 17.11.01 Where Is Dick Cheney?
posted by Stentor Danielson at 16:18 -- link --
16.11.01 HOW TO REMOVE HAIR FROM THE PRESIDENT'S LEGS
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1) Draw a comic depicting the President in some situation (on the toilet, swimming, a steamy love scene with Laura, etc.) that would cause his legs to be bare.
2) Underestimate the size of the pen you use to put some hair on his legs, causing them to appear far hairier than you intended, perhaps even Sasquatch-like.
3) Place the drawing on the bed of the scanner and close the lid.
4) Select Apple > Recent Applications > PhotoStudio
5) Select File > Acquire > ScanGear
6) Click "Preview"
7) Use the marquee tool to select just your drawing
8) Click "Scan"
9) File > Save As Name your file something appropriate, such as "hairylegs.tif"
10) File > Quit
11) Apple > Recent Applications > Adobe Photoshop Elements
12) File > Open
13) Enhance > Brightness & Contrast > Brightness & Contrast
14) Raise the contrast to +70, then hit OK
15) Select the zoom tool from the toolbox and click on the President's legs. You may need to click several times until his legs pretty much fill the screen
16) Select the eraser tool from the toolbox
17) Use the eraser to thin the lines of the hair and selectively remove about half of them
18) File > Save As Name this file something appropriate, like "nair.tif"
posted by Stentor Danielson at 15:33 -- link --
(test post to see if people.colgate.edu is still broken)
posted by Stentor Danielson at 15:17 -- link --
15.11.01 On some level I feel like I've wasted the day. I slept until 12:30 today, because my 8:30 class was cancelled (of course, I was up until 4:30 last night, but that's another story). After my shower I realised I hadn't eaten in something like 20 hours (since dinner the previous day). Then I did laundry and did some very leisurely looking through the grad school catalog.
It will all change tonight, though. Maroon-News, band, and calling four more people to take this stupid survey. I'm not sure when I'll fit the survey in. I probably should have done it this afternoon.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 15:52 -- link --
14.11.01 There's a keypad on our front door. After a year of asking to have a door code installed instead of the old key lock (which none of us had keys to), B&G has finally given us a keypad. It's a beautiful thing.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 13:22 -- link --
Military May Try Terrorism Cases
Bill Maher was right. Our government is cowardly.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 11:16 -- link --
13.11.01 
The Taliban gained support and came to power on the premise of freeing the people from the oppression of the Northern Alliance (though they weren't called that at the time). So are we just swapping a repressive regime we hate for a repressive regime that will cooperate with us in beating a common enemy? Given what good buddies we are with Saudi Arabia, and Bush's professed distaste for "nation building," my hopes aren't too high.
And on a bit of a tangent, the capture of Kabul was the big banner headline this morning on the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the New York Times, but it was only the fifth story on the Washington Times, and the second in the Miami Herald and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It doesn't even appear on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 11:37 -- link --
12.11.01 And everyone else's blog on people.colgate.edu is demanding a password. Stupid Colgate web server.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 16:54 -- link --
Even when I'm at band, I feel like I'm an archaeologist.
One of my favorite things to do when the game is boring, or hasn't started yet, is to inspect my trumpet. I've had the same horn since the beginning of High School, and I haven't taken particularly good care of it. So I can look at all the scratches and wear and dings in the bell and see everything that it's gone through. The rim of the bell is scraped where it sits on concrete when I put it down at games. There are dents in the bell that line up with the way it sits across a folding chair. There's a worn spot under the tubing in front of the first valve where my left thumb scrapes. The finish is eaten away by the acid in my sweat on the casing of the third valve. There are pliers marks on the mouthpiece from yanking it out. There are stained rings around the tuning slide to mark where I've tuned to.
Today I started to do the same thing with my shoes. Why did my left shoe develop a hole near my pinky toe, but my right show has a hole by my big toe? I want to say it has something to do with fencing, since that's the only activity I can think of where my feet are moving in different ways, but I don't think I've fenced often enough since I got these shoes to account for that degree of different wear.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 16:51 -- link --
One of the 10 most recently updated blogs was called "efficient german lovemaking." I was going to link it here and make some snide comment to Marty. But before I could come up with a suitable thing to say, I clicked through (so as to be able to copy the link out of the address bar) and discovered that a page redesign had apparently completely removed any reference to efficient German lovemaking from the site itself. How sad.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 16:37 -- link --
11.11.01 It's creepy to listen to the sound of my own voice. I had to tape-record an interview I did with Sarah, the RA of '34 House, for my anthropology field methods course and write up a transcript. I never realised how much I sound like my brother. It's weird. I'm not sure I like it, either.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 17:15 -- link --
To successfully publish to people.colgate.edu or to not successfully publish to people.colgate.edu. That is the question.
posted by Stentor Danielson at 12:38 -- link --
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