9020 – thurs

Busy day at work – they had me before I even sat down – doing a lot of quick database fixes. a few items got confused, fortunately, we’re all good about keeping proper backups to all triggers, tables and such before doing any fiddling.


This is National Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day. Ah well, I missed it! Maybe next year. Probably not. I wouldn’t mind getting a Plush version of a Water Bear. (also known as Moss Piglets)


Tasty Junk food treat – Kellogg’s Cereal Straws– I’m a bit more partial to the Froot Loops version over Cocoa Crispies, but both were snacky-good. The first think BHK said to me was that “Matt is totally going to review these, and you’re going to have wanted ’em, so I beat him to the punch”…. and they are yummy, even without milk.


The Office was one of the better episodes in a long time… funny, and bittersweet, too. Ugly Betty is just ludicrously goofy as well.


Moment of lyric – via – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNO56xNlZo

Well, I’d like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I’d like to visit the moon
But I don’t think I’d like to live there
Though I’d like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don’t want to live on the moon

I’d like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I’d travel under the sea
But I don’t think I’d like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there’s not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren’t real family
So I don’t want to live in the sea

I’d like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There’s so many strange places I’d like to be
But none of them permanently

So if I should visit the moon
Well, I’ll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I’ll wish I was home once again
Though I’d like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I’ll be coming home soon
‘Cause I don’t want to live on the moon
No, I don’t want to live on the moon


Video games may reduce gender gap in spatial ability


Jimmy Carter: I Don’t Think It. I Know It Certainly. The Bush Administration Tortures.


1 year ago – YOP, pictures of neighborhood life, tussionex,

2 years ago – mopey, monkey-children in danger on bikes, herm boo-boo ankle, M*A*S*H during bloodwork

3 years ago – mr skelly, grocer, cheap CDs, eye of the storm, mass e-mail, Trolley, Dad’s Home,Reefer man, Herc/Xena ‘toon, Halloween clip art, Doom, Giant ape,subterranean hawk men dance, Hats, bro, context, walkabout pictures

4 years ago – Bewitched name revelation, surgery dream, pumpkin stencils, Joker Poll,Bro shenanigans, misc cool linkies, dia de los muertos, book of sand

5 years ago – PB&J otter, saw Ray Iglesias, worldwar, magic pebble, Made a DanHeroclix, Hot shower, Beekeeping, Zombie – alert, boogie man poll

6 years ago – Jiffy-pop monkeys, chimera / tantivy, evil news, haiku, bus ride, brain edibility probe, DB wrecks work surfing at IMT

7 years ago – Morning walkies, back when I worked the noon-8 shift, grumps, worddetective, post 509, god’s wheel, million monkeys, missed debates Geotarget

9019 – wed

Nice simple, rustic dinner tonight – Deviled eggs and salad (both egg salad and salad-salad). yum.

Speaking of simple and Rustic – Watched “The F word” with Gordon Ramsey… it’s out of rotation… just isn’t compelling at all. Kitchen Nightmares UK is the best of his lot so far, I think.


Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!


A bare trickle of rain tonight… cool weather tomorrow?


Washington DC’s Pedestrian Master Plan – good thing, given about 700 pedestrians a year are hit by cars in the District, which factors out to about two a day.


Book meme – Don’t hold these to me too tightly – “favorite” is a tough word regarding something as vast as literature.

1. Hardcover or paperback, and why?
Paperback – portability… I’d even prefer e-book format over that, if the reader is comfortable.

2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it…
Salmagundi or Argosy

3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is…

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury –

It was this then, the mystery of man seizing from the land and the land seizing back, year after year, that drew Douglas, knowing the towns never really won, they merely existed in calm peril, fully accoutered with lawn mower, bug spray and hedge shears, swimming steadily as long as civilization said to swim, but each house ready to sink in green tides, buried forever, when the last man ceased and his trowels and mowers shattered to cereal flakes of rust.

4. The author (alive or diseased) I would love to have lunch with would be…
Ray Bradbury… about 35 years ago.

5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except from the SAS survival guide, it would be…
Some sort of large compilation volume, if I were to go against the spirit of the question. Just one? Robinson Crusoe might be a too ironic choice. Actually, I think I’d prefer to take a blank book, and as many writing implements as I could.

6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…
Had a decently sized screen and was comfortably portable.

7. The smell of an old book reminds me of…
back wen I worked a the library… hiding spots among the deep stacks in the 780s.

8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
I’ll have to lead with Doug in Dandelion Wine, again.

9. The most overestimated book of all times is…
Joyce’s Ulysses would be high on that list, at least for me.

10. I hate it when a book…
holds its own just fine, and then the author (or worse, some other author) writes a really terrible sequel… or series of sequels. see: Ender’s Game or Pern Series for example.


1 year ago – BHK back, Danny plans, bro invisible, google bought youtube, elephant crackup (long article), sure ‘nuff yes I do, YOP!

2 years ago – leeches, reclusive, aoe3, bear-cave, W&G thoughts, halloween movies, scotto needs/wants, red hot riding hood, faking depth of field in photoshop, tom cruise – corinthian, things about me list, yahoo podcast search, shy street penguin
3 years ago – long bets, ‘ween, dark victoria, Frederik Ruysch body part dioramas, google translator

4 years ago – Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing

5 years ago – scary dreams, palm drawings, I’m 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond

6 years ago – egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala

7 years ago – doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein Geotarget

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)

9018 – tues

Starting to feel a bit like October!


Back the regular schedule – at work and chugging nicely – jaw still a bit sore from dentist, plus sore throat from allergies.


Dinner with the in-laws and adam – played a little destroy all humans after tasty chicken-egg noodle type-dish (hot dogs for larry). The canned veggie-chicken was cooked up to be really darn tasty, as was the mushroom gravy. The veggie gravy would be excellent on biscuits with a little black pepper, too, I suspect!


First day of new allergy meds, and my coughing is vastly reduced.


I can’t believe that it’s been 5 years since the beltway sniper. I certainly never thought that I’d live and work in this region back then. Between that, and Flight 77 six years ago – it’s amazing how much people get back to business at hand and swarm all over the pentagon, the metro and so on.


1 year ago – 16 days to go, nostalgia for 7-11, x04, preggos on my list, identity, monsters in my pocket, girls back from QC,

2 years ago – autostitch picture, with us / against us, hukilau, hp returns
3 years ago – Doom3 + Newt = Scotto Heart Attack, Bro drama, walkies pictures (graffiti/latin broward/newt), odd todd tv show sacked

4 years ago – programming, October questions, 3-fingered roy, rays, ricks, alexes, and gaming, bro gets a warrant, candy corn poll

5 years ago – dsl flicker, Lauper Photo, Kelly and Lexie meow and poop, Lincoln poll, House blessing

6 years ago – owies pass, odd news, took newt to work, werewolf (mafia) game, GPS factoid

7 years ago – Salty dog, slushies for lunch, CTD song, boycottsGeotarget

(via Scotto’s Wall Scrawls)