http://www.getpenguined.com "Constancy is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll start this series of Yellowstone posts with our 0th day--the day of travel.  We first arrived in Billings, MT by airplane.  From there, we drove over many miles of flat, boring terrain.  We finally found the foot of a mountain range about 60 miles out of Billings near a ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=40 I know it has been a while since I blogged anything on here.  I apologize, but I have some good stuff coming soon.  I've finished my Yellowstone pictures and will be posting them soon.  I've already uploaded the first day's photos so as soon as they're sorted through, they will ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=37 So, I know it has been a long time since my last post.  I've been up to several things like moving to a new apartment and hiking the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park.  Some of my loyal readers have been begging me to upload my pictures from Yellowstone; so, I ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=31 This past weekend was the big yearly planning session for the officers of the Pi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at Auburn.  Our retreat is basically where we lock ourselves in a somewhat secluded place and discuss business for the upcoming year.  This year, we stayed at a cabin in ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=23 I recently got Adobe Photoshop CS3 for all of my photo editing needs.  One of the coolest features of CS3 is the ability to merge several images of the same subject with different exposures into one image to give definition to the highlights and the shadows of an image (called ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=14 I have finally finished it.  After 3 years of wanting to get it done and about a week of hard work, I now have my first photo book in my hands.  The subject, as you can see from the cover, is my trip to London back in the summer ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=12 So shooting fireworks on Independance Day is without a doubt an American tradition, especially when theyre particularly explosive.  However, as it turns out, it is not a good idea to put two large mortars on one small unstable platform.  In today's case, it almost blew up my parents, friends, and ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=11 I've been watching the development of Spore a little bit lately and finally bought the creature creator.  It's not a terrible buy; for just $10, you get a fully functional program that is fun for a little while.  It only takes a couple of minutes to learn to create a ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=10 One of my biggest hobbies is photography, so my blog is probably going to end up with a lot of pictures on it.  Anyway, when I was driving down the highway toward Tuskegee from Auburn, I saw this really cool abandoned diner on the side of the road.  Well, weeks ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=9 Apparently since my appearance in a certain YouTube video in Ireland I have become an official sign interpreter.  So, I decided to practice my hobby by interpreting some signs for you.  I found all of these signs in the Manual of Traffic Signs.  More to come later.  [singlepic=4,320,240,,] Bacon Reduction Ahead [singlepic=5,320,240,,] Beware, ... http://www.getpenguined.com/?p=8