It's a turduckspam!

I've been slowly traveling through the different levels of spam. Someone wake me when we get to the river Styx. Charon owes me a tenner.

At first it was just say a link or two and garbage, easily spotted for what it was and just as quickly deleted.

Then they got a bit creative. Yoour friendly neighborhood spammer would leave a little something behind that if you squint and had no grasp of the English language could be confused for a real comment. They would just leave their name as a link to whatever product they were shilling.

It appears that approach was too phylisophical for some as now they're back to just typing random sentences from their third grade workbook on grammar and including a link in it.

Now I just had a spam that had absolutely nothing to do with my entire post. Instead he/she/it/scary evil clown man took something another commenter mentioned (in this case dental floss) and just left behind a shill about that.

We're starting to get into a weird fun house mirror area here where I fear I'll soon be getting spam comments based around other spammers comments.

Have any of you other bloggers been noticing an upsurge in spam lately? Is that the only job still hiring in this recession? If so well maybe I should try to get a piece of the cake. How's this sound?

Hi!!!! I quite love your blog?! You say such purdy and awseome things!, have you ever seen this great product for cleaning your oven! It's endorsed by so many celebrities to help for that stuff you were talking about in this post "I just got a new kitten" you'll never have a dirty oven thanks to your buying a new kitten ever again!

Hm, needs more exclimation points.

Picture a Day - Day 134

Ooh let's play that stupid shower game where every one has to root through her purse and wins points based upon how much stuff she has that matches a certain list.

Only instead of a list how about we show off the weirdest thing we have?

I am sorry to say but I think I already have this one in the bag. Even though I only carry around an ID holder thingie I have on my person at all times a Periodic Table:

And it isn't just so I can get into all the trendy nerd bars either. I honestly use it sometime. Like yesterday. My boss was asking what the molecular weight of iron is, and so I pulled this baby out and told him "It's about 57"
You'd be surprised how often I actually have had to use this thing. The only labs to put an actual periodic table on the walls generally have large clouds of pink smoke hanging over them, loud occasional explosions and break the hearts and spirits of freshmen (so you know, chemistry labs). Yet there are many times (about once or twice every three years!) that I'll need to calculate the molarity of something and won't have it printed on the bottle or a computer handy.

So out comes my laminated periodic table.

What's the strangest thing you carry with you every day? Can anyone out nerd me cause if so we'll have to have a bat'leth duel at dawn to decide the winner.

Easter and Painting

Apparently when one thinks of Easter images of eggs, bunnies, crosses and my random paintings flit through peoples minds.

Not one but two different blogs featured my paintings on Saturday. The first one, that I knew about before hand, was Jenna at That Wife as she showed off her own dress painting. And got me some more business so my husband can go back to being a painting widow.

The second was Amy over at Relentless Bride who showed off some random paintings I did for my little ol Etsy store.

I have to giggle a bit thinking that my paintings=posting dumping ground for a holiday weekend. He he he. I am very grateful for the exposure I just find the coincidence very amusing.

Anyway on to that painting I cranked out while the In-Laws were antiquing. I tried my hand at a simple cherry blossom. I'm not crazy about it, but it's a good base starting idea:I need to crank out a few more (after I finish a wedding dress and uniform) because I, like some crazy person, booked a Mother's Day showcase on etsy for the 20th. And I want to get a really good one for Amy.

Anyone got some good ideas what would be good paintings for Mothers Day for me to highlight? I'm thinking working on a few flowers is good, I've been toying about putting a painting on a card but I'm still not sure if I would do well getting into stationary stuff.

Long story short. Yay for Jenna and Amy, look a cherry blossom again, and what do Mother's really want in painting form?

Picture a Day - Day 133

Oh Spring. Lovely, quaint, beautiful spring.

Everyone flocks to compliment you on your wonderful side (especially poets who have no better ideas, Shakespeare I'm looking at you.) You're increasingly warm weather, your bright flowers, the way you make everyone have a skip in their step.

But there is a dark evil side to you spring. Like someone on a bender you can snap at any moment and turn from bright and cheerful to sullen and moody. Dark clouds hang over your head for a weeks at end, rain falls intermitently with only brief pauses for a few tissues and then just as soon as they appear, poof, they're gone again.

I'm getting a little tired of it Spring. Stuff like this:

It's gotten so bad I have to take a whole bunch of these just to deal with it:Now don't go locking yourself up in the closet and refuse to come out, Spring. We just want to get you some help, like we did with Fall. After all he didn't seem to mind the lobotomy so much.

Basically you've got a month to clean up your act or we're shipping you to the psychiatrist, got it?

What the hell Amazon?

I was going to post a lovely painting I did somehow yesterday of some cherry blossoms but after finding out about this latest back handed switcheroo pulled by amazon I changed my mind.

If you haven't heard about it or caught it on twitter apparently amazon has basically pulled any and all LGBT books sales ranking as well as from certain searches and lists. They claim its because they want to hide anything with adult material. Just for an example of how much of a lie that is they've removed Stephen Fry and Ellen DeGeneres autobiographies but kept up Ron Jeremie's. So lesbian and gay comedians bad but a porn star just fine?

It's so fucking insane if you search for "Homosexuality" there the first thing that pops up is this drivel "A Parent's Guide To Preventing Homosexuality".

For more information check out Jezebel that has a long list of books stripped of sales ranks and those that had them left.

I was trying to talk my husband into getting an Amazon account but after this god awful attempt at censoring by claiming it's all a glitch I'm thinking about abandoning ship and going to Barnes and Noble.

Bravo Amazon, you may have just found a great way to keep brick and mortar bookstores in the red.