Bereft of Words
I had an idea earlier today on something to blog about, but it got lonely, so it left.
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 462
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 462
Miata Photos
Post Offices Everywhere
I had uploaded last weekend’s Post Office photos to Flickr! and the old gallery, so tonight I uploaded them to the new gallery too. The Flickr! and old galleries have some captioning, 9 of 23 photos, and the Flickr! ones have been geotagged so that they show on my map. Unfortunately the 200 photo limit on the free ride takes away a lot of the map’s impact because as I fill in one spot of the state, another clears out…
It is also almost October and that means Halloween. Time to break out the decorations, including the Vampire teeth for the Emperor.
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 421
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 421
Rain Delay
Both the FRS/Braves game and this blog are in a rain delay….
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 209
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 209
Lina Rosio
When I was making The Emperor’s New Screensaver #2, I wanted to find out what Lina Rosio meant so I could use it for the title, so I Googled it.
The first 4 hits were places selling the poster where I learned it was by someone named Choppy and I guessed he was French. Tried plugging in Lina Rosio in a translation tool, French to English, with no luck, came back as lina rosio. Hmmm, sounds Spanish. A Spanish to English try netted the same results. Trying Portuguese, I found out Lina means linen, but nothing for Rosio. Lina is a Chinese name that means beautiful woman. I googled for rosio and that lead me to the Urban Dictionary. Lina – Nice beautiful young woman and Rosio – A girl that is funny, cool, sexy, and everything else. She also can be a firecracker if you get in her face to long. Somehow I think this poster predates the UD, maybe it’s definitions have been influenced by this poster? Or by the Chinese? Giving up, I just titled the image Lina Rosio.
Back to Google, my Miata gallery with the image was at #9. At number 5 was a fellow’s Flickr page of the same poster but in a different town in SC. His photo came from Walhalla about 60 miles northwest of Abbeville where mine was taken. Right after my number nine return was the Flickr RSS feed of someone named Genipher who has an image of the same poster and hers was taken in Abbeville too.
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 4
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 4
Calendar Car
Finished up the images for my 2007 Emperor Calendar. It is titled Must Have Been Those 400 Acid Trips I Took because I have taken some of my photos of the Miata and ran them through a few different Paint Shop Pro filters to give them that slightly twisted look. See the Miata – 2007 Calendar gallery on the side bar a preview.
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 488
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 488
2007 Miata Calendar
For the past couple of years I’ve made up a nifty wall calendar using images of the Emperor I have taken over the previous year. You can see the images I have used by clicking on the appropriate link under Photos in the sidebar.
This year I haven’t been taking that many photos of the car, so I don’t think I’ll have 12 that will be calendar worthy. I do have about half enough, but even then, that is stretching the suitability envelope. While monkeying around with some of the possibles I hit upon a strategy that might work for 2007 – photoshopped images. This way I can go back and maybe use some outtakes from earlier photoshoots. I can possibly turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Well, I’ll be the judge of that…
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 465
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 465
I’ve Fallen Off The Wagon
I’ve been driving by a lot of cute little ones lately. They have been calling out to me, “Take my picture. Take my picture. Come on, you know I’m cute. The light is right and the car is clean. What are you waiting for?” We have driven by this little Post Office numerous times on our trips to, and from, Hilton Head and every time I see it I note the name and it’s correlation to the Emperor’s “official” color name. And every time I see it I am tempted to stop. This time I did. A Garnet Red Mica Miata in front of the Garnett, SC 29922 Post Office.
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Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 449
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 449