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Magenta, the new black/white/blue/ish…

Yeah, it’s a bit girlie, but I don’t give a lick, T-Mobile can go right to hell. April’s the new Month of Magenta here at No Steam Shovel!

Magenta

For those of you not in-the-know (my readership of what, 6?), you can check the whole article on how T-Mobile is suing mobile blog Engadget-Mobile for the use of Magenta in it’s blog. This isn’t an April Fools day joke, it’s real, and really stupid. I hope I get a Cease and Desist too.

Miss America: Reality Check. Oh GOD…

Ok, I shoot for Miss Maine, sure. This, in and of it’s self, doesn’t mean I actually LIKE pageantry, or the pageantry world. Well, the stereotypes anyway. Because, anyone who’s had words with me on the subject knows very well that I actually DO like pageantry, and will defend it tooth and nail if I have to. Provided that by “pageantry” you talking about Miss America, and not Miss USA, Donald Trump’s… ish…

Enough with the sentence fragments; I like pageantry. That said, I just about shit myself when the executive director of Miss Maine asked me to post the following video on the Miss Maine front page.

“Audrey,” I said, after I got over my slack-jawed terror, “um… this doesn’t really… I don’t… get it.”

“Haha,” comes the voice of reason, “yeah, it’s a joke, they’re trying to make fun of-”

US!” I exclaimed. “They did a good job, what is this all about?” I inquired, even more confused now than before I had called.

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2 + 3 = 5, right?

So, yeah. Third week into school and we’re still alive. That’s some thing to be proud of, right?

All the incoming students came in on the first, which was an image straight out of hell if there ever was one. Figure, there are 9 floors, 37 students per floor, with an average of 10 of them being incoming students. Thats not to say that only incoming students came in on the first either… That said, about 130 students arrived in Bell Hall (thats right, I’m only talking about one of three dorms) from 7am to about 11am on the first of September. Now, consider that each student is traditionally accompanied by Mom and Dad and you have tripled the foot traffic. Add another 80 or so for the odd brother, sister, aunt or uncle, and your looking at 400 pairs of feet, accounting for over 1000 trips trough the lobby, and nearly 45 personal attempts at suicide. Per RA. (in case you didn’t get that, that was a joke)

Moving on.

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