My patts can now be found here as removeable decal cases for ipods!

Lid decals for ‘books and Minis might be coming too!

Fat people are hard to kidnap.

You’d think women with so much money would dress better.

I know “garden parties” are traditional and all that, but damn, you’d think they wouldn’t want to work so hard to look like a $1/yard fabric sale they wouldn’t be caught dead at do ya?

Pics from the concert Tuesday via Mr Man Kamerafone de la Krapee. (BTW: If you search flicker dor Duran or Duranduran you will find much better picture sof the tour.)

I had this whole big thing written up and MT/firefox ate it - damn it! So this will be shorter.

Good show, a little short since they had to be done by 11pm due to the show being in the middle of a nieghboorhood. They didn’t do a lot of the best graphics from the earlier part of the tour, the anime cartoon that was funny, or anything, mostly just astmospheric psychedelic stuff.

What was the most interesting as it turned out, was the band of barefooted teenage girls with backstage passes.

Who where they? Duran Duran’s kids. God I never felt so old. They were entertaining though becasue they sent most of the evening about 30 feet away from me. At one point a older staffer of thiers lead over two older teenage boys from the audience and introductions made.

I saw the security chic who was only 10 foot away watching as well and I caught her attention and she confirmed they were the kids of the band and that “we were told they can basically do whatever they want”. I asked who the boys were she said they’d seen them in the audience and had thier aunt or something bring them over to meet them.

Man, do they learn from their parents at an early age or what? Not sure who was who exactly but comapring notes with some of the DD fanclub members on the club forums reveal one was either John’s step daughter (he’s married now to the co-founder of Juicy Couture) or The youngest of Simon’s three daughters.

BTW I think that fact that most of the band had daughters is a terribly ironic case of karma.

Aside from that a drunken bint named Terri got pulled on stage to JUST introduce Simon at the end, since he had introduced everyone else) and she introduced the band, then Simon and then took the mic and ran around stage groping and introducing the others one by one as she screamed a slurred introduction of each into the mic.

Simon was most amused for a few moments then finally went over and retrieved her from the rest of the band and said “Okay Terri, go back to where you came from!”

Last I heard she was a former schoolteacher and current stay at home mom from Dayton. The local radio station was trying to find her for an interview. If she remebered anything on Wednesday I’ll be shocked, she was plastered.

If anyone knows her let me know, I’d love to post an interview here as well.

Why you can’t buy the Pensacola paper at the Pensacola Wal-mart.

Now, they just have to get it down safely.

I’m not sure I can adequately express how great it is to see the shuttle launch again. I still feel like a kid in middle school watching the first launches go up on a tv in our classroom.

Unfortunatly.

New Mel Gibson film to be in Mayan

Mel, Mel, Mel - all we want is you to shoot things and look pretty, we don’t care that you have a brain.

Today Mr Man and I went out and did the anniversary thang (MMM, king crab…, on the way to the Dayton Mall we passed the longest line of cars I’ve evervseen on 75 South.

The reason? A car fire. And when I say fire I mean INFERNO. I have never seen such a complete loss.

When we passed there was the nothing left but a “spaceframe” of a mini van, at least I think it was a mini van. It had no side panels, no windows, no seats, no steering wheel - no nothing. Just the steel infrastructure. The rest must have been plastic, cloth and rubber and just burned away. It was completely bare and open and sitting in a pile of flame foam about knee deep while a fireman sprayed on more.

Traffic was backed up for over 10 miles. God I wish I had pictures! I’d put a link to some of it if I could find any!

Okay, so DateLance.com doesn’t say mormons only, but once you go you’ll know that’s probably in the small type.

Funny though for someone’s workplace (designers, go figure) to do this whoile thing in secret. It’s a very nice site too.

This site is so you can make badges for law enforcement using thier online badge builder or just make web graphics for stupid stuff!

Now I took screen caps, and took them into Photoshop, and cut them out, and added drop shadows, and I added the TV - but the generator did the rest! Honest!

The Duran Duran concert at Fraze in Dayton is TOMMORROW! It’s really gonna suck!

No well, it’ll rock, but it’ll suck for the heat and it’s a outdoor stage, Ugh! It’s like 90 degrees out right now and it’s almost 2am!

Tuesday doesn’t look any better, in fact it’s supposed to be WORSE! I almost regret buying those damn tickets now. If it weren’t such a small intimate venue just 20 minutes from the house I wouldn’t even go since I just saw them in Cleveland in March. But, no, I have $130 invested in them so off I go.

Ironically, Tueday is also the Man and I’s anniversary, 6 years, and if I wasn’t going to relieve my aquanetted sonic youth we’d be in a nice air conditioned resturaunt eating something yummy and most likely Italian. We’re doing it Tommorrow or Wednesday instead.

Actually we could do it Tuesday because the concert’s not until 8, but why push it.

If anyone reading is going to the show, email me and we’ll hook up. I’m I think Section A Row G, extreme left aisle seats 24 and 25 - I think on the outside edge, on John’s side. I’ll probably be wearing jeans and black shirt because I’ve noticed from the last show it’s the fat sad old Durannie uniform.

Zelda come back here!

Office Trashketball has never been more fun

I once shoved a pair of Contact cold capsules up my nose when I was a kid and made faces at the mirror. When I grew tired of it I tried to take them out and instead pushed one in all the way.

Being how moist it is in someone’s sinuses I doubt it was there long, but still to this day I expect to sneeze it out.

When I had my nasal septum reconstructed I half expected the doctor to hold up a bottle at my post op briefing and say “you stupid fat woman, this is why you couldn’t breathe all those years!”

Addendum: I never told my parents, so if they are reading this they might be surprised to find out, or not (I was always in the ER as a kid for really stupid stuff I did). I just walked out of the bathroom like nothing happened but kept running back to see if I get it out.

Can computers smell fear?

What I find an intersting theory in all of this is that this might explain the “luckless idiot bastard” on computers. You know, that person we all know that can’t touch a computer, any computer without f’ing it up. They seem to CAUSE weird things to happen on them. They just touch one and weird crap happens.

Like the friend who comes over to visit, asks to check email and manages to actually CRASH OSX, or make a program do something you have never seem happen before.

My technologically challenged friend always seems to do thiswhen she comes here, but I’m on a different operating system than she’s used to. Do her fears of the new OS cause my computers to freak? Maybe.

Or alternately, when those of us who are NOT afriad of computers but you are stressed out over a deadline and freaking OUT over it then the worst thing happens, and you are waylaid for hours, or even days, trying to fix it, getting angrier and more panicy as time passes. For me I’ve had a few times, in the middle of a HUGE rush job, where the fonts database has completley wigged out on me, fonts are essential in design ya’know? Each time it’s taken me having to reinstall Suitcase and reimport ALL my font collections (over 4 gig) and set them up and activate the right ones again. This has happened to me multiple times but only when I was in a full out PANIC mode trying to get some design gig done.

I know DOZENS of computer-phobic people who actually do swear thier computer hates them, and who seem to geniunely have more problems than not on them, weird stuff that makes you go “that’s not right, hell I didn’t even know you could do that!” Can “knowing” the computer will mess up, or that you are computer enept, and the fear and anxiety around that actually CAUSE it to mess up?

People who work as tech support for companies with many computer illterate and tech fearful workers might be scratching thier chins at this thought too. It could explain a lot.

Could the power of positive thinking make a computer not fail so much?

Do you mind if I sell a few of my unused eggs to get a Optimus keyboard?

F that!

Great. Just what we need another damn reason for the person in front of us to take freaking forever at the ATM.

Someone will get shot over this. Wait for it.

A very unfinished copy of the new Depeche mode Videos - Great song! I’ll prolly only see this on LOGO’s (the gay network) video countdown, as that seems to be the only place to see Britpop techno gay boys of the 80’s.

After you watch it play the nes film after it, the one with the dog.

And one clip ifilm doesn’t have.

From Junk Fued:

Mary Kate Olsen

Who said hobbits weren’t real? Christ that guy could carry her in a backpack. And look he’s not holding her hand, he’s holding her arm. Like you would a kid before you crossed the street. Well he’d have to look for her wouldn’t he? She’s blind as a bat in her grandma’s sunglasses.

And what’s with the outfit? She has nearly as much money as the Pope and is wearing silky lingerie panty shorts and baggy crack whore sweater from the Barbie and Friends “lumming in West LA” collection from Target.