Now that’s a reality show I might get sucked into: Tommy Lee enrolled at the University of Nebraska, taking Chemistry classes and marching in the tenor line. Playing Malaguena. Now, I’m not a big Tommy Lee fan, but I can deal with watching a rocker take on marching band and The History Of Rock And Roll class.
For more drumcorps-related blogging weirdness, such as P.E.A.R.T: The Robotic Drum Machine, check out this site: They’re So Old, They Played On Stone Bugles. Heh.
Remember how I said after Halloween that Mei likes pumpkin? Well, here are the pictures to prove it:
And, while I’m at it, here are a few more lomographs I’ve neglected to post:
This was the wintry view that greeted me from the window one day while reading in our second-floor Quiet Room at work.
One of my co-workers turned 50 the day after Thanksgiving, so a few of the girls in the office decorated the day before Thanksgiving (after he left work for the day), to make his birthday that much more memorable.
Autumn sunset over south Toledo—Tireman, to be exact.
People have made it here to my little site from:
It looks like most of my hits are friends jumping on to see if I’ve updated, with the occasional stranger making a ten-minute stay with multiple page views. The person looking for Kris stayed on my site for over a half hour, and it looks like Sheryl probably left my page open in the background at work for nearly 45 minutes. đŸ™‚
I think I’m having too much fun with my counter.
…Well, my best friend from Middle School, anyway.
It occured to me that I have a backlog of lomographs that I haven’t posted, including my visit to Carolyn’s baby shower back in October (mouse over thumbnails for descriptions):
Carolyn’s mom took the pic of me and Carrie, and had a little trouble with the lomo’s shutter. It took me a while to master myself, when I first got the camera. Of course, I got some flak from Carrie for being a super web-goddess and bringing a cheap plastic camera. It was at this point that I made the fatal error of telling them how much I paid for my kitschy Lomo LC-A.
Then I got made fun of even more.
But, then again, a visit with Carolyn wouldn’t be complete with a little humor at my expense, right? đŸ˜‰
Holy shit, this really works!
Courtesy of kottke.org (whose coolness I only recently came to appreciate):
To view the images in 3-D, cross your eyes until a composite image forms in the middle (it even works with the thumbnail above). From what I’ve read, a small percentage of you (5-10%) won’t be able to see the effect, so if you can’t get it to work, that might be why.
It took me a dozen times crossing my eyes to make it work right—but now that I understand how to do it, it is such a fascinating effect! The trick seems to be, first, to cross your eyes enough to perfectly overlap the two images. Don’t worry that it’s still blurry. Then, let your eyes relax and slowly focus on the scene. In a few seconds (for me, anyway), the stereograph will focus and pop out.
It’s almost as cool as those black-and-white stereographs you find in the antique stores. Maybe even cooler, since it doesn’t require extra equipment. (Or does it now…?)
Edit: Turns out this is the same concept used by those damned Magic Eye 3D illusions. Well, shit. If someone would have just *told* me to cross my eyes and look at it, I might not have spent ten years looking for the damn sailboat.