• Ron Decar’s Las Vegas Hotel
  Pictures of cool well-themed hotel rooms. Unfortunately the hotel seems to have closed, but the pictures are still fun to look at.
  (tags: travel)
• iAttire
  Expensive but cute costumes for your iPod. [via popgadget]
  (tags: gadgets stuff.to.buy)
• Tabblo
  Online scrapbooking. Appears to have you put it all together on one page. [via popgadget]
  (tags: tools)
• Real Travel
  Read reviews from those who have been there before you; develop your own trip plan; create a travel blog. [via techcrunch]
  (tags: travel)
• PayScale
  Input your salary, profession, educational background, location, and some additional information to find out how your salary compares to others like you. [via techcrunch]
  (tags: web2.0 corporate)
• History of the Flag-Raising On Iwo Jima
  A quick summary of events.
  (tags: history sept11.war)
• Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time
  It takes a special kind of failure to make it into this list. A game has to be more than boring or poorly executed. To become one of the 20 Worst, it starts as a bad idea and ends by actually lowering the quality of life of people who haven’t played it. [
  (tags: funny oldtech)

So it’s Halloween. I went to a little party over the weekend dressed as a “naughty Republican” - gray skirt suit with a miniskirt, and a white buttondown under the jacket. I had a vintage “Let’s Back Ronald Reagan for Governor” button on and that was it. It went well.

I just bought tonight’s candy this morning, because otherwise it would have been gone by now! I got snack size Almond Joy, single-serving Reese’s peanut butter cups, and snack size regular Hershey’s chocolate for the kiddies who are either allergic or simply don’t like nuts or coconut. Although actually, we tend to get more older kids than we do little ones - middle and high school age, rather than preschool and elementary age. Some years we only get a handful of kids at all.

Oh crap, I just remembered that yesterday was the first anniversary of my biological father’s death. Huh.

I booked our hotel in Las Vegas today. It’s only for the part of the stay my wife’s company is paying for, as we will be booking our own extension separately. Yes, I booked for what my wife’s company is paying for…apparently I am a better travel agent than those the company uses. It was really tough to find somewhere that stayed under the $114 daily maximum on President’s Day weekend, but I ended up with the America’s Best Value Inn on East Tropicana Avenue. They have free wireless internet, hooray! Reviews seem to be pretty mixed, some people hated it and some people liked it. If something doesn’t work out with that motel, there is also the Motel 6 on the same block.

The very first picture of me in my purple corset is here. It is probably NSFW…it’s not explicit, but I’m only wearing underthings with the corset. (It’s probably safe for my parents.) It’s not a great picture, and the corset needs to go down much further, but it’s a good start. I wore it for about 30 minutes tonight.

I ended up buying corsetworld.net because I needed to have a purpose for my domain. The survey showed that geekygrrl.net was very popular, but I didn’t know what I would do with it, so I chose the one that I would actually know what to do with. It will be the new home for my collection of links to corsetmakers’ websites, and I will probably put my own pictures up there, and sskipstress has a home there if she ever wants it!

• The 50 Worst Video Game Names Of All Time
  The following list was compiled after hours of lively debate, pages of exhausting science and one actual geek fistfight.
  (tags: oldtech funny)

The crisis is over! I just got the following in email:

Signature: Gallaudet University - Public Relations/Visitors Center

TO: Campus Community
FROM: Board of Trustees
DATE: October 29, 2006
RE: Board of Trustees Meeting

Today, we announce with much regret and pain that after serious deliberation in a special, all-day Executive Session of the Board of Trustees, we have voted to terminate Dr. Fernandes’ appointment as President-Designate (currently effective) and President (effective beginning January 1, 2007) at Gallaudet University.

We understand the impact of this decision and the important issues that inherently arise when a Board re-examines decisions in the face of an on-going protest. The Board believes that it is in the best interests of the University to terminate Dr. Fernandes from the incoming President’s position. Although undoubtedly there will be some in the community who have differing views on the meaning of this decision, we believe that it is a necessity at this point. The Board is continuing to meet to discuss transitional issues.

It has certainly been a difficult and trying time for our Gallaudet community. Now is the time for healing. The hope of the Board of Trustees is for our beloved community to come together to work for a stronger and better Gallaudet.

• Slister
  Create lists for birthdays, holidays or just for fun and share them with friends and family. Whenever you come across a product on the Web, just click on your “Post to Slister” button to save it to your account. (Another wishlist device.) [via momb]
  (tags: tools)
• Life Tango
  Create a richer, fuller life by identifying the things you want to do, fine tuning your goals using the best goal-setting techniques, track progress, share goals and progress with friends. (Like 43things.) [via momb]
  (tags: productivity web2.0)
• ExpectMore.gov
  The federal government is working to ensure its programs perform well. Here we provide you information about where we’re successful and where we fall short, and in both situations, what we’re doing to improve our performance next year.
  (tags: random)

• Dr. Robert Johnson’s Open Letter to the Gallaudet Community
  It is pretty long, but definitely worthy reading. It explores the systematic weakness within the Gallaudet University that results not only in DPN, but also in this current protest. [posted at mishkazena via ridorlive]
  (tags: deaf)
• ZombieWalk.com
  Discussion forum for planning zombie walks around the world.
  (tags: funny)
• True Porn Clerk Stories
  No images, but language, of course. You decide if that’s NSFW. [via vixyish]
  (tags: funny sex)
• The Truth About the Gallaudet University Protest
  Excellent article on AssociatedContent.com. [via locatei]
  (tags: deaf)

• I have had a headache for two and a half days now.
• I forgot that I had put my tiny diamond earrings on the bed, and then I went and slept in the bed. They are not lost, they are just missing - either on the bed or the floor. But it’s going to be a pain to find them.
• Although 25% of voters have voted for deafjournal.net, I realized that I don’t want to be solely responsible for providing support for however many users I get! So that one is probably out of the running. Really, right now, it’s between corsetworld.net, geekygrrl.net, and meredithonline.org. I still don’t know what I would do with the latter two, because I already have amanita.net where I keep all my stuff. CorsetWorld would have a purpose, though, so I’m kind of leaning that way - but I still like the geekygrrl.net too.
• The ATM in the building where I work is no longer making us pay a surcharge! Yay! (I use a credit union with exactly one location in the metro area, so I am used to paying a surcharge at all ATMs.)
• I am on a million Gallaudet-related mailing lists right now. I am getting several blogs (People of the Eye, Elisa Writes, Mishka Zena, and RidorLIVE) by e-mail and I am also on the GallyNet-L mailing list which is very active. I also continue to get two copies of every USA-L News mailing that goes out (can’t figure out how to deactivate either of them!) and I signed up for the GUFSSA alert list this morning. My mail is full of Gallaudet-related stuff.
• I am no longer sad when the scale hasn’t gone down. I have been at 160 for a couple of months now, give or take a couple of pounds now and then. I am going to continue on my diet, so I will be elated if I lose weight, but I will still be happy if I just maintain.
• I still have a headache. I have no Advil at work.

With absolutely no help from anybody except Kristine (kdlb) I narrowed it down to a couple of domains I might want, and what I might want them for. Please vote; I’ll close the poll when a winner seems apparent.

• MakeStickers.com
  Here you can design your own custom bumper stickers online. Just select a template, enter your text, choose your fonts and colors, then see an instant preview of your bumper sticker, right on your monitor! And best of all, there’s NO MINIMUM QUANTITY!
  (tags: stuff.to.buy)
• Through Deaf Eyes
  Through Deaf Eyes will be a two-hour HDTV documentary for PBS that will explore almost 200 years of American history — the experience of the deaf community in the United States from 1814 to the present. (Spring 2007)
  (tags: deaf media)
• Strange Sisters
  An archive of lesbian pulp fiction covers from the 1950s and 1960s. Not affiliated with the Jaye Zimet book, but very similar content.
  (tags: queer books retro)
• Red Cats Firefox Themes
  Two attractive kittycat themes for Firefox 1.5 (not 2.0). I’m using the blue flavor at work but the green flavor is nice too.
  (tags: animals firefox)
• Signs of Protest: Inside Gallaudet
  A pretty good feature story from the Georgetown Voice.
  (tags: deaf media)
• Las Vegas Strip Neon Survey
  In the summer of 2002, the Neon Museum commissioned a survey of the neon signs of the Las Vegas Strip corridor from Sunset to Sahara. This survey was designed to capture the artistic and historical significance of one of Las Vegas’s most well-known art fo
  (tags: random technology)