Quite a few, actually.

I was one of the people who snagged a Gmail account way back in ‘04 when it was still beta. Therefore, I managed to claim my ideal username — kellybelly.

Apparently a lot of people out there named Kelly want this email address for themselves — so much so that they actually think that it’s their email account …. and they sign up for sites using it!

Over the past few years I’ve got a Facebook account, a Friendster account, a Kodak gallery account, access to an LA Fitness account… today I was signed up for some book club. I’ve gotten someone’s homework, scripts for the school play and information about job interviews. The worst offender is some chick who keeps signing up her kid (or letting her kid sign up) for a bunch of kid-themed sites: Barbie, Build-A-Bear, etc. I’ve managed to find out the mom’s email address and have emailed her on a few occasions asking her to stop (or tell the brat to stop) using my email address but my notes must be getting ignored since I got another one today. Now I’m no longer being nice and polite.

This really is just the tip of the iceberg… I only started archiving the emails the past few months since it’s become an almost daily issue.

Do these people realize how easy it is for me to log in (via the ‘lost my password’ function) and access their account and all the information? If I was a less honest person I’d have some credit card information for a few people and can really screw them over.

I just… I’m baffled. How stupid do you have to be to consistently give out the wrong email address?

I’m really getting sick and tired of dealing with this. I guess I can ignore them, but then I’ll have a bunch of accounts linked to my email account and I’d rather not do that. So instead, when I get a notice, I try to investigate and reply appropriately.

When an email comes from an actual person I’ll politely ask them to stop emailing me and double-check the email address of the intended recipient. Most times this works, but I’ve run into an idiot or two that doesn’t believe me when I say I’m not who they think I am. Really.

When I have another means of contact (mailing address, etc) I’ll try to send a message via that method. Only happened twice, not sure if it worked.

When there is no means of communication (website accounts, mostly), I’ll email the site help center and ask that the account be canceled. Maybe it’s a bit harsh, but it gets the point across when they try to log in.

Ugh.

I had to laugh at my mom’s comment on a photo I posted on Flickr — “Totally F****** AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!” If my mom likes it that much, it can’t be a bad tattoo, right?

Yes, I got another tattoo. It’s a big ‘un … though it only took about 2.5 hours to complete. It was done by Ahren Bloomquist at Lucky 7 in Libertyville, IL. I am extremely happy and excited about how it turned out.

The tattoo is based on an illustration from Juan Valverde de Amusco’s Anatomia del corpo humano, which in turn is based upon (or stolen from) Andreas Vesalius’ De corporis humani fabrica libri septem.

I totally didn’t realize at first that I used the plagerized illustration. I would have chosen the original image just on principle… except I like Valverde’s version of it more. :::shrugs::: They’re practically identical and besides, they’re over 500 years old so I doubt that it matters.

Today I’m a bit sore. My shirt sleeve is irritating the lower portion a bit (right around the elbow) so it’s red and bleeding a bit in spots. I can’t wait until it’s healed…

New ink, originally uploaded by kellybelly.

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Using Fontifier, I was able to create a font from my own handwriting. Vain, yes… but pretty neat.

Click the preview image below to download the font.

To install on Windows:

• Double-click the Fonts icon in the Control Panels folder.
• Drag the font file into the Fonts window to install your font.

To install on MacOS X 10.3 or later:

• Double-click the font file. A sample of your font will be displayed.
• Click the Install Font button to install your font.

I’m going to do Justin’s handwriting next. It takes a bit of tweaking in Photoshop to get the fonts looking good and all lined up nicely, since both of our handwriting isn’t perfectly even.

Yes, these are real, not the figment of some sick person’s imagination.

I saw them posted somewhere online last week, and … well … if you know me at all, you shouldn’t be surprised that I had to try them. Especially after my bacon cookie experiment… which I never talked about here, apparently. [The bacon cookie recipe was found here, and they were delish.]

My verdict? Yum. They’re very sweet (Obviously. It’s candy.) but neither the maple nor the bacon flavor is overpowering. I fully expected them to have that gross fake maple flavor, but I’m happy to say that is not the case. The bacon bits were interesting when they became uncovered, but they weren’t gross or anything and even had a bit of a crunch to them.

Lollyphile also makes an absinthe lollipop (yes, from real absinthe), which I wasn’t about to try. I’ve had absinthe before and wasn’t a fan of the licorice-y taste of it.

Get some of your own to try over on Lollyphile.com.

Time-lapse video from the iPhone, imagine that. I just stitched together some photos taken using 1Shoot. Though there were only 200MB of photos that were taken — I started with 1.5GB of free space — something caused the program to stop shooting halfway through our meal. I could have restarted the camera but at that point in time I didn’t know there was still plenty of storage space. Next time, I’ll know.

(5.1MB / 00:39)