I found a site that will turn an uploaded portrait into a Simpson’s character.
All you do is upload a picture of yourself, answer a few questions, and it creates the character.
Even though I was wearing glasses in the picture I used, I had to add them manually. And, it turned my soul patch into a massive goatee, so I had to change that back.
I uploaded two different pictures and it gave me the same guy. If you try it out, email me the resulting picture. I’d be curious to know how many different characters they select from for each go.
I came across this video this morning (that was supposedly animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone) showcasing the ideas of philosopher, writer, and speaker, Alan Watts, whom I don’t know much about other than what you see here:
For obvious reasons, this hit home with me. I’ve spent a lot of the past three to five years very ambitiously trying to build my career and my business. I’ve spent a great deal of effort working toward something. Now that I have a kid, I’ve had no choice in slowing down … enjoying the ride, I suppose.
I guess you could say I listen to the music now.
Update: I have found a much better format of this video here.
After fifteen minutes of trouble-shooting why IE6 was rendering this blog incorrectly, I did a search on how long IE6 will remain the scourge of my designs. Apparently, I’ll be fixing my sites for IE6 for a long time to come.
Here are some statistics from my business site, which has received 5,502 unique visitors in the past 30 days:
47% of them visited using Internet Explorer
Of that group, 40% were using Internet Explorer 6
So, if my math is correct, 19% of the visitors to my site are still using IE6 - an obsolete web browser that renders web pages unlike any other, without regard to universal standards.
From now on, if you visit this site using IE6, I have added a script that will present a gentle reminder that your browser sucks, along with a link to Save the Developers - a site devoted to ridding the world of IE6 users.
If you see this reminder in your browser (and are using an operating system newer than Windows 2000), please do me the favor of upgrading now!
