Posting for FunkyBlue (seems someone left without giving him his key.. )

1. Time-Warner is starting to impose bandwidth limitations of 15GB up/down per month. The bad part is they are forcing fees on high bandwidth users only. I’m not sure if this goes for thlink or AOL subscribers. Here’s a forum link with some comments from others who have gotten similar “love letters” in the mail:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/news,27614~root=news,2761~parent=news,27614~

The fee? For “my level of usage” I would be required to upgrade to Road Runner Xtreme. Besides my avoidance of anything denoted as “Extreme”, I refuse to pay the $90.00 a month price tag they want to impose without my acceptance or agreement. Better Business Bureau anyone?

2. The Freak Watchers Textbook - http://www.freakwatchers.com/

Photograph freaks, arrange them into neat piles, put them on a web site that makes fun at the piles.

Moveable Type users, check out Typepad. Seems the good folks at Six Apart, makers of our beloved Movable Type, have something new up their sleves. From the website:

Six Apart Ltd., the makers of the highly acclaimed Movable Type weblog software, today announced the upcoming release of TypePad?, a hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs. Built in response to the needs of webloggers, online diarists and writers, TypePad harnesses the power of Six Apart’s popular Movable Type personal publishing system into a turnkey service, suitable for beginners and experts alike.

Building on the established features of Movable Type, TypePad provides weblog publishing with versatile archiving, integrated comments, and customizable designs from a library of attractive and standards-compliant templates.

Well, I’m intrigued. I singed up for info on the upcoming beta. This should be cool.

When I was a young lad of 17, my sweetht made her mother’s chicken and dumplings recipie for me. It was glorious. Dumplings beautifully tacky on the outside, all gluten and goodness. . light, fluffy and airy on the inside. A delicate white gravy draped over each. . The chicken itself grilled lightly with the classic veggies; carrots, onions and celery. Ah, it was marvelous. I’ve tried to replicate it since, but haven’t even come close.

I gave it a go again tonight. We had grilled chicken and glue balls for dinner. I must admit I was feeling brave; I hadn’t tried to prepare this recipie in years. Yet the results were the same. Dreadful.

I long for that wonderful dish. Does anyone have a good chickend and dumplings recipie? I’ll love you forever.

greetings gang! while jen is off sunning herself, i’m one of your lovely guest bloggers. i have my own blog here, and my place of employment (and myself) were just featured in the cincinnati enquirer! links to the articles are right here. read it up!

so um, yeah. pardon me, i need to go raid jen’s fridge. she’s got cookies and milk, and i’m not sharing!

Very useful comments - good to read

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On the road for the sunny and hopefully storm-free shores of the Florida “Toto, this ain’t Las Vegas!” Keys. Two days in Key Largo, two days in Key West… and lots of dawdling between home and there and back.

If i survive this without Killing Mr Man (or Jimmy Buffet) it’ll be a good trip.

Ok, can I kill Jimmy Buffet anyway? I hate him soooo much!

I promise pictures when I get back as well as crappy pressies for a chosen few. If we have the time machine in owrking order we might be able to swing a visit with Ginevra/Karen and her Mr Man Godfrey/Jeff.

Guest bloggers, it’s all yours. Don’t break nuttin’.

Tips for Making Your Movie - cute little cartoons. Kinda fun actually.

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I love this new camera.

We have a bed out front with big tall dandelion puffs right now, some are almost 2 feet tall.

I’ve asked a number of regular commenters to pitch in while I’m in the Florida Keys…

Shannon - to keep my Ohio-proud mojo flowing (Haaaang on Sloopy!)

RenGirl - with her sexy new iMac and her mind now free of MS contamination

FunkyBlue - my brother and a despicable diehard PC user, no lie. (I’m sure he’ll embarrass me somehow)

Ginevra - An Ohio-expatriate now living in Tampa against her will, she still craves all four species of Buckeyes (inedible nut, tree, candy and football team) and bleeds scarlet and grey on command. She also is a SCA person I know from online, and is well balanced despite it.

matt sledge - VERY local Alt radio god/hunk/squeaky toy and new mac convert. I bet I could hit him with a rock from here.

And last, but certainly not least - Dave - old buddy, divine mac , a new daddy, and Cape Cod’s unwitting prisoner.

Rufus Sewell is in USA’s Helen of Troy mini-series. Some people might remember him from “Dangerous Beauty”.

Are those some eyes or what ladies? :::Swoon!::: Gonna watch this one just for him. He’s worth enduring the sure to be evil bad movie.

When Twin Toddlers Go Wild!!! Tonight on Fox!

This driving trip to the Keys will be, uhm, interesting.

Mr Man and I have very different tastes in music I realize as I burn some cds for the journey.

His:
Metallica (about 9 albums)
Pink Floyd (5 albums) - he is Mr. Floyd.
Monsters of Rock

Hers:
Hits of the 80’s, Elvis Costello, Dr Demento 25h Anniversary, an Album of Simpsons Music, Fat boy slim, Toots+May (Reggae - courtesy of Dave) Blue Man Group, Barenaked Ladies, Duran Duran, Eddie Izzard, U2 (War), Queen’s Greatest Hits, and A Pure Disco CD and these soundtracks: Pulp Fiction, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Mystery Men and both Grosse Pointe Blank cd’s - and some lame “concert for NYC” cd my family got my for xmas that I found in a bag I forgot about until yesterday, still wrapped in the cd plastic and said “What the hell”.

Bush and Blair’s touching rendition of “Endless Love”. [3.8MB mpg file will download]

Brit rag: 300 reasons why we love The Simpsons

I saw this on CNN yesterday but coulnd’t find a link until now…Dog Survives Car Crash, Gunshot, Freezer. Hell, I’d rename her “Rasputin”…

Anyone ever hd the story of them trying to kill Rasputin, who was the Tsarina’s confidant/counsel/guru, in the Russian Revolution?

This is a sample of what Apple might release with Panther or a subsequent release, called Piles

Piles of papers on the destop you can sort through. Innovative? yes. Nesscessary? No. Will we mac uers use it ? Oh hell yeah. Will we like it? Yes, becasue we can, and we’ll show it off to every PC person we know.

Anyone seen a sneak of this yet? It looks REALLY good but then I’m biased - I have a John Cusack “thing”. I also like John McGinnly from Scrubs too. It looks awesome.

What I love best is the movie poster - frelling brilliant. Inspired. You’ll see this movie poster in the design annuals.

31 March 2003 - 153
1 April 2003 - 247
2 April 2003 - 218
3 April 2003 - 293
4 April 2003 - 156

Ok, normally I get about 100-150 hits a day. average… but I was looking at my stats and saw the numbers above and about died.

Can anyone tell me what the hell I was linked on on the dates (especially April 1-3) above that threw so many people here? It’s too late to get the results from the trackers to be able to tell me for sure.

Anyone come on those days from somehere else and still coming back? Can you tell me where you saw it? I like to send “thanks for the link” notes.

I’ve been getting notes that people are nominating (writing in) PixelDecor in this years Webby Awards: People’s Voice in the “netart” category.

If you would like to pitch in as well, please do.

No chance in hell, but hey, worth a shot. I’m used to being a loser.

Animal control came to pick up Gramps. No one could take him and with the trip we couldn’t keep him, and kenneling while we were gone would have been a few hundred bucks after shots and immunizations just so they COULD kennel him.

The girl who walked him out said being his old and a sweetie he actually might get a new owner to watch over him.

He didn’t want picked up to get into the van, he got his front end up and the then we gave the back end a lift to get him in. He’s such a trooper.

I hope someone takes him.