Yet Another Bikeshed

New GIMP Color Dialog Palette Picker and GIMP Image Color Display Questions

While trying to lay low and not interfer with the holiday weekend, I happened to notice the new color picker which is available now in GIMP's Color Dialog.

I also opened an image and GIMP asked me if I wanted to apply a color profile to it (or something like that). I agreed. It seemed to make no difference in the image being displayed. There is an old joke I kind of remember hearing once about how the goal when applying cosmetics to a face is to see how much you can apply and still see no difference.

Show here is the new color picker displaying the Visibone (336) palette.

Elven Bisquits For Wilber

Another lgm another fantasygirlfriends.oreilley.com!! If you are like me and like to watch people who watch people who watch their wives, you might be interested in the tour of free software travel package I am about to make available.

It is quite a package also. Karines husband has a *nice* camera. She knows how to speak elven and can write photoshop-like plug-ins in C!

The three of them weave a tale of intrigue and romance unseen in todays usual humdrum standards and I can testify myself to the power that the combination of these three people can have on your life.

Please write me to schedule your watch the people who watch their wives vacation now! Slots are filling in quickly!

How the credit for colorhtml is given:

It is interesting how license works. I have an example of a script authoring which would not even have happened without my knowlege being added to it -- yet the way the rules work, there is no reason to give me any credit for this. If it worked the same way in the print world, like that a translation from one language into another totally disassociates the original author -- then everything that Sven Neumann writes for GIMP would be owned by the person who translated his book.

Here is how the "great men" do it.....

Marc Lehman wrote the script originally. I used it quite a bit; I enjoyed it.

I figured out a way to make it work with css and thus produce xhtml. Using Marc Lehmanns original script and my instructions and understanding of xhtml that I shared with a person who wore the guise of friendship back then, Manish Singh -- he rewrote the perl script into python giving credit to the original author, Marc Lehmann.

Years later when I found no mention of my name on that script, I see how I have been giving people credit and how they also legally are allowed to take credit. When Manish informed me that it was his choice to put my name on it or not and he was putting it there simply to humor me, not because there was any rule that he had to give me credit -- I did not question his honesty about that.

Interestingly enough, Manish bore that same guise of friendship when he explained to me that it is assumed that you are financially stable before you become involved in free software. He was also was looking like the same kind of friend when he explained to me that he has no respect for an accomplished older woman who had not made money from her accomplishments.

It is somewhat obvious the reasons that the developers of software do not want me to interview them. I give them credit, they take credit -- I keep giving them credit, they keep taking credit. My dreams go down their toilets or something.

Updated Resume

Using every single human resource I have here in Mountain View, California, I have finally found a subset of my original resume which should be worth about (100K USAD/year) on the local market.

I will be honest, here in my web log about it. One of the accomplishments I have listed there is less accurate than the others.

My apologies for not understanding what is important in life.

Fix vs Repair

There are two words which get used interchangibly, repair and fix. I have been thinking about this lately. The definitions are not so interchangible though. One definition guarrentees an outcome and the other definition is more about making wrong and broken things to be not wrong and working again.

The definitions can get even more refined than this. For instance, some repairs are to make things that do wrong things stop doing wrong things. So the repair would be to break something. It has to be really wrong though -- for the definition to work.

Friend, foe, family, political action group, messengers from god -- whoever you are today, how about a day (or more even) of repair for somebody who needs it.

Exemplification, Salubriousness, Differentiation and Accumulation with GIMP

Over the last week I had a little fun with everything I learned about black and white photography and lens filtering in the 1970's and 1980's (which sadly isn't that much), GIMP and the photographs from my tour of Norway taken right after GUADEC 4 and GIMPCon3; almost but not quite culminating into a slew of new (and somewhat useful) 'layer effects'.

If that is not enough, pygimp has a new console now and I made a place to put the good scripts.

I need to finish the cameo effect and it is probably a good thing that I did not make the sepia galleries as well. Automated scripts that work are dangerous even in this time when hard disks are so inexpensive.