If you live in the Atlanta area or anywhere nearby, please join us for an Atlanta Blythe meet on Saturday, June 9 at noon at Atlantic Station in Midtown.

We will meet at NOON at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch and then hopefully head to the green space for some fun photos afterwards! Please pm me or reply here to RSVP no later than Friday, June 8 so I can know how big of a table to get. They do not take reservations so when you arrive just look for the dollies!

Hope to see everyone there!

Directions, parking and restaurant location can be found here.

Email me for an invite to our SouthEast Blythe group where we chat about Blythe and plan future meetups.

The Only Hearts Club doll series is available at Target and their clothes fit Blythe! One fashion set costs around $11 and that comes with a shirt, jacket, bottom, shoes and an accessory. OHC dolls are for children whose parents want their kids to grow up with healthy self-images (pfff).

Pants: the crotch was little bit on the short side, but fit overall

Tops: fit, but a tad on the short side

Shoes: were a little on the big side, but still worked

Overall look for the clothing: a lot of the pieces are young (lots of pepto bismol pinks), but if mixed with other pieces, could look more adult. The shoes were the selling point for me (platform maryjanes & uggs)—lots of detail. The accessory that came with my outfit has to be the fugliest doll purse ever; the thing looks like doll panties on a string.

I call this Blanche’s “I love Bjork shirt”! The shirt/dress came from a barbie fashion pack that I also bought at Target.

Dear Digg,

I just don’t know how to quit you. Your front page with its ultimate tutorial lists, DIY hacks, news of new software releases, links to photos of scantily-clad women & oh God, don’t get me started on diggnation. Digg, you make me feel… inadequate. There’s always something new to tweak, new software to try, links to bookmark, news stories to, err…’research’. I can’t keep up.

And who’s fault is it that I feel inadequate? Well, I certainly can’t be the one to blame; you are everywhere! Even after removing all digg artifacts from my browser, I cannot escape the ‘digg this’ buttons & the ‘top-on-digg’ widgets slopped on various blogs (I think there was one on this blog at one time). You are in my internetz, destroying my blankspaces & thus, my self-esteem (not that that is terribly hard).

I want my simple, pre-digg life back; a life where I did important things, like save kittens & write “bad” poetry.

Fortunately, my interest in mouseHole has given me reason to spend less time at digg and more time at code.whytheluckystiff.net/mouseHole/ (Google says I’ve made 6 visits since the middle of this month! & that excludes all of the internet stalking I’ve been doing at the library). Now, I know what your’e thinking… “Just write a nice little mouseHole script to removes all of the digg paraphernalia from around the web.” And writing such a script would be a smart thing for me to do; my time away from digg would result in more time away from digg. But alas, I can’t seem to quit you. In fact, the mouseHole script that I ended up writing [1] uses your new API to display the number of diggs for the page I am currently viewing, along with (what else) a link to that page on digg.

And you know, the thing is that I suck at writing Ruby. Hell, I don’t even know if I’m a programmer yet. I have lots to learn and do with Ruby; I don’t have time for you & your front page and especially not for your comments or video podcasts. Maybe you could meet me half way and make yourself a paid-members only site? No? Then, I am hopelessly yours. Just promise me that you won’t take all of my time and that if you ever leave me for good, that you will return that little piece of my heart that I have given to you.

Lovingly, but irritatedly,

JessiRae

[1] Using this Ruby Digg Wrapper, I added to the browserbar.rb mouseHole script that I created earlier. The browserbar script places a list of links at the top of every page; the list forms a bar, similar to the plugins and quick links firefox makes available. Yeah, sure you are making all of your web surfing known to digg, but that just makes the guilt stronger. To use the digg “plugin”, place the digg.rb wrapper in your {mouseHole_root}/lib/mouseHole directory.