“Happy Holidays” Is Offensive by Bill Barnwell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell53.html
An amusing read and a dig at what happens when PC runs amok.
What is more interesting is how dumb PC legionaries are in thinking that hiding Christmas under Holiday is actually helping anything, as explored by Chuck George:
What’s the Big Fuss about ‘Happy Holidays’ by Chuck George: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/george3.html
I was trying my best to answer the neighbours daughter as she came out with the longest stream of questions I’ve ever heard anyone have about an oil filled radiator. Skirting around Specific Heat Capacities and Conservation of Energy[1] (but laying the foundations, should she ask later), things don’t quite finish as I planned:
H: Why is it wet ?
Me: Because the radiator has been outside in my car and the metal is below the dew point of the room, so now that it’s been brought back inside the water vapour in the air is condensing on the surface.
H: …
H: Do you have a Grandma and Grandad ?
Me: I’ve run out of Grandad’s but I have two Grandma’s
H: You don’t have any Grandad’s ?
Me: No
H: How do your Grandma’s stand up then ?
I guess you simply can’t outsmart them, even by trying to come up with such detailed explanations that the Why? game ceases to be attractive: they just go and channel Spike Milligan instead…
[1] No, I’m not slacking, but the Muppets were on. There’s only so much Physics that can be talked when faced with option of watching Gonzo and a chicken or two…
I’ve been a bit remiss in terms of keeping my CV (or resumé, if you prefer) up-to-date, but it’s now on-line in all it’s hacked up CSS glory. I would prefer that initial contact be via email, and if the content doesn’t suit a normal or HTML/Rich Text message, I absolutely, positively and categorically prefer PDF for documents.
How to Add a Border to a Picture in Photoshop – eHow.com: http://www.ehow.com/how_6395_add-border-picture.html
Ok, so I’m only talking about Photoshop Elements 3 (or 2) here, and without it I doubt I’d have been so happy to give up my 35mm film camera, but boy does it make some simple things hard. For some reason, with PSE3 Adobe have put in loads of ‘Wizard’ style helper boxes for colour shifts and the like, despite the very easy and obvious colour space tools (like Hue/Sat layers). They didn’t, however, see fit to let me draw a square box with a simple tool.
Ok it’s not the hardest thing in the world, and maybe my brain is failing, but I had to use the above tutorial to get anything like the result I’m after. In fact, it’s not exactly right even now, but it’s so much closer than anything else I just don’t care any more.
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