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der posts being driven crazy posted on june 22 2010 by digital nomad that s what driving 12 hours a day make you feel like you re being driven crazy you gain a whole new respect for truck drivers who are usually only appreciated by me for the shade their huge trucks provide when the sun is beating right into my left eye anyhow we went and we came and i ll entertain you with pictures in a few days time in the meantime i d like to know how it s possible to be so fatigued from all that driving that i m no longer an insomniac i go to bed these days promptly at 11pm and certainly no later than 11 30 and sleep a full eight or nine hours and still feel drained by about 5pm at which time i can go for a 3 hour nap except that sleeping for three hours is hardly a nap is it well as many of you are probably well aware much happens when you re in travel as you re whizzing by scenery that could make your heart stop and then the lines on the road disappear just as darkness falls and your heart speeds up like a drum at a rock concert you come across crazy drivers and compassionate ones your car or was it the pavement makes funny sounds while you re surrounded by wheat fields without a toyota dealer in sight and god alone knows how long it would take for aaa to get to you you drive through cities that confuse the hell out of your gps cities that were surely designed by mad geniuses men you navigate through freeway loop de loops that certainly were dreamed up by one of the 50 roller coaster engineers in the nation well that s what it felt like anyway you see clouds in the distant sky that look like illustrations out of a children s book fantasy clouds i call them and you see clouds that are nothing short of nightmare clouds of course the nightmare clouds are the most what s the word eventful you drive through country that s most bleak and drips of desolation and you wonder am i in the usa and yet that country with all it s desolation feels like the perfect place to live and forget about the world perhaps because the world has forgotten about those places and then you drive back into california with it s crazy speeding and traffic and over crowding and the concrete canyons and say thank allah i live here and that in a nutshell is the story of our trip not enough you say well i ll tell you about the more interesting bits of the above summary in a little bit posted in california lets get personal thats life 5 comments brb posted on june 4 2010 by digital nomad you d be surprised how much fit in there i must take leave of you all for now please remember me and my family in your prayers we re quite nervous about driving all this distance we thought we d like the opportunity to see the land we live in but now maybe flying would have been a better idea but it s all about the adventure right be good and keep on smiling packed up and away we go posted in lets get personal world 4 comments this has been a busy week posted on june 3 2010 by digital nomad and in the midst of the busy ness it occurred to me that just because you can do something doesn t mean you should now i m not speaking of bad or on the fringe of bad things to do i m talking about those completely well intentioned projects we decide to shoulder because we either can t say no for the guilt it plagues us with or because we like a little bit of inopportune challenge or maybe a combination of the two reasons last week our new camera arrived and this week we ll be going away to the mid west for a course my brother is interested in taking we decided to go by car all of 2000 miles and of course road trip means camera must be packed since i purchased an additional lens and a few filters and a couple spare sets of batteries and these are all relatively sensitive things that should be packed properly i needed a camera bag to pack it all into of course in the course of looking around for an appropriate gadget bag we found those that were too small too large just right but can t be shipped in time or simply perfect but too expensive my brother while looking at the one i was considering which was both slightly weird looking but just the right price said you can make those pointing to the ones that were too expensive and i like an idiot agreed now don t get me wrong i could do it but there was absolutely no reason for me to cop to it except for the fact that i did not want something that looked like a glorified lunch pail pride cometh before the falleth people if i could tell you the amount of grief it put me through to do simple things like stitch in pockets put in the zipper and the mother of all battles putting in the foam i would but i can t because a i have too much respect for your sanity and b more honestly i ve got a trip that i still need to finish packing for i will leave you with this though just because you can does mean you should coz then you know you really could yes i m glad i went through the grief next time i know what to do to make my task easier oh look there will be a next time falleth isn t a word is it http minus1thousand wordpress com 2010 05 28 may 10 just playing around posted in lets get personal thats life think about it comments off on this has been a busy week any photoshop procrastinators around posted on may 27 2010 by digital nomad anyone who s been following my photo blog realizes that it s been as silent as this blog had been since ramadan of last year what you may not realize is that i have been snapping pictures relentlessly saving and intending to upload but i never got around to it because well i was lazy i got a little tired of processing my photos in photoshop and picasa because repetitive tasks bore the life out right out of me but last month i realized i d better use those photos i took or my memories will be lost forever oh the horror for the last month i ve been sorting through the pics trying to decide which ones i really want to upload i don t even know how many i selected but i know that it s a lot oh wait i just checked and see that i ve got 221 219 vacation pictures now i know why i was so terrified of beginning the editing process i got to thinking wouldn t it be nice if we could automate the edit resize and watermark process i know that picasa does allow for batch edits but you re on your own with resizing and watermarking then i got to remembering seeing something about actions a photoshop concept i was too intimidated to look into well put four hundred and eighty photos on one side of a scale and intimidation for photoshop on the the other side and you can guess which scared me more so i fired up google in search of the easiest explanation and how to guide for photoshop actions what are actions they re a recording of the steps you take to edit a file so if you ve got a bunch of steps that you automatically do over and over again those steps are the perfect candidates for being saved as an action set i found a simple tutorial for the watermark action on dpchallenge that is worth looking into if you re into processing your photos with photoshop do you know how long it took to edit half my pictures just a couple of interrupted with other activity hours my pictures finally get a chance to be eternally saved on the great wide web if anyone has any other processing actions worth knowing about please let me know about them i think i can really get into this whole action thing posted in techno babble tagged photography software comments off on any photoshop procrastinators around the politics of beauty posted on may 26 2010 by digital nomad i m sure you can guess from the title of this post what i ll be writing about yes nothing other than the results of the miss usa beauty pageant not so much the winner of the contest but the resultant overflowing of support from arab muslim communities and the subtle sense of you have overcome and achieved because of the tolerance and acceptance of the white man from the rest of the media now don t get me wrong i in no way shape or form desire or expect the respective communities to which miss fakih belongs to condemn her or call for head on a platter nor do i want the media to be aghast at the notion of a foreigner winning any type of award continue reading posted in in the news think about it tagged arab american beauty feminism muslims racism 2 comments niqabis are just a bunch of criminals posted on may 23 2010 by digital nomad i swear to god once i come up with a decent blog name and leave digitalniqabi behind i will never speak of the niqab again yeah who am i kidding more than myself however i m going to address this whole belgium france niqab ban thing because i simply can t keep it bottled up inside any longer the trigger for this need to offload was seeing people muslim and non muslim alike write that one reason they could be for the ban for the security advantages that it would bring to such countries at which point i just felt like unloading all over these blogs and forums but that would be rude and intolerant not to mention that it would display a decided lack of control and hey look i have my own blog to unload all over to start with it doesn t shock me that non muslim countries would want to ban symbols of islamic faith after all since muslim countries have imposed limitations on hijab and niqab how can we expect any better from non muslim nations especially in europe turkey and tunisia are notorious for giving women a hard time with the hijab hard time meaning they ve banned it in government buildings and universities in the case of turkey and women in morocco are regularly face discrimination while hijabed although there are no laws in place to officially make life for hijabis difficult i recall a moroccan friend during college telling me that she wanted to hijabify her life but her aunt would tell her father and then she d be on the first plane back to morocco because her father would be outraged outraged over the fact that his daughter is covering up more and that he is losing control imagine women in those countries wearing the niqab so my anxiety over women in the west being prevented from wearing the niqab is not as great as it could be considering we ve got our own intra muslim hijab bans to deal with continue reading posted in think about it world tagged niqab 9 comments spoiled for choice a camera hunter s dilemma posted on may 20 2010 by digital nomad i don t know about anyone else but i find myself always completely befuddled when i go shopping for the simplest of things i can stand in front of a single make up or socks display for 10 minutes just trying to decide if i should buy this one or that one so you can imagine the agony of shopping for a new camera the fact that there is really nothing wrong with the camera i ve got other than the fact that it s a 4 megapixel snapper that takes great pictures that don t print as great as they look on a computer screen doesn t really help the situation i ve been shopping for the perfect camera for the last six months that s right six months at first i couldn t decide if i wanted a dslr or another bridge camera in the point and shoot category so i figured i d just find the best one of each category and decide later just finding the best of two different types of camera has eaten away hours equaling weeks of my life continue reading posted in lets get personal techno babble tagged photography 3 comments more from the why files posted on may 13 2010 by digital nomad speaking of why and kids we were browsing the candy aisle at wal mart this weekend a kid comes rolling by in a shopping cart being pushed by his mother and upon seeing my sister and i he asked her why are there ghosts here mommy and she launched into a very nice explanation about how we weren t ghosts and why we are dressed the way we are we only caught the beginning of the conversation but it illustrates the beauty of why why opens doors to understanding no matter how rude or stupid or irritating the why questions seem posted in amusing tidbits thats life think about it tagged kids niqab shopping why 2 comments and they ask why mommy posted on may 13 2010 by digital nomad i just watched this really awesome video from ted called how great leaders inspire action and everyone but everyone can benefit from listening to simon sinek speak on the power of why over the mechanics of what you know how kids are always asking why and we adults are always giving them dumb answers to shut them up the kids are onto something when they want you to verbalize why you want them to do something or why the world is functioning the way it is if you don t know why you re doing something anything then why bother doing it the next ten times you hear a kid ask you why do him her a favor and give a real answer as opposed to the rest of us dummies whose why moments were stifled to the point of extinction the kid will learn the power of why and just might end up building the next piece of gadgetry that we simply must have and if you don t have any kids around to bug you to death with why then just start learning to why everything around you it s never too late to become an inspiration besides asking why and irritating everyone around you is just plain fun don t overdo it though you might end up being a frustrated blogger don t ask me how i know posted in couch potato think about it tagged ted talks 1 comment have you got connection addiction posted on may 4 2010 by digital nomad so i was reading this article where the author mentioned the following statistics in 2009 the average american watched more than 151 hours of tv a month an all time high 84 of people check their pdas just before bed and as soon as they wake up and an astounding 85 peek at their pdas in the middle of the night one survey found that over a third of smartphone users would pick their blackberry over their significant other if they had to choose one to live without and the first one doesn t shock me too much i mean more americans were unemployed in 2009 and in 2010 and probably need something to take away the job less days tv is usually a sure fire way to fill in time when you desperately want something to do but either can t find that something or are too depressed to make the move to at least try i can make sense of the second statistic too because you have to check if you missed an urgent call or text message during the day it d be like not checking your answering machine when you step back into your house and then realizing days later that you missed the birth announcement of your best friend s baby it always happens that when you don t check important stuff comes in checking the phone on waking up well that makes sense to me too it s my clock alarm clock calendar all rolled into one tiny package i don t have an alarm clock with gigantic red lcd digits glaring at me and the wall clock is too far away for me to read without my glasses on and for some reason the first thing i think of when i wake up in the middle 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