Misc Photos

Tuesday Challenge

I think I’ll try the Tuesday Challenge for awhile. Mainly because I don’t have anything to blog about tonight, so I thought I would just post a picture. Being as it is Tuesday I picked a Tuesday meme. Then I decided I didn’t want to limit the size to just 500 wide so I went and made a separate gallery for my entries.

So far so good, I had a photo I could use. So far so bad, when I entered my blog name I left out the f in life, so my first entry is listed as “Lie of Brian.” Also on the down side is I don’t get a reminder email. I’m guessing I will probably keep at it so I don’t end up with a gallery that only has one photo in it. Better put a link for the challenge on the sidebar…

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Can I Worry Yet?

The FRS dropped 2 of 3 over the weekend to the MFY and their lead in the East was then down to just 4-1/2 games. But I was not worried, for the Yankees to tie us at the end of the season they would have to finish 11-2 if the Red Sox just won half of their remaining 12 games.

Tonight the Sox lost to the Blue Jays 7 to 1 and right now the Yankees are beating the Orioles 7 to 2. Looks like after tonight the division lead will be down to just 3-1/2 games, smallest since sometime in May. I’m now worried. Not only that I think I might have jinxed them because I opened my mouth saying how improbable it would be for them to lose the division. Is it 1978 all over again?

Since I revamped the Post Office Gallery, I decided to experiment with a couple of related pieces of software for some other galleries.

Phototime Tuesday is now running something called Postcard Viewer, a free Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface. And the Gnorthwest Gnorm gallery is using AutoViewer. It is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions and has a slide show feature.

Check ’em out:
Phototime Tuesday
Gnorthwest Gnorm

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Fixed It

Turns out the galley wouldn’t work with any browser, anywhere. When I thought it was working, it was only because it was loading cache images from the PC. I fixed it this evening after reading the Simple Viewer FAQ page. I had to turn off Hotlink Protection on the server. I also think I have figured out how to add a title and a link back to this blog too. All I have to do is relearn frames….

South Carolina Post Offices

A co-worker just bought himself some new wheels for his Lexus IS and I snapped a couple of photos for him.

New Wheels for an IS

He was of the same thinking as I, the OEM wheels on our cars are very well matched to the vehicles and we would be satisfied to keep them on there, but whenever we see all the other cars with the same wheels we crave a little individuality. Plus all those other cars out there with different, sharp looking, after market wheels aren’t helping.

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OK, OK, I’ll Post Some Words

US's Second Smallest Police StationThe building on the right is billed as the World’s Smallest Police Station on RoadsideAmerica.com, but it isn’t even the smallest in the US, there is one in a phone booth in Florida. When the town of Ridgeway, SC outgrew it in 1990 they moved into a much larger place – the building on the left. 🙂 Ridgeway is one of 8 towns we visited this morning on our Post Office Safari. Blair, Blythewood, Jenkinsville, Peak, Pomaria, Rion & Winnsboro were the others. Their photos are already up in the gallery. 267 down, 193 to go.

Before we headed out of town we went over to the Balloon Fest to watch the morning’s mass ascension. We ended up volunteering to help one crew launch their balloon. They really didn’t need too much help, so I took a bunch of pictures as we they got ready. You can see the Internet worthy ones over on my Flickr! site.

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Oak Alley

Oak Alley Plantation, an antebellum Mississippi River mansion in Vacherie, LA. From an old slide of mine I scanned. The slide was so dusty that the only way to make a presentable image was to run PSP’s dark scratch removal tool which made the image look painted, so I just enhanced that thought with a Paint Engine filter.

Oak Alley

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