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Facial Blemishes: Through the Ages
Age 15: “OMG! My life is over, I’m going to DIE!!!!!!!”
Age 25: “Crap. I guess I’m not getting any dates this weekend.”
Age 45: “Well this is annoying.”
Age 65: “What is that? I better see a doctor… Oh god, I hope it’s not Cancer!”
Age 85: “OMG! My life is over, I’m going to DIE!!!!!!!”
But seriously folks… Cancer isn’t funny, it’s deadly. If you want to learn more about Cancer, please visit cancer.org
I shot this bike at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware using my Nikon, and then after I synced the photos to my iPad I used Trey Ratcliff’s 100 Cameras in 1 to do a little processing.
I was quite pleased with how fast the iPad processed the photos in comparison to my 3G iPhone (but that’s to be expected I guess.) The images came out at 600 pixels wide/high. I’m not sure if there’s a way to adjust that, as higher resolution would certainly be nice. I should also mention that I have the iPhone version of 100 Cameras in 1. (There’s also a separate iPad version, though I didn’t feel like plunking down more money for it… yet. Of course, this may be why the images came out at 600 pixels wide/high.)
At first I was sort of overwhelmed with 100 Cameras in 1, because, hey, that’s a lot of cameras! But I’m slowly getting used to it. It’s quite a difference from Plastic Bullet, one of my favorite iPhone photo apps, but it’s growing on it.
So two years ago I managed to acquire this long piece of rubber that would be perfect to make screen printing squeegees out of, but, you know, I’ve been busy making buttons and drawing on eggs, so I never got around to making the squeegees.
OK, the real reason I didn’t make the squeegees is because I couldn’t figure out a way to do it and actually have them look good and function well. That’s where Milwaukee Makerspace comes in…
I first started by asking some questions about cutting grooves into wood. That led to learning about dado blades (which are quite expensive!) and eventually about routers, and router tables, and how to use them (properly!) to cut grooves.
So last night I cut my first groove, slid the piece of rubber into it, and I’m this much closer to my first squeegee.
I still need to drill some holes and get some t-bolts in place, but I’m on my way to having a collection of different sized squeegees.
When I worked at a screen printing shop, we had about 30 of them in various sizes. We’d pick one that matched the size of the artwork. It’s also handy to have a bunch of squeegees around, since there’s a 4-color screen printing machine at the Makerspace, and you’re gonna need one for each color.
(Oh, I also posted about this over at the newly launched Milwaukee Makerspace web site. I may post there from time to time as raster.)
Also worth noting, I celebrated this small victory by riding Mr. Overbeck’s scooter around the parking lot at high speeds, and then listening to the craziest noisebox I’ve ever heard courtesy of Mr. Bastyr.
“What did the working computer say to the non-working computer?”
“Does Not Compute!”
“That doesn’t make any sense…”
“Who cares!?”
One more than one occasion, people have asked why I don’t use Google Chrome, or Apple’s Safari, or even Opera or Microsoft Internet Explorer… I think this sums it up pretty well:
Mozilla’s mission is to build user sovereignty into the fabric of the Internet. We work to ensure that the the Internet remains open, interoperable and accessible to all. To do this we build products, we build decentralized participation worldwide, and we build the ability for people to create their own experiences in addition to consuming commercial offerings.
As the “web” changes, I think it’s probably necessary for Mozilla to change as well.
Read the whole thing: Mozilla in the New Internet Era – More Than the Browser.