Running in Flip Flops

23 Jun, 2009

Van Halen: Roth or Hagar?

Posted by: Russ Turley In: Remember the 80's

roth-hagar

08 Jun, 2009

Locklear vs. Thomas: Which 80’s Heather?

Posted by: Russ Turley In: Remember the 80's

I remember having this conversation in junior high school. It may go back as far as elementary school. This was an important question! I have my opinion that hasn’t changed since “back in the day”, but I’d like yours. If you’re offended, fine, leave a comment. But you should still vote, otherwise this could go unresolved.

heather_vs_heather

29 May, 2009

Picasa SafeDelete, Not So Safe

Posted by: Russ Turley In: General

picasa-logoHere’s the situation. It’s roughly 12am on a Thursday night. The wife, Laurie, reminds me that she wants to send in some photographs to Walmart for pick-up the next day. Seems like a simple enough task, so I fire up Picasa to download the photos.

Here’s where things go terribly wrong.

There are three options in Picasa when you import photos from a media card: leave photos on the card, safe delete (only delete the photos you import) and erase card. Safe delete sounded like the choice I wanted so not even thinking twice about it, I imported. I called in Laurie to choose the photos she wanted and then the shit hit the fan. The photos she wanted to print weren’t there. Picasa had deleted all the photos AND not imported them into the program. They were gone.

After the arguing, of course there was arguing, I set about the task to recover the photos.  I first looked for some sign that this was indeed Picasa’s fault and found multiple posts complaining of the same problem I was now facing.  So, I set about the task of recovering the photos.  I downloaded and tried 6 different undelete programs with no success, but then the light at the end of my late night/early morning tunnel was revealed: Photorec.

Photorec is a command line program, ported using the Unix on Windows toolset CygWin.  After navigating the very retro DOS looking prompts I pressed Enter and about 30 minutes later…ALL OF THE PHOTOS WERE RECOVERED! That’s right all the photos.  The other 6 programs that I tried were only partial successful in finding the photos, but Photorec recovered them all.

Lessons learned:

  1. Don’t trust Picasa (I’m going back to Photoshop Elements).
  2. When the wife asks to transfer photos, do it before midnight.
  3. ALWAYS have a copy of Photorec just incase I forget lessons 1 and 2.

Picture of Russell and Drew feeding the giraffes.

One of the recovered pictures.

01 May, 2009

First of May, Outdoor F__king Starts Today

Posted by: Russ Turley In: Razing Giants| Video

I used to do a podcast that I called Razing Giants. Cute name huh? Anyway, Jonathan Coulton is an artist that I played on that podcast. He’s an independent artist that made a name for himself by putting out a song a week. The project was called Thing a Week. This song was part of Thing a Week and is hilarious. The video is definitely NSFW, as may be the song, but I’ll let you decide. Enjoy!

 
icon for podpress  First of May [4:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

30 Apr, 2009

Chicken No. 5 - Swine Flu Precautions

Posted by: Russ Turley In: The Chicken

I actually heard a woman say she wasn’t worried about the swine flu, because she had her flu shot this year.  :-0

chicken_no_5

Stupid dikiny!

22 Apr, 2009

Chicken No. 4 - Souvenir Hat

Posted by: Russ Turley In: General

So, yesterday Matt & Nate turned 5 years old.  We decided to abuse them, and the rest of the family, by taking the happiest place on Earth.  Great time.  Everyone was extremely exhausted.  I wonder if they’ll kill anyone at school today.

A chicken wearing Mickey Mouse ears

15 Apr, 2009

Chicken No. 3 - Chicken Viewing Facebook

Posted by: Russ Turley In: The Chicken

I’ve had some time on my hands here at work.  What’s the Chicken doing?  Viewing your status update on Facebook.

Picture of the chicken looking at Facebook.

Can you find yours in this picture?

14 Apr, 2009

Chicken No. 2 - Riding a Scooter

Posted by: Russ Turley In: The Chicken

Last weekend I bought an electric scooter from a guy in Long Beach for $35.  I couldn’t get the money out of my wallet fast enough.  The kids love it and even better, Laurie likes it.

Picture of a chicken riding a scooter

01 Apr, 2009

Chicken No. 1 - Fishing on a Dock

Posted by: Russ Turley In: The Chicken

I had to recreate just one chicken image from the past.  Enjoy Fishing on a Dock.

chicken1

01 Apr, 2009

Enter the Chicken

Posted by: Russ Turley In: General

Over on Facebok today, a friend from high school that I just reconnected with, reminded me of a great character from my past.  I had this great math teacher, Mr. Coleman, that would use a small representation of a chicken for examples during class.  “Say a chicken is standing at the origin, in which quadrant would the chicken say the cosine is positive.”  Shit like that.  I thought this was hilarious.  Each homework assignment the chicken would make an appearance on the top of my paper in some different scene.  There was space chicken, fishing chicken, motorcycle chicken, etc.

The chicken will now be making appearances here on the blog from time to time.  Thanks Kari!

Hail Chicken!

Hail Chicken!

WTFMO



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