Just got this be-​bop, spam bot mashup and had to share:

from: Romana Carter
sub­ject: anti-​technology, bugeja

or on the real relationship

Good after­noon. How is it going? Email me at jj@linkmailmessage.info only. I am lonely girl. I will reply with my pics 5-year-old son rec­om­pense. I note and mar­ket­ing pitches are eval­u­at­ing claims

Wow. There’s a lot going on in there. I’m not quite sure if she wants to send me pic­tures of her 5 year old son (Def­i­nite mood killer there Romana) or said 5 year old is going to pay me for look­ing at pic­tures of his mom (Equally creepy). I am glad that she is taking my mar­ket­ing pitches seriously.

BTW, Bugeja hap­pens to be the family name of the Mal­tese Counts della Senia. What the della Senia have against tech­nol­ogy is unknown to me.

I just wrapped a three hour work­shop on Vari­able Data Print­ing for the Inter­na­tional Graphic Arts Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (IGAEA)’s 2007 National Con­fer­ence cur­rently being held at RIT. It’s a teach the teacher type event. I spent most of the week­end prepar­ing my mate­r­ial, and, of course, once I got on the ground, I scrapped about half of it.

Vari­able Data Prints are print prod­ucts that are cus­tomized by pulling infor­ma­tion out of a data­base. The pri­mary use is direct adver­tise­ments (what some folks out­side the biz com­monly refer to as junk mail). The work­shop, based on the class I’ve been teach­ing for the last year or so, pre­sented a method for intro­duc­ing stu­dents to the mar­ket­ing, tech­nol­ogy, and visual aspects of cre­at­ing VDP.

Or at least that was the plan. As usual, once you begin to exe­cute things change. The lec­ture part stayed mainly the same. But I changed the exer­cises pretty sig­nif­i­cantly. Things def­i­nitely need to be more “tactical.” Next time I’ll use more step-​by-​step hand outs. I think I avoided them because I wasn’t sure if they would limit the need to have an instruc­tor – the con­cern of going too far down the path of a self taught workshop.

Last Friday 13 sutures came out of my finger and thank­fully every­thing remained attached — I had been haunted by a car­toon image of the top of my finger flip­ping open as soon as the stitches came out.The heal­ing has pro­gressed really well; better in fact than my sur­geon expected (how’s that for con­fi­dence in your patients). Due to the loss of tissue, the finger will most likely have an uneven look, but all and all he thinks every­thing should be o.k.

What has been a bit strange is the “hard candy shell” (com­prised of dead skin) that’s formed over the tip of the finger. I’m told that it will peel off one of these days (the shell, not the finger). For the moment though, I can’t feel any­thing through it, which leads me to wonder how much of my sense of touch that I’ll have.

Still, I feel really lucky.

Espe­cially since I’m forced to keep my middle finger splinted and held up high. Which is strangely therapeutic:

Oh, and in response to LadyGoat’s com­ment from a few days ago, I did a hell of a job on the bushes before the acci­dent! Check out this artistry:

Ok, so now onto the nc-17 part of this post, if you dare, you can see pic­tures of the finger car­nage. For everyone’s sake, they’re after the jump…
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Thanks for all the well wishes!

Thank­fully I took my last pain med on Monday. Vicodin made me nau­seous. Per­coset gave me headaches and caused really weird dreams. True story: Sunday night, I dreamt that some­thing (either a lizard or a piranha) had latched itself on to my bad finger — and I was des­per­ate to pull it off. Unfor­tu­nately that led me to forcibly pulling off my finger splint in the middle of the night and shift­ing the pres­sure ban­dage over the wound — Verily I say to thee the test of true love is chang­ing your drug addled spouse’s finger dress­ing at 2.30 in the morn­ing. I mar­ried a good woman.

Any pain from the finger was worth get­ting my head back together.

Anyway, I’m feel­ing so much better now.

heal­ing con­tin­ues
vicodin causes some nausea
only one hand types

That’s about it. I’m down to one pain pill ever few hours. I’m look­ing for­ward to none. The finger looks pret­tly gnarley, but it’s got color other than purplish-​green) so thats a great thing.

BTW, if you haven’t seen Shake Hands With Danger, where the pre­vi­ous title came from, check it out here.