Another video of my sister’s cat Charlie.

My sister got a kitten for her birthday. I shot some video with my Canon 500D.

I could go for some Sin City “Breakfast Tacos” right about now. If you’ve never made them you should, they are delicious. I can’t wait to see Robert Rodriguez’s next 10 Minute Cooking School “Texas BBQ”.

I drew this for Gabrielle. Follow her @memetchix

I drew this for Gabrielle. Follow her @memetchix

Making that ugly green duck not so ugly

I really don’t like Adium. But since people (and I don’t know why) still use other IM services like Windows Live, I occasionally use it. I’ll also login to Facebook chat so it’s not a total waste of time. Anyway, Adium looks ugly. iChat doesn’t. So I put together a list of Adium Xtras and enhancements I’ve found. This list kind of makes Adium look like another iChat account. It’s not identical at all, but hey it’s not iChat.

Here’s what you should do:

  1. Make Adium have a butt thing
  2. Get this menu bar icon
  3. Get these status icons
  4. Hide the dock icon

Who wants another dock icon anyway? The menu bar is all you need, plus if you use iChat, you don’t want 2 IM applications in your dock. As for the message style I use Renkoo. It doesn’t look like iChat’s balloons, but the ones I’ve found that are trying to imitate iChat, don’t look good.

Other things: I also hide the user icons in the contact list and icons in the chat window toolbar. If you want icons in the toolbar, Capsule Toolbar is okay. You can figure out how to style the contact list yourself. It’s not hard just tweak the default Aqualicious. If you find better ways to make Adium more like iChat, let me know.

When planning a new picture we don’t think of grown ups and we don’t think of children but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.