Monthly Archives: June 2004

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Noticing that the flowers, the pinkiness and the background of my mini-redesign are quite similar to dooce’s recent redesign.

hot pink designThe background is indeed from squidfingers.com, and it’s a color-modified version of the one dooce uses. The flowers I stole from myself, from a January-era hot-pink design of old, color-modified and duplicated and fuzzed up in Photoshop. The font is something stupid like Edwardian Script with a stroke and gradient overlay on it, the other font is Arial Narrow. If Miss Armstrong objects I’ll of course re-do, but i’m hoping that since I’m absent any adorable dogs in baby blankets, I’m off the hook.

Anyway, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and that’s the truth.

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The Tribune Co., which owns The Baltimore Sun and other local interests, is cutting 200 jobs. According to Editor & Publisher, they offered buyouts to 63 folks at the Sun, 18 of which appear to be accepted.

I have no further comment at this time.

In a totally unrelated musing: The City Paper appears to have cut their own blog. Crablogs says it was updated 48 minutes ago, but mine eyes have seen the vacancy — no longer even a 404 to console a lonely visitor. A shame, truly, because it had potential. Of course, I’ve been off the blog circuit for several weeks now, so perhaps someone noted this previously and has already discovered the reason, yet I am to lazy to Google-find the answer.

Move on to another day

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Things I like today:

  • Rave Ultra hair gel
  • glazed doughnuts
  • low-impact work days
  • My soon-to-be mortgage broker, Kevin

Things I dislike today:

  • The burden of auto care
  • Tobacco smoke [somebody take her temperature!!]
  • Loud and rowdy lawn maintenance workers
  • Not enjoying the warm weather for fear of cicadas.

P.S. Speaking of, Iain got one up his shirt yesterday. It was gross, but really, really funny.

This post brought to you by: The World At Large from the album “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” by Modest Mouse.

It’s not laziness, it’s reading

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  • A Capital Idea. Because I still heart copy editing, even though it’s not my job any more, and I definitely still heart blogs about it.
  • Little Women. Because who doesn’t love a heartwarming 19th-century morality tale? Especially when it’s a 1963 edition given one by one’s mother, illustrated by Anna Magagna and held together with packing tape.
  • The Sun Classifieds. Because dammit, I’m going to find me the perfect house. And soon, because a certain apartment manager I know just raised the rent. AGAIN.
  • The Expanding Blogosphere. Because it’s about blogs, and I make believe I’m sick of the whole thing, but really … I’m not.

Party on, Wayne. Party on, Garth. And have a happy Tuesday.