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The comment spam has gotten quite thick lately- if you, gentle reader, find that your comment hasn’t appeared after ~12-24 hours, it is quite likely your comment was spam killed.  My personal email filters are holding up pretty good, but bturnip.com is being spoofed for the return address of spams and I am getting hundreds of emails per day in my catchall bin from pissed off or politely concerned email servers all over the world about the messages various fake users of bturnip.com are sending out.

I can’t wait until spam stops being a financially rewarding business…

or “Why the UPS Store doesn’t suck”.

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I was pretty pleased with my serene Asiatic Lily theme for a while. The chance those happy days might last was dashed against the rocks the moment Malone observed that my cheerful lily header image might be just a bit too saccharine for everyday consumption. Continue reading →

When you only have 1 or 2 readers, you do what you must to keep them coming back. I have retired the ninja dogs in winter theme with my fresh new Lily theme.

The technical details:

• Used a Canon Rebel XT digital for the original shot.
• The Asiatic Lilies are from the overgrown flowerbeds in front of my house.
• A little Gimp here, Gimp there and I had a new new header.
• Simple easy-cheesy mod of the Kubrick WordPress theme.

Like it? Don’t like it? Let me know- your feedback is the only thing keeping me going in today’s climate of terrorism-profiteering.

I have seen this cartoon before, but it always gets a laugh out of me:

I don’t have an attribution for source, send one and I will be happy to add it*. Click on the thumbnail at left to see the whole cartoon.

* A google search indicates it might the be work of monkeynoodle.org.  Or it could be just another site showing the cartoon.  In either case it is in a handy pdf format over on monkeynoodle.

Undergoing some upgrades and changes.
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[This] arrived in my inbox with the subject line “When to stop drinking at a Cub’s game”.

Just in time to catch some of the Lilies that are blooming in the yard:

view the image in a seperate window for more detail…

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