Being back home means I have to take care of things that I don't need to bother with when out on vacation/at conferences. Mostly, that involves getting groceries so I have food. I also went to Target to get Target things, since WF isn't really the best place to get cleaners and things. I don't really want to pay twice as much for some organic cleaner. I want deadly poisons, and deadly poisons are what I bought.
Since I woke up early (despite when I actually got out of bed and went to run the errands), I wanted to get something breakfast-y for lunch. Since
this place is close to Target, it ended up being my choice. The chocolate chip pancakes were decent, and the linguica was tasty. The potatoes were bland and tasteless, and I ended up chucking more than half of them. A sprinkle of onion powder or cayenne or anything (salt maybe?) would have made them infinitely better. Cooking them in a more flavorful oil would have helped as well (no clue what they used, but it had zero flavor as well).
Also, it turns out that you have to ask for syrup for chocolate chip pancakes. Crazy. It covered the "breakfast" vibe though, so I guess it worked well.
This picture is partially why I was lazy getting going this morning. It's harder than I expected to register images for time-sequence gifs. The main issue is that hugin auto match code tends to screw up pretty badly, resulting in really bad registration over the image. This meant cropping the images (it's the same sequence I auto-posted from Durham) to just contain the cathedral, and then manually registering points. You can tell I didn't bother with the foreground houses as much, so they tend to wobble around (which would have been far worse without cropping). I also let gimp create
inbetweened frames from the five key frames I registered. I like the end result better than the five frame version, although you can still see some registration issues (especially in the
west towers).
I still need to sort through my other images, but I think my plan is to update daily posts from the past two weeks this week. I definitely have a lot more
hugin work to do stitching all the panoramas together.
Yay! A proper linkstorm!
- America's only planetarium? Apparently Adler Planetarium was the first one in the US. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure that I've never been there, something I'll have to remedy next time I'm in Chicago for more than a layover. I'm pretty sure I've been to the Field Museum, though, and that's right next door.
- And, in an odd case of synchronicity, a story about the Field Museum. Weird. Also: I kind of wish I got coupons for places, but I probably say fuck a bit more than most PR people would prefer.
- My opinion of Rob Liefeld just shot through the roof. I've never been a fan of his art, as it's kind of...um...guns/pouches/impossible spines/tiny feet. Still, he's pretty popular, and the youtube video I watched of him making a character with Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane gave me the impression that he's enthusiastic about what he does, and probably a decent guy. In any case, being jerked around by shitty editors is killing DC comics, and when a popular artist quits and says so, maybe you should think about fixing your company.
- I also don't really like Namor, as he's basically a jerk version of Aquaman (who he predates). Still, this is a great panel.
- Polite dog.
- This was sad news to read when my phone turned back on after getting to Honolulu yesterday. Still, I suspect part of the reason that Buzz is still around (and probably will be still in 2019) is that Death is afraid of getting a fist in the face.
