Dang!

i know i've afore mentioned this but it's so not fair!!! (and yes, i'm stomping my feet right now) that beastie boys are playing a number of european festivals this summer. especially my favorite cities of Lisbon and Barcelona. why couldn't it have been LAST summer?

here's a quick ditty about their new album. so, is it going to be sick?

blah.

sorry for the stretch of quiet. there's just nothing good to report this month - i turned 29 (yuck), there's been no progress / responses to resumes when it comes to moving to CA (owch), i am getting weekly accupuncture treatments for ongoing allergies which are not necessarily working and not cheap... yadda yadda.

this past weekend i was a little cheered up because we had a heavy rain day, good for being lazy on saturday, and then gorgeous "flip flop weather" on sunday which was refreshing. knowing Spring in colorado, it will at least snow a few more times before we're in the clear, but i'm content with a couple warm weekends in between!

so here's a couple fun news stories of the weekend:

united way got free advertising on saturday night live over the weekend! yeee! it won't be on youtube for long but you can always go to snl.com.

yessss! finally silver spoons season 1 is on DVD. a true 80's classic! now i just need punky brewster to complete my collection. (kidding, i never watch dvd's of television. i prefer tvland)

and one for the "why didn't we think of this" file.
according to popcandy blog:
"Before the Internet, if three friends [or two roommates] wanted to take a road trip, they just hopped in a cruddy car [such as an '84 dodge minivan with a stickshift] and traveled where the wind [the alcohol, oh - i mean - the wind] took them. Now there are things like CashRoadTripUSA.com. The premise: Three friends want to travel across the country, but first they're selling ad space on every inch of their van. Ads cost $100 per square. The website just launched, so a lot of van space is still available. The gang is also offering the chance to wear company T-shirts during the journey. That can cost up to $7,500 a day, if you want a female to wear the shirt."

$7500 is more than our entire road trip (including the car) itself cost. but then again, we broke down in shasta. with a few thousand dollars, we probably could have bought a newer (like a VW!) van. but then again, after all my stickers were on the car, there wasn't much room for ad space.

stuff like this makes my day

ooooh. lauryn hill finally returns to recording! she's on one song of the very cool new joss stone album. this may actually be one of the few weeks of the year i get off my ass to drive to a record store, instead of just typing a password into itunes. yeah, it's a few bucks more, but itunes doesn't provide the same instant gratification as when you unwrap the plastic and pop a new CD into the car stereo for the ride home.

The New Yorker just launched a new web site with animated cartoons! i like the snail one.

this death by caffeine web site lets you fantasize about how many grande cups of starbucks coffee, or how many reeses peanut butter cups, you could eat before it would kill you. is that meant to actually warn you or just disturb you?

home, alas

wulp. i had a nice trip out to CA, had fun visiting molly & josh, but it sounds like moving to CA is not going to happen yet.


the only thing i'm actually mad at is my fortune cookies lately have been very misleading. : )

so i'm trying to tell myself something bigger & better must be around the bend.

'till then, here's a couple photos of favorite things on my trip - above, a sign on telegraph in berkeley (exactly!), molly's kitchen table, the puppies - siena & sadie, going for a ride to the dog park on friday.

R2

R2-D2 may be moving to a street corner near you soon! how fun. only 400 nation-wide, i wonder if i'll ever see one. also there will be star wars postage stamps on May 25. i think USPS finally has a marketing genius on staff.

(follow up: here's an interactive map of where you can find R2-D2 mailboxes)

laughs from this week

- best / weirdest moments of the muppet show

- the headline says it all "Grown Man Cries Over Not Having His Blackberry" - a hilarious and eye-opening story of technology addiction

- forbes' cover story on Rupert Murdoch says soon MySpace will be automatically matching up advertisers with users based on products mentioned in their profiles! prepare for the onslaught of junk mail, suckers!! ha ha, told you so.

- the movie may suck, but hugh grant's imitation 80's video makes me laugh all day long. I wish I could pay Hugh Grant to get drunk and dance at my wedding someday.

sweet tooth day

so like... sorry i've been mia for a couple weeks. a lot is going on, most especially an unexpected call to interview at my favorite film company (can you guess?) in san francisco this friday. so chris and i are flying out to visit monterey thurs through tues. looking forward to relaxing - or trying to relax anyway. yay beach.

noteable mention this week is the new music site, finetune.com which you can post MIXES for free for the entire world to share! yesssssssssssssssss. does this mean no more all-nighters making my mixmas CD on December 21st? stay tuned, i will no doubt be getting very into this site.

and best of all, if you forgot to buy your sweetheart something, you could get really creative with this make-your-own necco candy hearts site though words have to be 4-letters. (um)

or you could just get them with a ring pop. that always wins me over.

other funny stuff:
- unfortunate / disturbing valentines (you'll laugh out loud)
- stephen colbert gets his own ice cream flavor?
- hoops & yoyo belting out "close to you"

wake up call.

music news -
i am still scratching my head that i have never discovered patty griffin before this year, especially since she's a boston girl.

i am trying really hard to cut back on my itunes junkie habit, but i did have to download Paolo Nutini tonight, he's just so likeable. also recently I'm into Nina Gordon (former lead singer of Veruca Salt)... what else... well I'm not buying any of last year's American Idol contestant's albums...

there are rumors flying everywhere that iTunes is going to get the Beatles library on Valentines Day. I tend believe it's not a coincidence that these rumors leaked the same day that Vista launched, or in other words, it's one more of Steve Jobs' slap-microsoft-in-the-face marketing tactics. it will be interesting to me if and when they ever do sell beatles songs as singles on iTunes, to see what song is downloaded the most. early prediction: it won't be YESTERDAY. and it sure won't be GOOD DAY SUNSHINE. i have to give this some thought... (anonymous tip: if you ever want the whole beatles catalog in mp3 format for about 3 bucks, just take a vacation to Moscow)

and youtube highlight of the week: spike jonze commercials

anyone have an estelle getty fettish?

talk about people who have too much time on their hands. this is the prime example of how the internet provides the ultimate opportunity for ANY freedom of expression and with youtube... there's no need to license the music, or get rights to the video footage.

ran-dom. hilarious. check this out:
the estelle getty workout video remix!

as you know i don't patronize myspace (because it sucks) but if i did, sue teller would be the first in my friends. this old lady's dope.

patty g

i don't know why it took a road trip to texas for me to discover patty griffin because she crosses over with tons of my other favorite artists, but somehow she flew under the radar all these years for me. she even wrote one of my favorite dixie chicks songs, 'Top of the World'.

but she is one of those rare artists i heard once in the car and then i couldn't stop replaying the song over & over...

perfect timing that she's playing at a little theater in Boulder March 22. now if she would just tour with Lucinda, that would be my dream show.

maybe it's just my trip to texas talking...

this is random for me because I'm not usually one to have a lot of PRIDE in Colorado, but it's really bugging me that some reporters in Denver are outright saying that the Democratic National Convention in Denver will "put us on the map" and "dispel stereotypes about Denver being the land of cowboys" (paraphrasing). None of my friends or relatives have ever stereotyped Denver as a cowpoke town in my years here...

And yet stories like this one on our local news last week http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_024141109.html
always make me humbly realize that there are parts of our state, not even two hours away, where cowboys and ranchers actually still rely on cows and hay to make their living. It's remarkable to stop and think that industries exist where physical factors like cattle, weather, and train deliveries affect the business (as opposed to bluetooth and blackberries).

Denver's annual stock show and rodeo, also last week, is consistently a huge money and tourism generator for Denver, so I especially find it disgusting of certain snobby reporters to say we can finally "dispel the myth" about cowboy culture here. WTF.

about damn time

lots to blog about today.

my favorite news of the year so far is Rage Against the Machine is reuniting at Coachella. that is such a badass comeback party. I have really missed those guys, and it's been frustrating that their breakup coincided with the best possible presidential administration to rage about! but I'm a little scared that with all those years of rage built up, Coachella might turn into a giant stampede. or not - this may be the first year attendance is actually down because fans can just catch the replay on youtube! true.

but trying to think positively, maybe Rage will help "rock the vote" in 08. in fact, Barack would be wise if he starts getting bands and other MTV celebrities behind him right away. maybe he can get a shout-out by one of the american idol contestants. it didn't quite work for Kerry, but that's mostly because the message was "vote bush out" and not "vote for kerry" and because the artists were Bruce Springstein and Bonnie Raitt (who?).

is it too crazy an idea to suggest Barack pick "renegades of funk" for his campaign theme song? No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can't Stop Us Now...

anyway.
in a really sad story, that The Village Voice has finally "sold out" to a bigger media company and even the new owner acknowledges it will never quite be the same.

last and definitely least, just when you thought David Lynch wasn't being weird enough lately, he starts giving lectures on Transcendtal Meditation with Donovan and completely redeems himself! Am I the only one that hopes this is part of a secret Lynch film project... like a mockumentary? that would be sweet but i'm afraid too good to be true.

will's your daddy

yay - will farrell's newborn baby just made an appearance online. i am not usually into celebrity babies but will is one person i am SO GLAD has had offspring. whoopie! also hilarious about will accessorizing with his wife's breast pump on the red carpet. he is so badass.
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the music i am in love with this week is...
A Good Year soundtrack, especially an oddly undiscovered french band, Makali - they do have a myspace site but I haven't seen where to buy more of their music yet. please help (svp aide!) if you know anything more about them.

ramblings on

this "what's your starbucks name" concept is so goofy & immature and yet... now i am dying to come up with an alias (other than sue). my sister has already taken "Ursula". i need something fohnky. I don't know if I'd have the guts to use like, "Maverick" or "Viper".

and speaking of top gun... how did someone beat me to the punch in founding an all-things-80's blog? ahh, best 80's villians. i definitely vote for Steff.

bits and rants

some funny sites and articles i stumbled across in blog-browsing this week. links in bold.

a fantastic photo Collection of "Strange Statues around the World" - some less strange than others, although the top one probably is strangest. I need to submit one of my photos from Moscow to the collection.

the most original wedding cake I've ever seen. so cute.

Say it isn't so: I'm shedding an invisible tear today, after hearing that Queer Eye's upcoming season will be the last. I have yet to ever get sick of the Fab Five's obnoxious, outlandish behavior, Carson's stupid puns, and all of them forcing their happy & gayness into the lives of straight men (while making every wife / girlfriend / child's dream come true with a free interior design makeover by Thom). But I felt the same way about Will & Grace. They kept getting funnier and obnoxiouser, and when their time was up, it was two years too soon. RIP, Fab Five. We will always have you on DVD. p.s. - please please please don't sign up to do spinoff shows.

on youtube - a hilarious Canadian study on the effects of drugs on spiders building webs - why didn't SNL think of this?

world leader pretend

among odd headlines, i noticed the inventor of Ramen Noodles (and its close sister Cup O Noodles) died this week at age 92. that's a good sign, right? he lived a long life? Well all I have to say is - the Ramen Museum dedicated to him in Japan is high on my list of travel priorities.

and horray for R.E.M. getting inducted into the hall of fame this year!

Michael Stipe turns 47 today??

yikes this is one of those moments where I instantly feel very, very old. or scared that time is flying. anyway here is a cool little tribute to stipe. the pete & pete clip is classic: is anyone surprised that he randomly breaks into his spastic dancing while talking, too?

I just read today that with the continued musical-madness in the US, the latest victim is one of my favorite 80's movies ever! I don't know if I am happy or sad to hear that. I guess I just hope they don't remake the movie.

p.s.
i just heard that The Police are possibly reuninting for a tour? Can Talking Heads be far behind?!! please say it is so...

taking the long way around

the blog views better in mozilla firefox if you have it...

One thing I will give credit to Texas for is the roadside scenery. If a little desolate, there are at least cute towns every half hour or so with populations of 500, very convincing saloons and old city halls, and cowboy-town names like "Comanche" and everyone sayin' "Drive safe, now!" when you leave the gas station.

The clouds in the sky were amazing to me at times. Probably because they were the spin-off from those storms of the century in Colorado, but still, just amazing clouds.Notice how tiny my car looks next to the sky below.

taking the long way around 2

Yuyp. I'm home finally and man, that was a long drive. New Mexico finally opened for business around 1pm on January 1st, and I'll never forget the moment someone told me the highways were open again... I was sitting at Denny's in Amarillo, TX eating breakfast alone, amongst tons of families with 6 plus children - while the waitress keeps saying "Need some more coffee, baby?" to me. Very surreal and yet so very Texas.

I know you don't all really like country and bluegrass, but you have to appreciate how cool that music is on a road trip. There's too much music to make next year's mixmas out of this, so I just published it and you can download what you want. Elizabethtown Soundtrack was a great influence and stuff like Two More Bottles of Wine is just great music anytime.

OK now here come the pictures at last. that's my lucky armadillo on the rear view.

Again, try to appreciate how bored I was... it was a 16 hour drive the first time, about 21 hours the second time.

common question: yes, I did get stopped for speeding once and thank God (I was praying) the cop was not as scary as the one in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But the cops do wear cowboy hats. And he was polite enough to just give me a written warning. Instant souvenir!

yes that sign says "proud home of george bush", try not to laugh. but the comment "drive friendly - the texas way" - that is so TRUE, texans do drive the speed limit and always wave after they let you in.

above and below is an area of Austin called "south congress", essentially the main street, with really cool funky shops and typical of Austin - plenty of lights and neon signs.
we checked out a very popular tex mex place called Guero's
(thanks for the tip, Kara!) It was tempting to buy a pair of cowgirl boots in TX, but I realize anywhere else in the world that would not really work for me.










The below pictures are from a daytrip I took down to San Antonio
which I found to be a cool, colorful city despite the major-tourist trap the Alamo (flashbacks to Pee Wee's Big Adventure) that's actually in the center of a bunch of skyscrapers (weird) and I'm surprised they haven't just turned it into a McDonalds yet. I know it's an important US monument, but it's way tacky. that's a yummy prickly pear margarita on the riverwalk...

lubbock or leave it

by the way, Lubbock or Leave It is my theme song for this trip. Hopefully they won't arrest me for listening to the Dixie Chicks. I'm serious.

yikes. how scary is this map?? i'm trying to get up through the northeast corner of New Mexico tomorrow and all those little red circles with white lines means road closed as of right now.

if you're interested in my route, here's the link on mapquest except I passed through Abilene instead of Dallas. On the map, I'm currently at the route 83 sign near Amarillo, until further notice!

One of the things I never knew about Texas and have learned in travelling through is that a lot of the towns and setttlers here were German (Rhineland or Niederwald, anyone?) There are also some REALLY funny town names like Happy and Ding Dong (no kidding).

But my favorite thing while driving has been making a list of towns that would make really great, original dog names... like Mumford, Marlin, Hewitt, Rowden, Floyd, Roscoe, Nolan, Burnett, Pete (love it), Wenzel, Vernon, Tye, Buford, Mitchell, Scurry, Roby, Merkel, Henson (love it), Stanley, Buda, Harrold, and Holmesly (you could call him Holmes!... oh I love that). Very very original town names for sure. You don't hear a lot of places named Lubbock.

still haven't run into matthew mcconaughey... he seems like he should be somewhere in Texas for the holidays. hmmph.

here's me as of an hour ago in the hotel parking lot. At least I have a K-Bob's Steakhouse to look forward to!
Do you suppose it's really necessary to have a "neighborhood crime watch" sign in front of this little house? I didn't see any neighborhood around it...

current song in my head: "I've just seen a face, I can't forget the time or place where we just met..." (bluegrass version)

Stuck in Tex

Happy New Year Y'ALL! More than an appropriate choice of word. I am in a small town near Amarillo, TX, and believe me, I am as surprised as you are that I found an internet connection here.
I was already delayed 2 days in driving back to Denver because of the second snow storm that hit Denver this week but I figured I'd be safe driving home yesterday & today... wrong!

this is literally me driving with fingers crossed that roads would be open.

isn't there an expression that you're up stink creek? been there.

Actually the weather was fine for my 10 hour drive yesterday through all of Texas. I took some beautiful pictures of the sky and the small towns. Texas roads are all open, Colorado roads are open, but all of northern New Mexico is closed because they got 30 inches of snow, and that's the way I need to go! It's really the only direct way home. Otherwise I think it would be a waste of time and gas to go up to oklahoma and kansas which probably have road closures too. So I'm staying here and holding my breath that NM roads will open tomorrow. In normal weather, it would be a 7 1/2 hour drive... but that also takes into consideration that the speed limit is normally 70.

Hundreds of people are stranded in the panhandle of Texas like me. Someone just walked into this little Best Western and asked if there was a starbucks nearby. That was the best laugh I've had all day.

Will be hanging out in my hotel room today and watching the Seinfeld marathon on TBS. Thankfully I brought (or bought in Austin) enough clothes for an extra few days. I think I will head over to the local general / grocery store. Actually I heard they even have a one-screen movie theater in this town...

Yippie Yi Oh Kay Ay or Something

Well I didn't get a chance to call each and every one of you but here's the scoop...

I waited in Denver International Airport for nearly 3 hours last Saturday morning JUST in the security line to get to my gate. The line wrapped around the entire first floor of the airport which means 16 baggage claim carousels. I have never seen anything like that, not even Disneyland is that bad. There were no airport employees monitoring the line either.

As much as I knew I wouldn't make my flight, I hung in there until I got to the gate. And once I missed my flight, I just gave up. The line for getting on flights standby was 2 hours. Even if I went standby, I'd have to go to Chicago first and then wait to go standby to Conneticutt. The amount of negativity in the air from angry, desparate, tired passengers, and frustrated and overworked airline employees... it was all the brewing grounds for a freakin' riot or something. Was not up for that.

So I went home, grabbed my Nikon, printed out Mapquest directions, packed some food in a paper bag, and called my friend Julie to say I'm driving down to Austin. 16 hour drive meant one night in a hotel and I could handle that. Found a best western on the New Mexico - Texas border, took a long bath, and slept very well that night.Since 8:00 on Christmas Eve I've been hanging out with Julie, her boyfriend Paul, Paul's brother Ken, and Ken's girlfriend Bernadette. They all have to work most of the week but we spent Christmas Day hanging out, went to see Pursuit of Happyness, and Julie made a delicious dinner of filet mignon and rosemary potatoes. And we all got drunk on red wine.

Yesterday I did some after-Christmas shopping, picked up a book on Texas, and walked around downtown and the Capitol building today (not suprisingly - the biggest Capitol in the country, even 7 feet taller than the Capitol in Wash DC!). One of the capitol's oddities is the doorknobs and door hinges are very ornate.

Rescheduled Christmas vacation was going well until today, but now I'm worried because Denver is getting another big storm tomorrow which is supposed to dump a foot of snow on the state, and no doubt will close down roads, offices, and the airport yet again.

There has been enough sad stories this month on the news about people thinking they can "brave the storm" that I am not about to go driving through New Mexico & Colorado in the bad weather. But I do want to get home soon to pick up Derby so I'll just sit and watch the Weather Channel for now and see when it's due to pass. I may drive through Oklahoma or Northern Texas. Wherever's it's not snowing. I feel like Thelma without Louise! At least I have a lucky Christmas armadillo over the dash.

latest in the fiasco

final tally for the snow was 33 inches in my neck of the woods. 24" in Denver. now the sun's out, and we're going down about 1/2 inch an hour.

I am supposed to fly out Saturday at 9:45am, via Chicago (which I hope doesn't get our storm) and on to Hartford. Derby & I will get up around 5am tomorrow morning to try and get him over to his vacation home near the airport for 7am. Believe you me I am only taking carry-on luggage and I have already printed my boarding pass.

Jingle Collar

I had to put some jingle bells on Derby's collar so I wouldn't lose track of him outside. Thanks to Chieko for the bells!

We just came in from outside and actually it was very decent temperature! It's snowing lightly now, though it was snowing pretty hard until 11am, and dogs from all over the neighborhood are showing up - clearly they were begging their owners to go out.

I spent a half hour running around with the dog, and another half hour shovelling the car out and stomping down snow in the parking lot to get the snow moved away from my car. Talk about a work out! I think my arms will be sore tomorrow.

One neighbor lady was proudly shouting about how her minivan's "mohawk" was 36 inches high... awww, the RAV's mohawk is only 17 inches.

Next I'm gonna curl up by the fireplace and try not to watch TV all day. Cross your fingers that I will be able to fly out on Saturday!

feeling stranded

I should have put "Stranded" by Van Morisson on my mixmas this year. : (

I lost any optimism late last night when I heard DIA is now not even OPEN until Friday at noon, earliest. Chris was able to rebook me on a flight to Connecticut for Saturday morning but who knows if those flights will really happen or not. So now Derby and I are stuck inside for 2 1/2 days... I am so glad I recently bought him dog food and he's got christmas bones to keep him entertained 'cause he keeps saying "Why can't we go outside??" and moping around bored.

It was a good laugh when I looked at the calendar today and noticed that today is officially the start of winter. In Colorado the Winter Solstice is September 21.........Autumn, Fall, what's that? Never heard of it.

I'd like to just pick up and drive out to the East Coast with Derby, we would totally be up for it, but none of our interstate highways are open.

it's come to this...

it's so cold and windy, I actually had to wear my elmer fudd hat!! Derby is in a scarf but you can't tell. For some reason when I said "Smile!" he started licking me.

ok, so here's the latest... we just ventured outside and didn't get too far. this is the front door. the snow drifts are about 3 feet high, even though we technically got about one foot of snow. maybe 14 - 16 inches by now. it's still snowing hard but the wind died down.

in a lot of places it's above Derby's head, and in one spot near the pond, I fell in a drift up to my waist!

the drift in front of our door is really unusual because it crested over like a wave!!

RAV! You rock!

It's been a while since i've written, and now's as good a time as ever because Denver's snowed in!! And despite the major warnings on TV last night, nobody cancelled work, so traffic was a mess and there will be endless undue accidents and stories for people to tell their children for years to come about how they ran out of gas on the side of the highway and walked 40 miles in the snow to get help at the only 7-11 that was open (rather than calling the free phone number for Colorado Department of Transportation highway rescue).

If I can just rant for a while here, people are SO DUMB about driving in snow in Denver. I have never seen such a bunch of sorry asses. The governor has declared a state of emergency because of the stupidity of Coloradoan idiots who, for example:

1) neglect to drive with their HEADLIGHTS on... about 1/3 of the cars don't
2) don't get decent tires, or don't ever get their tires replaced in their car's lifetime. you have to buy all-weather tires in Colorado, it should just be mandatory when you register your car!
3) they don't wear a jacket or hat or gloves
4) they don't wipe the snow off their rear window, or rear view mirrors before driving
5) they don't pump the break when they start to slip
6) worst of all - they drive on the shoulder because they think it's a lane or think, "aha! I can bypass the traffic!"

A lot of the world's ills could be solved if more people would have just had a good drivers education class.

My boss thankfully kicked us out of work this morning, before I could even finish what I wanted to get done, and by 2pm we had 8 inches of snow already. I was very impressed that my car not only gripped the snow well, but in several cases of fresh snow, it grilled right through it without flinching. Love the RAV. Love my new Yokohama tires.

The craziest part was not the snow on the roads but the fact that in most places, highway and street signs were covered in snow, so you had to rely on familiar landmarks like trees or neon store signs to recognize where you were. A few times I seriously thought, "Oh! Now I know where I am, I never would have guessed it was that street!"

In our own neighborhood, the snow is always worse than it is just outside. It's like we're in this little microcosm of bad weather, under a different cloud or something. When I drove into my apartment complex, gusts of wind were kicking up the snow, so you couldn't see 20 feet in front of you - other than just sheer WHITE. Looked like a sand storm.

Sigh. So it's way too crazy to go outside and take pictures yet, my camera would get soaked in an instant. But this photo explains it well...
You know it's a blizzard when you come inside and it's not enough to take your shoes off, you have to actually undress or the carpet will get soaked. Good thing I have two pairs of Uggs!

As for whether I'm going to make it to Connecticutt, my flight leaves tomorrow at 1:30 and knowing Colorado, this blizzard will be "old news" by then, so I'm really not sweating it YET. I usually am confident that the airlines will find a way to get you there - their employees work all night sometimes to get it worked out. If it's actually that bad of a nightmare that I can't get out of Denver for 2 or 3 days, just in case, I have thought of a backup plan - I will drive down to Austin to spend Christmas with Julie.

song in my head right now:
Eight Days a Week demo on the Beatles anthology
"I'll try to remember, John, and if I don't, well it's just too bad, inn-chit!"

MERRY MIXMAS

2006 mixmas is done and is on the move...

Christmas cards were freakin' exhausting this year! I had like 55 or something!! This was my favorite card:

Must Buy for Mr. Hoffman

i was trying to google this funny t-shirt i saw at Target about "peeps" and somehow my google results came up with the below shirt which... TOTALLY ROCKS
but this one's pretty cute too

about me

someone i work with designed this little "bio" about me for our internal web site. True.