I watch a lot of TV, prolly 18 hours a day easily. I’ve come to a social theory that i think will break the field of infant nomenclature right open.

I’ve pretty much decided that if you name your child “Jesse James” (in any form), you should be put in jail for endangering a minor.

Today I got to see at least the 30th real kid named Jesse James on TV, this time it was “Jesse James Kenneth Dubbins” or something like that.

I’m seeing a sweet little 3 month old baby, and all I can see is his future. Living in a trailer park with his house on broken cinder blocks and under a double mortgage.

Parents who stick the moniker on their kids are only dooming them to a lifetime of heavy drinking, mullets, goatees, motorcyles, slutty blonde ho’s and a cigarette related criminal record. You know, just got out out on his third time in county for knocking over another convenience store for a couple cartons of smokes - again.

I sw it’s true.

I’m also pretty sure naming a boy “Terry” will almost certainly make him gay - but, that’s another theory for another post.

whatever this says?

hei alle sammen! hvordan går det med dere? håper at dere har mørsomt. vi sees! hilsen og klemmer.

I got it as a comment on my bead site and have no idea what it says, and I can’t find a “nordic” language translator. It’s Norwegian, or Finnish, or something…

F*** That Job! is a blog of morally repugnant job listings. Read and find out what that means.

As a web designer it means listings like this should be criminal:

Full time graphic/web designer wanted for design studio in lower manhattan. Two to three years experience, plus bachelor’s degree. Must know HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Director, Premiere, PHP/SQL, Indesign, and 3D Studio Max a plus.

$6.50/hr to start. Mondays to Saturdays 8am to 6pm.

Welcome to my world.

Every once in awhile I’ll go to a site and see a familiar name.

It’s usually in odd places I never expected to see it. Like a DVD Easter Eggs site while looking up a title I own.

In my case it’s George Willeman.
His family and mine lived just blocks apart, and were friends. I used to hang with his sisters. His parents and Mine met during the blizzard of 1976 when they were snowed in and jokingly asked over the CB (which was popular then) someone to bring cheeze-whiz. My dad did. Our families were friends for years. George and his younger sister Liz were even our babysitters at different times. I used to have a crush on George, he was cool, and older than me of course. Older was cooler when you are 12.

As the link above will tell you, George about runs the Library of Congress film library at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (long story why it’s there, go read it and find out… which is extremly local to our hometown. (Ever hd of Ground Zero?) How freaking cool it that? He had a room in the basement and it was full of film stuff even then, it was a really cool place to poke around.

His Dad, Russ, was a local high school art teacher in another local district, and was my biggest influence. Without his help I wouldn’t be a designer. He let me join his after school adult art classes when I was 16 because my local school system was screwing me over and not letting me take art becasue they felt my being from a white trash area of town I somehow needed Home Ec. year round instead. Russ was also a cartoonist, and did some book and junk, and still all around great guy I imagine. He has Parkinson’s now I hear though, so his art days are largely over, sadly.

Here’s some more one George:
George at IMDB - his mom came to grandpa’s funeral said he was also in Fargo, and others in uncredited roles in films made by some old film school friends.

The one spam I’ve ever gotten that I’m tempted to actually buy!

Other stuff:
I’m sick again, yup that’s right. That makes the fourth time (or fifth?) since xmas. Yay.

With all this coughing and hacking I think I’ve actually sprained my tongue. Not kidding.

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn’t want to go to war.”

Would it KILL Avery to provide actual MEASUREMENTS for margins and perferorations for it’s inkjet business cards (or anything else they make for that matter) for those of us who do NOT use programs that SUCK MONKEY BUTT?

I mean its not much to ask for simple paragrpah with the link to the info or to put it on this two page insert they include.

I dare you to even FIND template guides on the at their site. I had to find one on Adobe’s Exchange site. Link placed so those sching for it on google might find it easier than I did. Let’s hope it works!

MoonTheWhiteHouse.com’s goal is pretty cl, donate $10,000 and they will go to DC and moon the Whitehouse. I dont know what the the other $9,000 is for.

Look Down - whats under your nose? Or your feet for that matter could be a good photo project.

A Sydney Taxi Driver came really close to being an internet legend today, if only the guy in the picture (that I posted lier here) had just mispelled one more word.

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If you scroll down a bit on MacFixIt you’ll see my iPhoto2 tip from I posted here lier in the week. I sent it in to MacFixIt too. Woo hoooo!

Just glad to get the word out.

Why Sharpies should be licensed.

The Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science

“An amazing number of things that befuddle big-brained scientists”

I don’t tend to get personal on here, but I wanted to explain where I was and why.

My grandfather was sick. Was, meaning he died Friday.

I saw him the night before he died, so I’m happy I got to say goodbye. The man was never sick a day in his life, until he took a fall, and caught Pneumonia. He was 94.

Saturday, I decided to go to be with friends to get away from it all since the showing is Monday and the funeral is Tuesday and I knew it’d be two hell days. I’m likely to be quiet a few more days yet.

I was driving home from the pet store to buy dog food, listening to the carpet bombing of Bagdad when Mom called to say he was gone. It’s really hard to care about the war now. I don’t care who is killing who or why.

If you happen to catch a Cincinnati Reds game this y, consider rooting for them at least once for “Peanut”, will you?

OK so I was poking around in my iPhoto 2 photo folder and was poking in the album folders and discovered… A LOT of pictures I had deleted were still there. As in hundreds of MB’s. They didn’t app in iPhoto, but did app in the “user/pictures/iPhoto Library” folder.

So, I call Apple. They sent my case to a product specialist, who called back today.

OK, I give him the problem, and discover from him unlike the PREVIOUS version of iPhoto, the new one does NOT prompt you to ask if you want to remove the selected pics from the library permanantly. It actually DOESN’T move it. I marks it for death, but leaves it be.

Seems that under FILE on the menubar is “TRASH” which is iPhoto’s trash NOT the System trash. So, you actually have to empty the application trash to rid of the photos once and for all.

Now, only at this point did I NOTICE the trash icon under the photo albums in the photo pane.

Click pic to enlarge

Geeze. But it’s still not abundantly cl that the trash is seperate entity than the sys trash.

So, i wanted to pass that on to folks who are using iPhoto and prolly have as many HUNDREDS of pictures as I did that they thought were gone already.

I wish they at least add a pref that you can either manually empty the iphoto trash or get a delete prompt, so then you at least can LN you have to manually empty the application trash.

I dunno about you, but iPhoto is so simple to use I NEVER EVER have looked at the menu choices, and the fact something so vital is hidden there is irksome from my warm fuzzy computer company.

Please enjoy this Friday Funtime article: The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

El Presidente, Ari Obvious, and Uncle Tom, are coinsidering adding a new terror level between red and orange.

The alert levels as they stand now:

Lets see, between those two colors is vermillion. That just provides a sea of rather homosexual laced jokes.

My suggestions:
First, rename the whole thing! It was much too depressiing before.
Second, pick a spokes person… one full of sex appeal and widely recognized. Perhaps with thier own vegas Stage show…

The end for entering is coming up. Am I nuts to have my hopes up of actually winning something?

I’m the last one on the page here - think I have a chance? I don’t see a CL winner from the entries in my category yet. Most years I can point to one entry and predict “THAT one is going to win it all.” I just don’t see that one this y, yet. I’m hoping maybe some folks thinks it’s me instead!

I know there’s some time left till the last entry is takenonthe 31rst, but a girl can hope you know?

Oh yeah, get your butt over to the Antibloggies and nominate me in everything, even if you’ve done it once or a few times, do it again! wah!

El Presidente hasn’t named the final name of the march on Iraq.

Like Desert Storm, this will have a double dipp naming scheme, The first wave (This one, the name calling phase) is being called “Operation Liberty Shield”.

The second phase, the one where we turn the troops loose, is still nameless. They are discussing “Operation Iraqui Freedom”. Lame I say!

Here are some of my suggestions as a tax-payer with 6-days of marketing under my belt from design school.

Operation Desert Storm II: The Empire Strikes Back

Operation Curious George and the Thermo Nuke

Operation Whacky Iraqi: To my Daddy with love!

Operation Flaming Brie

Operation Glove Slap: Dueling Megalomaniacs

Operation Heat Stroke: What brainiac thought of starting a desert-based war in the Summer, anyway?