Something about the weather is very comforting… Rain on glass, moonlight through a window, Newt nestled against my neck. No calls after 10pm! Friendly Chitty-chat. A good night last night.

Sammy and Whims are both a bit quiet lately, but still friendly.

Lack of interest in CoH lately… I hope that Freedom Force 2 has a good multiplay options and game world. CoH has the best team play games of any system I’ve ever seen, though. Nice balancing system between casuals and hardcore gamers.

Afrocaribbean religions

Thanks for the postcard, missv! Newtie thanks you for feeding the Thai-kitties!

I still feel a little guilty about having heroclix, which are also made overseas… I don’t know the conditions under which they were created.

Yu-gi-oh! Is one of the most annoying cartoons, ever.

I think the theme to Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends is great.

edbook‘s been posting a bulk of gorgeous, Autumn-y photos lately. Check ’em out.

What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers’ Habits – including the capability of tying the use of your credit card into who you are, how much your mortgage is, your driving record, your court dates…

I’ve discovered that I can do a pretty good impersonation of Ray Romano. How useful will that be later in life? Who can say? I suspect the answer is “not too much”. Interesting that one of the monarch’s main guards has a voice that’s similar.

Looking back a year in time… letting crackheads and thugs go free doesn’t sound a lot like the fascist state so many people are claiming that the US is turning into. Where are the jack-booted brownshirt thugs, when I want ’em?

1 year ago – Frankie the mooch timeline [MUCHO DRAMA FURIOSO!], 3-minute 4am phone post, Justice league, Spectre

2 years ago – Chevy Tahoe Commercial poem, Green Banana Moon, cool words, twilight

3 years ago – caption picture poll, turtle-butt breathing, big brain’s 2nd incarnation

4 years ago – memories feature added, strip mall of sin, mall of the dead, hunter thompson returns to reporting

5 years ago – the term “gullible” is removed from the dictionary

Not much to report this morning… Vague dream memories. Sensations of filtered rosy light, ease and comfort. I didn’t want to get out of bed, but one does what one must.

I want some of those Incredibles toys from McDonalds… but they’re made in China, and it’s McDonalds. Bah.

Maybe I’ll get to go to the Miami Book Fair international next year… last year, surgery, this year, on call. I may have to be very careful for next go ’round! Thank goodness for CSPAN2/bookTV.

_{Note to Mr. 5… See to it that Mr. 11 doesn’t make it to that fence. Don’t use your sidearm unless you have to. Civilian casualties will not be tolerated.}

Google Aptitude test answers

I’m worth $2,462,263.20! How much are you worth?

Hm. They must go by volume.

memey-memey

Monet’s Birthday

Well… let’s see. 7000 entries, in 1467 days.

My early days of heavy posting is skewing my count up to about 4.8 entries a day. Comments posted – 35,841 – That’s 24 comments posted per day. I know I’ve had a few 100 days and a few 0 days.

Busy-busy day on call yesterday…. makes me appreciate MM all the more.

The Declaration of independence was signed a century before Germany and Italy became “Countries”

Since I was on call, and couldn’t do much online gaming, I hopped back a bit into GTA… Man, those Ambulance missions are hard. I would like to see a variant of it online, with team action.

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS (or, How I’ll be getting episodes of lost in the future)

The 1st DCA rules once again that the voucher law is unconstitutional.

The first sentence of article I, section 3 of the Florida Constitution is synonymous with the federal Establishment Clause in generally prohibiting laws respecting the establishment of religion. In addition to the Establishment Clause language, article I, section 3 also includes the language of the no-aid provision, which expands the restrictions in state aid and to religion by specifically prohibiting the expenditure of public funds “directly or indirectly” to aid sectarian institutions. For a court to interpret the no-aid provision of article I, section 3 as imposing no further restrictions on the state’s involvement with religious institutions than the Establishment Clause, it would have to ignore both the clear meaning and intent of the text and the unambiguous history of the no-aid provision.

Full text here.

ACLU statement here.

(via flablog)

Taking prednisone (for the allergic reaction I had) leaves a real nasty aftertaste in my mouth. bleh!

Police Tasered truant girl, 12 Continue reading 7000 – sonic transponder will translate vermin. →

Tried calling bro on his cell-phone. Mailbox is full. Going by an alias… Ponytail doesn’t apply anymore, so Domino it is.

Toasted Peanut Butter and Bac-O Sammich for breakfast this morning gave me heartburn. End of An era?

On Call today, due to Ramadan turing into Eid. Muslim Mona has other stuff to cover.

Am I the only one that doesn’t usually refer to my remote as a “flipper” or “clicker”?

I’m thinking about hitting the Promenade in the Park, tomorrow.

Had some lovely chat-time yesterday… I hope to see more in the future. I need to come up with some good words for hangman!

Looks like the Fantastic Four is going to be poop. promo reel

good source for torrented comics (I just saw links to a bunch of nifty strange tales, jonah hex and Nick fury stuff.)

Marvel sues firms behind online superhero role-playing game Continue reading 6999 – One Entry Shy of 7000. →

I’m getting calls from collections companies, looking for my brother. Bad time to share his last name, and to live in the same building he did.

Fortunately, every single time I feel like I’m getting down, Newt straightens up my act. He’s a smartie. If I’m growly or snarly or whatnot, he just comes trotting up, and gives me a headbutt, and little cat-hug. That’s a standing stretch to his hind legs, and his forelegs go around my neck, or my shin, or whatever is handy, while he nuzzles.

Everyone should get some Newtie-love… it’d make the world a better place.

Speaking of the world being better, I’m pleased with the number of new buddies I’ve made in the last span or so of time. My old pals are lovely, too, of course, but it’s especially nice to have fresh seasoning in the mix.

I have all aired episodes of Lost stored now.. I just have to burn them off to VCDs to Free up the space. Right now, it’s about 2.7 gigs. Not a lot since I’ve removed most of my piggy games from the system, but it’s nice to maintain housekeeping.

Next Projects –

Good Eats, Brisco County, and the Venture Brothers.

Getting it

I got a nudge from my link sponsor asking if anyone wants to host links for them. let me know if you’re interested in getting a few bucks via paypal every month for non-graphic, non-porno text links on your site.

one year ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

two years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

three years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

four years ago – Rush, Bee-man

my name is…

Many countries celebrate their honored dead and veterans on this day. This day is not to honor war, but the sacrifice made by others for our freedom.

Thank you, all of you who helped to keep me and mine free. I appreciate the sacrifices made.

I had Dc++ up to seek out the latest lost episode (#8)… it was being hosted online fourteen minutes after the show’s credit’s rolled, HDTV quality, commercial edited out. Good Job, tv people! suprnova.org, hooray!

Has pixar made a bad movie yet? I suspect A Bug’s Life is the weakest link, and that’s a good flick.

Who Links Here

danigolden reminded me of the midnight beekeeper.

1 year ago – incas & guinea pigs, minefield, earth photos, anagrams, Sirenity baby!, high school memories, norman saunders

2 years ago – I win cookies!, owie-back, keywords

3 years ago – went to see fishies, walkies

4 years ago – good news / bad news, Boogie Pop Phantom, African Frog Myth

The AP came out with this story:

A national organization says Florida is one of the “meanest” states toward the homeless – ranking it behind only California.

Washington-based National Coalition for the Homeless placed three Florida locations in its list of “Meanest Cities:”

5. Gainesville
11. Sarasota
12. Key West

It’s a short article, so I went ahead and found the press release. This is it. I wonder if those “value-voters” think helping the poor is in line with their “moral values.”

via Florida news

JB & GP – Austin is way up there, too.

some stats

son of a… lost power and apparently my draft wasn’t saved. This happens just a smidgen too often.

Well, no time to cry over spilled milk now.

How much of a recap can I type out from memory in 10 minutes? Let’s see!

Danny and I were coming up with quotes to put under his yearbook, supporting his school’s all-girl volleyball team, “The Lions”.

Ideas i came up with, but were rejected for reasons of propriety were –

• There’s nothing more attractive than a positively-charged lion!
• Lions? I thought it was loins!
• Who’s this Annette person I keep hearing about? (Lame volleyball pun)
• Even Nero rooted for The Lions! (probably way too inappropriate for a Christian school.)

Shouldn’t an all-girls team be called “The Lionesses”, anyhow? That was what led me to remember an old superfriends comic books where Jayna turned into a peacock…rather than a peahen. even at 11 years old, I knew that something was up… does that mean she could say “form of a human male”? Considering that Zan could change into a water/ice form of anything… I’m afraid to do a search on wonder twin fanfic. I don’t know if I could handle underage transgender incest superhero stories… with a monkey. Poor Gleek.

For what it’s worth, I think that Zan had better powers… sure, he was limited to water and ice forms, but why would a “Icy Mammoth” be any worse than “Woolly Mammoth”? He was effectively invulnerable… you could shatter him, melt him, turn him to water vapor, but he was still cohesive and able to act with some volition… and he could become machinery too.. a jet engine at least once. Jan as a woolly Mammoth would be wiped out with a bazooka… or more likely, a punch from a pissed off telepathic gorilla.

I originally thought that mauled only applied to a bear attack, but in my googling, I came across this site – actresses mauled by lions.

I guess that’s a throwback to one of my favorite old SNL skits : “Looks at Books: Mauled”… Sakes… you can look anything up on the internet!

Fun linkies from my notepad:

Noggins!

75 network cools – including this item Airsnort, which figures out WEP keys by listening to traffic

Archives, can be rewound to – 1 year ago, 2 years ago, 3 years ago, 4 years ago

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practical. You’re proud of who you are. At the
same time, you’re tolerant of those who lack
your clearsightedness. You’re always playful,
but never annoying. For these traits, you are
well-loved, and with good cause.

Which famous feline are you?
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