As a certain person said, they like to read my mental notes because it's like a window into my brain. Okay... you asked for it.
Dear Laylaness,
While it may be comfortable, the leggings-and-tunic only serve to make you look pregnant. Which you are definitely not. Find something else, which Tim Gunn would call a "sweatsuit alternative". While you're at it, contact Tim Gunn to make this purchase for you.
Put down the sweet, sweet red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing. This is likely why you feel the need to wear the leggings-and-tunic combo.
Go back to a ballet class, for god's sake.
Don't get discouraged that no one is calling back on your resume. You're trying, dammit, and you can only do your best.
Remember Sean Keane's birthday stand-up date. Take the Nerdfecta with you.
Don't go through your pictures when dad is behind you. It's bad for both of you.
So, my adoration for Rich and Winston is documented here, but I just wanted to send my theoretical readers over to FourFour again for a Winston-stravaganza.
I didn't finish reading the book because it was boring.
The movie gave it a little life by following actual characters in their depressing relationships.
Beware the top-level messaging. The film ends on a happier note; however, this technically single woman walked out of the theater feeling worse than after finishing a pint of Chunky Monkey alone on Valentine's Day.
Bonus: you will be hearing variations on this phrase for the next three months.
I know this has been blogged about endlessly, but I'm going to throw another whiny diatribe on the pile.
I'm creating rounded corners for all of the boxes on the website I manage in my day job. Firefox works brilliantly. Internet Explorer 7, interestingly enough, is working. But wherefore, IE6? Where. Fore.
I'm not trying anything new and kamakaze. I'm using the simple 4-image and 4-divs formula. Every browser except IE6 likes it. No problems. It's cleaner and less poke-me-in-the-eye looking. But IE6 only works on 3 of 5 boxes. One of the boxes that it screws up displays one rounded corner. The fifth does nothing at all. Nothing!
Does anyone still use IE6? Does anyone still use IE? Why? Why do you want to torture web designers? IE isn't W3 compliant with JavaScript, let alone CSS. If I get one more ActiveX warning, I'm going to, I don't know, get really annoyed and blog about it.
Anyway, I've narrowed this problem down. IE6 isn't displaying my corner images. No dimensions have changed. It's a fixed-width box. Bottom-left is the only corner that's displaying the rounded image. For now, I'm off to quadruple check my code and see if I get any errors with the Firefox error log.
If you know what this bug is and have a fix, please don't hesitate to give me the answer.
I was excited for Macworld 2009. Even though Apple announced this will be the last year it participates, and even though Phil Schiller was to deliver the Keynote instead of the be-turtlenecked Steve Jobs, I though for sure there would be cool booths and awesome schwag.
There were three highlights which I'll get to in a hot minute. First I want to whine about the disappointments.
Apple's Big Announcements iLife '09 holds promise with added features like GarageBand's lessons with musicians and... oh wait. That's all. I don't even really care about GarageBand or iMovie. Come to think of it, I'm not that interested in iPhoto '09 either. I can organize just fine with my version of iPhoto and I like to upload photos to Facebook the good old-fashioned way. And iWeb? I never use WYSIWYGs to build sites and pages. Okay, so let me revise: GarageBand '09 is the big highlight for people like my nephew, who just got his first guitar and is excited to learn.
Next up: iWork '09. Okay, I have iWork '08 and the only program I use is Keynote. And I've only used it twice. It is admittedly way better than PowerPoint. But really, nothing new here and besides, who can get excited about productivity tools?
iPod/iPhoneworld I have a 1st gen iPod Touch, an awesome and highly anticipated replacement for my work-horse 3rd gen iPod (40GB). I do enjoy the Touch quite a bit, and I got years of use out of the 3rd gen. I understand the excitement over the iPhone 3G (though I do rather enjoy my T-Mobile G1 with Google's Android OS). But holy hell, every booth at Macworld was either selling skins or cases for iPod or iPhone.
Tchotchkes, or lack thereof Macworld is the place to the best tchotchkes, hands down. Last year, I got wristbands and a gold-plated necklace with the Skullcandy logo; an LED-lit Belkin logo necklace; a nylon bookbag; a bottle pourer; and all the Retrospex I could carry.
This year, I got some post-modern Google stickers and an Iomega pin that says "Share Me".
Which brings me to the cool stuff.
The Google spread was massive and included a YouTube upload booth designed to look like a London phone booth. The upload booth had a MacBook Pro set up inside.
You could record yourself with the MacBook Pro and then instantly upload your video to YouTube. They did limit video to 6 seconds and it was really fricking hot in the box, but my niece and I had fun.
The coolest thing that happened by far was running into Chris Hardwick at the Apple booth while he was filming for G4. He was supersweet and talked with me for a few minutes despite my proclamation that I am "one of his many internet stalkers", and my niece's "That's what she said" interjection.
Note the awesome Arrested Development t-shirt!
Rounding out the cool stuff was TechRestore's booth. I heard rumors, and went in search, and lo and behold: the Back to the Future DeLorean!
Though not the actual DeLorean, it's a pretty great replica, yeah?
So Rich over at FourFour designed these brilliant shirts for Neighborhoodies. I'm such a geek, I bought the awesome Team Winston shirt (asphalt shirt, baby blue screen, if you're interested), and I wore it out the day after I received it (again, geek).
The day in question happened to be the Friday of Mount Vicious's first show, and the first time I saw and fell in love with the Ex-Boyfriends (and, P.S., Comcast? Can I please have the LOGO channel? Because the Ex-Boyfriends video that is debuting on 11/30 is relevant to my interests. As is a lot of the programming. Further, is it possible to run Velvet Goldmine on a channel that is not LOGO if you will not give me LOGO itself?).
Anyway, after the show, I skipped over to buy the Ex-BF's two records and had a pleasant, if brief, dalliance with Chriso, the drummer. As I was walking away, he stopped me and asked "Is that a Winston t-shirt you're wearing?" I turned around, agape, and said "Yeah, yeah it is. You know Winston? You read FourFour??" And thus began a breathless chat about how hot Rich is, and how Winston is like the Wilford Brimley of the feline world.
Diegos isn't normally what one would call "vicious", "yippy" or "bitey". In fact, any other pictures I have of him are the result of being caught mid-yawn. But you cross the line (by trying to clip his nails, say, or if you're my sister walking into the room) and this is what greets you.
I have no idea what's happening in this one (my sister took it), but it's pretty fracking hilarious.
I love my dog. He's got such a big personality in such a small package.
In the past I've typically stayed local for Thanksgiving, usually heading to my uncle's palatial estate in Tiburon or visiting the S.O.'s parents, and once made the trek to Roseville to spend time with my friend and her family.
But this year. This year, I will drive down to La Jolla to spend Thanksgiving with Snotface and her dad. There will be merriment (read: alcohol) and nostalgia (snarking about high school)! There will be apple-picking (really, apple-picking)! There will be staged photos in knit hats and scarves (only to promptly be ripped off due to, you know, the 80° weather)!
I'm so excited. It's been too long since I've been able to spend any real time with Snotface - since her wedding in... the '90s. Eecch. This will be an epic weekend.
Yep, it's my favorite "holiday" again. I did another Shaun of the Dead pumpkin for the party tonight. Q served up some Jack Skellington. Excellent stencilling action courtesy of Zombie Pumpkins.
Also, Diego had great fun at Piedmont Pumpkin Patch. J and I are planning on going back for the $2 Haunted House and other Halloween sundries. Q refuses.
