As you can see from the image to the right, I have been playing around with Paint Shop Pro and doing some fun image editing. I don’t know why, but this seemed like an extraordinarily funny thing to do, and the results turned out pretty good. Better than the Darth Maul/Boba Fett image I did yesterday.
Month: July 2002
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Fun With Images
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Boba Maul?
I finally saw Attack of the Clones last Friday (the 5th), and it was pretty good. Better than The Phantom Menace, at any rate. And I’ve been thinking of the odd, cult-like popularity that has arisen out of two Star Wars characters, Boba Fett and Darth Maul.
Yep, utterly geeky.
My best theory as to their popularity is that they are visually interesting, bad-ass characters who were not overused. (Although, with Jango Fett in AOTC, they may be trodding down the overused path with clan Fett.) You know, less is more.
So, I decided to merge the two characters into one, ultra-cool, ultra-bad-ass creation:
Darth Fett.
Here’s the image I whipped up to illustrate.
Nuff said.
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Fine Grind
Still around. Had a nice, four-day holiday weekend, and now I really don’t want to go back to work Monday morning. It’s odd; I love working with the Internet, and developing in PHP, and the cool technologies, and being hands-on in all aspects of a web site from domain name registration and server management to server-specific Apache configuration, but I’m also growing very weary of the day-to-day Alpine grind.
(Grind is not exactly the right word, but I’m being lazy tonight. Also, it alliterates nicely with “Alpine.”)
Thinking about it now, perhaps I’m getting tired of being a part of a struggling start up company. It’s draining, and wasn’t what I had set out to do two and a half years ago when I was looking for a new job. I often feel that the amount of energy and effort and personal stake I’m investing (as I am with Alpine) should be directed to my own endeavor and not necessarily somebody else’s vision and risk.
In other words, if I want to work for a start up, it should be my own.
But don’t necessarily hold your breath.
Yet.
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One more reason to love toys…
So I may be behind the times on this, but check out this link: Eric Harshbarger’s LEGO® website. This guy is my new hero. He actually builds LEGO sculptures for a living.
No, really.
He makes a living building LEGO sculptures. Professionally.
What the hell am I doing wrong?
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Portland recap; To-do list
Portland was really good. We picked a good hotel this time (we’ve stayed in some real dives) and the Portland Spirit dinner cruise was fantastic. I’d highly recommend anyone looking for something nice to do in Portland, check this out.
TODO list for chuggnutt.com:
- Get blog search working
- Get the featured “Check it Out” link-thing working, so it rotates through actual links rather than just the one
- Drop in some more pages of content
- Uhm… more links?
