Drinking from a firehose

As is my usual morning routine, I just checked my Google news feed and happened to notice the blurb that Princess Charlotte is celebrating her second birthday and that her parents have released a new photograph. I don't particularly care about the Royal family (although I do have great respect for the Queen) but I had to check out the photo because I wanted a better look at the sweater Princess Charlotte is wearing. What I want to know is whether it was hand-knit, if so who knit it, and if the pattern is available on Ravelry.

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What I find amusing is this portrait of Rick Santorum is really a mosaic created from gay porn. I'd credit the artist if I knew his/her identity. A much larger (and NSFW version) can be found here:
http://gaypornblog.com/rick-santorums-face-made-up-entirely-of-gay-porn.html

On January 1st I saw that eftychia used one of my quotes. This morning I see one of my friends is on cheezburger.

Which reminds me, a video I'm in was posted to youtube -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOfzprvvwY -- I'm the fat chick briefly interviewed at the 38 second mark.

Tomorrow we're going to The Ark for this group's performance.

I often think I'm fairly humorless and I have an aversion to embarrassing people and, therefore, I despise most practical jokes. Having said that, I think this is brilliant.

bloggingchick have you see the ED Sing-a-Longs? Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqfEnP2GMHI (and 93 others). Funny stuff.

enednoviel and other flisties with an interest in copyright and fair use: When Copyright Goes Bad

After spending far too much time researching PCI data security standards and thinking about what's actually needed to be secure, I've found what is likely to be the best certification program around.



And if you don't believe me, think about this: Heartland Payment Systems disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants and that the intruders had access to those systems for multiple weeks during late 2008. This in spite of the fact Heartland was certified as PCI compliant months before the breach occurred.

After spending far too much time researching PCI data security standards and thinking about what's actually needed to be secure, I've found what is likely to be the best certification program around.



And if you don't believe me, think about this: Heartland Payment Systems disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants and that the intruders had access to those systems for multiple weeks during late 2008. This in spite of the fact Heartland was certified as PCI compliant months before the breach occurred.

I have a cousin who keeps sending me joke email. Being a cousin, I can't just send his stuff directly into oblivion, I have to look at first to make sure it isn't anything useful as regards family goings-on, history, etc. And, occasionally (very occasionally), the messages are actually funny. This one isn't so much funny as vaguely amusing and horrifically accurate.

( Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder )

Only please don't sent to everyone you know as either my cousin already did, or they've already read it here on LJ.

I have a cousin who keeps sending me joke email. Being a cousin, I can't just send his stuff directly into oblivion, I have to look at first to make sure it isn't anything useful as regards family goings-on, history, etc. And, occasionally (very occasionally), the messages are actually funny. This one isn't so much funny as vaguely amusing and horrifically accurate.

( Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder )

Only please don't sent to everyone you know as either my cousin already did, or they've already read it here on LJ.

I was flipping through one of the trade rags we get at the office when my eye fell upon ( this ad )