The Human Cannonball

Don't try this at home! :)

5-rupee-haircut

Well, it's summer again in Madison, therefore Tom, Jeet, Jimmy and me had a couple of beers at the Terrace yesterday. At some point we told Jeet he needed a haircut cause it would just get too warm with all that hair ... and he told use, he used to have a haircut like me (couple of millimeters only) and used to go to the barber for that. We found that hillarious, cause everybody could do that himself. No need to pay for it.
"But it's cheap in india, you know ... only five rupees!"
"So how much in 5 rupees in US-dollars?"
"Hmm, maybe 10 cents!?"

So my haircut is only worth 10 cents?
D'oh!

The future is scary

I mean ... does it really have to come to this?
It's not exactly romantic, is it.

Dotted Lines are awesome!!11!

Maybe it's just me being a computer gimp, having taught me everything that I know about computers myself or from forums and webpages ... but I find it just totally amazing, how today's graphics programs like photoshop can create the most amazing effects but fail to let the idiot in front of the screen (yeah, that's me!) do simple things.
Like drawing a dotted line into a picture ... can you do it? Funny enough, and I find that very consolidating, once u start searching the internet for a solution, you find numerous pages dealing with this issue, which makes me think that I am not the only gimp out there.
When I finally modified one of my tool tips the way that it drew a dotted line, I stumbled across the next problem ... ever succeeded in drawing a straight line with your mouse? Maybe it's my Parkinson, but I find it virtually impossible. So ... because I am an inventive gimp, I ended up using a temporary 'help-line' and 'dotting' along this line. The result can be admired below. Thanks to Tom R. for making the PyMol pictures of the collagen strands ... yes, my contribution is only the dotted line (took me only one hour -.-).

Beauty!