Is anyone else using Picasa to manage their digital photos? I LOVE it. In fact I love it even more since I upgraded to Picasa 3. The Redeye Removal has improved dramatically. Now instead of having to select the eyes, Picasa automatically selects the red eye for you. All you have to do is make sure it looks okay and then click Apply. Easy! They also added a new tool that I just think is the grooviest tool ever! It’s called Retouch and it removes zits! It is really easy to use and the result is fantastic. I wish Clearasil worked as good. All you have to do is set the brush size to equal the size of your blemish and then left click. The zit immediately disappears! You left click again and the change is made permanent. Sometimes if the zit is close to the side of your face or near your hairline, the fill isn’t quite right so instead of clicking to accept the change, you just move your mouse around until the right fill color appears and then you left click to accept. It seems to me this is just like the clone tool in Photoshop, just dumbed down for us regular folks. The other great thing Google added is you can now edit a picture you posted on Picasa Web Albums, retouch it in Picasa and then sync it back to Picasa Web Albums. This is perfect for all those photos that I posted prior to the retouch tool. Yes, I am going through my Web albums and removing zits. I feel like God. Or a Superhero… Super Complexion Woman to the Rescue! Look out zits! You will soon be blasted to kingdom come!
Category Archives: Blah Blah Blah
Yes Man
FINALLY! A movie I want to see! Yes, I want to see Yes Man! I love the concept that the trailer purports of someone deciding to say “Yes!” to everything that comes his way. I read a blog post not too long ago by either Steve Pavlina or Steve Olson that talked about how we should say “Yes!” more. I immediately realized that I often said “no” because I was scared of the unknown. By saying “no” I knew exactly what would happen whereas “yes” led down a path that I couldn’t always forecast. As a salesperson, I realized that one of the issues I faced had to do with people choosing no because it was safe for them. They didn’t know if I was trapping them with a good-natured offer or if they would then owe me something or maybe they’d find themselves placed in an uncomfortable position later. These were all the same fears I had myself. I learned to phrase my offers in a manner that described exactly what my prospect could expect and by removing the unknown, I made it easier for them to say yes.
So why should I start saying yes? I realized that if I wanted people to say yes to me, I should be more open to saying yes to others. Besides, if I dislike rejection, why should I be heaping it upon people? If someone stuck their neck out to offer me something, why shouldn’t I say yes? Does my fear of the unknown trump their fear of rejection? Heck, the unknown is only the unknown for a short period of time anyway. And if I do get into a situation that is awkward, I can usually think fast enough to get myself out of it.
Has anyone seen the trailer to Yes Man? Did you recognize Jim Carrey’s colleague who invites him to a costume party and then opens the door dressed as a Spartan? That’s Murray from Flight of the Conchords! Yes, GINGER BALLS!
The Trailer:
Ginger Balls:
“Hey kid, wanna try some crack?”
Obviously there are times when “no” makes perfect sense. I am suggesting saying yes rather than going with an automatic no because you are unsure of the outcome and you want to stay in your safe and comfortable zone. I am not suggesting anyone say yes to situations in which the outcome is obviously not healthy or morally wrong. Like dressing up as a Spartan.
What now?
I started cleaning out a box of doodads. I threw away the birthday tiara. I put the Wonder Woman pez dispenser and the little Tokyoplastic figurine on my desk. I have two flashing mouth devices and two harmonicas that I am unsure of where to put them. I am thinking of having them live in my jewelry drawer. I also have five key chains that I am also thinking of putting in my jewelry drawer since I hate to throw them away.
– Toe nail clipper key chain
– Elvis Presley key chain
– Barnum and Bailey key chain
– Matchbox car key chain with light up headlamps
– Rhinestone heart key chain
I also found 2 dog tags with my name but my parents’ address. The real Pièce de résistance is the Annie Topps Album Sticker of Punjab. It’s sticker #10.
Wait, I also found a little stuffed mouse wearing a dress and hat. I remember a girl named Juliet gave it to me for my 7th birthday. I think the mouse is the winner for today.
Here’s a slideshow of my loot.
What do normal people do with this crap? Is it put into a shoe box and forgotten or do people typically throw this stuff away? I don’t know!
Flight of the Conchords!
The first episode of the new season in online!
Check it out!
The Great Mystery of Life
I love looking at interior design Web sites that show tons of pictures of beautifully decorated rooms. My favorites are the Mid-Century Modern style– of course that should come as no surprise considering my love of all things 50’s and 60’s. My one thought whenever I look at these gorgeous rooms is, where do they keep their newspapers, mail, empty beer bottles and toenail clippings? I swear, I honestly don’t know how they keep on top of it all. I’d be fine if mail was delivered once a week but it comes EVERY DAY! I try to sort it immediately but there are always things I need to go through and I totally love procrastinating so I have to leave it somewhere and if it’s not out in the open I’ll forget about it. And then there’s the little doodads that just appear without a home. I can’t even describe them but they’re objects that you can’t throw yet can’t put away. My house is over run by them. I also have a problem with stupid sentimental items. You see, my pookie bear gave me a bracelet for my birthday and I love the bracelet and I keep it in my jewelry box when I am not wearing it…. BUT I ALSO KEPT THE BOX IT CAME IN! I can’t throw it away! See this is a perfect example of stupid sentimental item. The box is garbage but somehow I have it linked in my mind with the actual gift so I can’t throw it out. It’s like that Ghost Rider ticket stub I have in my desk drawer or every single Christmas Card I have ever received just sitting collecting dust in my closet. I really wish I could easily shed these things.
Okay, I just walked across the room to see what other odd things I have kept that I can’t get rid of. I found a plastic Happy Birthday tiara Erin gave me for my 31st birthday. I found an award I got from my old old company about 7 years ago, I keep it because it looks like a penis and I find that hysterical. I found a piece of the Berlin Wall and a broken magnet some Norwegian man sent me after I sent him a handful of pens as he requested via an email probably about 10 years ago. I HAVE GOT TO START THROWING THIS CRAP OUT!!!!!!!!
Resume resumes
It’s been one week and one day and today I finally opened up my resume and started tweaking it. I also started to update my LinkedIn page and I logged into Monster for the first time in MONTHS. I still want more than anything to work for myself and not have to take a job but my one stumbling block is and has always been I simply have no idea how to make money on my own. Perhaps it will come to me like a bolt of lightening. BAM! You will design and sell T-shirts with dirty words in foreign languages on them! Frat boys from all over the country will buy them in massive quantities! You shall be rich beyond your wildest dreams because of merde and jebi se and scheiss drech.
Kid Galahadelicious
How come no one told me that Elvis and Charles Bronson starred in a movie together? How could I have been unaware of this factoid? The movie was Kid Galahad. Elvis plays a boxer and Charles Bronson portrays a vigilante, bareknuckle street fighter errrrr, I mean trainer. I only caught the end but I gotta see this movie now! Although I do fear for my own safety, I mean I honestly could just combust watching my two favorite actors on screen together!
Cincinatti Kid is starting up now. I wish Steve McQueen had left us with more movies in his lifetime of achievement DVD boxset. I loved Bullitt and The Thomas Crowne Affair. The problem is no other movies of his seem to have a similar quality to these two movies. If I am wrong, please tell me. It’s a shame movies nowadays suck because I really could see this new James Bond, Danny Craig following in Steve McQueen’s footsteps. He would be just great as a grizzled San Francisco police detective who drives a green mustang, determined to find the underworld kingpin who shot his witness.
Existential Quote for Today
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Expenses Marked
It took me a couple of hours but I finally submitted my final expense report. I hope I remembered everything!
I just received a Christmas present from Maker’s Mark! They sent me wrapping paper, ribbons and tags! I am very impressed. It’s good to be an Ambassador although I feel bad since I don’t drink bourbon.
The weather is oddly warm. I remember the last time I was laid off the weather was unseasonably warm. I keep trying to remember what it felt like when I was last unemployed. I’m trying to remember how I spent my days. I can’t remember! How odd is that? I look back and I recall being out of work but it didn’t feel like a long time although it was about 3 months. I dunno. This is just so weird.
It takes awhile
A couple months ago I got tired of having my jewelry sitting on top of my bureau. I have a hard time putting things away so my necklaces were always sprawled out and it looked messy. I determined the best thing to do was to clean out one drawer and move everything down one leaving the top drawer for my jewelry. This means my underwear is in the second drawer down rather than the top drawer. Do you know that almost every morning as I am getting dressed I mistakenly open up the jewelry drawer? It’s hard for people to change their thoughts, behaviors, beliefs. I am slowly waking up to the notion that I am unemployed. Of course I don’t want to really accept that too much because then it may be difficult to get back to thinking of myself as an employable person. Right now it feels really good to have some time off. I just don’t want to get comfortable with it.