This and That again again

We're still house hunting. We set up a second showing at a house we looked at a year ago that hasn't sold. We arrived at a house a little early and the owners were still there. There isn't a lot of parking at the house so we thought we better wait until they left. We drive down to the end of the road and waited on the side of the road by this little waterfall. I noticed the toy on the rock. What a fun place for a kid to play.



Someone must have been a little bored on a smoke break outside the UAS student service center.


Here's a fun blog post from a design blog talking about working with clients: http://www.designer-daily.com/30-high-quality-free-fonts-for-professional-designs-1999

And here's another one on Collecting Wild Food in Sitka: http://www.sitkanature.org/wordpress/2009/04/29/wild-food-wednesdays-wild-cucumber/

Interesting Links

Adobe onDemand Seminar
InDesign Typography Tips and Tricks - For Graphic Designers – I just love training seminars by David Blatner – he's so practical and I've gotten so many tricks and suggestions for a working style from him. He talks about applying styles, nested styles, setting kerning on text that uses multiple fonts, finding fonts that appear in documents, importing files from MS word, and other workflow tricks.

Did you get rid of your old record player but keep your LPs? How about trying this USB turntable that connects to your computer. You can capture the records as MP3s. Found this on ThinkGeek while looking for a bluetooth headset!

I haven't ordered from them yet but it seems like this is a pretty good place to get small quantity of personalized items. The Clothing Lab. I've got an order in for some tote bags for a training session we're doing in May. I only need 12 of them. I'm getting them for $13.99 with our logo embroidered for free. I thought that was pretty good.

A few random websites of interest:

Ice sculptures from Ice Alaska
They even have images of the single and multi-block sculptures although it takes awhile to go through all of them.

Nenana Ice Classic 2007
You might be able to get tickets in your area even if you aren't in Fairbanks or Nenana. But you better hurry because tickets are due by April 5.

http://www.macinstruct.com/
For anyone new to Mac OS or to those who want to know more about how to use them. Several good easy to follow tutorials.

Online Photo Editor
You have to create an account with picnik but this is a very cool online photo editor that has a lot of features. If you don't have access to photoshop this is a definite keeper for an online tool. You can:

• use your own photos that are on your computer or get one from an online photo galleries like Flickr or Picasa.
• resize, crop, sharpen, rotate, fix exposure, play with saturation and temperature
• add special effects like matte, border, boost colors
• save your image to your computer, or photo gallery, email it to your blog or other website, or print it to your printer.