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Men, can you really still complain about our handbags, the things they carry, and their weight anymore with this new product that really to us seems like the purse for men. (And there’s one for women, too.)

Is that a water bottle or are you just happy to see me?

You’re supposed to want to carry your gadgets around in a vest. Sadly, there are not billions of styles to choose from, like with handbags, in addition to the many other downsides of this fashion gear. Like how anyone can wear a loaded Scottevest and not walk like a Slowsky is beyond us!

Much better!

Of course, to any man out there who likes the vest, feel free to buy & wear. Just try to keep the total ensemb’ too un-fug.

But as a purse lover, I just feel vindicated. Fellas, would you rather we smush down our lovely lady lumps by wearing a vest and an iPad on top of our chests?

No? OK. Now let’s go purse shopping.

But first a slight correction, the iPad, and apparently a water bottle, would actually sit somewhere around our crotches. Cute, huh?

So what would be atop our breastises? PDAs, apparently. Sooo gropably sexy!

Oh what’s that honey, you’re giving me your credit card for that new bag and sexy pumps? Thanks! I’ll see you tonight.

Via Engadget

I may be a computer whiz now, and though I’m generally a fast learner, some technologies take me a while. Things like cell phones did, and now it’s the Facebook (mostly the new ver.) that gets me with its bugs and general lack of untuitive flow – yes, I blame FB. Anyway, one thing I just can not be good at is video games. Dexterity and quick reacting? Leave those to the boys and non-magpies, I guess.

However one game I always loved was Tetris, and maybe it is a generally more girl-friendly game, because here it is – on a purse.

Adorable. Made with felt and selling for $19 by Lightning Strike @ Etsy.com. I’d say this should take off onto a whole product line!

I was forced to take a break from blogging soon after my last post on here because suddenly my eyesight drastically worsened overnight. I went from avoiding my chic glasses (that I barely needed) because my long eyelashes fog them up—to them not even working at all for me while I squinted at any words smaller than H1 with eyes an inch away from my laptop screen, then increasing the font size in Firefox at least twice.

I was nearly blind, but only when it came to reading, for a few days before I was able to borrow a pair of those generic magnifying eyeglasses from a friend. I’ve decided these work really great for me, and plan to go shopping for fashionable pairs, but haven’t yet.

So what to do while I obviously couldn’t write (no proofreading) and couldn’t craft either (I look while I knit and sewing – forget it) – well……..

I decided to start up that web comic I’d been thinking about, but I wanted to use avatars (originally thought from meez.com) as characters to save me time. I don’t have time for more hobbies, especially ones with no wish for real money-making, so I didn’t want to spend a lot of time vectoring each scene myself….

So even though I’m virtually (no pun intended this time, I swear) banned from Second Life because I’d probably most definitely become addicted to it, I found myself trying it out again (first time I surprisingly didn’t like it – but to be fair I gave up on it quickly because after all, it was contraban, tehe).

And well. I ended up forgetting all about (for the time being) the web comic.

Because I’ve realized SL is actually an amazing outlet for me to produce fashion designs for. So I spent some time (I said some, ok? just some) learning how to get around, tweaking my avatar (because that’s absolutely necessary no matter what, doi) and um preparing for starting to learn, and eventually diving into, building in Second Life.

Um, yes, I have bought a home, and pay weekly “tier” but it’s all to help me learn to build and get by in the world. And it hasn’t been all that time consuming.

It’s not like I started having surreal dreams. Or seeing live humans and thinking they look like computer avatars, not vice versa. No no. No. No. No, ok? Well that’s the official story.

It’s all to help me in my career, you see. I’m not playing. Perish the thought!

Now I’m getting antsy with all this work and proofreading, so far, so I’m going to pause my tales for now. But I’ll be “working”, “not” “wasting time on the Internet”.

And even male nerds. It’s at 1:12…

Normally even I wouldn’t think fashion could sway away presidential votes*, but …. ???WTF??? is that “tie”???!!!

I mean Hilary Clinton needs to go on “What Not to Wear”. Picture that blue suit from her “no decisions” speech unbuttoned and flapping away from her hips. *Shudder*

I don’t think Clinton (as in Clinton Kelly of Stacy and Clinton from WNTW*) wanted her to get more votes from the publicity (*see, not Hilary Clinton herself, she’d fight to get Iraq to vote for her if she could). I’m hoping that’s the reason she didn’t go on to get a makeover. *innocent smile* Shame, really.

Video Star, John’s original blog post.