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Ms Dynomite Female
Tucson, AZ, United States

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Why do you want to join?
I made this
Your name on Tribe.net:
Ms. Dynomite
Location:
the desert (Arizona, USA)
Gender:
female
Age:
in my 30s
Peanut butter:
smooth
Pickles:
on a stick
Marshmallows:
big and poofy, raw, toasted, fluff
Your Tribe profile:
http://people.tribe.net/msdynomite
Your online business:
http://www.ultradeluxedesigns.com
5 Random Things About You:
1) I’m a self-acknowledged geek. I'm just a geek with style.
2) I love anything funky. It's gots to be funkay.
3) I hate whore glamour (hooker chic), so popular these days.
4) I hate phones.
5) I'm incapable of making or maintaining my own body heat.
Relationship status:
spiritually married
Official job, in life as we know it:
graphic designer, clothing & costume designer
Unofficial job, in that other world
like, a million
Superpower(s):
...at the moment I'm feel less than dyn-o-mighty
Fav food:
I could live on olive oil, basil, garlic and ginger for, like, evah. and maybe sour cream.

happy foods:

freezy pops.smoothies. edamame. mashed potatoes. really good veggie burgers. salty hot french fries. cool fresh fruit. sugar snap peas. those little powdered donuts.

If I'm cooking:

anything that can be made on tinfoil or in water with little-to-no attention.
Fav movies:

some I own:

Arsenic and Old Lace, V for Vendetta, The Chronicles of Riddick, It's a Wonderful Life, Little Miss Sunshine, Legend, Reign of Fire, An American in Paris, His Girl Friday, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Blade Runner

some I wish I did:

It's All Gone Pete Tong, F for Fake, Heaven
Fav TV:

I shot my TV. I'm TV-on-DVD only, via the 'puter:

The Venture Bros., Adult Swim stuff, Firefly, Buffy, Invader Zim, Mystery Science Theater 3000
Fav books:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Sexing the Cherry, Tortilla Flats, All The Pretty Horses, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Making Faces, Neverwhere, Snow Crash, Transmetropolitan

I wish I were able to read more, and more often.
Fav music:

anything with soul, gots to have soul. "it's a soul thing, it's a soul thing..."

house, soulful house, garage, tribal, funk, soul, disco, rock, classic rock, garage rock, alt rock, punk, blues
Fav artists or designers:
my brain is ceasing to recall them at the moment
Fav holiday:
Halloween, 4th of July
Passions & Obsessions:

in no particular order:

costumes, extra large ziplock bags, style, oddities, hypothetical survival planning, dance, sci-fi, art, eye candy, geeks, geek chic, zombie scenarios, cross bows, flaming arrows, vintage clothing, bright colors, fire performance, visceral weaponry, design, sewing, classic movies, kickboxing, big tictacs, fedoras, armwear, learning stuff, speed skating, jumpsuits, lists of things
Thing(s) you'd save / treasure in the post-apocalypse:
toilet paper. music. creative freedom. fuzzy things.
Thing(s) that should be wiped from the face of the earth:
mustard. incurable illnesses. moths.
Person(s) on your awesomeness list:
The Boy. *sigh* ah, the boy. :) an assortment of friends. wickedly clever people. people who write well.
Person(s) that should be rocketed to the sun:
willfully stupid people. lazy people. mean people. willfully stupid, lazy, mean people.
Anything else you'd like to share:

more random stuff:

I'm always overtired and out of time.
I'm an internet junkie with Luddite/Amish tendencies.
I have an irrational dislike of microwaves.
I like honest people.
I am pretty much guaranteed to have a typo in every post.

I make things pretty:

By day I'm a mild-mannered graphic designer.
By night I'm a not-so mild mannered clothing & costume designer.
The first pays for the second. I haven't reconciled this yet.

FAV LINKS, PICS & QUOTES

My Albums ... My Photos ... My Favorites List ... My Videos ... My Groups


LINKS

Coilhouse just discovered this great design blog, with a love of dark style

ectoplasmo "a wonder closet of fringe art, culture and ephemera"

Core 77 things that make you go hmmmm, and ooooh

Instructables how to make anything. ANY-thing

Life Hacker neat ways to solve life's problems

The Onion "America's finest news source"

The Consumerist things you should know and ways to make you paranoid

Fashion Incubator everything you'd want to know about sewing for leisure or business

FEATURED ALBUMS

totally amateur photography

things I love

LEARN
"Science is not a democratic process."
-- Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
-- Albert Einstein

"All photographs are accurate; none of them is the truth."
-- Richard Avedon, photographer

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"
-- paraphrase of a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin


LAUGH
"Holy cow! That's 40lbs. of butt in 30lb. butt capacity pants."
-- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Wild World of Bat Woman

"That's sadder than a puppy trying to lick a dead kitten back to life... and the puppy has cancer."
-- unknown internet poster

"Why do I take you anywhere? You never remember it. I could just take you to a car wash and tell you it was Burning Man."
-- Sudden Device (The Boy),
in response to my "what? we were there? when did we do that? who are those people?"


"I always say I'd stand in your base line all day...
is this the line for the base? base line? right here? yeah...I'll wait, ismist is going on"
-- K8/Kinfinity, AZ Burner

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favorite Tribe dating ads

Over the past years I've been saving the entertaining/appalling ads I'd find on Tribe, which all turned out to be ads for dating services. I found my collection today while clearing out some files and thought I'd share. :) Here they are ranging from bad to worse. Hope you enjoy.

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Posted on November 24th, 2007 at 8:28pm — 5 Comments (Add)

happy gobble-gobble day


A big HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you all.
May those who are veggies have a yummy meat-free feast.
May those who are visiting family come back unscarred.
May those who are traveling have a safe and traffic-free trip.
If you're spending the holiday alone, either by choice or by chance I hope it doesn't get you down.…
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 at 8:38pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Help for Tribesters using this site!

There's now an entire section on the FAQs + Help page devoted to helping Tribe folks get acclimated to this Ning network environment. See right column, Migrating from Tribe. Or browse the list of posts tagged Migrating from Tribe

Posted on November 19th, 2007 at 1:35pm — No Comments (Add)

a sample blog post

This is a sample entry to test the blog feature. Below are the options available.

EDIT
You can go back and edit your blog entry later, as I've done here with this line. NOTE: When you edit an entry it displays it back on the home page list, treating it as if it were new activity.

DATING & SCHEDULING
Note that you can back date entries, or create entries and schedule them to post at a future date and time.

PRIVACY
You can specify that your blog… Continue

Posted on November 18th, 2007 at 1:48pm — No Comments (Add)

Ask Your Admin

Yesterday I went through the various questions I've gotten about this network and compiled them together in a post. So if you're wondering what this network is about, why it's started, what my role is, what the policy is on other tribe networks, etc... then check out Ask Your Admin :) You can also post new questions in that thread.

btw, I realize that there's a potential awkwardness of me having a profi… Continue

Posted on November 18th, 2007 at 11:29am — No Comments (Add)

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At 12:25pm on February 4th, 2008, Chuck said…
I've never met her, but I bet she's as sexy as my wife. Geeks tend to go that way. I know.
At 11:02pm on January 31st, 2008, Just Kat said…
Long time no see, hon. Thanks for the wonderful information!
At 12:41pm on December 17th, 2007, Jai said…
Thank you for letting me join!
At 9:01pm on December 16th, 2007, Rik said…
Good evening to you Ms Dynomite :)
At 9:05am on December 7th, 2007, AverageAmerican said…
busy eh?

::sliding you a triple espresso::

enjoy!
At 10:11pm on December 2nd, 2007, Wayne Otto Simon said…
Thanks..good show !
Wayne
At 3:38pm on December 2nd, 2007, aurelia said…
you've done a wonderful job here, ms. dynomite! kudos!

say, howsabout getting rid of that plate and replace it with a outdoor campfire and then slide some gram crackers under those marshmallows and add a slab of chocolate) and let's get this refugee camp goin samore!
At 12:23pm on December 2nd, 2007, torrid_wind™ said…
Thanks so much for the warm welcome, Ms. Dyno! I'm enjoying the hell out of this network. The clarity with which you have provided instructions is extremely appreciated.

I appreciate YOU!



Brightest blessings to ya'.
At 5:25pm on November 30th, 2007, SwoonNing said…
You da shizza, Miz D! This site is DY-NO-MITE!

Cheers!
At 7:45pm on November 28th, 2007, Rik said…
Thanks, you did a superb job on this place, very impressed!
 
 

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