Payback

Yesterday I took some abuse from both my bosses and a co-worker. Being April 1st, I decided to deliver some graphical payback. The final product had the "Columbia Pictures Corporation" replaced with our company's name. Find original here. Once this was done I realized 'Curley' will also likely be shopped into Spock at some point. Click for the larger version, but then you'll see some of the ugly edges.

Presidentially Posterized

Here's my latest products from Gimp and a new script I added to it. This is a pic of an office coworker that I took while on a field assignment.

Here's one I did a while back of the same co-worker ... he didn't appreciate it as much as the previous one:


Then while conversing with Jimmy Hammond we came up with this idea:
The original photo courtesy of: Native American Indians

Then since my old college roommate does ' web advertising &/or mobile web solutions' I made these with his twitter profile pic, and since I couldn't settle on one or think of anything funnier:

Don't cry over a little spilt ... Paint

I knocked a bucket of pink paint off a stack of paint buckets, but thankfully it was only about halfway full/empty. She'd used it paint a dresser my mother bought for our daughter. Again that's my 10½ for size reference. I waited until it dried and peeled it up in one large piece, and put that on my prankster neighbor's back porch. Which was more funny to him than annoying I'm sure.

He then threw it onto the top of one of my trees out front (after 7-8 attempts he said). The wind and rain had already knocked it down by the time I got home from work. He wasn't real happy when he found that out. I threw it on my other neighbor's basketball goal ... it was there for 3-4 days ... he didn't seem to care.

Love thy Neighbor ...

So my Neighbor across the street ... saw us leave for a bible study Thursday night (at his brother-law's). He then took the shovel I lent him, his ladder, and a cat that randomly died in his backyard to my house. He climbed on the roof and knocked off a lot of ice as we'd just had snowy/icy weather for a few days, so he is risking injury and maybe death, not just retaliation. He put it on the skylight in our master bathroom.

Thankfully I found it the next morning while brushing my teeth, and before my wife saw it. I finished getting ready for work, and kissed her good-bye like usual. Then I went to try to get the cat down. My ladder is on long term loan to our church, so it's in a storage room at the local movie theater. I have a key to my prankster neighbor's house, so I went and got his ladder out of his garage and knocked the cat off my roof/skylight with a different shovel of mine.

See how large it is next to my 10½. It was frozen solid ... and heavy. I put it in the bushes next to his mailbox. It was probably on my house for 10-12 hours.

Sunday afternoon, 3 days later, he finally tries to tell me about it. It hit 70º all three of those days, and he was just going to let me have a warm, dead cat on my skylight, which he knows has had leaking issues before ... jerk.

I put the dead cat in his bushes by his mailbox for the very reason that our pastor, my next door neighbor, wouldn't help him, and the reason he didn't want to prank me to begin with: Escalation. The ability I have to ratchet it up a few notches higher than I should ... usually in verbal combat. The best places I thought to put it were (remember he gave me a key to his house) in his pillow case, under his bed, in his bathtub, attic, wood burning stove, or his son's toy box. I explicitly chose not to escalate this prank ... yet.

He hit my shoulder when he found out I'd known about the cat for 3 days and didn't say anything to him. The cat was dropped in the bushes in a way that he would have to use his hands to get it out, as I'd planned/planted it. He said if he tried to pick it up it would feel like "warm spaghetti" .. which makes me want to yak right now. Lucky for him it froze over again that night and the next morning he picked it up and put in the trash bare handed.

Christmas History

Here's a link I was sent after my last post: The Real Story of Christmas. It's written on a Judaism website. I'd heard a lot of it before, and I am willing to believe most of it. Take or leave it as you please, you will anyways, but don't believe everything you read on the internet or are taught by tradition.

Instead of a Hindu Christmas, it has a Hitlerday analogy. Oh and I meant to apologize for my ignorance concerning Hinduism in the last post as well. No offense intended, I just used the gimpshopped pics as illustrations of how non-biblical, and some might say even silly or lie-filled, our Christmas Traditions are.