Nekid Barbies and Trolls

One problem with having little girls is that you can come home from work to a pile of naked Barbies. The two problems are: 1) they have too many Barbies and 2) their little fingers can undress Barbies but cannot dress them. Why they end up in a pile in the middle of the living room floor is not clear to me.

As the little girls grow older, they learn to dress their Barbies, and the phenomenon cleans itself up. Having three girls, I’ve had to endure this problem many times over the years. I thought it was all a distant memory.

Then I walked in on this:

Barbies and Trolls

Kelly and Mary Claire had decided to inventory all of their Barbie clothing. They were arranging it in stacks by category. Something of a mini laundry folding. I don’t know why they were doing this, nor did I ask. I just ran for the camera crying out “evidence! evidence!”

Reviewing the evidence, I see now that there were trolls involved. (What kind of clothes do they have? Click in to zoom if you dare.) And I think there is a Ken in the middle somewhere. Wish I could see his face.

My friend Greg Willits, who now has four boys, is likely to never experience walking in on such a graphic scene of twisted plastic flesh.

Named Colors

The link below is to names that can be used in CSS instead of the cryptic numbers and most seem to work… (This is tomato on burlywood!)

non-AOL | Named CSS Colors

(How I did that up there:)

&lt SPAN STYLE=”background: burlywood; color: tomato”&gt The link below is to names that can be used in CSS instead of the cryptic numbers and most seem to work… (This is tomato on burlywood!) &lt /SPAN&gt

TinyURL.com

Long URLs can be a problem because they can be broken up in e-mail messages and quit working.

I wanted to send a MapQuest URL showing how close the Morton’s live to Chastain park. (They get to listen for free!)

Using TinyURL.com, I can e-mail this:

http://tinyurl.com/cres

Instead of this:

http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&ct=NA&1y=US&1a=4250+Beverly+Lane&1p=&1c=Atlanta&1s=GA&1z=&1ah=&2y=US&2a=Powers+Ferry+and+Stella+Drive&2p=&2c=Atlanta&2s=GA&2z=&2ah=&lr=2&x=80&y=16

Not sure how long it will really last, but good enough for short-lived URL needs. Thanks to Bill Crane for this tip!