October 19th, 2005:

For the next 12 hours only, I’m offering this image in 4×6″ format for $4.50 or in 8×10″ format for $8. That’s half the usual dirt cheap price and includes shipping, handling, secure packaging, and the print itself. Additionally, I’m only selling 50 of each size at this price. When they’re gone, they’re gone. It’s a small experiment in Internet Photography sales, price point acceptance, and purchasing time constraints.

This is one of my most popular images, currently, and I’m offering it at the two most commonly purchased sizes. I had considered using a less popular image, but, I’m looking for the quickest take possible.

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4×6 @ $4.50 SOLD OUT

8×10 @ $8.00 SOLD OUT

But these are still available at regular price on the photo sales page.

We’ll see how this goes. Tell your friends, and wish me luck.

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This shot of Stefanie really shows her flirtly playful side.

Your comments and suggestions are appreciated, as always.

Looking back through the “revjim.net” archives I realize now that, while I did add a “bookmark”:http://del.icio.us/url/764944b253db7c72414e5ee3276b5b10 to this particular individual back in October of 2004, and mentioned him in a “comment”:http://revjim.net/comments/10329/#comment6951 last April, I never gave him the full write up he deserves.

I’m talking about “Jonathan Coulton”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/. Last May (and April and June, for that matter) I annoyed my dear wife with the near-constant repeat of his song “The First of May”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/first-of-may (“mp3″:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/Jonathan%20Coulton%20-%20First%20of%20May.mp3). When I wasn’t playing it, I was singing it.

A few weekends ago, while on the way to “Palo Duro Canyon”:http://www.livejournal.com/users/revjim/865728.html, “Jess”:http://livejournal.com/users/sivatonight/, “Mike”:http://livejournal.com/users/mw/ and I heard a song about “Ikea”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/ikea (“mp3″:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/Jonathan%20Coulton%20-%20Ikea.mp3) being played by some university radio station in Amarillo. I absolutely loved it but it wasn’t until today that I put two and two together and realized that it was being sung by none other than Johnny C himself.

Recently, the big JC has seen “quite a bit of publicity”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/18/wowie-zowie/ with his folk cover of “Baby Got Back”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/. Call it a rip off of the Gourds’ “Gin and Juice” or Dynamite Hack’s “The Boys in the Hood” if you want, but there’s no denying it’s damn good music and quite funny to boot.

This “Baby Got Back” cover is part of Jonathan’s “Thing a Week”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/category/thing-a-week/ which is something you should certainly add to your feed readers if not his entire site. Another worthy mention from Jonathan’s “Thing A Week” is “W’s Duty”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/09/30/thing-a-week-3-ws-duty/ which will quickly satisfy the childish interest in bathroom humor inside us all.

All of “Jonathan’s music”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs/ is under Creative Commons license which means he doesn’t get paid a penny unless you give from the bottom of your hearts. So, if you enjoy his music, “toss him a buck or two”:https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=jc%40jonathancoulton%2ecom&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD as I’ve done in the past and will certainly do again in the future. If every one of you that enjoys any of this music threw $1 his way, he’d have quite a bit of money.

Enjoy!

Ladies and Gentlemen, boy and girls, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. “Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.com/ has released it’s first candidate (RC1) for Rails 1.0 and it’s “available”:http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2005/10/16/rails-1-0-rc-1-released now!

“Improvements”:http://greymatter.usc.edu/blog/articles/2005/10/16/what-s-new-in-rails-1-0 over 0.13.1 include:
* Rails::Initializer: Should make environment.rb a bit cleaner.
* db/schema.rb: Will make getting updated db schema easier
* Better FCGI: Scripts to help start and stop applications served with FastCGI putting more distance between the server (Apache2) and the application.
* SwitchTower: deployment
* Plugins: Extend the base Rails quickly and easily.
* Speed: A 2x improvement. A 4x gain with special upgrades.

I have yet to try it being in a very “production” level state right now. But, as soon as things calm down a little, you can be sure I will. Get it while it’s hot