But is it Art?
I have a new entry in my But is it Art section of my pbase site. After already doing two composites of gals from my high school yearbook and then a quickie one, badly, of my three best friends at the time, I decided it was time to move on to something that wasn't the moiré dotted images of the yearbook.

But I didn't want to do mugshots. Generally, people in mugshots are criminal types, and when you do a composite, you generally get a very nice looking face. It's due to the anomalies which our brains interpret as unattractive being averaged out. Well, I thought about it, and almost did composites of realtors, but there was no subset of realty that was small enough to interest me. But there are plenty of mugshot type images of realtors online.

Then I thought of it. That image up there is the composite of 30 women who were not happy with their noses. They are the before picture from before/after sets for rhinoplasty. I put the black bar over their eyes since I don't know them.

I expected a pretty gal with a big nose, but the nose didn't even come out that big. Which leads me to think that if I do the composite of the after pictures, that the pretty gal might have a freakishly small and upturned pert little nose. I know that nearly every one of those gals did go for the Barbie dream pug nose.

And honestly, little bitty noses just plain suck. Give me a hottie with a good old Roman nose any day.

Speaking of Rome
Besides the various fun things we did over the weekend with Nina, which I will mention later once I offload pictures from the camera so I can link to them, I played my playstation game Gladius. Gladius is about gladiators. (duh)

Well, my gladiators aren't gladiators, their Vikings. I feel a deep kinship with the Viking people, as a person of mixed white-person-ness of unknown origin, because they are kick ass. However, I am not sure what north land they are actually from. Denmark? Did Vikings invent the cheese Danish?

Well, last night at 11 p.m. my Vikings finally got to Rome, or whatever you call the Roman Empire. (Roman Empire.) However, I would have to fight about 8 battles before I could save. Thanks, Lucasarts. So, I will have to fight the Big Bad Vikingland Classic again, since it would take less time to do that than fight the Roman battles.

I only wish I could have recruited more berserkers while in the north land. Well, I guess I can, as I have to do that over. But there are some cool recruits in Rome too. I picked up some lame looking male centurion, who just happens to be more powerful than my main guy I've had since the beginning. And the female secutors, very cool outfit. However, I need archers or javelin types.

And a yeti. They better let me recruit a yeti. Not that they fight worth anything, but they are so dang tall and cool looking.

A yeti in a pimp hat (not available in this game) would be teh 73Et!

Time to Drink more Coffee
And actually get to working. People are starting to show up.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 7:27 AM