1. Ate food that tastes bad
Bleagh!
2. Stubbed your toe
Nghhng.
3. Become frustrated
Son of a…!
4. Broken something
Uh-oh.
5. Been cut off by another driver
Been a while, when someone cuts off the bus I think “Rest in Peace, buddy”
1. Ate food that tastes bad
Bleagh!
2. Stubbed your toe
Nghhng.
3. Become frustrated
Son of a…!
4. Broken something
Uh-oh.
5. Been cut off by another driver
Been a while, when someone cuts off the bus I think “Rest in Peace, buddy”
Meeting with mom was interesting. We discussed bro and the new project she has with Wilton. Apparently, in her will, if she and Wilton go together, I am to be executor of the estate. That’s a lot of responsibility… bro’s share will go into a trust… he can use it for education, rehab or appropriate health expenses, but never will a dollar touch his hands, for fear that he’ll spend badly.
M&W’s company will be doing some work up in Sterling, VA (about 15 minutes from Dulles airport, or 40 min from DC) during the months of August through October, so I have a free crash spot should I want to visit points north during that time. Sally and Bill are up there, too… I can’t believe that she’s 61, and he’s 50, now. Have twenty-five years really passed that swiftly? I still remember Sally and Mom working at the salon, and my going to see Star Wars in the same plaza. Now, their kids are in the late 20s, too. I’d love to visit the old house, hit the smithsonian Air & Space museum, and visit some LJ-type folk.
I am officially one year cable-tv free. (though I cheat and snag a couple of shows via bittorrent.) Take that, comcast!
Moment of Lyric – mp3
O Fortuna,
velut Luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem;
egestatem,
potestatem,
dissolvit ut glaciem.
I am of a positive mindset in a melancholy time… got news of a quiet patch ahead, but I’m confident of things working out for the best in the long run. I hope that they’ll seem that way along the short and middle run, too.
In related news, I do believe that dreams can come true. I’ve seen it happen, and for that I’m happy. It continues to be a good week for dreams.
Lunching with mom after work, catching up on family business, and will generally gab. Remembered what was going on on Friday – maybe a get together with some old coworkers for a brew, maybe karaoke? Maybe not.. those things tend to evaporate. I want to visit with Kev again before he hits gitmo, too.
Blood donation and shots went well. I’m glad I’ve worked out a schedule where doing platelets is feasible.


Note to self, do not iron while sleepy… looks like I set the heat too high and treated a blend like cotton. Ah well, excuse to get a fresh shirt or two! I was more peeved that I had to iron *two* shirts, rather than carbon-scoring the first one. Better the shirt than me!
If I had posted only one entry day for each my 8384 entires… that’d be just about 23 years worth of journal posts. Yikes.
Second Life updated to 1.10.1 yesterday. No noticble change, though bug fixes:
* Improved avatar lighting to more closely match in ‘nearby lights’ and ‘sun/moon only’ modes
* Improved flexible attachment behavior while crossing a region boundary
Bro swung by work yesterday, looking for some coin “for gas”. He’s got his calendar call tomorrow, so we’ll see how that goes. He was looking much cleaner and in order than when he visited mom.
1 year ago – club cast of characters, roadside hummer politics, keyhole turns into google earth, fed plantains, raining heavily, narc law
2 years ago – boogieman, hurricane season begins, diseases database, map24’s awesome zoom, WAKAW!, Dan Tardy visit, piccies of fembots & crane boats, found sounds
3 years ago – MacGuffin, New TV (broken), There Shirts, hoverboarding
4 years ago – new 2nd monitor, tasty tea
5 years ago – anchorite, Iraq frog missile, my first sighting of that annoying java kill email that fooled Danny’s wife, evil news, poll about how you feel about people, banjo player joke, rave reviews of Zone alarm & commentary about spyware, coprolite, I hear the first story about Ornj’s fish Genocide & panda hut
6 years ago – Awakened too early, used to have an embedded real genius sound file![]()
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Via blond_not_blind
If I were a month, I’d be: October
If I were a day of the week, I’d be: Sunday
If I were a time of day, I’d be: Sunset
If I were a planet, I’d be: Jupiter
If I were a sea animal, I’d be: the thing that hunts and eats giant squid (a leviathan)
If I were a direction, I’d be: yonder
If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be: a big comfy couch
If I were a sin, I’d be: sloth
If I were a historical figure, I’d be: Scottobear:TIME TRAVELLER!
If I were a liquid, I’d be: fresh water from an underground spring.
If I were a tree, I’d be: a redwood
If I were a bird, I’d be: A great horned owl
If I were a tool, I’d be: a wedge
If I were a flower/plant, I’d be: kudzu
If I were a kind of weather, I’d be: misting rain on a gray day.
If I were a mythical creature, I’d be: a protective house-spirit
If I were a musical instrument, I’d be: a kettle drum
If I were an animal, I’d be: a bear.
If I were a color, I’d be: dark green
If I were an emotion, I’d be: love (philia)
If I were a vegetable, I’d be: a sweet onion
If I were a sound, I’d be: quiet rustle of tall grass in the wind
If I were an element, I’d be: earth (or surprise!)
If I were a car, I’d be: roomy, but run on a renewable resource, like corn oil
If I were a song, I’d be: Powerhouse (by Carl Stalling)
If I were a movie, I’d be: 12 Monkeys
If I were a book, I’d be: Dandilion Wine – Ray Bradbury
If I were a fruit, I’d be: banana
If I were a place, I’d be: shangri-la
If I were a material, I’d be: bakelite
If I were a taste, I’d be: delicious
If I were a scent, I’d be: sandalwood
If I were a religion, I’d be: Baha’i
If I were a word, I’d be: unpronouncable
If I were an object, I’d be: a clean, soft, warm blanket
If I were a body part, I’d be: the islets of langerhans
If I were a subject in school, I’d be: Science (general(
If I were a facial expression, I’d be: awe
If I were a manga/cartoon/anime/book/etc.. character, I’d be: Cliff Steele
If I were a shape, I’d be: 3-d abstract solid – more curves than angles.
Ran out of steam yesterday…worked late, and it sort of trimmed an hour and a half off my evening schedule… tucked in at about eleven, and though I was tied, it felt like it was only about 9:30.
Midweek. Next week, I have Monday off from the office, but will have to take call all day. Mixed blessing.
Contemplating good books to read aloud to another. The Hobbit is a good one, but recently read.
Reminds me of a quote… There are worse crimes than burning books – One of which is not reading them.
The Joker Laughs – Hooray For Mark Hamill!
1 year ago – Simple short film expressing life and death, first auto-post, bears, MP calls me, zombies, rapture, flip top box, cannibal, birthday meme, RIP Thurl Ravenscroft, 6 questions meme,
2 years ago – robo-scotto, LLAP-Goch, arms, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Fire Cracker Labels, freaky man-made island, bro
3 years ago – yale bombing, kiwano, doodle fizzles, D & I in There
4 years ago – dead picture trail links, bad dreams, re: pus jars, long weekend, train and bus smells, wondering what sci-fi geeks will watch with Buffy and x-files gone. Hm… I guess smallville is it? I don’t watch much regular TV, ikkyu poem, ARQuake.
5 years ago – blue rosebuds, gnomon, Herman the human mole, word association, evil news, scottsquatch returns, jelly jack, Joel gorilla.
6 years ago – my first user icon – ,Heather outs Alex as a cheater and a bisexual (remember kids, post something publicly on the net, and the world can see it, even people you know.)
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A- ka * B- zu * C- mi * D- te * E- ku * F- lu * G- ji * H- ri * I- ki * J-zu * K- me * L- ta * M- rin * N- to * O-mo * P- no * Q- ke * R- shi *S- ari * T-chi * U- do * V- ru * W-mei * X- na * Y- fu * Z- zi
What’s your ninja name?
Scotto – arimimochichimo
Scott von Berg – arimimochichi rumoto zukushiji
Newton – toku-meichimoto
If it’s Monday, I must have linkies.
Holy Cow. I just found out that the doctor form house was a character on the old Black Adder Series. Well, Hoorah! I didn’t realiseit was the same guy until his face melted off while breaking a girl’s finger. (Let’s see if I remember that episode a year from now)
Nice thoughts – Dreamt of a smoke colored cat named Ivy.
Evolution of Dance on Youtube… 6 minutes of fun wasted time.
Historical Sounds in MP3 Format Nifty to hear Albert Einstein and Tomas Edison’s Actual voices. Ghandi’s voice is very unusual. Some oddball choices in there, like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”, too.
An adventure is misery and discomfort relived in the safety of reminiscence – Marco Polo.
That’s how I’ll sound with a mouthful of crabs. (Not quite as catchy as the Dugong Song.)
Moment of Lyric – mp3 (see also the mp3 ukelele version- via)
Load up on guns
Bring your friends
Its fun to lose
And to pretend
Shes overboard
Myself assured
I know I know
A dirty word
Hello (x 16)
With the lights out its less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yeah
Nice time out with mental_circles and an assortment of other lj-folks – Was surprised to see grrwoo there (I hadn’t seen him since ldy last in town, a couple of years ago), not as surprised to see sammystudio, and met some keen new folks in newbabel (Frank), _chandra (Chandra), home_grown_cl (Carol Lynn) and hedache (Baruk). Light convo and dumb jokes abounded over at the kids side of the table, good cheer was had by all – surprisingly little drama considering the diversity of lj-folks. A guitarist playing 70’s hits was faint but pleasant background noise. There were three tardy arrivals, whose names are eluding me now, in the haze of the morning light. They were cool, too, but on the other side of the table’s horizon, so regular convo with them was more difficult. Anyhow, I had a nice time at the “kids table”. Tina’s haircut is much cuter in person.
I’ll post pics later on, when I can be bothered to get up and go to the other room to get the camera. [edit:added.]
Saw Ray I. out in the parking lot at work yesterday. He seems to be doing well, looks healthy and has been married 4 years now. It seems he’ splaying D&D online regularly.
Is it wrong of me to be in support of Robbie Rotten on Lazytown?
I want to be a lazy scout. (At Least today.)
Moment of Lyric – mp3
I really like the song mostly just for the yeah yeahs and the riffs, but here’ the lyrics, anyhow.
If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we’d really do…
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you’d really do
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta – a small application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it’s ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista.
see also:
Let’s say you change the password very often on your Windows XP admi naccount from your home computer and you suddenly realize you don’t remember the password. What do you do? No, you don’t reinstall WindowsXP and you don’t format your hard-disk. You download Offline NT password & Registry editor,create a bootable floppy or CD, boot from the floppy / CD and start the utility. You can reset the password of any user that has a local account on your system.
This tip works for NT operating system: Windows NT4, 2000, XP and 2003.
Another play Hollywood movie trailer, called 10 Things I Hate About Commandments. — a comedy 3,000 years in the making.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs
Maybe visiting with mental_circles and other nifty folk to celebrate her b’day by having Mexican food and good cheer.
Possibly going to Fairchild today to smell a stinky, but lovely tuber. Not sure if I want to drop $20 to smell rotting meat, but how often does one get to see something like that? This year’s bloom is currently at 7’1″ / 100lbs.
1 year ago – Star Wars With Kev & Bheesham, Apophenia, vega, posting distro, newt and Orangeade pic
2 years ago – friendly gator banished, bro moving, spymac, ephemerist, oddtodd’s gig
3 years ago – monkey-shakespeare, 5-things meme, military waste, ad shield
4 years ago – good walkies, missv goodies (need to reupload pic of newt in his cloth), piggy database
5 years ago – fun tv, lambaste, 9-to-5, Hawaiian love, tv part poll, astley issues, cool orange cats, clutch, gun quote![]()
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Happy 6th birthday, dear journal!
Went Clothes shopping yesterday, and got some pretty snazzy duds (if I do say so m’self), most notable was a fresh pair of walking sneakers, and some boxer-briefs. I’ve never had this type of strange hybrid undies before, and so far, they’re quite comfy. Not sure if I prefer ’em to regular boxers, yet.
Much like that first entry, I don’t have much to say, at the moment. I’m dashing out the door, and running wicked late. More ot follow this evening, I imagine.
Have a wonderful day, dear journal.
Pretty proud of the company’s track record the last week or so… we went from 143 to 151 successful recoveries over the course of 7 days. That kind of bog of paperwork, I can cope with.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
I certainly haven’t been shopping for any new shoes
And I certainly haven’t been spreading myself around
I still only travel by foot and by foot it’s a slow climb
But I’m good at being uncomfortable so I can’t stop changing all the time
I noticed that my opponent is always on the go
And won’t go slow so as not to focus and I notice
He’ll hitch a ride with any guide as long as they go fast from whence he came
But he’s no good at being uncomfortable so he can’t stop staying exactly the
same
If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can’t help it the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me or treat me mean
I’ll make the most of it I’m an extraordinary machine
Feeling lazy, but going to work. Dang ethic!
I’ve got tentative plans to have MM over to my place on the 4th of July weekend! I need to plan out some fun Florida host-type activites…. see who’ll be at Revolution and maybe a day trip to Vizcaya/Art/Science Museums. Metrozoo? Monkeys?
It’ll be nice.. first time I’ve had a houseguest at the new place, and I’m very excited!
Bro going to court in June over shoplifting charges. *cough* DUMBASS *cough* A flashlight from office depot.
Ugly day at work yesterday, punctuated by warm flashes of light and comfort from points outside. Those flashes resolved into a soft, soothing ambient light after I got home, and spent time with those I truly care for. Sooth from beings four-footed and two. One work call came in, but aside from that, the night was calm and most reasonable.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Predator Panic: Reality Check on Sex Offenders
If you believe the near-daily news stories, sexual predators lurk everywhere: in parks, at schools, in the malls—even in teens’ computers. A few rare (but high-profile) incidents have spawned an unprecedented slate of new laws enacted in response to the public’s fear. Continue reading 8359 – Clipped for future ref
Had to take call part of Sunday night.. threw my Monday schedule totally out of whack. Lots of work needed doing, and I got the bulk of it done… mostly sweep-up today, with paperwork, I expect.

Tar cart detail… the wheel and everything is totally coated. stinky, smoky, icky stuff. IT’ll keep me and my stuff dry come the next hurricane.
Hail weather.. 20 minutes prior, there were clear skies, and sunshine. I was fortunate to get a lift home, rather than trudging through that to the bus stop.
Power Records Plaza – provides the book and record version of the Justice League theme. Ouch. I still sort of dig Metamorpho’s though.

Major General Horatio Gordon Robley’s ethnographic book Maori Tattooing has been the standard reference on Moko, or the Maori art of face and body tattooing, ever since it was published in 1896. Dover recently reprinted it. The above photograph of Major General Robley with his collection of tattooed Maoria heads comes from Medicine Man,a gorgeous book about Henry Wellcome’s museum of curios
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Here we are stuck by this river
You and I underneath a sky
That’s ever falling down down down
Ever falling down
Through the day as if on an ocean
Waiting here always failing to remember
Why we came came came
I wonder why we came
You talk to me as if from a distance
And I reply with impressions chosen
From another time time time
From another time.
1 year ago – Got some mojo and a Date with Magda Planned, gummi smurfs, stunt city, free Dr Who books (legit), YNOT DOSE info
2 years ago – fortune cookie, GP phone call, GR still reporting, L.A. Story, martial arts monkey, aeroplayer, poetry, McKay vouchers suck
3 years ago – Language Police, Eclipse, Net-poop, bro gig
4 years ago – I get a love note, mysteries of directional detection, yoda cool, sun & moon, day & night
5 years ago – dev writing, pastiche, Randy Travis![]()
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