Tuesday Tetragram
Life is but an illusion. Go to this page here to see some unreal optical illusions. The page is kind of big and the bits are coming from Japan so be patient and all will be revealed. Although, not all of the illusions work for me, the first "Rotating Snakes" is pretty cool.
Otter: I think this situation absolutely
requires that a really futile, stupid gesture be done on
somebody's part!
Bluto: And we're just the guys to do
it.
The above quote has nothing to do with anything other than I was over at Amazon.com getting something for SWMBO (shh, it's a secret) when I accidentally added the item to my wish list instead of the shopping cart. I did not realize this until I went to checkout and couldn't find one of the items I thought I had ordered.
By applying my superior powers of intellect (i.e., pure luck - ed.) I deduced what I had done and deleted the item from aforementioned wish list. Unfortunately, I didn't want to have a wish list account but I guess the fact I had added the item to it will forever more mean I have one. No, there's nothing in it nor will you find any other information there.
But this got me to thinking (a novel experience, to be sure - ed.) and I decided to checkout what the other Daynoters may have on their lists.
John Doucette's name came up for five lists but none were in Canada. I bet John didn't know there were so many of him running around.
Chris Ward-Johnson, of St Felix de Pallieres, France wants a copy of "Desserts from Your Bread Machine: Perfect Every Time: Cakes, Cookies, Pastries, Doughnuts, Sticky Buns, and Other Recipes You Never Thought You Could." Yup, I'd guess that'd be our Good Doctor K. Although I wonder where he's been since he hasn't posted for awhile.
Brian Bilbrey's name came up once but was listed in Kentucky. I don't think our Brian has moved that far south but who knows? If so, someone should tell Sally before she starts wondering what happened to her human tennis ball chaser.
Steve Tucker must be a popular name because 25 of them have wish lists. I don't know if any of these are Daynoter Steve's though.
One Dan Bowman of Modesto, California is wishing for "Embracing the Fear: Learning to Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks". Things must be a bit tense over in the Central Valley.
Ben Ator has a passel of paperbacks too many to list.
There are four Moshe Bar's out there wishing you would buy them stuff and four Frank McPherson's.
There are three John Dominik lists, two of which are located in Minneapolis, MN. Each of the two in Minnesota (The Cadillac Engine State) have geek enriched stuff like "Teach Yourself MS SQL Server 2000 in 21 Days" and "Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual" so this indeed could be our man in Minnesota, don'tcha think?
The thing about wish lists though, if people don't know you have one, they probably won't buy anything from it. In addition, some of the lists are quite old, and if anyone actually wants any of the stuff on their list, they should update it.
Correction to yesterday's post. I have to plead massive stupidity for calling Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Photo Shop instead. I don't know why I did that, other than as a test for reader Jon Barrett (which he passed with flying colors). In addition, Aussie Don Armstrong (G'day mate) reminded me of another program that I should have considered: IrfanView. I'll try to take a quick look at it when I find the time but what I like about Paint Shop Pro is its one button "Enhance Photo" that runs a macro script which automagically adjusts the color balance, contrast, saturation, smoothes, sharpens, and clarifies the image. All I had to do was some minor adjustments here and there. This saved me a lot of time. Speaking of which, I'm out of time so I gotta go.
Aloha!