Monthly Archives: August 2001
my latest entry into
I really missed doing it last week. 🙂
word of the day – fecund
fecund FEE-kuhnd; FEK-uhnd, adjective:
1. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful; prolific.
2. Intellectually productive or inventive.
Fecund comes from Latin fecundus, “fruitful, prolific.” The noun form is fecundity.
Playing with photoshop
Yes, it’s true. I do dream of radioactive and zombified Anthony Quinn and Cesar Romero duking it out over my old place. Fighting at 12 feet tall, wanting to eat the walls and roof.
The sleestak head was added because.. well, what isn’t made a little better with a sleestak head? especially a smouldering, bloody one made of jade?
Pac-Man Fever
*being enticed by blogger
Two things blogger has over LJ – I can embed any html into it I want, without compromising security.
Shockwave, Java, whatnot. 🙂
http://www.scottobear.com/blog/blog.html
Two upsides for LJ –
friend’s list & a nice memories feature. Ah well, I can always point my friends over there if I want to show something off.
All the fun of a road trip, without ever having to leave the house!
STUCKEY’S PECAN LOG ROLLS
1/4 C. corn syrup
1/4 C. water
1 1/4 C. sugar
1 egg white
1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 (14 oz.) pkg. caramels
3 T. water
2 C. coarsely chopped pecans
Line a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with buttered wax paper; set aside.
Combine corn syrup, water and sugar in small heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to a boil. Wash down side of pan with pastry brush dipped in hot water frequently, to remove sugar crystals. Add candy thermometer. Continue to cook until mixture reaches the hard-ball stage (255ºF).
Meanwhile, beat egg white and cream of tartar with heavy duty electric mixer, until stiff but not dry. Slowly pour hot syrup into egg white, beating constantly. Add vanilla
extract. Beat until candy forms soft peaks and starts to lose its gloss. Spoon fondant into prepared pan. Cut into three strips lengthwise, then crosswise in center. Freeze
until firm.
Line a baking sheet with wax paper, set aside. Melt caramels with water in small heavy saucepan, over low heat, stirring occasionally. Arrange pecans on waxed paper. Working
quickly, drop 1 piece of the frozen fondant into melted caramels to coat. Roll in pecans to completely coat. Place on prepared baking sheet to set. Repeat with remaining fondant
pieces, reheating caramel mixture if it becomes too thick. Cut logs into 1/2-inch slices. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container between layers of wax paper or freeze
up to 3 months. Makes six 5-inch rolls.
concinnity
concinnity kuhn-SIN-uh-tee, noun:
1. Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other.
2. Studied elegance of design or arrangement — used chiefly of literary style.
3. An instance of concinnity.
Concinnity comes from Latin concinnitas, “elegance; harmony of style,” from concinnus, “well put together; pleasing, on account of harmony and proportion.”
ok…
where are foom23, saerlithe, & larisa?
{update} ok.. I got answers on the first two… how about #3?
51 THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM PLAYING CHAMPIONS
1: Strength is your friend. Get some.
2: Watch your Teammate’s back, and pay attention to your surroundings
3: Make sure the simian is on your side.
4: I can kick a car apart with just my feet.
5: Suppressive fire doesn’t.
Continue reading 51 THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM PLAYING CHAMPIONS
Scotto Grotto cave-page concept
Each page will have a different feel, but common to the design (have alt lynx friendly for the old-schoolers & disabled)
Overhead frame with a map of where to go/ What to do… interactive/flash. Not too showy, functional and clean…
1 cave opening, wooden signpost – News (index page) Powered by LJ? perhaps just a simple CGI script. 2nd most dynamic page
2 Gallery (cave paintings) Probably the 2nd most static page
a- Whiteboard to play on?
3 Writing
a-Journal – Stream (of thought) blind fish… wet, and living Most dynamic page.
b-Programming (Mongo’s Firepit?)
c-fiction Veins of some mineral? Is gold to vain? Gems? each a different story? if a vein, perhaps a timeline of creation?
4 links (rear exit of the grotto… a lighted path away to a woodland glade, or down the mountain?), include ring memberships here
5 bio (Stalagtites & mites… most static part of the page… bats?) dedication, credits to assistant(s)?
6 newtcam (imagery is undecided…)
7+ ??? Toybox? Game? Is a guestbook needed, with the journal? Site stats?
word of the day – epenthesis
epenthesis (uh-PEN-thu-sis) noun
Insertion of an extra sound into a word, e.g. fillum for film.
[From Late Latin, from Greek epentithenai, to insert : ep-, epi-, (in addition) + en- (in) thesis (to place), stem of tithenia (to put).]
Exhibit 1: the regrettably ubiquitous ‘ath-a-lete.’ Exhibit 2: ‘height-th.’ Another instance of it is el-lum for elm.
I had a freaky dream last night, involving the reanimated and rotting corpses of old movie stars… they were quite large… maybe 2 or 3 stories… small to godzilla, but frighteningly huge to me. (or maybe I was just little kid size? hard to say… the perspective was not something I was paying close attention to.)
I distinctly remember Anthony Quinn and Cesar Romero duking it out, as well as a huge number of other long-dead folk, too. Anes Moorhead and John Wayne… and I knew ( despite a lack of dialogue) that they all wanted to eat the house I was living in. I remember having to get a few things and take off, lest they consume me in their horrible, necrotic jaws, as well as the house. I vividly recall grabbing things of importance like newt and my laptop, and pulling out the top drawer of my dresser to take my goodies. (love letters, misc keepsakes).
I wish that I’d remembered my Zombie knowledge that I have while awake…there’s a big container of salt in the kitchen… I think that would’ve helped to fend them off.
I believe
oh, and the perils of cloning…