9051 – Testing embed of finetune. My Christmas Mix (so far)
Monthly Archives: November 2007
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9050 – wednesday
I discovered Public domain torrents. Good place to go if you want legal stuff to snag from the internet. See Also Emol.
Hm, this is interesting to me. A fairly elaborate flickr stats page
Quiche and Soup for supper tonight… tasty tasty tasty. Samantha Who was weaker tonight than usual, but is a neat concept.
The latest episode of The Office is probably one of the best ones this season. I want to be in a “Finer Things” club with BHK, but I fear…
9051 – Testing embed of finetune. My Christmas Mix (so far)
9050 – Wednesday
I discovered Public domain torrents. Good place to go if you want legal stuff to snag from the internet. See Also Emol.
Hm, this is interesting to me. A fairly elaborate flickr stats page
Quiche and Soup for supper tonight… tasty tasty tasty. Samantha Who was weaker tonight than usual, but is a neat concept.
The latest episode of The Office is probably one of the best ones this season. I want to be in a “Finer Things” club with BHK, but I fear I would suffer the same pitfalls.
I have Flight of the Conchords’ “It’s Business Time” in my head, sung with the Lyrics of “It’s Christmas Time” – At least it’s not what poor BHK has stuck in hers… “Crabs for Christmas“
Her Lyric in question –
Santa said, Put that man down this instant!
Now, my boy, want you want’s not that odd.
But there’s no crabs till May,
So hop in my sleigh,
And we’ll fly to New England and I’ll get you scrod.
No, not scrod!!!!!!!
NO, NAWWWWT SCRAWWWWWD!!!!
I guess you had to be there, dear journal.
Q&A doing the rounds –
1. What would hurt more: seeing your best friend make out with your ex, or finding out that your ex never liked you? Seeing as I’m married to my best friend, the former would be pretty traumatic.
2. What was your last alcoholic drink? Hard Cider on Halloween!
3. Where do you live? Southern Maryland
4. Where do you go to school? I work right near DC
5. How many friends do you have? A goodly sized crew. Were I to load them on a longship, we could row across the sea.
6. Did you speak to your mother today? no, but I got an email.
7. What color reminds you of your school? Blue – usually reminds me of FAU
8. Star wars or star trek? Trek
9. At this very moment what should you be doing? Heading to bed.
10. Who has your heart? BHK
11. How many months until your birthday? A little under 3 months… Feb 2 is coming quick!
So, items 20-30 were lost in a fire, or something? Why even number these things?
31. Where is your sister right now? No sisters, but Bro is in a correctional facility for the next 3 weeks.
32. Last place you kissed someone? I was on the side porch, kissing bhk on the lips.
33. Last person who called you? Insurance broker to clear up some hospital issues.
The fire has spread to dissolve two more!
36. What are you listening to? A little ELO – Time
37. What color is your hair? Sandy with more and more silver every day.
38. What color are your eyes? Blue
39. What is the last movie you watched? American Haunting (not haunting at hill house) on TV.. sort of weak.
40. Are you mentally disabled? All of those other questions gone, and this one they keep? No.
41. Who is bothering you right now? Nobody at the moment.
42. What makes you happy? BHK, Newton and Pye.
43. When’s the last time you told someone you loved them? Tonight, BHK.
44. What bothers you? Carelessness. Willful Ignorance. Pain without purpose.
46. When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings? Letter from bro a few days ago.
47. Where’s your favorite place in the world? Snuggled up with BHK, Pye and Newt.
48. Are you happy? Yup!
49. Do you miss someone? Sure do.
50. Have you ever liked a cheerleader/football player? Crushed on a cheerleader or two in high school… Nothing serious / Nobody Professionally
Eat more chocolate and help the environment.
LONDON (Reuters) – Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a new process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel — meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.
A truck, fuelled by the biofuel, will set out from Poole on the English south coast to Mali in West Africa later this month on a charity mission.
“The chocolate waste used to be used in landfill. But now we can make it travel as biofuel,” said organiser Andy Pag who will be one of the two drivers on the trip.
North western English firm Ecotec has taken waste from the chocolate manufacturing process, turned it into bio-ethanol and mixed it with vegetable oil to produce biodiesel.
Some biofuels have come under fire for either diverting much-needed food crops or leading to massive deforestation as land is cleared to grow crops specially for biofuel production.
“This is to show that you can have environmentally-friendly biofuels and that you don’t have to convert normal diesel engines to use it,” Pag told Reuters.
The BioTruck will depart on November 26 and is expected to take about three weeks to drive the 4,500 miles to Timbuktu where it will off-load a small biofuel production unit with the local MFC charity.
But vehicles using the novel product will not exude the sweet smell of success. “No! I’m afraid the exhaust doesn’t smell of chocolate,” said Pag.
I have a feeling that I could get BHK to play Warhammer if these were her troops.
Whee!
1 year ago – day shift, vote, yummy dinner, reg mail, pix, hugin vs autostitch
2 years ago – thc is sandman, caramel corn, web switch, mooch protection, UF bugs, pinkerton on TG, robot poll, sensualism, jetpack doodle, monster island
3 years ago – renfaire, newt butt pic, incredibles great, 46 freeware, super dictionary, end of a world notes
4 years ago – Enty, Gum, Staples out!, Big Newt Face, palm doodle, haiku, book fair, stick a finger in your ear for cell phone
5 years ago – Haunted ft. Lauderdale, Suzy at LOA, Doggies at IMT
6 years ago – Evil News, SS-cam, Sparticus, Poem Poll, Pay-surf poll, Read this
7 years ago – Lorax, I voted, factoids (that may be false!)
warholized: Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.
9049 – tues
Worth a click -As the American health care system continues to disintegrate, people are forced to make life choices that might otherwise seem foolish.
Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the road when she sees a big bad wolf crouched down behind a log.
(Seriously: she has brain lesions for which she cannot get treatment. What the hell?)
– Via mightygodking .-The FAQ has a lot of solid, pertinent information.
Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the road when she sees a big bad wolf crouched down behind a log.
“My, what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf.”
The wolf jumps…
9049 – tues
Worth a click -As the American health care system continues to disintegrate, people are forced to make life choices that might otherwise seem foolish.
(Seriously: she has brain lesions for which she cannot get treatment. What the hell?)
– Via mightygodking .-The FAQ has a lot of solid, pertinent information.
Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the road when she sees a big bad wolf crouched down behind a log.
“My, what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf.”
The wolf jumps up and runs away.
Further down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again and this time he is crouched behind a bush.
“My, what big ears you have, Mr. Wolf.”
Again the wolf jumps up and runs away.
About two miles down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again and this time he is crouched down behind a rock.
“My, what big teeth you have Mr. Wolf.”
With that the wolf jumps up and screams, “Will you knock it off, I’m trying to poop!”
If I were to have a headstone, I wouldn’t mind having this on it.
I’d like to go see The Awakening before it’s moved.
Nice night tonight – dinner in with the in-laws… BHK made hot dogs, mac & cheese, and some darn tasty sweet potato fries! nom nom nom.
I have a lot more energy today – I wonder if it’s the cooler weather?
EcoFluxx arrived! Funny thing is that it originated in Greenbelt, flew overseas to the UK, and then returned to us! It’s logged more air miles than I have in the last year or three. Thanks Eryx!!!
1 year ago – pix, salt-mines
2 years ago – solo night, memes, blogmap, newt vs dino pic, birthday, pirates repelled, newton as streaky pic, happy trees
- Pictures taken – super newt, giant newt
3 years ago – postponed incredibles, Cuppycake Gumdrop Snoogums, ren fest, lauderdale pics, haiku
4 years ago – Rude awakening x 2 , da vinci Code- (disappointment), Hospital bill (thank goodness for insurance), lj scams, time warp, church signs
5 years ago – Turtle bread, macrame owls, Outtathaway, elections, poo wand, 3 power phrases, Black Manta
6 years ago – cunctator, Heel-stab, Taoist essay, Tick, Spartacus, Discover Yahoo “theme-chat”
7 years ago – CA ok, Papa Smurf, booze 
9048 – mon
A quick peek of my office, taken with my phone’s camera this morning – not seen, the bright moon and Venus, first thing upon leaving the house this morning. Brilliant. Wave hi to DC!
Lunch of leftover Chinese food was almost as good as lunch of leftover BHK casserole… but not quite. Dang tasty, anyhow.
Strange… we had trick or treaters the day after Halloween, and were only too happy to give our crusty old candies that didn’t make the grade the night prior. I thought…
9048 – mon
A quick peek of my office, taken with my phone’s camera this morning – not seen, the bright moon and Venus, first thing upon leaving the house this morning. Brilliant. Wave hi to DC!
Lunch of leftover Chinese food was almost as good as lunch of leftover BHK casserole… but not quite. Dang tasty, anyhow.
Strange… we had trick or treaters the day after Halloween, and were only too happy to give our crusty old candies that didn’t make the grade the night prior. I thought it was a fairly unique situation, but it seems that it’s not an isolated incident. Note – we gave cute little kids the good stuff – chocolate, and smarties for Daniel (as he’s lactose intolerant), but any teens that came by without costumes got nasty stale necco wafers and clove candies that we hadn’t eaten in about a year.
Side note… do I really have to link to what trick or treaters or Halloween is? I doubt it.
We don’t have much candy left at the house, but gals at work still have huge bowls set out. It’s a real challenge not to grab a kit-kat when it’s right in my flight path.
I wonder how old is the “right” age to stop trick or treating… I always figured the cutoff was age 12, but maybe that was just me.
BHK had a meeting with the city, and afterward, we met at Thursday’s with the in-laws for a late supper.
Zombie Picture taken on the metro a few days back… good ol’ Halloween.
Considering that a Ford Model-T got as good or better mileage than most of today’s U.S. automobiles, I guess it’s not suprising that Henry Ford was, according to this 1934 profile, well ahead of the game in biofuels and bioplastics:
Science is discovering means of transforming products of the farm into materials for manufacture. Through his experimental farms, Henry Ford now successfully converts the common soy bean into automobile parts and an oil which makes up 30 per cent of the Ford car finish.
Mr. Ford declares that this plastic industry, this evolution of industrial agriculture, still is in its infancy and that its possibilities and opportunities are limitless. As an example, he points out that his laboratories have produced from the soy bean a tough, hard, yet inexpensive material which stands a pressure of 9,000 pounds without breaking… Ford and his chemists envision the time when automobile bodies, houses, skyscrapers and even great monuments may be fabricated from the soy bean.
Then again: maybe biofuels aren’t such a good idea, anyway.
via treehugger / kottke
1 year ago – butterfly world, swensons, pix
- Pictures taken (and more )- giant lobster with a smile, butterfly world, one-legged day of the dead guy, iguanas
2 years ago – lithgow soup, hot in apt, STUKA!! memory, lonliness %, bus riverwalk pic, sasha/magda, bro, chicken little, tiki pic
- Pictures taken – riverwalk tiki and sunset
3 years ago – ft laud pix, incredibles, win security hole, MUDD, 68th recovery
4 years ago – stream of thought, sports clix first view, first use of hr-dividers regularly?, Daler Mehndi!, interaction
5 years ago – Singing horses, SPEAR LANCASTER!, Newtie Pic, Vote For DUKES!, cutup poetry, heroclix
6 years ago – superhero dream, evil news, Daler Mehndi, vote poll, felon poll,Q&A poll, sleep ramble, FE-co the wonder dog, posting ~6 entries aday, Entry #3152
7 years ago – dead links, real change, and a trip to see Charlie’s Angels
1105071004.jpg: my office – 11th floor
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9047 – sun
I was feeling particularly creaky this morning – got up an hour earlier than expected – So, BHK turned on the ol’ recorder, wand we checked out what was sitting on the magnetic circle, patiently waiting for us to view and delete.
The Soup ! Woo hoo!
Invader Zim Halloween Special… groovy!
Some werewolf thing… feeble, at best.. we watched for about 15 minutes, and then purged it.
And then, BHK found the shimmering diamond amongst my recordings of good eats and house…….
9047 – sun
I was feeling particularly creaky this morning – got up an hour earlier than expected – So, BHK turned on the ol’ recorder, wand we checked out what was sitting on the magnetic circle, patiently waiting for us to view and delete.
The Soup ! Woo hoo!
Invader Zim Halloween Special… groovy!
Some werewolf thing… feeble, at best.. we watched for about 15 minutes, and then purged it.
And then, BHK found the shimmering diamond amongst my recordings of good eats and house…. Namely, Legally Blonde, the Musical on MTV. I was surprised to discover that there’s an Internet Broadway Database, kin to the Internet Movie Database.
She near to squealed with joy! Clapping her hands and exclaiming hooray, we sat down to watch it… I enjoyed watching her watch the show, more than the show itself, which was entertaining… I liked the bit about the Sorority being the Greek chorus, and the animal training of her dog was well done, especially for a stage production.
It was 3 hours long, dear journal. Thank goodness for high-speed commercial skipping. Without the breaks, I’d guess it was more like 100 minutes.
After tube-time, we spent a few moments doing e-mail, and whatnot we realized that the kitties were three meals from consuming us in our sleep so it was off to the store to pick up food-type reinforcements for the boys.
Though we thought only to grab some kitty-kibble and dash, once inside, we were sidetracked by a few things… namely peppermint candy cane flavored Hershey’s kisses and the holiday display. By the time we got out, supper time was upon us and there was a chinese food joint across the street that I’d never tried. Problem solved.
We got home, laid out a picnic blanket in the living room, set down the food and watched our remaining Ugly Betty (more Broadway – Wicked, this time.) and a Ramsey’s kitchen Nightmares from the UK. while we folded laundry.
A downright pleasant day, all told.
1 year ago – St. Aug pix
- pictures taken – beach visit, green lantern
2 years ago – newt on keyboard, herm mending, two things meme, smackers, moving out, more oilman pix, godray/talkers, newt pix
3 years ago – newt switch, hollywood pd, database shuffle, texas chainsaw w bunnies, patriot act, patriotism
4 years ago – Frankie still around, locusts, lj pops, back heal pic, cool linkies, meanie babble
5 years ago – verb, palm cave art, Halloween candy gone.
6 years ago – RAW, Haiku, Tolkien, dead links
7 years ago – Smitten, David Duke, Movies, FLIFF
9046 – sat – nutshell outline
Saturday in a nutshell –
BHK playing XM-christmas all day long – Country Christmas replacing U-pop for the season? UNFAIR, I cry!
Allergy shots
- painless, quick.
- ATMs nearby charge too much
- coffee at Giant’s Starbucks and cash back
Craft show
- nice wreath
- got a few little trinkets for Em
- not much there of value
- cookies.
Christmas Shopping
- got some stuff for the kitties, adam and larry. Also, Hickory Farms nibble platter purchased
Candy Store
- more treats for Chris and Larry,…
9045 – fri
Ah, good ol’ Friday. Friday, Friday, Friday. The whole weekend ahead of us!
PDA battery pooped out while I was on train.
Brisk out today!
NaNoWriMo… not doing it. Though I am seriously working to cracking down and devoting an hour each day to writing and fitness.
Pye knows… he’s just bluffin’.
Heh. I dig today’s sinfest.
Holy Samsara, Jesusman! Heal! Bless! Enlighten! Forgive! That oughtta…