Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator - VECTORTUTS

Needing to freshen up my Illustrator skills, so doing random tutorials. Love PSDTUTS, VECTORTUTS is just as cool. Nice to have someone walk me through the 3D capabilities of CS3, here’s my output.

(What, like you thought it wouldn’t be pink? Please.)

Highway Speed-to-BPM Calculator

This form will determine what speed you should drive to match a song’s rhythm with the approaching stripes on a highway.
The federal standard for interstate highways is 40 feet between the front of two stripes. This varies by area, but is generally around that distance.

To find the BPM of any given song, a number of tools are available online, including a key-tapping calculator, a BPM database, and downloadable freeware.

Ha! What an awesome-ly fun, silly thing.

Crackpot - INTJ

20% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 60% Thinking, 73% Judging

People hate you.

Paris Hilton hates Nicole Richie. Lex Luther hates Superman. Garfield hates Mondays.

But none these even rates against the insurmountable hate, people have for you.

I mean, you’re pretty damn clever and you know it. You love to flaunt your potential. Heard the word “arrogant” lately? How about “jerk?” Or perhaps they only say that behind your back.

That’s right. I know I can say this cause you’re not going to cry. You’re not exactly the most emotional person. You’d rather spend time with your theoretical questions and abstract theories than with other people.

Ever been kissed? Ever even been on a date? Trust me, your inflated ego is a complete turnoff with the opposite sex and I am telling you, you’re not that great with relationships as it is. You’re never going to be a dude or chick magnet, purely because you’re more concerned with yourself than others. Meh. They all hate you already anyway.

How about this- “stubborn?” Hrm? Heard that lately? All those facts which don’t fit your theories must just be wrong, right? I mean, really, the vast amounts of time you spend with your head in the clouds…you’re just plain strange.

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If you want to learn more about this personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows…

Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

1. So first you hang some wicked-awesome candle holders on the wall.
2. Then you light the candles because candles with un-burned wicks are pretentious, according to Miss Manners.
3. Then you realize that you want to blow those candles out but they’re up really high.
4. Then you decide (here’s where the Susan-logic comes in) to use your canned air to blow them out.

Turns out that’s not so much a practical and innovative way to blow out a really high candle as it is a low-budget and extremely effective way to create a mini-flamethrower.

Non-profit group affiliated with Consumer Reports has created a site to keep you updated on product recalls. Worth checking, since 80% of American toys are now made in China and <1% of them are inspected for safety when they reach the U.S.

Not in My Cart Recent Recalls

The names are familiar to children and adults alike: Winnie the Pooh, Barbie, Elmo. The brands are familiar too: Mattel, Banquet, Fischer-Price, J.C. Penny, and many more. In the past few months, companies have asked you to check your closets and toy boxes for brightly colored but toxic toys, and your refrigerator for foods that may be unsafe too.

Tracking recalls is a full time job! We’ve tried to make it easy. Just bookmark this page and check it regularly and you will find all the Consumer Product Safety Commission and FDA recalls in a simple list with a quick photo.

You can also go to the USDA for food recalls, and bookmark those pages too!

So, eucalyptus obviously can’t survive a St. Louis winter. I wanted to harvest mine and dry it to use on wreathes and things, since I love the way that dried eucalyptus smells. I researched via Google how this is to be done, since most dried eucalyptus isn’t really “dry” so much, it’s very pliable. Turns out that this is accomplished via soaking the cut stems in a solution of 2 parts hot tap water to 1 part glycerin.

I scored some glycerin today at Whole Foods and harvested my eucalyptus when I got home. Behold the bounty:

What I had read was that you should crush the bottom inch or two of the stems so that they would absorb more of the glycerin/water mixture. I didn’t want to pound them with a hammer on my tile counter top, obviously, so I used my marble rolling pin and that seemed to do the trick of crushing them quite nicely. (after which I threw said pin in the dishwasher, because isn’t eucalyptus poisonous to everybody but koala bears or something? I don’t want to kill anyone on accident with my Christmas cookies.) Continue reading »