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Starting from today and continuing to the next four or five posts, I'll post pictures of bored people.
This is the first in the series. This is my grandmother, dosing off at a boring party.
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This is a picture taken in front of the Town Bakery in Streetsville, Mississauga.
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A little bakery in Streetsville, at center of Mississauga. Streetsville is a nice place
to walk around , mainly because of its little town atmosphere.
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Seeing how I haven't had a NEWS post for a while now, here it goes...
-iPods Updated. iPods got a lift, as Apple released second generation iPod minis.
A 30 GB iPod Photo (7500 songs) was released to replace the 40 GB iPod Photo
from before. Also, a brand new 6 GB iPod mini, the largest capacity iPod
mini to date, was also released. The new mini stores 1500 songs. The 4 GB mini is
still available from Apple. Apple also slashed the price of the 4-GB iPod mini
to US$199 from US$249, and chopped the prices of the iPod photos, which are now
US$349-449 (a $150 price drop). At the same time, Apple discontinued two 40 GB iPods
(Photo and regular 40 GB) as well as an unpopular gold-colored iPod mini, leaving only
four color options for iPod minis (Pink, Green, Blue, and Silver).
-Google Maps. Google decided to expand into the mapping side, by releasing Google
Maps Beta. www.maps.google.com. It's pretty nice, better than Mapquest or Yahoo!
Maps, since there are no ads and it is really easy to scroll maps. No need anymore
to click little blue arrows to scroll around; simply drag and go! Though their
mapping service is only available for North America (not Europe), it's better than Mapquest...
-Gmail. Somehow, everyone using Gmail just got 50 invites! This, I
think (and I heard), is because Google is taking it's email service a little
more out of beta. They want everyone using it some more. So everyone, including me,
has 50 invites...
This is my rendition/version of The Screensavers (www.g4tv.com/screensavers)'s beginning scene.
In the real version, a picture is taken of a host (there are 4 of them) of the
show, and they are photographed while engaging in some techincal activity (working on
a PC, using a PDA, etc).
Made in Corel Photopaint using one original picture, one Halftone layer, a Kids
Play layer, a Blocks layer, and a Whirlpool layer. Plus, the text and callout bubbles
had three layers.
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Mr. Cheap variety store. The red color of their sign and the huge ice machine stood out
to me as I took this picture. Taken in downtown Toronto. Click to enlarge.
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A random building I liked and snapped a picture of in downtown Toronto.
Click on photo to enlarge.
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You have seen sunsets everywhere. A quick Google Image Search gives us images of sunsets such as this:
But, as good as they are, these sunsets are not real; they don't exist where we
live (unless we live in Hawaii or the Carribean, which most us don't). So I decided to
take a fast motion movie of a real sunset--the one that falls in front of my (or
perhaps your) house every day.
To view the movie, you need QuickTime player.
Click here for movie
Since the movie was pretty big, it has been deleted.
Click the above link to view the movie. Enjoy! It takes a while to download (its 2
MB in size).
The process of taking the movie was fairly quick and simple: I took a picture outside
from my window after every couple minutes or so for an hour. This was done from
about 5:30 to 6:30 PM. In all, there were 73 pictures to start with. Then I went
into Corel PhotoPaint and joined all the JPEG images together to make a movie. I did
need to improve a couple pictures, doing things such as color correction,
curve correction, brightness/intensity improvement and resizing the images.
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This map will soon be going on my website too. It's a map of places I've been
in my life. Green dots mean that I have conciously (i.e. when I was more than
10 years old) been there, red dots mean that I've been there, but I was too
young to remember that experience, yellow dot means I was born there (Karachi) and
the blue dot means I live there (Mississauga, Canada). Lastly, the orange is
the Great Trudge Across America (and some of Canada too) which basically refers to
the driving trip that me and my family did to move and relocate ourselves from
Irvine, California to Mississauga, Ontario in the summer of 2002. Plus, I went to
downtown Toronto two days ago and I'll have pictures of that up soon.
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
When all else fails, play dead.
From the Red Green Show.
Some more cartoony pictures. These are the last in the my brother's art series.
From tommorow, I'll have pictures I've taken.
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Some more pictures from my brother's art. Titled The Wolf, these are of the wolf without
the legs 
. I really like the one at the bottom. It has to be my favourite image
from all of my brother's collection. Click on images to enlarge.
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This is some art that my brother did a while back. He's an amateur artist, who's just
starting out with perspective and other basic art principles. These two images,
hand drawn, were scanned on a LexmarkX75 All-In-One scanner at 600 DPI resolution.
These two pictures are first in a series of seven.
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I had a good walk home today. I saw/talked to three people McDonald's people- Karim, Peirre
and Nick. They all go to Mount Carmel Secondary School 
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I will be taking, hopefully, a vacation to Paris France sometime in the summer vacations (from June 17th onwards)!!!! I'm so excited!!!! Finally something to look forward to! Some of the things I hope to see there are:
Peter Griffin : Brian, there's a message in my Alpha Bits. It says "OOOOOO".
Brian Griffin : Peter, those are Cheerios.
A macro of mithai, or Pakistani sweets, that I took while I was at a buffet dinner
in Ottawa. Click on the image to view a higher resolution version. Flash was
used in this image.
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This is a picture of the same CN Tower taken from the same place. It is, though, a little
more zoomed in. I thought that this was the better of the two pictures, and so I
saved this for today. Click on the image to view a larger version.
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An old picture of the CN Tower, taken by my dad. Click on the picture to enlarge it. The
picture is taken from Ontario Place (website). They were offering a discount because
summer was ending, and we decided to go there. The picture is quite old, as it was
taken in August of 2003. Tomorrow I will post another image of the CN Tower also from
Ontario Place.
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