Another Free Cool Blogging Thing…

…that will probably be killed by it’s own popularity in the not to distant future.

In my never ending quest to bring you a blog reading experience that ranks right up there with winning a buck on a lottery scratch-off, I give you Gravatars! That is if have signed up for that service and deem to leave me a comment. When you do, your gravatar will appear right next to your words of wisdom. Mine is made from my image du moment, Bend. What’s yours? Leave a comment and show the world (well, at least this small slice of it.)

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Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone Can I?

When I first started this re-design I wanted the posts to show up in different color blocks. I tried 3 different MT plugins with no success. Today I googled for a php script that would do a random thing and found a simple one on scriptygoddess that looked promising. And, well, wouldn’t you know it, it worked. I’ve just used it on the front page, the monthly archives and individual pages are still monocolored. So now that I got what I wished for, am I happy? Not sure. Maybe I need to find one that will run through a list instead of random. Maybe I should quit mucking around.

Tonight was (is) West Wing marathon on Bravo. I watched 2.5 episodes before I broke away. While watching that 2-1/2 hours of TV I was subjected to at least 50 promos for other Bravo shows and their new logo is now permanently etched into my head…you know, if I removed the left two roundings and dangled a triangle down and to the left I could have my posts appear in a bravolike box.
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Now the question becomes, should the bravo boxes be different colors or not? 😀

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Doobie Wah

I hope Peter Frampton isn’t upset. I totally forgot about Frampton Comes Alive being one of my 70s staples too, until I heard a Muzak version of “Show Me The Way” in a restaurant today. Technically that particular album was a few years post high school anyway. Well, you know what they say about marijuana and memory…at least I hope you do, because I seem to have forgotten. 😉

More fun with the Bend photo – ASCII art!


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That 70’s Afternoon

My favorite Internet Radio station, Radio Paradise, seems unavailable right now, so I was forced to listen to something else this afternoon. PEELLAND-FM was bookmarked and I didn’t remember why so I tried it. I was instantly transported back to my high school days, they were playing Deep Purple’s “Child of Time” from the album Made in Japan, 12-1/2 minutes of screaming, rambling live rock and roll. This album had a heavy rotation in the 8-track player (that’s right 8-track.) This disc along with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 4-Way Street, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, The Allman Brother’s At Filmore East and, of course, Pink Flyod’s Dark Side of the Moon really define that era for me.

If you are running Mozilla, or your IE is in the right mood, you should notice that I have my very own favicon now. It was made from a picture I used for a Theme Thursday last June, Bend. Here is a place on line that will make one for free, all you need is an image you want to use (a square one would be best.)

FavIcon from Pics

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Picture Book

After the trip to DC earlier this month I vowed to make actual prints from some of the pictures I took while there. The other night I got as far as uploading the 20 odd good ones to Shutterfly or Ofoto or whoever. Then I had a brainstorm (my wife told me what she wanted) and decided to have one of those MyPublisher books made instead. For about $5 more than the 4 x 6 prints I will get 24 6 x 8 single sided pages of bound paperback book.

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Sickest Joke Of All Time

The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, an Anchorage man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State Troopers. “We’re sorry sir, but we have some information about your wife,” said one trooper.

“Tell me! Did you find her?” he shouted.

The troopers looked at each other. One said, “We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?”

Fearing the worst, the ashen faced man said, “Give me the bad news first.”

The trooper said, “I’m sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife’s body in Kachemak Bay.”

“Oh my God!” he exclaimed. Swallowing hard, he asked, “What’s the good news?”

The trooper continued, “When we pulled her up, she had 12-twenty-five pound king crabs and 6 good-size Dungeness crabs on her.”

Stunned, he demanded, “If that’s the good news, what’s the great news?”

The trooper said, “We’re going to pull her up again tomorrow.”