Look! Lookity McLookLook!!
This is so cool; a website that uses face recognition to apply effects to your digital photos. The dude who built it asked permission to use my masks as an effect & I said yes, because it is so cool. Go see!
On a related note, I have been contacted by this band: Like A Storm. They want to use my masks in a photo shoot. I kind of like their music, so I think I'll say yes to that too.
In other news, I woke up all stressed out because I had anxiety dreams that I was back in Japan and Getting Everything Wrong. It's easy to do, in business situations in Japan. I didn't eat right, I spoke out of turn, I corrected the boss, I missed a meeting, I fell asleep in a meeting, I got it All Wrong. I crashed a wedding unintentionally (when I was blundering around looking for the meeting that I missed), I make the boss's wife cry, I cried, I insulted people. All so, so wrong.
I have to imagine it was brought on by all the Skip Beat that I'm reading. I am coming to love the manga, but each & every chapter reminds me intensely of my experience with Monster9 (which after all is an entertainment production company in Shibuya) and I find myself second-guessing every single thing I did or said in every situation. Which is futile. Which is why I'm working it all out in my sleep I guess. What a freak I am. :-/
Busy busy...I'm working around a beautiful day here, so a bike ride is in order above all other things. After that dream, I need a bit of a brain scrubbing and nothing works quite as well as a 30 mile trail ride. See ya!
On a related note, I have been contacted by this band: Like A Storm. They want to use my masks in a photo shoot. I kind of like their music, so I think I'll say yes to that too.
In other news, I woke up all stressed out because I had anxiety dreams that I was back in Japan and Getting Everything Wrong. It's easy to do, in business situations in Japan. I didn't eat right, I spoke out of turn, I corrected the boss, I missed a meeting, I fell asleep in a meeting, I got it All Wrong. I crashed a wedding unintentionally (when I was blundering around looking for the meeting that I missed), I make the boss's wife cry, I cried, I insulted people. All so, so wrong.
I have to imagine it was brought on by all the Skip Beat that I'm reading. I am coming to love the manga, but each & every chapter reminds me intensely of my experience with Monster9 (which after all is an entertainment production company in Shibuya) and I find myself second-guessing every single thing I did or said in every situation. Which is futile. Which is why I'm working it all out in my sleep I guess. What a freak I am. :-/
Busy busy...I'm working around a beautiful day here, so a bike ride is in order above all other things. After that dream, I need a bit of a brain scrubbing and nothing works quite as well as a 30 mile trail ride. See ya!
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But hey, it's no wonder it took Ren 2 years before he could even debut.
It's beautiful here and I went out for an hour but I can't go out again, I'm exhausted! I just slept for over two hours and still can't wake up properly. A 30 mile trail would murder my back, unless it was all flat. 20 miles with a lot of hills is still my maximum, though I'm working on it.
Though you being in/near a city, all your trails are likely a bit flatter than the stuff here. Cities just usually are. *considers* Guess I'll see for myself. :)
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I rarely do 30 miles all on one trail (at least not yet this year...the longest I've gone on one trail is 20 miles this season). I do enjoy a change in scenery, so I do 17 miles on one trail, and 10 on another, later. Or something like that. Like today, I did 13 miles on the Amherst creek trail, then home for some fruit and a bathroom break, then another 12 miles on the Grand Island trail. 25 altogether but it was easy.
Also, all the trails here are SUPER flat! You'll probably find them boring. Western NY was scraped clean by the glaciers and all the hills & mountains are way to the south of here...plus a lot of my beloved trails are old railroad routes and graded flat flat flat. Even the rural trails are flat.
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Anyway...if your trails are flat, I can probably stop worrying about whether I can keep up or not...it's the hills that hurt my back, and when I say hilly...well, I really mean it. For example, one road I go on...the entire road, until the end, is one huge hill, that bumps up five or six times and then has tiny flat sections between...basically you start out along the river, and by the time you reach the top of the street, you're at least a hundred feet above the river (it's gorgeous, though, I really love that road.) And of course, the River Road hills are HUGE...minimum fifty feet up in about two hundred feet. (These are all on the same route, my twenty mile one.) And let's not forget that even the less hilly parts are rolling. Really, I only spend about half an hour of a 90 minute ride on a truly flat section. (I really do have to go out of my way to stay on a flat trail...I can basically ride in a huge block around my house, perhaps five miles.)
I often wonder as I'm riding, thighs BURNING as I come up the end of River/Radtke, HOW the hell Meri does 30 miles of this when I KNOW I'm actually in pretty good biking condition and I'm wiped out by the time I get home. Anyway, that's a relief...flat really shouldn't be a problem, especially since your bikes aren't road bikes. :)
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The site is fun! I messed around with a few pics in there. I wish he could do hats or something...wacky hats (or the Inauguration Giant Gray Bow) would be fun to mess with.
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I'm sure they could do hats -- it's probably just a question of getting permission for the pictures, the same as for your masks.
It's a nifty toy -- do you have any idea what they're planning to do with it? Is it just for fun, or a demo for a product in the works, or ...?
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