tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339939082024-03-07T01:30:04.612-06:00I'd Rather Be a BearOsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-23747103993094505852008-01-28T17:55:00.000-06:002008-01-28T19:12:46.774-06:00I'm Not Dead<a href="http://libizblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/facebook.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://libizblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/facebook.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>I'm actually putting together a new and completely different blog project which has really eaten up more time already than I ought to have let it do.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Frequency of posts and technological savviness aside, if you have a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/"><strong><span style="color:#66cccc;">Facebook</span></strong> </a>account, I highly recommend reading <strong><a href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9854409-46.html?tag=more"><span style="color:#ff6600;">this article</span></a></strong>. Essentially, the long and the short of it is that by using those nifty "apps," you are allowing the developers of them to have a <strong><em>lot</em></strong> more of your information than is necessary. More disturbing to me, however, is that developers can get your information without even your agreement. When one of your Facebook friends decides to add an application, its developer may have all the access to your information that your friend did. In other words, if you have set your profile to "private," so that not every Tom, Dick, and Harry can see your address, photos, etc., a developer that you may not even be aware of and <strong><em>to whom you have never given consent</em>, </strong>could now be able to view all of that information because your friend added their application.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The article goes into more specifics, but that's pretty much the gist of what I got out of it. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Storytime: As a result, I've spent the two plus hours blocking applications. One of my Facebook friends adds EVERY APPLICATION HE EVER SEES, I SWEAR. Below, in fact, is the list of applications he has that I've blocked; these are all of his applications at the moment, but I'm sure there will be more tomorrow.</div><div> </div><ol><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Where I've Been</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Growing Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Graffiti </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">WereWolves </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Oregon Trail </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pirates vs. Ninjas </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Are YOU Interested? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Best Friends </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Make New Friends </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Friends For Sale!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Birthday Calendar</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Top Friends </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Bible Verses </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Questions </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Cities I've Visited </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Harry Potter Magic Spells </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Compare People </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Aquarium </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Wonderful World </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Happy Hour! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Movies </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Texas HoldEm Poker </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Likeness UNRATED </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Phonebook </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Freebee Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Jedi vs Sith </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">X Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Social Chat </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Superlatives </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Describe Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Zombies </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Vampires vs. Werewolves</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Super Wall </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Double Dare</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Socialmoth Secrets </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">aCounter </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Poke Pro </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">What's My Chinese Name?</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Post Secrets </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">PurePlay Cash Poker </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Famous Quotes </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">AceBucks </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Emote </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Magic 8 ball </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Flirt </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Red Sox Nation </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Food </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pirates </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Likeness </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Vampires </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Are YOU sexy? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Characteristics </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pride of the Jaguars</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Instant Messaging </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Fun Gifts & Events </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Cartoonify Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Mardi Gras </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hello! My Name Is </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">SuperPoke! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Will you KISS me? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Spank Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Reputation </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hot Potato </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Florida Football Fans</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">iLike </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hatching Eggs </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Are you a great lover ? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pro Football Pick'em </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Sketch Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">I Never </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Massage Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">How Sexy Is Your Name Calculator </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Basketball Fan </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Fighters' Club </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Secret Admirer - CRUSH on ME (PERFECT MATCH) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">FB Addict - are you hooked on FB? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Music</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">HOT or NOT </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Orgasmic!</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">In 2008... </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">HotLists </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Nicknames </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Workin' It! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Boombox </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Talking Smileys </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hotness </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Advanced Wall </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">I Wanna Get Leid </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Tattoos </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Entourage </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Flower A Day </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Marry Me, Sex Me, Kill Me </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Booze Mail </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Graveyard </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Mesmo TV</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Beer! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Blind Date </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pet Dragons </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Movie Trivia </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Name Analyzer </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Similar People </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">U-Arcade </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Jack O'Lantern </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">What Drink Are You? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">ScrapBox </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Family </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Real Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">WATER FIGHT! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Slayers </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">(fluff)Friends</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Naughty Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pose for a Date</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pub Darts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">KissMe</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Polls </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Crowd Cloud</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Holiday Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Room </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Causes </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Today's Chuck Norris Fact</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Beachball Game </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Curvve Player </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Catbook </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Art </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Flirt Wall </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Free Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Flirtable </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Magnetic Words </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">NFL Challenge </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Where Is It </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Friend Block </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Twisted Gifts (NEW!) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">American Models </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Main Chat Room - YouCams.com </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hug Time </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">The Brain Game</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Share The Love </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Power Tarot </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">TickleMe </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Blow A Kiss </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Kisses! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hugs </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Pillow Fight! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Christmas Music Tree</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Cheek Kissing </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Snowball Fight! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Good vs Evil </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Cute vs Sexy </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Hot </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Send SMS - Text Messaging </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">iDescribe </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">What's Your Stripper Name?</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Secret Wall </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">BuddyTV TV Quiz</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Birthday Greeting Cards </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">What Do Your Eyes Symbolize?</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Best Friends </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Friend Hug </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Animated Gifts </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Smarty Pants </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Be Santa </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Speed Racing </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Most Active Friends (TM) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Which swear word are you? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Who Is Your Ideal Mate? (season 2) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Oregon Trail </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Say Merry Christmas </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">My Heroes Ability </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Truth Box </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">SexyPoke! </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Naughty or Nice </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">What Position Are You? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">US Politics</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;">Who's ONLINE on my Page</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Meet New People</span> </span></li></ol>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-22388888287845354032007-12-19T23:55:00.000-06:002007-12-20T00:00:42.010-06:00A New Blog Discovery<a href="http://www.housenotsobeautiful.com/Images/bathEureka.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.housenotsobeautiful.com/Images/bathEureka.jpg" border="0" /></a> I've found a new one I like and added it to the links section on the side. It's called <a href="http://onepicaday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>One Pic a Day</strong></span></a>, and it delivers exactly what it promises. Makes me wish I knew how to take a good photo on purpose....<br /><div></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-65220230479947417412007-12-10T16:54:00.001-06:002007-12-10T16:56:50.013-06:00It's Not Not What We're Giving Fiance's Grandparents for Christmas This Year....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgsYoWYVcdfrsktahKX3nHik9h5t0iUH55t4ZPVimfEKOQJGpF8hzqiLmzJaodTbXuQGLCTFCM6eP-8RrSdXMcyY7mT6WwprqCiDZKbwTfzLiAq4XYkDCt39_9NYqZMJKzT-yvA/s1600-h/batman+nutcracker.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142481951656997522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 319px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 366px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="231" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgsYoWYVcdfrsktahKX3nHik9h5t0iUH55t4ZPVimfEKOQJGpF8hzqiLmzJaodTbXuQGLCTFCM6eP-8RrSdXMcyY7mT6WwprqCiDZKbwTfzLiAq4XYkDCt39_9NYqZMJKzT-yvA/s320/batman+nutcracker.jpg" width="177" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsNa3ycV-Y1JarkoysaFyAn6zTlPRVEjA2bUNnBKNgLYP0x94kUb4W20cDy2ZGki1OtWaWpPeoC5YqQxzwsegB1XhYLF4Ey0qM0AXci56Ss_1YAXMh3Mzn2Ek1eIFW68_V4X49w/s1600-h/Batman+Nutcracker.gif"></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-28709391480607462522007-12-05T17:05:00.000-06:002007-12-05T17:23:53.610-06:00The Amazing Story of an Artist and His Butt<a href="http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/butt%20art.jpeg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.joshilynjackson.com/mt/butt%20art.jpeg" border="0" /></a> I ran across a news story sometime early in my college career that never fails to make me laugh. Somehow, I manage to forget it and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236201,00.html"><span style="color:#00cccc;"><strong>rediscover</strong> </span></a>it every so often. It is the compelling story of "Stan Murmur."<br /><br />In brief, the story goes a little something like this:<br /><blockquote><span style="color:#00cccc;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236201,00.html">"I followed a girlfriend into a painting and printmaking class," he told host<br />Sargent in the clip. "We had an assignment where we had to create an organic<br />stamping object, bring it in as a print and display it to the class. I chose my<br />ass as that object."</a></span></blockquote><br /><br />I'm awfully fond of the below quotes as well. One might say I feel <em>cozy</em> with them.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/shoneyssux/story">The day that the project was due, we were instructed to hang our art products on<br />a wall. The entire class took turns guessing the objects that were used in each<br />stamping. Once an object was guessed we discussed whether the finished<br />product was successful as a piece of art. No one could figure out what my<br />organic object had been.<br />We, finally, discussed mine last. I got many<br />favorable responses. Everyone wanted to talk about the odd shape used in my<br />piece. The conversation turned to the way the class felt about my stamping. One<br />student saw "black ice sickles", another described "a warm fuzzy feeling",<br />"cozy" was another word muttered from my class. One student ask me if she could<br />touch my print. I told her, "that was fine". She then closely inspected my<br />stamping and asked me if I used hair. She then screamed, " Oh, my God!<br />you didn't"! "We've been tripping off his butt cheeks for twenty minutes".<br />I was the only one not asked to hold up my organic stamping object.</a></span></blockquote><br /><br />What can we all learn from Stan Murmur? <span style="color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/shoneyssux/story">That red Crayola tempera stains skin for about a week and a half</a></span>.OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-2238413717963263532007-11-28T20:41:00.000-06:002007-11-28T20:43:09.511-06:00Wheee!In about a month the wedding shall be happening then done, and I think it's going to be a huge relief in addition to being a celebration.<br /><br />We <em>did</em> go and open our very first joint savings account last week. We are very proud of our little selves!OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-55241127939233475682007-11-27T15:46:00.000-06:002007-11-27T15:50:34.868-06:00A Sibling Is Still a Sibling, Even after Eighty Years<a href="http://sprinklerdoc.com/homeless.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://sprinklerdoc.com/homeless.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>An excerpt from my grandmother's response to her brother's (my crazy great Uncle Bob) reams of unsolicited housing advice (even suggesting at one point that she and my grandfather move into HUD housing to save money):</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff6600;">"You are so creative when it comes to finding things and making plans for others to live by. I trust you spend as much time on yours."</span></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-56132428611897742702007-11-25T22:36:00.000-06:002007-11-25T22:37:09.827-06:00Update: Ignorance Would Be Bliss<div align="center">Twice.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-21365642578934662612007-11-25T19:46:00.001-06:002007-11-25T19:50:23.179-06:00Ignorance Would Be Bliss<a href="http://www.subcortex.com/ChimpNoEvil.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.subcortex.com/ChimpNoEvil.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I really wish I knew less about my upstairs neighbor. The best case scenario would be that he was quiet and unobtrustive, preferring to keep things private.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>As it is, I happen to know that he barks while alone and has enthusiastic sex at about this time every Sunday.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-58915467093354663212007-11-21T23:59:00.000-06:002007-11-22T00:06:57.864-06:00PC Roadkill<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsxBId89WtRUlAaqnrN8dfgFHKYOhRCSYuv6LXl2xn_VOA0m_767JDwUUnsRzlN3jCbW6bnF5kg4Lo8MC2xYbYsQ33XpVTDqXzAOWPNMpS15MD8BrdgK_dQweFCC-tlGMYSECcqQ/s1600-h/TheBaylorBear_JPG.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135541152799396642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="124" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsxBId89WtRUlAaqnrN8dfgFHKYOhRCSYuv6LXl2xn_VOA0m_767JDwUUnsRzlN3jCbW6bnF5kg4Lo8MC2xYbYsQ33XpVTDqXzAOWPNMpS15MD8BrdgK_dQweFCC-tlGMYSECcqQ/s320/TheBaylorBear_JPG.jpg" width="184" border="0" /></a><br /><div>So, what am I doing for Thanksgiving? Exactly what I want to be doing: </div><div> </div><div>Sitting on my bed wrapped in an electric blanket and flannel PJs with an IcyHot patch on my far-too-well-read neck drinking a mixture of thick and rich chocolate milk, Bailey's Irish cream, and peppermint schnapps and watching <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</em> while my cat trots around with an artificial daisy in her mouth.</div><div> </div><div>Frankly, at this stage in my life, turkey's not going to be able to compete.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-89110750025528426402007-11-20T16:46:00.000-06:002007-11-20T17:44:31.818-06:00Color Me UnpersuadedJermaine Dupri had <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jermaine-dupri/a-good-album-is-more-than_b_73413.html"><span style="color:#ff99ff;"><strong>this</strong> </span></a>to say to <em>The Huffington Post</em>, arguing that consumers should have to buy whole albums like back in the day rather than the piecemeal song-by-song option provided on iTunes: <blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">Did consumers complain? Maybe so. But at what point does any business care when<br />a consumer complains about the money? Why do people not care how we - the people who make music - eat? If they just want the single, they gotta get the album.<br />That was how life was. Today we should at least have that option. Yeah, it's<br />about the money, but it's also about quality. Creating each album as a body of<br />work that means something gives the consumer something better to listen to, It's<br />that simple. Otherwise all anyone would care about is making a bunch of<br />ringtones. </span></blockquote><br />Where to start? While I do recommend reading the whole piece linked in pink above, this particular little bit of it really caught my eye like a hemorrhoid of ignorance in the midst of the giant butthole that is opinion writing by some members of the "talent" end of the entertainment industry. <br /><br />At this point, I'm just going to go ahead and break down into itemized bullet points. I figure any writing technique used by my Great Uncle Bob (whom I've long considered to be serious Baker Act material) would probably provide me with a mental airbag of sorts in this situation.<br /><br /><ol><li>When does any business care when the consumer complains about the money? Probably at the point where it is losing untold sums each year to online piracy and digital file sharing of music and movies. At that point, a business that wants to stay in the black goes about finding a way to deal with the problem, and when the piracy is much too rampant to stop cold in its tracks, then that business finds a way to compete with the illegality and turn a profit anyway. </li><li>Complete and utter failure to take into account what happens if something legal that people want (a la carte options on iTunes) is stripped down to basically the lousy product being sold before that people would rather get for free. Sentence fragment, yes. Must picture me pointing at the piece and jabbing it accusatorily with my budding cat lady finger.</li><li>The consumer is not your enemy. He is the hand that feeds you.*</li><li>You're right. I don't give a flying fuck what the musicians eat. I'm too worried about how I'm going to buy a week's worth of groceries with the little baggy of quarters I've scraped together to do laundry with. How do artists like Jermaine Dupri eat? Probably a lot better and with fewer looming question marks than I do. No one is crying over you, and, if anything, someone might go out of their way to obtain an illegal copy of one of your songs--preferably one of the ones that never sees radio airplay. He may never play it, but it would remain a sort of digital monument in his playlists to your colossal asshattery. I'd do it myself, but, well, I'm broke, thus derailing every level of that plan from the iPod to the earphones.</li><li>No, if I want the single I don't "gotta" do anything. At the very bottom of the stack of options for fulfilling my burning desire for a single, I will always have the old middle school standby of recording it from the radio onto a blank tape. In fact, my ability to do that is almost inherent to the fact that it <em>is</em> a single and, by definition, will play on the radio at some point.</li><li>I will agree with you, M. Dupri, on one thing: It <em>is</em> about quality. Do you know why Jay-Z can tell iTunes to shove it? Why he can still sell whole albums while I'm really racking my brains to remember the last song I heard of yours or even where I was last made cognizant of your existence without reference to what the latest report is on the size of Janet Jackson's ass? Jay-Z makes damn good music. Period. End of sentence. He consistently delivers quality in spades while you...you just...you write in the Huffington Post which, predictably, is more relevant than your own website if only by dint of not including the warning to <strong><a href="http://www.jermainedupri.com/indexfl.html"><span style="color:#33cc00;">"ball at [my] own risk</span></a></strong>." Remarkably, according to the quotes on your site, you seem to think people <em>really, really</em> want to know you "<strong><a href="http://www.jermainedupri.com/index2.html"><span style="color:#993399;">more as a baller than anything else</span></a></strong>." This, I feel, only serves to drive home the misgivings creeping over those who want to see rap, hip-hop, and R&B move forward as a genre that finds their roots in the droning redundancy of the subject matter (money, drugs, violence, and misogyny) and heavy, generic sampling it has come to rely on. Kanye and Jay-Z would stand above the crowd anyway, but there's no call for you to be so obliging as to make this any easier for them. I also note that according to <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine_Dupri"><span style="color:#66cccc;">Wikipedia</span></a></strong>, your father is the former president of Columbia Records, a fact that (taken with your being listed among the ten richest people in hip-hop) really adds the gimlet to my eye when reading your pleas for concern over how artists eat and the lack of control over your own music that is implied in the article, especially as your own work is available in the song-by-song arrangement on iTunes that you deplore here.</li><li>Apparently, Mr. Screw iTunes is rumored to have had some copyright issues of his own. That's neither here nor there (and, as such, is an admittedly inappropriate as an argument), but I felt that I should drop that somewhere in my PC and poverty-fueled diatribe.</li></ol><p><span style="font-size:78%;">*On top of silver spoons and various investments and Duncan Donut commercials.</span></p>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-73041878261406941552007-11-19T21:44:00.000-06:002007-11-19T21:47:58.597-06:00Elf Yourself<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9550421045"><strong>CLICK ON ME NOW FOR LAW SCHOOL SHENANNIGANS!!!!</strong></a></span></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-35415031510681514972007-11-16T18:09:00.000-06:002007-11-16T18:20:04.079-06:00Really? Reaaaaally?<a href="http://www.happyhotelier.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/abc_southwest_070907_ms.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.happyhotelier.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/abc_southwest_070907_ms.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>"<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21834395/?GT1=10547"><strong><span style="color:#6666cc;">Ebbert worked at a Hooters in San Diego but said wants to become an attorney, and doesn’t think posing nude should get in the way of her professional aspirations.<br />'This was beautiful and classy. I don’t see why it would affect a professional position,' she said. 'I’d do it again in a heartbeat.'</span></strong></a>"</div><div> </div><div>Of course it wouldn't. And it definitely wouldn't lead to <a href="http://perezhilton.com/?p=8907#more-8907"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">this</span></strong> </a>either.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-11382851620412283442007-11-15T20:17:00.001-06:002007-11-15T20:19:21.176-06:00Meet Mr. George Piggy-Winkle<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEUCTcdYhDKh0ICvZVugCJC_YwtIPEAISPKnovPpQv5UEZTXhSw76qh9sr6JCJ4T4wyqKRh6L8mw5eblJYwlsmOzjUNNimcO8dYt31EPYd0zRBy8CTPLy8ldcYS04NWkvMLLA5A/s1600-h/Mr.+Piggy-Winkle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133256814313476882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 430px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="236" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEUCTcdYhDKh0ICvZVugCJC_YwtIPEAISPKnovPpQv5UEZTXhSw76qh9sr6JCJ4T4wyqKRh6L8mw5eblJYwlsmOzjUNNimcO8dYt31EPYd0zRBy8CTPLy8ldcYS04NWkvMLLA5A/s320/Mr.+Piggy-Winkle.jpg" width="401" border="0" /></a><br /><div>If he seems to look a bit uncomfortable to you, that's because he weighs five pounds. You can read all about him <strong><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article460869.ece"><span style="color:#993300;">here</span></a></strong>.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-88904191474483942722007-11-15T00:18:00.001-06:002007-11-15T00:20:39.922-06:00Weird<a href="http://www.jugglingcats.com/video/Images/barking_cat.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.jugglingcats.com/video/Images/barking_cat.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>My cat just barked. The most disturbing thing about that is that it is nowhere nearly as weird as the time she <strong><a href="http://osodelsol.blogspot.com/2007/01/am-i-losing-it-or-is-it-just-finals.html"><span style="color:#99ff99;">burped</span></a></strong>.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-53313341233421584322007-11-15T00:10:00.000-06:002007-11-15T00:14:16.639-06:00How Long Is PC's Half-Life?<a href="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web1/Hollanderfigs/ocdcyclepaper.jpg"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"><strong><em><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web1/Hollanderfigs/ocdcyclepaper.jpg" border="0" /></em></strong></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff6666;"><strong><em>I went "grocery shopping" when I got back from an out-of-town shower with the full intention of making that a trip that did not need quotation marks. I was really going to put some food in my refrigerator that would need cooking and everything now that I wasn't in PC I & II. I came out with 4 boxes of chocolate-covered granola bars, 2 boxes of Velveeta shells, 1 box of Lil Debbie Oatmeal Pies, 1 heavy-duty brushed nickel stapler, 200 multi-colored staples, 1 spiral notebook (even though I already had 4 at home), and 1 box of sleeping pills in a not-so-cat-proof container.</em></strong></span></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-49449881730204266282007-11-07T15:13:00.000-06:002007-11-07T15:14:39.136-06:00He Done Good<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMASSlDDfnNkWDRENjTJK8RP-lGYKXYkrrR7O0iU7yUzdgDpetLGLUgFTbN1Z2BebhAHSnaRdJhjTc59gSmoY2ej9xnGn6ApSMzB7sP-owYUSpk-BeEzPCWbuMdZaEvUXnRXI3w/s1600-h/Birthday+Roses.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130209688799916770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMASSlDDfnNkWDRENjTJK8RP-lGYKXYkrrR7O0iU7yUzdgDpetLGLUgFTbN1Z2BebhAHSnaRdJhjTc59gSmoY2ej9xnGn6ApSMzB7sP-owYUSpk-BeEzPCWbuMdZaEvUXnRXI3w/s320/Birthday+Roses.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"><em><strong>My unbirthday fleurs from Fiance!</strong></em></span></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-77320182580181309342007-11-02T23:49:00.000-05:002007-11-02T23:59:12.210-05:00A Quiet Evening at Home<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNIYm937S5k0hPuIwX6UxhVumL1-VWB_Qg7v9z0CMAoc65lBi9vQg1m9cU_-MnmG-JHmBXF7NGzX20BR91grm49NMLiw_1ACWHI10261Vmyu7QeTf2f74-dIxxVK3auAyZJMdbw/s1600-h/050_AB20386~Stretch-Kelley-Posters.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128473408926420930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="272" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNIYm937S5k0hPuIwX6UxhVumL1-VWB_Qg7v9z0CMAoc65lBi9vQg1m9cU_-MnmG-JHmBXF7NGzX20BR91grm49NMLiw_1ACWHI10261Vmyu7QeTf2f74-dIxxVK3auAyZJMdbw/s320/050_AB20386~Stretch-Kelley-Posters.jpg" width="401" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div>In a couple of minutes, I'm going to turn twenty-five. I'm celebrating in a very mature way too. I'm curled up in my bed in flannel sock monkey pajamas with a PR outline and a mug of Promised Land chocolate milk spiked with Bailey's Irish Cream. Actually, it's about half-and-half. I can never sleep naturally during finals, so I figure I might as well conk myself out that way as any other. I bought myself a labelmaker to celebrate the occasion and the marked upswing in my anal retentiveness over the years, and last night I shined my sink. I also stumbled across this picture and laughed immoderately while my cat groomed her front-butt in squeeky dignity.</div><div> </div><div>In a week I'll be done with PC, and honestly that feels like more of a milestone than dropping off of my parents' insurance.</div><div> </div><div>Here's the neat shiny sink routine that I stumbled across this weekend:</div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">1. Fill sink to the rim with very hot water; add one cup regular bleach. Soak for one hour. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">2. Drain and rinse thoroughly. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">3. Scrub with Ajax, Bon Ami, or baking soda. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">4. Be sure to rinse thoroughly. </span></div><div><span style="color:#ccffff;">5. Shine with Windex or another glass-cleaning spray. Dry thoroughly.</span> </div></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-46170942442728128142007-10-17T19:43:00.001-05:002007-10-17T19:44:22.612-05:00Today I LearnedThat showing a picture of a necrotic bowel* without any warning is not a nice thing to do.<br /><br />But it does get an audible response.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*I really like that I am getting to write <em>bowel</em> in the singular.</span>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-50376289778294611052007-10-15T19:21:00.000-05:002007-10-15T19:22:12.515-05:00I also know that any lawsuit that includes the words "botulism outbreak" and "Texas Chili" in one sentence is one in which I do not want to be a defendant.OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-61181413368417356862007-10-14T15:21:00.001-05:002007-10-14T15:25:04.485-05:00Laveur de vitres<p></p><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BKYl11GrJnM"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BKYl11GrJnM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><p></p>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-65701903390004040482007-10-14T15:17:00.000-05:002007-10-14T15:19:25.420-05:00I Don't Know Much, But I Do Know ThatIf you burn a Glade strawberries & cream candle and a Glade apple & creamy custard candle at the same time, your room will smell like My Little Ponies.<br /><br />At the moment, that might be the most I can ask for.OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-75730122708094151352007-10-03T21:51:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:52:45.024-05:00Such Snarkiness!"As a large insurance carrier, Liberty is well aware of what providing a defense means."OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-25642305310176935152007-09-29T22:19:00.001-05:002007-09-29T22:20:28.418-05:00Amended Proposal for Neutral Third Party Last Name<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Greidanus</span>.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-10495735755248219442007-09-28T00:03:00.000-05:002007-09-28T00:09:12.405-05:00Emotions in Lemmony<a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/47905412_b67183c49d.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/47905412_b67183c49d.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div align="center">Telephone conversation wrap-up with Fiance:</div><br /><div></div><div>Him: I love you more than bears.</div><div>Me: What else do you love me more than?</div><div>Him: I love you more than penguins too.</div><div>Me: (squeak!)</div><div>Him: I even love you more than monkeys wearing people clothes and doing people things.</div><div>Me: (gasp!)</div><div>Him: Yes. I only just recently came to realize this.</div></div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33993908.post-71270857451181723422007-09-17T19:44:00.001-05:002007-09-17T19:48:17.498-05:00Am I a Law Nerd?<a href="http://www.vantageexperts.com/images/insurance.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.vantageexperts.com/images/insurance.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://alwaysappealing.blogspot.com/2007/09/heres-your-texas-supreme-court.html#links"><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;">This</span></strong> </a>made my day.</div>OsoDelSolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260833311412730277noreply@blogger.com0