Family dis-union

It started out as a plan for a family reunion. This would be a good place I said, to do a family reunion. The ‘sometime‘ was implied. My in-laws (you may remember them from an earlier episode, in fact many, known collectively as in-law vs outlaw) have one of those family reunion traditions. Sometimes we […]

It started out as a plan for a family reunion.

This would be a good place I said, to do a family reunion. The ‘sometime‘ was implied.

My in-laws (you may remember them from an earlier episode, in fact many, known collectively as in-law vs outlaw) have one of those family reunion traditions. Sometimes we do these every couple years, sometimes not. And always, it’s a case of, who’s gonna plan it, who’s gonna say they’re coming, who’s gonna show up, who’s gonna pay for the ones who can’t afford it.

We’ve done ’em close – monterey, tahoe – or far, idaho, utah, oregon. And every time it’s a funny, silly drama, the kind you only get in families. Disorganization, mis-communication, flakiness. yet, always, we have a good time.

I don’t fit with these people – they come from mormon stock, though a lot of them are not mormon anymore. But if you watch Big Love, when they show you the LDS people, you could be looking at some of my more-distant mormon in-laws. They’re a straight-arrow bunch. And I’m – well, I’m the outlaw. The pirate. The biker. The counter-culture guy. They, truly, have no idea who I really am, unless some of them are reading this space.

Yet, they’re good folks. There are some crazies in the bunch, even if they’re non-drinking, never-gotten-stoned types. There are some who own guns, some who ride motorcycles. There’s a group who have a real taste for mayhem. Sober mayhem, but mayhem all the same.

But – ultimately – they’re family, and family means disorganization.

So a few months ago, we were at Disneyland, and staying at a nearby hotel, and I said, instead of the usual places, we should do the family reunion here, next year, a year after. Whenever, it’d be fun.

And I mentioned that in passing to my mother-in-law, who somehow converted that to now because that’s how she is.

Everyone said, yeah, we can do that, great, we’re in. There are a lot of big Disney geeks in teh family – some of ’em much bigger disney geeks than I am. So it was a no-brainer, they were fully into it. A date was picked, motel rooms booked. Everyone, even the arms of the family that usually drop out, said they were in, coming from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah.

And you can see where this goes.

One by one, they dropped out, like a set of dominos. Oh, wait, we can’t do that week.

Until it was back down to pretty much just the LA locals (the lovely couple whose wedding I attended before my Fiji trip two years ago), my family, my in-laws.

But you know, we had the rooms booked, so it turned out to be a very small family re-union. And so, next week, I’ll be in sunny southern CA, getting sunburned in line for It’s a small world. Alas, Pirates is down for now – they’re adding Jack Sparrow to the ride, an idea I don’t like. But maybe this time I’ll get time to talk to Jack Rudy about a tattoo I want, and in any case, not working is always, always a good thing.

Joomla Designers?

Anyone out there know Joomla templates? I’ve need of a good Joomla designer who can take some bad CSS and make a good joomla template out of it. This is a paying gig. I’m not a designer, I suck at graphic design. Help. I’m working on setting up a server and getting the content in […]

Anyone out there know Joomla templates?

I’ve need of a good Joomla designer who can take some bad CSS and make a good joomla template out of it.

This is a paying gig.

I’m not a designer, I suck at graphic design. Help.

I’m working on setting up a server and getting the content in place, but the template is what the muckity-mucks care about, and they feel we need to make it look like the old site.

Brokeback Mounties

I post this only because it gives me a chance to use the phrase Brokeback Mounties. And who can resist. It’s an I’m a Lumberjack sort of story. Two RCMP officers will finally get their man this summer, when Const. Jason Tree and Const. David Connors walk down the aisle and exchange vows. It will […]

I post this only because it gives me a chance to use the phrase Brokeback Mounties. And who can resist. It’s an I’m a Lumberjack sort of story.

Two RCMP officers will finally get their man this summer, when Const. Jason Tree and Const. David Connors walk down the aisle and exchange vows.

It will be the first same-sex marriage in the Mounties’ history.

(Full Story Here)

Brokeback Mounties. Guffaw. Props to Mom for telling me about this.

MT 3.3 beta

Update – The MT 3.3 Beta has been released. I encourage MT users to get on board and help test – I’d like to see this release go GA shortly, it’s got some REALLY cool features. I’m not planning to upgrade this-here space yet (not ’til they get to at least beta version 2 or […]

Update – The MT 3.3 Beta has been released.

I encourage MT users to get on board and help test – I’d like to see this release go GA shortly, it’s got some REALLY cool features. I’m not planning to upgrade this-here space yet (not ’til they get to at least beta version 2 or 3), but it’s looking pretty solid in my beta-testing blog and I’ve seen no major bugs yet.


SixApart are about to start a beta test of Movable Type 3.3.

The plan as of now is to install that here – maybe not the day it comes out, but shortly after. I’ll likely (If I have time) install 3.3 as a separate installation first to drive it around and see what’s different. If any of you-all who have m’sphere blogs are interested, I’ll point you to it.

I have not seen a change list to see what they’ve added, but I’m hoping it’s 1) good stuff and 2) doesn’t break anything.

While I think MT is the best bloging platform out there, I’m not sure how confident I am in SixApart these days; they seem like they’re letting things get away from them on TypePad and of course they’re spending cycles supporting LiveJournal, which is possibly the worst blogging platform around, if the one with the largest customer base. I’m hoping they get control of that shortly.

Blogrolling is down, down down

Blogrolling is down today, for those who use it. http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/5/2008115.html Please note that blogrolling.com is curerntly down for maintenance reasons. We have been experiencing technical issues with the database and have to take down the entire service in order to repair the problem in a quick fashion. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have […]

Blogrolling is down today, for those who use it.

http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/5/2008115.html

Please note that blogrolling.com is curerntly down for maintenance reasons. We have been experiencing technical issues with the database and have to take down the entire service in order to repair the problem in a quick fashion.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.


Seems like it’s back, finally. I’m no big fan of blogrolling but it’s still the only one that does ‘recently updated’ links correctly. For everything else, MTBlogRolling is a better choice.

Coop Boot Lust

My god, I want these boots – made custom for Coop by a bootmaker named Pascal.


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I’m a sucker for boots and a sucker for custom-made shit. Coop, I’m afraid to ask how to get ‘hold of Pascal, I can feel my wallet protesting already…

(image from Coop’s site, props to BoingBoing for the find)

Piloh WHAT?

This is one of those moments where you want to ask a parent, did you try saying your new baby’s name out loud? The very fuckable if sorta over-rated Angelina Jolie, and her current man-slut, the also somewhat fuckable Brad Pitt, just had a baby – who you figure is going to grow up to […]

This is one of those moments where you want to ask a parent, did you try saying your new baby’s name out loud?

The very fuckable if sorta over-rated Angelina Jolie, and her current man-slut, the also somewhat fuckable Brad Pitt, just had a baby – who you figure is going to grow up to be the best looking person who ever lived.

And they named this little person Shiloh. And that’s ok, I guess, when you think about all the really really stupid celeb-baby names we’ve seen lately – Banjo, Pilot Inspektor, Diezel Ky, Rumer, Tallulah and Scout, Jermajesty, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. I mean, you can just go on and on.

So Shiloh doesn’t seem that utterly stupid.

But then you say it out loud. Shiloh Pitt. Say it a few times. And it won’t be long til you make a spoonerism out of it. And it comes out Piloh Shitt.

Ok, I didn’t come up with this. That credit goes to Tabloid Whore (I love you, Tabloid Whore), with the headline SHILOH PITT TO ENDURE YEARS OF TEASING AS PILOH SHITT. But still, I cant stop laughing at it.

Body Circle Sale ’06

My favorite body-piercing jewelry maker, Body Circle, are having their annual everything-20%-off sale. It’s a great time to get those more expensive pierces like the gold piercing jewelry (hmm, maybe I should get new, gold nipple rings), big, heavy rings for you well-sgtretched types, or a good time to stock up on piercing supplies for […]

My favorite body-piercing jewelry maker, Body Circle, are having their annual everything-20%-off sale. It’s a great time to get those more expensive pierces like the gold piercing jewelry (hmm, maybe I should get new, gold nipple rings), big, heavy rings for you well-sgtretched types, or a good time to stock up on piercing supplies for the do-it-yourselfer.

Note that the discounts don’t show up until you put the items in your cart – the listed prices are NOT the sale prices. The cart shows the 20% discount and how much you’re saving.

These guys make some really good jewelry, and they’re really helpful to deal with. Other than my nipples, every piece of piercing jewelry I have on is from them.

Now, what size to order for the nipples…

Rock Paper Scissors… Monkey?

Maybe it’s just me. But I think this is incredibly funny. It’s a 25-gesture version of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors. Here’s the chart, and the list of the possible gestures with how they play with other gestures. Though you know, they need to make it 26 – Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shocker! Ok. Maybe it’s […]

Maybe it’s just me. But I think this is incredibly funny.


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It’s a 25-gesture version of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors. Here’s the chart, and the list of the possible gestures with how they play with other gestures. Though you know, they need to make it 26 – Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shocker!

Ok. Maybe it’s just ’cause we used to sit around making up variants – like Llama, which beat everything, but then died, so you could only use it once. But I’m wishing I could actually memorize these well enough to play these. I knew there would come a time when I wanted all those brain cells back.

(Props to BoingBoing for the find)