{"id":592,"date":"2005-03-06T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=592"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"gimp-22-schwenksville-and-the-failed-quiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/gimp-22-schwenksville-and-the-failed-quiche\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimp 2.2, schwenksville, and the failed quiche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things have changed since <a href=\"http:\/\/gimp.org\">gimp<\/a> went 2.0 and beyond. At first I said &#8220;oh neat&#8221; and then when I started using 2.0, then 2.2 a few things jumped out at me that were really good or really annoying. I thought I&#8217;d use it for a couple weeks and see if it&#8217;s just my brain saying &#8220;change is bad!&#8221; so I didn&#8217;t like things, but there are some good and bad things that still linger:<\/p>\n<p><b>Bad<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Create a New Image&#8221; dialog &#8211; I liked it much better when the &#8220;Advanced Options&#8221; didn&#8217;t need to be clicked on, since I almost always edit these.<\/li>\n<li>When you save images it&#8217;s not nearly as intuitive as it used to be. &#8220;Browse for other folders&#8221; and &#8220;select file type extension&#8221; should be open by default like it used to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Good<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last modified date when opening images, better support for &#8220;thumbnails&#8221; without actual thumbnail directory existing (I HATED that and always turned that option off)<\/li>\n<li>Zoom options embedded in image windows, this is nice since I&#8217;m always zooming.<\/li>\n<li>Crop shading, this went from &#8220;oh neat but I don&#8217;t care&#8221; to &#8220;this is actually pretty nice&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>File, Edit, etc menus embedded in image window (right click still works)<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately the bad is outweighing the good in my opinion, it&#8217;s just not as user friendly (with the exception of my last &#8220;Good&#8221; thing). I can get used to these changes, but I think it will make it harder for someone new to the program to learn things.<\/p>\n<p>While compiling these lists I was doing quite a bit of image editing, first going through a whole bunch of fish pictures to find a few that could go on our new subdomain for our fishtank: <a href=\"http:\/\/fish.bevilacqua.us\">http:\/\/fish.bevilacqua.us<\/a>. The layout is the same as it was for Munch&#8217;s site, but the content has changed. Content&#8230; gosh there isn&#8217;t much. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll think of things to put on it eventually.<\/p>\n<p>I was also editing images I took when I went on a walk to the library yesterday. I wanted to get the &#8220;feel&#8221; of an old, small north-eastern town in the US, and Schwenksville personifies that well.<lj-cut><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/schwenksville\/mainstreet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/schwenksville\/mainstreet_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Mainstreet\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put all the good pictures I took up on a new section of my website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/schwenksville.php\">Downtown Schwenksville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t help thinking while walking down the road taking pictures of public buildings with my digital camera &#8220;I hope someone doesn&#8217;t call the cops and think I&#8217;m a terrorist!&#8221; You may laugh, but in the past month I&#8217;ve heard of two similarly silly local stories where someone saw someone &#8220;stranger&#8221; taking pictures of $a_public_building and called the police to investigate. Really, there wasn&#8217;t any other evidence that something bad was happening, just some guys taking pictures. And don&#8217;t even get me started on all the Grand Central Station pictures nonsense (<a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=grand%20central%20station\">oh noes I&#8217;m a terrorist!<\/a>). As if I don&#8217;t have enough real things to be afraid of, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>After the nice walk yesterday I wanted to have a nice dinner. So I went to make some more of my oh so delicious mushroom-crust quiche. It all came together nicely, but I decided to use a glass dish instead of a metal one. I am not sure why, the glass one looked nicer I guess?<\/p>\n<p>Well it was a huge mistake.<\/p>\n<p>After cooking for 30 minutes (out of a 25-30 minute cook time in the recipe) in the oven it was starting to get crispy around the edges and I removed it from the oven. It looked good, but when I flipped it over to cool on the cooling rack it came out as a drippy mess. Noo! The egg didn&#8217;t seem to cook all the way! I was pretty upset, I was really looking forward to eating this quiche and it smelled <i>so good<\/i>. It was after 6, I was hungry and so we decided to go out. First thought was chinese, so we looked up a local chinese place, printed out directions and went out.<\/p>\n<p>T<br \/>\nurns out this chinese place revolved around take out (complete with one of those light up menus over the cash register). Groan. We left.<\/p>\n<p>We went to a plaza right off the Royserford 422 exit and saw a Steakhouse &#8220;Great!&#8221; we thought. But when we got in there it was packed and there was a 100-110 minute wait. Gah!<\/p>\n<p>By this time I was pretty hungry, and Michael really wanted steak, so we headed over to Skippack to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skippackrestaurants.com\/?road_house\/\">Roadhouse Grille<\/a>. Yum! It was a bit more crowded than I would have liked, but the food was delicious. I got some Alaskan Cod and Michael got a Steak special and a couple glasses of wine (I didn&#8217;t feel like drinking). I finished my meal with a slice of chocolate malt ball cake and Michael had a cognac. He had both wine and cognac? Yep, and I drove home. As I got into the driver&#8217;s seat I realized I&#8217;d never driven with Michael in the car before! I&#8217;d followed him home when returning rental cars a couple times, but never in the same car. It was a strange feeling<\/p>\n<p>We were home a little after 9. And I was exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s almost 3pm on Sunday. This weekend is going by too quickly.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things have changed since gimp went 2.0 and beyond. At first I said &#8220;oh neat&#8221; and then when I started using 2.0, then 2.2 a few things jumped out at me that were really good or really annoying. 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