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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Introducing Our Newest Guest Photographer
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
PhotoHunt: Daily
Give us this day our Daily bread. . . Oh and some fresh creamery butter would really be nice too.
See PhotoHunt finds for the "Daily" theme from all over the world by clicking here.
Labels: PhotoHunt
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Phun Phriday! #3: New Motion Blur
If you visited last week on Phun Phriday! #2 you probably weren't too impressed. As I said in the post, this is all about experimentation and learning - together. I also mentioned that I got the idea for this kind of motion blur photography from a photographer named Ed Vatza at It's My Nature blog and I was mesmerized by it.
Last weeks photo was "interesting" but frankly not that great. Most of the people who looked at it didn't quite know what to say and so they said nothing at all. Three people commented and they focused on the water drop setup part of the post. I sincerely appreciated each of those comments including Bruce's honesty in admitting he really didn't like it, but I wanted to try this new Phun and that was the best of what I had done so far.
Not one to give up easily I decided to try it again this week. I actually had a totally different photo lined up when I looked out the window Wednesday morning and snow was falling. I snatched up my camera and headed for a secluded wooded area in the middle of a town about 8 miles from my home and started practicing motion blur again.
I posted one of my favorites and I think it is an improvement but I would really like to hear your honest thoughts on it. (I uploaded this one slightly larger than most so if you click on the photo you can go in and take an even better look than usual.) Remember . . .Phun Phriday! is all about having Phun with Photography. I also hope that you've tried something Phun recently and will share it with us.
Labels: Motion Blur, Phun Phriday, Slow Shutter
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Weeds in High Key
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Fog, Frost, Winter
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Full Moon Rising
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Reflecting on City Lights
Today's photo was taken in the dark of night, but I found it very interesting to see the city lights lighting up both the mountain side behind the city and the clouds above.
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Reflections, Slow Shutter
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Frosty Thistle Color & Grayscale Comparison
I'm torn between which I like better. Do you have a preference? Please tell me which you like better and why. Or, if you don't like either tell me that too and why. I'm a big boy, I can take constructive criticism.
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Frost, Monochrome, Winter
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Problem? - Solved!
Problem: As I mentioned in a previous blog post I don't want this to become a Sunset Photo Blog. I know it's just a personal mental thing.
Fact: I do love to capture a beautiful sunset. I've always loved sunsets and as I wrote about in another previous blog post I even had a poem I wrote about sunsets published in a national magazine.
Fact: I publish a photo almost every day except Sundays. Sometimes on Sunday's I'll introduce a new Guest Photographer.
Solution: I'll start my own little theme and call it "Sunday Sunsets".
Like Phun Phriday! it is open to anyone who would like to join in but don't feel like you can't just come and look if you want and comment if you want. It's just an outlet for the sunset shots that I get that I'm particularly pleased with, but I do love beautiful sunset shots and invite you to share yours with us.
Labels: Sunset
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
PhotoHunt: Cuddly
I have to be honest, unfortunately I'm not a very cuddly kind of guy. Don't get me wrong, I like a hug or a cuddle as much as the next person, I just don't do much of it. Well that's probably too much information. As I prepare this on Friday for Saturday's PhotoHunt post, I'm betting that 80% will include Pets or spouse or children. My wife said if I put her photo in and call her cuddly she'd have my clothes on the front sidewalk before morning, so I'm going to use two photos of my boxer Annabelle, one taken when she was just a very cuddly new puppy with my baby daughter and the other about 10 years later, with a cuddly grandson.
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Labels: Home and Family, PhotoHunt
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Phun Phriday! - #2: Motion Blur + Extra
"We are experiencing technical difficulties. Do not attempt to adjust your set". If you are old enough to remember that coming on your TV screen then you're probably nearing retirement.
Welcome to the second Phun Phriday! Phun Phriday!, in case you didn't read the post on Phun Phriday! Numero Uno, is all about having phun with photography. So. . . there will be lots of experimentation and learning. Just like today's photo you will be on a journey with me as I try new things and learn, and sometimes fail, you'll be there. If you have ideas to make it better, or you've tried it and failed too, or tried it and succeeded and want to share what you've done we welcome you and want to hear from you. (As I said last week, lurkers/watchers are certainly encouraged too and please don't be afraid to comment.)
Now about today's photo. As I was out taking photos in this past Wednesday morning's fog I thought "hey, I've got an idea. How about if I try a vertical pan to create a motion blur?". I figured that when you take the color out of a photo it tends to make you see the shapes and substance, so if you motion blur the subject it will make you "focus" on the abstract and the colors. Okay, so now I'm a liar and a thief. I'm a liar because I didn't really come up with that idea by myself. So far as I know I've never had an original idea in my life. I see other photos and ideas and I decide to try them myself and see how it works. A couple weeks ago I came across a blog called It's My Nature and one of his galleries is all about abstracts. I was enchanted by many of the photos and so I thought I'd try some. Several nights ago, when I took the photo with the red lights reflecting on the bushes, I tried a couple shots with a horizontal panning, but you could hardly tell, so the other morning when I was taking some fog shots I thought I'd try some vertical panning as well as some horizontal. This was the best of the bunch. Yes, I know I have a long way to go, but it's a start so watch for more on future Phun Phriday!s. In case you want to try this remember you're going to need a long exposure. This one was only one second long at f10 though I did some as long as three seconds. I had a 3X neutral density filter and a circular polarizer to allow me to get the long exposures.
Now for the Extra promised in the title of today's post. Here are some photos of the setup for last weeks Phun Phriday! water drop photo.
In the previous water drops I posted with the water actually in the orange and the apple, I was outside in very bright sun light and used a very short exposure. Looking at other peoples' work I learned that the best source is a flash set on a very low setting so that it was very brief, like 1/10,000 second to stop the action. I set my flash up in the shower enclosure to bounce off the walls. As you can see it worked quite nicely. Fortunately my Olympus DSLR has radio controlled flash so I didn't have to run wires over to it.
I will be doing more water drop photography, and some of the drops won't be water. Hopefully my future setups will be a little more sophisticated.
Now, if you've hung in this long I'd love to hear from you and see your results from either the motion blur or the water drop photographs. Remember it is Phun Phriday! so lets have some PHUN!
Labels: Fog, Phun Phriday, Slow Shutter, Tutorial, Water Drop
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Over the River and Through the Tunnel
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Snow, Winter
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
She Ain't Sung Yet
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Fog, Frost
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Does anyone recognize this flower? I would love to get the name of it so I could find some more for this upcoming spring. I call them Crab Claws because I don't know what they should be called and that's what they look like to me. I wish I had a photo with something in it to give you a size comparison, because they are really quite teeny. Each of the claw looking parts is only about 1 inch (2.5 cm) tall. That also means that this little group of blossoms is about 2 inches (5 cm) across from side to side. On the full plant there were dozens of these little groups and this is as big as they got. I'm pretty sure they're annuals, because we bought them last year and at the end of the summer we tossed them with the rest of the plants and dirt from that pot.
Here is a photo of them from the top.
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Flowers, Macro
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Riddle Me This
Well it's not really a riddle, because I don't have some kind of funny answer. Really it's just a questions. Do you know?
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Reflections, Sunset
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Introducing a New Guest Photographer
It's got to the point now I have so many photo blogging friends that I don't know how I found them or they found me that it has become the norm. This is another one of those, and I think it's one of the best benefits of my blogging efforts. They say the cream rises to the top and as you can see by this photo Els at FOCUSMEUS is certainly among the cream. Els not only takes GORGEOUS photographs but also is a master at web site stuff. One day I was lamenting about how certain things on my blog weren't working the way I wanted them to when I got an email about how to fix them. Els knew things about my blog that I had no idea of and was able to tell me exactly what to do. Now I go back to FOCUSMEUS almost daily just to see what beautiful new photos have appeared. You'll find it well worth your time to pay a visit.
Labels: Guest Photo
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
PhotoHunt: Broken
This week's PhotoHunt theme is Broken. Does "busted" mean the same as broken? Okay, I'm stretching again this week. The photo I posted was one I took Wednesday night. And when I say "night" I mean night. It was so dark that I had to point my camera in the direction where I thought the photo was and then opened the shutter for 60 seconds and let it gather in the light. (Hey, this could have qualified for Phun Phriday! that I announced on my blog yesterday) I thought it turned out okay. As I was looking at it I noticed the reddish looking foliage in the very front and thought how interesting it was that they picked up the red. (You may have to click on the photo to enlarge it to see the red) I didn't remember noticing any red in those bushes while it was still daylight, but I have seen red foliage in the winter before and found it very pretty. Then I realized what happened.. . . Even though I was on a very little used roadway the parking lights were left on on the car so that if someone did come down the road they would see us. Those bushes had reflected the red tail lights of the car and that's what I was seeing. Busted!
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Labels: PhotoHunt, Slow Shutter, Sunset
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Phun Phriday! Numero Uno
Followed by fanfare trumpets - Ta Da!!!!!
Phun Phriday!
You're probably asking yourself. . . "Self, what is Phun Phriday!?" You may also be asking, "Why did you spell it that way?"
Well I'll answer the second one (the one about the spelling) first so as to get it out of the way. I was originally going to call it Photography Phun Phriday, but then I thought that was too long so I'd just call it Photog Phun Phriday and as I sat down and started today's "Numero Uno" post I decided to shorten it to just plain Phun Phriday! but I decided to keep the spelling because I'm weird that way and I checked all the blogging rules and they didn't say I couldn't.
Now about that first question. If you read my "Welcome" message you read that "the main purpose of this is to have some F U N with photography". In spite of that, overall, my blog has been pretty dang serious. Well I may still be mostly serious on all the days except Phun Phriday! (and Saturday when I play along with all the PhotoHunters) but on Phun Phriday! I'm going to force myself out of my little box of rules and structures and take time for - as Monte Python would say - "something completely different" .
Phun Phriday! will be a day to try something new and different, or maybe something I've done before - like today's - but I'm still trying to figure it out and get better at it, or try it in a different way, or it may be a new Photoshop or other photo manipulation/editing/craziness trick. In other words it can be anything new or different or improved or whatever that makes me or you stretch and get out of our comfort zone. Oh yeah, and I might just do a tutorial on how I did something, especially if a few people comment and say "How did you do that?" Or if I just feel like it. (I'm probably going to get more "Why did you do that?")
So there it is. OBTW, if you'd like to play along please do so! And please feel free to leave a comment with a link to your Phun Phriday! post(s). Oh, and if you do play along, would you be kind enough to insert a link to this page or my Phun Phriday! post of that week. If enough people decide that they want to play along I'll maybe even create a little logo button for it. We'll just play it by ear.
If you'd like to just lurk, great I love lurkers, and I hope you still feel free to leave a comment especially if you can tell me how I can do it better or have more fun with it or even if you think it's just stupid and I wasted your time. (Yes, and I like nice comments like "Scott, that is the absolute most amazingly gorgeous incredibly smart thing I've every seen in my whole entire life!!!" and stuff like that too.)
Hope to see you on Phun Phriday!
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Just For Fun, Phun Phriday, Water Drop
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Be Careful What You Wish For
Only a couple of days ago I lamented in one of my posts that the snow was pretty much gone. This morning I woke up to this. I really am not unhappy about the snow. I only wish it had shown up a day earlier because today I have to go to work and so I won't get the chance to go out and find some great shots. This one from my front porch will have to do.
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Snow, Winter
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Shapes & Shadows
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Monochrome
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
The snow is almost gone now. Today was clear, but cool. I find myself hoping for at least one more really good snow storm before Winter leaves us this year.
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Fog, Frost, Scenic, Winter
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Watery Crown
Labels: Daily Photo Post, Just For Fun, Water Drop
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
Photohunt: Average
Okay, I admit it, this one is a real s---t---r---e---t---c---h. I've only been playing with my fellow PhotoHunters for about three months now, but this is definitely my least favorite, and maybe I can say most difficult, theme. As I have said before, I like to create a photo just for the theme, and I guess in a way I have, but it comes from one I took just shy of 4 months ago.
Hopefully the photo above wouldn't be considered average by most people, but it came from the photo below which may be considered average. The differences are created by an average of about 3 or 4 minutes of processing in Adobe Bridge, and then a few more minutes of processing in Photoshop where I crop, frame and add my signature.
For more samples of average this week click here: PhotoHunter
Labels: Landscape, Mountains, PhotoHunt, Photoshop, Scenic, Snow, Winter
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Winter Walk
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Labels: Daily Photo Post, Snow, Winter
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Pea Soup
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Labels: Daily Photo Post, Fog, Snow, Winter
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
What The ????
Usually "challenges" don't get to me, but I was out looking for a new place to get great sunset shots tonight and maybe I found one, I don't know, but what I did find was today's photo. I probably wouldn't have even posted it because I don't think it's anything extraordinary, but I was visiting Bush Babe's blog and she posted a challenge about reflections. I do like water reflections and this one certainly had that, so here you go.
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Labels: Daily Photo Post, Reflections
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
The Yellow Sun Reflects
By the way, these were taken two nights ago, on Jan. 31st and other than a tiny bit of processing from Camera Raw to JPG, this is pretty much the way they came out of the camera. You may have noticed that these aren't the first sunset photos I've done in the last few days, and chances are they won't be the last.
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Labels: Daily Photo Post, Sunset
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Monday, February 01, 2010
New Guest Photographer
I asked her to send me a couple of her favorite photos to post here and this is my favorite of the ones she sent me.
Thanks Ave, for letting me use your photo and please keep up the great work!
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J.C. Penney CEO Touts Towels, Cookware to Stem Losses
Matt TownsendJ.C. Penney Co.'s widening loss and falling sales last quarter show that Chief Executive Officer Mike Ullman is still plagued by his predecessor's missteps as the retailer prepares for the crucial holiday shopping season.
While hedge-fund investors including J. Kyle Bass are betting the retailer will recover, Ullman is struggling to preserve cash and woo back alienated shoppers by reversing some of the changes ushered in by former CEO Ron Johnson.
The Plano, Texas-based department-store chain said it planned to close some of the home-goods boutiques from the Johnson era, though it declined to say which ones. To improve results, J.C. Penney will devote extra floor space to towels, cooking utensils and more profitable categories such as luggage and window treatments.
"The third quarter is make or break," Liz Dunn, an analyst at Macquarie Group in New York, said yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television. She rates the shares neutral, the equivalent of a hold.
Analysts estimate J.C. Penney will continue to post losses in the next four quarters, each loss smaller than the results the chain reported yesterday.
Daphne Avila, a spokeswoman for the retailer, declined to comment for this story.
Ullman is saddled with vestiges of his predecessor's strategy, which involved turning the stores into mini malls of branded boutiques, that were too far along to abandon.
One of Johnson's biggest initiatives was a more upscale home department selling designer goods such as $60 toasters from architect Michael Graves and big-ticket goods including a $1,695 chair from Happy Chic by Jonathan Adler. Such items aren't resonating with J.C. Penney's middle-market customers and sales at stores open at least 12 months fell 12 percent in the second quarter.
'Major Obstacle'
"Our underperformance in this area has been a major obstacle in the turnaround effort," Ullman said during an analysts' conference call yesterday. "It was apparent quickly that the merchandise wasn't resonating with our core customer, and performance is weaker than we hoped."
The company plans to sell low-priced items such as towels in the wide aisles in the home area, part of Johnson's vision to create a main street aesthetic, and turn test kitchens, also part of the former Apple Inc. retail head's overhaul, into cookware shops.
J.C. Penney also needs to clear out the merchandise that isn't selling. During the second quarter, discounting reduced gross margin, or the percentage of sales left after the cost of goods sold, to 29.6 percent from 33.2 percent. The net loss expanded to $586 million, or $2.66 a share, from a deficit of $147 million, or 67 cents, a year earlier, the company said.
'Tricky' Season
This holiday season, balancing promotions to drive sales and profitability will be "tricky," said Rick Snyder, an analyst for Maxim Group LLC in New York, who recommends buying J.C. Penney shares. The focus should be on persuading as many people as possible to visit stores, Snyder said.
"If the customer doesn't come back, it's not going to work," Snyder said. "It's that simple."
The shares fell 4.9 percent to $13.33 at the close in New York. The stock has sunk 32 percent this year, compared with a 15 percent advance for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Since his arrival in April, Ullman has slowed the sales slide by stepping up discounts and bringing back private-label merchandise that appeals to core customers. During the second quarter, revenue declines improved each month. The trend will continue through the rest of the year and results from the early part of the back-to-school season also were encouraging, J.C. Penney said.
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This month, Bill Ackman, the company's largest shareholder, urged the board to replace Ullman earlier than planned. Ackman has since left the board and won permission to gradually unwind his stake.
Over the past two weeks, Bass, who focuses on corporate turnarounds, has accumulated a long position by buying the company's secured loans, according to a person familiar with the matter. The 43-year-old founder of Dallas-based Hayman Capital Management LP is betting J.C. Penney can stabilize sales and has enough cash and credit to carry it until the 2014 holiday season, said the person, who asked not to be named because the information is private. In the hedge-fund manager's view, the company's apparel business is rebounding and it is sitting on valuable real estate, the person said.
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Soros Fund Management LLC, Perry Capital LLC and Glenview Capital Management LLC also have taken stakes in J.C. Penney.
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Besides winning back shoppers, Ullman will have to preserve cash. Earlier this month, analysts including JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Matthew Boss said the retailer was using so much cash it may need to seek more outside funds by the end of the year. J.C. Penney said it expected to end the year with more than $1.5 billion in liquidity and that the forecast doesn't assume outside financing.
Within three weeks of returning, Ullman drew down $850 million of the company's revolving credit line and negotiated a $2.25 billion loan. It pays interest at 6 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The debt was quoted at 95.5 cents on the dollar yesterday, down from a high of 101.9 cents on July 23, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Given the company's use of cash, "things really need to turn quickly in the third quarter," Dunn said. "I didn't think they had a shot to do it in this second quarter."


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On the eve of the 14th this year, I was sitting under the halo of my brass desk lamp assembling these little cards. Nothing seems to beat pink scraps of paper come mid-February, except maybe boxes full of milk chocolate. Earlier in the winter I was working on some sewing illustrations for one of the magazines at work, and I got to thinking how perfectly suited old button cards are for those quintessentially tiny valentines that children hand out in grade school. I spent January thinking about this idea, and the opening weeks of February getting to work in Illustrator. The finished cards have a pastel palette, some dimension courtesy of pop dots, and an assortment of trite sayings like "Beau Buttons: Handsome and steadfast" and "Arrow Brand: Cupid's preferred button." Lastly, they're designed to pair with #1 envelopes from Paper Source in Blossom and Papaya.
To make them yourself, download the .pdf by clicking here. To assemble as shown above, cut out cards on page one. Then punch out buttons on page three using 1" and 5/8" circle punches. Adhere buttons to cards where indicated with 1/4" pop dots. I've also included blank button cards, in case you'd like to attach your own buttons or use them in your scrapbooking projects.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Button Card Valentines
Labels: Crafts, Downloads, Graphic Design
25 comments:
- Karen said...
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- March 16, 2012 at 6:06 AM
- Clementine said...
I love these! They are so pretty, what a great idea. thank you x
- March 16, 2012 at 6:43 AM
- jessica wilson said...
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- March 16, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Stacy's Designs 88 said...
Gorgeous! Sooo darling.
- March 16, 2012 at 6:11 PM
- Chocolate and Steel said...
these are adorable! thanks for sharing with all of us. I think they will make very cute gift cards.
- March 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM
- Jessica Dotta said...
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- March 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM
- Lissa (Bellenza) said...
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- March 24, 2012 at 1:20 AM
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thankyou for sharing. - April 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM
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Taylor - April 8, 2012 at 10:10 PM
- Chelsea said...
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Chelsea - April 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM
- Zima said...
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- April 15, 2012 at 4:21 AM
- elissa said...
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- April 19, 2012 at 6:32 PM
- kiki said...
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- April 24, 2012 at 7:11 AM
- june said...
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- April 25, 2012 at 12:13 AM
- Amanda said...
I nominated you for an award! http://milkyypearls.blogspot.com/2012/04/one-lovely-blog-award.html
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Twelve years ago, I found an old porch light at an estate auction. I knew instantly that I wanted to make a birdhouse out of it. I had a stack of old tiles, and it just worked. The house with the chipmunk on top is the one that I made twelve years ago. It has been hanging in my backyard ever since. Wisconsin Winters to Wisconsin Summers, year after year and it still looks great.
The one I made for purposes of this Instructable is the green one. I found the fixture on Ebay after a search for hanging porch light, swag light, porch lantern.
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FPC meeting process
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FPC meeting process
This guide explains how to manage and run the FPC IRC meeting, it works similar to the FESCo_meeting_process and this page should document the differences.
One "business day" before the meeting is scheduled, do the following tasks: (So, Friday if meetings are Monday, etc)
1. First check the trac ticket items that have been modified recently:
...and move any need to be discussed to the meeting status.
2. Check the meeting report, and generate the agenda email using it:
3. Generate an email to the firstname.lastname@example.com list, and CC firstname.lastname@example.com, with the following template:
Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (YYYY-MM-DD 16:00 UTC)
(Replace "Thursday's" with the day of week for the meeting)
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at YYYY-MM-DD 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. rktime): YYYY-MM-DD 09:00 Wed US/Pacific YYYY-MM-DD 12:00 Wed US/Eastern YYYY-MM-DD 16:00 Wed UTC YYYY-MM-DD 17:00 Wed Europe/London YYYY-MM-DD 18:00 Wed Europe/Paris YYYY-MM-DD 18:00 Wed Europe/Berlin YYYY-MM-DD 21:30 Wed Asia/Calcutta ------------------new day---------------------- YYYY-MM-DD 00:00 Thu Asia/Singapore YYYY-MM-DD 00:00 Thu Asia/Hong_Kong YYYY-MM-DD 01:00 Thu Asia/Tokyo YYYY-MM-DD 02:00 Thu Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting = Followups = #topic #NNN Title of ticket .fpc NNN https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/NNN = New business = #topic #NNN Title of ticket .fpc NNN https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/NNN = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to this e-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fpc, e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.
Replace NNN with the ticket numbers and add in Title of tickets.
Day of meeting
1. Send out a reminder IRC message about 30 minutes before the meeting to the #fedora-devel IRC channel. By doing:
/msg fedbot say #fedora-devel FPC meeting in 30 minutes in #fedora-meeting-1
2. Send out a reminder IRC message as the meeting starts to the #fedora-devel IRC channel. By doing:
/msg fedbot say #fedora-devel FPC meeting starting now in #fedora-meeting-1
Post meeting
1. When #endmeeting runs it displays links for the logs. Use the .txt and then .log.txt files in your email created above. Send it out to firstname.lastname@example.com right after meeting. (If you wait, it's very easy to forget). (Make sure and CC: firstname.lastname@example.com too)
The subject should be:
Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (YYYY-MM-DD 16:00 - HH:MM UTC)
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Life Imitates Art: WPC
The weekly photo challenge inspired by
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
— Oscar Wilde
Grandchildren Anna and Michael and Vincent Van Gogh at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Thanksgiving time.
Vincent, Euthemia, Dorothy, Liane and Montclair Came to Mind Today
October 29th, Wednesday Afternoon
Funny how the unexpected sight of something triggers a stream of consciousness.
The word Iris, the sight of these Iris blooming made me think of many things.
In Highland Park after school today, while waiting for a poet to arrive to shoot the author photo for her new book cover,
I saw these Iris.
I always think of Iris as the"end of the school year" flower but now I see they bloom in late October, too.
Vincent Van Gogh painted them.
Euthemia is always planting, growing, showing and readying Iris for her Capital Hudson Iris Society show and sale
Liane Ellison Norman wrote a poem, " I Dug Up the Iris" about our friend Dorothy's Iris.
When I was young, we lived in Montclair New Jersey and walked in the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens named after the founder of the American Iris Society.
So many memories triggered by the sight of their blooming today.
Imagine, Standing with Van Gogh, St. Patrick's Scaffolded, Mercury, Ribbons for Peace, Patience
We walked through Strawberry Fields and saw the Imagine mosaic. A man sat on a bench playing the guitar. We wondered why he wasn't strumming a Beatles tune. We walked over the to the Frick Collection and saw the Piero della Francesca in America , no photography allowed.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
you could stand around all day and take photos of people being photographed with Vincent Van Gogh's self portrait.
The scaffolding on St.Patrick's Cathedral will be in place for three to four years.
Lit a candle in St. Patrick's.
Mercury at Rockefeller Center
Prayers for Peace. I read the sign and took the photo. After I crossed the street I realized just how many ribbons there were on the fence surrounding the church.
We walked down Fifth Avenue from 72nd St to 10th St
Mary and I stood at Washington Square in the late afternoon sun for long shadows.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Friendship
The sunflowers are a gift from a friend.
This photograph was taken in the art room today on my iPhone. Most of the middle schoolers were on a trip. After lunch I had a few who didn't get to attend. This wonderful painting was created by a young man named Scott. He painted the sunflowers a friend had brought me.
I didn't want to leave the flowers at home alone so took them with me to school. They were so vibrant and summery.
Oh, the unexpected surprise of the gift of flowers from a good friend.
Friday after school, I put the bouquet on the front seatand when I arrived at my son and DIL's home and took them out of the car, my granddaughter ran down the hill of the front yard to greet me and said excitedly when she saw them, "Oh we studied that artist! " Later in the craft store she picked up a Starry Night Umbrella and told me it was the same artist as the Sunflowers. She's 8 1/2 and just completed second grade Tuesday.
Thanks for the flowers, friend. I thought it would cheer you to see them in Scott's painting.
(And that eyeball glaring from the chair is from the cover of a book that belongs to Scott's classmate and friend, J, who told me he has checked out the photos on this blog! Cool. )
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text: The Wedding Dash wiki last edited by BeachThunder on 05/25/14 03:40AM View full history OverviewWedding Dash is a strategy management game, created by PlayFirst. In Wedding Dash, players rush around delivering food to guests and keep everything running smoothly. Being a spin-off of the Diner Dash series, the main character of the Diner Dash series, Flo, makes quite a few appearances in Wedding Dash. She'll even show up to some weddings to help out.StoryThe game starts off with the main character, Quinn, standing next to her friend who is trying on a wedding dress. Quinn is one of the bridesmaids and is helping her friend out. Suddenly, the bride receives a phone call that tells her the that many aspects of her wedding are falling apart. Quinn tells her friend that everything will be alright, and her friend says that Quinn is her answer, and that she should plan the wedding. And thus starts Quinn's wedding planning career.Gameplay Use hints given in the letter to choose the best option in the following page.There are five layers of levels in Wedding Dash. These levels are displayed in cake form before players choose to start on weddings. For example, there are twelve levels in the first layer of the cake. Then players move on to a new location and more of everything will be presented. More guests, more disasters and more extras. Planning At the beginning of each wedding, players read a note from the bride and groom, hinting what sort of food, flowers, honeymoon spots, as well as other things, they want for their wedding. It's not essential to get correct, it's basically some easy starter cash before each reception. Reception The reception is where players actually play the game. Players must seat the guests, take their gifts to the newlyweds and as well as feed them appetizers, a main dish, and finally cake. This must all be done while taking care of any mishaps that may occur, and comply with where the guests want to sit. A money goal must be achieved before moving on to the next level. There's also an expert goal that can be achieved. Chains If players do things multiple times in a row, a chain is created. For example, if players place three guests in a row, each time after the first, more money is maid than usual. The first guest might give twenty, the second forty and the fifth sixty. This applies to everything, as long as it's the same action. If players place two guests, then take their gifts, then place two more, it won't start from the previous placing, it will reset. Mishaps There are some random problems that will occur during receptions. Only Quinn can fix these problems and a symbol will appear indicating that players need to click it to send her over, and solve whatever may be happening. More of them appear throughout the game, and Quinn hints at them at the start of the reception. Players lose a large amount of money if the problem exists for too long, so the symbols should be clicked right away.Brawling Bridesmaids - Two bridesmaids appear near the DJ's booth who are in a bit of a cat fight. Send Quinn over immediately to solve. Choked-Up Aunt - Aunt Ethel can sometimes burst into tears. The thought of weddings just makes her so happy.Beehive - Bees may appear in a swarm. They obviously weren't invited, so have Quinn shoo them off.Cooking Catastrophe - The Chef's cooking setup may go on the fritz.Disruptive Dog - A dog belonging to one of the guests occasionally appears at the top left of the screen.Bad Leg - The table charged with the significant job of holding the cake, is a little broken.Cut Off - Uncle Ernie can get a bit rowdy after a few drinks.Messed Music The DJ's table might get messed up sometimes. Guest Types Each guest has a different personality. There are only so many though, and players will often end up with many of the same guest at once. Some guests are more patient than others. Some are more charismatic. Players will be told about each guest before they're introduced at the start of the reception. So if there is a new guest type, Quinn will mention them, so players know what they're like before they are seated.Every guest will have a thought bubble over their head when they enter the reception. This will tell players where they want, or do not want to go. If dealt with effectively, players will be awarded a seating bonus.Also, each guest has three varying qualities, depending on who they are:Charisma - If they are charismatic, other guests will want to sit by them, if not, guests might come in asking not to sit by them.Eating Pace - How quickly a guest eats their food. Some scarf it all down, and some take their time.Patience - Guests with high patience don't need to be taken care of as quickly, they don't mind waiting as much, but some guests get irritated very quickly.List of the game's guests: Uncle Al - Al is a pretty average guest. Decently patient and charismatic. Average eating speed as well Alison - Another pretty average guest.Dereck - The last of the average guests.Chloe - Chloe is extremely charismatic but her patience and eating speeds are average.Diane - Really patient, but a slow eater. Charisma is average.Auntie Ethel - Pretty average in the three areas, but she can randomly burst into tears.Bob - Bob likes to eat his food really quickly so he can get to the dance floor. Otherwise he's pretty average.Uncle Ernie - Similar to Auntie Ethel, Ernie has his moments. Occasionally he can let the drinks get a hold of him. He's not very patient and eats a little quicker than most, and his charisma is lower than others, because of his drunkenness.Betty - Betty is very talkative, which annoys most of the other guests. Her charisma is lower because of this. Her patience is also low and her eating pace is normal.Chuck - Chuck is very short on patience, and not many guests want to sit next to him, but he eats a normal speed. Extras Throughout the game, there will be extra things the player can do to help beat the mad rush. Some are random, while others are brought by Quinn.Bonuses - During certain points in the game, players will be asked which bonus they want for the rest of the tier of levels. These vary from making your waitress faster, to making the guests more patient, or making food worth more.Champagne - Quinn sometimes brings in some bottles of champagne to pop. Players will start off with one to three bottles, once players get far enough, and each time one is popped, it makes the guests waiting to be seated patient again. So if their thought bubbles were becoming more hostile, this will reduce it temporarily.Confetti Blaster - The confetti blaster is like the champagne, of the seated guests. It reduces their anger if they've been waiting long, but players can only use this when the red sphere on it flashes green. Other than letting it charge up, it has unlimited uses.Changing Seats - Sometimes a guest may wish to change seats, so they can sit next to someone else. This happens sometimes when players place a guest next to another, when they had requested a certain one. This doesn't break the chain if players have one going to change seats.Song Change - Like changing seats, some guests will bring music to give to the DJ. This provides a large reward, and it doesn't break the chain, so it should be done whenever possible.Wine - Yet another item for the waitress to serve. Random like the changing music, guests will sometimes want some wine. Players get a large amount of money for doing it and it does not break the chain.Modes Career Mode In Career Mode, players basically play through the story. Keep the guests and newlyweds happy, and stop disasters while still trying to reach the ever growing goal. Endless Reception Except for the initial planning which no longer happens, everything else is the same. During this mode, players are trying to keep everyone happy, and the game will only end, if the bride becomes bridezilla.


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A growing consumer preference for larger smartphone screens will likely push Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) into releasing a large-screen iPhone soon, reports MarketWatch. Although some Apple users have been waiting for an iPhone "phablet" ever since rival Samsung (SSNLF.PK) first introduced its line of large-screen Galaxy Note devices, the trend towards larger screens on mobile devices has since become even more widespread.
Several tech commentators have noted that the trend is especially strong in Asia, where Apple is keen to expand its market share. "The real reason is Asia," said Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White via MarketWatch. "What's happening over there is consumers prefer 4-inch to 5-inch screens. So Apple missed out on some market share opportunities. In the last 18 months, the trend of these 4-inch to over 5-inch screen sizes in smartphones has really accelerated."
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- AnonymousDecember 19, 2009 at 12:53 AM
I can't enlarge the pics!!! What is it - I'm dying here!!!
ReplyDelete Dear Alice, You've disappeared, like everything else. But who else can I talk to? ...I'm lost, Alice. When you left--and he left-- you took everything with you. But the absence of him is everywhere.
Time passes. Every tick that goes by...aches...like the pulse of blood behind a bruise...But in a way I'm glad. The pain is my reminder that he was real. That you all were...- AnonymousDecember 19, 2009 at 2:01 AM
What are you talking about??? whats so amazing about these? I'm so confused!
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i don't get whats amazing about these either?! i'm confused as well!!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 9, 2010 at 7:01 PM
what is the email address Bella uses to contact Alice?
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has anyone actually tried that email to see if it works??
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European Commission Press release Brussels, 12 September 2012 Commission proposal boosts European political parties' ability to represent EU citizens, strengthens democracy The Commission today adopted a proposal to strengthen the ability of European political parties to form a truly European public sphere and express the will of EU citizens, by increasing their visibility, recognition, effectiveness, transparency and accountability. The proposal provides European-level legal status for European political parties and their affiliated foundations, tackling the most important obstacle they face when operating in and across Member States. Most are currently registered as Belgian non-profit making associations, or 'asbl'. Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič said: "Truly transnational European political parties and foundations are key to articulating the voices of citizens at European level, and generating Europe-wide public debates. They have a central role to play in shaping the debate on European issues, which in view of the 2014 European elections, promises to be lively in the years to come. This ambitious proposal is an important step towards consolidating European democracy". To be recognised as a European political party or a European political foundation, such organisations will have to meet high standards on internal democracy, governance, accountability, transparency, and respect for the values on which the Union is founded. All aspects of party funding will be subject to a comprehensive set of rules, including strict reporting and control requirements. A regime of administrative sanctions will be introduced in case of infringements. There will be no impact on the overall amounts made available under the EU budget for funding of political parties and foundations. But the rules governing such funding will be streamlined and adapted to their specific situation and needs. European political parties would have to publish the names of donors contributing more than €1,000/year, while the annual limit on individual donations would rise from €12,000 to €25,000. Background The existing legislation (Reg (EC) 2004/2003 of 4/11/03) governing political parties at European level and their funding was adopted in 2003. It was amended in 2007 to allow, among other things, funding from the EU budget to European political foundations. The European Parliament set out a series of requests to improve this legislation, through the Giannakou Report. Today's proposal incorporates most of these requests. In 2012, a total of 13 political parties at European level received funding via the Regulation, which is administered by the European Parliament. The budget for the purposes of the political parties and foundations at European level amounted to just over €31 million in 2012. Regulation 2004/2003: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2003R2004:20071227:EN:PDF Proposal on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations: COM(2012)499: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/sefcovic/documents/com_2012_499_en.pdf COM(2012)500: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/sefcovic/documents/swd_com_2012_500_en.pdf See also MEMO/12/660
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ducks winger Jason Blake is hoping to beat his three-month timetable for the tendon damage in his left wrist to heal and return to action for the second half of the season.
Blake, back in his Minnesota home for two weeks, visited the team Thursday night after its 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild.
The veteran said he will be examined by a therapist and hopes to begin the rehabilitation process.
"You like to think you're a fast healer if you put the time in off the ice as much as you can to rehabilitate your hand and try to get your strength back," Blake said. "Hopefully you can come back sooner. That's my goal.
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Blake was injured in the Oct. 14 home opener against San Jose when Sharks defenseman Brent Burns inadvertently stepped on his wrist as the two jostled for a loose puck on a faceoff play.
Burns went to visit Blake before he was taken to the hospital as the third period was still being played. Blake said he appreciated the gesture during a fragile moment.
"He came in and gave me half a hug," Blake said. "It was nice of him. At the time I was pretty much out of it. But it was nice to see that.
"I know there's 30 different teams but I'd like to think we're a tight-knit group as far as we all stick up for each other. That was just a nice gesture on his part. It didn't make me feel better at the time. Now that I look back, you never want to see anyone get injured.
"It doesn't matter who you are. You want everybody to be healthy and play the game they love. This is just unfortunate. It's just like a little speed bump. That's all."
Blake, 38, has not watched the replay of the play and won't, saying, "Maybe I'll watch it when I'm old."
Right now he is focused on getting back with his teammates after undergoing successful surgery Oct. 17.
"Obviously it's just a waiting game now," said Blake, who was wearing a cast. "You can't really do much. There's a timetable for the tendons to heal and the nerves to repair themselves."
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2013-02-20, 07:08 | Link #2424 |
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Myyy that sucked. Unohana dying sucked. Don't get why that even happened. We still have no clue what her bankai does. Sure we finally get to know that Kanpachi learns the name of his sword but still why does she have to die if she is a bleeding healer that you know is usefully for wars. Ichigo is clearly going to get a power up that is stronger then Ranjis. It looks like their bodies have marking on them?
2013-02-20, 07:34 | Link #2426 |
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Ichigo = still hotheaded after 500+ chapters.... when will he gain more self-control of his anger? sometimes he did it... but he always fail to control his anger...
umm.. so now Ichigo must find out about his parents' background? |
2013-02-20, 07:49 | Link #2427 |
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At least this chapter confirms that TBTP weirdo Kenpachi is Zaraki's direct predecessor (unfortunately - no wonder weakened Zaraki defeated him)
So was Zaraki's lack of sword access just part of him weakening himself, or was it related to Unohana's influence? |
2013-02-20, 08:44 | Link #2429 | |
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anyway, Unohana's death still painful... but at least I want to see how Zaraki will fight from now on with his new sword hopefully his sword's personality will be at least similar to him |
2013-02-20, 09:13 | Link #2430 |
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Looks like Unohana is truly dead. It would suck big time if this is confirmed. I wanted to see more of her. And what does her bankai even do!?
I didn't expect Ichigo to fail the test and be sent back to earth. I suppose it's time for him to find out about his father's past and his own origin.
2013-02-20, 10:03 | Link #2433 | |
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And I'm still not convinced that Unohana is dead. Byakuya gave a similar speech when Ichigo appeared. The sword interrupting those final moments instead of allowing full closure on Unohana's "death" seems odd. Ichigo losing and Renji winning is actually....kind of predictable. For all his power he is still just a representative of the human world. It's interesting to note his parallels with Zaraki over the years. It makes me wonder how intentional this was by Kubo. Besides, Zangetsu and Hichigo were never confirmed to return after he got his powers back. So it's possible that the procedure to do that was just borrowed power as well, and he still needs to reforge that bond with his sword again.
2013-02-20, 11:03 | Link #2434 |
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I didnt quite get that part where it's said that Asauchi deemed Ichigo as unworthy . But I think I did get that Ouetsu can only fix zanpakutos that is a 'Asauchi' and wont be able to fix Zangetsu because it is a different form of its own . And only Ichigo can fix it ?
I can even bet that Zangetsu isnt really a zanpakuto and it's actually a sword from Kubo's ass which is from Quincies or transcendentals or something like that . oh and that whole page with Zaraki looking at his sword was just dumb waste . But I was actually waiting for the 'I am ...' '...Your Father' line coming from his zanpakto .just epic .
2013-02-20, 11:17 | Link #2435 |
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So Kenpachi finally learns the name of his zanpaktou, ok.
After 500 chapters, getting shinigami, vizard, fullbring and quincy powers, Kubo now reveals he never was a real shinigami? Looks like he'll gain powers from another race. Kubo in trolling mode.
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and of course they take time in the chapter to state the already obvious, Ichigo is a noob! |
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I have been playing video games my entire life, the earliest memory I have is playing Super Mario Bros 3. Well when I say playing it, I mean my mother would be playing it and I would be holding a unplugged controller thinking I was playing. Ever since then I have devoted a lot of my free and not free time to playing and thinking about video games, video games are one of my biggest passions in life.
These are the games why.
1. Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Kazooie is my favourite game of all time. I have made this point clear to anybody who asks me, but I can find nothing wrong with Banjo-Kazooie. I think it looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, plays fantastic and I just absolutely adore it. Now some of you may think that my mind is clouded in nostalgia, being that this was the game that came bundled in with my N64 and I spent a large chunk of my childhood playing this I would agree with you. But there has not been a year where I have not played the game, in fact I'm going to say that since I acquired it I have beat it at least twice each year. Banjo-Kazooie is everything I want out of a video game, it is a bright and colourful world full of interesting characters and environments. Banjo-Kazooie had a soul, which is where Super Mario 64 (For me) fell short. I love Super Mario 64 to, but the one thing keeping it from taking Banjo-Kazooie away from my heart, is Super Mario 64 had no soul. Banjo-Kazooie played better than Super Mario 64, had better worlds, had way more characters that often had humorous dialogue and its world just seemed more attractive than SM64's did. I never understood people who thought Banjo-Kazooie was not better than Super Mario 64, but those people are not me, so i will never know. | |
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 The earliest memory I have is this game, it wasn't the original version though it was the All Stars version. My parents told me that out of the four games on all Stars this was the only one that I was interested in playing. Looking at the games now it's easy to see why, Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 2 never clicked with me, I have only finished Super Mario Bros once and not really got far in 2. But I have completed this game dozens of times, I managed to beat it in my childhood at a young age, I think I was 5. Ever since then my parents knew that I loved video games. Even since childhood, I managed to squeeze time for this game into my life. I picked up the GBA remake, which is probably the best version of the game but this debate is for another time. I also went back and bought Super Mario All Stars and bought the Wii version. Anytime I crack out my SNES I always end up slotting in game that started it all, still having a complete and utter blast. | |
3. Mario Kart 64 Although I had Super Mario Kart, I never really got into the series until Mario Kart 64. Mario Kart 64 was just such an amazing game at the time and to this day remains my go to Mario Kart. It just has so much charm, each level had a certain amount of care put into the track making all of them unique and cool. Did you know that you could go into the Super Mario 64 starting area? Did you know if you jump off the huge ramp on Rainbow Road at the start you can make a really long shortcut? Did you know that this game is awesome? | |
4. Conker's Bad Fur Day I never had many N64 games a child, I think that the lifespan that console was relevant I had about 6 games. When I aquired a job aswell as buying a ton of new games for the current systems I had the money to go back and buy games I never did. My eyes were set on my N64 as I knew there were games out there I hadn't played. The N64 is a hard system to go back and play if you didn't play it back then, I acquired about 30+ N64 games since then and most of them I would play when i get it then never play it again. Conkers Bad Fur day is probably one of the only exceptions, I played it in 2008 for the first time and have played it a few times since then too. I was a huge fan of this style of game, but Conkers Bad Fur Day may have looked like them but it sure as hell was a different experience. It is a fantastic game but that is not why I put it on this list, I put it on the list because playing through the game for the first time, I was able to treat it as a game not a N64 game. I wasn't stopping and thinking, man this looks shit or these references sure are dated! I was enjoying it for it being a funny and fantastic video game, that is reason enough. Although I can see why my parents never wanted me to have this one as a child, my parents were clever and saw the rating instead of all those stupid parents out there who assumed it was a kiddy game. | |
5. Pokémon Red/Blue My mother got me and my sister a copy of this game each, I got Pokemon Red she got Pokemon Blue (This may be the reason why I always choose red over blue in multiplayer situations) but we only had one Gameboy, my one. We spent ages fighting each other to see who would get a go first in the morning, I always made the argument that because its my Gameboy I should get a go first. Neither my sister or my parents saw it that way, because I was older they often told me I could wait and let her have a go first. Funny how every time it was my go the battery red light was on.. So yes I played a bunch, I replayed the game many a time, always choosing different Pokemon each time. Pokemon was a good holiday game, when your traveling or just sitting around waiting to go out Pokemon is a life saver. | |
6. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion It's hard to remember being jobless, I have been working since the summer of 2008, ever since then I have had a very large amount of disposable income. Its how I got 90% of my game collection today. Before I got a job the only way I would get games is through Birthdays, I got £3 a week pocket money, so I was able to get some games through that but they would have to be very cheap. So to make sure I could keep playing more and more games, I would only keep games the very best games, anything else would get traded back in so I could use that money to buy new games. Well one birthday my parents got me The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I looked at it and said thanks but I was kind of gutted I didn't get the game I asked for. Well lets just say I have never been more wrong. Oblivion took over my very life, as a child I was only allowed to play video games on weekends and on Friday evenings, my parents never stopped me playing them on weekends of course but they always liked to encourage reading and studying. But after I got Oblivion my entire weekends would be spent lost in the world of Cyrodill, I haven't ever gotten so deep into a games world before. I think my total time is over 400 hours spent playing Oblivion over the course of two years, thats a lot of time. I had never really played RPG's before, I had never really played a game like this before, or a game that looked this amazing. My breath was taken away at the vast landscape and the very fact that I could travel anywhere and do anything made it all the more incredible. I remember feeling quite scared, for the first 10 hours or so I never ventured far from the Imperial City. I made a name for myself in the Imperial City, helping out a local shopkeeper Thoronir, helping an old fisherman and fighting my way through the arena. But when the champion of the arena asked me to go out far away to a dungeon, that was it, I went out and didn't return for about 30 hours. I just got sidetracked and before you knew it I had forgotten all about the arena. Skyrim never clicked with me, I haven't played Oblivion since the release of Skyrim, but if I had a choice of choosing between Skyrim or Oblivion I would not hesitate when choosing Oblivion. Skyrim does fix alot of the issues that Oblivion has, but it seemed very dark and depressing where as Cyrodill had much more life and colour. | |
7. RuneScape My parents never let me play World of Warcraft, they thought it was a crazy scam, why should they pay out monthly for a game when they just thought you buy a game and thats that. I still wanted my MMO fix, so I came across a site called Miniclip. I'm not sure if it still exsists, but Miniclip was a website in which you could play multiple flash games for free. Its where I found Club Penguin, which I was also playing at the time. I then stumbled onto Runescape, looked a bit more at it and it pretty much looked just what I wanted, plus hey its free! So I signed up under the name FredGoon and spent the next month addicted like it was my drug, I spent many a time wandering the free to play realm of Runescape chatting with friends I had made, getting my skills up, exploring the world, completeing quests and just having a blast. My account later got banned, some guy tricked me into giving him all of my stuff and I called him a twat. That was abad move and I lost my account, after that I quit for a bit. Not for too long and I was back under the account name of Hizang, which is my account to this day. This is where I spent the most of my time and effort, I remember being very proud of my prayer level that was at a very high level. High enough to get an immunity to melee, ranged and magic attacks. After I got a job I went back and bought a membership, that was where I fell off on the game though, I think the part I enjoyed about Runescape was how big and how small it was, it was big enough that i had lots of room to explore but small enough that I knew my way around. The membership area was far to big and way to different, so thats when I stopped playing. I go back every now and then to see whats different, but I will never capture the same experience again, locked in my memories. | |
8. Super Smash Bros. I was never taken home after school, my mother worked at one of those after school club type things. So every day after school we would meet up with a bunch of other kids, then taken to a large building and slightly entertained until it was time to go home. The one thing that kept me sane through this was the N64, they managed to get there hands on a N64 with a copy of this game. It has been a while, but i think this is the only game they had, to avoid fights from people who want to change the game. It was pretty much most days just me and a group of us sitting around playing this until we went home, it's probably how I got so darn good at the game. I also had the game at home so I played a whole bunch of this game, which again was why I was unbeatable. I could wipe the floor with any child there and my sister and even parents at home. I would main Kirby, always and forever, his ability to take abilities wasn't what drew me to him. It was his ability to fly and his downward sword strike and his ability to turn into an anvil. Fuck this game was awesome, even today I would much rather play this than Brawl or Melee, although Melee is a fantastic game. | |
9. The Simpsons Wrestling I know what your thinking. I don't care what your thinking, I enjoyed the shit out of this game as a kid. I was a mega Simpsons fan back as a kiddy, I would watch it every evening, one episode would be on at 6 while the other would be on at 7. So when my dad got me and my sister The Simpsons Wrestling, you can guess how happy I was. I had never played any wrestling games before, so I had no bar to fall under or sore across. I ate the game up, I spent ages playing through this game, I would not do the story mode as that got mad difficult towards the end. But me and my sister played a bunch, but what made this game was the cheat system. The cheat system added extra characters and even some characters and stages only made available through cheats (Itchy and Scratchy). No I haven't played it since I was a child, yes this game probably doesn't hold up anywhere as good as I would have liked it to, but I had more fun with this than I did with Pac-Man, there i said it! | |
10. Metal Gear Online Prepare to be Snap Shot! That was my catchphrase, my name in the game was Snap Shot and before I started a match I would type that phrase in. Metal Gear Online was hated by many, loved by few, I was one of those few. Before this I had not spent much time playing online, I had recently started playing resistance Fall of Man online and that was my first console online experience. That may have had a hand in why I enjoyed it so much, I was also quite good. My weapon of choice was the sniper riffle, which is odd because I never really liked using snipers in games before and even now I'm not a huge fan. But I kept using it and got really good at it, I was also very good at rolling out of the way of shots. My favourite mode was the Snake VS soldiers mode, I would keep playing until I got to play as Snake. It was incredible cool sneaking around stalking enemies with them not knowing where you are at all. Playing as the MK II was also really fun, if only to run around and tease the guards. I kept with the game for a couple of years, I made it into a few expansions, but by the time Raiden and Vamp came around I was long gone. I played some matches before it went offline, it's sad to see that you can no longer play this. But I'll always have the memories, plus all the friends I made along the way. | |
11. Mario Party 4 I never owned a Gamecube, my sister did though, me and my sister would wake up each Saturday and usually play a game of Mario Party 4. It was our first Mario Party game and although we did play Mario Party 5 and 7 for a while we never did get as in to them as Mario Party 4. Every weekend our mum would invite her friend over, her friend had a kid my sisters age, every time he came over we played a round of this three player for years. It was like a weird ritual, but hey this is a fantastic game and easily the best of the series. Mario Party 9 is just so off base and I do hope if they get another chance they bring it back to this kind of gameplay. | |
12. The Sims PC gaming wasn't really what me and my sister did, The Sims was pretty much the only game we played. Both of us spent years and years playing around with The Sims and there expansions, but while she just messed about I went into crazy hardcore mode. I spent a year or so crafting my own unique story, I created every single person living in the town, created there house every single one was unique and fitted there character. I would use the rosebud cheat to have no limits, but I went even deeper. One of my characters was called Hizang (Where I got the name), he was one of the main protagonists Fred Goon (Google that!) best friends. He was a celebrity chef, so I built a luxury house, I would get him a job as a chef and work my way up the career path in order to get him as a proper chef. This would make no difference though because the way I told my story was via the in game camera, which would take place on Fred Goon's house, but I went crazy detailed. The plot never finished, I spent years just going and going and going. It started around a slob who managed to get the job of s secret agent, who took down a criminal mob boss known as Randy Razor. Who was in love with Lacita Lovegood, who was in love with Fred Goon. It was a great story that had some very emotional characters, when I read it out to my parents i would use voices for each character. No Sims game ever came close to this, both Sims 2 and 3 failed in my eyes, it will never match the original. | |
13. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City As a kid when your parents tell you that you can't have something, you generally want it more. This was what I wasn't allowed but desperately wanted, all my friends at school had it and told me every day all the stuff that they get to do in this game. It sounded fantastic and once my friend snuck it over and I got a go, I had to keep pestering my father and eventually it worked. My father bought it on the condition that I wasn't allowed to tell my mother, granted again, I was 8-9 years old. Call it bad parenting, call it good parenting, I just called it a bloody miracle! At long last i could roam around a city and do whatever I wanted, my sister got all wierd and followed the rules of the road and never commited any crime. Watching her drove me crazy, because when I would play I would drive around like a maniac running people over, using the weapon cheat so I can spawn a tank in and blow shit up! The story was great, but as a kid the story never grabbed me to much. All I cared about was getting far enough in the story that I had the ability to freely go on the second main island, then I could have the roam of the city. All I wanted was to drive fast and kill lots, oh to go back to the mind of a child. I can't do that kind of thing anymore as I get bored, but back then I loved it. | |
14. Metal Gear Solid I have beaten the original Metal Gear Solid over 200 times, at the very least. Until I decided that Banjo-Kazooie was my favourite game at around 2008, if somebody asked me what my favourite game would be I would say Metal Gear Solid. My dad got the PS1 with a copy of this, my dad is not a fan of watching games though so soon decided it was not for him, he then gave me the game and the PS1. I spent the weekend playing through the game, I think I cried four times during them game, (I happened to get the Meryl dies ending) granted I was about 8 or 9 years old. I just had never played or even seen anything like this, I was used to watching cartoons and playing Spyro the Dragon and Mario, not getting attached to realistic characters and then getting crushed when those characters died. The game itself was quite hard, or at least i found it hard playing through it back then, but playing the game isn't the best part about the game as I'm sure you all know, It was the characters and the interaction between the characters and the voice acting that made the game. The characters all were fleshed out and had there own personalities and fantastic voice actors, especially Solid Snake. I got upset multiple times as I mentioned, Wolfs death, Meryl getting shot, Meryl's death and Gray Fox's death. I was also blown away by the massive Master Miller is actually Liquid Snake reveal, I had zero idea it was him and I was literally gobsmacked and my parents where there when it happened, they said I didn't move for at least a minute. The reveal of Naomi being a villain torn me to shreds, I loved her as a character too, fuck this game is amazing. |
These are why video games are a fascinating source of media, every single one of these dug there claws into me and would not let go for some reason or another. I'm looking for a game to do this again, I wonder what it will be?


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