Posted in Movies on January 31st, 2003 No Comments »
Dear Universal Studios Home Video:
I purchased your Bourne Identity DVD, and I am not happy.
You have locked the disk so that I can’t fast forward past your coming attractions trailers.
You’ve now made it less likely that I will ever buy another Universal Studios DVD. If I do buy another Universal Studios DVD, and find that you have again put your goals ahead of the consumer’s goals by locking the disk in that way, I will NEVER buy a third DVD from you, and I will encourage everybody I know to do the same.
Posted in General on January 31st, 2003 No Comments »
The retouch button in iPhoto 2 is scary good. Seriously, it is amazing how smart this thing is. I assume it’s basically the healing brush from PhotoShop 7 - which I’ve yet to play around with, but OH MY GOD.
I had this one photo of some friends’ kid who had some crumbs in her hair. I go in, and rub the wand over the crumbs and they disappeared. This is on wispy, inconsistently textured hair people. If you haven’t worked extensively with PhotoShop, you may not know, but holy crap! It took the crumbs right out and left the freaking hair. I don’t even know if I could have cloned it out this well (you know — assuming it actually mattered enough to me to even take the time). This thing seems to have more intelligence than me and my 13+ years of professional experience. I am well and truly floored. I don’t know what kind of algorithm they’re using, but whoever programmed this thing is some kind of freaky smart, uber god!