Frontier Airlines Rep: No Sir, you can’t cancel your flight for refund, but we can re-book you to anywhere we fly.

Me: Right, but all your flights connect through Denver, right ?

FAR: Well..yes…

Me: And aren’t they looking at closing the airport tomorrow..? Like what happened last week ?

FAR: Well.. yes…

Me: So…

FAR: Sir, you can’t cancel your flight for a refund, but we can re-book you to anywhere we fly.

Wow. This is what I get for flying an airline with pictures of cute fuzziness on the tails of their planes.

Pretty damn funny, especially for those of us who’ve had to design politically correct corporate greeting cards.

The first live test was conducted with a pig as the target. Due to some stability issues, the pig spun in the 125 mph wind, and arrived on the plane dizzy and discombobulated. It recovered, however, and promptly attacked the crew.

This article details the use of the Skyhook as a means of extraction from arctic Ice Floe ‘research’ stations during the cold war. From the same generation that brought you Spam and Mutual Assured Destruction.

So I had a bunch of really great posts planned for this week…. I was actually going to start one on Sunday night at the Green Muse. How trendy and emo of me to be posting a thoughtful entry to my website while sipping wine on the porch of a coffee shop.

Or not. Apparently I’ve pissed off some computer god, because my ibook that I just spent two bills getting back into working order, decided I really hadn’t spent enough money on it yet. I open the screen and all i get is this strange screen burn image (like what you see in scary movies when satan is about to jump out of the monitor), followed by vertical lines in pretty colors.

Awesome.

So, I am sans computer for another 7-10 working days, while Apple replaces the positronic brain, hopefully exercising whatever demonic influences are living in the screen. Hence the lack of activity on the site.

Interestingly enough there’s a petition out for extending the G3 logic Board replacement program to my model of computer (I have a G4 and it’s not covered). Over 1,400 people have had this problem, or at least have signed the petition. I wonder how many busted macs it takes for Apple to take notice.

As if having the president claim Texas as his own wasn’t problematic enough.

KATY, Texas – A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims.

Seriously ? Houston is a big city, with universities, museums and theaters…institutions who’s entire existence is to prevent incidents of dumb-assed-ness such as this. This isn’t 1950, why is this still happening?

Tell you what, let’s be real American about it and pass a ballot measure that prohibits churches that preach violence and hatred from being built in the neighborhood. That should cover your supposed mosque problem as well as pretty much every other place of worship.

Your Buddhist temple would probably be fine.

Yo Houston, stop making the rest of us look ignorant.
Or go ahead, keep doing what your doing, and see if you can get Louisiana to annex you.

So every time I travel for work (all two times now), the TV has sucked me in. Last time it was the History Channel’s four hour Alexander the Great marathon. Tonight, multiple runs of the Harry potter movies.

It’s like those kids who never got sugar when they were little, and then as adults go wacko every time the get in a donut shop. Except without the type two diabetes.

Somebody in Wales liked one of my photos and used it in this design piece for a class. It’s a reworked cover for a Massive Attack single – Dissolved Girl.

This whole internet thing never ceases to amaze me…that I could be helping with a design project across the Atlantic is pretty trippy.

Just when you thought a blog was the only way to foist your first amendment rights on a large group of people, here comes house of yahweh with their own special brand of crazy.

I have no idea how this got on my car, but I really hope their timetable is off, as I had quite a few bike races planned for next summer. One would suppose that 13 months of nuclear war would make things a bit warmer.