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Cool Stuff
Billy's Halloween Costumes click on the image below for a larger size.
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'06 "Prisoner of Circumstance" |
'07 300 Spartan |
'08 Joanie on the Stonie |
'09 Humpty Dumpty |
'10 Buzz Lightyear |
'06, '07, '09 pictures courtesy of Kent Booty, Longwood University Public Relations, '08 Stephanie Tucker, '10 Nathan Landis
| See a video about my office door at Christmas |
I also follow
the adventures of a man seeking to "Become a Spartan" after seeing the recent "300" movie. |
 my costume |
 the REAL Hokie Bird and I at the USC game 2004 |
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For some odd reason, I own a full size Hokie
Bird costume. I actually made it to compete in a costume
competition to get a trip to the Sugar Bowl when Virginia Tech went
for the national championship, but lost to a girl in a glittery prom
outfit with a bird head, a guy dressed as a sugar bowl, and
eventually to two guys in an egg crate mattress cut out in the shape
of a VT. I was disappointed, but I still manage to drag the 'ol
outfit out now and again.
I actually receive many inquiries about my costume through this website. FYI, I don't rent it out and the boss says I can't go play dress up for you :(. I'll also try to post some information one day in case you would like to make a Hokie Bird costume of your own. |
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Links of Interest I've seen (Some may not work as I don't control them.)
A little about instant messaging.
Color it effective: How color influences the user
If you would like to see how your site looks to a user with low color vision or color blindness, you can visit Vischeck, a site that simulates color-blind vision for Web designers.
Digital Image Editing 101 - many tips and resources (link died, but same is on link below)
All about page numbering in MS Word.
What are all of those holes in the back of my computer and what goes in them?
Google Maps! This interface for map navigation is awesome! Everything is so smooth!
Bing Maps - lets you have lower altitude aerial photos of populated areas
Microsoft Office 2010 Online Tutorials
Microsoft Photo Tourism - WOW, this is neat! Let's say you have a landmark that lots of people take pictures of. This software then finds the common points of this landmark and allows you to view that landmark from those different views. A MUST check out! The image below is of the Trevi Fountain. The little boxes at the bottom of the screen are photos that you can "look through". http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ This technology has now been integrated into Bing Maps.
Watch this video for a "tour" of the product.
They've updated the Photo Tourism into PhotoSynth and now you can create this kind of stuff yourself! http://photosynth.net
7 things in Education / Technology that you should know about compiled by Educause. This is a link to overviews of 7 technologies that could be applied to education.
I wrote an Ontime converter for Outlook Ontime is an older calendar program. This is an Excel sheet that does a conversion into a format Outlook can use.
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