So I was browsing this Web site about beaches the other day, looking at all the beautiful photography, when I came across a JPEG image of a bottle. It was old, poorly-imaged, over-compressed, and tinted green, like verdigris.
So I picked up the bottle image, and decided to clean it up a bit. I loaded it into Photoshop, adjusted the tint, brightened the image, and started to polish it up a bit with an unsharp mask filter.
Lo and behold, out popped a hidden layer (yes, I know JPEGs don’t have layers – work with me here) containing–are you ready for this?–a genie.
“WFT? OMG! This is buckets of awesome!” Exclaimed the genie. “Thx, d00d. A wish for u!” (stupid digital genies). I told him that I had expected three wishes, and planned to use them on the Straight Dope.
“Altruistic, R U?” he snickered. “Ill tell u wat. Ill grant 1 wish to each Doper–even the n00bs, but they have to use it on other Dopers. U can make Lib a televangelist, turn lekatt into a skeptic (:D), or Giraffe back into a Pit mod, but u cant use it on urself.”
Wow. I am pondering this. It’s a hard decision. While I figure out what I’m doing, does anyone else want to jump in with your wish?
My wish is that everyone can undo one thread or post of their choosing that got them an undeserved or unwanted reputation. I was going to use an example, but that would be harmful to my proposed wish.
I wish that NoClueBoy, whose last activity was 08-18-2008 07:11 PM and whose latest post was here would find his way to return to SDMB and raise some ungodly hell!
I wish all the unemployed Dopers would get jobs that were perfect fits for them.
And AskNott, it’s really sweet of you to think of me. I was feeling guilty that I didn’t do anything in the garden today. But now I’m going to fold some lovely newspaper seed-starting pots and get a few seeds started off.
I wish the Detroit Lions would win their first eight games so I could see the look on **Least Original Username Ever’s **face when they still didn’t make the playoffs.