
Roll for Damage
Originally uploaded by ShamusYoung.
Just testing the “blog this” feature on Flickr.
While we’re here: Why “Flickr”? What’s wrong with “Flicker”? Need to buy a vowel? Carpel tunnel kicked in when naming the site? Any suggestions on how we should pronounce this without adding the non-existant E?
Maybe deliberatly misspelled stuff is trendy. Maybe I should start calling myself Shams.
I’d be so hip.
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i like the pic.
hams.