DROPLETS ARE AWESOME! (geekery warning)
I can finally defer some of my image-creating capabilities upon my web-brethren!
I’m sure the capability has existed before, but I’ve never thought I had need of it. Now I’ve convinced my homies to accept the action-cum-executable file, and they can drag entire folders of images onto an external action, and it’ll do everything I want done. :) Adobe Bridge’s Photoshop Image Processor works for -me-, but one of our guys only has PS 6.0.
You have to have a version of photoshop, but it can be anything 6.0 and beyond, Mac or PC, and these little candied jewels will work. Whee!
PS Is this icon fairly understandable? (I was going to say transparent, but I’ll just stave off the coy comments right now ;).) What I mean is, can you tell, more or less at a glance, what I’m doing and why I chose it?
You’re signing a petition that will allow damn dirty hippies to freely walk the streets of New York?
That’s an E-petition to you, missy. :)
I snuck a peek at Karinny’s HNT post while at work. *grins* Yummy! I can’t reply though, that’s too much time at the page, someone might walk by. Dagnabbit. ;)~ It’s so… festive!
Are you going to be festive? *grin*
and the cookies were damn good, too :)
*grins* Probably tasted even better, afterward. Hee :)
I don’t even know who ate them. those got put back into the batch with the rest of them.
but I do have to say, they were some of the best cookies I’ve had in a while.
Dagnabbit. I like cookies. :)
I *so* owe you some cookies
that’s awesome! thanks so much!
I’m not sure. I’ll have to see about festive. I can’t check HNT at work. Do we have a theme this week? If not, I was thinking about something to celebrate the Narnia movie coming out tonight…
Now if only I had‘s goat pants….
Presuming Karinny’s post starts the theme, she used holiday cookies. :) Otherwise, nothing’s openly declared. :)
I’ll look for them. They’re buried in the crawlspace somewhere.
nevermind… crawlspace is cold like outside. My toeses are cold. brrrrrrrrr.
did you get that petition from bonnie? the one supporting the return of prayer to public schools? *shudder*
Yah. I was half tempted to e-mail her back and ask her not to forward stuff like that to me….*sigh* I should, one of these days.
Well, I guess it makes all the difference in the world when you realize that it is a laptop you’re on and not one of those flippy thingies that keep the petitions dry when it’s wet out.
(Me, who used to have to pass by the SoS building to get downtown to lunch almost every day…and dodge the petition peoples)
Geek! Geek! We love the geeks!
To me this the icon is a moment of “You, hold my laptop while I just show everyone else standing around how to do this thing that I was just talking about.”
hee :)
I guess it’s the context, but it has this surreal quality to me, since it’s a picture of you uploading, among other things, this very picture.
Indeed. The post-modernity is quite appealing. :D You could say it highlights other aspects of my geekery.
Actually, you use this icon quite a bit, and I used to wonder about it. FInally I got that it represents you at your computer-geekery pinnacle (or something like that). Am I even close?
Certainly. Well, the name of the icon in my set is “geek”, but, specifically, I wanted to know if people could see what I was doing and where (in a very general sense) I was. Obviously, you do. :)
the icon: “borrowing” wireless for geekfest in the streets. “a little to the left. higher, higher…. perfect! strong signal. don’t move!”
ok, so maybe the thought of laptop-wielding thugs is a little silly, but that’s the conversation I imagine in my head.
Wow. I’m certain those exact words were probably spoken sometime during that walk.
really? I was totally pulling that out of my butt!
The activity is called WarWalking, and it’s the act of wandering around city streets looking for a wireless signal that you can use to get on the web. The paticular photo was taken in Chicago in may of this year, when a bunch of us met up there.
We wandered around a small area looking for a signal. Maybe those EXACT words weren’t spoken, but I know something similar probably happened. It was probably more along the lines of “back, back, to the right.. no left.. come forward a little… there, got it.”
Hehe. WarWalking. *grins* I’ve heard of WarDriving, but it never occured to me to WarWalk.
Unless someone else has come up with it first, I made it up on the spot. :)
Here’s a good way of thinking about it:
(11:26:47) atdtxav: we were war-walking
(11:29:22) alistche: What?
(11:29:32) atdtxav: Well.
(11:30:05) atdtxav: wardialing is an old term for when someone set their modem up to call hundreds of numbers, looking for and logging the ones connected to a computer, so they could investigate them (and maybe hack them) later.
(11:30:22) atdtxav: wardriving is when someone is in a car, driving around, trying to find an open wireless internet connection.
That’s it exactly. See my comment to Amy. :)
I’ve heard stories of that moment, and it always makes me smile when I see it. You geek you.
I also enjoy that I can name everyone in that picture.
But does it makes it’s point? oh yeah. It does.
I am pleased to say that no, I did not. :)