MadMup.com

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

About Me
My Email
My Forum
My Music
My Pictures
My Space
My Store
My Tube
My Webcam Archive

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    Some Favorite Posts

    Archives

    This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

    Wednesday, May 07, 2008

    I Hope So, Too

    My brother sent these cards along to me yesterday, drawn by my nephew (6 years old) and niece (4). As I understand the procedure, the kids draw and/or write, the results are scanned, and then the scanned pics are fiddled with in Photoshop according to the wishes of the specific kid.



    This one is by my nephew, and he's very aware of the cat situation at my place, i.e., that there are some. I believe the mouse is intended to be a gift to the cats for my birthday. The Photoshop filters used are his current favorites.



    Natalie has chosen to write her birthday greetings to me, with translations by my brother. He swears these are word-for-word translations, and he's pretty sure that the "I hope you deserve something" in the lower right corner means she wants me to get presents and isn't some sort of judgment call on her part. William Munny would tell her "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it," but I still appreciate her intent.

    Thanks, kiddos!

    Labels: ,

    Put up for your consideration by: MadMup / 6:09 AM
    5 comments

    Tuesday, May 06, 2008

    525,600 Minutes

    My Birthday

    525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
    525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
    In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
    In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
    In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?

    525,600 minutes! 525,000 journeys to plan.
    525,600 minutes - how can you measure the life of a woman or man?
    In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried.
    In bridges he burned, or the way that she died.

    How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love.

    -Excerpted from "Seasons of Love"

    I was given another year, and my memory doesn't allow me to remember everything that took place in it. The things that stay with me are the relationships built and friendships made. I wasn't always so good at everything this last year, but I have good friends, and that makes for a good year. Thanks everyone. I look forward to this next year.

    Comic courtesy of PBF Comics, which aren't necessarily always something I'd recommend.

    Labels: ,

    Put up for your consideration by: MadMup / 12:01 AM
    8 comments

    Tuesday, May 08, 2007

    It's Official...


    ...I look ridiculous.

    I'll never understand the mindset restaurants have with the whole "birthday embarrassment" thing. It has to be near the top of the list when you're deciding what kind of restaurant you're going to have:

    Opening A New Restaurant Checklist

    • What sort of food will we serve?
    • What kind of atmosphere will we have?
    • How will we embarrass people on their birthdays?
    • Where's a good place for a restaurant?

    I have to say, though, Texas Roadhouse has about the best way of going about it. Other places tend to have their own version of a birthday song that sometimes fits their overall theme, even if no one can ever understand the song. The servers tend to sing like it was a Nativity Play and they've been forced to wear a lobster suit and stand around the manger.

    But at the Roadhouse, the servers confer amongst each other to get the loudest, most uninhibited person to lead the proceedings. I've actually witnessed it happening - "Chad, you do it. Please? No one can ever hear me if I do it." They make the birthday person sit on a saddle, pull one of the hanging lights over as if it were a spotlight, and ask anyone who can hear to "give a Texas Roadhouse 'yee-haw'."

    And, apparently, sitting on a saddle, having a light pointed at you, and being yee-hawed at isn't enough. Now they've got these plastic cowboy hats for you to wear. I suspect the hats are designed for 12-year-olds, as it didn't really fit on my head all that well (as you can see). The nice thing about it being plastic is that I can use it as a dip holder when next I serve some sort of cowboy-themed chips at my next movie gathering.

    Oh, and apparently there's a video of the yee-hawing somewhere, but I don't have it. Since I'm trying to move past posting about my birthday, you might never get to see it. I know you're crushed.


    (Picture credit: Jeannie, who's taken my place as the official photographer of all things Careerian. Pictured (l to r): Me, the back of Jeannie's mom's head, Melissa, two-thirds of Wendy's face, and the back of Jeannie's dad's head.)

    Labels:

    Put up for your consideration by: MadMup / 10:13 PM
    12 comments

    Sunday, May 06, 2007

    Halfway There

    My Birthday


    As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
    Or if due to strength, eighty years,
    Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
    For soon it is gone and we fly away.

    -Psalm 90:10 (NASB)


    Comic courtesy of PBF Comics, which aren't necessarily always something I'd recommend.

    Labels:

    Put up for your consideration by: MadMup / 12:01 AM
    7 comments
    Current Webcam Pic
    Click Pic for Full Size, Comments, & Archives

    Movies (2005): 263
    Movies (2006): 371
    Movies (2007): 107
    Movies (2008): 141

    Blogs I Read

    Comics I Read

    Links