14 Responses to “What Does Your Desktop Say About You?”

1. katieM Posted: Jul 26th, 2006 at 8:18 pm

   1 That looks like a big Messenger Video converation on her desktop. If its anythink like my interface then the 6…no 8 pack is the person she’s talking to and the bottom legs represent her. Or him. Or she has really hairy manly legs.

2. L.E. Bryce Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:41 am

   2 You know what I tell people when they tell me that what I read, look at, etc. on the Internet is going to make Baby Jesus cry? That Mary ought to be making sure that Baby Jesus isn’t looking at such skanky things in the first place. I’m Jewish. You can tell. ^-^

3. Evangeline Anderson Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 6:42 am

   3 Is it just me or do the legs not match the torso? Does anyone else remember that Fashion Plates game for girls where you could mix and match the legs, head and torso to create new glam looks? That’s what this looks like to me. Evangeline

4. CindyS Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 10:35 am

   4 With the cybersexin’ and the gay porn-watchin’ in the background, it’s a wonder that her CPU isn’t in tears. Or maybe it is and the screen is frozen and she’s about to get the ever-delightful “blue screen of death”. Good times. Oh, shit. I can’t stop laughing. I can’t look at this too closely or my mind tries to put in a ‘dangly bit’ which keeps freaking me out. Damn, I could use 10 bucks - how do you do a screen capture CindyS

5. LSB Author, Darragha Foster Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

   5 Having just suffered from the blue screen of death this morning, I find fear in that phrase. However, my computer guy assures me the fact my computer overheated is not due to the steamy nature of the books I write. Damn. I am getting a new computer, however. Incidently, I’m Buddhist. Darragha

6. Danielle Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 2:08 pm

   6 Why does she have broken Java Applets on her toolbar? DUMB HO. GET OFF THE INTERNET.

7. Anonymous Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

   7 It seems like just yesterday I lamented poor Megan Hart and the atrocious covers she is cursed with. Wait, it was yesterday, and here we go again! I think Megan Hart’s next book should be enitled “The Black Album” and be pure black with her name in white at the bottom. That’s the only way she’ll get a halfway decent cover it seems.

8. Joanne Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

   8 Filipino moms RULE. I should know - I have one. ^-^ Seriously, they’re a hoot. Every Filipino kid has a funny mom story… maybe you should post about that sometime.

9. Sana-chan Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 10:12 pm

   9 Hell Joanne, you don’t even need to be Filipino to have a funny Filipino mom story. Though my best one is a Filipino grandmother story, but still, she was someone’s mom! I learned never, ever to tell a little old Filipino lady that I wasn’t hungry because it doesn’t matter. She will make you eat, and you WILL like it, whether you want to or not.

10. Joanne Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

    10 LOL Sana-chan. Also, Filipino moms using modern slang is pretty funny. You have the mom angle, plus you have the foreigner angle (I’m not hating on them - I’m an immigrant too). But Filipino women are raised to be proper and such, so hearing them use such informal language is pretty funny. Especially if the words in question are hip-hop oriented, e.g. “biotch” or “bling bling.” For example, this one time when someone cut my mom off on the freeway and she was like, “You BIOTCH!” I even recorded it for posterity. The “bling bling” thing comes from my mom’s magpie-like fondness for big shiny jewellery. My Aunt Liza saw my mother’s diamond ring one day and said “Darling, ang grabe naman ng bling bling mo!” (”Darling, your bling-bling is too much!”) Ha, this is fun. Everyone, feel free to jump in with your Filipino/foreign mom stories.

11. Bam Posted: Jul 28th, 2006 at 1:23 am

    11 Joanne, I’ve got one. One day, my mom and I were standing in line at the grocery store and I was sneaking a bag of Cheetos into the cart and my mom said, “Ay naku, don’t eat that. You’re so fat already.” And then she walked away to get some celery or something and this woman behind us said, “I can’t believe your mother just said that to you. You’re not fat. Besides, some things you just don’t say out loud.” and I wanted to say, “No, you don’t understand. That’s… just the way she is.” And I just kind of had to shrug and make a “my mother is crazy” face.

12. Sana-chan Posted: Jul 28th, 2006 at 11:23 am

    12 LOL, Joanne, your bling-bling story takes me back. Whenever people would speak Tagalog around me I would always just kind of nod and smile, and when someone would throw in an English word I would pipe up with something like “I agree” even when I had no idea what they were talking about. It was a favorite joke with my FIlipino friends. Well one day I did it at work, when the head of shipping said something in Tagalog to my friend Paul. They kind of looked at me funny and then Paul and I left to go back to our building. “You have no idea what she was saying, do you?” he asked. “Nope!” I said. “Don’t do that again. She just told me I was making her public hair go grey.” I never, ever did that at work again.

13. krizia Posted: Jul 31st, 2006 at 6:37 am

    13 LOL haha yey for Filipinos! I’m a Filipino and I have tons of mom-and-lola stories!

14. Joanne Posted: Aug 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 am

    14 LOL Sana-chan… Bam, I have the same type of mom. The one upside to that is that I can use her as a cop-out when I don’t want to eat something: I just tell her that I’m not hungry, and when the other grown-up urges/forces me to eat my mom can crack a cute little joke about how we have to preserve our “byuti”. But you know, the extra pounds are her fault in the first place.