Geeky Stuff – If it doesn’t interest you read below this paragraph

    At the same time I listen to that group I am just finishing up a few final touches for the first script I have ever written! Last night after, probably too long a time, messing around with simple user input from the Bash shell I finished a temporary version of the script but now it is ready to go. There is no real title for it yet but what it does is make the file extensions of any .JPG files lowercase. We all know that uppercase extensions on any file are a pile of disaster and phlegm. Eventually the script will work with JPGs with lowercase extensions but the whole reason it was created was to fix the uppercase extensions my digital camera produces. If you are interested in the script, which works in Bash take a look at my script website for the source code and other info.

    In other topics a friend of mine sent me a police report that someone had taken a picture of and aptly so because it read:

Wal-Mart: Police receive a report of a newborn infant found in a trash can. Upon further investigation, officers discover it was only a burrito.

    This was funny to me. I had to reply so I switched the image up a bit and replied with my version:

    Who wouldn’t want to use the Gmail interface for your domain’s email accounts? You can and you just have to confirm that you are the owner of the domain, change your MX records and you are ready to roll. There is even an option to add the login page and any of the Google App pages as a sub-domain of your website.

    The Gmail part is all I care about. The other apps might be useful to a small business or entrepreneur but being able to use the Gmail software for your own domain is a premium situation for all. With the ability to have 100 free email accounts all of your friends or everyone in your community can each have an email.

    And just a note. If you are a full time student or full time non-profit staff you can get a special account that has nearly all of the premium options. This includes non-profit K-12 schools, colleges and universities as well as US nonprofit organizations.

    Because my memory is terrible, I cannot remember where the idea stemmed from. One night I was watching a movie with Bill Murray and an elipahnt in it. The title escapes my mind. The same night we watched part of that movie we also painted. That was the first time I had painted since jounior high school. Almost a decade. The idea for the story may have stemmed from that movie.

    Below are some photos. The first one is the painting after I watched the Bill Murray movie. It is of Matthew Mcconaughey fighting an eliphant, even though it did not happen in the movie… or ever. But I saw in my head that Matthew Mcconaughey would fight an eliphant and it would lead to his demise.

The trees are nearly in full bloom and I will be taking macro shots of them for the next few days. The good photos will be supplied readily once the leaves being falling off.

    T and I were on the road, somewhere in North Dakota. The reason for our journey was a mystery to me. The conversation was as non-existant as the landscape. We drove for some time silently before comming upon a little shop which I pointed to, signaling that I wanted to stop there. The place had four foggy looking people painted accross the whole front side of the building. They were all standing side by side.

    We entered the shop and looked around a little. A black watch caught my eye. It was a metal watch with white accents. It was under a glass case so I asked the shop keeper if I could try it on. He opened the case from behind the counter and handed me the watch. It was a perfect fit. The three dollar tag did not seem right. “Is this really three dollars, sir?” I asked. The shop keeper confirmed the price and said,”This is a time piece though.” I told him with a smile on my face,”Of course it is. It’s a watch.” His face was calm and serious as he said,”This watch can be very dangerous. You can use it to go back in time.”

    The watch looked good enough to me, I did not care that it was some novelty watch. It felt very well built. Very sturdy and heavy. Only a few minutes after pulling out of the parking lot T and I were back on the road. It was then when I noticed a dial that seemed to be a count down timer. I rolled it to two minutes.

    T and I were pulling out of the parking lot again. I must have nodded off when I got in the car and dreamed that we were on the road. I rolled the dial again to see if it would do anything. A few moments after giving up on the dial I found myself sitting by my brother on a beach. “What are you doing here!? I thought you were with mom and dad, shopping.” he told me with a puzzled look. “Brother,” I told him,”you will not believe this! This watch makes me go back in time!” He did not believe me. So I told him to tell me something I wouldn’t know and that I’d go back a few minutes and tell him about the watch again and the secret he told me.

    After spinning the dial once again I became worried about the delay. Fear came into me. I worried that the watch had been broken. My heart began beating very fast as adrenaline flooded my veins. Everything went black and I was back a few minutes again. Unsure if I had gone back in time and overlapped my other body I looked down uncomfortably at my lower half.

    I told my brother the secret he told me and that I was from the future. “You better get back before it gets too late.” he said. A panic poured over me. The dial only went to twenty minutes. I must have been years away from my own time. Once I spun the dial to twenty I waited a few minutes for my body to shift through time once again. There was black once again.

    It seems spam bots have already found this blog. If you comment and it does not show up it is possible that it got into the mix of spam. So if anyone knows of a good WordPress spam plugin please let me know about that too. I am resorting to the Akismit plugin which doesn’t stop spam from commenting it just lists it for me to delete.

    Thanks for any input.

    It is my guess that he did this intentionally. Judging by the amount of spray paint he used on the thing, making it look as ugly as possible, it does not seem to be very important to him. The biggest thing that tips me toward this conclusion is that on the belly of the pig there was painted a checkbox with a check mark in it and Obama’s name beside it. I’m not quite sure if that is an insult to Obama or Waters’ attempt at being supportive.

Prince Played

    Another cool thing about Coachella this year was that Prince (AKA The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) was a headliner. He covered a Radiohead song and did a good job at it. It was all over YouTube but because of copyright crap it was all taken down.

    It sounds fun but I prefer smaller shows and small venues. It just isn’t that much fun being at a huge festival unless there are bands that rarely tour.

    That is my input for the day.