The snow on the trees is beautiful today. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it, desk job.

I'm trying out a new thing here at the Lakehouse. I'm keeping a camera with a 70-300mm lens sitting on my desk with the intent of shooting pictures of the fuzzy woodland creatures (and the feathered) that hang out there from time to time. Over the years I've seen a good number of cool things come wandering by the backyard here.

The other day, the girl refused to go out to pick up the Pizza until she had propery dressed up.  (We live in a delivery dead zone—more than Milwaukee, but not quite Wauwatosa.)

She quite insisted on wearing all matching pink clothes, a smart pair of “rock star” sunglasses and selected pieces of her fanciest jewelry.

I kept telling her to hurry up so we could eat, and she kept telling me that we couldn’t just go out wearing any old thing; “What if someone sees us, dehdeh?”

Princesses. Whaddayagonnado?

Thanks be to the good people at Mabusse, developers of Photo Extractor, the free windows application that can extract otherwise lost photo data from a corrupted SD Card.

Enjoy the software author's webpage:

Do You take a digital camera with You to the holiday? Have You ever seen a message on the display about the flash card is unreadable and will be formatted now?

Google is awash with crappy demo versions of similar products that do the same thing, only for money. Photo Extractor is free, functional, and saved the day. If you have a damaged memory card, before you give up and send your photos away into the ether, try Photo Extractor. Some of the photo rescue programs I saw while hunting around wanted as much as $90 for a functinoally identical product. Worse, some of the photo rescue programs show you your unrevoverd photos and stamp "DEMO VERSION" across the top of them, effectively holding your photos hostage for $30 in blood money. Screw you guys.

Photo Extractor just works, works well, and doesn't try to exploit my panic over my lost photos for their financial gain.

I don't have any eGold, but if I did, I'd, as the author of Photo Extractor suggests, "transfer 10 USD to my e-gold account 1324912. "

I'm not a fan of sports, but I am a fan of stereotypical and culturally inappropriate sports icons.
Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody.