My New Dig
This is neither witty nor humorous. Pictures of my new place:
- http://stygian.net/pictures/Lochshire/
Curtis Jones
Rednecks ... Hopefully Endangered, Soon
I have a theory ... that rednecks are becoming increasingly aggressive as "man" is infringing on their natural habitat ... tearing down forests to build communities and roads and shopping centers. Just like deer, bear, etc.
There's a whole, huge, elongated story and police report that go with
Self-Referential Signs
This ... this is just hysterical. A self-referential sign over an escalator, warning you not to bump your head on ... it.
And that reminded me of another favorite of mine ... the "this-sign-has-sharp-edges" sign.
And entirely unrelated, I read an article (Everything you ever wanted to know about C types
Here's One for the SAT's
While driving home from a New Year's party around 1am, and seeing the lines of cops perched at each exit along the interstate, the following came to mind:
Black Friday [1] is to Retailers as ________ is to Cops.
And of course the answer is New Year's.
Bring out the Gimp
The GIMP is purported by some to be a Photoshop alternative; and it's free (perhaps it's only advantage over Photoshop). Of course, the people who purport this, all have one thing in common: they've never actually used Photoshop.
Recently, The GIMP struggled to its
Concoctions of Caliginosity #3
Did you hear that Delta pilots took a voluntary paycut ... again? Maybe all that Delta stock I picked up for eight-five cents a share will be worth something yet. Come on $10!! First, I guess they have to get out of bankruptcy. One step at a time.
Also, perhaps you&
Word Verification Reader, Update #3
I finished revamping the bitmap-to-line-segments algorithm to deal with "branching" ... where a horizontal line has multiple "columns" descending below it. A little bit of state-saving and recursion made it all work magically. The algorithm needs a couple tweaks though; nothing major.
Next, instead of simply depicting
Christmas Mayhem
I hate shopping. I *really* hate shopping around Christmas. And one of the stores I visited while hating my Christmas shopping, was Tony & Guy Hairdressing. I was there to buy a gift certificate for a cousin of mine. Upon entering their mall location and taking that first, unfortunate breath,
Word Verification Reader, Update #2
I spent most of today consuming far more calories than I ought to have, and only a little bit of time improving the rectangle-ish-area-detection algorithm. What I've got now is the ability to find horizontal lines which start anywhere directly under the base line (where the first base
Word Verification Reader, Update #1
I should be working. But I'm not. This Word Verifier thing is so much more interesting. First, I opened the url for the Word Verifier image on the comments page, and refreshed it until I found a very simple example; and my lucky letters were eiifv. I decided