More photo editing advice

If your photo editor of choice is Photoshop rather than GIMP, you might prefer ArsTechnica's introductory photo editing guide to mine. Theirs is worth reading in any event. I like their extensive explanation of why the simple brightness/contrast controls that many programs have don't produce good results.

Elevator buttons

Defective Yeti says:

you know what I think they should do? I think they should make it so if you press an elevator button that's already lit, it goes off. This would serve two purposes.

First, it would allow a rider to cancel a button pressed in error.

Second, it would thwart those A-personality types who enter the elevator and press the button for their floor even when it's already lit. This would obviously be the greatest boon of the technology, because, as we all know, those people are totally fucking annoying.

Several people vehemently and passionately agreed. They really, really, really, really hate people who push elevator buttons that are already lit. Some of them want them to catch diseases.

( But... )

On the subject of inattentiveness to surroundings

I want to publicly apologize to kerri9494 about the plate of taquitos. I was very sleepy, and on some level I think I thought she was warning me not to take the thing.

On the beach

My parents used to spend a week or two at the beach in Lewes, Delaware every summer. I'm amused to find that in the DC comics universe this seems to be the current location of Metropolis.

(Apparently this location is not actually canonical but was a creation of Mayfair Games...)