Thing 6 -- Image Generators

Have you ever tried Image Chef or any other image generator? If not, you should. They are really helpful at work or for fun. Tried posting directly from their site and had a little trouble. Also I don't trust 100% that they won't hack into my blog when I give them my password to post.

Some others to try: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

http://www.toondoo.com/Home.on

or for for information on Image Generators:

http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/

I think you can also use these easily with MySpace and Facebook!

For the ladies at RCL

A couple of wedding photos. One from long time ago and one from last weekend.

Coldplay

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Originally uploaded by kingpinphoto

Just wanted to make a post today and didn't know what o write about soooooooooo...this photo gets me excited about the Coldplay concert I am going to on November 14th!

Physician and patient

Source of mosaic: a 13th century medical text.
This photo is from a National Library of Medicine online exhibit.
Please go to their website to learn more http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/articella.html

Thing 4--Flickr and Picnik

Articella Mosaic Edited with Picnik
Originally uploaded by coppity

This is a mosaic that was custom made for our library! The actual mosaic is beautiful and hangs in the conference room. I edited this photo using a photo editing application within Flickr called Picnik. I edited the colors and also added a necktie! There are Basic and Premium features, and you guessed it, you have to pay for the Premium features which are way cooler than the Basic ones.

Thing 4--Good English Friends

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Originally uploaded by coppity

For 'Thing 4' we are supposed to play with Flickr. Since I am already pretty familiar with it, I decided to figure out how to post from Flickr directly to my blog. This is super easy to do. You just click 'Blog This" above the photo in Flickr, and then choose which of your blogs you want it to go to. So if you are reading this post--I was indeed successful. I am sure you will be seeing more of my Flickr photos in the future.

This is a photo taken last fall at Mike and Tracy's house. We met them in 2005 in China, but went to visit them near London last year!

Thing 3--RSS feeds continued

Okay so now I am familiar with Google Reader. If you know a good feed or think I should read all of your blog updates, let me know the url. This reader seems easier to use than others I have tried. Maybe because it is Googlified and everything they touch seems to turn to gold. My co-worker pointed out that it is convenient because once you sign into Google, you can do everything at once. Blog, read your feeds, check your email, make PDFs, etc. I like that.

Twins vs. Brewers

A beautiful day for some baseball. This me with my friend Ann outside Miller Park on June 14th.
While tailgating at Miller Park in Milwaukee last weekend I spotted TC! I grabbed Christian and our new friend Matt (photographer) and we chased him through lots of drunk people. I caught up to him just as he was about to hop on his little golf cart and fulfilled my dream of having my photo taken with him! Twins won by the way!

Thing 3--RSS Feeds

Hhhhmm. I am supposed to learn about RSS feeds. I have set up several feed-readers in the past that are now long forgotten. If I do another, will it really help me organize all the news that I want to keep up on? Right now I prefer listservs and email newsletters, but I guess I could change my ways if I really try. RSS is a great tool. I will give it another go and let you know.

Yes! I knew it!

Read this news item from MEDLINEPLUS

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_65873.html

Thing 1--New blog

I missed the deadline to register my blog with 23 Things on a Stick http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/, but I am going to do all the 'Things' anyhow. They may not be as library-related as they are supposed to be...

I created my first avatar. The lovely cartoon lady you see to the right is me running on the Great Wall with my sixteen year old cat Maggie! She is Siamese, so perhaps she is close to her homeland (Thailand?). And me, well I just like China and all things Chinese.