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I’m an uncle again. My sister Emily had her fourth baby on Thursday, and it’s their first boy so Reid finally has a dude to raise. I’m more than happy to add James or Harrison (or some other name because they can’t make up their minds) to the lovely band of now nine nieces and nephews that I have. Welcome to the world, unnamed boy. Welcome!

Okay. Facebook knows I’m a man, Facebook knows I’m single and Facebook knows I’m interested in women. Therefore, Facebook knows I am attracted to women with balloons in their shirts. Not well-endowed natural goodness, but actual balloons. The evidence is the looping image to the right of some ads I’ve seen recently on my profile.

(If your web browser is set not to show the loop of an animated GIF image file, you’re missing out on 5 out of 6 pairs of balloons in the animated image to the right.)

To be fair, once in a while the ad will have a normal woman and simply say Attractive Single Women. Once in a while. But I have posted this because it makes me laugh, and because I want Facebook users with different profiles from mine to see what ridiculous photos are being used to entice me to some lame dating site.

Single men can’t surely be the only target of laughable ads. What weird stuff do you see in your Facebook ads that I might not know about?

A bit of silly computerizing today. My dock spells out the word “SEXY!” and I agree, my desktop is sexy!

The photo is from my recent trip to Arches National Park, where we were mesmerized by this iridescent cloud as we stood under one of the “windows.” The icons are from Quicken, Entourage, Excel and Yahoo Mail! as a Fluid app. The only trouble with this lovely setup: the dock is too huge, but I had to magnify it for the screenshot. Enjoy! Now back to our regular dock size.

In my quest to be sure to select the best photos of my 1,019 headshot options, I decided to get prints made of 116 that I like. Digital deciding needed to give way to analog analysis of the details. Thought about going over Walgreen’s, but instead I clicked “print” in iPhoto to get it done.

The iPhoto print process is easy, of course, and straightforward except for one thing — when will the prints arrive? Well, let me tell you.

I started my order on Thursday 12/11 at 3:20pm, it took a couple three hours to upload (some internet issues on my end included), the shipment and confirming email were sent to me some hours later after midnight, and now it just arrived today 12/15 at 2pm. This was with me paying for fast delivery (which bumped up the effective price of each 4×6 to 21.6¢). My photos originated in the Bay Area and came via the kind of UPS that doesn’t keep moving over the weekend.

Like many other things I’ve posted on my site, I post this in part because I could not find out this information from Apple before I ordered. They were vague on how long it would take, where it would ship from and via what method. But now you know what to expect, if you live in LA. Now that they’re here … I’m off to stare at photographic details … till I go blind.

UPDATE: Filenames don’t appear on the back side of the photos. And they don’t arrive in the order you sent them, but at random. Sigh, and sigh.