Happy 20th Birthday, Photoshop

Unfortunately, you're still one year away from taking a legal drink, which you'll probably need after seeing my first attempt at photo painting. But this is what you've unleashed on the world...

Get thee to a nunnery

A Nun Prepares for Lent. 

Either The Church is relaxing its standards or someone in the blogosphere is having a little fun with a nun costume and/or Photoshop. Regardless. If I were a nun, this is probably the kind of nun I'd be...

[10 Examples of Nuns Behaving Badly]

My Debut Album Drops Today

Ha. Not really. I just made a dummy album cover, courtesy of Wikipedia and Flickr, just for fun, and thanks to this blog posting, "wikipedia names your band." My randomly-generated band name is Pajama Party--it rather fits, actually. Ditto the album's title. Almost makes me want to start a band.

You'll learn the easy 3-step how-to as well as view the posted album covers of others in the blogosphere who played along. As time wasters go, I'd give it big ups: http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/wikipedia-names-your-band

Callout Cards

Is someone disrespecting you?

Making you or someone you know feel uncomfortable?

Tell 'em to back off with a Callout Card.

Send an amusing (for you) yet brutally-frank (for them) Callout Card to any and all who would use the technological marvels of the 21st Century--cellphones, emails, text messages, IM's--to pester and plague your peace of mind. Here's a sampling:

These would have been perfect for a certain "supervisor" (ha!) and saboteur extraordinaire I once had the misfortune of toiling under. Nothing would have saved me from her machinations, ultimately, or kept me in a job I otherwise loved but for her. But it would have been... cathartic.

http://www.thatsnotcool.com/CalloutCards.aspx