How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

Good poem I just found. It can be found at www.felixdennis.com

Good fortune? The fact is
The more that you practise [sic],
The harder you sweat,
The luckier you get.

Ideas? We've had 'em
Since Eve deceived Adam,
But take it from me
Execution's the key.

The money? Just pester
A likely investor.
To get what you need
You toady to greed.

The talent? Go sign it!
But first, wine and dine it.
It's tedious work
With a talented jerk.

Good timing? To win it
You gotta be in it.
Just never be late
To quit or cut bait.


Expansion? It's vanity!
Profit is sanity.
Overhead begs
To walk on two legs.

The first step? Just do it
And bluff your way thru' it.
Remember to duck!
God speed...
and good luck!

Website are like tatoos....

..you can’t just have one. My newest ones are:
www.extranycash.com
www.historyportaits.com
www.resumeleaf.com

My oldies but goodies are:
www.freeinnyc.net
www.christiterjesen.com
www.redlipsdesign.com

Work is a Philosphy

Mike Rowe is a great speaker. Listen to this inspiring video about work, dirty work, and rethinking how you think about the things you do. Watch the Video.

So cool.

Free Images for Any Use

Here is a list of my favorite websites for free stock photos. Some may have different policies so please check the copyright information before downloading an image however they are all easy to use and completely (if not almost 100%) free to use.

General Databases:
www.sxc.hu
www.public-domain-photos.com
www.everystockphoto.com
www.freefoto.com

Specific Databases:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/ (Large collection of public domain images including portraits, currency, and photgraphs)
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse.htm (Images of American Political History)
www.fromoldbooks.org (Illustrations and Photos)
www.oldbookillustrations.com (Illustrations and Photos)
www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii-posters/ (WWII posters)
www.ibiblio.org/wm/ (Art images)
http://cgfa.dotsrc.org (Art images)
www.picapp.com (Celebrity images -hosted images, not for download)
www.socwall.com (Desktop Wallpaper - very inspiring)
www.redlipsdesign.com/freewallpaper.html (Desktop Wallpaper)

Things That Are Magic

• Evaporation (things dry without any help)
  
• Cats and dogs know when you are coming home
• People survive teenagehood and/or college
  
• People speak more than one language fluently (how does it all fit in one head!)
  
• Cuts and bruises heal
• Birds wake up before dawn
• Flowers know when to grow
• Memory

Awesome Website

Sick of the website you just created, designed, fixed for hours? Get your aggression out with this website www.netdisaster.com. You can destroy your website with Dinosaurs, guns, flowers, etc. It's very cathartic after a long day with mean code!

More things I would like to see...

• Caffeinated Sprite (Lemon Lime Soda)


• Pickle flavored lollipops


• Women’s heels that are as comfortable as sneakers


• Office lights give tans


• Vegetables taste like potato chips


• Two subway stops in Hoboken


• President Dennis Miller


• Vice President Stephen Colbert


• Music is free but the concerts cost money


• Comedy shows covered by health insurance


• Leprechaun stop stealing one sock in a pair from the laundry basket


• Sometimes I can stop time


• A miracle, just one


• More rainbows


• “Undo” (COMMAND Z) in real life

Creating Radials, Rays, & Stripes from the Center in Photoshop

How does one create stripes radiating from the center of the screen in Photoshop? You can do it manually but then you fight with equal spacing between each one. Here is the best way:

1. Create blank document and choose your foreground and background colors.
   
2. Create the stripes. Click: Filter-> Sketch->Halftone Pattern. Adjust "Size", "Contrast", and make sure the pattern type is "Line".
3. Crop the canvas so that you see one half-sized A color stripe at the top and one half-sized A color at the bottom (B color is not at the top or bottom).
4. Turn it on the side. Click: Image-> Rotate Canvas-> 90° CW.
5. Now the magic. Click: Filter-> Distort->Polar Coordinates. Make sure it is Rectangle to Polar.
6. (Optional) Add a white (or another color) to transparent gradient fx. Choose radial (or I prefer diamond) and try inverse or not.

Enjoy the hypnotic effects.

Where’s my desktop files? (Mac)

Ever save a Photoshop .jpg or a Word .doc or really any file to your Mac desktop only for it to not appear? You save it again - still not there. You go into the program and look to open it- Wow it’s there on the desktop- but you cannot see any thumbnail picture. 5, 10, 15 minutes later the file suddenly appears and only now can you transfer this file to a network folder or the live server. Inefficient to say the least and quite frustrating.

The file is hidden on your desktop and won’t appear for you. It delays for absolutely no reason! Well the next time that happens open a FINDER Window. Click “Desktop” under “Places” on the left side and instantly all the files you’ve been waiting for appear. Works every time!

Transparent Background with Full Opacity Text

I recently came across this problem creating one of my newest websites. With the advent of CSS3, (so awesome, I only wish all the browsers supported these features easily) one can create transparent divs quite easily. The following is the code for all browser compatibility for 70% opacity:

filter:alpha(opacity=70);
-moz-opacity:0.7;
-khtml-opacity: 0.7;
opacity: 0.7;
zoom: 1.0; /* IE Hack for CSS (IE6 must have layout */
}

But using this code for a background, anything within that div will also have that opacity, including your text. The best way to combat this is to create another div within the div with the background opacity with the following code:

filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity:1.0;
-khtml-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
zoom: 1.0; /* IE Hack for CSS (IE6 must have layout */
}

Problem solved! Your welcome.