Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

A Day in the Life tells us with pictures why you need to read the weight of the ingredients per serving.

President - How will we ever reduce the calories by half?! It can’t be done! It just can’t be done!

VP - Why don’t they just put half as much powder in each pouch?

President - That’s just crazy enough to work!

If you buy it, then it works. It’s a bit like how ink jet printer makers started giving us half of the ink for the same price. Did you notice that?

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Via Blamblog

There are no panoramic shots here, this is about panning (left to right, or right to left movement) while shooting photos. If you’ve ever taken a photo and moved the camera, you know it makes the picture blur in standard situations. Well you can actually use that movement to your advantage in some situations to make the subject sharp.

The next time you’re a passenger on a divided freeway, aim your camera out the window at oncoming cars or trucks on the other side of the divide. As they fly past you, pan the camera as smoothly as possible from the front of your car, to the back while pressing the shutter button when the subject vehicle, and camera are perpendicular to the window.

The result should be a sharp image of the vehicle, and a blurred surrounding. It works like that, because the slight rotation of your camera compensates for the motion of the other vehicle, essentially making the subject vehicle motionless in your camera’s lens. The same technique is used in modern satellite photography, since the movement of the satellite is so great in relation to the planet below, it needs to pan to compensate for blur.

Try this out on your long Christmas holiday drives to pass the time.

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Hat tip to Photojojo.

Sony BMG should have paid a lot more to consumers for damaging thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of computers with their DRM rootkit infected music CDs. Actually, calling them CDs is an insult to the product name, since real Compact Discs can’t do the kind of damage Sony’s bastardization did to unwitting computer/music listeners who took the time to buy legitimate/legal CDs of their favourite artists.

The Sony BMG Digital Restrictions Management “rootkit” (like a backdoor virus, but doesn’t spread automatically) was arguably the biggest technology story of 2005.

The public should learn from this:

• If you download music you get DRM free song files, but might download a virus if you don’t know what you’re doing.
• If you buy music from a CD store, you might get a Trojan horse that damages your computer, because Sony didn’t know what it was doing (or more likely didn’t care).

All this talk about Stockwell Day’s questionable comment about “spearchuckers” reminded me that I have chucked spears in the past. Here’s me using an adladl [atlatl?] at Wood Mountain Provincial Historic Site - “Old Post”

Have you ever thrown a spear or dart with an atlatl? It’s a stick with a pin on it, that speeds up a spear, and ancient hunters used it. Here’s a video of my failed atlatl attempt. You have to let go of the dart, but not the atlatl. I held on a little two tightly in one of my attempts.

I’m headed to the ‘Peg today, through Christmas, and won’t be back until I don’t know when. I have some posts going up automatically, so feel free to reply or flame me because I may not notice for a day or more.

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About this time of year, I propose (typically on deaf ears - like preaching to atheists) that it would be beneficial for a great many of us bloggers and daily web users to find an alternate form of entertainment/communication through Christmas Day. There won’t be much going on online anyway, so take the day of activism and diary writing off and spend a day with the bland non-electronified world for 24 hours. (Naturally, some people may not be able to leave their house, or their computer is their ‘phone’, so they can’t make use of this Internet free Christmas idea. But if you find yourself emailing, instead of phoning, give a phone call a try instead. If the other party is in North America, Skype has free phone calls for another 8 days.) If I found you’ve live-blogged Christmas when I return, I’m putting in a bad word with Santa for you next year ;-)

Merry Christmas everyone, and have safe travels.

Lawsuit against Ontario and then Canada for making prostitution a crime, has been filed. If there are that many people who know about the subject in favour of decriminalization, I’m in favour of them winning. There could still be laws against pimping/operating a bawdy house that isn’t “government inspected”, or something along those lines to appease the more conservative people aghast at the idea. It will kill the pimping business hopefully, and thus make women who get involved in the sex trade more independent or safer through legal protection.

Thanks to BRex for notifying me that Stockwell Day had his blog taken away by Stephen Harper. When BRex is allowed to blog without Prime Ministerial permission, but a cabinet minister can’t, something is fishy in Denmark.

Day is not without eloquence some days.
The blogosphere has not been silent toDay, and Day puns have worn quite thin, even thinner than Day on a seadoo.

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Sarcastically I say, “This is not proof that women are underpaid, and libraries are under funded.”

I guess you can’t pay women fairly when the MPPs are robbing the province blind.

This is a test - I should see northern lights when I wake up Friday.