When I was about 16, we tried this with a silver dollar at the mall. Endless entertainment.
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Meet Michele, a savant of sorts. She can take any word or name and — on the spot — rearrange their letters in alphabetical order. Not featured in this demonstration is Michele doing it in reverse-alphabetical order.
PS: Michele’d’ve made a wicked WWII codebreaker.
Got Photoshop?
Several years ago I was subjected to a Photoshop proficiency test for a creative agency. Such tests are designed to quickly see if you’ve got the goods, carefully designed to weed out the hackers, demanding skills and technique that can’t be faked. Posers need not apply. You’re provided with source files, along with some instructions.
In that particular case, I was working on some creepy anime DVD package, and was asked to do something like remove the sword from the subject’s hand, replace it with laser gun, turn the mullet into a mohawk, make it a redhead, give it a neck tattoo, and have a lightning bolt coming out of its ass. I wish I still had those files.
Anyway, here’s another one I just did, which is considerably more tame. It’d make for a good study in Photoshop 201. [click to continue…]
Taking a walk around the block to Kurt Cobain’s early-nineties Hollywood pad. According to ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel (his co-crasher at the time), it is in one of these upstairs rooms where he wrote the entire In Utero record.
There’s a delicious story that’s been going around for a while, with one variation dating back as early as 1978. Whether it’s ever happened or not isn’t the point; the lesson it teaches is what’s important. Ain’t that the purpose of story anyway?
The gem goes something like this:
A fiftysomething-year-old white woman arrived at her seat in the Coach section of a crowded airline flight, which happened to be located next to a black man. Disgusted, she immediately summoned the flight attendant.
“I cannot sit next to this unpleasant person,” the woman said.
“No problem, ma’am,” the flight attendant said. “Let me see if I can find another seat.”
After a few minutes of searching the Coach section for an available seat, the flight attendant returned to the woman with an update.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but there are no available seats here in Coach. I’ll check with the captain to see if there’s something available in First Class.”
After ten minutes, the flight attendant returned to the woman with another update.
“The captain’s confirmed there are no more seats in Coach, but we happen to have an available seat in First Class. While it’s against company policy to arbitrarily upgrade a passenger from Coach to First Class, we also don’t believe in forcing a passenger to endure an entire flight sitting next to an unpleasant person.”
“That’ll be fine,” said the woman. “Thank you.”
The flight attendant pointed to the black man.
“Sir, please retrieve your personal items and come with me.”
Love them apples.
Snopes scraps this tale up to legend status. But we all know legends — like good jokes — are rooted in truth.
One child, one dog, one world. Beautiful.
Boy Makes His Dying Service Dog’s Wishes Come True
Bingo came into Cole Hein’s life when he was just two-years-old in order to assist the boy with an undiagnosable disorder that stops Cole from breathing. The dog has saved Cole’s life on countless occasions. When Bingo was diagnosed with a debilitating disease, Cole decided to create a “lick it list” of things he wanted for Bingo to experience before she dies. =full story=
