iphone

i love the iPhone 4s i think improving call and txt quality adding an awesome camera and siri is enough of a leap forward from the last phone i was dumb struck to see people bitching about it.  what are your thoughts? let me know.

work....

haven't posted anything in a long time been busy busy busy with work.  just got back from the state fair had a lot of fun there they had some crapy caricature artist there but i did see one guy that was good at them.  had apple on a stick that was good and the best pork i have ever had. looking forward to next year.

Dice...

people are like dice, like dice we can throw ourselves in any direction that is why we are condemned to be free and make our own choices live with the results of the cast

winter...

i am a big fan of winter i like how it has so many different colors from orange to gray but i like most of all how it is cold makes you want to be close to the people around you.

Galaxy art 2

I love this program gravilux it so easy to use to get this kind of result. 

In loving memory.

Eldon E. MATHAUSER

NEWPORT NEWS - Eldon E. Mathauser died at 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2011. He was born in Nebraska on May 2, 1921, and attended public school there.
He enrolled at the University of Nebraska in the Engineering College in September 1939. He was a member of the University Marching band and participated in the activities at the 1941 Rose Bowl when Nebraska played Stanford. This was the very first bowl game in which Nebraska participated.
He graduated from the Engineering College in 1944 with a degree in Civil Engineering and began employment with the Douglas Aircraft Co. of Long Beach, Calif. He was surprised to find that the plant as well as the parking lot were camouflaged with wire netting and antiaircraft guns surrounded the facility and were manned continuously.
He left Douglas Aircraft Co. in June 1944 when he accepted a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After a brief indoctrination period in Tucson, Ariz., and several months of Radar Training in Hollywood, Fla., he was assigned to the USS Harding at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He served as Radar Officer in charge of the Combat Information Center. His ship operated in the Pacific Theater and participated in the invasion of Okinawa in March 1945. His ship was damaged seriously by Japanese Kamikaze air planes with significant loss of life in April 1945.
After the war he began teaching in the Engineering College of the University of NE in 1946. He married Deloris Donnelson of Norfolk, Neb., on June 6, 1948. He moved to Virginia in 1951 and began employment with NACA (later NASA). His first effort was directed at solving complex problems using the advanced digital computer available at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C.
He turned his attention to the study of high-temperature effects on materials and aircrafts structures. He was a NASA delegate to the International Conference of the effects of high temperatures on materials held at Oslo, Norway in 1963.
He served as Langley representative on Structures and Material to the project Dyna-Soar that was conducted by the Boeing, Co. for the U.S. Air Force in the early 1960's. This program led to the design of a space glider that resembled the U.S. space shuttle and predated that vehicle by nearly 30 years.
In 1965, he served as president of the Engineer's Club of the VA Peninsula. He later became an honorary life member.
He served as editor of the NASA report that was prepared for the U.S. Congress following the fire and death of the three astronauts in the Apollo Spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Fla. in 1967.
He was the head of the Material Application Branch at Langley. One of his group studies led to application of graphite fiber-resin composite material in the structures of nearly 100 commercial aircraft operated by many airlines flying over the world. The successful conclusion of that program helped lead to the rapid acceptance of advanced composite materials in aircraft and spacecraft.
His Branch continued to study advanced materials for aircraft and spacecraft application, developed high temperature resins for structural composite use and pursued application of advanced materials on special vehicles including the Mach 3 high - speed aircraft known as the SR-71.
He retired from NASA in 1979 and began extensive travel of the U.S. with his wife. In 25 years they had crossed the U.S. more than 50 times. He became a proficient photographer and frequently presented the results of their travels to interested groups.
He committed his full time and energy to care for his wife when her health declined until her death in June 2009. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church for more than 40 years.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Alice Carlson and husband, Walter of Washington D.C.; and his parents, Emil and Anna Mathauser of Ord, Neb.
He is survived by his sister, Lydia Severson and husband, Don of Grand Island, Neb.; son, Dean Mathauser of Newport News; a daughter, Deborah Minor and husband, Gary of Hampton; two grandsons, Seth Robb of Newport News, and Charles Stay IV of Gladstone, Ore.; three double cousins, Marie Borghese and husband, Richard of Washington D.C., Amelia and husband, Alvin of Burwell, Neb. and Wilma Donner and husband of Sun City, Ariz.; a niece, Carolyn Cadiere and husband, Tom of Athens, Ga.; nephew, Robert Carlson and wife, Carlene of Denver, Colo.; also great-grandchildren, Madelyn, Katryna, Alexzenna Stay of Gladstone, Ore.

galaxy art

gears

Abstract piece using a rubber relief cut.

Future

Huffington Post recently put up a story called You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. It's a great retrospective on the technology leaps we've made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's kids

I've used some of their ideas and added some of my own to make the list below: Do you think kids born in 2011 will recognize any of the following?

Video tape: Starting this year, the news stories we produce here at Money Talks have all been shot, edited, and distributed to TV stations without ever being on any kind of tape. Not only that, the tape-less broadcast camera we use today offers much higher quality than anything that could have been imagined 10 years ago -- and cost less than the lens on the camera we were using previously.

Travel agents: While not dead today, this profession is one of many that's been decimated by the Internet. When it's time for their honeymoon, will those born in 2011 be able to find one?

The separation of work and home: When you're carrying an email-equipped computer in your pocket, it's not just your friends who can find you -- so can your boss. For kids born this year, the wall between office and home will be blurry indeed.

Books, magazines, and newspapers: Like video tape, words written on dead trees are on their way out. Sure, there may be books -- but for those born today, stores that exist solely to sell them will be as numerous as record stores are now.

Movie rental stores: You actually got in your car and drove someplace just to rent a movie?

Watches: Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.

Paper maps: At one time these were available free at every gas station. They're practically obsolete today, and the next generation will probably have to visit a museum to find one.

Wired phones: Why would you pay $35 every month to have a phone that plugs into a wall? For those born today, this will be a silly concept.

Long distance: Thanks to the Internet, the days of paying more to talk to somebody in the next city, state, or even country are limited.

Newspaper classifieds: The days are gone when you have to buy a bunch of newsprint just to see what's for sale.

Dial-up Internet: While not everyone is on broadband, it won't be long before dial-up Internet goes the way of the plug-in phone.

Encyclopedias: Imagine a time when you had to buy expensive books that were outdated before the ink was dry. This will be a nonsense term for babies born today.

Forgotten friends: Remember when an old friend would bring up someone you went to high school with, and you'd say, "Oh yeah, I forgot about them!" The next generation will automatically be in touch with everyone they've ever known even slightly via Facebook.

Forgotten anything else: Kids born this year will never know what it was like to stand in a bar and incessantly argue the unknowable. Today the world's collective knowledge is on the computer in your pocket or purse. And since you have it with you at all times, why bother remembering anything?

The evening news: The news is on 24/7. And if you're not home to watch it, that's OK -- it's on the smartphone in your pocket.

CDs: First records, then 8-track, then cassette, then CDs -- replacing your music collection used to be an expensive pastime. Now it's cheap(er) and as close as the nearest Internet connection.

Film cameras: For the purist, perhaps, but for kids born today, the word "film" will mean nothing. In fact, even digital cameras -- both video and still -- are in danger of extinction as our pocket computers take over that function too.

[Minivans Making a Comeback]

Yellow and White Pages: Why in the world would you need a 10-pound book just to find someone?

Catalogs: There's no need to send me a book in the mail when I can see everything you have for sale anywhere, anytime. If you want to remind me to look at it, send me an email.

Fax machines: Can you say "scan," ".pdf" and "email?"

One picture to a frame: Such a waste of wall/counter/desk space to have a separate frame around each picture. Eight gigabytes of pictures and/or video in a digital frame encompassing every person you've ever met and everything you've ever done -- now, that's efficient. Especially compared to what we used to do: put our friends and relatives together in a room and force them to watch what we called a "slide show" or "home movies."

Wires: Wires connecting phones to walls? Wires connecting computers, TVs, stereos, and other electronics to each other? Wires connecting computers to the Internet? To kids born in 2011, that will make as much sense as an electric car trailing an extension cord.

Hand-written letters: For that matter, hand-written anything. When was the last time you wrote cursive? In fact, do you even know what the word "cursive" means? Kids born in 2011 won't -- but they'll put you to shame on a tiny keyboard.

Talking to one person at a time: Remember when it was rude to be with one person while talking to another on the phone? Kids born today will just assume that you're supposed to use texting to maintain contact with five or six other people while pretending to pay attention to the person you happen to be physically next to.

Retirement plans: Yes, Johnny, there was a time when all you had to do was work at the same place for 20 years and they'd send you a check every month for as long as you lived. In fact, some companies would even pay your medical bills, too!

[Watch: Toddler Can Name U.S. Presidents]

Mail: What's left when you take the mail you receive today, then subtract the bills you could be paying online, the checks you could be having direct-deposited, and the junk mail you could be receiving as junk email? Answer: A bloated bureaucracy that loses billions of taxpayer dollars annually.

Commercials on TV: They're terrifically expensive, easily avoided with DVRs, and inefficiently target mass audiences. Unless somebody comes up with a way to force you to watch them -- as with video on the Internet -- who's going to pay for them?

Commercial music radio: Smartphones with music-streaming programs like Pandoraare a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song.

Hiding: Not long ago, if you didn't answer your home phone, that was that -- nobody knew if you were alive or dead, much less where you might be. Now your phone is not only in your pocket, it can potentially tell everyone -- including advertisers -- exactly where you are.

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Pete Postlethwaite

this is in memory of the the late great actor Pete Postlethwaite 1946 to 2011.