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It can be pretty, as long as you don’t have to drive in it.

:: Dave Walker 21:55 (EST/EDT) [+]

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When we selected Bailey at the pet store, he was in a cage with 3 or 4 other small rabbits. They were all cuddled together at one end of the cage, as small mammals tend to do. I realized quickly that it would ease his adjustment to his new home if he had a companion in his cage when we brought him home.

We stopped at a Dollar Tree on the way home and bought a very small stuffed animal, a brown puppy (it was almost exactly the same length as Bailey at the time.) We placed the stuffed puppy into his cage before we put him in it, with the hope that Bailey would think it was another bunny.

Sure enough, after a few hours, we noticed Bailey cuddling up to the stuffed puppy. We were always careful to keep them together — when we took Bailey out of the cage to take him somewhere, we’d bring the puppy too. Over the next few days and weeks, as Bailey grew larger than the puppy, he continued to be very attached to it. If we gave Bailey timothy hay, he’d always drop a few stalks next to the puppy. He pulls the puppy around the cage to keep him close.

We bought him a stuffed elephant yesterday from the same store where we got the puppy. It’s the same size, from the same company (so it’s made from the same fabric).

And Bailey is terrified of it.

He grabbed his puppy and took it over into the opposite corner. He’s keeping them both far away from this weird new intruder. We’re going to give him another day or so, I think, to get used to it before we give up.

:: Dave Walker 20:26 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Apparently, cats aren’t the only pets who stare out of windows.

:: Dave Walker 21:47 (EST/EDT) [+]

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:: Dave Walker 20:23 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Hardware problems, the usual, whatever.

I haven’t actually tested it externally, but dynamic page generation should be much, much faster. It still doesn’t get around the problem of me not ever really writing anything, but “Small moves, Ellie. Small moves.”

:: Dave Walker 12:00 (EST/EDT) [+]

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:: Dave Walker 09:42 (EST/EDT) [+]

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A further update on my recent obsession with jacking my old photos to hell and back with cheap post-processing tools.

Altered

Original

This particular photo was messed about with using Art & Mobile’s “TiltShift Generator” for iOS. There’s apparently an Adobe Air version, but I’ve given up Flash and its bastard stepchildren for not-Lent so I haven’t seen it in action.

Further reading

• Thom Yorke’s “Harrowdown Hill” video
• 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography
• Tilt-shift photography (Wikipedia)
• Miniature faking (Wikipedia)

:: Dave Walker 09:37 (EST/EDT) [+]

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I didn’t plan for it to work out this way, but a business visit to Querétaro, Mexico coincided with Día de los Muertos. A colleague and I took a walk through the downtown plazas, which were an amazing blend of sights, tastes, and aromas. It was a tremendous amount of fun. I took quite a few pictures; you can find the Flickr set here.

:: Dave Walker 20:11 (EST/EDT) [+]

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I’ve never been too terribly into post processing my photos, but there are so many nice iOS tools (way less overhead than firing up a beast like Photoshop) for doing post-processing now, and they’re really fun to use. I have about a half dozen little $0-$3 tools for doing fun things to pictures.

I always liked this picture, but I was never very happy with the color (the original was very much on the cool side, thanks to misconfigured white balance on the camera) or the DOF. I fixed the DOF with TiltShiftGen and took some wacky liberties with the tint in PS Express, both on the iPad.

The original, for comparison:

:: Dave Walker 10:07 (EST/EDT) [+]

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:: Dave Walker 20:04 (EST/EDT) [+]

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