A Conflagration of Randomness

Today I woke up (at 11:30 after a long night of finishing my CS project) to a world of pearl white. It snowed here today, the first snowfall of the season. Whether this means we will have the annual Corps of Cadets versus Civilians snowball fight is still unknown, but it was still a nice (although brisk) day to go outside and wander around, admiring the beautiful snow on the ground and watching the various people build snowmen or throw snowballs.

Above is a picture I took of the bridge by the duck pong here, with the snow gracing the slopes leading to it.  Of course this snow also brought cold weather which was not pleasant, but the ducks at the duck pond seemed content.

As I said before, here at Virginia Tech, we have the annual Corps of Cadets versus Civilian snowball fight.  Last year, this took place at approximately 10pm during our first major snowstorm in March.  This was an unfortunate snowball fight because I only managed to throw 2 snowballs before I was injured in battle  by a rogue snowball thrown by a cadet.  The snowball hit e right in the left eye and I was half blinded in that eye for the night.  The swelling continued for a week, at which point I regained full 20/20 vision. Hopefully this year I won’t be injured as I pan to bring my chem lab goggles.

An official group open to all VT students on facebook has been created to an for this event: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=197223762093

[Update] After finishing this I decided to Photoshop a bride and groom kissing on the bridge so here is the new picture:

The shadowing is not quite right because it doesn’t shadow the face, but that’s why I hadn’t uploaded it.  I did this over the summer.

Plain and simple photoshops:

Halfway Done:

After:

To continue, below are some of my homemade avatars:

For years I’ve been contemplating making a image gallery on a site, but the effort is always too great and I don’t have a gigantic collection, but I’d like to share here a good bit of my photoshops.  We’ll start with my signatures.

So, most of these were made in photoshop, and the novice looking ones were towards the beginning.