Work can get boring, so...

I do a lot of sitting in my truck at my job. I go wait for a detasseling crew, and if the crew is a hour late (an occurrence that is by no means uncommon) I have to sit in my truck for an hour. Do I bring a book? I really should, but thus far I have just ended up playing with my work phone. And what does a semi-artistic person do when he plays with a phone? He plays with the camera and whatever image manipulation tools the phone has (notoriously stone-age)

   And YOU benefit from that- I have made up a package of seriously groovy cellphone wallpapers and I'm offering them here gratis (as if I would charge anything for such things).  So if you have a cell phone, enjoy these offerings! If you have no cell phone, use them for whatever you like. You may even sell them, but I want royalties. 

 

Let's hope this works.

Wallpapers

Best parental advice ever.

I was sitting on lunch break...no, I was sitting on a bench, on my lunch break. I mean, the bench wasn't on my lunch break, I was. But then- if I was on the bench on my lunch break, was the bench taking a lunch break too? I don't know- it's all moot anyway. On this lunch break I picked up a friendly brochure that boasted that it would advise parents 'how to talk with your kids about smoking'.  inside the dubiously designed cover (I'm a designer- what can I say? The cover made me want to laugh and throw up at the same time) was a couple of paragraphs of helpful statistics (...and as my Dad says, there's Lies, **** Lies and there's statistics. And yes, he does censor that joke like I just did.) and a list of bullet points which were 'helpful tips to help you talk to your kids'. There were very helpful: such pointers as the Nikesque 'Just do it' to the sentences attempting to scare parents into submission to the idea of smoking as the Original Sin (I say that speaking against smoking is Racism: after all, the native Americans gave it to us, didn't they? I guess smoking is a greater sin) but the thing that really caught my eye was the last wonderful piece of advice, reproduced here for your enlightenment:

 And get this: the study cited as the source of this quotation was a study called "Do as I say..."

Unbearably cute.

Hey, folks. 

I have a little cat on my computer who chases my mouse around. I don't quite remember where I got it- I think it may be a yahoo! widget- but it is undoubtably one of the neatest little programs I've ever seen. His name is Neko, he chases the mouse, scratches himself, and can eventually fall asleep in a little ball. Well, a little while ago I had Neko with his grey coat (you can pick several different looks, as well as behavioral settings) hanging out on my computer screen. I was doing something else for a few minutes, and I looked up and Neko had fallen asleep in the lap of a friend, who appeared to be stroking Neko's head-

Neko Napping

Well, this was just about the cutest thing I'd ever seen, so I snapped a quick screenshot, knowing that such a thing would probably never happen again. It never has!