Author: sloanie

I met Mel at Best Buy because she’s looking at laptops and wanted my input. After we finished looking at them she left and I wandered over to the music section to find a cd that was released today, Utada: Exodus. Utada Hikaru is a Japanese “pop” artist who just released her first all-English /…

Here’s the poor guy about 2 days after surgery (last Friday). It took a lot out of him. By now he seems to be a lot more normal, at least in his demeanor– he wishes he could go out and play like a normal puppy. We’ve been calling him “Frankenweenie” because of the nasty wounds…

Meh. September left on quite a high note, but October has entered on a lower note. Some chick freakin’ just about ran me off the road. After so many close calls where honking was sufficient to get the person to jerk back into their lane, this one seemed oblivous until she was already running into…

What can I say? I feel like a little kid on Christmas morning. I FINALLY have a (mostly) up to par computer at work. OS X Panther is lovely. The Apple Cinema Display is breath-taking. The G5 is… slow because it only has 256MB of RAM, but hey– it’s a start. At least I know…

Ok so I’m hopping on the bandwagon. Miss Laura otherwise known as Llew, is one of the authors at the Chubby Girl Brigade web site. The site pretty much speaks for itself, but they’re having a contest to see which site can direct the most traffic to the CGB site. Now, the prize is a…

So this morning I went through my usual routine of getting up and getting ready for work. When I got upstairs I noticed my Canon SD10 (re: the camera I take all these pics with) sitting on the kitchen table. I didn’t recall leaving it there, so I grabbed it and scanned it for teeth…

This is from a few weeks back at Costco. Christmas stuff already! Not even October yet– halloween season isn’t even in full swing yet, though it will be shortly. Last year I attempted to compile a list of Halloween movies which I never ended up watching. I should watch some of them this year, hehe.…

Mom was saying last night how this guy is the sweetest dog she’s ever known. He sticks up for the little guy and he’s got such a loving temperament. He doesn’t like it when Bo harasses Gus, and even as big as he is, he loves to crawl onto your lap like he was small…

Anyone who’s played around with Photoshop realizes this, hehe. Aside from the latter picture obviously being cleaner and sharper, you can see they’ve taken Anakin’s eyebrows off. Ok, I had to get this entry in before the official Star Wars DVD release (tomorrow). Most of you have probably heard this by now, but at least…

Well as far as I can tell I have survived “talk like a pirate day”, aka “the day bad things happen to mikie”, without damage. It was stormy Saturday night… thunder and lighting. I wasnt messing around, I unplugged my computers from the wall so there would be no chance of power surge to damage…

Tomorrow is a bad day, for no other reason than that it’s September 19. I mean, it’s cool that it’s “Talk Like a Pirate” day, but for the last 2 years I’ve had fairly bad luck on the 19th of September, it’s amazing. I started working on getting my old archives online… it’s going to…

This is from the calendar that hangs in my cubicle. The other designers got these “Food Services of America” calendars as freebies from one of our printing companies. One of them got tired of looking at last month’s not-so-appetizing-looking hot dog picture and hung it in my cube. I promptly changed the month to September,…

A few stills from the movie “Hero” One of the things I loved about this movie’s production design was the use of color– it’s beautiful. I still need to watch it again to give the use of color some analysis. This morning I found myself in the middle of a strange dream. The thing is,…

Shawn was hard at work playing with his new toy. He put me to shame this weekend with how many pics he took. I may grab a few of his and post them later. At any rate, people are noticing how he seems to be taking after me these days… It just dawned on me…

I brought my laptop in to work today to rip some mp3s and stuff while working, but didn’t bring a mouse with me. I had this Apple mouse hanging around so I plugged it in, and it works of course… but man. Talk about style over substance. On an Apple OS you can press ctrl+click…