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9299 – Saturday

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Had a lovely time shopping for Alan’s b’day present wrapping after my standard morning’s shots. Got a haircut (contrary to photo, I don’t plan on gelling it into a faux-hawk regularly), Lunched at Ledo’s, but I think the stop off at *$ for a little coffee drink took gave BHK a bit of sourbelly, so we headed home, napped and listened to the gumball-sized hail fall unexpectedly from the sky. (There were also tornado warnings, but no sign of that.)

The weather eased while we waited for the in-laws to get ready for the party… we were aiming for a launch time of about 5pm, and we left circa 6:40. Fortunately, we took Chris’s eternal case of time dilation into account, so we got there only about 10 minutes late.

Alan’s party was nice – quite a diverse group of people there, drunks and non-drunks – I finally got to meet JC and Mamacita, but Mamacita didn’t bring her Chihuahua with – maybe next time. I’d say the little house had about 50 people in it at prime time – they hired a doorman, bartender, and a few waiters – but it was a truly casual and pleasant outing… not a lot of seating, but standing wasn’t bad, thanks to my epidural earlier in the week.

He didn’t open his goodies – his true b’day is Sunday… I imagine he’ll like the blooming tea.

Tina and Matt were there – looks like Matt’s losing some weight – Good for him!


Interesting stuff. -(to me, anyhow) Built-in command line windows security tools.


RIP – Bill Elder.


for a quick minute of fun – played in browser. –Robokill.


1 year ago – mortgage, topology, newtcam2, condo issues, firefly and mosquitoes are out, linkdump

2 years ago – may ends, dr octagon, mad now unfunny in color, key west flare vigilante, fragged with bro, blood / allergy sticks, me as jeanbunny, mm flakes back

3 years ago – depth perception, bald oscars, intel drm chips, santana, nice monday, mp3 mashups (new locations here), pros and cons, Lost is Zork (even moreso with the green monitor), connections to people, fish heads, chipmunk stripes

4 years ago – Memorial day, hell in miniature, new mouse, zombie, quiet day, little house

5 years ago – comment screening, monty burns, ch-57, silly newt, matrix reloaded explanation

6 years ago – Prezzies and rain, springer, peanut butter soda, tempestmir introduces Newt to Newt. LRsetup program crashes out, sleeping Friday five

7 years ago – pervicacious, time changes, Mikey passes away, walkies, Hubris and Gnosis, heh yuh dun?, evil news

8 years ago – polytron, country musicGeotargetVisitor Map

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9298 – friday

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I need never hear the phrase “eyes like gimlets” or variant “gimlet-eyed” again. I like the word gimlet and all, but enough is enough.

Unrelated, I could go for some tasty quiche. Had some blah pad thai at Noodles & Co. in annapolis while we sought out Alan’s Birthday prezzie. It didn’t do much for me, but the cookies and cream milkshake en route home was quite good.


BHK reminded me of the Geister game… you can play it online at BrittspielWelt ! (If you see scottobear there, come say howdy!) If I can get BHK into the online version, maybe we’ll pick up (or make a home version of) the board game… plus… BrittspielWelt has a nice collection of Carcassone w/ expansions, not just Yucata‘s Hunters and Gatherers. (if you’re on yucata, say hi to scottobear there, too!)

Rules to ghost in comments – simple game – but fun.


Dreamt that Tigger taught Pye to smoke, and that he nearly burned down the in-laws house after getting too close to the gas fireplace.

Newton knows that kitties shouldn’t smoke! (And so does pip !)


“Hard knocks life” from Annie stuck in my head this morning, and throughout the day.

Just this part: (It’s all I know!)

It’s the hard-knock life for us!
It’s the hard-knock life for us!

‘Stead of treated,
We get tricked!

‘Stead of kisses,
We get kicked!

It’s the hard-knock life!

 Got no folks to speak of so,
It’s the hard-knock row we hoe!

Cotton blankets,
‘Steada wool!

Empty Bellies
‘Steada full!

It’s the hard-knock life!


Don’t know why.. my life is pretty keen, and without want.


May the Great Gazoo rest in peace. Plus, Blazing Saddles and the CB show. Thanks for the fun, Harv. Now go do that voodoo that you do so well.


The international space station’s only toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost no place to go. NASA officials responded, “You should have thought of that before you left home.”


This is what happens when I don’t mash the strongly agree or strongly disagree buttons. I respond to a few things with “Well, it depends…”

You are a

Social Liberal
(60% permissive)

and an…

Economic Moderate
(43% permissive)

You are best described as a:
Centrist










Link: The Politics Test



1 year ago – hot in the courthouse, shaved ice, adam and jimmy’s graduation, more lj spam, move to own domain?

2 years ago – nice time with danny, rocker meme, mm call

3 years ago – memorial day, bhk fridge magnet pic, dr who

4 years ago – spotty notepad frenzy, mood theme editor fixed, General Tao’s tofu, My cam catches right before lights out, Newt-bt pic, Nose beeps, streams of thought, sleepy newt wallpaper (or why using arrow keys is hard with the boy on the desk)

5 years ago – google news, kev, easter island, barcode, got a lovely peek-in.

6 years ago – complaining about the weather, disappearing languages, palm piccies that need to be re-uploaded, smoke ring gun

7 years ago – hoi polloi, nice walk, memory stream, super chicken, ask me a question, ostriches

8 years ago – stream of thought re:Newt, Fritz & AprilGeotargetVisitor Map

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9297 – Thursday

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Adam’s grandfather is in a bad way – he was sent to the hospital last weekend, was looking better on Tuesday, not as good yesterday. I hope he hangs in there, and mends up… at his age and level of health, I suspect he may be about done.

Was a bit sick this morning – nervous about the epidural , maybe… or low blood sugar. No food after 8am, minimal sips of water if needed. Still pretty sore afterward, but I should feel a lot bette rni the next few days.

BHK made Thai for me last night – make my last meal before the fast a good one. Green Curry veggies over rice, with a side of tofu in peanut sauce. The lady knows what I like to eat. After the epidural, we got Mexican – it was good, but I couldn’t finish my plate. Leftovers lasted until about 9pm.


Why the kitties like the windowsill – .newtcamleep2.newtcam bird. Clicks embiggen, as always.

Side note – Newt and Pyecam were down part of the day last monday – ftp server was broken, but it booted back up once I let the provider know.


Creepypasta – are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on 4chan. (could be upsetting to some viewers / nsfw, etc – it is on encyclopedia dramatica and 4chan after all.)


"A team at the university of Pittsburgh has finally advanced a 2002 technology enough for use in prosthetic limbs, the targeted application all along. Training computer models to the firing patterns of the neurons in the parts of the brain that control motion, they are able to project the intentions of a monkey to a robotic arm, which follows the will of the animal. The sad thing about the articles is that the beauty of the mathematics used to create and train the models is totally ignored."


Coverage at the BBC – This of course brings significant hope to amputees and other other people with physical disabilities.
(Note that this research has been going on for quite some time.)


1 year ago – outline of the day in reverse, pictures, annapolis, iana, tasty food, gastric psa from BHK,

2 years ago – weather, doodles, network, nat’l drivers test, why can’t we be friends,

3 years ago – out and about with with Danny, pics, palm doodles, Lost season 2 trailer, web screenplay, classic story role – wayfarer, year of the monkey, fridge magnet piccies, work senora, kalpa

4 years ago – beekeeping, silly rainbow, day after tomorrow palm review, COH, Danny pic at sushi, D&B, feeling sickie, bro issues

5 years ago – ljmatch, checkup, wet out, bob hope 100, letter from Rachel, banning superman as a baby name, dr doom sued.

6 years ago – bookstore, Viking ships, braids, Underoos, bad Iran Barbie grammar,people watching, photogenic folks, brothel/church/bowling memory

7 years ago – – evil news, phaster search, music poll, first sighting of the man-monkeyin Delhi, The Gambler, meemee sent me a colored picture of bubbles, candid newt pic (one red eye, one green eye!), south of the border, story about my brother and myself when I was 8, space movies.

8 years ago – thankful for memorial dayGeotargetVisitor Map