What is this?

This is an experiment. I’m an old dog and I’m trying to learn a new trick. Why? Cause this is one thing I haven’t done yet. I’ve created text-type video games back at the dawn of home computers. I’ve learned to use photo editing software like photoshop. Then video editing with Avid, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro. Audio editing with Audacity. DVD and Blu-ray disc authoring. But I’ve never created a website. So here we go. This is the first post. So far very slow, but good. More to come as soon as I figure out a few more things.

The Final Exam

An eccentric philosophy professor gives a one-question final exam after the semester… 

The class is already seated and ready to go when the professor picks up his chair, plops it on his desk, and writes on the board… 

“Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist.”

Immediately, fingers fly, erasers erase, and notebooks fill in furious fashion… 

The students scribble furiously, attempting to refute the existence of the chair using every tool and theory they had learned.

One student, however, stands out… 

He is finished in less than a minute!

His classmates glance at him in disbelief as he calmly turns in his paper and exits the room… 

The tension in the room thickens as the rest of the students continue their frantic writing, each one wondering if they had missed something obvious.

Weeks later, when the grades are posted, the rest of the class is astonished… 

The student who had barely written anything at all receives an “A”!

Puzzled, they gather around to see what he had written.

His answer consists of only two words… 

“What chair?”

Anyone see the sunset last night?

Just caught the tail-end of it as it was getting dark. Even then it was quite spectacular.

Interesting. The top picture took almost 30 seconds to load. It was roughly 4000 x 1500 pixels.

The bottom picture was reduced in size to 720 by 280 pixels and loaded instantly. Colors aren’t quite as bright. That’s apparently what suffers when the size is reduced. Hmm. I guess I’ll have to keep an eye on the size of stuff I post to the web.

Well, that worked…

This is relatively easy once you get the hang of it. I’m going to try some more intricate stuff and see how that goes. It may take a while, so stick with me. I just had to retype a section. I’m going to have to be more careful typing stuff. This software doesn’t know how to spell. Come on… it’s 2024.