Amazing. When I stopped by Walgreens to pick up a prescription, a pile of the latest Harry Potter hardcover books caught my eye. They were selling them for less than $3 each. Three dollars! Considering that the book is 870 pages long, it must have cost more to make and ship the book, and there it was at $3 each. I bought the book, of course. It was on my wish list, but I never got around to getting it…
I find that the etymology of the word migraine—which comes from “half-skull” or “pain in one side of the head”—fascinates me. Perhaps because I have one. Even after Alleve, Ibuprofen and Tylenol with codeine, even after neck, back and temple massages, even after bags of ice have been applied to tense muscles, the pain and nausea remain. And the thing with migraines is, I usually have them two nights in a row, along with night sweats and a great deal…
To no one in particular, Everyone wants unconditional love. I cannot give it to you. If you want unconditional love, go find yourself a dog, a god, or an enabling personality. No matter how neglectful, abusive, or hurtful you might be, you can be sure to find unwavering love from those three. But not me. If you strike me or neglect me, I will not look at you with puppy dog eyes or fetch your slippers. If you kill or…
Photoshop comes with preset textures like this one, called Snake Skin: These grayscale PSD files are seamless patterns and don’t usually look like much, but that’s because they’re meant to be used in conjunction with the basic Photoshop tools. For instance, you can use the snake skin texture as a texture channel when rendering Lighting Effects (Filter > Render > Lighting Effects) and get this: Or you can load the texture into the Texturizer (Filter > Texture > Texturizer…) and…
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