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8550 – this sammich tastes funny

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The Rapture Index – The prophetic speedometer of end-time activity

I wonder what part “banner ads” have in the movement to the end times? We’re currently at 155?

Lovely, giggly day yesterday. Tracheotomy Pooh-bear and stories of “Sleeping Booty” made it dash by.

Michael Jantzen’s Wind Pavilion is a nice facelift to the rotating apartments concept that debuted in Curitib, Brazil back in 2004. This particular version of the wind pavilion is proposed to be a lightweight structure primarily made of fabric to randomly rotate in the wind. Rotation would not only provide the building with an ever changing shape, but also electrical power to light the building. Michael proposes that the building could be made out of various materials and could take on many different functions such as an apartment complex.

Link to my Current listen – I created a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Station on Pandora. Have a listen if you like, dear journal. (Here’s my regular listen)

App-Stick – Directory of Free Portable Applications for Your USB Memory Stick

Family pictures from 25+ years ago

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8549 – Sunday fundaY

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Lovely lazy wakeup morning… slacked and relaxed.

The crook who grew up to be a shoe

Big Nose George Parrot, the only man in American history to be turned into a pair of shoes.

After watching the first season of the Shield… weird that they didn’t work with Vic getting shot much past the episode where it happened. they seem to get on top of most details like that interlocking.. he sort of just healed up and moved on.

Light-Emitting Shirts from Philips – very keen… I could see this as being quite entertaining, with the right applications. combine this with some sort of transponder of gps technology, and your clothes or nearby furniture/curtains could give information like arrows directing you to a certain location, or color-coded type reference tabs for people… It’d be kind of neat to have a glowing digital clock or scrolling message/logo on a t-shirt, too. Maybe link it up to wifi and rss to read updated journals each refresh? Pretty handy for cycling at night, too… complete with illuminated turn signals or goodyear blimp type ads, probably.

Press Release

A strange black cat on your porch brings prosperity. – Scottish superstition

On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

Conclusion – The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ”radio location” (ie,GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example,[3]). The2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government,possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

1 year ago – schwag bag, tall scotto shadow pic, finished fdle year, weezle talk, burning life with hp, preference poll,

2 years ago – Bag Lady, EN passes, Diarists more prone to illness, WoW pics, Hurricane Ivan, “because he said so“, Puppy shoots man, KSC storm

3 years ago – RPC issue, Badger badger, baboon nose suitcase, RIAA sues a 12 year old, RI’s birthday, new opus strip.

4 years ago – Newt Play, vote day, traded some magic cards for heroclix/mage knight, lem-doodles, wobbly

5 years ago – got a lovely poem, found old family letters, cadmean victory, stayed home, assorted news, Anne Heche’s wacky interview, ‘mat event, observations

6 years ago – embarrassing fight club reference, everway, Chat ‘toon reviewGeotarget

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8548 – Beauty is only a light switch away.

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The Momster was pretty dang hep to the plans for October… she’s going to be in the region and will be able to come. I’ll be interested in seeing how Linda and Wilton get along with Chris and Larry. I’m elated that everyone is enthused and happy. I still have the urge to isolate some folks from others, just for sanity’s sake, but I know I love ’em all.

Testing out geotagged photos in flickr – seems to work ok.

Went to a Animal-health benefit at a comedy club in Boca last night. 2 local comics, a b-lister and an “a-lister”. Locals were cute, but too much unfunny ethnic humor that “I’m half black and half Korean… I keep robbing my own dry cleaning store”, b-lister was a lot more fun (I’ll have to look up his name again, but he did some clever bits that had a nice combination of shock value & cerebral), and the a-lister (Artie Fletcher) was just totally lame.

Note to comics – If the crowd has a big percentage of the crunchy granola / vegan / animal lovers, doing jokes about abusing your dog or Steve Irwin dying is probably a bad idea.

I’m making it sound worse than it was. I had a nice time with GG, and her buddies Heather and Lisa over a couple of baskets of fries (I had diet cokes, and they were drinking apple martini-type stuff) We got there at 8ish, expecting to be late, because the card said that they started at 7:30, but I’d say the first comic came up at about 9pm, and the whole thing ended at about 10:30.

Something a little odd – I bought raffle tickets, but didn’t win any of the critter baskets (there was a cat one that’d have been a Newton-nirvana), or any of the other loot… however a friendly person gave me a book on “Whistle blowers book of 1001 secrets: consumer news you can use” – It’s published locally – Pompano Beach, FL – copyright 1999, so who knows how accurate the stuff in it might be these days. Seems pretty entertaining.. a bunch of little one-paragraph entries on things like credit-card fraud, energy-saver light bulbs or swordfish depletion. It seems to be put together by a member of the tinfoil cap crowd, but sometimes those guys have a little signal amongst the noise.

The Go game want to paying me $75 for a 3-hour (maximum) Event in Miami on Sept 13. They’re looking for other extras, so if you want to meet me in south beach at the mall for a few hours, let me know! Here’s a flash demo what things are like in the game.

Thanks for the initial go game tip, ldy !

The only downside is that 9/13 is a Wednesday, so I’d have to miss a few hours of work to do it.

1 year ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies

2 years ago – future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady

3 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day atwork, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2

4 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.

5 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things

6 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everwayGeotarget

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8547 – A scorpion is just a poisonous land-lobster

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Didn’t get sized at Argenti’s… they were closed at 6? Seemed a trifle early to me. I’m thinking some sort of holiday or the like caused a cutoff. Today is a new day… try #2!

I got a solid night’s rest… slept like the dead. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to remember my dreams – I tend to crash out exhausted. I’m hoping to play “snooze catch-up” this weekend.

Considering going on the heart walk tomorrow.

Moment of Lyric –
Also keen is this guy’s remixes of the Ernie Kovacs show.

Examples – We Will Rock you / Once In A Lifetime / Suspended In Gaffa /Play That Funky Music (found via )

1 year ago – vtm quiz, hole digging, checking out the condo, fake red cross, voice of vince, teachers, lost and found poll, 65 questions

2 years ago – Work power out, disco-hitler, Ivan, WoW, Chocolate 3-d printer, making fiends, America’s army, Giant strip-miner of dooom

3 years ago – Meredith moves out, Frankie mooch’s wank machine, saw Ray-I, Dubai-mail, some cool links

4 years ago – Got dave into mage knight, Saw Mark Archilla, 12 dragons smells of cat pee, I got some perfect pre-dyed sheets.

5 years ago – If I were, nice night, purple monkey dishwasher

6 years ago – rant and UB-XGeotarget

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8546 – Thor’s Day

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Moment of Lyric – Thanks jpse! Here’s the Mando Mafia version of Jojo the Cannibal Kid. They also do a keen version of All Along the Watchtower. (both are on the Get Up In The Cool album)

Feel free to compare to the original Lyrics posted there.

I’m not too fond of Chase’s character on House.

I’ve been working pretty hard lately… a lot of things on my plate. Work’s asking for a lot of things at once… I’m hoping it’s because folks are going away for a week, not because they expect it all done tomorrow. Updating three websites (designing two of them) editorial content on about a dozen or so pages and a lot of hardware fiddling.

Something’s on the wind about new hires at the office. Upgrades or replacements? Who can say? Scuttlebutt is that RS may be coming back full-time, too… I thought it’d take hammer and tongs to accomplish that. If it’s additional bodies, we’re going to need more room.

Note to self, get sized at Argenti’s After Work, and eyeball any tungsten stuff there.

1 year ago – First notice of SNAKES ON A PLANE, smokin’ with Newt and Firpo, morning pre-work report, interdictor shenanigans, ADP and RI duke it out, second life free

2 years ago – Broward PSA, hurricane doodles, freeware

3 years ago – Harvest moon, auto-cashiers, acim two-level split, lynching, cluster move, gender genie, newt-bounce

4 years ago – Sleestaks and Oatmeal, Sculpey and Fimo, Bewitched, cave photo, bad prefixes, dog snoods

5 years ago – lj drama regarding cheaters,lovely long chat where blackie burped, thescents of rose, lavender, gardenia, violette, and muguet (burts bees),Skeletor, Back in 1997, there was an exorcism performed on MotherTeresa, saints.

6 years ago – poopy day, Suzy, Walt Whitman, American Cannibals, Mush, interests, overheard, jail visitsGeotarget

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8545 – Ariella B

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Ariella B
Originally uploaded by michelle.sas.

I like people, they’re the ones who can’t stand
They’re the ones who can’t stand
I see smoke signals coming from them
They say “We are out of furniture”

Stand on your own head for a change
Give me some skin to call my own
Stand on your own head for a change
Give me some skin to call my own

You made my day, now you have to sleep in it
Now you have to sleep in it
I love the world and if I have to sue for custody, I will sue for custody

Stand on your own head for a change
Give me some skin to call my own
Stand on your own head for a change
Give me some skin to call my own
Stand on your own head
Stand on your own head for a change
Stand on your own head

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8544 – I’m not one of the Illuminati, nor am I a perfectionist.

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Venture brothers “fallen arches” was back on track. Nice to see Orph with his own team. Nice use of Ouroboros and the All-Seeing Eye as a logo, too.

Ah, explanation why that notification thing only worked for some people before.

James Good (the same guy that made this video) has more aerial photos taken with his RC airplane over Miami..shots from about 800 feet up, and stunning.

Voted Yesterday – these guys were who I was rooting for. Let’s hope most follow through, and only a bare minimum kick me in the pelotas. My emphasis was on pro-education, environment, minimal pork, and other typical Scotto-type stuff. The line was incredibly short at 6pm. I wonder about the turnout.

[edit- look here for results]

Note – Registered Voters as of 09/06/2006
Republican: 261,004
Democratic: 503,416
Other: 234,758
Total: 999,178

Ballots Cast: 113,205
Registered Voters: 997,174 (missing ~2000 voters?)

Governor
Rod Smith [lost]

US House of Representatives
Congressional District 17 – Kendrick Meek [??]

State Senate
District 30 – Ted Deutsch [??]
District 32 – Ben Graber [??]

County Court Judge – Brenda Lynn Di Loia
County Court Judge – Nicholas Lopane
County Court Judge – Arlene Simon Campione
County Court Judge – Robin Sobo Moselle
Circuit Court Judge – Kenneth D. Padowitz
Circuit Court Judge – John C. Ryson
Circuit Court Judge – Marina Garcia Wood

State House of Representatives
House District 93 – Alian Jean
House District 94 – Matt Meadows
House District 95 – Jim Waldman
House District 97 – Susan Goldstein
House District 99 – Elaine Schwartz
House District 105 – Henry Rose

School Board
District 1 – Carole Andrews
District 4 – Stephanie Kraft
District 6 – Marty Rubinstein
At-Large/District 8 – Jen Gottlieb

County Commission
District 2 – Kristin Jacobs
District 3 – Stacy Ritter
District 4 – Jim Scott
District 8 – Diana Wasserman-Rubin

Dear Lazyweb – Getting close to donation-time again, and I’m considering heifer.org againGeotarget

To Whom it may concern:

If you had $200 to donate to a charitable organization, who would you give it to, and why?

I’m always on the lookout for good, solid charities… ones that do good works with a minimum of skimming by executives off of the top. Any suggestions?

Found this on Forbes – America’s Most (And Least) Efficient Charities

Got to show the system to Aphrodite Jones today. A pleasant lady, seems very intelligent and together. Hopefully she’ll get an opportunity to push info along to powers that be for more facetime in the media.

I really dig her name.

1 year ago – stream of thought, arcade games, newt, tolerance, comics, Danny elfman, tv, newtcam pic, rome, gaming, sheep don’t you know the road, fema issues, bob denver RIP

2 years ago – hurricane home movie, happy to be home, pentagon crash snopes

3 years ago – annoying LL, death, IRC pix, gender genie, toys, sunset, rainy day

4 years ago – Crash Bonsai, sticky song poll

5 years ago – Hammer-Wheel, Beijing, Stephen Foster, Mystery men Hiring, soap hair

6 years ago – Suzy goes to the ClinkGeotarget

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8540 –

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They added a map tab to flickr. makes geotagging easy as drag and drop.

Lovely time seeing Pirates yesterday.. I think it could’ve been trimmed down to about 2/3 to 1/2 the time, though. Good mindless fun. Moonlight diner has very tasty cheese-fries, and the cherry-chocolate milkshakes are awesome, too. sugar shock!

After dindin, it was too wet to putt-putt, so we headed back to Britta’s house, and watched tv, chitty-chatted, and hung out until the wee hours. Lance was kind enough to give me a haul home, even after a bit of a communications error.

Out with Danny today to buy a rope swing and have a bite of lunch, and see what’s what.

Moment of Lyric –

I never thought I’d miss you
Half as much as I do
And I never thought I’d feel this way
The way I feel
About you
As soon as I wake up
Every night, every day
I know that it’s you I need
To take the blues away

It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love
Nothing more, nothing less
Love is the best

How can it be that we can
Say so much without words?
Bless you and bless me
Bless the bees
And the birds
I’ve got to be near you
Every night, every day
I couldn’t be happy
Any other way

It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love
Nothing more, nothing less
Love is the best

As soon as I wake up
Every night, every day
I know that it’s you I need
To take the blues away

It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love…
repeat

Words that make me laugh – Crampon, Kraken.

1 year ago – Katrina new orleans satmaps, on call again, cookies for genetic goodies, big rock candy mountain, elephant prosthesis

2 years ago – More Frances, Dan Snores, Newt Pics, observations.

3 years ago – neurologist, giant lizard in Beirut, grizzlies, Y-chromosome vanishing, work drama, Cathi’s dad gets’ trach, Egyptology, Ft. Laud ghosts, Scientology

4 years ago – freaky temple, edbook’s llamas, Bush behaves a bit, bad dream, Friendly street light.

5 years ago – contretemps , liverish, Rhinestone Cowboy, social lubrication, spiritual/paranormal/xenobiological poll (fascinating results), stopping b/w theft, Anne Heche a loony

6 years ago – No Norton, Supers Gaming, interests, met twinstar & estokesGeotarget

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8539 – yub nub

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Agenda – Lunchies, Pirate movie and puttputt with Tina and Co.

Time’s ticking, and there is so much to come in the world ahead. Manger scenes with skittles, Godzilla and baby-llama Jesus on the brain.

Moment of Lyric – mp3

Lyrics –

Ewok Version

Yub nub
eee chop yub nub
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g’noop dock fling oh ah
Yah wah
eee chop yah wah
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g’noop dock fling oh ah
Coatee chah tu yub nub
coatee chah tu yahwah
coatee chah tu glowah
allay loo ta nuv
Glowah
eee chop glowah
ya glowah pee chu nee foam
ah toot dee awe goon daa
Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coatee cha tu doo (Yahwah!)
coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!)
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv
Glowah
eee chop glowah
ya glowah pee chu nee foam
ah toot dee awe goon daa
Allay loo ta nuv

English Version

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8538 – recap and archives and ducks because it’s raining

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Danny and I went to see Accepted yesterday, and it was surprisingly entertaining for a movie of it’s ilk. Lewis Black has aged a lot since I saw him in concert in ’02. After, we went to thai food, and that was wonderfully delicious. Panang curried veggies, a cucumber salad and thai iced tea for me. yum a lum lum.

He was feeling not so great when we first started, but got to pretty good by the time we were done. I’m glad that it worked out. by 8pm, he was a sleepy boy, so we hit duncan doughnuts and got some coffee for his trip home, and called it a night.

Slow and lazy day today… Fatima cleaned up, I got to chitty chat on the phone, had a midday nap, read my book, snuggled with Newt, doing laundry now. Impersonated Liberace to someone over the phone to someone who thought my voice was sexy, previously.

Moment of Lyric –

1 year ago – holiday countdown, teensy manatees, npr podcasts, disney quiz, underdog, trammel , new orleans psa, “I Don’t Wanna See Anybody Give Any More Goddamn Press Conferences”

2 years ago – hurricane frances, CoH, sweet revenge, strange brew, superhero costumes, sequels, Syncretism, retreat to Danny’s, newtcam pic, second thoughts, twinkie sushi, evil genius, zim and gaimajin, DCL’s bday.(HAPPY B’day!)

3 years ago – nostalgia central, general upkeep, nice cej chatty

4 years ago – John Walker Lindh, Old Maid, debian, red flags, my tarot card, underdog

5 years ago – Reading location poll, start page, bat-music, Amazon dreams, JH Noir

6 years ago – Empathy Rating, me, and the bionic womanGeotarget

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8536 – An object at rest cannot be stopped!

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Netflix blessed me with the first season of The Tick. Good Background stuff to play while getting other bits and pieces in order. It seems a bit more simple and primitave than I remember, but still entertaining. The first Season is surely the best one, in my opinion.

“Pajama police” is a great wise guy name for costumed supers.

Getting together with Danny today, probably for just a gabfest and some sushi. Possibly Zoom? It’s gotten pretty bad reviews. We’ll probably grab another day this weekend, too… take advantage of the Labor Day weekend. Maybe some putt-putt with Tina and Co. too, if it’s still on. Walkabout would be nice, too – time, weather and health permitting.

At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal “avatar” appears in the projection.

1 year ago – Got fresh paid links, July 2002 Lumbee Entry (Active just 2 days ago!), Palm doodles, head photos and newt, foamy, Mind controlling death parasites, help Katrina critters,

2 years ago – dream cartoon linker, The Forgotten, sample email from a stranger,Mountain Dew: Pitch Black, First Grade, Reiger resigning as chief of DCF, Stream of thought alphabet

3 years ago – Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, Red Haired Barbarians, Aunt Jemima, $100K fart, esteem meme, dynamite magazine, Newt pic, flex points, cookie puss, annoying or not, bro stuff, blogshares, earthquakes, toontown, Frankie bugs me

4 years ago – heroclix, art fair, jellybath, skyscrapers (here’s my city’s), Ambient Findability, web hits, bike in the meter room

5 years ago – adultery, lj, rollercoaster

6 years ago – playing with html, long day at work, September b’days, Sacrifice to the Horned Goat, pesky work poop, coffee, bearded sadness, road trip, headacheGeotarget