Today I got one of the nicest rose tags anyone’s sent me in a while. Sadly, the return email address was incomplete. So, while I can’t send a reply back saying thanks, I can post this. If you’re reading this (and you know who you are) thank you. And send me your full addy, huh?

More link silliness. KPMG wants everyone who links to their site to sign a “formal agreement”. Some people will never get it.

I actually know someone who got quoted in the NY Times! Scroll down to the “Site Unseen” section - Shirley Kaiser’s raised up one great big stink over the lack of accessibility on the olympics website.

Can you patent a link? One company is trying.

It’s a slow and boring day, so I’m doing my normal keep-boredom-at-bay thing… finding new fanfic. Gorgous Smallville Slashfic at that. WhooHoo!

So I’m just sitting around last night… wasting time before I get up and do the dishes, and who should call? A telemarketer. Usually I just request to be put on the no call list and that’s that. But I was bored. In need of some amusement. So I decide to play along. The guy is trying to sell me a cell phone. HA HA! Buddy, you’ve just found the one person in North America who does not desire to be chained to some electronic item 24-7. So I explain that, as I am tethered to a phone, computer, and email program for eight hours a day five days a week, the *last* thing I want when I’m home is another way for the rest of the world to intrude on my quality quiet time.

So the hapless telemarketer guy sticks to the script in the face of my rejection, and brings up the notion of being stranded in my car and needing to call for help. Heh. Not only do I live in NJ, the land of highways, interstates, overly attentive state troopers, and payphones; but in seven years of road trips and spectacular auto breakdowns all over the northeast, I have *never* not been able to find a payphone when I needed one. And I have a handy dandy phone card so I need never be caught short of change.

Hapless telemarketer guy whimpers and runs away. Score one for me.

Sort of on that topic…. I really have had some amazing road trips. Maybe I should start writing about them.

I just caught about five minutes of Charlie’s Angels and had to turn off the TV. It may actually be the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it was just too painful to watch the rest and be sure.

On a side note, I find that it’s damn hard to type when one has one’s lap filled with a cat who’s decided that *that’s* where he’s going to sit now, thank you very much. I am now typing over him. Literally. Sigh. I am so whipped.

Ok, I just turned the TV back on and I’m watching Lucy Liu in tight black leather. Maybe this movie has merit after all…

This isn’t a fanfic - more like a proto fanfic. Bill and I came up with some funky ideas last night, and I want to get them all down and sorted out before they disappear from my brain entirely. With luck, this will someday make it’s way into proper story form.

Fandoms: WWF, A:tS, B:tVS, Xena/Hercules
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I am becoming more and more enamored of the Graphire. No question that I’m buying a tablet of my own in the near future. Big question - Graphire or Intuos?

I just borrowed my boss’s Graphire tablet and have been using it all morning. No sore wrist, lots of fun. I am never going back to a mouse.

Current project - playing with my camera. The really nice 35mm one my mom got me for christmas over a year ago and which (until recently) had been gathering dust in my closet as I attended to the thousand and one other projects I had going.

Lessons learned so far:
1. The inside of my apartment is just too damn dark to shoot anything. Especially at night.
1a. Extending the exposure time of the shot without a tripod will only result in a blurry picture. And it will still be underexposed.
2. I will never again drop off a black and white roll of film to be developed at Shop-Rite, even though they claim to be able to develop black and white film.
2a. They developed the negatives correctly, but used color paper for the prints, resulting in three different color casts. (Some were blueish, some were pinkish, some were just muddy)
3. Scanners can fix the above problems.
4. The scanner I want to buy for my home office will have to have a film adapter.

For the time challenged literature fan - Classic Novels in Five Miniutes. Not a cliffs notes, these folks email you five minute installments of a novel daily.

The Education of the E-Designer at Communication Arts.

A commenting script that does not require me to use blogger or any other journalling program. Yes, I am the freak who blogs the long hard old fashioned way - and likes it. But I do admit that the ‘blog scripts have some nifty widgets I’d love to duplicate.