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Homepage of Florida's only cinematic genius, Randall Beaver - maker of movies, taker of pictures, breaker of musical convention, creator of the Beaver Times. Creative insanity lurks around every corner... for your pleasure.

"Ed Rendell is a trainwreck"

The title is my response to the Sunday morning punditry's suggestion that Ed Rendell (D-PA) would be a good VP choice for the democratic nominee.

I may or may not elaborate on this position in the future. Needless to say, it is a position I take very personally and vindictively.

Due to a headache and low supply of nachos, the blog hit a slow patch today. We can all hope for more tomorrow. There is always... tomorrow. Except for Ed Rendell, who is a trainwreck.

Photoshop vs Microsoft Paint

(This is the first in a series of posts about computer program comparisons... comparable to PC World, PC Mag and C-Net in content and accuracy)

Truly an epic battle between these two evenly matched graphics programs. Many would disagree. Photoshop costs money and is a high-powered tool that can do amazing things. Paint is essentially free and can do next to nothing. Photoshop is in the popular lexicon... That was "photoshopped." Paint is used about as much as the "text notebook," it's slow-witted companion in the accessories popup in Windows. David and Goliath, eh?

However, in the hands of an untrained idiot (author) the power differential is negligible at best. Take the two photos above... neither particularly impressive - both equally stupid.

So, if the computer program requires me to learn how to use it, that is a major strike against it. Paint has about 4 buttons to push... perhaps its greatest strength. Photoshop seems to have infinite options and buttons... a serious drawback universally agreed upon in the tech world.

Back in the day, I'd cut out pictures of myself and paste them into magazine shots of football players, basketball players and the like . Frankly, the results were equally as impressive as the ones you see above.

A low tech-mind will create low-tech results no matter the tools or medium. High or low tech, I was a happy accident from the palette of Bob Ross, and I owe that to Microsoft Paint.

Microsoft Paint 7/10 stars
Photoshop 3/10 stars
Clipping Photos 9/10 stars *

*(six bonus points awarded for getting to use scissors, glue and making a mess)

Blogosphere Beware

There's a new Blog in town.

Rarely irreverent. Even more rarely relevant. Yet, on the internet for your occasional pleasure.

I'll blog on my business, my dogs and anything else worth mentioning. What better use of free-time is there than spewing my ramblings into cyber-space. Methinks there is none better. And dear reader... it is my hope that you feel the same way. For I enjoyed writing this as much as you enjoyed reading it.

(Expect an inordinate number of ellipses in all of my posts... as I avoid relearning forgotten rules of punctuation)

IRONY ALERT: I used the spell-check in this e-blogger service and it highlighted internet and cyber as problematic. Silly computer program... I am, in this brief moment, more learned than thee.