Archive for January, 2009


Got a little Captain in you?

Got a little Captain in you, Obama?

I bought and downloaded Pixelmator after a recommendation and short demo from my friend Andrew Woods. It’s a beautiful image editing program for Mac that at $59 is a superb replacement for Photoshop. And on top of their low price, I saved $10 by finding a coupon through RetailMeNot, a site I would always recommend everyone check before finishing a checkout on any purchase. The above was my first experiment playing around for a few minutes with Pixelmator and so far I’m very impressed. Anyone familiar with Photoshop will have no problem finding the tools intuitive and superior to Gimp in its elegance. (Though, I should mention that Gimp is free… so there’s that. But you get what you pay for, as Valor always says.)

Oh yes, and… about the picture itself… :-) I love living in a country where one is free to photoshop the leader of the free world into ridiculous jokes. Life is good.

Songs in my Head

Testing out some new fun from deep within the labs of iLike; this is what I’ve been listening to lately:

UPDATE: Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head!


Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Sophisticated Side Ponytail

Travel Survey

I find myself with a lot of airline credit expiring this spring, racked up from last year’s travel nightmares. With a few days left to spend it all, I wonder, what are your favourite cities to spend a weekend in?

Booking travel is a lot like refinancing your mortgage. There is this impending cloud of stress hovering about as your fret over whether to buy now or wait and see if the rates drop. I wish there was a Farecast for mortgages, however.

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