MaryG Simpson--2 D? or not 2 D?

Lovely isn't she? The Simpson image generator worked from a real life Maryblog picture and magically created a likeness! Oh boy, another voice inside Maryblog's head...

Try it out at http://simpsonizeme.com .

I checked out the other links available through this discovery task #13 and was taken in by Letter James' free trial--the photo album generator. I put together 13 photos from the day of the Harry Potter 7th release party at the Palisade Branch. Unfortunately "free" didn't go far for me. I uploaded, arranged and captioned, but to retain my free trial efforts, I had to pay. I did not pay and I lost.

So I tried a little Flash (animation). I managed to get a simple slide show finished, but didn't learn anything I could not already do more easily in FinalCut Pro (video editing). It's more clear than ever to me that Flash is deep. I'll have to plan for the serious dive.

I'm not sure how the Simpsonizer can work for MCPLD, but my daughter has asked me to make a family portrait that she can hang in her apartment. I'm a little worried however, that its going to generate the same image for my son & I. Can I risk damaging his youth? Yeahhh.

RSS, Delicious, Online Learning with a little Harry Potter on top...

There, I did it. Yes I went to see The Order of the Phoenix. When Chamber of Secrets came out, I was such a HP fan, but I couldn't get past Dementor in the 3rd book. My nose is back into Prisoner of Azkaban now--just in the nick of time--with the Harry Potter party coming up this weekend at Palisade. Hopefully I won't lose my stride again.

When planning the Murder Mystery party (or I should say "adult program") a couple of weeks ago (amazing cast of actors, but we were shy on audience) the party packet told me how to prepare. I have to dig a little deeper to find HP party (er... program) ideas. My digging has proven one thing, however, there are a lot of folks partying about HP out there.

I have tried to apply my current internet travels towards the discovery tasks for which I am creating this blog (#7, #8, #9, #10, #11 & #12). I actually haven't crashed into this learning, but for the last couple of weeks have been trying to use these resources so that I would have something meaningful to report. My new subscription to Mugglenet, shows that I really mean it about this Harry Potter business.

Certainly my providential stumbling across RSS Word of the Day shall also prove to be fructous (for me anyway). And as I get to know my way around in this new town, I become more comfortable and realize as I navigate the learning curve, I discover shortcuts on the way. For example, that MCPLD Webolution feed is pretty handy.

I also put Delicious into my toolbox where I promptly embedded the Webolution sites I now frequent--but that's all for now. No time to include the rest yet. A little organizing forethought might be prudent.

Finally, WebJunction has generously accepted my enrollment for their FREE Online Learning Course, beginning September 13th. I also discovered Eve Tallman's (library director candidate) website (www.moablibrary.org) and an NPR interview with her (www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10471139). I enjoyed both.

I added a few new pics to Flickr--mainly to try and figure out how to include them into my profile on this blog. That's for another day.

TTFN