May 2007 Archives

A co-worker just gave me a box of diapers that they didn't use before his kid outgrew them. The box touts the "baby-shaped fit."

Take a look at this blog post and imagine how confused I was when my brain was substituting Susanna Hoffs for the name of the person actually being discussed.

Babycenter.com has run out of patience for telling us what size the baby is.

• Week 17 = large onion
• Week 18 = large sweet potato
• Week 19 = small zucchini
• Week 20 = Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom, and about 10 inches from head to heel. (For the first 20 weeks, we use measurements taken from the top of the baby's head to her bottom — known as the "crown to rump" measurement. After that, we use measurements from head to toe. This is because a baby's legs are curled up against her torso during the first half of pregnancy and are very hard to measure.)

I'm sorry, this does not work for me. First the lazy use of adjectives, as if they couldn't be bothered to find an item of produce the correct size. Then, they change the rules, and they still offer no comparison.

It's not like they're actually measuring our damn baby every week. What gives with the sloth?

I'm sure you can find a clever way to use the Ninja Text Generator:

The Princess, lying in bed: I left the computer copying your folder, is that ok?

C-Man: Pillowmumble what?

C-Man: I just had a veggie burger for dinner yesterday.

The Princess: I didn't. I had...umm...

C-Man: Junk food?

The Princess: A handful of jellybeans.

C-Man: That's what you had for dinner?!

The Princess: And I didn't feel all that great afterwards, I tell ya. I probably won't eat jellybeans again for about 24 hours.

C-Man: I'm not leaving you alone in the house to eat dinner anymore.

• Chirky: Spam Poetry
  Art out of spam email, who knew?
• defective yeti: Riposted
  Now I understand more about why I've stopped reading so many political blogs.
• So Mighty, So Deadly, So Bershon | BlogHer
  I think The Dog has made that face, but I didn't know there was a name for it until I saw this.
• http://homeland.gov.safenow.org - what to do in an emergency
  Now I am prepared.
• Internet Access CAPTCHAs
  A joke based on CAPTCHAs *and* one of my pet peeves? Perfect.
• Wildlife pincushions | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  No matter what some ignorant yahoo says about your cause, if you represent an organization, you should not respond like this guy did.
• Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » "Black is an EXTRA feature… Therefore, you hav[e] to PAY for it."
  "Nothing in life is free," says the game developer. Except of course being white.

I'm still waiting for that fabled second trimester shift when you don't feel like hell all the time.

This movie was bad even by Christopher Lambert direct-to-video standards.

Hey kids, I'm launching another blog: All Access Blogging.

If you are a blogger and you'd like to make your blog more accessible to people with disabilities, or if you want to know why you should, check it out.

And let me know if that background color is just WAY too bright. It's pretty, but it kind of hurts my eyes.

(And while you're at it, you know about Heroine Content, right?)