Football propaganda posters are available for the playoff season. Print ’em out, print ’em out. Go lpr!

In other news nugget has sold slacker.com to a cabal of foreign and/or domestic slackers for 1.7 billion dollars (estimated (by me (based on a vague feeling))). The old domain is now divided between macnugget.org and notslacker.com. Adjust accordingly!

[Update 03DEC06] Added more propoganda.

At the football game Thursday night I thought it would be a nice adventure for Anna and The Abster to sneak to the Booster Club table and buy a little something for their grandmother’s (momma mia) upcoming birthday party. Anna decided on a particular t-shirt and I asked her what size she thought would be appropriate. “Extra-large” she opined. Well, if you know the grandmother in question you know that extra-large is a wild overstatement of her size. I suggested that Anna obtain some better intel about the size.
Anna asked Abs, and she didn’t know either so Anna chalantly asked her grandmother what size t-shirt she wore. Grandmother replied that she sometimes wore a medium or large t-shirt for working.

Operational security prevented me from saying anything in my defense as Anna cupped her hand to her mouth and fake-whispered toward me, clearly implying that she was refuting something that had been my idea, and plenty loud enough for everyone to hear; “large, not extra-large.”
Pwnd.

Between^[1] the TTPOA competition and three football games last week I shot over 6000 frames and post-processed about 10% of them.
My keeper ratio took a big hit with the TTPOA pictures. Most of them were taken in broad daylight and are technically fine, but with so many shots of a guy running or a guy shooting or a guy climbing or carrying something I got pretty picky.

Much better was my keeper rate for Moonie and Elise’s wedding today. Yes, there were pirates and mobsters.

[1] I’m considering the three football games as a block of things, therefore using “between” rather than “among”.~

Due to homeland security regulations, immigration law and/or personal laziness issues I haven’t been able to announce this until now. Ladies and gentlemen; May I introduce Mr. and Mrs. Tony Perrie.

In today’s paper, on the front page of the business section was this picture of a party at GSD&M. Now, I happened to be at this very party and I noticed something about the picture that doesn’t exactly match what really occurred. This is no amateurish hack job like that Reuters clone stamp guy, no this is brilliant work.
Those of you who were there know immediately what I’m talking about, but for the rest of you, take a close look at the sign. Notice that the text is a bit off-center. Also notice the text makes no sense, really. I mean, aside from the made-up word, it’s a grammatical sentence; but what does it mean? Seems like a very debatable statement. But if there were more to the sign it might give the sign’s message meaning, and maybe even balance the graphics. I submit to you that these people are capable of putting a catchy meaning into a single sentence and producing a visually compelling print.
The brilliant part of this deception is that the artist didn’t take the easy way out and merely blank out the sign, but he actually removed it and replaced it with a very believable background. I submit to you that the paper has no reason to employ anyone with the means to pull off photoshoppery of this sort and really has no reason to want to do it.
This leaves us with the easy mystery of who might want to cover up this evidence and have the mad skills to pull it off.

It also could be that the water pipe portion of the sign is rolled up in this picture.

I took about 13 hours today and tidied up my previously obstreperous pedal board. I finally gave up on trying to glue, tape, velcro and electromagnet things on and drilled holes and tied everything on with 550 cord. I knew my mad marlinspike seamanship skills would come in handy someday. The cord is tight enough to keep everything together even if I play on one of those stages that inverts the players periodically but loose enough to allow a cable to be changed when necessary.

If you’re looking for the Granny slideshow it’s available in near-vga resolution glory for video CD making or whatever. I’m updating the Old Payne Retrospective Gallery and I’d recommend that as a better viewing experience.
Here’s a good and not very good way to randomize filenames in the current directory:
rename 's/[^\.]*/int rand(1729)/e' *
Not very good because there’s some chance (better for small values of 1729 in comparison with ls|wc -l) that it’ll have a filename collision and die. Good because it’s the first thing I thought of.

Mrs. Bumper informed me that a “hamhock” is a cut of pork from the bottom of a hog’s leg. This is good to know, but it caused a sort of irrecoverable error in my story about one swooping down and stealing my sandwich.

Here‘s another thrilling entry in the “riflemonk” series. I wrote this for Steve Bones a few weeks ago and then forgot about it. As obvious as the premise sounds I think I’m the first guy to say it.
Maybe that means it’s wrong. Let me know.

For some time I’ve been keeping up with my favorite galleries (perhaps more properly “gallerys”, but that would look weird) via the rss feed and my keen sense of remembering, but in messing around with gallery 1.5 I noticed that there’s a stats page that does interesting sorting automatically. For example here’s my gallery sorted by latest added images and hoyhoy’s sorted the same way. gallery.hoyhoy.org sorted by most recent comment is the kind of thing that makes me think The Internet will remain useful for years to come. You can see Leto’s latest gallery comments but they’re all in Dutch or maybe just plain gibberish -I don’t know for sure.