Got Gravatar? No? It’s Easy!

Globally Recognized Avatars — a.k.a. Gravatars, are those little square photos that appear beside blog comments.

Maybe you’ve seen mine around?

Lately, as some of you have noted, I’ve changed up the automatically-generated comment images for the not-yet-Gravatarred of you.  I was tired of the old “identicons” and upon experimenting with WordPress’ other choices of aliens and monsters, which are too weird even for me, plus some of you were assigned sad faces and that just won’t do, I’ve settled on…

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the highly esteemed mystery man photo credit:buildinternet.com

Friends, if you don’t have your own Gravatar, It’s SO EASY to get one and YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE A WORDPRESS BLOG for it to work, the latter tidbit I owe to the wonderful bloggers Karyn and Barkaly.

Here’s what Gravatar.com says…

“Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled sites, like Jannie’s!”

Of course, I could’ve told you that myself but I have to show off that I finally figured out how to do a blockquote box!

Go Jannie, go!  Kick some blockquote keister!

Hey, and once you have your Gravatar, all your past comments become magically retroactively Gravatarred.  And Gravatar.com does not use your e-mail address for anything even remotely nefarious. Plus, and get this  — just for signing up, Gravatar will send you and 7 friends on an all-expenses-paid first class World Cruise!!!

So, if you don’t have a Gravatar and would like one, why delay another moment! Go now — Go! To Gravatar.com.

And for those of you who already have your Gravatar, have you anything you might like to share about yours?

Another chance!

Friends, if you missed out on winning one of my CDs in the recent extravaganza, be not of heavy heart. My pal Jeanne bought two and is offering one on give-away as part of the launch of her new site, Chronic Healing!  To be eligible all you have to do is pop over there and leave a comment on this post.  How easy is that?  She’ll pick the winner June 8th.

And that photo above, just one of my favorites ever I took of Kelly.  She was 5.  Tap dance recital costume.

[Oh yeah, over at Jeanne’s you can leave multiple comments to increase your chances of advanced Janniedom, thanks Jeanne!]

So how ’bout that!

Our little Billy Mays, picked comment numbers 25 and 46, making the two winners of the Jannie CD Give-away (whoo-hoo)….. Paige of Paradise Mountain To Hell’s Valley and Nikkicrumpet. So congrats, you two!   And thanks everybody else for playing – some of you gave it a bold old try indeed. It was fun!

Here’s the second part of the session with a bit of cropping, as I realize the original at over 5 minutes was possibly a bit long for peeps with very busy lives.

And here’s a still with light “enhancement.”

Oh, and my ego so LOVED all your comments on that last post, thanks.  See you soon!

Jannie CD Give-Away (whoo-hoo!)

Since I was so remiss in forgetting to tell you that part of Jungle of Life Lance’s interview-post on me was a give-away of my “I Need A Man” CD, I best be a-giving away a CD too!  Actually 2 CDs to 2 lucky winners.  Well, hopefully you’ll consider yourself lucky and not burdened to have it.  😉

So let’s see, hmmmm.  Okay! Please below, leave a comment saying what you like about this Jannie Funster blog.  Comment as many times as you wish [the more times you comment the greater your chances are to win!  Win!  Win!!]  Then… Monday June 1st at 8:00 p.m. Central (Texas) Time, Kelly and I will see how many comments in total there are, she will choose 2 of those by number at random and we will read those 2 comments out loud – for the whole world to hear, as I’ll videotape her choosing and post it here.  Y’all come back Tuesday morning to see who won!

If you already have one of my CDs, you could always give another as a present, or frame it and hang it on your pantry wall to think of me each time you go for the sugah, Sugah.

So… ready… set …  comment!!

Like a bord on a wire, 8 — Funny Typos

funstress on park bench with shih-tzu  (photo: november ’07)

Dudes, today I’m over at  Sir Lancelot’s in a post all about me, called This Is Funtertainment… but  how ’bout some more of my typos until you pop on over there?

1.  You Sir, are a gentleman and a scalder.

2.  I once knit a scarf and matching log warmers.

3.  Got caught up with most of my blog duddies today.

4.  I too shall soon know the trill of new running shoes.

5.  I’d trim my dog’s nails if I thought I’d be god at it.

6.  What are you serving at your rehearsal sinner?

7.  Who the heel do I think I am feeling worthy enough to go for my dreams?

8.  I hope the whole songs will love up to your expectations of the snippets.

9.  Do you want your CD autograped?

10. Ah, nothing like the smell of clotting fresh from the line.

11. Maybe I could drop Kelly off at your hose for a couple hours Sunday?

12.  I nailed your CD out today!

13.  There IS something really really yummy the Mixicans do to their sodas.

14.  Take dare!

15.  I do not yet know about all that Hairy Potter stuff.

“hairy potter” photo credit: spaff.com

Here is the entire series thus far, in case you are interested. 🙂
Funny Typos 10… Funny Typos 9… Funny Typos 8… Funny Typos 7… Funny Typos 6… Funny Typos 5… Funny Typos 4… Funny Typos 3… Funny Typos 2… Funny Typos 1…