See my previous posting about Yvonne Craig, with the picture of her and Elvis. I bought a publicity photo of her taken for a two-part “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” episode that had been spliced into a movie for European release. There was another photo of Yvonne Craig that caught my eye, of her in an open red sweater, taken early in her career, but I decided it was too revealing to post on the blog.
So you think my favicon is boring, do you? Or perhaps your browser is IE6 and you haven’t even seen it, yet? Well, that’s it in the corner, and here it is magnified.
All you get to work with is 16×16=256 pixels. That’s it. I tried coming up with a representative icon, but ultimately I decided to keep it literal. Using Microsoft Paint, I clicked the pixels in one-by-one, manually.
I could have done something fancier, like the font-smoothed favicon in the corner of this paragraph that starts out scrolling, but the pixel count came out perfectly for the way I did it, so that’s what I chose. (Note: Firefox may not show the scrolling effect.)
Robert Zimmerman has looked better, but he’s still out there, cranking away! Click here.
Take note that the Flash video player at that link doesn’t display a preview still frame, but it has a timer. I’d rather have the preview frame, but I’d very much like to have a timer on my Flash videos. The new version of the player I’m using still doesn’t have one, and it has technical problems besides, but I’ll find something.
Have you been keeping up with Nation Public Radio’s series on this year’s additions to the National Recording Registry? Click here and get caught up!
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Honorable son Eric’s latest animé pick is a very odd offering, indeed. Odd because Haibane Renmei depicts angel-like (although not angelic) creatures who are perhaps on their way to Heaven? Seems like a rather Christian basis for a Japanese story. Without Netflix there’s no way we’d be able to see all of these animé titles.
Compare this scan to the MRI of my ankle at this link. Better, eh? I placed my portable light box face down behind the film during scanning. A simple and effective trick. Why didn’t I think of it before?
“Intrinsically normal posterial tibial tendon.” The previous doctor went along with this! And they were both wrong, wrong, wrong. Four months, two doctors, six weeks of physical therapy — with a $180 co-pay — and here I am, starting all over again. If my ankle had been locked in the orthotic boot at a 90° angle back in July, I would have been able to run the Boston Marathon in April! Grrr…
My wife just suggested the radiologist must have viewed the film without a backlight, so it looked liked my first scan. HA! Wouldn’t doubt it. At least the money spent on the MRI was worthwhile, now that a competent clinician is involved.
