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Late night TV – American Body Shop

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I’m watching the craziest show on TV right now. I’ve really got to stop watching TV late at night. I really do.

The show is called American Body Shop. I guess you could call it a comedy. It’s about a bunch of mechanics and their female secretary. None of them are any good at their job. Clients bring in cars and they make huge promises about how they’ll supe up the car, but they always mess it up in the end.

Each character is seriously messed up too. I don’t think you’d see so many messed up people working together in one place in real life.

If you come across this show watch it if you dare, but I don’t recommend it.





We missed our chance to see Van Halen

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My husband and I are trying to get out more. You know, trying to do things we both enjoy. We share a love of music so we thought that over the next few months we’d make an effort to get out and see some of our favorite bands in concert.

One of the bands that we both would have liked to see was Van Halen. Unfortunately they already played here in Toronto! There’s two upcoming concerts that we could get Van Halen tickets for, but the show in Boston is on a Tuesday and well that’s maybe too far to go, and the other is in Montreal – also not that close.

The Montreal concert is on Saturday November 10th. If only it was a few days later! We’ll be in Las Vegas at that time.

So I guess we won’t be seeing Van Halen. I think I’ll have to get my act together and do a little research as to what future concerts we might want to see and try to get tickets in advance.

At least living in a big city like Toronto we have lots of opportunities to see bands when they come to town on tour since almost every big band comes through here.

Does TV suck or is it just me?

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Is it just me or are some of the TV shows that were big hits last year just not as good this year?

I’m still enjoying shows like Ugly Betty, but then there’s shows like My name is Earl that has a whole different story line this year that I just don’t like. I mean, Earl isn’t magic when he’s in jail. He’s just not. Neither is House with his group of doctors that he’s methodically picking off. Heck, I didn’t even watch House last night. I taped it, but I just didn’t feel like watching it.

There’s lots of other shows that just aren’t doing it for me either.

How do you feel about shows that were your favorites last year? Are you still into them or have the shows changed too much?

Cool photo-Morpher software

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Wow! I was given the opportunity to try a new photo morphing software earlier today and I must say I really enjoyed playing around with this software!

I went to the Zoombli website and downloaded a copy of their Morpheus Photo-Morpher application. I know a few other bloggers who have started using this software to morph photos from one thing into another and I thought it was about time I try it out myself.

The software was very easy to install. Once installed the program opened up right away. There were instructions on how to use the software properly in the right side of the Photo-Morpher application so it was easy to follow the directions to create my own photo morph.

bud.jpg As you are editing your photo morph you be able to view a time line window so that you can see every frame, just like when you are editing a movie or video file.

As you know I love taking photographs of the flowers in my garden. So I went searching through my photos and found a beautiful photo a perfect Graham Thomas English rose bud. I then found a lovely photo of this rose fully open. I thought it would be neat to see how the program morphed the two photos from bud to fully open flower.

rose.jpg Hey I might use this on my gardening blog! It would be very useful to show people the different stages a plant goes through as it grows.

I’m sure you could come up with hundreds of things to morph – perhaps a baby photo of your child to how they look right now?

The program renders the morphs in a variety of formats including flash. I chose to render my morph into an avi so that I could upload it to YouTube.

This is my bud to full blooming Graham Thomas English rose:

The full standard version of this software only costs $29.95 and there’s also a Pro version that will allow you to to have even more features than you already do with the Standard version. Check out the software for yourself. I’m sure you could think of all kinds of cool things to morph. Hey a morphed photo might even make an interesting present for someone you love.

Cars and their Boom, Boom, BOOM

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I’m always up late at night and lately, maybe the last three months, I’ve noticed that a car goes by blaring it’s music almost every night at about 2 a.m. and then at 4 a.m..

I can hear for at least 6 minutes! Can you imagine how loud the music must be inside the car for me to hear it from blocks away? The drivers either already half deaf or soon will be. Now don’t I sound old! LOL

I got a glimpse of the car the other day. It’s one of those suped up models. Big tires, billet grilles, and it looks like it’s had a few types of car kits added to it – you know the ones that make the back bumper look really huge?

One of my brothers used to be really into cars and music. I guess he was just like this guy who’s traveling around my neighborhood late at night.

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