What Scott and Dan do when they’re bored? They email companies and Ann Landers in broken English, hoping for advice and free samples. It seems funny now. Will it be so when I wake?

To Wilson Tennis Racquets-

Hola Wilson Employee:

I am see no badminton part of your land here. I am look Badminton or shuttlecock but find none. How to find green one for girlfriend? Much the help like.

Cheers,
Your friend always,
Sven

To Ann Landers-

Hello to you Ann. Help me with this one, I know you can. Pleasing to be knowing you. Am asking this through the email for you to be helping me please. Sven met girl at badminton camp and Sven go with her three times now. Georgina wants sex, but I wait for spring season. Coach says no sex during season Sven. I listen to coach but Georgina says she’ll get sex somewhere else if I don’t give her. What is best? Mother says Sven thirty Sven have head in wagon.

All help good, sorry you died.
Your friend always,
Sven Sven Sven.

Sven’s profile for future emails-

• misses his father’s horses and mother’s boxcake.
• born of good means, sheltered and naive of the harsher realities of the world, but he’s no simpleton, he has a strong ethic and classic old world wisdom and charm, truthful ness code of honor,
• committed of badminton, amateur status but quite good
• residing in fort Lauderdale Florida and working on a degree at the university.
• single
• good teeth
• healthy
• collects timepieces, especially analog, antiques.
• sails small boats and prefers to travel by canal rather than road.
• writes mother once a week, but mother can’t read. (father reads to mother)
• recently independent financially, having a tough time.
• unsure of status with Georgina
• volunteers in a soup kitchen every other Sunday
• taking an EASL course, and is progressing nicely, if slowly.

Nighty night, dear journal.

late night supper fantastico.

two sun-dried tomato bagels with roasted bell pepper and soy-provolone toasted over the top, with a long, tall glass of sleepytime tea (iced/ with lemon)

Newt, on the other hand…. Mr. Predator… stalked and ate a beetle with great aplomb and gusto. My silly boy.

As a user of a dual monitor system for a few years now… this looks both nifty and silly at the same time. Interesting way to save space and still have a good laptop screen size.

The genome for the mouse is being published on several websites on Thursday. Here’s your chance to get in on the ground floor of creating Red, White & Green Xmas mice, plump savory eatin’-mice, and freakish radiotelepathic hive-mice with gestalt minds and a overpowering urge to dominate mankind.

*Must obey Mr. Squeaky- #34 of 67*

article here for reference in the future

Congratulations morganofthefay on the upcoming dynamic duo!

Last night, I spent about an hour painting a couple of small stone walls as part of terrain / diorama. It dried pretty nicely… I’m experimenting; working with a couple of color schemes… a sort of red/rust clay, and a more traditional greenish-gray stone color… Still torn as to which looks better. I may do one of the wall pieces as a mix and match… stone body, but with red brick trim. The set came with a few resin-cast “piles ‘o skulls” So I guess the ruined church / fortress has a graveyard or somesuch out back. The painting comes a lot more swiftly on walls and terrain instead of characters.

Thinking of my sweetheart in one of these… Belly-dancer meets flappers. More Cabaret than traditional… but there are some nifty ones.

It’s neat that I see the word yurt used regularly in common usage. I know of two or three people that have the word come up in conversation at least every few weeks or so.

Two Years ago today… the hungrybaby / mcnoggin saga began, listing some of the reasons why I love my sweetheart and a Christmas confession. (And some other stuff…)

A year ago today – Turbid, McNoggin Memories, levitated .net , and the pond poem.

Congrats to all the folks out there that are snowed in, but comfortable. Nothing like that here, until a Hurricane comes near.

Travel *does* affect my drawing / writing style.

A friendly fly/ant/bug-head

Karen is a little scaredy of alligators… when she goes fossiling… Is braving the water worth a prehistoric tooth?

A smiley… There was no open flame when I drew this.

That’s enough of that… off to work with me, dear journal.

Rainy morning…. very peaceful and calm. I imagine that in a more northern climate that it’d be a light dusting of snow on everything.

My sweetheart looks delightful all dolled up for work… I’d prefer to stay home with her and smooch, with little house on the prairie on TV in the background. I’ve got a big case of the cuddles this morning. Just a nice feeling.

Tonight’s film is Godzilla vs. Megalon. It has Jet Jaguar, but Monsters don’t show up until 40 minutes into the film. The MST version surely saves it.

Interesting enough day at work… Some nice challenges on the new program I’m developing… I have to do a lot of new code building… not much in my library to develop what they want.

Cool Christmas Tree Monster… good ol’ Megalon!

Zilla and Jet Save the day.

Cool, clean feeling this morning… but I sense that it’ll go up about 5-10 degrees by midday. I don’t know if that’s why I have more energy, or if it’s just a contributor.

Two pieces of good news…the bro got a second job, working graveyard shift (11p-5:30am) and brought me a doughnut for breakfast. Hooray for the Bro! Hooray for Doughnuts! (I still hope he gets a Louie’s gig… he could make a really healthy chunk of change over the season.)

Helpful hint to keep those holiday goiters at a minimum… ordinary table salt.

Be careful which bar you go to…

Cool Geek places to shop…. including a Cat-a-pult with Newton the foam cat. There are some keeno fossil and space stuff, too. -Via Scientific American

Heat Miser Squeaked ahead, and Beat Snow Miser.

battle cry test

One of the more beautiful applications to draw on Project Gutenberg for source material, TextArc gives the reader a visual representation of the interrelationships of texts as it reads through, for example, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Anyone want to tell me a story based on one (or some, or *all*??) of these drawings?

Annie is a very cool cat. -Brought to you by some guy that makes animal noises.

Newt and I have dealt with similar elements (especially those marked fetch, thief, proper training, and Halloween) He was very playful this morning… I had to wear him out before taking my shower. We must’ve run around for about a half hour or so.

I’m happy that my picture-server woke back up like a good boy.
Clash of the Titans on Sci-fi this morning as I get ready for work… Perseus (Hee hee…I still crack up when I see him on LA Law), the ancient Greek while sneaking away from Calibos invisibly, leaves footprints shaped like wing tips in the sand. I guess winged sandals have a pointed toe and a squared heel.

Good line from Burgess Meredith – “A divine gift should never be questioned, but merely accepted.”

I still think Bubo is a pus-filled sore as a result of plague, not a wacky r2-d2 sounding robot owl, though.

I got a goodly dose of sleep last night… hit the sack early, and got my morning swabbing at 8. I slept like a corpse… just a total system shutdown. I don’t recall any dreems, but my sleep was quite deep.