I forgot the Internet was random

Honestly, I totally forgot. I've been doing this blogging/social networking/blah blah blah stuff for so long that I forgot just how totally bonkers the Internet can be.

I was searching for a photo I had uploaded to my site to share with a friend as a laugh. A very, very geeky photo which I will share with you in good time. I couldn't remember the URL, so I started just searching using good ol' google.

I didn't manage to find the photo I was looking for, but I did find other interesting and strange things involving other photos of mine (and just how many sites out there are aggregating twitter. Like my Joe Budden/Joe Biden tweet has somehow become attached to the Huffington Post. WTF!).

There's that now infamous photo of the November Rain wedding dress by Cymbaline that so many people link to and e-mail me about (like in earnest, wanting to find a way to buy it, OMFG), which accounts for a lot of links. And I mean links in many languages, but beyond that, it gets a little odd.

Like this person from Miami, who found one of my photos of my Christmas tree and used it on her Christmas holiday greeting. Kind of flattering and it also inspired the following IM between Tash and I:

tashariffic: I was trying to read it....but then I realized, I don't speak Spanish
herhighnessness: How far did you get?
herhighnessness: For some reason, I'm imagining a cartoon where the main character runs out over a cliff, but keeps on running until he realizes he's over thin air, and then falls
tashariffic: hehe
tashariffic: well I realized it was Spanish but thought "maybe I'll still get it"
tashariffic: I didn't.

The oddest by far is the use of a photo of my beloved cat Zeus, on a site for a cat-based role playing game (scroll down a little). Like, he's a character. Apparently he's a Medicine Cat, named Mountaintail: "A handsome tom with orange brown eyes and a grey pelt. He is kind but overprotective. His mate is Shadowclaw and his kit is Dawnkit."

Umm... okay. I mean, the first thing to come to my mind is that it's pretty clear in this photo that this cat's eyes are green. And also, it's a cat RPG. I mean, it's fine to have one and for people to play RPGs (though I don't really get them), I just always kind of imagined Zeus as a first-person-shooter.

Oh, Internet. You never fail to amuse.

HRH

TDot and tired

I'm back, babies! And all the photos from the trip are uploaded to flickr. I am also unpacked. Yay me. Sadly the heat is broken (apparently it will be fully fixed tomorrow) so I'm recovering from my sun burns in my slippers. Kinda odd.

Ahh well, back to the real world and jet lag. Bye, bye sunny SoCal. I enjoyed your Disney, fruit, beaches and sun. And the fact that the always rad Wendy was my guide.

HRH

Photos posted! (posting)

I'm taking a moment to upload some photos between games of basketball and dips in the pool. I can't even tell you how nostalgic it is to have been at Disney yesterday and playing basketball today. It's like being in my teens, but fatter... and less dumb. Turns out I can still shoot a basketball pretty well. Woot.

Today looks like it's going to be a tea house and a movie once the pending rain rolls in. Until then, I'm at the pool. Photos are uploading to my flickr roll as I type and I'll add stories shortly. Until then, the sun and surf beckon.

HRH

SoCal girl

I've been in California for about a day and a half and if I had my way I'd move everything I need from Toronto here. I mean, I love the east and the snow and all that, but seriously, it's awesome here. I never used to like the beach, but now I get it. I so get it.

It guess it doesn't hurt that I have the best host on the planet, who has been cooking for me, showing me all around the Newport Beach/Laguna Beach area, sitting out on the beach with me and, oh yeah, being the awesome that is Wendy.

I'm getting into this SoCal thing too. Wearing less makeup, getting really laid back and eating a lot of organic produce. I mean, it's all grown right here. It's like it's August in Canada, but all year long.

I'll post photos soon. I picked up a camera today (as my cameras at home both went terminal on me before I left) so hopefully I'll get that all working soon.

Until then, it's back to the beach for me.

HRH

Bikini small. Heel tall. She said she liked the ocean.

Um yeah. The crazy just doesn't stop around here. With five days of birthday celebrations and packing M for his trip to Prague (and that job thing; man is that thing a time sucker) I've been very much down with the busy.

And that all comes to an end tomorrow.



I suppose one has to have actually been to Cali to go back. Meh, details.

I'm taking off for a week of ocean side chillin', dancin' and singin' in Newport Beach with my dear Wendy. She has promised to hover over me and utter Americanisms while I sleep so that I can come back to Canada talkin' all American like. She's also promised to take me to Disneyland, feed me and take me surfing.

I am so easily bribed.

HRH