Hm, Tomorrow, I go out with Danny after work. Maybe I’ll get to play A&AM at last!
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Monthly Archives: April 2006
8297 – Coming at you like a shark with knees!
Newt was shown in yesterdays Zefrank video news post. Sadly, Zefrank says that animals aren’t allowed in any known League of Awesomeness. It seems I must submit a power move of my own, and thenget Newton into the league’s good graces later.
Maybe I should show my eyestalk yoink power move!
Yes, no, I, this is
Got together with Kat and Graypumpkin yesterday at lunch. Nice time was had lunch of bagel sammiches and I got gifties of Issues 4 & 5 of The Thing Comic, 1, 2, and 3 of the grant morrison superman comic, and a cool squishy toy.. an awesome replacement for blinky. It was nice visiting with ’em… It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen ’em. ’94, I think. We spoke about the usual.. fmaily, firneds, comics, livejournal, sushi, the appropriateness of naming a flower shop “adam and eve” -quoth kat “I’d like some apple blossoms, please!”, the danger of shrimp trucks.
Squishy octopus is pretty awesome, and he looks more durable than Blinky – hidden inside his swirling, glittery maw, are the two ultimate yin yang of good/evil of the deep… a great white shark and bottle nose dolphin, eternally battling inside the octocosm.
Unsquished octopus thingie. Added bonus, he’s orange.
Squished – blue fluid with glitter in mouth.
Dolphin inside!
Shark inside!
I didn’t give ’em the Dr. Who dvd, because I didn’t know we were doing lunch until mid-morning. If I was a cool guy, I’d drop it in the mail for them to come home to… or I can try and ge tthe first ep of th enew season on Sat, first.
If I wasn’t a dolt, I’d have taken pictures but I was too busy enjoying their company to remember my camera. Tomorrow they’re off ot tampa, and I doubt I’ll ge tot visit again before they head back to the lone star state. I look forward to seeing them again sometime soon.
Kudos to Mandy on her first day at the Chem lab!
Kev took a job doing programming as a civilian for the DoD at Gitmo. (The same place Hav used to do his gig.) Sounds like a sweet deal.. they’re training him, giving security clearance, paying for his lodging.. (everything but food and phone) great pay too.. only downside is, well.. it’s Cuba. He’ll get time off and such, but he can’t bring the puppies or kitties with him, either. (That’d be a deal breaker for me).. It’s about a 2 hour flight from here, so returning won’t be much of an issue on holiday. (about a month off every year).
I’m really happy for him.. he’s finally doing something worthwhile, well-paying, and for a boss he respects. I suspect he’ll really flourish there. He’s heading out there ein June, so we’ve got to have a few “fart parties” before he’s off to points south. I really would love for him to tell the pilot “TAKE THIS PLANE TO CUBA!”, but that’s probably a bad first impression.
AB was fired yesterday – wasn’t cutting it. RP will be out new agent ni Michigan… I think she’ll do a good job. RI is off to Texas for a week, and I think we’ll all get things done. It’ll be nice to have a new tech outside of the state.
1 year ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards
2 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA
3 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.
4 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!
5 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up
8296 –
8295 – And we’re back. Again. Monday. Yes.
GP and Kat are in Florida for the next week or so, arrived Saturday sometime. May get together with ’em either tonight or tomorrow, if the stars are right. (They have a very demanding schedule when in town, and understandably so… both sets of parents live down here, and they want ’em as much as they can get ’em.), got to talk to GP yesterday on the phone for a while, and it was a fine time – mentions were made of the insanity of genius, and how people can breed for a longer period now, and family politics. (The youngest child will be the baby, even if they have children of their own. Interesting that both GP and Kat are both last-borns to older parents. My Folks had me when my dad was 23, and Mom was 21.)
(Though it seems other vacationers are Killer bees)
Wonderful rain today… classic Florida big drops in wind that causes it to fall at about a 45 degree angle. I’m glad my porch has enough of a roof overhang to stop things from getting soaked… nice to sit out there, soak up the ozone smell from the thunderstorm, and just soak up the sights and sounds around me. Not a bad time to do laundry… made everything smell sort of rainy-fresh that was hung up out back, though it took forever to dry.
Finally finished re-downloading Dr. Who 2005 season and the Christmas special; Burned the dvd. Hopefully, I’ll remember to hand them off to GP and Kat. (and another set to Danny when I see him next week). They look even better in High Def.
Next series, HBO’s Rome. I need to get that to a few people on my reading list.
More free fonts to fill up your computer with!
I’m kind of partial to ogrejuice and Deanna.
Perversely fascinating. Bad Talk radio.. mostly folks trying to update from the road. Some folks a little drunk… it’s fun to her folks monologue in varying degrees of skill. Surprisingly, nobody singing. odd – some seem to be from quite a while ago… I guess it’s based on when the journal was scraped. random dates from a week ago to two months ago. Spiffy to see user names in my mp3 player… gives me misc journals to eyeball if they seem interesting. via brad’s journal
Listen to public LiveJournal voice posts, non-stop:
http://radio.bradfitz.com/ljcalls.m
Enjoy, while it lasts. Brad may take it down if it takes up too much bandwidth.
This is not an official LiveJournal feature (yet?). This is all done on my brad’s server, using public data,
as anybody else could.
Well, I’m running late.. suffice to say it’s a nice 60’s-ish electro-organ/harmony groovy/haunting sort of song. It’s a good walkabout tune, especially when on one’s own.
from an old Marvel Super heroes activity book – I colored it a bit, but just to clean up a photograph used as a scan. That’s the original quote, looking weird in a square voice “balloon”.
8294 –
Changed the layout and color scheme of my journal a little bit while Fatima cleaned house for me. Looks like Rosemary’s branching out, and Fatima will be the new cleaner-upper.
Shot for some earth tones and greens, but I don’ t know if I’ll stick with ’em yet.
Looks like some serious rain today… minimal walkies, then.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
8293 (looks like some sort of math pattern. 041526374 and back to 8293)
KittenAuth Test – best human vs bot security ever. (via waxy)
KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals.
The current 9*9 design displays 9 pictures and requires that the user clicks 3 pictures of kittens. The location of the kittens in the grid is random and to make things more fun the contents of the pictures changes too.
Wider view of the triffid tree highlighted here
What to do? Where to go?
Maybe a trip south to Miami? North to Palm Beach? Just Stay home and do laundry, fool on the internet and play with Baron von Newtonstien?
A few basic appointments today… Cleaning lady, Newt’s Checkup, but after 1 or so, I should be free. I have wanderlust, but no urge to do any actual walking. Perhaps a bike ride is in order. I’ll have it worked out by the time Rosemary leaves.
Whoops, Cleaning lady’s going to be here soon, time for me to fix up a bit beforeI head to the porch.
Time for me to vamoose. Until later, dear Journal!
1 year ago – golf day, audio entry, ransom notes, Stuffed animal seven, google maps silliness, 3-coffin pope burial, pirates and fonts!
2 years ago – Religious notes, Super Mommy and Evil robo-lights, Manatee Escaped Tracking , Nevada, and stupid CS
3 years ago – Rachel, dreads, easter
4 years ago – Rick comments about QaF, Happy to come home, yahoo dilemma, elephants, sleeping in airports, singing Eugene, virtual om
5 years ago – back talk, Dan’s spring break, got a grove gig!, beautiful world
8292 – Filler!
Some quizzles snagged from eryx_uk :
1. What’s the weather like?
78°F – Feels Like 80°F
Partly Cloudy
Wind: From SSE at 13 mph
Humidity: 60%
Pressure: 30.07 in.
Dew Point: 63°F
Visibility: 10.0 miles
2. When is the last time you felt appreciated?
I’ve got some lovely friends who make me feel appreciated every time I speak to them. I’m very fortunate… I’d say via e-mail today.
3. What is the last bad news you heard?
That the prez authorised the leaking of classified CIA information, including the identity of a covert agent.
4. What is your favorite sad song?
Depends on the type of sadness desired/reflected. Mike + the Mechanics, the living years is a powerful one re: my dad.
5. Tell us about something you’re obsessed with:
Information. Knowledge about anything, especially History, Science, and Sociology. Researching, (especially on the internet) of same. Feed my brain!
Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don’t put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!
(My B’day is on Feb 02)
Events:
962 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. [Why they Changed it, I can’t say, people just liked it better that way]
1870 – It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
Births:
1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
1882 – James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
Deaths:
1661 – Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
8291 – And… it’s a Friday.
Devo – Live on “Fridays” Girl U Want & Gates of Steel
Hey, so it’s Friday! It’s been a long week, even with Tuesday off. I’m looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.
Made myself a new icon, testing lj’s auto resize images. looks ok. I’ll wear it for a bit.
Lost was the best one in a while last Wednesday. Some decent acting, and set pieces.
Designed a mega-trampoline for 2nd Life, and it seemed to go over well with the 3 Sirens crowd. Launch and sound works well, but you still land with a heck of a thump. version 2.5 will be a bit more gentle. Timmy Turtle’s pursuit mode is more realistic, too. (if you outrun him, and another person is closer, he’ll home in on them.)
8290 – Bus post – 040606 – 7am
It’s been a little while since I last heard from my brother. I’m hoping that is a good sign. He’s still unaware of my street address, though he could get it with only a modicum of detective work. He’s very clever, despite his best efforts to harm his own faculties. No news frequently translates into good news.
dreams of being pulled like taffy and being planted as a new species of tree. no dryads, will ‘o wisps or wood nymphs came to soothe me. there were peacocks, but fortunately they were mute.
sent via palmtop
8289 – Thursday.
Loki is pretty nifty. Surprisingly, it doesn’t use win2k, only XP sp 1 and greater, but there is a beta for both MSIE and Mozilla, and seems especially useful for laptop or mobile computer users. Lots of nifty local items to check out. It tries to workout where you are and then gives you various tools for doing stuff with that knowledge, including inserting geoTags to any form that takes an input. Unfortunately, Shopping links to already dead cairo.
Busy day at work today – fund raiser and setup for the golf tourney will stretch our staff quite a bit. Going to be a skeleton crew. Got an abduction call out of Collier County last night.
33 questions
1) Who is the last person you high-fived?
Not sure… either Rosangel or Gabby at work. Some sort of little victory, but it wasn’t sarcastic.
2) If you were drafted into a war, would you survive?
I doubt that I’d make it through boot without getting 4F. So, I’d probably survive, since I wouldn’t have to fight on the front lines.
3) Do you sleep with the TV on?
No, but I can. I use it to wake me up in the morning.
4) Have you ever drank milk straight out of the carton?
Sure… I’m a bachelor. everything in my house is fair game, unless I’m saving it for a guest.
5) Have you ever won a spelling bee?
Nope… I’ve done well in them, but never had a total victory. I don’t remember any of the words I missed, but I don’t much care for spelling bees. I prefer debate, or other mental bloodsports.
6) Have you ever been stung by a bee?
Yup! I can still picture the ripped out stinger pumping venom into my foot. Glad I’m not allergic!
7) How fast can you type?
About 45 WPM
8) Are you afraid of the dark?
Not if it’s a familiar area. Strange places, I get a bit skittish.
9) Eye color?
Blue, looks anywhere from gray to bright blue depending on the shirt worn.
10) When is the last time you chose a bath over a shower?
about a week ago, when I just wanted a long soak.
11) Do you knock on wood?
I mockingly knock my forehead.
12) Do you floss daily?
No but I really should.
14) Can you hula hoop?
I used to be ok at it, but I’m not sure how well I’d do theses days. I suspect poorly.
15) Are you good at keeping secrets?
Depends on the secret. I make my own judgment calls. best kept secret is one not told to anyone, including me.
16) What do you want for Christmas?
Peace, Love and happiness for all that spread the same
17) Do you talk in your sleep?
Sometimes. I mumble, converse, and have on occasion yelled.
18) Who wrote the book of love?
Elvis Costello… or the Monotones.
19) Have you ever flown a kite?
Last Time I remember flying a kite was with Dan and April sometime in 2000, but I’m pretty sure I have since then. I had an awesome stunt kite that was lost when I lefe no-noes maldanado’s place.
20) Do you wish on your fallen eyelashes?
and Newt Whiskers, and shooting stars, and whatever else is handy. birthday candles and wishbones.
21) Do you consider yourself successful?
I think so. I certainly don’t consider myself a failure. I’ moving forward, albeit slowly.
22) How many people are on your contact list of your cell?
58 people and orgs
23) Have you ever asked for a pony?
Well, I wanted a warhorse for a while as a kid. (as well as armor, and weapons training. Silly German Genes.)
24) Plans for tomorrow?
Work, get home, laundry, visit friends online. tuck in early and sleep late to prepare for a good Saturday.
25) Can you juggle?
tasks better than beanbags.
26) Missing someone now?
Not at the moment, but I was a couple of days ago. I still think about my pop regularly.
27) When was the last time you told someone I Love You?
Last family member I talked to on the phone… bro?
28) How often do you drink?
not too often. St. Patty’s day was the last alcohol imbibed.
29) How are you feeling today?
Just woke up, but I feel ok so far!
30)What are you looking forward to?
The weekend! This week is moving at a good pace.. lots of work makes the time go swiftly.
31) Have you ever eaten dog food?
I’ve tried Milk Bone Dog Biscuits. They’re like really thick, bland wheat thins.
32) Can you handle the truth?
Generally. I prefer it.
33) Any cool scars?
Some surgery ones on my back, one on my bottom lip – stitches, by my right eye – deflected ring from a punch, left ankle – trash bag glass gash, back of my right hand – cigarette burn.
Things seen to and from work yesterday –
Waiting for the sun to come up at the bus stop en route to work.
Time change returned the walk to in the dark.
The tree on the road island outside my office.
Green again, but still not as lush as it once was.
Regrowth on the tree right outside my office window. That was a pleasant sight during lunch.
I’m too jaded.. I think it looks a bit like a triffid.
1 year ago – appointment, bro homeless, electron thoughts, videos, broken umbrellas, space 1999:waka waka, 300 island resort, typo on bus, walkies pictures, beaten barricade,
2 years ago – smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game
3 years ago – sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.
4 years ago – landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers
5 years ago – Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi Preggers
Protected: 8288 – misc
8287 – Textures intrigue me.
The Zombie Horde Counterstrike mod is a lot of fun. Zombies with no ranged attacks that can only be hurt with a head shot on one side, soldiers that can’t camp in zombie-free zones in the other. much fun.
A gold plated six story house in the shape of a pyramid.
Built by Mr. and Mrs. Onan, which made me laugh all the more. (We used to have a bird named Onan, because he was known for spilling his seed upon the ground.)
In my head during shower and shave this morning –
How do?
Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop
Daintily, daintily
Hey you!
Don’t look so perplexed, why must you be vexed, can’t you see you’re next
Yes you’re next, you’re so next
How about a nice close shave
Teach your whiskers to behave
Lots of lather lots of soap
Please hold still don’t be a dope
Now we’re ready for the scraping
There’s no use to try escaping
Oh, wait until I get that rabbit
Yell & scream & rant & rave
It’s no use you need a shave
(oh ouch ouch oh ouch oh oh ouch)
There, you’re nice and clean
Although your face looks like it might have gone through a machine
What would you want with a rabbit
Can’t you see that I’m much sweeter
I’m your little senorit-ar
You are my type of guy
Let me straighten your tie
And I shall dance for you
About time they made it this far south again!
They Might Be Giants at Revolution –
http://jointherevolution.net
200 W Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312
info@jointherevolution.net
Phone: 954-727-0950
Fax: 954-727-0949
Map to Venue: Google :: Yahoo!
The venue songs are pretty variable like most of their stuff… A lot more blatant sample and rhythm swipes.
Disney owns Devo… and has kids doing covers of the songs…. and now they’re on tour. It’s a Beautiful World.
I just have to laugh every time I see kids singing “jerkin’ back and forth” or “whip it” for Mickey-Corp.
So long, Tom DeLay.
Bush said the Republican Party won’t suffer from DeLay’s decision to resign from Congress. “My own judgment is that our party will continue to succeed because we are the party of ideas.”
Ok, I coughed a little soda-pop through my nose at that.
1 year ago – Badge shape pref poll, flickery power, Jasmine, stupid comic deaths, Dr Who episode 2, KANG KANG KANG KANG!, Monkey awe, hukilau, driver 8 pic, 23/5 bibliomancy,
2 years ago – Itchies, chocolate dodge, Miami fires, sweetalyssm.com goes down due toa hack. (sadly, never to return), palm-doodle entry, Denny’s lunch
3 years ago -hung out with ldy & grrwoo, JKG wants me, prep for TAG
4 years ago – Freedom Force, Poem tag, new tech, THE poll.
5 years ago – morning walk, goals, online people, people that didn’t want my help, kindness triage, cartoon stereotypes, Hey, The Dusty Miller, hair color poll
8285 – Hey! I’m wearing purple!
Dan mentioned that maybe Friday the 14th will be a good day to hang out after I get off of work (he’s a teacher and will be enjoying spring break) … we haven’t done anything since January, so there’s a lot of lost time to cover.
Axis and Allies is certainly on the list. Maybe go out and get an ethical massage, too.
Bug inspectors coming by the apartment today, and then a trip to the doc. Didn’t get to sleep in, because my on-call tech had to wake me for verification of a launch in California at 6:30am (2:30 their time)
Ah well, I’ll be able to take a midday nap as a treat, anyhow.
Had the blues a bit yesterday, but they’ve pretty much faded out for now. Probably a spring thing. I’m still a bit miffed about the unsolved mystery, but I’m just chalking it up to laziness for now.
Moment of Lyric: MP3 (many thanks again, Firpo!) [Hear more of them here]
There’s something Graypumpkin won’t hear on Bob!
Start wearing purple wearing purple
start wearing purple, for me now
all your sanity and wits, they will all vanish
I promise, it’s just a matter of time…
I know you since you were a twenty and i was twenty,
but thought that some years from now
a purple little little lady will be perfect
for dirty old and useless clown…
I know it all from Diogenes to Foucault
from Lozgechkin to Paspartu
I ja kljanus obostzav dva paltza
schto muzika poshla ot Zvukov Mu!…
Party!
So Fio-Fio-Fioletta! Etta! Va-va-va-vaja dama ti moja!
Eh podayte nam karetu, votetu, i mi poedem k ebenjam!
So yeah, start wearing purple wearing purple!
Start wearing purple for me now!
All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish,
I promise, it’s just a matter of time!…
Translation of the Russian portion: (via)
And I swear, having pissed on two fingers,
That the music originated in Sounds of MooSo Violetta! My lady!
Hey, get ready a coach, this one,
We will go to nowhere.
1 year ago – apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC
2 years ago – 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4
3 years ago – Met with Meter Made, don’t confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter
4 years ago – walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian’s, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT
5 years ago – Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I wonder how that “FBI Investigation” turned out.
8284 – He who does not punish evil commands it to be done
Vintage paperback book covers. I’ve linked to similar sites before, but i think this is a new one.
Nice breakdown by type –
Digest Good Girl Art, Digest Good Girl Photos, Drug Theme Paperbacks, Dust jacketed Paperbacks, Film Noir Paperbacks, Hillbilly Covers, Juvenile Delinquency, Lesbian Paperbacks, Sleaze Paperbacks, Science Fiction Covers, Vest Books, Vintage Paperbacks, Women And Water
It occurred to me this weekend that the term prophet sounds holy to me, but the term prophecy comes across as sinister, or fake.
Moment of lyric – mp3 (thank you, Firpo!)
{lyrics in braces need confirmation, due to the earliness of the hour and my poor sense of hearing}
Listen to me you explorers, Buck and Admiral Byrd,
Here’s a funny one you’ve never heard
there’s a fellow in the jungle
one you never knew
you won’t get him, but he might get you
Who’s the talk at every table from Chicago to Madrid?
Who’s the African Clark Gable?
Jojo, the Cannibal kid!
All the tribes eat fruits and berries
He’s the one that never did
He Prefers his missionaries
Jojo, the cannibal kid
He could aways pass on his manner and his savoir faire
Mix with every class – eat the finest people everywhere!
Circus sends him offers daily
{Bertram mills made him a bid}
but he’s holding out for Barnum Bailey,
Jojo the cannibal kid
Mmmmyeow…
Don’t you know? He eats them alive…
{gets the ??????}
eating out, from nine to five.
boom jigga boom jigga boom jigga boom boom
That is the Jojo way
boom jigga boom jigga boom jigga boom boom
that means he’s on the {train}
{Everybody run and get in the car, pull all the windows down
everybody find a safe place to closet}
Jojo is now in town
Who’s the talk at every table from chicago to madrid?
Who’s the African Clark Gable?
Jojo, the Cannibal kid!
All the tribes eat fruits and berries
He’s the one that never did
He Prefers his missionaries
Jojo, the cannibal kid
He could aways pass on his manner and his savoir faire
Mix with every class – eat the finest people everywhere!
Circus sends him offers daily
{Bertram mills made him a bid}
but he’s holding out for Barnum Bailey,
Jojo the cannibal kid!
(I suspect that I’m the only person with the lyrics to this song hosted on the ‘net. )
Ganked from Bubbles!
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