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Month: July 2003

Too Muggy For This Muggle

Too Muggy For This Muggle

I hate weather like this—stifling heat and humidity, mugginess abound. I drove home cranky yesterday and developed a headache simply sitting in the car and baking in the heat, and the crankiness didn’t go away. California isn’t supposed to be like this. Dry desert sunny warmth is the norm, and I have no idea where all this moisture is coming from. It makes me wonder how people on the east coast survive on a day-to-summer-muggy-day basis. They’re all crazy, simply…

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I Want My Own House in a Nice Neighborhood

I Want My Own House in a Nice Neighborhood

For five minutes now I’ve been trying to move into a small town. It’s been around for a while, and I remember the first time I saw it years ago, looking around the communities, checking out the neighborhoods, drooling over the houses. I even drew up a plan for my own house, dreaming that I’d move in one day. Tonight, I dug up that old house plan. It was right there on my hard drive, so I signed up to…

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Switch!

Switch!

I’ve never felt the need to switch, as I’m the type of person who likes and can work in both Mac and PC, but for a long time now I’ve been dying to switch, and tonight, after setting things up to my liking, I’ve been able to do just that. In other words, my PowerMac G3 is back in use, and I didn’t have to set up another desk, monitor, keyboard and mouse to do it—woohoo! Speaking of switching, I…

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Photoshop Tips and Tricks #3: Multiplicity

Photoshop Tips and Tricks #3: Multiplicity

Shortly after I wrote my first Photoshop tutorial, Broch sent me an e-mail with one line: “Quick question, exactly HOW do you do this in Photoshop???” The answer was simple enough. All you need is a tripod and, well, a camera. Silly me. I don’t have a camera. I couldn’t very well show him how to do that, now can I? Of course I can. I have a digital crapera, which is just as good. So I asked my friend…

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