Category: Musings on life
The Starlings are back!
Probably a little bit overexposed, but it was quite difficult to catch this flighty little starling. There are two of them living under the eaves of the shed in our back garden, with their young chicks. They’re fast movers! There are also a couple of Great Tits living in the air vent in the master bedroom, but I haven’t had an opportunity to try and photograph them yet.
Push the button…you know you want to!
Button’s were made to be pressed, and this one in the middle of a quiet square in Belgium, is no exception. Events go from crazy to crazier, and the reactions of the people standing around are priceless! Aptly titled ‘A dramatic surprise on a quiet square’, it’s hilariously funny and extremely clever.
Nearly 25 million people have viewed this video since it was uploaded on the 11th of April.
Maybe this Youtube video should be titled ‘What a MUPPET!’
Uploaded to YouTube on the 8th of April, it shows a motorcyclist hitting speeds of 299km an hour on the Victoria Highway in B.C.
There were 455 people who mistakenly hit the ‘like’ button instead of the ‘dislike’ button.
What. A. Plonker!!
Meanwhile Monday’s ‘Hannity’ programme on Fox News is racking up the views on the video sharing website. Watch things get heated as Bob Beckel lets … Read More »
Are you happy? Play the ‘Glad Game’.
Thought for today, courtesy of www.yourlifeyourway.net.
It made me think.
What about the things you can’t change? Because there are lots of things that we don’t have the ability to change.
And then I remembered the ‘Glad Game’.
Ok….before you hit the ‘x’ button and go running for a bucket, first read this piece that I found over on www.care2.com, because I couldn’t put it any better than this lady, Annie B.Bond has.
The very name “Pollyanna” has come to mean someone who is
eternally upbeat and optimistic, who spreads positivity and
good will wherever she goes. Before you decide that such
unremittingly cheerful behavior is truly nauseating and deserves
a good smack, think of this: people who take time every day to
count their blessings are truly happier (and live longer) than
those who don’t.
So spread a little good cheer in the New Year with this great game that helps … Read More »
Venus Angelic – Shocking?
A headline on the Mail Online website caught my eye this morning:
‘The mother of a teenage girl who posts shocking videos of herself posing as a ‘living doll’ has defended her daughter’s lifestyle.’
I knew immediately who the story was referring to.
Last week the Mail Online carried a story about ‘Real Life Barbies’ and the teenagers who make themselves look like dolls.
Venus Palermo (or Venus Angelic, as she is known online), was mentioned. She has 78 videos on YouTube that have been viewed thousands of times (her doll makeup video has had over 1.5millions views), a Facebook page with over 13,000 fans, and a blog with 439 followers.
It is this pretty, blonde haired, girly girl with her ‘shocking’ videos that the Mail Online were referring to in the article posted this morning.
Venus appeared on the ITV programme, Daybreak, with her mother, … Read More »
Monitor Problems – Thin Blue Line
One of my rare technical posts!
A few months ago I bought myself a nice new monitor, as I was starting to go half blind squinting at 3D Max Design on my 17″ laptop screen. After comparing prices and hemming and hawing for ages over the many different types, I ordered a 24″ Samsung Syncmaster online, it coming recommended to me by my brother, and being similar to monitors we use in college.
The monitor sat on my desk where I made use of it until early December, when it was then moved to John’s desk so he could work from it. From there it moved to the tv unit in the sitting room, for the duration of the Christmas holidays, so that we could use it to watch the occasional DVD. (By the way, we don’t actually have two desks. … Read More »
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A thought for today
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Dunmore East
I had a lovely Mother’s day today.
Originally I’d been roped into doing a bit of filming today for Bláthny and her friends. Unfortunately one of her friends couldn’t make it for the shoot, and the ‘movie’ had to be postponed.
As we’d nothing else planned we decided we’d head to Dunmore East, which has recently become one of my favourite places to while away a few hours.
The harbour is lovely, although it can be quite chilly, even on a warm day. Today there was enough of a breeze to make me think twice about walking the high wall that runs the length of the pier.
The girls were about to attempt it but when I told them I wasn’t jumping in after them if they blew off, they thought better of it. They posed for some photos instead.
I made my first attempt … Read More »
Watermark your Work!
I’ve been asking myself for ages whether or not I should be watermarking images when putting them online. Opinions seem to vary on the idea:
“Professional photographers watermark their images. You’re not a professional photographer”
“Watermarking? Why would you want to do that? It destroys the look of the photograph.”
“If you’re going to do it put something discreet on it.”
And so I’ve varied between using tiny, inconspicuous print at the bottom of my photos in order not to appear pretentious and in order not to give the impression that I might even *think* I’m a Pro, to using glaringly obvious fonts stretched across the width of the photos on my ‘I couldn’t give two hoots what you think’ days.
And then there were some photos that I never watermarked at all….like … Read More »
My action(script) filled life!
I haven’t been blogging that much lately. That’s because these days my time is taken up with trying to get my head around this stuff.
I’m beginning to wonder what I ever did before all this programming stuff came along. (It’s a bit like when I used to wonder what I was doing before I had kids!)
I found this video on Flickr of a National Civil Defence Excercise in 2009, the year I started in the LIT Creative Multimedia Course.
And then I found this photo.
And then this one…..Ok this one’s a bit smaller, but I was two stone lighter at the time.
So eh…..basically I had time to blog this evening because I took a break from looking at blue boxes and em…..concentrated my studies in the area of Social Media. *cough*
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I made a last minute decision not to be such a Valentine’s humbug today so I put this together, more for the girls than for us.
The photo was taken with my iPhone as I was too lazy to get my camera…and besides, I’d to watch the steak.
Yes….there is a LOT of chocolate on that table.
The steak mightn’t look that good in an iPhone photo, but it was lovely! I love a rare steak….and fried onions….and mushrooms….and new potatos…and mushroom sauce….!
I had to sample some of the chocolate cake too…and I didn’t want to leave those Lindt chocolates sitting there, so, naturally, I’m cringing at the thought of the WeightWatcher’s scales tomorrow.
Dun dun DUUUUUNNN!!!!
