over them every time. So now it's the spring of 2012 & do I need to tell you how these roses are once again mocking me? Yep, they're out there ... healthier & more lush than any Jackson & Perkins award winner. Argh!!!
Last summer my husband had a weak moment & bought 4 new rose bushes at a local nursery. Impressively beautiful, fragrant things. He brought them home in their pots, set them in the corner of the driveway, & that's where they are still. Granted, it hasn't been a terribly cold or icy winter but since being put there they've gotten no care whatsoever. I noticed today that all 4 of them look like they could take a best of show prize in a rose bush competition.
It's not just roses! Last year we bought & planted some bee balm & a couple daylilies. One pot of daylilies & one pot of bee balm actually had a few offshoot plants growing in with it so I removed them, placed them in small pots to grow a bit, & then ignored them. They've been sitting on the back porch ... in total shade ... being ignored like the rose bushes. I would sometimes look out the back door this past winter, see them sitting there & think of how I would be gathering up the pots in the spring & throwing them away, but no ... they are growing profusely.
I don't know what to make of this. Ignored things are flourishing all over the yard despite their neglect & even deliberate abuse. Is there some sort of magical property in our heavy clay/rocky/grub infested soil that plants crave? It's a mystery, that's for sure. I know that in the past I've dumped gallons of weed killer on the weeds in the gardens but they don't die. John & I look & marvel at how, only a few hours after dousing them with weed killer, these weeds look greener & healthier than they did before.
Since we are planning to sell the house we decided we couldn't let the the landscaped beds & flower beds be overgrown with weeds & likewise we couldn't let those rose bushes languish in their pots in the driveway. This morning John & I ventured outside. He spent time cutting back the decorative grasses & I worked on weeding a bit of the foundation beds. It went surprisingly smoothly although tonight I feel like someone took me out & beat me with a baseball bat. Unused muscles are unhappy muscles & they protest loudly when you make them do things they haven't done for a long time. I must admit the beds look nicer without the weeds. At least they won't scare away prospective buyers. Thankfully no spiders or ticks were encountered (still in their winter slumber perhaps?) & I even found a strange thing growing among the weeds in one area which I realized was a peony that was planted last year & then withered & presumably died as fast as it was planted. The lemon verbena bushes which the landscaper planted amazingly survived & are blooming & smelling sweet. I cut a small bouquet of branches & brought them inside & I'll leave you with a photo of one of the blooms. Still playing with my camera you know : )
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Happy Birthday Cranky Crow!!!
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Does Anyone Else Love Tea?
I have seen a lot of my fellow bloggers posting about their love of coffee but I don't think I've seen even one posting about their love of tea. Doe anyone else love tea?
I'm a real sucker when it comes to tea. If I see a tea shop (which is rarely) I just have to go inside & see if they have any tea that calls to me. I have found some delicious teas this way but of course I have also wasted my money on teas that had great names but didn't taste so great to me. On my first visit to London I found a little shop selling tea ... cute little tins of tea but of course these were made up for the tourists. I think I may have found some tea being sold at Fortnum & Mason on my second visit but this was during the start of the Christmas season. F&M had just unveiled their Christmas windows & the store was filled with all sorts of Christmas goodies. I was more interested in the chocolates & biscuits at that time than the tea : )
Once upon a time many years ago I thought I needed to collect tea pots, particularly vintage ones. I had only purchased a few tea pots when I decided collecting them was, well, not my cup of tea. Too much clutter. I sold all but a few, none of which are vintage. I kept a reproduction Fiesta teapot, a Brown Betty, & two Polish pottery teapots I purchased on a trip to Poland. I just remembered that I do have one vintage teapot which my mother had in her china closet. I don't remember her ever using it. It was part of her set of "special dishes" that were basically just for show. I've never used it either. I've actually never used any of my teapots. I would if I had the opportunity to entertain tea drinkers.
Over the years I have found several teas that are personal favorites. I can't start the morning without a cup of Hot Cinnamon Sunset tea by Harney & Sons. They also make a tea called Chocolate Mint which is quite yummy : ) Bigelow offers some interesting teas which can be found in the supermarket. Constant Comment is a good Bigelow tea, especially the decaffeinated variety which allows for a late night cup of tea without it keeping you up all night. I really enjoy their Vanilla Caramel, Pomegranate, & Perfect Peach teas. I also have a package of their tea that I haven't tried it yet. It's called Pumpkin Spice. Doesn't that sound good? I normally don't buy Lipton teas because I always find them to be on the bitter side but I couldn't pass up a flavor called Vanilla Caramel Truffle. I haven't tried this one yet either. I have several Christmas teas I enjoy drinking as well. And after rattling off this list of what I suppose could almost be called "designer teas," I have to admit that I really enjoy a cup of tea at the Huddle House! I don't know why. I think our local Huddle House has an "olden days" feel about it. It's comfortable there. The only tea they offer is plain old regular tea ... not really something to get all that excited about but in this case it is! The brand is Royal Cup & it must only be available from restaurant suppliers because I can't find it for sale in any stores.
Are you a tea drinker? What types of teas do you enjoy?
Last night I finished stitching my second Homespun Elegance stocking (photo will be taken later today) & immediately began a new project which is ... brace yourself ... tea related! Laura at The Little Stitcher posted this pattern (Would You...?) on Friday & I ordered it as soon as I saw it!
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Still Here
Obviously John & I are not on our way to Iron Mountain this morning. It wasn't until yesterday that he thought to check the mileage on the car to see if we had enough left before we needed an oil & filter change. We didn't. It was too late to get the car into the dealership so the trip to IM has now been postponed till next Sunday. That's okay though ... the weather, if what's predicted now comes to pass, will be much cooler next week : )
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Selling Suggestions Sought
I have stuff to sell. Craft stuff, crafted stuff, prim stuff, painted stuff, wax stuff, other types of decor, etc. I had some marvelous results on eBay many years ago but whenever I've tried to list similar things over the past couple years I don't even get one bid so eBay is something I'm not going to consider. I'm thinking Etsy might be a good outlet. Does anyone truly have any luck selling on Etsy? I'm thinking of starting a selling blog with a link from this one but that's not going to reach a whole lot of people. Local sales are out of the question.
Am I missing anything? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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House Sale Ponderings
Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know that John & I are wanting to move. There are some good things about living where we live but there are also bad things & I have always said the bad things far outweigh the good. Two of the major good points are (A) we have our privacy, & (B) our house payment is low. I know it's true that many people don't live in their "dream house" but they paint & they decorate & they are content. I have walked throughout this house time & time again & the only way I can see being content here is to have it torn down & rebuilt & of course that's not going to happen. We are unable to do remodeling work ourselves & money is tight right now so hiring someone to do anything more than a little repair here or there is out of the question.
I sometimes envy people who have lived in one place all their lives. They don't know "what's out there." My cousin, for example, has lived in Verona, Pennsylvania all his life. He is still living in the house he grew up in. Except for a trip to Paris many years ago, a drive to West Virginia & Maryland with a friend once upon a time, & traveling well within a 100 mile radius of his home on occasion, he has stayed put. He is always trying to get me to move back to Pennsylvania by telling me how beautiful it is. He's right ... there are beautiful areas of Pennsylvania but how can you tell someone that one place is Nirvana when you haven't really been anywhere else? When you haven't opened your curtains in the morning & gazed out at the Rocky Mountains? When you haven't driven to a nearby city in North Dakota, stopped at a rest stop along the way & got to watch wild buffalo grazing just 20 or so feet away from you? When you haven't sat on your back porch & looked out over a Michigan lake to see various birds & listen to their calls to each other? When you haven't been able to leave home & walk maybe half a mile to Tampa Bay? I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.
I am not unappreciative of what I have. I know that many people would love to live where I'm living & they would thoroughly enjoy making this house into a home. Sadly I feel like I don't belong here. Truthfully I don't know where I belong.
Our plan was to list our house for sale in March. We have had since January 1st to get things in shape for the listing but we have been dragging our feet. Why? Why are we dragging our feet when we don't want to be here? Hello? Vienna? Would you like to send a panel of psychiatrists like to study us for a while? March came upon us quickly & we weren't prepared so the thought was okay, we will list the house in April. April is now 2 weeks away & there is so much that still needs to be done. Now we are thinking about waiting until May to list the house. John has even made the comment that maybe we should just hold off trying to sell until next year. Argh!
Posted by Shirlee at 9:11 AM 8 comments
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Dentists, Doctors, & Stitching
Ugh! It just keeps getting worse & worse. On Tuesday night after brushing my teeth I got out my little magnifying mirror ... something I usually avoid at all costs ... in order to see how things were progressing. I noticed a bit of white "gunk" on one of the bridge teeth & of course wondered how in the world I missed this piece of whatever it was after my brushing regimen. I attempted to remove it with the tip of my finger & was quite surprised to end up pulling an inch-long piece of thick string out from underneath this one bridge tooth. Pain & bleeding ensued. I had to take a heavy duty pain pill left over from a prior surgery in order to get to sleep. Yesterday it still hurt & it still hurts today. I also noticed that I get a great deal of pain when any pressure is applied to one of the bridge teeth. I called the dentist's office yesterday & was scheduled to come in later this morning so they could have a look-see. There's a simple explanation for everything it seems, the most important to me being that I had a lot of work done & therefore should expect to be sore & irritated for a few days. She readjusted the temporary bridge which should get rid of the pain caused underneath one of those teeth. The thick string? She gave me a long dental explanation for that but basically she missed removing this one piece & it worked its way out. She apologized profusely. Things should settle down after a couple days. I am to call next week to give her an update.
Yesterday morning I had a followup appointment with my doctor whose specialty is the female reproductive area. I don't want to use the actual "G" word since I've had the experience ... & know others who have had the experience ... of typing certain words on a blog post which somehow makes you a target for perverts looking for sites to visit. Anyway, I didn't think I needed to follow up with this doctor but when I called to give his nurse a progress report she told me he would need to examine me again. So there I was lying on the table as one does when one visits this type of doctor & he is asking me various questions, one of which was do I take bubble baths. I replied no, I never take baths. It was at this moment that I caught sight of the nurse & saw that she was trying very hard not to laugh. I immediately realized what I had said & tried to remedy the situation by saying "Of course I take showers!" At this point she couldn't control herself & she started to laugh uncontrollably. I couldn't see the doctor except for the top of his head which he was shaking back & forth. It took a while for the nurse & I to compose ourselves. Good grief! All is well though.
I have been stitching (& frogging) throughout the week & finished stitching 2 projects which I can't show you yet since they are gifts but I can show you this one ...
Posted by Shirlee at 3:24 PM 10 comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6 Hours In A Dentist's Chair
This is going to be a bit of a quickie post just so you all know I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth if you don't see any posts or comments from me for the next day or two. Yesterday morning I had a dentist appointment at 9 o'clock to get 2 temporary crowns & a temporary bridge placed. 6 hours later I was finally on my way home! I have no idea why it took so long except my dentist is a perfectionist & takes her time to make sure things are done right. Granted, this in itself is a good thing ... but she turned over the final cementing of the temporaries to her assistant who doesn't seem to have quite the same work ethic as she does. The assistant cemented the temporaries on a bit unevenly & one crown doesn't even meet my gum line. I didn't notice this until last night when the anesthetic had worn off. I've also got some kind of blisters or something on the inside of my upper lip which are not pleasant to say the least. Lots of pain & discomfort although this is caused by the teeth, not by the blisters : ( I need to go to Lexington in a few hours to take care of some medical stuff so I'm going to try to call the dentist when I get back & see if I can come back into the office for her to see this. I've got a doctor appointment on Wednesday morning, a possible optometrist appointment on Thursday, & more problems than you can shake a stick at that I need to make calls about to try to get taken care of. Argh!
On the way to the dentist's office I stopped at a red light on my way into Danville & saw these forsythia bushes. I just had to grab my new camera out of my purse to snap them. This is the main road into the city of Danville heading east. The buildings you can sort of see on the right side are part of Centre College. As soon as I got my camera out of its case & turned it on the light changed so I had to take this picture really quick. It still turned out pretty good, all things considered.
Posted by Shirlee at 5:03 AM 18 comments
Sunday, March 11, 2012
More Photos
Nothing majorly exciting in general ... & only 3 ... but here are some photos I took while John & I were wandering about the property this afternoon. Alas, it was almost 70 degrees & before we had even reached the gate to "the back 40" (which is actually the back 11 or 12) I was already miserably hot. Oh how I dread the warm weather months : (
While on the back 11 or 12 we saw a neighbor's cow in the distance ... a black one. Then we saw a brown one. We haven't seen them before & they looked rather young so I'm guessing they are new residents to the area. (As you can see, neighbors aren't too neighborly around here.) The young cows were very inquisitive. I'm assuming this was because it was their first time seeing us as well : ) I thought about walking down along the fence to where they were in order to properly introduce myself but it would've involved more walking in the aforementioned sweltering almost 70 degree heat & I promptly decided "forget it." Instead I used the zoom on my camera once again & took a photo of the black cow. The brown cow had decided to play hide & seek behind a tree.
Posted by Shirlee at 7:29 PM 10 comments
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Photography Tryouts
Please bear with me but I will probably be posting bunches of photos of any old thing for a few days to see if this new camera is worth keeping. If you have any opinions, good or bad, I would love to hear them. The following photos were just "quickies" I zipped around the house taking in the past 15 minutes or so. I still don't actually know what I'm doing or what all these camera settings are for. I guess I need to read the online manual. I consider this to be one of the irritations of life by the way ... online manuals. Granted, in the big scheme of things it's not that important ... & I know the "in" thing to do is to try to save trees ... but it's so much more convenient to have a manual in your hands so you can look things up any old time, highlight stuff, etc. Anyway, let me know what you think of these photos. Again they were taken quickly with me not really knowing what I was doing for the most part.
These bird photos were taken using the zoom capability through the dirty window of the back door. The first bird is a mourning dove. They are such sweet birds. The second is of course a male cardinal. I think this camera has one of those "rapid fire" type things where you can take a whole string of pictures within a matter of seconds. I'll have to check into that as it's a bit difficult standing with a camera focused on a bird until it ends up in somewhat of a nice pose which can change in a nanosecond : ) Just thought of something ... when photographing birds does one say to the bird "Watch the human!" like we tell people to "Watch the birdie?"
Posted by Shirlee at 8:12 AM 17 comments
Friday, March 9, 2012
Good morning one & all! It's actually almost noon. Time tends to get away from you when (A) you're me, & (B) you wake up at 3 a.m. after a fitful 3-1/2 hours of sleep. What did I do after getting out of bed at such an ungodly hour? Frogged & restitched. I started a new project last night & I knew after I had gotten a few letters stitched that it was going to be too big. The designer used 30 ct linen & stitched over 2 (I think) so that's what I did. I wanted to make this stitching into a pinkeep but by stitching it over 2 it would've had to have been finished into a small pillow. I knew it was going to be "too big" but I kept stitching anyway. Perhaps I need to see a psychiatrist what with this "you start it, you finish it" approach I have even when I see something isn't quite right. Anyway, when I got up at 3 a.m. I sat down & frogged the 4 words I had stitched & then started from scratch, this time stitching over 1. I think it will work out much better : )
I mentioned the other day that I would post a photo of my completed Pineberry Lane JOY stitchings soon. Here it is.
Posted by Shirlee at 1:05 PM 11 comments
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Cross Stitch Designers - Color Blind, or Sick Sense of Humor?
I have been rather busy the past couple days. Just the usual stuff ... getting the house ready to sell, my never-ending dance with insurance companies, medical/dental stuff, & of course there's the general day-to-day housekeeping we all enjoy so much. I've also spent time stitching. I finished the Pineberry Lane JOY stitchings I had been working on. They needed to be stained & the snowflakes needed to be stitched & now they are all done : ) I will show you a photo of them soon.
Remember the mystery project I was working on? I finally received the WDW Navy floss I ran out of & now that project is finished as well! A photo of this one will have to wait because it's going to be a gift.
I've also been working on a new project. Once again I cannot share a photo yet (another gift). I will, however, tell you about my stitching experience. This is where we need to ponder the question in my post title. Cross stitch designers ... color blind, or sick sense of humor? I don't think I'm going to give anything away by telling you that there is a sheep in this design. I gathered together the floss which the designer said was used to stitch the model. I don't think so! I thought the color choices were a bit odd. The two main colors used are DMC 3032, Medium Mocha Brown, & DMC 3021, Very Dark Brown Gray. I thought it was a bit strange that to my eyes the colors reeked of green. I checked & rechecked the pattern instructions & the labels on the skeins of DMC. I was not comfortable but decided to go with the designer's choices. After all, the designer knows best, right?
The DMC 3021 is more of a dark green with some dark gray overtones. This was not too much of a traumatic experience since it is mostly used for the wording & border. However, DMC 3021is used for the sheep, & no matter what the online DMC charts will show you it is actually more of a light pea green. I should have listened to my stomach when I pulled these skeins out of my floss collection. I should have returned them to the collection & promptly looked for more appropriate colors, especially for the sheep. However, again I thought "the designer knows best" so I started stitching. Needless to say I was uncomfortable with these color choices even before I began stitching but I forged ahead & completed the stitching even though I could see that poor little sheep was not looking anywhere near the color of any sheep I have ever seen. Not only that but the designer chose DMC 355, Dark Terra Cotta, for the sheep's muzzle area. DMC 355 is actually quite red. What I ended up with was a green sheep with a red muzzle area. Freddy Krueger Visits the Farm. I suppose it's possible that the only sheep this designer ever saw in her entire life was one who was extremely nauseous & had been gnawing on a barbed wire fence for a couple days. That seems rather unlikely though. The other possibility is that this particular designer has a sick sense of humor. I can see her now, putting together her Floss Table & laughing as she pictured people stitching green sheep with red muzzles. Anyway, I ended up unstitching the sheep & choosing my own colors. Edith looks much more real now : )
I will continue stitching Edith today & I've already got my next 2 projects picked out.
Can you believe how quickly March is moving along? Although I have accomplished quite a bit as far as the house goes there is still a lot to be done. Be that as it may, we are going to have an overnighter at a casino in West Virginia tomorrow. Once or twice a year we go to a casino, stay overnight & spend about 20 bucks playing penny slot machines. It's a few hours of entertainment & it's nice to get away. Sometimes we actually come home with a dollar or two more than we left with! There are also medical/dental appointments this week, next week, & the week after that. By the end of all that activity March will be over! Then we can start the April appointments! Also this month we are planning a visit to Iron Mountain, Michigan for a couple days for some business we need to take care of. As some of you know, John & I used to live there. It is a little "nothing" sort of town, far away from just about anything really (the closest "real" mall was in Appleton, Wisconsin which is a 2-1/2 hour drive) but there are many good things about it & I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could. John, however, resists that idea. Michigan is a very expensive state in many ways. Be that as it may, I am hoping that as we drive around the area he will see that it is worth moving back there. We shall see. Heaven knows there's no limit to where we could move although John refuses to move anywhere out of the United States. Men can be so stubborn sometimes!
Posted by Shirlee at 8:22 AM 11 comments
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Mouse Giveaway
Carol Stuck, mouse maker extraordinaire, is having a giveaway to celebrate her 1 year blogoversary & this is the gift you can have a chance to win!
Posted by Shirlee at 9:52 AM 3 comments
Friday, March 2, 2012
Just A Very, Very, Very Quick Question
Just a quick (very, very, very quick) question this morning regarding the new word verification. Does anyone know exactly when the new word verification went into effect? I need a specific date or at least the week it began.
We are predicted to have the chance of more tornadoes today & tonight. I did wake up to a dilly of a storm but not a tornado. The sky is dark right now but not menacing. I checked the weather map & our area is in the white section which apparently means we are beyond the red alert. I've never seen a white section used before!
The plan for today is to work more on getting the house ready to sell. As you may remember I had John bring the yard sale boxes in from the garage & put them upstairs. My hope was to go through them & find a bunch of "blah" stuff that would not excite anyone at a yard sale at which point I would've skipped happily to the car with the boxes & driven them to Goodwill to get them out of my hair. However, as I would open each box I would exclaim "WOW!" & then immediately feel dismayed as I sealed it up again for yard sale purposes. I found 3 large boxes full of Christmas ornaments ... Hallmarks & blown glass ones ... & then a super large box filled with other Christmas things. That leaves 2 boxes of kitchen type items & then a box of "specialty decor" items like fancy-schmancy hand painted Japanese candle holders & a mechanical wall clock that plays a variety of beautiful music each hour. I even found a box from my old painting days with some really cool wooden Halloween decorations I made! Sigh! I guess there's no rest for the weary. Hopefully I will find some time to accomplish some stitching today as well. I am working on a new project but I can't post any photos yet because it's a gift. It's a fun stitch though : )
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Point to your accomplishments — you're self-promoting. Don't point — get fired. It's a conundrum. Historically, our society has encouraged women to be the support behind achieving men. Unfortunately, as women have moved into the professional ranks, we are hard-pressed to change this paradigm. Further, when women follow the lead of successful men, we do so with limited success.Johnson suggests some good tactics you can use in meetings and even in formal speeches and presentations to promote yourself gently, but effectively--and avoid that backlash, including:
- Working in your "I did this" remarks as part of a team credit that lets you start with "we," while enumerating "'she did x, he did y, and I did z.' Society is comfortable with women who acknowledge others," Johnson notes.
- Keep your own list and validate your accomplishments to yourself.
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A hat tip to Daria Steigman for pointing me to Johnson's post.
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Installation - Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddrive
- 14.11.2011, 17:38 Uhr
Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddrive
Hello, I am new here and I am new to linux as well.
I have followed one of my professor's suggestion and decided to install kanotix on my desktop computer.
But I have troubles booting kanotix successfully after installation, here's my situition:
My computer currently runs with a Vista System(32 bit).
So I have downloaded Kanotix Hellfire 2011-05 32 bit and burnt it to a dvd.
I wanted to keep my vista system, so I purchased a GoFlex Desk of 2T as my external harddrive.
So I boot my computer with live-cd and followed the guide here in partitioning my external haddrive and I have installed grub onto my external haddrive(The external haddrive is labelled MBR.) Note: In the process, I have never touched my internal haddrives.
Then I restart my computer, during bios stage I pressed F12 to make my external harddrive as first boot device.
Then I can see:
grub loading
Then the screen shows three options for me, one is to boot linux and two is to boot my vista with/without safe mode or something.
Now, I have noticed after the screen shows the three options, my external haddrive's power light is off! I don't know why and it is off. So when i choose to boot linux, it will tell me:
Device not found
No such partition
I suspect this is because my external haddrive drive is off thus it can't find the linux os to load?
I don't see why and I don't know how to fix it.(I actually spent two days just to come to this tage, previously, I can't even get grub to run correctly, i.e. file not found error.)
Thanks in advance!
- 14.11.2011, 23:49 Uhr
Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddrive
Hi sm66,
a warm welcome to Kanotix community. The fact that you are new to Linux should be no problem, everything should be easy enough
Unfortunately we have only a wiki page for normal HD installation yet. I will start to change that, today or at least tomorrow evening we should have a new wiki page that shows how to install Kanotix to USB HD.
Nevertheless installing to USB HD is quite similar to installing Kanotix to HD. The points you need to be aware of are only:
1. Choose USB HD as root partition.
2. Install Grub to USB HD master boot record (MBR).
I would suggest that you use another ISO for new installations. Acritox offers some new trial ISOs, they are mainly for testing but they are all in all in good shape and they contain more updates. You can find the ISOs here
If you do not choose the latest one of them (111115a) then it would be good to update the installer before installation. It got some better user handling and some small bug fixes. You can do that in a shell (black icon in panel) with the following command:
sudo apt-get update && apt-get install acritoxinstaller
Regards TheOne
PS: if the new wiki page is finished, I will post the link here too
PPS: just out of curiosity, at which university a professor suggests Kanotix?
- 15.11.2011, 00:30 Uhr
Re: Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddri
Thank you! TheOne.
Thank you for your detailed explaination, I will try the iso you have suggested me first.
The professor is one of the best professors in University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
I am downloading kanotix32-acritox-trialshot-111003a now, since my Vista OS is 32 bits.(I am not sure if 64 bit is okay too?)/
I will try it and report back.
Just side notes:
I have previously done the following:
1. Choose USB HD as root partition.
2. Install Grub to USB HD master boot record (MBR).
And somehow the external harddrive just seemed to be power off after starting grub. I do not know why and that's the main reason I am posting. I.e.after grub has started, grub can't find my external HDD to load the OS image.(I have tried "ls" and it tells me it can't find partition or it can't read (h0,msdos).)
Thanks again,
- 15.11.2011, 10:55 Uhr
Re: Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddri
Are you sure grub is from the hd and not from dvd?
- 15.11.2011, 14:18 Uhr
Re: Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddri
Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::
Are you sure grub is from the hd and not from dvd?
Yes, I have removed the dvd and the only place grud is installed is the USB HD. After grub is running, (i.e. let me choose boot linux or windows), the USB HD's power light is turned off. I do not know why.
- 15.11.2011, 20:14 Uhr
Re: Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddri
Hmm that is exactly the right way how to do it. Seems that the installation how-to is not your problem. Maybe something special with your external drive... on mine it works fine ... I will finish the wiki page and you can take a look at the screenshots maybe you missed something after all.
Regards TheOne
- 16.11.2011, 01:25 Uhr
Re: Having troubles installing Kanotix on an External haddri
Looking forward to check out the page you wrote.
Also, I have tried numerous times without luck. Now I will try to install on another USB HD and see if it will work.
- 16.11.2011, 03:35 Uhr
Thank you TheOne,
Like you said, it's my USB harddrive problem.
I have tried to install kanotix on my 8G USB HD(Another HD), it worked great.
Now from my readings online, someone mentioned that some bios can only recognize the first 8GB of an external harddrive. I am not sure if that's the problem either.(I have tried to use only 4GB out of my 2TB USB HD to install Kanotix and it didn't work either.)
Out of curiosity, what kind of USB HD did you test on? And how big was the HD and how big was the root partition?
- 16.11.2011, 07:09 Uhr
maybe try an usb key if it is the problem of your hd only. is your hd usb3?
- 16.11.2011, 07:10 Uhr
Hi Sm66,
puhh I am glad to see it works now, because I ran out of ideas whats the problem here.
I used an 1TB big external usb drive. Cause there was just one big ntfs partition I shrinkd it to get some empty space at the end of the drive. That meas I created 2 new primary partitions (20GB root + 30GB home) after circa 900GB.
I think the problem here is the size of 2TB of your external drive.
Cheers TheOne
PS: sorry I did not get the wiki page(s) finished - if it works for you now, I will restructure the installation pages more to fit different kinds of installations
- 16.11.2011, 13:35 Uhr
TheOne hat folgendes geschrieben::
Hi Sm66,
I think the problem here is the size of 2TB of your external drive.
Hi TheOne,
What do you mean by this? Why would 2TB cause a problem?
After more searching on the web: I found that my external HD (The brand is GoFlex Desk) may have problems of dismount/sleep periodically. Lots of people posted how their USB HD would sleep during data transfer or something on GoFlex support page.
So ya, which brand of USB HD are you using? Or you have any suggestions on that?
- 16.11.2011, 13:36 Uhr
Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::
maybe try an usb key if it is the problem of your hd only. is your hd usb3?
My hd is usb3 (also usb2 compatible) and my computer's usb ports are 2.0. Is this going to cause my problem?
- 16.11.2011, 18:56 Uhr
I have a Seagate external hard drive, product code ST910004EXD101-RK.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?l ... ee0a0aRCRD
I have no USB 3.0 device yet, so I can not say if it works or not in combination with Kanotix. But Linux has USB 3.0 support since a long time ago, it was the first OS that supported USB 3.0. From Kernel side this should be no problem. Maybe someone in Kanotix IRC channel has more experience with that topic. Feel free to join us there
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mcolella brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 308 Designs von 89 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Logo design for membership site that offers tools and training for pay per click marketers.
PPC Labs
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This contest is for the main brand logo for PPClabs.com, I will probably have additional logos created later for individual software tools within the site.
The "labs" theme relates to the development environment for our software, we will constantly be adding more and more features, and also that this software is the first of it's kind to enter the market. Additionally, the "labs" theme relates to the training/learning environment for the membership site.
Some logos that are in the right direction can be seen at http://www.ellislab.com and labs.google.com
- 4 colors or less.
- Lab Flask or bubbles (suggestion only)
- Must be a vector based design, psd or ai file
- Logo should be shown against a white background
- Must be clean looking
- If using liquid as part of the design - the liquid should be some color other than blue.
- Nothing too complex, should print on business cards clearly.
- No cursive fonts, digital clock looking fonts, excessively angular fonts
- No dollar signs or other symbols of money
- No globe type images
- Don't face the P's in PPC in opposite directions.
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