Sledding in the Tropics
Growing up, I always looked forward to winter, the snowball fights, fort building, and the sledding. I miss it, but we’ve attempted to recreate a little bit of that fun here in the tropics.
We call it sledding criollo style. Grab yourself a piece of cardboard, find a nice grassy hill, and away you go. No cold weather gear required. As usual, Javier had the most daredevil bad ideas, but everybody had fun.
Even Asier got into the action.
Oooh! Criollo sledding was a favorite activity of mine when I was a little kid. It even worked on steep driveways when it rained (wet car oil residue made the driveway slick.)
I’m afraid I’m going to have to confiscate your pictures, they look too good to not have been taken by a professional.
Over and out! 10-4.
Haha, that’s a hoot… although, I think we’ll stick to grass
As for the pics; you like that little border and drop shadow thingie? I wrote a little ImageMagick script in bash to auto process them. Uses $RANDOM to create an arbitrary rotation and ImageMagick to lay out all the nice border and shadows. It’s tedious to do it over and over in gimp, so I just automated it. I’ll post a tutorial at some point, I’m sure.
Living my whole life in Norway I must admit I’m glad it’s not snowing all through the year. It is beautiful at first, really beautiful. Then it gets cold, wet, dirty and all you want is a friggin’ break. Then again, it’s a long time since I did any winter sports.
Imagemagick tutorial: Do it, Jimmy, think about the children!
There, your wish is my command.
ImageMagick Snapshot Tutorial
Hopefully, I’ll flesh it out more as I make improvements in my script.