The M-Pire cometh ..

I ran across this on Michael’s blog today …. JOY!!! :grin: :cool: :mrgreen:

Damn, I can’t wait for this movie to come out!!!

EDIT: I saw these at Walgreens tonight and snagged a bag. They look like Gothic M&M’s! LOL!

YUMMY!

The Birth of Art

“And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, ‘Oh, the pictures I might have made!’” — Vincent van Gogh

Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and as he is one of my favorite artists, I wanted to drop a coupla gems here that I have run across in my travels over the ‘net in case anyone’s interested:

* The Vincent van Gogh Gallery, endorsed and maintained by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam NL — this has one of the largest and most complete van Gogh painting lists, including the painting’s origin and where it is now.

* Van Gogh’s Letters — a massive (and searchable) unabridged collection of letters written by the artist, broken down by topic.

Coppermine, Part Deux …

Ok, I’ve tweaked and hacked it some more, and for now I’m happy with the way it looks. *big grin* But I reserve the right to muck it up even worse later.

I’ve also decided to incorporate the CoppermineFetch script into WordPress, so now a random piece of my artwork displays on the lower right hand side of my blog.

YAY ME!

Coppermine

hehe, woops! :oops: I was making some changes to the art gallery when I realized that comments were disabled. Sorry ’bout that, it’s fixed now.

I’ll probably be playing more with the theme in the next few days, to try and match it up with the rest of this site. If only in color alone … I like the theme I have now, which is my hacked version of the program default. :wink:

The things that occupy my time …

I spent the better part of this weekend looking for Beavis and Butthead smilies … I think I’ve found some for every other cartoon character BUT them LOL

An idea hit me last night … I still had a bunch of old B&B Win95 animated icons. So I fired up Microangelo and took screenshots of each frame and pasted into Adobe ImageReady.

They’re not great, but they’ll do in a pinch:

More changes …

I’ve made some changes to the website. I’ve removed the individual artwork pages and put everything in my Coppermine Gallery.

I also removed the image thumbnails at the bottom of each page … just didn’t look right.

Now to find a Coppermine theme …

Rock’s Oldest Joke …

I snagged this a while back from Michael’s blog and have been meaning to post it here: Rock’s Oldest Joke: Yelling ‘Freebird!’ in a Crowded Theater — It’s a Request, a Rebuke, a Cry from the Heart, a Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd

Quite a good read, and finally answering the age-old question of how the gag started. “Yelling “Freebird!” has been a rock cliché for years, guaranteed to elicit laughs from drunks and scorn from music fans who have long since tired of the joke.”

Now you too can impress someone at the next social gathering with this useless blather.

Interesting sidenote: Jim’s parents went to college with the “VanZant boys”. Jim’s mom has shown me the signatures in her autograph book, from when they were in a band prior to Skynard.

I’m 16 today! (no, really, I swear! lol)

If it weren’t for my friends, I wouldn’t have anything to Blog about sometimes. :grin:

My favorite meat-substitute (Tophu) posted this quiz in another forum, and here’s my results:

My inner child is sixteen years old!

Life’s not fair! It’s never been fair, but while
adults might just accept that, I know
something’s gotta change. And it’s gonna
change, just as soon as I become an adult and
get some power of my own.

How Old is Your Inner Child?, brought to you by Quizilla

Wish you were here …

In my futile attempt to tell arrogant PTB’s (Powers That Be) what I thought of them, I decided to take a much more sutle way of trying to decipher what planet someone is from:

EDIT: This is what I get for posting in a hurry … I neglected to mention that the image is the background on my work computer. Click on the image above for a larger version. Feel free to download and use as yours. :cool:

*sings* Oh, I’m so easily amused!

I swear, I could sit and read Snopes for-freakin-ever. I was looking up a few of my favorite (or non) chainletters and other things circulated and collected over the years.

I was sorry to see that one of my favorites was not true, but what the hell, it’s still funny so I’m posting it here.

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Dear Maid,

Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in my bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine chest and another three in the shower soap dish. They are in my way.

Thank you,

S. Berman

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Dear Room 635,

I am not your regular maid. She will be back tomorrow, Thursday, from her day off. I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the shower soap dish as you requested. The 6 bars on your shelf I took out of your way and put on top of your Kleenex dispenser in case you should change your mind. This leaves only the 3 bars I left today which my instructions from the management is to leave 3 soaps daily.

I hope this is satisfactory.

Kathy, Relief Maid

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Dear Maid — I hope you are my regular maid.

Apparently Kathy did not tell you about my note to her concerning the little bars of soap. When I got back to my room this evening I found you had added 3 little Camays to the shelf under my medicine cabinet. I am going to be here in the hotel for two weeks and have brought my own bath-size Dial so I won’t need those 6 little Camays which are on the shelf. They are in my way when shaving, brushing teeth, etc.

Please remove them.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

My day off was last Wed. so the relief maid left 3 hotel soaps which we are instructed by the management. I took the 6 soaps which were in your way on the shelf and put them in the soap dish where your Dial was. I put the Dial in the medicine cabinet for your convenience. I didn’t remove the 3 complimentary soaps which are always placed inside the medicine cabinet for all new check-ins and which you did not object to when you checked in last Monday. Please let me know if I can of further assistance.

Your regular maid,

Dotty

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Dear Mr. Berman,

The assistant manager, Mr. Kensedder, informed me this A.M. that you called him last evening and said you were unhappy with your maid service. I have assigned a new girl to your room. I hope you will accept my apologies for any past inconvenience. If you have any future complaints please contact me so I can give it my personal attention. Call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank you.

Elaine Carmen

Housekeeper

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Dear Miss Carmen,

It is impossible to contact you by phone since I leave the hotel for business at 745 AM and don’t get back before 530 or 6PM. That’s the reason I called Mr. Kensedder last night. You were already off duty. I only asked Mr. Kensedder if he could do anything about those little bars of soap. The new maid you assigned me must have thought I was a new check-in today, since she left another 3 bars of hotel soap in my medicine cabinet along with her regular delivery of 3 bars on the bath-room shelf. In just 5 days here I have accumulated 24 little bars of soap. Why are you doing this to me?

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

Your maid, Kathy, has been instructed to stop delivering soap to your room and remove the extra soaps. If I can be of further assistance, please call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank you,

Elaine Carmen,

Housekeeper

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Dear Mr. Kensedder,

My bath-size Dial is missing. Every bar of soap was taken from my room including my own bath-size Dial. I came in late last night and had to call the bellhop to bring me 4 little Cashmere Bouquets.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

I have informed our housekeeper, Elaine Carmen, of your soap problem. I cannot understand why there was no soap in your room since our maids are instructed to leave 3 bars of soap each time they service a room. The situation will be rectified immediately. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.

Martin L. Kensedder

Assistant Manager

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,

Who the hell left 54 little bars of Camay in my room? I came in last night and found 54 little bars of soap. I don’t want 54 little bars of Camay. I want my one damn bar of bath-size Dial. Do you realize I have 54 bars of soap in here. All I want is my bath size Dial. Please give me back my bath-size Dial.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

You complained of too much soap in your room so I had them removed. Then you complained to Mr. Kensedder that all your soap was missing so I personally returned them. The 24 Camays which had been taken and the 3 Camays you are supposed to receive daily (sic). I don’t know anything about the 4 Cashmere Bouquets. Obviously your maid, Kathy, did not know I had returned your soaps so she also brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily Camays. I don’t know where you got the idea this hotel issues bath-size Dial. I was able to locate some bath-size Ivory which I left in your room.

Elaine Carmen

Housekeeper

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,

Just a short note to bring you up-to-date on my latest soap inventory. As of today I possess:

* On shelf under medicine cabinet – 18 Camay in 4 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2.
* On Kleenex dispenser – 11 Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 3.
* On bedroom dresser – 1 stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet, 1 stack of 4 hotel-size Ivory, and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4.
* Inside medicine cabinet – 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2.
* In shower soap dish – 6 Camay, very moist.
* On northeast corner of tub – 1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly used.
* On northwest corner of tub – 6 Camays in 2 stacks of 3.

Please ask Kathy when she services my room to make sure the stacks are neatly piled and dusted. Also, please advise her that stacks of more than 4 have a tendency to tip. May I suggest that my bedroom window sill is not in use and will make an excellent spot for future soap deliveries. One more item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized Dial which I am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid further misunderstandings.

S. Berman

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:lol: You can read more on it here.

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