I’m working on a project for Holy Moly; I got rooked into finding all the readings for the upcoming Day of Pentecost in a bunch of different languages. Including Thai… not sure why since I don’t know of anyone there who speaks the language, but maybe someone is inviting a friend. I was playing around trying to pronounce the reading in Maori, kind of in the style of the All Blacks doing the haka, when David sent me this picture. Beautiful. I needed a good laugh. I’ve been at this for a while and I needed a break.
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I went looking for information on the “Can’t Stop The Signal” sneak preview of “Serenity” and found comments on Whedonesque to the effect that the Chicago screening is already sold out. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that almost all of the ten screenings on May 5th at 10pm are sold out already. Fooey. But it’s a Thursday – we would have gotten home at about… 1am. Oh, well. Sucks to be middle-aged and employed. So I’ll wait for the official release date of September 30. And yes, this is another one of those examples of the fans of…
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What kind of browser do you use? According to my stats (see below), it breaks down along fairly predictable lines. Unlike some blogs I could mention (like BoingBoing) Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice by a comfortable margin. Or is it? Are the Internet Explorers humans, or robots? Are they monkeyboys, or spiders, or an even lower form of life? Are the Mac users more highly evolved than the rest of us (that outta get a rise of their elitist plug-and-play asses)? 😉 So I’ve reached back into the grab-bag of yore and enabled a little poll. It’s…
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It’s about frickin’ time I got the last Britain travel journal entry done. Because of the fiddling back-dating I did, the earliest entry is at the bottom, but it’s all in September of 2003. You can definitely see a progression in the way I handled images and blogging – the first 2 or 3 entries were written very early in my distinguished writing career. 🙄 Sorry about the ugly “photo corners” on some images. I stupidly put them on and now I can’t take them off. Lesson learned. Anyway, it’s done. If you start here and keep clicking on the…
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Whee! It works! First time! David is a genius! MTGalleryLink is da bomb! Slickeroo! There are more tricks that it can do, like a random image, but the doc page says it only refreshes the image on a rebuild. Hah. I have a true randomizing script that makes the moblog images change on every refresh. It’s called rotator.php and I was able to set it up without David’s help, so it’s possible I could do it again with this MTGalleryLink thing. That would be fairly cool. Holy CRAP. Holy frick-in CRAP. This just made the last, agonizingly long-awaited Final Entry…
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So, week of vacation at home, day two. Where to start? Well, I got up earlier this morning. That was good and boded well. I fixed some tea (Twinings English Breakfast, and I’ll need more to get through the week) and had rather a lot of toast. Kind of on the Douglas Adams model of procrastinating, except that where he took serial baths, I made, um, more than two slices of toast. With butter and Vegit. Some time later, I wandered out to the garage and swept it out a little, looking over our junk and figuring out what can…
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One victim, Kevin McCrary, a 56-year-old Manhattan business consultant, would not dispute that. After falling prey to a fake postal money order scheme, he said, "I couldn't reach around far enough to kick myself." Single and lonely, Mr. McCrary joined an international online dating site, Elitemate.com. In late January, he was contacted by someone claiming to be a young woman from Nigeria. She – or perhaps he, or even they, Mr. McCrary now concedes – went by the name of Ogisi Douglas. Their e-mail exchanges were barely a week old before the supposed Ms. Douglas asked Mr. McCrary for his…
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Okay, okay, ***Dave did it and now so must I: American Cities That Best Fit You: 65% Honolulu 60% San Francisco 60% Seattle 55% Portland 50% Atlanta Which American Cities Best Fit You? The first time through, I was a little too enthusiastic about theater districts and museums and zoos – all things I enjoy doing, but they’re a long haul from where we are. I clicked on “would prefer to live in the West.” And while San Francisco came up first, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York City came up high in the rankings. New York City? Get me the…
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Wilson’s original goes: “Well I ain’t never been the Barbie doll type No I can’t swig that sweet champagne I’d rather drink beer all night In a tavern or in a honky-tonk or on a 4-wheel-drive tailgate. . . . Let me get a big ‘Hell Yeah!’ from the redneck girls like me.” The Eagle‘s version: “Well I ain’t never been the party-girl type I’d rather drink some homemade root beer At a fireside Sunday night Down at the ward house, or at a friend’s house While tying up a quilt I like green Jell-O and casseroles And I wash…
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She came for a royal visit, and I tried to take her picture like any good papparazzi would. But she was really more interested in when Mom would come pick her up (and her dinner and breakfast). This and many more pictures have just been uploaded to the photo gallery.