http://www.normalityrelief.com give yourself a relief from normal Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:56:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_222" align="alignright" width="300" caption="CreativeTechs>>Training"][/caption] For anyone out there even remotely interested in photography, Photoshop, and/or web design, there's this ultra-hip Seattle-based organization called CreativeTechs. Their primary focus is offering Mac support for small-to-mid sized companies, but that's not why I'm posting about them today (although I have every reason to ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/creativetechs-training-goodness/ The headline says it all. While I do like this theme a great deal, it's far more suited for a site with multiple content streams, rather than one with a single ... occasional ... content stream. Check back soonish! http://www.normalityrelief.com/new-site-coming-soon/ It's worth mentioning something I've heard a great deal about & truthfully have long known, at least logically: photography's tough. Bear in mind, when I refer to photography here I'm referring to all that the term encompasses: organizing, sorting, tagging, captioning, copyrighting, retouching, processing, to say nothing of actually taking ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/whats-it-take/ I came across a highly intriguing site last night: TheCircumference.org. The about section does a good job of describing, um ... what they're all about (clever page name that), but one line above the rest does significant justice to what I feel is the site's general intentions: The Circumference ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/the-circumference/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Copyright .trevor - All rights reserved"][/caption] A wonderfully soft, soothing photo of the classic Chinese game Go. Seeing this makes me want to brew some tea & sit on the floor for a quiet afternoon with a close friend or two. Like today’s photo? Tell the photographer! That’s ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/photo-of-the-day-20090922/ I keep a close tab on the name normalityrelief, because to date, no one else I'm aware of uses this name. Anywhere. On the entire internet. Kinda proud about that. Especially given that a google search turns up 17,200 hits. I'm just all over the place! Even so, I still was ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/extra-credit/ I baked bread for the first time in years yesterday. Years! It was whole wheat. I'm so proud. But pride aside, I have a pretty major complaint. I used quick-rising yeast. When all was finished & the kitchen smelled appropriately delightful, the loaf failed to rise. Failed. Miserably. The thing was ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/bloody-false-advertising/ Copyright countto3 - All rights reserved A wonderful example of one of the best things photography is used for: showing off our world in ways we typically do not or cannot see. Beautiful! Like today’s photo? Tell the photographer! That’s one thing that always keeps us going! http://www.normalityrelief.com/photo-of-the-day-20090824/ I do believe I might actually find religion if I once - ONCE - had an experience with Chase Bank that did not end with me walking home, shaking my head in utter disbelief, wondering how in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOLE (source anyone, source?) any corporation - financial or ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/chase-religion/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Copyright _Dimitris_ - All rights reserved"][/caption] An absolutely stunning photograph of swimmers in the Ionian Sea, just off the shores of of the Greek island of Lefkada (Λευκάδα). If the color of the water doesn't help one understand why I so long to return to Greece, I don't ... http://www.normalityrelief.com/photo-of-the-day-20090819/