Mad Ape Den: Zig, Tom, et al (by Manning, 7:49pm)
We are seriously nerding it up bigtime today over in the brand new Mad Ape Den community, founded by my friend Ben after I linked up a few of his brilliant M.A.D. efforts in my post the other day. Today has somehow accidentally turned into David Bowie day over there! I encourage you to join and participate!
P.S. Please donate to Ben's bike ride for MS! Well, technically, it's against MS, but you know what I mean.
Un peu narcisiste (by Manning, 9:16am)
For a few years now, I've had a feature on the About Me page of my website where random photos of me are displayed each time the page is loaded. (It's the ghetto-est web wizardry of all time; I just name the images numerically and have a couple lines of javascript that call a random number from 1 to x and tack ".jpg" on the end.) I started out with maybe twenty pictures, and I add a few more from time to time whenever someone (usually me!) takes an especially flattering or glamorous or interesting or funny picture of me. It's really indefensibly vain of me, but it's fun.
Today I added the 100th picture of me to the random rotation. Balloons with my face abs on them fell out of the ceiling and everything.
I keep a hidden page with all the pictures together on it, just to keep track all of them. It's a weird walk down vanity lane, mostly chronomologicamable, sometimes not, with many changing hairstyles and hair colors, questionable fashion statements, exotic locales, inexplicable circumstances and behaviors, et cetera. For me it's mostly just a heartbreaking look at all the sunglasses I've lost or broken over the years. Anyway, the page with all one hundred pictures together is here, if you'd like to see. Like that weepy Hindenburg announcer guy said, "Oh, the huge vanity..."
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