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Parody by brusspup

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From Revision3 Internet TV

Interesting- twitter’s evolution has been user-driven

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I recently had a drink invented in my honor. What finer tribute could possibly be made, when you get right down to it? Statues crumble, cities are ravaged by war and nature, books come and go in favor.

But the friendship aspect of a simple drink cannot be overrated. It is no coincidence that the first miracle that Jesus performed was to turn water into wine at that wedding ceremony- at the behest of his mother. It is no surprise that some of the best networking happens after hours, after the meetings, when people stop merely listening and begin engaging with each other.

So, Joe Spake, thank you! I am touched! You can read about the recipe here, and I borrowed a picture from his blog so you would know what it looked like.

Drink

Mmmmm.

The name was the hard part. We originally thought Rusty Nail of Love, but that was too cumbersome. “Hashtag?” “AmarettoHammer?” Nothing sounded just right.

Then, Joe had a Eureka moment in the wee hours of the morning. He named it the TwitterQueen- an inspired moniker for what will be MY drink of choice, at any rate, at RE BarCamp Philly.

Thanks, Joe!

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Mentioned in the same missive as the Governor:

TwitterQueens and Governor

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I am not ever that excited about clothes shopping. First of all, I am impatient and can always think of about one hundred things I would rather be doing. Second of all, except for the Nordstrom’s in Burlington, the lighting is awful and the mirrors make me look fat. I stand there looking at myself, shaking my head and wondering how I got to this point.

mirrors everywhere

And that brought me to this. I was thinking today about how much of each of us is invested in the esteem of other people.  We are all reflected in the eyes of others, and like it or not that helps to craft what we think of ourselves- and that can mean the difference between storming forward full of piss and vinegar or rolling over and going back to sleep.

So the point is, you have to find good mirrors. Surround yourself with people whose opinions you value, and use them as a buffer against the rest.

And toss in a little smoke if you need to.

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Go to Splashup.com

1)      Go to File- click New image- choose size of 500 x 500 for avatar

2)      Choose color for this layer and use the fill tool (paint can) to fill the first layer

Choose color

3)      Choose “Open Image” browse and upload your main photo

4)      Choose the lasso tool (rope) and carefully outline your head, making sure to start and stop at the same end point. Go to Edit- click copy. Close the picture you lassoed. It doesn’t have to be perfect – it will still look good.

Upload headshot- use lasso tool (rope) to outline

5)      Go to Edit again- click paste.

6)      You should see your image show up as a layer on top of your background color. Click the arrow tool on the left to move it, and click the Resize tool (third down on the left) to make it bigger or smaller.

Your cropped headshot has now been placed over your background

7)      To add another layer, repeat steps 3-6

Adding my twitterbird with crown

8)      I added my twitterbird- then I changed my background color to black to make it pop

Voila!

9)      File- Save as Avatar.jpg- this is how mine looks:

My finished avatar

Why spend all of this time? Here’s why!

Good luck- have fun! It doesn’t take too long after the first couple of tries, so you can redo it if you don’t like it.

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reprinted from January 30, 2007

I was thinking about those Conversation Hearts that we used to hate the flavors of, mostly, but in high school were a kind of compulsion, along with obsessively watching (reruns of?) the Newlywed Game, which we called Sell Your Soul For A Toaster.

But the Conversation Hearts. They were great; you could tell someone anything, even to eff off, essentially, in two words and ten calories or less, and the purple ones tasted particularly scabrous.

Eat me

The concept is elegant from start to finish. As friends, we’d trade them, and there’s something so right about minor gods and goddesses exchanging bits of stickiness and sweat. Sweet Talk. I knew I was never going to die when I was in high school to the point that I actually told people that. I was wired into something larger and felt the electricity of a preexisting immortality running through me, at least as real as blood. Life is individual, of course it exists only within the one, but maybe that electricity increases exponentially within a network. We passed the candies from person to person, and they became conductors of that electricity- the sugar, the salt, the sweat, the word, the word, the thought

(Love Me )

And so it goes.

I speak for all minor goddesses; I still believe in the magic of candy and sweat. I believe in fairies and the spell of a midnight rendezvous. Some summer we will have a dance in a clearing in the moonlight at solstice- just you and me, we will- you will see.

And there is no magic like the miracle of chemistry.

moon through the leaves

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located various places on YouTube

“You’re grounded ’til you’re 36!”

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