I remember being in third grade and getting my first 100 on my spelling test. Like any other perfectly ordinary child, I started to dance with excited exuberation. The only problem was that class wasn't over yet. Actually, it was the middle of the day, and I soon became a specticle and a massive classroom distraction. As my punishment for introducing a joyous crazy little dance to the middle of my isle, my teacher put me in the corner for five minutes.
Ok. Over the summer we moved next to Lake Houston. I expected the usual water based pests; however, I never expected a pelican. Letha actually took these pics while I was at work. She actually risked her life by going outside to capture the animal.
Comments [0]
I don’t know if you can tell, but this picture was taken in the middle of rush hour traffic. I am in the middle (non-moving) lane and the left lane wasn’t moving either. The only lane with any life was the right one. I was thinking about merging over into the right lane; however, something told me it might be a bad idea.
Comments [0]
Last Sunday, The family went to Brookshire to frequent Dewberry Farms. A pleasant farmish type place that has 1,990lb of fun, a real pumpkin patch, Christmas trees, and honey. They work hard at commercializing this place and it shows. We had an abundance of entertainment even though my head now looks like a misshapen tomato, and I dropped my snow cone. Some would say that the sunburn is a badge of recent merriment, so the only thing bad was I dropped my snow cone. Only one thing to complain about in an eight hour family outing with all three children…it went exceptionally well.
Comments [0]
For those who read my ramblings, you may or may not know that at the age of 16 I almost died from cancer. I had two emergency blood transfusions followed by four months of intense chemo therapy (One month in the hospital and one month at home to recuperate...twice...in a row). Before treatment started, my doctor told me the possible side effects of the poison he was going to give me. They were:
Comments [1]
Linux: Linux is fully capable of scanning, processing, and otherwise working with PDF documents, but some of the default tools aren't exactly new-user-friendly. PDF Mod is a straight-forward tool for adding and subtracting pages, exporting images, and other document tweaks.
The software, written in just over a week last month, lays out all the pages of PDF in a grid, then lets you click on a page to rotate or remove it. You can select even, odd, or matching pages throughout a PDF, extract images from a document into a folder, and re-save your document as a new, fixed PDF. That's all it does, but for those whose spirits droop a bit when faced with the myriad options and buttons in XSane or other PostScript/PDF tools, you'll dig PDF Mod's simplicity.
PDF Mod is available as a free source package for Linux systems that's fairly easy to compile; the Lazy Ubuntu blog linked below has a copy-paste terminal guide for Ubuntu users.
PDF Mod [Gabriel Burt's Blog via Lazy Ubuntu]
Comments [0]
Comments [1]