Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. Seems to only be working in major cities for now.

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Upload a picture and this will convert it into an Image Mosaic. I saw this on Digg a couple of weeks ago and tried it out with pretty neat results. Try it for yourself.

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Blah.. I haven’t blogged in a while. That’s the problem with these silly blogging websites; sometimes you just forget you have a website and that you actually have to update it. Anyhow, really glad the holidays are here. Jen and I picked up a Christmas tree (a real live one, my first!) and are going to decorate it this week. I was a little thrown off by the fact you have to water your tree. I told Jen that I wouldn’t mind a dookie brown tree come Christmas time. She wasn’t amused and purchased a tree stand so we can have a nice pretty tree all December long. It’s beginning to feel alot like Christmas! Ok, that was lame, but you catch my drift. Ok, now for my “Top 5 things I want for Christmas” list.

1. My upstairs neighbor’s dog to stop peeing off the balcony and killing my plants.
2. An iCar for my iPod so i can “bling” when I listen to my music.. (What the hell is that? click here)
3. A recycling center at my apartment complex for the 300+ come and gone beer bottles in my pantry.
4. A time machine.
5. The VFW across the street to stop playing Tejano music at 2′oclock in the morning..

I think Santa can manage those things. I’ll opt for a Aston Martin Vanquish in case he has trouble with the time machine..

Lance

Have Samuel L. Jackson call your friends with a personlized message to his latest movie. Awesome!~

http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

Sigh.. It’s been a month since I’ve last blogged.  A lot of things have been going on in my life right now and I’ve been extremely busy.  I know many of you check the site often, and I have lots of things planned for this site.  Just stay tuned.. I promise not to disappoint.

For awhile now, I’ve been subscribing to a newsletter called BuyBlue.org It’s a website devoted to “supporting businesses that share progressive values and ideals”, with a theme of “People, Planet, and Profit.” Before you think of it as some sort of “hippie, liberal” over the top website, think again. There are great articles on current events, controversial topics, and how businesses are affecting our lives everyday. Anyhow, I stumbled across a good article today about obesity in America. It made some references to some books that I’ve read, in particular “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, which is going to be made into a movie later this year; that I found somewhat amusing. Not sure how they’re going to make it into a full-length feature, but Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke are casted in it. Should be interesting to say the least. I suggest to people that haven’t read it, to go pick it up. It talks about the fast food industry as a whole and it’s questionable practices. Don’t know where my copy went, but I’m thinking of going and buying it just to read it again.

Anyhow, I’ve got a lot of pictures that I’m going to try to put up during the week. That’s kinda been the reason I haven’t been blogging as much because I’m trying to edit a lot of them in Photoshop. I guess you could say that I’m a “story with pictures” kinda guy. My buddy at work has been giving me PS pointers here and there, while I try to beat the good ol’ learning curve. Expect more posts/pictures soon..