April 07, 2005
I am pretty, oh so pretty
Thanks to Etienne, who really should get a blog, and who really has Photoshop skills that creep me out, we get the following marriage of Rambling Rhodes and ScratchyMonkey.
You know, my right front tooth is fake, but it's not that dark looking. It's nice to have hair again though.
Posted by Ryan at April 7, 2005 09:14 AMOh God - I made the mistake of clicking on the picture to get a closer look. MY EYES ! ! ! ! !
Posted by: Derek at April 7, 2005 02:17 PMIs the proper response one of attraction and repulsion at the same time?
This would make for a very interesting caption contest.
Posted by: Johnny Huh? at April 7, 2005 03:10 PMThis is disturbing in so many ways.
Posted by: Mike at April 7, 2005 09:37 PMJeez, Derek, you should have known not to gaze directly at the picture. Also I would advise against leaving the image on screen for more than a few seconds, lest it crack your monitor.
Posted by: Etienne at April 7, 2005 10:12 PMAnd sorry about the tooth, Ryan. My fiddling with the tonal levels to make your face blend in better with the rest of the image had the side effect of exaggerating the contrast between whites and off-whites, thus making your fake tooth look darker relative to the rest of your teeth than it really is. But, I left the pic as is, 'cause dark tooth or not, all who view it are still going to turn to stone.
Posted by: Etienne at April 7, 2005 10:13 PM8 million things about that picture that Etienne could apologize for, and she's sorry about the tooth. . .
Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2005 09:14 AMYou know, it occurs to me that I don't actually know whether Etienne is a "she," I've just assumed that the name is feminine. Etienne, could you confirm your gender?
Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2005 09:51 AMMy co-worker just informed me that Etienne is French for "Steven," which just feeds my belief that French is a very odd language.
Posted by: Ryan at April 8, 2005 11:42 AMI've just assumed that the name is feminine
Impugning the manliness of my name, eh? Well, I'll have you know that according to Geoff's Gender Guesser, the name "Étienne" has a masculinity index of 6.018. Compare that to "Ryan", which scores a rather girlymannish 2.633. Then again, I'm not sure I should accept numbers from a site that claims the four most masculine names in the world are Bildt, Zuhair, Faruq, and Splodge.
Posted by: Etienne at April 9, 2005 09:55 AMI can't think of a more masculine name than "Splodge."
And, you're right. There are women out there named "Ryan," so I had no right to make assumptions. Apologies extended once again.
Posted by: Ryan at April 9, 2005 12:15 PMDang.
This is exactly what I was planning to do when I got back from Va. I was hoping nobody would beat me to it but...
Ah well. Another opportunity lost.
Posted by: Joshua at April 14, 2005 01:49 AM
Stumble It!
