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Last I looked at my website, the annoying ad banner was for the new Mini, so I found far less annoying than every other banner which flashes and twitches at the top of my pink blog. I would very much like to trade in the Marshmallow for a brand-spankin' Mini. Haven't decided on a color scheme, though I liked the black-top/yellow-body look, as it reminded me of a bumble bee. I'd call it Do-Bee, in honor of Mom's years as the host of Romper Room. La la la....

What Kind Of Sim Are You?

Take the quiz.

Here's me:

You are an Innovator Sim
Creativity is your middle name.
You belong to the group of Sims
who include the artists, designers
and innovators. You love to create
and build houses in the world
Your designs are extremely
innovative. You never cease to ask
"What if?" and your entire Sim life
is consumed by this question. As a
result, the property and rooms
you create range from bold to
bizarra to absolutely brilliant. Sims
from around the city flock to your
place hoping to rub elbows with
you for inspiration from your
creative Sim soul.

Geeze. I wish I were a Sim. Sim-Sugar Kat sounds a hell of a lot more interesting....

Pop-up

So I'm trying to figure out why the Blogspot server has crashed this time, and this pop-up comes up: "Additional Penile Enlargement Information", with ads for different systems and such. Why? What has this to do with anything at the Blogger.com site? What the hell is this? [Weird thing: I had a character tease another about penile enlargements in a story I wrote last night (turned in the cyberpunk story late—my excuse is my Alzheimer-y, full-maintenance-requiring grandma).] Why the hell would this pop-up, this particular penile enlargement pop-up, pop up so randomly? Isn't this the sort of product you'd want to target to a specific group? Or is every single person on the face of World Wide Web in desperate need of a penile enlargement mechanism?

You Had To Be There

I just tried to explain the title of this blog to my mom, who, as she is wont to do (and which drives me up the bloody wall), peeped over my shoulder to see what I'm writing on her computer, she half-grimaced and shook her head. I tried again, and she sighed in motherly frustration and shook her head again. Why is it the humor of this particular circle of friends goes over the heads of most everyone with whom I speak? Coworkers, other friends, parents. Not stupid people, by a long shot. They just don't get it.

I like this idea of pausing for moments of silence at certain points of the day today. I think that this should be recognized as a holiday, but that everyone should continue what they would do normally during the course of their day and simply pause for those four moments. It seems far more appropriate than having a day off for picnics and beer.

As for memorials, I think there should be one at WTC, but they should take a look at the Vietnam Memorial in D.C.. Not the statues, which are prolific and just too much, but the wall itself, with the names of the dead listed by year. I think they should have the names of the WTC dead, and the names of those on the flights, listed by tower and floor, or by flight, where they were from and their ages. Maybe have the tower or flight as the header for the section, then name, floor (if appropriate), home, age.

The impact of walking by that wall in D.C. when I was seven years old and looking at all of the names of the people who died in that war was profound. It was the best way to illustrate the extent of the loss. I think this would be the most appropriate way to illustrate what New York, the country and the world suffered to those kids in the future who did not live through what happened on September 11, 2001.