daily pic #20 – hang on

Posted on April 20, 2007 by skeemer

Ok, here’s the actual #20 that was going to be #19. I’m having trouble inserting the pics into posts, so I gotta figure out what’s up with that. I’m cheating right now to make it work.

This was taken from the Pismo Beach pier. It’s amazing that there are creatures that can live in situations like that. I can’t imagine getting beat on constantly. I guess I’m not built for that.

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I was originally going to get all philosophical or something, but I can’t remember what about. So just tell me about what you hang on to and what gives you stability in the rough seas of life.

cheers!

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daily pic #21 – painted1

Posted on April 19, 2007 by skeemer

I know, I skipped #19 and #20. Iwrote #19, but ran into troubles before I could post it. The reason I skipped #20 was so that the number coincided with the actual number of pictures. Enough about that though.

This picture is my attempt at painting. What do you think?

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Post in the comments what you think this is actually a picture of. If you have seen this in real life, please don’t spoil it for the others.

cheers!

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paintball pictures

Posted on April 15, 2007 by skeemer

Okay people, I’m too tired to go through all the pictures tonight and I will most likely be outta town for work tomorrow. So don’t expect to see the pictures up until probably Wednesday or Thursday. With all the pictures I took, plus the few Jaimie took during the fourth game, I ended up with 380 pictures. So that’s a lot of pictures to go through. I think that’s about 1.75GB for those that understand that number (if you don’t, don’t worry about it).

For those that didn’t see last month’s pictures, see: youth group paintballing.

[UPDATE: 04-20-2007 0:44] This week has been kicking my butt, so the new pictures will be delayed longer. Free time, where are you?

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upgrade and twitter

Posted on April 2, 2007 by skeemer

Tonight I upgraded the software on my homepage and it went off without any problems. Surprised me completely. And I’m thrilled it happened that way. If you visited the gallery at all today, it wasn’t working quite right. Got that fixed. I’ve also added Twitter to my sidebar. That was a little tricky, but got it worked out.

For those of you that I haven’t introduced to Twitter yet. It is basically a mini-blog (like this site) that is specialized. What you do is answer the question, “What are you doing?”, in 140 characters or less. You can update it from the web, your phone via SMS/TXT messages, chat clients like AIM/MSN/…, or via several programs you can download. Whenever it updates, friends that are following you then know what you are doing. This may seem kinda weird, and it is, but its kinda fun and part of interacting with the web. I like it because I can let my friends know what I’m up to without necessarily having to write a whole blog or chat with them about it. So if you’re curious, join! It won’t kill you to try it out. Make me a friend.

cheers!

[update 2007-04-03 9:15am]

So I finally got around to upgrading yesterday and today they released a new version with security fixes. ARRRRRRG!!! Well, I already did the upgrade, but it wasted 20 minutes of a day I’ve barely started. Couldn’t they have waited, I dunno, a week at least! Okay, enough. I’m looking forward to do it again tonight on another site….. NOT!!! [end rant]

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paintings in the dust

Posted on March 29, 2007 by skeemer

Ok, this is an amazing sight. A guy has taken the dusty rear of cars and turned it into the equivalent of scratch art, by removing the dirt and making “paintings”. Its a must see.

http://mostinterestingblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/picture-on-dust.html

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geekiest way to help find your kids

Posted on March 28, 2007 by skeemer

This has got to be the geekiest idea I’ve ever heard of, but it worked! A guy gave a USB key to his kid and security used it to call him, calm his son down by knowing his first name, and giving him his favorite treat.

http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/03/22/dcot-helps-find-lost-child/

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daily pic #18 – better pigeon

Posted on March 27, 2007 by skeemer

I’m not sure why I titled it Better Pigeon, but I did. This bird was captured on the pier in Pismo Beach.

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cheers!

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explanation needed

Posted on March 21, 2007 by skeemer

WARNING: If you don’t design web pages, you will have no appreciation for this post.
Ok, even a couple friends that do web stuff got mixed up by what I meant in a couple rants.

It is not illegal to put CSS in the About Me: section of Myspace in that you aren’t allowed to. What I meant is that it is completely illegal according to W3C standards for web pages. Okay, that’s about as confusing as the first time around. Lets try again. Myspace allows you to do things that you shouldn’t be able to do.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>webpage title</title>
    <style type=”text/css”>a.comments { color: #0000ff; }</style>
  </head>
  <body>
     <p>About Me: I rock!</p>
  </body>
</html>

Ok, see where the style tag is? According to web standards, you can only place it in the head section. It is illegal to put it in the body where the About Me: section is. That is what people do on Myspace, however, and what Myspace allows/encourages. They should just add a CSS field to the profile that people can copy and paste their code into instead of allowing such a bad practice to continue. Its not like they don’t know its happening. Probably 99% of all accounts have CSS injected into the About Me:. Ok, I’m done now.

cheers!

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youth group paintballing

Posted on March 18, 2007 by skeemer

I went paintballing with Crash!(Oakhurst SDA Youth Group) Sunday in Mariposa. I’m not quite sure who got it started, but several area youth groups meet up every 3rd Sunday of the month to play. The location changes each time and someone generously donates quite a few markers, masks, and tanks. The youth groups I can remember were there were New Beginnings and New Life. I believe there were 4 or 5, however. I refereed and took pictures during the first three games; then, played the last two. I was very impressed with everyone’s attitudes and sportsmanship. I didn’t hear any complaints about cheating or players getting mad. Click the picture below to jump to this month’s paintball gallery (66 pictures).

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cheers!

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daily pic #17 – shutter lock

Posted on March 17, 2007 by skeemer

Friday, I was over in Monterey riding along with Jim as he looked over some possible clients’ churches. I took some pictures of them so we had a reference for later, but this one had a little difficulty. My shutter locked open for 10 seconds!!! I was doing everything to get it to close; I was scared it had broken on me. At any rate, it closed and I went back to what I was doing. When I imported the pictures this morning I saw this one and was baffled, but finally remembered. This is completely unaltered.

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Happy Sabbath to all my friends out there.

cheers!

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