Playing with Picasa

Where I'm staying has slow wireless, so as I was waiting for email to load, I decided to look more at some of the many programs I have on my computer. The program I choose was Picasa 3 (a free program from Google: http://picasa.google.ca/

Due to a history of problems with my computer, I keep my files on an external hard drive, which I didn't plug in tonight. So the only photos I had to play with are the photos I have on my laptop - which consist primarily of photos for my desktop.

While I was playing with Picasa, I noticed first the Collage function, where you can create a collage of a series of photos. Then I noticed there was different settings for the collage, from the typicall pile photos, to mosaic, frame mosaic, grid, contact sheet, and multiple exposure.

After playing around with the layout I found the page format and noticed the Desktop Background button that turns the collage into the desktop background.

Below are the desktop photos I created:

• First the Pile Collage with nature photos I took (mostly from Scotland, but a couple from a plane over Brazil, a couple from else where in the UK, one from the Netherlands, and one from Canada)
• Second the Mosaic Collage with some of those nature photos (removed some to make the mosaic look somewhat good)
• Third the Mosaic Collage with some hot guy pics I have as backgrounds..... and as I am attempting to keep this blog 'clean' the guys aren't showing much more than a hot ass ;-)

If you want any of these as unwatermarked desktops, just email me and let me know which one: nudecanadianboy@yahoo.com

HNT 46 - Superhero Party

Last week I was invited to a superhero themed party. A friend of friends of mine is moving to Vancouver / Victoria, I can't remember, to be closer to her girlfriend in Seattle.

So she had a farewell party with a superhero theme. As I'm still 'visiting' Calgary, I didn't have much in the way of a costume handy. But then it occurred to me, as I had a pair of blue briefs, I could do a bit of a Superman costume - provided the dress code would allow it....

My friends were all for my idea, so this is what I came up with: Blue underwear, small red cape (made from a pillow case from Value Village), and the Superman logo on my bare chest with face paint.

{Photo temporarily removed for personal reasons}
About the photo: Taken 25 July 2009 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, by a friend.


Happy HNT


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World of Warcraft - The Internet is for porn (YouTube)

A friend showed me this, so I thought I'd share:



Info on YouTube:
Please note, I didn't make the video and I don't take credit for it. I happened to find the video on FilePlanet and downloaded it to share with you all here =)
Adapted for World of Warcraft, the song is from the musical Avenue Q.
Downloaded from FilePlanet at:
http://www.fileplanet.com/158925/150000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft---Internet-is-for-Porn

HNT 45 - Random photo

Thurday snuck up on me.... so here's a random photo from the archives:

{Photo temporarily removed for personal reasons}
About the photo: taken Tuesday 11 January 2005 in Taunton, Somerset, England. I believe I took this with my webcam.

Happy HNT


Don't forget to vist other HNT posts at: http://osbasso.blogspot.com/

HNT 44 - "Up ye kilt...." photo update

I got my laptop computer back on Tuesday.
I hadn't thought to much about what I'd post for today's HNT, but I did spend some time Wednesday watermarking more photos. The last ones I did were taken up my kilt a few years ago, so I thought I might as well update that old post with the photos.

So click here to go to the old post: Up ye kilt. . . .

Oh, and the photo is a click through if you want to see it all.

HHNT everyone, and don't forget to check out the other HNTs at Osbasso's Views From the Back Row blog.

Bill 44

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I really should have commented on the absurdity of Alberta's Bill 44....

Luckily a friend sent me this vid to point out the positives in the bill...

Additions to the blog

So I have been thinking of a few ideas to help myself post more than once a week.

One idea I have is to post my thoughts on some current event once a week, say Sundays.

I have noticed on a few other blogs I go to that aside from HNT there are other weekly posting, which I am going to start looking into (such as TMI Tuesdays) - though I'm not sure yet how to find out about some of them.

If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know. Usually something simple would be nice, as my life does tend to be busy.

These changes, like the Sunday Reflection, may take a couple weeks to appear as mentioned in my previous post, my laptop is in the shop for repairs and that limits my internet use (good and bad).

Please post any suggestions you have to this post :)

HNT 43 - Reliving the Stampede

Coincidence will have it that I'm in Calgary for this year's Stampede.... I'm not planning on going, but there is still 4 days left.

In honor of the Stampede, I have re-posted the pictures from last year's Stampede HNT: HNT 23 - Ride 'em Cowboy

Other factors have lead me to re-post the photos, and have yet another 'cop-out' of an HNT:
1) I'm still watermarking my photos, and will not be doing anymore for about 2 weeks because
2) My laptop is in the shop for repairs (under warranty, good thing I got the extended 3 yr warranty). The monitor started to occasionally go dark while I was working on it. All my software for adding the watermarks is on my laptop (or back at home in Edmonton) - none of my files are on the laptop though.

Happy Independance Day

A quick post to wish all those in the states that follow my blog a happy 4th of July - independance day.

HNT 42 - Canada Day HNT reprise

In the currant theme of my post, I have a short one...

more related to HNT than the last....

though much more like the last actual post....

a re-post of last year's HNT: HNT 22 - Canada Day, part deux


Interesting, I this is the 20th HNT post since last year

Canada Day 2009!

Happy Canada Day everyone.....

... I'm in the office attempting to work, to earn money to pay for school.

Therefore today's post is almost a repost of last year's post....

I have reinstated the photos on last year's post, and I now direct you to that one as my full Canada Day blog post:

Canada Day

Enjoy.