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| Hair, Moon photos, & a Stumble mystery | Nov 04, 2011 7:42 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I tweaked my macro for making the giant subscriber preview versions of these recent hand-painted A* pages to get them a bit sharper. Did you notice? :D I mean, they were already pretty sharp, but now they're even a sharper--appropriate given the content of today's page, I suppose!
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And I had to rescan it because a big ol' hair managed to get in the scanner bed on the first attempt. And then it was still there after I had cleared the scanning bed, dusted it off, and put the painting back in for a second scan! Dar! So I finally wiped the whole thing down with cleaning solution--which I guess I need to do more often; check out the difference between uncleaned and cleaned
--and the third time was the hairless charm. Phew. Hm I guess I'd also better clean my monitor so I can tell the difference between dust on the screen and dust in the scan. 8o
I already let one page go by with a hair in it--did you spot that one? Well okay fine, it was this one. See if you can spot the hair! I kept that one because I wasn't all that fond of the painting anyway I suppose and besides, the hair was pretty small. Today's was bigger and naughtier, though! Perhaps I should vacuum one of these days. =p
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I noticed a nifty arrangement of Moon and clouds in a little midnight jaunt around the neighborhood to get my circulation going, and raced inside to get my new little digital camera (which I use for taking photos of the actual A* paintings, like today's) to try to photograph it! I don't have a tripod (not even a Martian one) or special lens or anything, and just left the settings on automatic, to see if it could get anything. Well, it did okay I suppose:
And another one, after the clouds had almost passed underneath:
Here was the uncropped view of that second one:
And if you raise the levels a bit on that in Photoshop:
The Moon is smoking! Oooh.
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I saw an interesting website address among recent referrers to A*, namely "wwwstumbleupon.com." I've seen that one in the past, too. Now, if there was a dot between the "www" and the "stumbleupon.com," that would be the popular social networking site, which would mean that some hardy readers had recently "stumbled" A*, which gets other Stumblers to stumble this way as well, which is neat. But without that dot, it's just a weird URL, and *not* the social networking site. So why would it be sending me traffic? What does it MEEEEEEEEEAN?
Well I finally decided to see if I could Google up an answer, and behold and lo, it appears that the mystery site is the result of a typo in StumbleUpon's Android app. Huh! Well that's good to know. And I guess it means that people are enjoying A* on their phones, which is also good to know--that the comic is still legible and interesting in that format, I mean.
So, cool! And thanks to whoever stumbled A*. :D
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