pink gloves and breast cancer

oh! this is very cool!

thank you My Younger Son for letting me know about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw

comic books

this is interesting. i have not read any graphic novels, although i've heard of them. the article talks about one in particular, Luna Park, as being one of the best of 2009.

the article was intriguing, since that art form is unknown to me, but the part of the article which grabbed me the most was the last few paragraphs which profess the author's thoughts on american politics today. he summed up my feelings pretty darned well.

where is waldo?

well, here is something that was probably a lot of fun! i don't read Wired magazine except occasionally online, and i wouldn't have had a clue how to go about looking for this guy, except to scope out the people at work. ha! anyhow, check this out: Vanish.

so strange

do you like tim burton? do you like his art? well, here you go then ...

sheesh

well, i've tried to get the pictures from our resort escape posted, but it's not easy. i mean, the pictures are all on the computer, but i finally decided there were so many i couldn't realistically put them on the blog, so i thought i'd put them on flickr. shit. what a frickin pain. i have wasted the last hour trying to get them sorted out, but it's a herculean task to sort on flickr. yeah, yeah, i went to the help thing and did what they said and the result was exactly nothing. nothing changed. when i have been away from it for awhile, i will try again. or maybe i will choose another venue.

one of these days, the pix will be up.

don't worry your pretty little head over that lump...

i'm really speechless about this article. i don't have any trouble with them advising cutting back on routine mammograms. after all, i had a mammogram 6 months before i found my lump and it didn't show up at all.

no, the thing that really bothers me is this quote: "The new guidelines also recommend against teaching women to do regular self-exams and concluded that there is insufficient evidence to recommend that doctors do the exams..."

You. Are. Kidding. Me.

the potential trouble with health insurance companies aside, what the hell are they thinking??? i haven't read such hogwash in years. if the doctor doesn't do the exam and the women aren't told how to do it, how does the lump get caught and questioned before it's too late? i'm just appalled at this advice.

comedians ...

hahaha ... you need to check this out. some of them are really funny!

one ringy dingy ...

my understanding is that, starting today, verizon is doubling its cancellation fees. one more reason i'm glad i got out of their claws.

i have been with Consumer Cellular for more than a year, maybe two since i can't seem to keep track of time. they do not lock you into a contract. they (when i joined) thankfully only had three phones to choose from (mine has been wonderful). i can get service right from my desk which is 20 feet from the border with canada. with verizon i had to be blocks and blocks away before i'd get service which wasn't routed from canada (and therefore an extra charge).

this phone has made calls from indiana and arizona, and accepted calls from new york and nebraska. i couldn't be more satisfied.

if you're unhappy with verizon or at&t or whoever you're with, check out consumer cellular. and no, no one paid me for this endorsement -- it's entirely my own declarative message.

amsterdam certain it was what i saw

i always felt i was a fairly enlightened person, open to opposing views, accepting of differences. recently i read this and wondered how far behind i am.

it wasn't the article which stunned me, it was the website named in the article. i went to it just to see if it was like the online sites which matched people up, although the last time i looked at one of those was back in 2002 when a friend was going online to try to find a decent partner.

anyhow, i looked at the website and about dropped my jaw. jees, louise. isn't this porn or something? is it legal to have this stuff online? i mean, i'm not against it, but jees, jees, jees. it was waaaaaaaaay out of my comfort zone. i mean, do you just ... i mean ...

nevermind.

more matt ...

oops, i didn't see this in time to add it -- but go here and laugh!

except for the little girl who tripped in front of the troll -- she had to have hurt herself unless her face landed on her arm. hard to tell.

from down to waaaaay up

feeling out-0f-sorts? depressed? ticked off? disgusted? numb? majorly pissed?

take a moment to center yourself .... this is so cool.

i had completely forgotten about it. thanks, husband!

but, judge ....

have you heard about the possibility of being charged with collecting child porn when you'd never do such a thing in your life?? it can happen because of the miscreants out there who are inventive enough to put a virus on your computer which hides what it's doing, and then slyly brings child porn onto your computer for its safekeeping.

it's insidious!! and a really scary prospect. check out the story here. damn those bad guys! i'm keeping norton on my yearly shopping list!!

cattle logs

i do all my shopping by internet catalogs. it's easier and faster and saves gas. sure, there might be some things i decide to send back, but a number of places have no shipping charges coming or going; for others the return shipping is a minimal charge.

my number one shopping choices are orvis and llbean. i also order a few things from the vermont country store and occasionally from planetshoes and zappos (which i heard about from a paperback book i was reading!).

i tried ordering from appleseed's. i have had nothing but trouble with them. yes, they have some nice clothes, but the aggravation isn't worth it. i won't be ordering from them again.