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I’m Sending the Squirrel After You, Whoever You Are…

Up Close & Personal

Hermann Park squirrel; shot taken during an engagement session on Nov. 11, 2007.

At 2:45am, the home phone rang. Immediately giving me a heart attack, because it could have only meant something bad had happened to someone. Mike answered; no one there.

Then my cell phone started to ring. I didn’t get it answered in time.

Then the house phone rang again. I answer. It is some guy, who knows that I am Christine, and tells me that he is Paul … you know, who I met at the bar tonight. You know, I gave him my business card. You know, Paul. (He kept saying, “you know” over and over – ignoring my very obvious confusion.)

Whathuh? I went to dinner with my parents, my husband & my son. I came home and finished editing a wedding. No bar was involved in any of this.

So he hangs up – and calls back on my cell phone to prove that I really did give him my business card. Otherwise, how would he have both numbers? I told him – AGAIN – that my HUSBAND and I were HOME and I was not at a bar. He told me to *bleep* off and hung up on me.

Of course, now I’m wide awake. It is 3:15am. And I am REALLY annoyed that some chick out there claimed to be me and gave out my business card. WTF? Grrrrrr….

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Stats, Stats, Baby!

From the Flickr Blog:

“Stats, stats, baby!

We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you — we’ve launched another of our most often requested features. Yay!

We’ve designed stats on Flickr to give you all sorts of insight into how people arrive at your photos. If you’re a pro member you can activate your stats now.”

If you haven’t done it already, you can head on over to here to activate them!

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BlahBlahBabble

Market Research, Round II…

I truly, truly, value your feedback. Right now, I have my portfolio site set up using the a template that I really like. However, it is limited on the number of galleries I can have, and it doesn’t have a calendar on it. I really want unlimited galleries and a calendar. Just recently, a new template was released. I love it. It is called George, which always amuses me.

But just because *I* like it doesn’t mean that the end user would like it. So I want YOUR opinion. Which one do you like better? Why?

As always, your help is GREATLY appreciated!

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Geek Love

Ah, Google…

So Google is at it again. A few weeks ago, I noticed a sudden drop in my Google pagerank on this site. Seems Google didn’t like that I had text link ads on my sidebar. Now? If you do a search for something that should bring up ScriptyGoddess as a result, you get to see it in the result list, but when you click the link it gives you a big, scary warning that ScriptyGoddess is bad and is distributing Malware!

She finally found a comment on the site with embedded HTML that may lead to something evil. But ScriptyGoddess isn’t distributing malware at all! Grrrrrr, Google! *shakes fist in the air* She submitted the site for review and hopefully they will get it fixed. Meanwhile? ScriptyGoddess is alive and well! (Please spread the word.)

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Amuse Me

But He Wrote Them!

Looking through Amazon tonight for something – I don’t even remember what lead me there – and I just froze when I saw it.

Barry Manilow has released a CD with the Greatest Songs of the Fifties, and followed it up by the Greatest Songs of the Sixties. Now he has released the Greatest Songs of the Seventies.

This totally amuses me. If you asked me to list the greatest songs from that time period, it would be mainly the Bee Gees and Barry Manilow. How can one of the greatest artists of the time period do a greatest of CD like this?

Check out the track list:
1. The Way We Were
2. My Eyes Adored You
3. Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
5. It Never Rains in Southern California
6. You’ve Got a Friend (Duet With Melissa Manchester)
7. He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
8. Sailing
9. The Long and Winding Road
10. (They Long To Be) Close to You
11. If
12. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
13. Mandy (Acoustic)
14. Weekend in New England (Acoustic)
15. Copacabana (At the Copa) (Acoustic)
16. Even Now (Acoustic)
17. Looks Like We Made It (Acoustic)
18. I Write The Songs (Acoustic)

Six out of 18 songs are songs that Barry Manilow did – now in Acoustic form. And the thought of him singing the Bee Gees, Simon & Garfunkel, or The Carpenters really freaks me out. That would just be so wrong. (Update: Ok, his version of Close to You was ok. The rest? WRONG. SO VERY WRONG.)

Speaking of the Bee Gees, where is Jive Talkin’? Or How Deep is Your Love? Come on, how can you do a Greatest Hits without those songs?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a Fanilow, although I’m not a card carrying member. But this CD just cracks me up!