One of my photos of Point Pinos Lighthouse was used in the Schmap Guide to Monterey & Carmel. It looks like this in their iPhone app. I think it's pretty cool that it was chosen. I was also impressed that they contacted me to get my permission to use it. I licensed it with a Creative Commons license, so they're free to use it in this way provided they give me credit. Maybe this isn't a big deal to anyone else, but I'm jazzed.
Posted by Kurt Wall at 22:55 2009-11-15 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
No Tragedy, Please (Tirades)
If I hear one more commentator or newscaster use the word "tragedy" to describe the massacre at Fort Hood, I think my head will explode.
Let's be clear about this. It was not a "tragedy." When an accident occurs and someone is killed, that's tragic. This was not an accident. Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murder of 13 people at Fort Hood was a deliberate atrocity; another act of war in Islam's assault on America; cold-blooded, first-degree murder; a calculated betrayal.
After he's found guilty and sentenced to death, I suggest a public choking with pig genitalia. Not only will this method humiliate him, it will make him ritually unclean and thus ineligible to enter paradise and claim his 70 virgins.
And, for the record, I understood it to be an act of Islamic terrorism immediately. Only the vacuous, fatuous, and fatally politically correct could pretend it was anything else. Fools. When someone says they want to kill you, you're ignorant if you don't take them seriously.
Posted by Kurt Wall at 22:29 2009-11-12 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
Winner! (Photography)
I hang out on a great photography website, Digital Photography School. They always have a running "assignment" or contest. I entered this architectural detail of a support beam I saw at Picchetti Winery in the weekly assignment and won! I'm proud and excited and flattered.
Posted by Kurt Wall at 22:15 2009-11-09 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
Installing GIMP 2.7 (Linux)
How I installed GIMP 2.7:
- Install BABL 0.1:
configure --prefix=/opt make -j3 sudo make -j3 install
- Install GEGL 0.1:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/opt make -j3 sudo make -j3 install
- Install libtiff (libtiff4, libtiffxx0c2, libtiff4-dev, libtiff-tools, libtiff-doc)
- Install GIMP 2.7:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 --without-alsa --enable-debug make -j3 sudo make -j3 install
Posted by Kurt Wall at 21:36 2009-11-09 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)