Juicy Jabber parody

It seems that one of the popular YouTube channels is this pretty teenage (?) girl with a special voice, who with her sister and mother sells beauty products and gift items, apparently very successfully (good for them). LisaNova did a parody. Well done JuicyStar for not taking offense at her making fun of the voice.





"Never get caught half-stepping, with your weapon on safety!" Hahaha! That's glorious.

And... "I love you guys so much that I make hearts with my hands." Great.
And actually an amazing coincidence: Just a couple of hours ago I was editing a set for Domai, one of my favorites, Indi, and she did that! And I'd never seen it before. Now I see it twice in one day.

Nudity is just wrong!

[Thanks to pascal.]

Or is it? Dave weighs in.

Netbook?

I bought a Samsung NC10 Netbook (black) today. I wanted a new toy for xmas, and I sometimes want a Windows machine (like for web site testing), and it seemed very charming and economical. And so far I like it a lot. It runs Win7 smoothly too*.
(Though it took a loooooong time for the machine to get up and running the first time, installing software etc etc. Must have been like two hours. You'd think they could just ship the disk like it is after it has all been installed.)

I thought, though, that a machine like this, which runs a full OS and has a virtually full keyboard, would be called a sub-notebook, not a "netbook"?

Though I wish I'd known about the blue version, I must say it's a very good looking machine. And it's telling of the times that you now can get a machine this advanced and this compact for so little money. (It seems to have everything, including webcam.)

Hmm, doesn't Windows have an auto-login setting, so I don't have to type in a password on reboot? I can't find it in Controlpanel. [Update: Jeff gives the answer: leave the password blank.]
What I also can't find, bizarrely, is how to change the desktop background! Searches of Control panels reveals no such thing, it does not appear on right-clicking the background, and selecting an image in IE as new background does not work...
[Update: Steven tells me the Windows "Starter Edition" refuses to do that. I think that's a really lame example of "cripple-ware". I paid a pretty handsome premium to get Win7 instead of XP, I think putting up my own desktop background is the least I can ask for!]

* Well, by "smoothly" I mean at acceptable speed, not without hitches. Seems the blue screen of death is black these days... The machine seems to crash when woken up from sleep-with-closed-lid.

Mozart concerto 20 in d-minor, Allegro (1of2) Gulda

I'm mostly into rock (of many kinds), but I have some classical favorites, this is one of them. (Same concert given in two parts on youtube due to length.)
Damn, what a fantastic minds those composers had, to compose works of such beauty and complexity.

Owl flying

Tommy found this kewl video of a owl flying, in slow motion.

Last day for the contest!

Only one day left to enter my Black/White Portrait contest.

GIANNI GALASSI PhotoGraphia

Mike Johnston found this cool photo blog.
It's much harder than you'd believe to make these kind of pictures. As proof, have you ever noticed such a view in reality? I doubt it. It really has to be coaxed out.

Eliza Dushku Tru Calling

I like this theme song, and I liked Eliza Dushku's Tru Calling, I just started rewatching it. I can see from Amazon reviews that I'm not alone in liking it.

This is the full music video of the theme song, by Full Blown Rose:

Unpaid internships

I had not heard of unpaid interships before, I wonder how common it is?
Seems to me these guys are asking a lot from people they don't want to pay.
Mike Johnston has a comment.

Anna Phoebe

One of the things I think about sometimes is the conundrum for a company or artist (or product) of taking a name which is unusual, preferably unique, but also easy to learn and remember. It's not simple at all!

One of the methods is to combine two common names or words, making one unusual "sandwich" which is easier to learn than a brand new or very unusual names. One of the most successful of those is a violinist I just heard of, Anna Phoebe. Two lovely names, one very common, the other more uncommon, but still known. A combination which is easy to learn and remember. And a combination unusual enough that just a moderate amount of fame should ensure that any quick Net Search should locate her easily.

Today's quotes from my quotes service

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
-- Gretel Ehrlich

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
-- John Witherspoon

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
-- Shimon Peres

In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Me on playboy TV

I am not sure how many of you are aware of my appearance on the Playboy TV channel a couple years back? It was surprisingly good.
(They keep rerunning it in different countries, so it's been good exposure for me and Domai.) (Well, it's also given me a reputation locally as a adult web king or something, strange. :-)

You can now get the show for free download, thanks to my pal Carter who captured and compressed it.
Apart from yours truly, it also has many beautiful nekkid chicks in it. :-)

If you like it, tell your friends.