when Oceans of Fun opened for the season today. Since we became season passholders to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun back in 2001, we have attempted to make the opening day, before opening, every year. We have managed to miss a number of the Worlds of Fun opening days, but for Oceans of … Continue reading It was a cool and overcast morning…
GIMPing along with GIMP
I use a lot of photos, and find I can get most of the edits that I need with Picasa (TM) -- mostly thhrough the "I'm Feeling Lucky" edit option -- but I do adjust angles, rotate, crop, etc. But for class they are having us learn GIMP, because its freeware, and more powerful. Well … Continue reading GIMPing along with GIMP
Dining cost — feed a family of 4 for $10
Well, we are 130 meals into the all-season dining plan, and down to under $2.50 per meal cost. And curious as it seems we have reached the readingess for a break. Eating park food every day has come up with a lack of variety. The more varied restaurants aren't open as often as the "standard" … Continue reading Dining cost — feed a family of 4 for $10
Playing around — for Class
Well, this one is an interesting twist: I have been instructed to play around with video editing for my master's class. We needed to take a 4 minute furnished video and cut it into a 30-60 second video that has titles, transitions, photos, etc. The key is to play with the functionality of the software … Continue reading Playing around — for Class
A quick writing tutorial
Well, back to class now. Fortunately for many of you, this class doesn't have all those textbooks with their wonderful chapters that I can summarize. This is a practicum class where we will practice writing and doing audio/visual website/blog creation. So we get wonderful things like a "twenty most-common errors" writing tutorial from Dartmouth. I … Continue reading A quick writing tutorial
Photo Collection
Okay, today's post is a quick photo splatter of the graduate from Saturday's column and video compilation post.
#11: When All Thy Mercies, O My God
(Part of a series singing through the hymnbook I grew up with: Great Hymns of the Faith) 1 When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, love and praise. 2 Unnumbered comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestowed, Before my infant heart conceived … Continue reading #11: When All Thy Mercies, O My God
NKC HS graduation — Lightfoot edit
Well, here we have it, the result of a feverish day's efforts editing pictures and video from the North Kansas City High School graduation ceremony Friday night. I edited the 90 minutes down to 27 minutes that were most important to us. My video editor merged the clips together with no transitions, so if it … Continue reading NKC HS graduation — Lightfoot edit
Art of the Graduate
Today is day zero. Graduation day. But that is in the evening. Late day event. To tide us over, I'm going to put up some of this year's artwork by this evening's graduates. But first, the proof that she cleared the final hurdles to graduate:
An interesting innovation…
Interesting idea -- eating your oreos with silverware -- or more accurately, dunking them with silverware.
At The Rainbow 