Here’s a vector illustration I doodled last night, titled “Breath Vortex”. I was inspired by listening to the very talented Lara Fabian, international Belgian-Italian singer, singing – Je suis malade in french. She speaks and sings it so heartfelt and emotional that it’s impossible to listen to her and not be moved. Breath. Vortex. ^^Click [...]
In part 1 of this tutorial series on Bezier curves, we learned how to use the Bezier tool, also known as the Pen Tool, in Inkscape to do a basic stroke with one arc, and how to adjust that arc. In part 2 on Bezier curves, we will learn how to add several nodes to [...]
Here’s a little “doodle” that I was working on honing my skills with the Pen Tool aka rockin’ the Bezier Curves: This can be accomplished on the awesome open source software called Inkscape. Works on both Linux and Windows based computers. Don’t let the version number scare you away from this fine illustration tool, it’s [...]
Ok, just because the sun’s shining doesn’t mean it’s a good day for geocaching! Um, yeah, ’bout that! hahahaha! I was determined to get out the first sunny day and find that Beach cache I wrote about last week. Which was just before the 7 inch snow storm hit. Here’s a few pics from the [...]
Ever wanted to see what your network traffic is doing and if there are any background transmissions slowing down your internet? But you don’t want to be a network admin to be able to figure out the stats from log files and traceroutes, right! Well, check this out – Etherape, a visual network traffic tool [...]
Ah, yes, it was about 50 degrees the other day, bright, sunny, puffy clouds and I just had to go geocaching. I was looking for some caches in West Des Moines and found a series that was beach themed – oh yeah! Definitely got me in the summer spirit! On of the cache’s had shells [...]
Ok, so you’ve got one of those cellphones that can play music right – just like I do. But paying $2.99 PER SONG to order it from Verizon (or other provider) seems steep and you already have a legal purchased version of the song on your computer. Today we are going to learn how to [...]
Went out geocaching again yesterday and I’m so glad I did – its icky cold and rainy today! First stop was back at Mt. Fuji Triangle – this was my third visit to find this cache and I was determined. Jenny was tracking on the GPS and she also narrowed it down to where I [...]
Grant, Jenny’s nephew was in a children’s musical yesterday, titled Horton Hears a Who, and he did such a good job! All the kids did, it was so cute! At the end of the play, adults got to join them on stage for a reprise of the main song and a game of freeze dance. [...]
Ok, the weather was sooooooo nice yesterday that I just had to go geocaching! So, I looked up some cache’s in the area and found a sweet multi-cache themed around math called “Shape Shifters” – how uberly geeky goodness! It’s a 6 part find and then after you do all the math from the clues [...]
