sniffy newt
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
logging in to see newton on cam makes me insanely happy.
he’s my bud.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
8337 – Only Thursday… or is it Thursday Already?
I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?
That’s one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I’ve got about a decade’s worth of memories of High School world and times after… and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don’t have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev’s about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school… and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my “Computer Pals” (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It’s kind of funny… Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don’t know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes – for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we’ll talk again, but I’d put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can’t just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship… I don’t really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and “good old days” sort of stuff.
That’s the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends… if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem… ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about… but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting… Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.
Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.
Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo – about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.
Does impersonating W’s voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?
Moment of Lyric – MP3
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8335 – many questions.
50 questions via Eryx and Kat
1. How tall are you barefoot?
6’5/6’6″
2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
Nope, been in a room while it was happening, though.
3. Do you own a gun?
Not currently.
4. Rehab?
Nope.
5. Do you get nervous before “meeting the parents”?
Depends. Usually, yes, if I wasn’t a casual friend prior to dating … I didn’t with RG for some reason.
6. What do you think of hot dogs?
I love me some veggie corn dogs. Not like there’s any meat of value in animal-based ones, anyhow. Lips and Bung.
7. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
O Tannenbaum
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Water.
9. Do you do push-ups?
Not regularly. I prefer to punch a heavy bag.
10. Have you ever done ecstasy?
Not that I know of.
11. Are you a vegetarian?
Mostly, but I do eggs and dairy
12. Do you like painkillers?
If they work, and I’m in pain, yes. Not recreationally.
13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
If I told, it wouldn’t be a secret! Newton has helped on more than one occasion… Also, I’m friendly, can reach things on the top shelf, and will defend beauties from spider zombies.
14. Do you own a knife?
An assortment! However, tend to only use ’em for food prep.
15. Do you have A.D.D.?
I doubt it. Never been diagnosed..more likely to be obsessive compulsive, If I had to pick a thing like that. I was recently considered to be a megalomaniac by a dear friend.
16. Date Of Birth
Feb 02, 1969
17. Top 3 thoughts at this exact moment:
I’m older than Eryx, but younger than Kat! (Though I think Kat looks the most youthful of the lot of us)
I like the following terms: tizzy and twitterpated
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18. Name the last 3 things you have bought:
Burger King Garden Salad
A blood test / doctor visit
diet berries and cream dr pepper
19. Name five drinks you regularly drink:
water
orange juice
cranberry juice
ibc diet tangerine cream soda
diet cherry vanilla coke
20. What time did you wake up?
5:20am
21. Current hair?
brown with hidden blonde, red and gray.
22. Current worry?
Work
23. Current hate?
Hate’s pretty strong, though I am disgusted by some folks waving stupidity like a rallying flag.
24. Favorite place to be?
Curled up in bed with Newt and a good book
25. Least favorite place to be?
a pitful of rabid electric eels while dressed as eel food. I think. I’ve never tried it.
26. Where would you like to go?
the blue area of the moon
27. Do you own slippers?
yup, but I haven’t worn them in ages. Brown stuffed animal bear feet, complete with plushie toenails.
28. Where do you think you’ll be in 10 yrs?
Not sure…I suspect better off than I am today!
29. Do you burn or tan ?
burn a smidgen, and then turns to tan.
30. Last thing you ate?
blueberry yogurt and grape nuts
31. Would you be a pirate?
I’ve been known to share files now and again! Yarr!
32. Last time you had an alcoholic drink?
I forget! I tihnk I had a Cider when I got together with Danny about 3 weeks ago.
33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
whatever comes to mind. This morning it was the Snowmobile Driver song (MP3)
34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a kid?
Not a lot, really. I had a slightly unreasonable fear of vampires in the toilet that could come up when you flushed. I solved that problem but flushing in the morning.
35. What’s in your pockets right now?
the usual loot – digicam, pda, cell phone, billfold, keys, newton whisker, bus pass, loose change
36. Last thing that made you laugh?
GP’s rhyining of Kojak and kayak.
37. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
I actually had a few keeno sets… I think my Hot Wheels Sheets were my fave, but the most valuable would be the star wars ones, I suspect.
38. Worst injury you’ve ever had?
Back disabled me the worst, I think. a series of herniated disks.
39. How do you stand on movies?
I’m in favor of them!
40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
2
41. Who is your best friend?
Newt
42. How do you feel about cooking?
I prefer to cook for someone else… left to my own devices, I keep it simple.
43. Does someone have a crush on you?
It’s a possibility.
45. What is your favorite book?
Dandilion Wine – Ray Bradbury (my default answer, I also like a lot of mark twain’s stuff)
46. What is your favorite candy?
tough call.. I like chocolate bars quite a bit… take 5, milk way, etc..
47. What songs do/did you want played at your wedding?
O Fortuna, perhaps?
48. What songs do you want played at your funeral?
Big Rock Candy Mountain
49. What were you doing 12 AM last night?
Snoozin’
50. Do you love the pain a tattoo brings?
Only to my enemies… I long to tattoo mexican wrestling masks to the faces of those who do evil to me or mine
8334 – Humpty-hump
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Hooray for mail!
Yesterday I got two lovely bits of mail…. a postcard from Bubbles, and two bookmarks from ilene! The postcard was a pleasant surprise… Bubs has the best handwriting… able to fit a lovely amount of content onto a mailer. The Bookmarks are even nicer than I’d hoped they would be. A monkey on one, and Newton on the other.. what more could I ask for?
ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost ( and other shows) legally and for free! They need to do this with other shows/networks.
New Superman Returns Trailer is looking pretty keen! – I’m fairly enthused, but I don’t think that I like the new Lois Element.
Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3
Speaking of Which, nice collection of ad-free lyrics – LyricWIKI
Wooden PC Case Mods. I really, really like these. Beautiful.
Archives on Hold Due to LJ being spotty – will update later.
1 year ago – no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song,
2 years ago – teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos
3 years ago – words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties
4 years ago – entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such
5 years ago – diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll
8333 – Only 1777 more posts until I hit 10000!
Upon yesterday’s weighing, I’ve gained all the weight I lost on WW point plan back. no good. I’ve been eating poorly since October, and it was building up for a while before then. Time to go back to the plan, account for everything, and lose it again. This time, no going off plan.
Starting Today, I’m back to using the palmtop to monitor everything. This time, no sloughing off once the holidays roll by… Rather pesky that I’m starting from Square one again, but at least I know of a system that works for me.
catagoriz – a nice guide to web 2.0 apps.
I’m especially digging Alkemis.
Meanface is an ongoing experiment in which you draw and submit a face. Each face submitted counts towards the ever-evolving meanface.
Bro called again (at 11:30pm), to do an arrest lookup for him. Some guy on coke charges – looked rough in the mug shot. Bro first told me it was some girlfriend’s dad, but then I saw the guy was born in ’65. I asked how old his GF was, and he said 28… caught him in a lie there. He changed his story afterward – Next call I get from him after 10, I’m just going ot ask him to call me during more civil hours.
Can you count in ding-bong? Here’s how:
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1 one 2 two 3 three 4 four 5 ding 6 six 7 bong 8 eight 9 nine 10 ding-ding |
11 eleven 12 ding-bong 13 thirteen 14 bong-bong 15 ding-ding-ding 16 sixteen 17 ding-ding-bong 18 eighteen 19 20 d-d-d-d |
21 b-b-b 22 d-d-d-b 23 twenty-three 24 d-d-b-b 25 d-d-d-d-d 26 d–b-b-b 27 d-d-d-d-b 28 b-b-b-b 29 d-d-d-b-b 30 d-d-d-d-d-d |
|
From number 24 and over, all numbers
are combinations of dings and/or bongs. |
||
Tales to Astonish! (the streaming radio alone is worth the price of admission.)
Bro called Sunday night too, by the way – claimed he was in Miami, but on researching his phone number, it originated out of Hollywood. it may just be his local phone, payable by the minute.. I’ll hope for the best with him.
1 year ago – Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme
2 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes
3 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues
4 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving
5 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUP
8332 – MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MONDAY! ARGH!
The Sarah Jane episode of Dr. Who didn’t disappoint, and it was delightful to see both her and K9 again. I do think that if the Doctor had been a little less “devil may care”, a lot fewer innocents would’ve been killed.
In other TV news, I was enjoying Charmed, until they added the blond “cousin oliver”. See also the addition of the kid on Gilmore Girls. They’re just counting down to the end.
Right on. Happy Little Trees! “We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.” I love that guy.
Is it true that 1 human being out of 5 is a Chinese farmer? There are a lot of 20% breakdowns on google.
A few –
- one in every five Americans are currently infected with a sexually transmitted viral disease.
- One in every five Americans, experiences some type of mental disorder each year
- The bacteria that cause meningococcal disease are carried by about one in every five people.
- One in every five people in Nairobi is HIV positive
- About one in every five people have genital herpes
- one in every five people in Jordan have made pledges to UNICEF
- One in every five people lack access to safe drinking water.
- one in every five people on the planet is a Muslim.
- One in every five people in Seoul owns dogs or other pets.
- Mild side effects of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Vaccine occur in about one in every five people who receive it.
- one in every five people has a reading problem
- One in every five people in the developing world is chronically undernourished
- By 2030, one in every five people is likely to be 65 or older
- one in every five people who work for the State of California works for the Department of Corrections
- one in every five people in the world is surviving on less than $1 a day
- One in every five people with sight problems has another disability
- One in every five people with HIV is a prison inmate or a former inmate
- In Michigan, nearly one in every five people is out of work
To the best of my knowledge, I don’t fall into any of those groups.
I’d say I know folks that fall into group #1, #2, #4 (but not from Nairobi), #5, #6, #8, #9 (in Seoul), #11, #13 (I think GP falls into that group… I’ll be 61), #14, #15, #16, #17
It’s really hard to find a house painted green in my neighborhood. I have yellow, many shades of blue, pink, white, and gray… but no green. Also, I’ve found no stray kitties in my walkabout… Seester Kelliebellie gave me a challenge! I like it, but it may take me longer than I had anticipated.
I had a little tummy-ache this weekend…feeling a bit better now.
Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey.
– John Lennon
I like monkeys – mp3
I was walking through town one day and I noticed that the pet store was selling monkeys for five cents apiece. I thought that was odd since they were normally a couple thousand dollars or something, but I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. You know why? I like monkeys.