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Entertainment / Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet
« on: January 07, 2017, 11:55:56 AM »
I recently invested in a Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet so that I can expand my bike jersey company - www.cogmonstergear.com

I need to be able to re-draw the Cog Monster in different poses and actually own the artwork so that I can go national/international with my sales.  Right now, it's limited to my little group of 20+ cyclist club called Black Swamp Cog Monsters.  It's a hobby at best. I want it to generate residual income.

Yesterday, the tablet was delivered and I set it up. It was a relatively painless process with a couple of minor hiccups related to Windows 10 specific settings that aren't explained or handled by the instructions/software.

Getting used to a new HID is challenging. Add to that the fact that you're looking at a tiny circle on the screen while manipulating a pen-shaped device on your desktop and it's a bit more of a challenge.  This tablet has 2048 levels of sensitivity. Accessing them via Photoshop's brush tool settings is yet another challenge.  Opacity, Flow, and Brush Size are all capable of utilizing the sensitivity of the pen/tablet.

The first image is just playing around with those settings.

My first real drawing was just some dumb cartoon cat that I drew as I watched along on a youtube video as some girl drew it and talked about how awesome she is at drawing. I'm glad you can't see all the erased lines.

My second drawing I did this morning. In order to get used to the disconnect between tablet and screen, I decided to trace something. I've always enjoyed tracing and I'm rather good at it.  So, it seemed like a logical approach to gaining better control of the hardware and getting used to the software settings.
Here's the cat I traced.
http://onistocke.deviantart.com/art/Sideways-Glance-655951913

I'll post more here as I get better.

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Anarchy / TIL
« on: November 28, 2016, 09:51:12 PM »
Today I learned...

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Entertainment / I like my _______ like I like my ______.
« on: November 10, 2014, 09:40:53 AM »
cat changed the topic to: I like my men like I like my weather. GO.
11:08:34 AM   cat  Destructive
11:10:14 AM   cat  Seasonal
11:31:23 AM   cat  In like a lion, out like a lamb
11:31:44 AM   cat  Covered by insurance
11:31:58 AM   cat  Different in every part of the country
1:55:22 PM   BizB  making puddles.
1:55:53 PM   BizB  blowing me hard
3:26:57 PM   MFS  coming fast
3:27:30 PM   MFS  strong enough to rip the shingles off my roof
3:27:44 PM   MFS  something everyone complains about
3:27:45 PM   hackess  Blustery.
3:27:53 PM   MFS  calm
3:28:14 PM   MFS  leading to home repairs
3:29:45 PM   MFS  predicted by scientists
3:29:51 PM   MFS  observed by satellites
3:29:59 PM   hackess  Brought up in polite conversation.
3:30:00 PM   MFS  here today, gone tomorrow
3:30:15 PM   hackess  All I talk about with my dad.
3:30:20 PM   MFS  ruining farmers financially
3:30:43 PM   BizB  cold at night and hot at noon
3:31:02 PM   MFS  able to kill thousands
3:31:26 PM   BizB  nearly as dangerous as religion
3:31:30 PM   MFS  computer modeled
3:31:54 PM   BizB  unpredictable beyond today
3:32:19 PM   hackess  Delaying sporting event
3:32:20 PM   hackess  s
3:32:42 PM   MFS  visible on doppler radar
3:32:53 PM   MFS  causing warning sirens to go off
3:33:18 PM   hackess  LOL
3:33:36 PM   MFS  described daily by Al Roker
3:33:40 PM   BizB  giving me inches and inches until I cry mercy
3:33:48 PM   MFS  *spittake*
3:33:52 PM   hackess  Making me get a shovel.
3:34:03 PM   MFS  ruining everything
3:34:08 PM   BizB  two words: ice dam
3:34:20 PM   MFS  flooding my basement :demo:
3:34:26 PM   BizB  ^
3:34:51 PM   MFS  causing me to purchase all new weather stripping
3:35:04 PM   BizB  deciding which hobby I partake in
3:35:23 PM   BizB  fetching me a beer from the fridge (if only)
3:35:26 PM   MFS  robbing me of fuel efficiency
3:35:31 PM   hackess  Forcing me to wear extra layers
3:35:39 PM   BizB  givening me shivers
3:35:48 PM   MFS  making things slippery
3:35:58 PM   BizB  *golf clap*
3:36:05 PM   MFS  *snicker*
3:36:20 PM   MFS  bringing hoar frost?
3:36:40 PM   MFS  HOARY
3:37:02 PM   MFS  causing entire species of animals to migrate
3:37:03 PM   BizB  shown on TVs all across America every evening... for about 7 minutes.
3:37:51 PM   MFS  Regarded as a sign from the gods by primitives
3:38:47 PM   BizB  dumping me on my ass about once every 3 years
3:39:01 PM   hackess  Dreary
3:39:04 PM   BizB  that one is too true
3:39:18 PM   hackess  Wet
3:39:27 PM   MFS  40F
3:39:40 PM   hackess  so, refrigerated?
3:39:47 PM   MFS  sure!
3:40:29 PM   BizB  gripping my soul with bony fingers of ice and twisting my heart until it lay in a puddle on the ground... beating. beating.
3:40:52 PM   BizB  </emo>
5:38:22 PM   BizB  ...capable of making the leaves fall from the trees
5:49:29 PM   MFS  making my potatoes freeze solid
5:49:54 PM   MFS  causing me to want hot soup and white russians
5:51:18 PM   BizB  makes me want to stay in on a Saturday night

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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Mobile Wallet Wars
« on: October 27, 2014, 08:21:45 AM »
Everyone thought the Apple Pay functionality would finally bring the mobile wallet war to a standstill. With a powerhouse like Apple setting the standard, it should be a no brainer for everyone else to follow suit, right?

Wrong.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cvs-stores-reportedly-shut-down-apple-pay-support-2014-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-war-against-apple-pay-the-iphone-payments-system-2014-10

Now, the battle's front lines have shifted from...
Credit card companies to carriers
carriers to phone manufacturers
phone manufacturers to operating systems
operating systems to retailers

It's time for an open source solution that can't be blocked.

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Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Windows 9 user experience
« on: September 16, 2014, 07:38:36 AM »
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/windows-9-features/?ncid=rss_truncated

Summary: Tiles on the start menu, less W8, more W7, and multi-desktop (more W3.1)

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Anarchy / Students subjected to breathalyzer test
« on: September 14, 2014, 04:49:40 PM »
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/26522525/football-game-breathalyzer-tests-began-at-perrysburg-hs-friday

I'm trying to decide how I feel about this. On the surface, I think I'm OK with it.

What are your thoughts?

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Anarchy / I'm a narcissist
« on: August 06, 2014, 08:53:46 PM »

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Anarchy / A Boring Life
« on: June 03, 2014, 07:59:08 AM »
According to a recent study, a whopping 74% (SEVENTY FOUR!) of Americans think their lives are boring. So, I'm wondering...

What do you do to keep your life exciting? #Livin'OnTheEdge

I like to mow the lawn diagonally from time to time.
I eat corn on the cob by going around the cob rather than back/forth on the rows.
I turn off the sound and turn on SAP and pretend I'm in a different country while I eat my TV dinner in front of the TV.

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Anarchy / Future Seek Links
« on: May 23, 2014, 04:08:45 PM »
Ok... Norm(NORM!)ally, when I find links like this, I keep them to myself and dole out the favorites as I find them interesting. Though, normally, I'm not surrounded by the amazing likes of people like you.  So, I'm posting the link, here.  What I'd like for you to do is pick one link per week and explore how it is amazing to you and post something about that here. Post it elsewhere, if you'd like. But, whatever you do... post it here.

http://futureseek.wordpress.com/

The only thing happening faster than change is the rate at which we're seeing change happen.  Be part of that avalanche.

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Anarchy / Tastes like purple
« on: May 10, 2014, 02:54:42 PM »
Your hair...

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Entertainment / Dear NBCSports.com
« on: May 05, 2014, 08:44:44 PM »
Eat a dick with your 185 ads blocked on one page.

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I realize that I'm out on the fringe here, but I just read this article that states that 77% of apps that people download are identified through friend/family recommendation. Immediately, I thought of Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point where he points out how brands have reached critical mass and how it happens and who makes it happen.

If you want to become rich, become a Connector and a Maven and pimp out your friends list to brands wishing for greater success.  Seriously, though, I'd love to come up with a method to scrape blogs, and social media sites and combine it with behavioral data to identify the Connectors and the Mavens. Then, sell that to brand managers.

...if only I had the time and the knowledge to get there.

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Anarchy / 80s "music" ...why?
« on: May 01, 2014, 09:04:17 AM »
Last night as my daughter and I wandered through Kroger, I found myself singing along to this awful piece of shit. I stopped walking, made eye contact with Jenna and said, "In the 80s, this qualified as music. I'm sorry for my generation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3JcZ9Ie-I

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Anarchy / Challenge... accepted
« on: April 30, 2014, 09:13:30 PM »
I hereby challenge you to start one thread during this visit.

Difficulty: your thread must be compelling enough to elicit either a reply from me, or VSUBs.

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Anarchy / Severe Weather
« on: April 29, 2014, 12:20:29 PM »


A display of all of the weather warnings issued yesterday, 4/28.

I'm shocked that we are still so helpless on our own planet.

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Anarchy / Entertain me, bitch
« on: April 26, 2014, 07:06:55 PM »
Vote now!

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Anarchy / They were sportsing pretty hard out there...
« on: April 25, 2014, 08:43:51 PM »
How can you not love playoff hockey?

I can't wait until 2015 when they can go to Olympic size ice... assuming they do.

Edit: I was apparently misinformed. Someone told me that the JLA was the last arena that can't handle Olympic size rink. Apparently there is only one that CAN handle it. JLA will be the second.

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Anarchy / I realize that most cops are good, but damn...
« on: April 24, 2014, 02:20:59 PM »
The ones who aren't sure do make a mess of things.
http://rt.com/usa/154416-la-police-power-cut-guns/

Also, one of my favourite blogs..
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/

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Homework Help / Human Computer Interaction
« on: April 23, 2014, 05:27:48 PM »
I'm enrolled.  Who wants to take it with me?

https://www.coursera.org/course/hciucsd

Coursera courses are really well run. I've already completed the Gamification course.  I also started, but did not finish, the Python programming course.  I didn't finish due to my own expectations for the course not being met.  I would consider retaking that one, though.

Who's in?

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...and this cool NEW thing called Optical Character Recognition. 
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-smartphone-features-2014-4

Check it out!

/difficulty: No Pinball Wizards. *TILT*

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Entertainment / Linked In Job Suggestions
« on: April 22, 2014, 07:40:56 AM »
I'm putting this in Entertainment because, I get a kick out of their suggestions every time they send them.

My resume, for those who don't know, shows that I have been a computer programmer for 17 years - currently working for a marketing research firm - and that, with the aid of an MBA earned in 2012, I have climbed my way into IT management.  I have the word "Director" in my title which explains many of their dumb suggestions - including "Funeral Director"

Today's Weird Tingly Feeling:
Global Chemist Manager
Eaton
Toledo, Ohio Area

Principal
Catholic Diocese of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio Area

Vice President of Rail Repair Operations
The Andersons, Inc.
Toledo, Ohio Area


In the spirit of Fake It Until You Make It, I think I will apply for the principal position.

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Anarchy / This would be great if three blokes worked together
« on: April 22, 2014, 07:30:50 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBuC_0-d-9Y

One guy at each end of the block with Fuck The Poor sandwich boards and a guy mid-block with Help The Poor.

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Anarchy / Things I've leared: 2014 edition
« on: April 20, 2014, 09:46:41 PM »
For this year, I've been trying to keep a daily log of things I've learned (AKA Random useless thoughts from BizB)
I'll share them here periodically

2014 Things I learned - or thoughts I've pondered...
This week..
4/13: Bella must be taken off her leash AFTER you're in the yard
4/14: "Every time" and "always" are subjective when describing the layout of an XML file
4/15: Screw off cap bottles can't be reused for craft brew
4/16: Mariah likes roller coasters more than Nicole. Mind blown
4/17: 7pm doesn't mean 7pm at belle tire - even if they've had your car since 8am
4/18: Bella will wait in the yard
4/19: Mt Mitchell... I got this
4/20: Sleeping in is good, if you can get there. Also, FB is dumb and I'm going back to GTG

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And how they view themselves as a gateway dru... errrr... on-ramp.

http://www.mobileworldlive.com/mwl-keynote-facebook

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