First James Brown, now Gerald Ford. Who do you think is next? Apparently not Arnold Schwartzenegger.
(The connection between Brown and Ford eludes me, but I'm sure there is one.)
| Greed: | Medium | |
| Gluttony: | Medium | |
| Wrath: | Low | |
| Sloth: | Medium | |
| Envy: | Very Low | |
| Lust: | Medium | |
| Pride: | Low |
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Eh.
Got this image in my inbox this morning:
I'm so lucky to have a New York fan club.In Chicago I saw several of his houses that looked as if they were built yesterday. By Asbjorn Lonvig, artist, designer, writer. The displayed images are drafts.
The area is very mountainous and the colors in the mist look just like your artwork!
Inspired from gladiators fighting to the death in the Colosseum in Rome.
Inspired by the highest mountain in the world, Mont Everest in Nepal.
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All the best from your New York Fan Club!
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support the arts, but do it with caution. And the wish to climb it - soon!
What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.
Well, that's pretty easy: The shark on my closet shelf. It was actually some clothes or something, but in the dark by the glow of the moon, there was a Great White on my shelf, waiting for me to get close enough to eat.
On the flipside, I'm a little creeped out by the basement in our two-flat. It's got a very weird vibe, and every time I open the door to our storage space, I expect there to be a snarling monster on the other side.
Cinnamon and I were up in Milwaukee for a craft show two weekends ago, and the hotel we stayed in was sort of odd. It was a Comfort Inn that had previously been some independent hotel and had been converted fairly recently. The lobby restaurant/bar was a place called Aqua, which looked like it had been designed to be a mix of what was vogue over the past couple decades. The room was painted various shades of, you guessed it, aqua and blue (except for one wall that inexplicably bore a mural of two zebras); the bar was made of lucite and stainless steel, with bubblers of blue and green colored water for walls and lucite bar stools; a seating area with nice lounge chairs and multicolored linoleum tiles; and there was a light-up disco floor in white, aqua and blue squares.
In the midst of all this, a jazz vocalist and a pianist (at a white baby grand) were performing classics and pop tunes. It all made for a pretty awkward scene. The nice thing about the bubblers in the bar, though, was that if you were bored or just really drunk, you could just watch the water move under your drink.
So, NewCity, one of the alt.weeklies in Chicago, has a feature this week on the "Fame 150," the most famous people in the city. Their methodology? Google hits.
A sampling of results:
Funny thing is, if you search for me, you get 32,000 results.* Which according to their numbers would put me at #146, right between authors Bill Zehme (34,900) and Haki Madhubuti (30,600). Searching for "me3dia" gives you 97,100 results, slotting me at #117, ahead of Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf.1 Oprah: 34,400,000
2 Kanye West: 5,300,000
3 R. Kelly: 4,390,000
4 Michael Jordan: 4,370,000
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27 Jeremy Piven: 1,020,000
28 Jeff Tweedy: 997,000
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43 Brian Urlacher: 535,000
44 Studs Terkel: 526,000
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71 Richard M. Daley: 279,000
72 Charlie Trotter: 275,000
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113 Christie Hefner: 103,000
114 Al Jourgensen: 101,000
So clearly, I'm one of the 150 most famous people in Chicago too! Bow down before my relative importance!
*Of course, not every one of those results is for me, but how many of #134 Liz Ryan's 134,000 results are actually for the founder of WorldWIT and not the no-doubt dozens of other Liz Ryans in Chicago? Do you think NewCity actually counted? For what it's worth, if you add "+ Chicago" to a search of my name (their method for narrowing results for common names like Liz's) you get 10,500 results, which would take me out of the running, but would also eliminate a lot of valid references, too. So whatever.
Stay classy, Chicago!
So, the spammer assassin at del.icio.us is named Britta Gustafson, and every time she responds to my alerts of some tag spammers, I get a pang of concern that I somehow mis-emailed to our friend Britta, whose father's name was Gustaf. Freaks me out every time.
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Subject: Re: spammers Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:13:09 -0800 From: Britta Gustafson <b******@yahoo-inc.com> To: a.huff@me3dia.com, delicious-support@cc.yahoo-inc.com References: <454633FA.90905@me3dia.com> Thanks! Smushing is in process.
-del.icio.us support
Andrew Huff wrote:
> Evil no-good spammers:
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> hairpeople <http://del.icio.us/hairpeople>
> buckandwing1d1 <http://del.icio.us/buckandwing1d1>
