Kreative Meme

Distractions

This meme comes from Dyl over on Gecko Echo. Bless his heart!

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.

Thanks to the Queen of England who protects and watches over our Dyl.

2. Copy the award logo and place it on your blog.

Admittedly, it’s not the prettiest logo I’ve seen:

3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.

Please go visit Dyl at his blog of thoughtfulness and comic miasma: Gecko Echo


4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.

  1. Just for Dyl: I lived in Nottinghill Gate, Brixton and Earls Court Road.
  2. I worked for the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall, a members only gentleman’s club of some prestige. I worked on the front desk.
  3. I would often get calls for car repair – The RAC is England’s #2 roadside assistance service and sometimes people would call the snooty gentleman’s club by mistake.
  4. Often most of my calls would go alright until midway through, when suddenly the caller would mention my accent: “I’m talking to an American!!” I would graciously say no.
  5. Prince Edward saved my life.
  6. When I lived in England I experienced more sexual awakening than anywhere in my life, and I had been out of the closet for 6 years by then.
  7. Jafar is my favorite villain from any Disney movie.

5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers and post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.

Take any seven from my blog roll. I’m crapping out here but truth be told, I use to have two Google pages full of blogger feeds a year ago. Now it’s down to 2/3rds a page and even those are bleeding words into Twitter.

6. Someone before me forget to post rule 6

I’ll make this one up myself: I can cook. I can sew. I don’t mind cleaning a bathroom. Of course I’m married off.

7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

Again, I doubt that would matter. The third blog into my ‘Roll hasn’t been updated since Dec 07, 2009.

Regardless, thanks Dyl for thinking of me!

What’s In The Suitcase? Day Twenty Four

General

News Flash! I think this weekend only Old Navy is clearing out old summer stock! These were $17 each! Such good timing! I’m all verklempt!

If anything a warm vacation in the middle of winter keeps your domicile neat and tidy. I just spent an hour in my skivvies running from closet to kitchen to get SharkBoy to approve on various fashion contemplations (he was cleaning up after the Fondue we had last night! Thanks JTree and Fortress of Solitude!). I’m rummaging through all my clothes looking for frays, rips, never-worns, and “holy shit? I wore these” kinds of outfits and SharkBoy gives his expert not or disapproving look. No. I will not post pictures.

Apparently I need ties. Again. I only have one – from my wedding- that one of the cats took a shining to one night while exploring the closet. It’s got a big run in the silk. So off to the store this morning.

We’re judgemental machines. Humans decide whether or not you’re good to eat or if you’re going to sire your babies within milliseconds of seeing you and clothing plays a big part of that. I assume that my “style” elicits a “Mostly Harmless” reaction within people’s subconscious brain. Then I prey on them and eat their eyes.

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What’s In The Suitcase? Day Twenty Three

General

I’m generally a light packer when it comes to toiletries. I can survive a while on toothbrush, shave stuff and moisturizer. But we’re going for a while and we’re in formal (adult?) situations. Best to err on the side of “too much”.

Whenever I stand in the isle at the drugstore that sells those travel size packets I get excited. Even though I only use .05% of whatever they’re selling (I don’t really need shampoos or conditioners). But I still get a rush looking for stuff to hoard along with me.

Looky at the image below. You’ll need to click on it with your mousetoolthing to make it go biggen to see all the explanations. Enjoy!

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And The Cheese Stands Alone

Distractions, Tech

Here’s a crazy picture of what my mouse does in an average hour at work. The background was actually divided between Photoshop, web and email. Large dots = mouse stops.

Mousepath!

From Anatoli Zenkov Flickr page Small Java app available too.

Pro Tip: If you’re using Photoshop, take a screen grab of your desktop, then make the Mousepath image your top layer. Choose “Multiply” as that layer’s blending option – white background disappears.

What’s In The Suitcase? Day Twenty Two

General

Sugoi!

It’s Japanese for “Super!” or “Fantastic!” or “Great!”

It’s also a totally non-self-conscious athletic wear line that (imho) is much better than Nike. Just ask StudioYVR. He’s a runner. He knows these things.

I’m looking forward to getting up with the sun and running laps on the ship. We have three days at sea to start off. The first two may not be warm enough to sit by the pool. I gotta do something other than eat, right?

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What’s In the Suitcase? Day Twenty One

General

Again, Cargo shorts.

I like these ones because they have snaps instead of buttons. Easier access. Also they have phylacteries-like straps (sans boxes) in the leg cuff, giving them that aura of “military” again – I think. Why the straps? Uhm. Just in case I’m caught in a sand storm and I don’t want sand up in my balls?

Sometimes fashion fails us all.

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What’s In The Suitcase? Day Twenty

General

Whoever invented the cargo short has my undying admiration.

Design-wise, Cargo shorts free us up from embarrassing fanny packs and manpurses, both of which have become comedy sticking points on various cable tv shows. Even Kath and Kim (the real Australian show, not the bizarre, unfunny US version) had a character named Kel who, shared the girl’s love of all things tacky (or “naff”) had a whole room in his house dedicated to man-satchels.

They also satisfy my need to hoard – when I come in from the outside world, you can tell I had a good day if the shorts sag around my hips due to all the crap I have in the pockets: camera, iPhone, wallet, keys, money, scraps of paper, various purchases like DVDs or game disks, found mushrooms, nuts, twigs, a puppy etc.

I get this feeling the British created them. Or a Norwegian. Most definitely a military fashion cross-over, I’m sure. Too lazy to Wiki it. Regardless, I salute you.

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