simoncrabb.com » Art & Design http://simoncrabb.com internet entrepreneur : landlord : rc car addict : collector of clocks Sat, 15 May 2010 09:40:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Not Enough Pockets: Why Men Should Carry Handbags http://simoncrabb.com/not-enough-pockets-why-men-should-carry-handbags http://simoncrabb.com/not-enough-pockets-why-men-should-carry-handbags#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:54:55 +0000 simon http://simoncrabb.com/?p=254 LG GD910A few years ago I had a desire for a phone on a watch. Now, many years later, one finally arrives, the LG GD910.

Why did I want one? Not enough pockets.

Back in the day you could get away with your front door key and a tenner. These days I’ve got loads of keys, a wallet packed with plastic (not credit cards, bloody loyalty cards), a massive iPhone, shades, tissues, sunblock, Valium, anti-bacterial hand-gel, Wuther’s Originals and a hat.

I stopped wearing a watch years ago, around the time mobile phones became ubiquitous, as I realised you’ve always got the time nearby. And because I fiddle like mad with anything that’s not screwed down, fiddling with my watch in a job interview / meeting / date wasn’t a great impression I realised.

So I thought it would be perfect to have a phone on a watch. No need to put it in a pocket. I don’t make many phone calls, but text a lot. I could text away on a watchphone / phonewatch / watch-de-phone, and have one less thing to carry. It would always be there for when I did need to make a call.

Then, I could just have the watch, a key around my neck on a string, a tenner in my back pocket (or a piece of plastic) and the male pocket bulges would be solved. Freedom again!

But, sorry LG, you’re about a decade too late. Now I use my iPhone for the internet WAY more than as a phone, or for texting. So I now carry a smartphone for being smart, not for use as a phone.

Where did I put my man-bag?

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]]> http://simoncrabb.com/not-enough-pockets-why-men-should-carry-handbags/feed 0 Simon Game: I Didn’t Have One in the 80s! http://simoncrabb.com/simon-game-i-didnt-have-one-in-the-80s http://simoncrabb.com/simon-game-i-didnt-have-one-in-the-80s#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:22:14 +0000 simon http://simoncrabb.com/?p=243 Simon-Game_lWhen I was a kid I always kinda wanted a Simon game. I rememeber playing a friends i think, and it was clearly an obvious choice of present for me.

The game released in 1978 (when I was 3) by MB games is a lasting image of the 80s. It flashed and beeped and you had to repeat what it did. Kind of a multimedia version of the old classic “I went to market and bought…” parlour game.

So, I need to fix my need to have one! I want one! Does anyone have an original MB Simon game kicking around under the stairs or in a loft?

Let me know!

For an instant fix, you can play here:

Simon made by Neave Games

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Example Photo Stitch - Click to Enlarge

Recently I wanted to stitch some photos together to make a composite panoramic picture of an radio controlled race track.

I had half-a-dozen or so photos, and wanted an easy way of stitching them together into one photo, to display a large area all at once, and as a future aide-memoire so we knew what done so we could reproduce it.

I dig some Googling and was somewhat amazed to find that a Microsoft product offered the solution. Windows Live Photo Gallery has a stitching function!

I tried it and was really pleased with the results. I liked how it stretched and bent the photos to fit them together.

One tip when you want to do this is to take lots of photos, take way more than you need, and of a much larger area than you need. That way when you stitch the photo you can crop it afterwards to remove the black boundary.

This video from Microsoft is a nice tutorial of how it works.



]]> http://simoncrabb.com/really-easy-panoramic-photo-stitching/feed 0 Mouse Trap Board Game Video http://simoncrabb.com/mouse-trap-board-game-video http://simoncrabb.com/mouse-trap-board-game-video#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:33:08 +0000 simon http://simoncrabb.com/?p=114 I’ve never played Mouse Trap – how did this feast of ridiculousness pass me by?  It looks awesome!  I particularly like the diving man, and the bathtub which the huge hole in it.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Maybe I want one to go with my ever increasing kids games collection… eBay as ever is my friend…

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