http://jeff-flowers.com Web Developer. Graphic Designer. Social Media Guru. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:30:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a video of a birdhouse that is hanging in my backyard. Whenever I put seed inside of it, the birds literally attack it and empty it within a couple of hours. So one day I decided to record it on my flip video camera, and this is what ... http://jeff-flowers.com/the-birdhouse-timelapse-video/ This morning I woke up extra early, in order to go cast my vote in the Presidential Election. Today was the last day for early voting in Texas. source The lines have been crazy. Some people I know have waited for nearly two hours to cast their vote. We've had record ... http://jeff-flowers.com/early-voting-in-texas/ Well, we made it. Hurricane Ike did not blow our house down, but the winds did cause some damage around the outside of my house. We had power until about 4:15am, despite the 20+ power surges that came and went throughout the night. My brother lost power around 8:30pm. My ... http://jeff-flowers.com/hurricane-ike/ So this last week I've been in California at the 2008 SES Conference in San Jose. I had a great time. I learned alot about SEO & SEM, even though alot of it was a reinforcement of the basics. One of the highlights of the conference was on Tuesday, Google threw ... http://jeff-flowers.com/photos-from-google-dance-2008/ It's been awhile since I published a photoshop tutorial. So, I figured I'd take some time to publish one of my favorite photoshop text effects. I'm not really sure what you would use this text effect for, except for maybe text on desktop wallpapers, but it just a looks cool. I ... http://jeff-flowers.com/pixelation-text-effect/ I just got back from a weeklong vacation in Cancun, Mexico. It was great! We had an awesome time. We definitely took advantage of the "All-Inclusive" part of our stay, as well as get to know the bartender's at the "pool bar" pretty well. Not too long before we left for ... http://jeff-flowers.com/my-timelapse-video-on-youtube/ I had something pretty cool happen to me the other day. On April 23, I visited the Blog of the Houston Chronicle's Cartoonist, Nick Anderson. He had a pretty funny animated clip of Hillary Clinton & her presidential campaign, and wanted to submit it to Digg. (Check out the post & ... http://jeff-flowers.com/i-love-the-power-of-the-internet/ Just recently, I got a new Flip Video Camera. So far... I freakin' LOVE it! Although, I still need to figure out a way to disassemble the BRIGHT red light in the front. It prevents me from going "undercover" & getting good guerilla-style footage. Anyways, I've been playing around with the ... http://jeff-flowers.com/my-1st-youtube-video-harley-jane-playing/ So, over the weekend I was hanging out on 6th St. in Austin, TX. Check out these Homeless Hippies on My flickr. As we were walking from bar to bar, we saw these two homeless guys sitting on the corner. They literally just finished writing this sign and were laughing about it ... http://jeff-flowers.com/probably-the-best-dollar-ive-ever-spent/ Flickr Image - Jon Lajoie by Sampik So... earlier today. I submitted something to digg that I thought was freakin' hilarious. It was entitled "Pedophile Glasses by Jon Lajoie" It's easily the stupidest, most pointless thing you're going to watch all day, but totally worth 1:18 of your life. Then I ... http://jeff-flowers.com/my-new-theme-songs-the-everyday-normal-guy/