http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_research/17282.html

1.17% of the population of the USA has a LiveJournal account?

That seems very, very inaccurate.

That TV commercial re: Broward County Transit I was in will be airing this weekend on Florida Local stations:

Saturday, 4/23 – CBS4

Air & Sea Pre-Show
7:30-8pm
BONUS: 9-11pm

Sunday, 4/24 – UPN 33

Air & Sea Pre-Show (Encore Presentation) [i.e. Rerun]
12:30-1pm
BONUS: 9-10pm

Kari on call tonight, so I’m parked at the HQ again once I get home. Big Kahuna is back from Seattle, so I’ll be catching her up with pictures from the trip and making her aware of our latest four recoveries. Texas and Indiana have been really taking off.

Elephant Calling

My semi-monthly blood-sticker saw me on the news the other night. When I got to the center, they pumped me for both platelets and information about the org. I may’ve won over a convert or two to do volunteering.

Newtie-picture flashback orange love.

It has been 41 years since Johnnie Mae Chappell was murdered by the side of the road. Her friends and family have never stopped fighting for justice. Continue reading 7319 – Detective won’t stop seeking justice →

TALLAHASSEE — With the abduction and murder of yet another child fresh in their minds, members of the House unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to give certain sex criminals either life sentences or lifetime satellite tracking after they get out of prison. Continue reading 7318 – Lunsford bill passes →

Ran around There.com a bit last night… still pretty much the same.

I swung by the club long enough to drop off a card and see if I can get a little nighttime extra work out of it… it’d be nice to have a little mad money, the people are nice and the networking there is excellent.

Random object meme

Let’s see how many times the phrase “Vatican votes to Annex the Sudatenland” comes up on TV in the next 24-48 hours.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany has been selected by the Roman Catholic church as the new pope. (Pope Benedict XVI)

From the Monkey/SWAT news article earlier :

Truelove is spearheading the department’s request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.

Wait a minute… aren’t humans considered to be primates? The ape suborder Haplorrhini includes gibbons, orang-utans, gorillas, chimps and humans, I think.

EN’s net is still out, so I took the opportunity to toss Oona on again. Much slower evening than Friday, but I still stayed at HQ, in case something weird came up.

My First house. (well, the house I went from birth to 2nd/3rd grade),Age 11ish,Age 15ish.

My current address is 1501.1 miles (Approximate Travel Time: 23 hours 5 mins) from the first place I was raised. (According to Yahoo maps.. for some reason, map directions are broken on Google right now.)

I did a search on Scottobear on google. it returns “about 45,800” back. yikes. I’m 99.99% sure the name is unique on the net.

via http://metaatem.net/words/scottobear (change the word at the end to suit you.) Easy way to make a ransom note!

Watched the Krypto Cartoon that introduced Streaky. (The Canine Space Patrol wasn’t bad, either… renamed “Dog Star Patrol”. I haven’t seen Ace, the Bat-hound, yet. Apparently, Krypto will team up with Ace to chase after the Joker’s Hyenas. ) All in all, it seems to be a good kid’s show.

Got a nice hello email from Tomi.. pretty nifty that he still reads my journal!

I get about 15 human-placed anonymous lj-spams a day. I’m really not sure what they think that they’ll accomplish.. no other human will see it but me, and I just delete ’em right from being screened. no spider will pick ’em up.

Testing speech recognition with sound clips.

this is not very good, but so far all told it seems to work.

It still needs some training – My saying Newton –

Need to / new time / new Tom / to one/ noontime

I wonder if someday all of my posts will be audio, automatically transcribed to text automatically?

I really like this picture of a clown and her tea party.

News follow up

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A self-described husband and father of two children is in jail after police say he lured a 14-year-old boy over the Internet for sex.

Bobby Minnis, 42, was arrested after police say he lured a boy to his home in Fort Lauderdale and had sex with him 10 times over the course of several days.

Images: (my hairy mitts in first pic, and face in 11th) Continue reading 7313 – hoffman’s assortment →

Note: forwarded message attached. (nbc 6 video feed, internet predator)

Continue reading 7312 – Thanks Oneeyed! Fwd: You’ve Got Videos →

Fun time at the club yesterday, got a brief introduction to mzk’s short term roomie… seems very professional. I picked up an application on the way out to do a little after hours work, myself.. maybe make a few side-dollars for fun money, and enjoy the company of nice folks I hang out with, anyhow. Marissa and Steve were tending bar tonight.

I’m astounded that nobody mentioned either Newt, Mzk in skimpy gear, or my robot doodle in yesterday’s entry. I have to remember to add MzKitten to the list of awesome felines with Red-fur (hair)

A surprising turn of events… only one person where I work has an operable VCR, and Mona didn’t have a usable tape. ah well. I wasn’t on the WB 10pm broadcast, but I was on the 11pm NBC airing, very briefly.. maybe a half-minute sound bite. I did ok, all things considered.

Doctor Who Continues to be good… a solid mix of humor and drama. Not bad at all!

1 year ago – Khaan!, walkabout statue pictures, CoH, tv turnoff week, Jenjen

2 years ago – Passover, Good Friday, House of 1000 corpses, hair registry idea, past life poll

3 years ago – Pig book, Argentine ants, textarc, haiku, exploding private-parts, slug-eating plant, vibration energy, freedom force, Disney rides becoming movies

4 years ago – cartoons, weeping cherry, newt pic, web hits, Tom Green & PMS ruined my night.

Well, the report will be on nbc6 11 oclock news tonight, and on WB at 10pm, also telemundo, but I have no idea what time.

They’re moving fast with the report, considering that it’s after 8pm now.

I’m changing back into my hawaiian shirt and heading home. until later, dear journal.

update – video link here –

http://nbc6.feedroom.com/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=4788b3f2c574116e28703de444d37b527818e930

thanks, oneeyed! (the video is designed for windows media player, so it’ll take internet exporer to view properly.)

At the office. Doing a television interview for NBC6 (florida) in about a half hour or so, give or take, regarding the most recent internet stalker/child abduction case, and following up with the news regarding jessica lunsford.

Will followup later.

I bet that whenever I go on walkabout, I meander past at least a dozen people visibly living on the street, just inside of the first few blocks of travel. I wonder how many are behind or between buildings, where I can’t see ’em.

I have spent some time living on the street and my brother is currently doing so. I feel for him, but I really don’t know the depths to which he’s sunk. I’ve never had an addiction so strong that it cost me everything else in life, and I’m thankful for that.

I’ve seen my brother take half-smoked cigarettes from public ashtrays and smoke ’em. I’ve never seen him beg for change, but he has been arrested for panhandling. I don’t know how he managed that one… I get asked for change (or a few bucks, depending on how bold the beggar is) at *least* three times a day spent on public sidewalks.

When I went to the club yesterday, the guy mzkitten told that she was married to a circus dwarf came in, and he remembered me. I got to gab with him for a while, but I left for the day before he was undoubtedly tossed out on his ear.

MzK almost shot me in the eye with a champagne cork… I think that she was more worried about it than I was. An eye patch would only make me more piratical. I’m amazed that piratical passed the spell-check. Some serious force behind it, it flew about 40 feet or so.

Bo Rhap – Amazing compo of a bunch of Bohemian Rhapsody Covers. Astounding. mp3

Moment of Lyric:

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I’m easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me, to me

To Counter the downer earlier, Random pictures of Newt chilling out and having a snack. Also, a visit with Mzkitten.

Possibly Not work safe for places that don’t like orange cats or pretty girls in skimpy cocktail uniforms.