TikiPrincess

I don't like anyone getting near my ears. It's torturous to play telephone or one of those whispering games. It also doesn't mention what it means when someone grabs you and kisses you on both cheeks. And I'd probably slap the person who tries to kiss me without permission.

I think I said this before somewhere else, but acting is a tough dream to follow. You have to be able to withstand the CONSTANT criticism about every aspect of yourself: your body, your hair, your ethnicity, your speech, the way you pronounce your a's, how delicately you step, whether your arm bends too much when you arch it, whether your breasts are too big, whether they're too small, can't you fit your fat size 6 butt into a tiny size 2 skirt, you're too bubbly, you don't have enough personality, your eyes are too close together, your mouth is too wide, your lips are too full, your left pinky toe is just a tad too long! Okay, I exaggerated on that last one, but all the other ones I have actually heard when auditioning. Judging from some of your other posts, I think that the audition process would be a bit too harsh for you at the moment. And you're right, it's not what you know, how talented you are, or even how perfect you are for a role, it's who you know. A good agent will set your parents back thousands of dollars each month, and they usually take a larger percentage because they know that without them, you're nothing. There are also so-called "agencies" that are nothing more than scams used to prey on the hopes and dreams of others.If you're really set on pursuing a career in acting, do local stuff, build up your resume. I'm not sure whether there's a Central Casting office near you, but try looking up films that were made in Texas and look through the credits to see who did the casting in your area. A reputable company will not charge you anything to register with them as an extra. You'll have to shell out a few hundred bucks for some professional head shots. If your neighbors were models, ask them if they can help you find a good photographer. They might know someone or at least tell you what to look for when interviewing a photographer and how to tell the difference between a good photograph and a bad one. Then you'll spend another couple hundred on hair and makeup and costuming so you can pose for about two hundred shots, just so you can find three or four that are acceptable. Submit those to the casting office. Then you wait.In the meantime, get experience. Learn to play an instrument or sports or something so that you can add that to your list of talents. They may need a few girls to play the opposing team in an upcoming soccer movie. Or they may be looking for a girl who can play a harmonica. Take up dance or yoga, or better yet both, because these help you learn to control your body. Dance teaches you to move with grace and purpose, while yoga gives you flexibility and control over parts that you didn't even realize you could move.Anyways, good luck with your endeavors. I hope you do become one of the few that do succeed, but promise me you won't end up like Lindsay or Brittney!

Hopefully it doesn't go the way of the EV1. My friend used to work for the California Air Resources Board, the "clean air agency" established to fix our smog problem. They used to have a whole fleet of electronic vehicles. The government even implemented EV charging stations in public lots all over the major metropolitan areas. The Honda EV Plus was a great little compact SUV with remote climate control. It was roomy and comfortable. But then the car manufacturer's and oil companies got together and decided that they would lose too much money if the electronic vehicles ever gained popularity. If you want to see more about the death of the EVs in the US, go to Who Killed the Electric Car. Or you can rent the documentary by the same name. Kinda sad really...

There's always a period of recovery time from any surgery. If they're not going into the bone, then I don't think it will be quite as painful, but there's also less structure for the healing tissue to form around. This means that ANY disturbance to the area will affect the way the tissue forms. You wouldn't want to have another surgery to fix your nose simply because you breathed in too hard or a random football came flying towards your face while you called the rest of the family in for dinner. My friend had a nose job for her 16th birthday to "repair a deviated septum." I didn't know her back then, so I can't tell you whether she's telling the truth or not. I do know that she's still trying to protect her nose 5 years later. She'll play a game of beach volleyball with us, but she'll duck and cover if the ball is coming straight for her face. Hopefully you aren't going to be taking any roundhouse kicks to the face when you spar.

Rahh! Rahh! I like your introduction. Straight forward and to the point. Welcome to the Trap! Don't forget to check out the Readme for all the important stuff like Rules and the ToS. Since you're looking for free webhosting, you'll also want to check out the Pre-Signup FAQ. So are you a graffiti artist or do you just like graffiti as a style? I grew up near LA, so I've seen a lot of graffiti. I can't stand tagging because it's so boring, but some of the graffiti I've seen is absolutely spectacular and deserves to be framed in a museum. Although I think that might defeat the whole purpose of being guerilla art. Anyways, welcome again and I hope I'll see you around!

Seems highly unnecessary to block quote my post when it's only 3 up. Anyways, you're absolutely right. Everything posted on a website must be fact. They've even got statistics. That means they are completely infallible. Don't knock someone else's belief simply because you don't believe it. Calling someone's beliefs silly while emphasizing your own is hypocritical. Speaking of, you might want to take another look at the quote you've got on your sig...

Obviously, you learned stubbornness from your mother. I have given you an anthropological reason why humans act differently rather than one based on the scientific theory of gravitational influence, yet you refuse to even acknowledge it as a possibility. Although it seems futile to debate since you seem fixed in your opinion, I will offer another point of discussion for the sake of others. The moon's cycle is much more constant and predictable than the solar cycle no matter what Shakespeare's Juliet says. It runs for 28 days from new moon to new moon. For the greater part of human evolution, this was the only calendar they could depend on. Women's menstrual cycles would coincide with the lunar cycle and the full moon was considered the most potent time of conception. Our bodies adjusted accordingly and produced more testosterone and estrogen during the full moon. As technology evolved, many women started getting out of sync with nature and their menstrual cycles don't run with the lunar cycle. However, the biological knowledge could be inscribed in our DNA.

This topic is pretty similar to a thread started here. However, I'll share some of my ideas that I didn't propose in the other thread.While the moon may not have a scientific, gravitational force over us, it may still influence us in ways that may not be explained by a scientific nature. Perhaps it is the belief that the moon does have influence over us that makes us act this way, but I think that there are other forces at work as well. In the early ages of man, humans feared the darkness of night. They were vulnerable to attack because our eyes aren't made to see well in the dark like other predatory animals. Only by the light of the moon could people wander at night. When the moon was full, it was enough light to hunt animals that would be difficult to catch during the day, and people celebrated the hunters return with carnal festivities of food and pleasure. While these practices have ceased and long been forgotten, the instinct remains embedded in some people and manifests itself in different ways. The full moon shines and people release their inhibitions and celebrate. The hunter instinct rises, and there are more accidents by reckless drivers or drunken brawls between men over a woman. People eat or drink more, or they feel the urge to... mate and procreate.

As Mike would say: BWAHAHAHAHA. One by one, I'll turn you all into stick figures. It's going to be the next big craze in GFX! Limited edition stick figure sigs by Tiki. I doubt the n00bs will be begging for me to make one, though. I just figured since I can't be as awesome at rendering as Mike, I'll at least be funny. It's a small way to show my appreciation to you for reaching out to a new Trapper like me. I'm having a blast making them. But it also gives me a chance to play with photoshop and figure out how things work. And I can show them off without any pressure to do something spectacular. FYI Mike, the spammer doesn't look shameful enough to be you, especially since he's spamming four times. That's like shaming you twice and squaring it. Maybe you're the dead spammer in the background, I haven't decided yet. If I do, I'll update the sig with a little arrow pointing to that S&M guy.

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I know this is an old topic, but I have to agree that woot.com is an awesome site. I absolutely love their product descriptions. They may not describe the product very well, but that's what the specs tab is for. They're just random and hilarious. As atomicnacho says, they have one deal a day where they sell one item until 1) the item sells out or 2) the end of the day (11:59pm central time). You don't know how many they have of each item, but the "I want one" button starts bouncing around when it starts getting close to selling out. A new item goes up at midnight for the next round. The exception is the Woot-Off where a new product is put up immediately after the last one sells out or has not sold out after 12 hours. Woot-Offs last a day or two and only happen a couple times a month. They're mostly for cleaning out inventory, I'm sure, but they sometimes have new products thrown in the mix. Another fun thing is the Bag o'Crap which is sold for $1.00 and can range from random dollar store crap to expensive high-tech gear. You never know until it comes in the mail. These usually sell out in minutes, so you definitely need a high-speed connection if you're planning on wooting that day. My friend bought the little beauty below for only $19.99 on woot, which is selling for $39.99 on thinkgeek.com

you lots Mermaid! very chic but I think she looks more like you than me! Then again, very few people have seen my pic, on here anyways, so I don't think it matters much. I'm definitely not as sexy as the girl in this sig.

Thanks for the praise. I'm quite touched; all your comments make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Husker - I actually did it in Photoshop, but my gfx skills are horribly pathetic. Stick figures are the only render I can master. :PJim - I just feel awkward making Mike horny, so any devilish references are instantly rejected. I guess Mike could be similar to a slug or another creature without a backbone... but I'll pretend he has one. :PMike - I was sorely tempted to recreate the drawing of me kicking your butt, which would have been worth a gazillion words. Unfortunately, you did most of the drawing on that one - I just added the names. I'm honored and humbled by my addition to your list of sigs.MB - You're next evil cook!

I know what you mean. Sometimes my husband comes home from work and nothing I do is right. When I ask him how work was, he just says nothing or, "Just a bad day." In my better moments, I try to remember how mean I can be when I'm tired and frustrated and menstral. But I'm only human and sometimes he knows what buttons to push to get me mad, and then he pushes them and pushes them. Sometimes I call him on it if I'm not in the mood to deal with being a verbal punching bag, but most of the time, I realize that he's frustrated and I try to figure out a way for him to relax. Usually that means putting on a DVD or playing some sort of video game where he can take it out on a virtual enemy rather than letting him try to pick a fight with me. Just try to remember that we're all humans and imperfect. We are weak and sometimes try to make other people feel as bad as we feel, but you don't have to take the abuse. Try to look for ways to deflect the anger from you and onto something else.

If you don't like his, you can use mine! I know it's not nearly as clean, but... yeah, I'd go with Mike's.

I was so inspired by the wonderful responses to my gift for Mike that I thought I'd continue my streak with this sig for jlhaslip. I took my inspiration from this line in your current sig: I hope you like it, Jim.

I give you a 3/10 because Jimmy is the name of my cousin's jerk fiance. I would have given you less, but I like your posts and realize that your a completely different person. Too bad about the name though...

There's this little button in the corner of your post called 'Edit.' You might want to familiarize yourself with it. As to your impatience for a sig, please note that the GFX crew is doing this as a bonus service to Trap members. Most graphic designers are paid to make a banner or sig, sometimes even several hundred dollars. They will get around to it when they get around to it. If you were, perhaps, less specific in your requirements, you might get more response because you give the artist freedom to express him/herself as much as possible. That being said, I would be happy to make one for you similar to the one I did for Saint_Michael.

I think that the issue is a moot point now, since it would be political suicide to make abortion illegal now. Not to mention the fact that it will most likely not be enforced. Kinda like the whole "prayer in schools" thing, people know it's against the law, but they still do it. It's only a rare case that gets taken to court these days. Sure, you could close down the clinics and impose fines on doctors and other people who perform abortions, but women found ways around that before abortion was legalized within the US. The means were often much cruder, less healthy and often dangerous, but effective. What you must remember about the US Constitution and the law-making process is that it emphasizes a separation of church and state. Religious code should have no place in the creation or regulation of laws regarding any government entity. Obviously, this is hardly the case as we've got "In God We Trust" emblazoned on our currency, but the fact remains that our Congress and Legislative body should be governed by reason in their decision-making process. If abortion is, therefore, to be considered a crime, we must decide where or, more accurately, when life begins to determine when the rights of the child have been violated. As of this moment, the Supreme Court has determined that a fetus that can survive outside of it's mother's womb, known as the point of viability, is a living being. After this point, roughly anytime after the second trimester, it is illegal in most states to perform an abortion. The hazy part is that second trimester where babies could or could not survive on their own, depending on the level of development. Some women are unsure about the conception date and may be further ahead than expected. Or something could cause the fetus to develop more slowly than usual. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban now makes it illegal to perform Intact Dilation and Extraction on a live fetus, but there are other procedures available for late-term abortions. There are claims from pro-life advocates that say nurse observed a fetus moving as it was taken from the womb. There are also claims from pro-choice advocates that say a doctor or nurse observed several procedures and there was no sign of life at all. Again, this is because of the gray area during that second trimester when a fetus' viability is questionable. I think that Roe v. Wade can hardly be to blame for the recent coverage of infanticide. The fact remains that women had abortions before Roe v. Wade, they simply weren't publicized. There was a time when a person's private life was private, but the media has torn down that wall and will report anything that sells. I applaud Obama's statement, since he reminds us all of John's Gospel when Jesus said, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." We are all sinners, but it is not our place to judge or fellow humans for the sins they have committed. Judgement belongs to God alone.

He's Saint_Michael the Archangel, so no horns or trident, but I did make his eyebrows do this: \ / .As for the flames... I worked so hard on his render that I really couldn't muster up any decent flames. I did make angry red clouds! And his sword has a little red flare to it...

Interestingly enough, the screenplay writer of Bruce Almighty, Steve Oedekerk, wrote a sequel with Bruce Nolan, played by Jim Carrey, as the main character. The studio picked it up, but when Jim Carrey refused to reprise the role, they decided not to replace him, choosing to rewrite the script instead. They turned to Steve Carell, who played a bit part in Bruce Almighty as Evan Baxter, Bruce's archrival and competition for the coveted anchor spot. He was garnering a lot of attention since his move from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to the lead role in America's version of The Office and supporting roles in a few Will Farrell movies, like Anchorman and Bewitched, and the success of The 40-year-old Virgin proved that he was able to successfully carry a movie as a leading man. However, Oedekerk's writing style plays more towards the outrageous, physical comedy of a man like Carrey rather than the straight-man comedy of Carell. That's to be expected from the writer of Kung Pow, The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy, and Ace Ventura 2. Without Carrey's over-the-top acting to mask the weak story and plot, the movie falls short of the mark.

I've decided to return Mike's generosity with a creation of my own, my very first sig. I worked really, really hard on it. I hope you it!