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Name: Ali
Country: United States
State: New York
Gender: Male
Expertise: Spending 5 hours trying to save 5 minutes. =)
Industry: Computers (Software)
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5/20/2002
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| Help Needed
Any experienced photographers / printers out there? I have a dedicated photo printer (HP 8200). However, regardless of which application I use to print (I've used Photoshop, Lightroom and the included HP Image Zone) what I see on my screen does not equal what I see on the print. The print is always slightly darker with slightly more contrast than what I see on my screen.
I've gone through the different color profiles that came with my printer, and it does no good.
I was looking at Lightroom tutorials online and was amazed at how their screen and print images looked EXACTLY the same. I want that. Any ideas? | | |
| I feel like sharing today.
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I stumbled upon the most clever website I have seen in quite a while: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com. The simplicity behind it is simply marvelous. Check it out! At worst, you will be mildly amused.
Not Awesome
I have a serious condition called CYPS (pronounced: sips). For the uninformed, CYPS is Clean Your Plate Syndrome. I cannot help but eat ALL the food on my plate. It does not matter how full I am; if there is food infront of me, I will eat it. Normally, this situation can be easily prevented by not putting too much food on my plate. However, take out joints near my workplace pose quite the problem: they give enormously large portions!
I had arroz con pollo today. Two pounds of arroz con pollo. I have way too much arroz in me at the moment. | | |
| The Price of Eggs: A Leading Indicator?
from Freakonomics Blog by Stephen J. Dubner
The average U.S. retail price for a dozen large eggs was $1.51 in the first quarter, up 33 cents, or 28%, from the fourth quarter and 43 cents higher than a year ago … Behind the higher prices: Feed. Rising corn and soybean prices have led to increased costs for feed. The increase is in large part because of rising corn demand, and thus prices, to produce ethanol. Ethanol is most commonly made from corn and is combined with gasoline to produce fuel for cars and other vehicles. Ethanol production rose 30% from January 2006 to January 2007, the most recent data, according to the Energy Department.
– USA Today, April 4, 2007
Responding to the increase in egg prices, which has been driven by the increase in corn prices, which has been driven by demand for corn-based ethanol, which has been driven by a growing multivariate aversion to the consumption of oil, the newly formed advocacy group Parents Against a New International Climate today announced that no American child shall henceforth be allowed to dye or hunt for more than one Easter egg per year.
A spokesperson for the group, Lirpa Sloof, also urged Americans to abandon the use of real Christmas trees. “The ecological cost of growing, cutting, transporting, and disposing of a single tree,” she said, “is nearly enough to cover a full 24-hour segment of Al Gore’s utility bill.”
The group has also called for abandoning the use of mistletoe at Christmas (”pure vegetative slaughter,” according to Sloof), matzo for Passover (”the widespread short-term disuse of yeast causes a disastrous interruption to normal food production”), and the outright elimination of holidays including Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and Memorial Day.
“Don’t even get me started on Halloween,” Sloof added. “Do you have any idea how much the production of candy corn alone damages the environment?”
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| Visualizing Data is Freaking Awesome!
NYTimes.com is aweome. They've been coming up with dynamic and intuitive ways to visually present data. Nobody wants to read the voting breakdown of the House of Representatives. A list of names followed by a "yes" or "no" is not exactly engaging.
NYTimes.com took this list, allowed cross querying with other data and created a quick, painless and interesting way to see how the House voted on a particular bill. You can get a breakdown by party, ideology, state and region. Check it out, its exciting stuff:
Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/ROLLCALL.html?currentRoll=99 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/ROLLCALL.html?currentRoll=20
Play around with the "Show only certain districts" feature on the lower right. Its so interesting! | | |
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