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Archive for May, 2006

May 30th, 2006 - 5:48 pm § in Design, Home, Photos, Seattle

Look at the Cute Wittle Boat

That Lake to the Right of the Space Needle I am a sucker for PhotoShop tricks. When I saw this article on making fake model toy photographs, I had a little psycho-flashback to the good old days when Dad would drag us all along to his raging model railroading shows at the Clovis, New [...][...]

May 4th, 2006 - 10:23 pm § in Design

Why Illustrator Is So Fun I Forget the World

And Laundry. And Eating. And my husband. I’m so bad. This is a sketch I drew in 1996: In Photoshop, about a million tweaks and layers later: Aaaand in Illustrator, using Live Trace, rock-awesome effects & half as many layers: Wow. Now I wish I hadn’t quit drawing ten years ago. Maybe I WOULD[...]

May 3rd, 2006 - 1:55 pm § in Geekdom

Jules Dictionary, Term #1: Net Neutrality = Freedom

Non-descript headlines such as “Network neutrality revived in the House”, "Net Neutrality Counterattacks” and “Protect Internet neutrality” make my brain go, “JARGON! DIFFICULT LEGALESE! BOR-RING DRIVEL YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!” As a result, I have ignored the topic of Net Neut[...]