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Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #10: Scrapbook Fun

Well, there was just no way I could present this series without sneaking in a picture of my beautiful twin girls. I recommended that you should always wear extremely dark cute-polarized sunglasses whenever visiting the site way back in the inaugural post of The AlpineInker, and this was not an idle warning!

This picture is rather out of date, because the girls are almost a year old now. The cat is no longer quite as perplexed about the new additions to my family, but he wisely remains wary of becoming the twins' latest plaything. Since this photo was taken, the cat had an unfortunate encounter with what was probably a coyote, but miraculously he survived and is still with us, although he is getting rather old. At this point not only has he used up all nine of his lives, but he is also down to three legs!

It is quite a hoot to use ink to lend a personal touch to pictures of friends and family. Of course you don't need InkSeine to do this, but I find it a makes a great place to have scrapbook fun.

Application of this technology to mark up photos of your pointy-haired boss is left as an exercise to the reader.

 

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Posted 01-31-2008 5:19 AM by Ken Hinckley
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Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #9: Messy Desk - with Search! - The AlpineInker wrote Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #9: Messy Desk - with Search! - The AlpineInker
on 01-30-2008 9:15 PM

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feralboy wrote re: Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #10: Scrapbook Fun
on 02-01-2008 11:24 AM

The twins are AMAZINGLY cute! Sorry to hear about your cat's attack -- that must have been gruesome!

But I can't help noticing...you cropped this image so we couldn't tell what OS you're using! lol! Okay, I'll stop teasing you. I love the tablet bits in Vista, the fantastic search, and the look and feel of it, but when I have to use XP on my work machine, I'm not complaining...it's mature and fast and not as hard "to go back" as I assumed it would be.

Just wrote a post on GottabeMobile lamenting the quirkiness of Ink Desktop, and it got me thinking...wouldn't it be cool if you could like institute a "transparent" mode for Ink Seine, so that you could use it on the destop too. Okay, that probably makes no sense, and stinks of desperation, but i really do want to be able to ink right on my desktop and have that ink behave (:

Ken Hinckley wrote re: Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #10: Scrapbook Fun
on 02-01-2008 2:19 PM

I've got my first heckler! This is great! :-)

I sketched up this one on my big desktop Wacom Cintiq display.  I just captured the relevant part of the page so that the twinny cuteness would completely engulf all who view the post.

I like your Ink Desktop suggestion. We've talked about similar things, kind of like a sheet of vellum you can lay over the underlying interface. How to really make that work and do useful things, though, we haven't yet had time to really tackle in earnest. But I think it's a good idea.

The AlpineInker wrote Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #12: Tabula Rasa
on 02-02-2008 5:18 PM

The joy of a blank page ready to hold my thoughts is tough to beat. A blank page is also a great way

Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #11: Dish out a Little UMPC Love - The AlpineInker wrote Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #11: Dish out a Little UMPC Love - The AlpineInker
on 02-05-2008 1:49 AM

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