Sound familiar?

A piece that rings true for a handful of my friends, from the Onion. . . $11,000 A Year Doesn't Go As Far As You Probably Think.

Thanks, friedrich for reminding me that I haven't visited the ol' Onion for a while.

Iconography

Although I am a horrible-terrible photographer (I'm slowly relearning after many years and a new digital camera), I have managed to take a couple of shots that are icon-worthy.

The rest of my shots are basically crapola. I guess I'll just have to keep torturing myself and the folks around me as I try to get decent pictures. Any advice on how to do self-portraits? Maria is really good at this. . . I hope you have some tips, babe.

Anyway, enjoy this one and I'll pop my other new one into a comment of somesuch nonsense.

Edited to add: I used to have a photo editing program that had lots of easy-to-use features. Operative phrase: used to. Now all I have is Microsoft Picture It! Express 7.0, which only fixes red-eye, and the Kodak software that was bundled with my camera. That one also only fixes red eye and contrast stuff. I want my old program back - I could fix blemishes with it. I am unfortunate in that I REALLY NEED a blemish eraser, in real life and in the digital one. Anyone have any solutions or suggestions? Free is good, of course.

Oh yeah. I also have Adobe Photoshop, but haven't the faintest idea of how to use it properly.