Thursday is Book day....

1, 2, 3....

The Page 123 Meme

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, look down to the 5th sentence.
3. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Include the title and the author's name.

So here goes:



Photographs often display the white spots known as noise. These white spots are most prevalent in dark areas of the image (see Figure 9-5) and often occur when you scan an image on a scanner or use long exposures with a digital camera.

Photoshop Elements provides the Dust & Scratches filter to automatically correct some of these defects.


Verbatim from the nearest book on the desk: Photoshop Elements 4.0 by David Plotkin.

A Very Late And A Very Early Scavenger Hunt.

This photo is for the "wild" theme. Carefully commofalged in this picture is an echidna in the wild, well in the Australian Bush outside of Daylesford. Moments before the Echidna had been waddling across the road in front of us. Breaks screech, jump out, echidna takes off, I follow with camera to get him burrowing out of site. So I promise you he's in there. I just don't know where.

And this is my "Silver" entry, it's that lining they keep telling you about.

Thursday is the new Tuesday

Between working and IVF these memes are getting tricky to keep up with; but seeing as I am enjoying the distraction from reality I don't want to stop yet... hmmm... can you be addicted to memes?

Anyway; my Twosome dealer Miss Dee has posted a new list of questions on short term memory.

Movies you watched:  Clue with Tim Curry and The Taming Of The Shrew with Rufus Sewel.

TV shows you saw: Men in Trees and My Family.

Items you purchased:  Rice and Tofu.

Beverages you drank:  Coffee and Folate enriched Brekky Juice.

Internet sites you surfed (before coming here):
 I actually checked my mail; I have three accounts; before doing this.
 The other sites were My Yahoo and For Better Or For Worse. Both Comics Pages.

Tuesday twosome: At this moment...

At This Very Moment

List two things…

1. On your desk: Ice water (It's like 39C here atm), remnants from making invites for our wedding.
   
2. On your bed: Washing to be folded, one grey cat enjoying the coolness of the ceiling fan.
   
3. You are craving: A cool change, a proper rain.
   
4. That are annoying you: The heat, not knowing how tommorow will go at the scan.
   
5. That best describes your “style”: Hippy, alternative.
   

Saturday Scavenger Hunt: Technology.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber squeaky toys? -- Douglas Coupland

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.

OK, so not really technology... but I like the quotes and the picture is cute. I'm a bit of a Luddite so I think that cats are the pinnacle of technology anyway; an opinion I feel they share.

Music Memoirs on Friday

Top 5 On Friday - Week 106

Here's a topic that will make you look in your mp3 players and winamps an on your CD and LP covers

Top 5 songs under 3 minutes long

Let's see: not a definitive list but some favourites under 3 minutes...

Big Yellow Taxi: Joni Mitchell 2:14

I Wanna Be Sedated: The Ramones 2:29

Don't Let Start: They Might Be Giants 2:36

Paranoid: Black Sabbath 2:46

Movin' Right Along: The Muppets 2:56

Booking through Thursday... part 2.

What are you reading right now? (Well, obviously, you're reading THIS right now, perhaps I should have been more clear. What book(s) are you in the process of reading? (grin))

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde.

Science of the Discworld 2 by Terry Pratchett and others.

Lust Quest by Ray Gordon.

I tend to have at least two books on the go at any time, so this is the pile beside bed with book marks in list.