A sneak preview of Photoshop 5’s content-aware fill. My jaw dropped. That is some magic, magic stuff happening there. It’s the kind of thing that laypeople imagine computers should be able to do, but people who work with computers think of as pretty much impossible. And somehow they did it.
Month: March 2010
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Shared today on Twitter
RT @InsideRetailing: Gap finally hits Aussie shores http://bit.ly/bzerGp // YES! I CAN BUY NOT-TOO-EXPENSIVE NEW JEANS THAT DON’T SUCK!
@toastman Well, yes, I agree. But they’re owned by the same company. Maybe Old Navy would follow??
On our way to #webblast…
Thanks to @balsamiq for sponsoring #webblast! http://twitpic.com/1as0de
@Kat13v I guess I really should stop sending it to her then, huh? (NOTE: I AM JOKING, GUILD SPIES.)
It took two grown humans two days to outsmart (and flea treat) one small cat.
Spotted on William St. http://twitpic.com/1awr9i I wonder what the treatment REALLY is. *shudder*
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Run-walk
In Geek Girl Runner Episode #5 I talked about changing my run-walk ratio on my long runs to 3 minutes running/1 minute walking. Now here comes Jeff Galloway saying that even shorter periods of running can be used to go faster! One of the people he trains has done a 4:38 marathon using 30 seconds running/30 seconds walking. Crazy! Maybe I’ll keep cut my ratio down even further for this weekend’s 10-miler and see what it does…
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The Godless Streets of Chippendale
The Godless Streets of Chippendale. I had no idea that our little postcode was home to double the national percentage of atheists. Is it because we have so many uni students, I wonder? At any rate, I feel very at home in my little enclave of progressive pumpkin-sex-enablers.
Edited 25/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived. 🙁
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Geek Girl Runner Episode 005
The long-awaited fifth episode of the Geek Girl Runner podcast is now available! Sorry about taking so long. (I explain what I’ve been up to in the meantime in the show.) This one is particularly interesting in that I recorded the whole thing in a single take! Extemporaneous speaking FTW. Thanks again to everyone who’s been sending in feedback. This episode features: my training update; emails, comments, and shoutouts; and a small rant about whether podcasts are, in fact, a vanity project. (Spoiler: OF COURSE THEY ARE.)
Show links:
Sydney Royal Easter Show
Sydney Half-Marathon
Mother’s Day Classic – join the Geek Girl Runner team!
Triathlon Mind Training – podcast and blog by Ironmanjay
Crazy Floridian – blog of Adam Culp
CORSO LA META – podcast and blog by Jimbo_W
You Don’t Have to Run Alone – podcast by Ted Beveridge
Phedippidations – podcast by Steve RunnerThanks as usual to Nick Arthur for the use of his song “Little Donut Party”. Please give me some feedback and let me know what you think!
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Shared today on Twitter
Just realised that the Easter Show Judging for knitting is happening today. Fingers crossed for everybody who entered!
@VenessaHunt Yep. My entries: http://bit.ly/a6tMfP 🙂
@thisismywww You want Drupal horror stories? I’ll give you Drupal horror stories. Not as bad as Joomla, though…
Hey look! I’m on a landing page! http://bit.ly/ccMZzC Hahahahahaha…. 🙂
@thisismywww We use it on GetUpGo: http://www.getupgo.com/. IM me tomorrow for more details.
The cure for stress: getting some exercise and saying NO to meetings. I feel much better today.
@Offbeatceremony Way to go! It feels great to hit those milestones. Well done. 🙂
@DDsD I would’ve said the former a year ago, but I had a boss who used “mobile site” a lot. So I see the value in distinguishing.
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We’re on a landing page!
A couple weeks ago a co-worker asked if I had any pictures from our trip to Uluru. I sent her the link and asked why. She said that we were doing a promotion with Flight Centre, and they wanted a vacation picture to use in it. Snookums and I said we didn’t mind, and so… here we are!
Hahahaha, for some reason it just makes me laugh and laugh. Now I need to get into one of the TV commercials…
Edited 24/03/2025: Link is archived, but the image is not. 🙁
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John Cusack… in the rain
For my sister: John Cusack… in the rain. HA! He really is always in the rain.
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Stop Motion Knitting
This beautiful advertisement for natural gas shows a home being covered with knitting as a metaphor for it warming up in the morning.
I also recommend watching the “making of” video. It looks like they started with everything covered and then slowly unraveled it all, bit by bit. Lovely!
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RunningBlog: Week 12
Apologies for missing last week’s entry. I’ve just been a bit stressed and down lately. My running is going really well though, and I think it’s helping me to cope. I have managed long runs of 11km (7mi) and 13km (8mi) in the last two weeks without too much trouble. I’m also doing two morning runs each week and a cross-training session at Spudds. I’ve been gratified to see the pace on my morning runs has slowly been improving after the two weeks I took off for my cold and injury. My foot is feeling much better, and I’d say it feels 95% recovered. I’m still running in my New Balance though; I haven’t returned to the Newtons since the injury. (I’m still doing a midfoot strike though even though it’s more difficult in these shoes.) On to the numbers…
Mar. 20: 5.23km
Mar. 21: 13.14km
Mar. 24: 5.41km
Total this week: 23.78km (14.8mi)
Total in 2010: 236.91km (148mi)To meet my 1000km goal, I should be at 230.7km. So I’m about 6km ahead of pace right now!