The visual part of my brain wonders why a yellow sun in a blue sky doesn’t have green around it. The Logical side understands a bit about the atmosphere and diffuson, bu tthe visual side isn’t buying it.
Hot, fresh b’nanner pancakes is a great way to start the day. I need to get some blueberries for next time.
A Florida mall dispute ended Saturday night with the arrest of the Easter Bunny on battery charges.
Some pictures from yesterday bright and early –
New Dr. Who was ok.. I liked the semi-zombie goodness despite the weak ending, but I look more forward to next week’s episode… Werewolves and Queen Victoria!
Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society – Well, it makes as much sense as those Civil War guys.
Aw, phooey… Monday again, eh? Weekend evaporated like fog on a hot day. Had lunch with the Mom and her gang at Sweet Tomatoes, and came home to an overlong nap… Sunday was completely wiped off the map as a result. Danny tried to call me from the Atlanta arport, but both phones he was using were wrecked, microphone-wise. Good to know he made it in ok, however.
I’m not a big fan of recent SNL, but the video bits, and smigel’s tv funhouse animation segments still can shock and awe a bit. Last weekend’s “Disney Vault” bit was pretty awesomely horrid.
1 year ago – Homeless seen while on walkabout, mzk nearly shoots my eye out, Bo Rhap, Newt pics, mzk pic, robot doodle, lethal injections not painless?, tv interview
2 years ago – odd email, D’s bday/vanishment, manatee doodle, sammy’s sister syndicated, garlic, moon scarab
3 years ago – egg hunt stats
4 years ago – annoying day, doc trip, search terms
5 years ago – AJ’s Bday, Recording freakazoid, dsl, 
easter in SL2006
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
A quick snap of Easter in Second Life
The Sun is an easter egg for a day!
newtcam-action
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Newt having an “easter egg” hunt of sorts… chasing an egg-shaped ladybug toy around the house. Soccer-foot!
Actually, I take a little micro-umbrage at that, because the stories have him as resurrected, not just reanimated.
I’m not a terribly religious man, but I do enjoy the sentiment of the Franciscans.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Some of those can be a little difficult at times.
As an agnostic, I’m not looking for eternal life, but I do want to be a part of making the world better for everyone. Pardoning is something I especially still need to work on. The lure of personal justice and worse, vengeance is quite strong.
Very handy freeware list for windows. I’m especially fond of Windows powertoys allowing me ot put cleartype on my big old CRTs
I forgot to mention the shopping find of the day yesterday –
They also make BBq sauce, and it’s quite excellent, not ot mention the silly picture on the front. Apparently they’re a fairly local Florida company.
Hm. I’d really like to see what the actual parameters are for lj top 40.
My LJ is now at #8, but it bounces all over the place each update. It doesn’t seem to differentiate between individuals (like me), communities (like craftgrrl), or lj-specific journals (like news)
Continue reading 8302 – Would a zombie icon be inappropriate for Easter?
Dreamt that I was in Disney world chasing a shape-shifting Newton. Hippo, Crocodile, Puma, then Newt, depending on the tone of voice I was using to call to him, and what part of the magic kingdom we were in… mostly Haunted Mansion / Tiki Birds region. He seemed to stick with changing into other animals, but was always recognizable by me, somehow. I finally caught him at Pirates of the Caribbean, on the island with the impaled skeleton. (where the seagull is sitting).
Went with Danny out to Masamune, my first time there. The food was superb. I’d have to say the spicy tofu appetizer was the best I’ve ever had. I’ll be going back pretty frequently, I suspect. I also had a cucumber roll, salad and tempura veggies. It was nice to have about 5 hours with Danny for the first time in an age.. he picked me up at work, did some shopping (I got a new UPS battery at the Depot, and he got a DVD at Barnes & Noble -The Quest for Fire.
Outside was a weird security tower/siege machine looking gizmo.
It seats one inside, has a light flasher on top, wind gauge, speakers on all sides, and can be elevated to about four stories or so. it seats one, and has a nice air conditioning unit on top, a swell as very dark-tinted windows. I wonder what purpose it serves in the parking lot? Some sort event there later?
We got to catch up.. I’m glad things are going quite a bit better for him and Jan, for the most part.
Freaky, sinister seeming Easter tradition in Spain – processions in classic pre-inquisition Christian garb.
Too bad we don’t do this here, but I suppose some folks would confuse ’em for Klansmen.
The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
-T.S. Eliot
Spent some time with Tina and her crew over at Murphy’s. She was showing off her new car, and is probably going to quit Murph’s and just stay with her day gig, now that the car’s bought.
Getting together with Danny after work… still don’t know what we’re doing. I’m fairly surprised he’s not going to some sort of services.
Here are some friends who invite you into their [web] homes to enjoy records with them. Let’s go for a visit! These recordings are typically old rarities that have not been reissued on CD format.
Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – Mp3 via basichip
I’m starting to agree about the Free music overload!
Newt was shown in yesterdays Zefrank video news post. Sadly, Zefrank says that animals aren’t allowed in any known League of Awesomeness. It seems I must submit a power move of my own, and thenget Newton into the league’s good graces later.
Maybe I should show my eyestalk yoink power move!
Yes, no, I, this is
Got together with Kat and Graypumpkin yesterday at lunch. Nice time was had lunch of bagel sammiches and I got gifties of Issues 4 & 5 of The Thing Comic, 1, 2, and 3 of the grant morrison superman comic, and a cool squishy toy.. an awesome replacement for blinky. It was nice visiting with ’em… It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen ’em. ’94, I think. We spoke about the usual.. fmaily, firneds, comics, livejournal, sushi, the appropriateness of naming a flower shop “adam and eve” -quoth kat “I’d like some apple blossoms, please!”, the danger of shrimp trucks.
Squishy octopus is pretty awesome, and he looks more durable than Blinky – hidden inside his swirling, glittery maw, are the two ultimate yin yang of good/evil of the deep… a great white shark and bottle nose dolphin, eternally battling inside the octocosm.
Squished – blue fluid with glitter in mouth.
Dolphin inside!
Shark inside!
I didn’t give ’em the Dr. Who dvd, because I didn’t know we were doing lunch until mid-morning. If I was a cool guy, I’d drop it in the mail for them to come home to… or I can try and ge tthe first ep of th enew season on Sat, first.
If I wasn’t a dolt, I’d have taken pictures but I was too busy enjoying their company to remember my camera. Tomorrow they’re off ot tampa, and I doubt I’ll ge tot visit again before they head back to the lone star state. I look forward to seeing them again sometime soon.
Kudos to Mandy on her first day at the Chem lab!
Kev took a job doing programming as a civilian for the DoD at Gitmo. (The same place Hav used to do his gig.) Sounds like a sweet deal.. they’re training him, giving security clearance, paying for his lodging.. (everything but food and phone) great pay too.. only downside is, well.. it’s Cuba. He’ll get time off and such, but he can’t bring the puppies or kitties with him, either. (That’d be a deal breaker for me).. It’s about a 2 hour flight from here, so returning won’t be much of an issue on holiday. (about a month off every year).
I’m really happy for him.. he’s finally doing something worthwhile, well-paying, and for a boss he respects. I suspect he’ll really flourish there. He’s heading out there ein June, so we’ve got to have a few “fart parties” before he’s off to points south. I really would love for him to tell the pilot “TAKE THIS PLANE TO CUBA!”, but that’s probably a bad first impression.
AB was fired yesterday – wasn’t cutting it. RP will be out new agent ni Michigan… I think she’ll do a good job. RI is off to Texas for a week, and I think we’ll all get things done. It’ll be nice to have a new tech outside of the state.
1 year ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards
2 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA
3 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.
4 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!
5 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up
GP and Kat are in Florida for the next week or so, arrived Saturday sometime. May get together with ’em either tonight or tomorrow, if the stars are right. (They have a very demanding schedule when in town, and understandably so… both sets of parents live down here, and they want ’em as much as they can get ’em.), got to talk to GP yesterday on the phone for a while, and it was a fine time – mentions were made of the insanity of genius, and how people can breed for a longer period now, and family politics. (The youngest child will be the baby, even if they have children of their own. Interesting that both GP and Kat are both last-borns to older parents. My Folks had me when my dad was 23, and Mom was 21.)
(Though it seems other vacationers are Killer bees)
Wonderful rain today… classic Florida big drops in wind that causes it to fall at about a 45 degree angle. I’m glad my porch has enough of a roof overhang to stop things from getting soaked… nice to sit out there, soak up the ozone smell from the thunderstorm, and just soak up the sights and sounds around me. Not a bad time to do laundry… made everything smell sort of rainy-fresh that was hung up out back, though it took forever to dry.
Finally finished re-downloading Dr. Who 2005 season and the Christmas special; Burned the dvd. Hopefully, I’ll remember to hand them off to GP and Kat. (and another set to Danny when I see him next week). They look even better in High Def.
Next series, HBO’s Rome. I need to get that to a few people on my reading list.
More free fonts to fill up your computer with!
I’m kind of partial to ogrejuice and Deanna.
Perversely fascinating. Bad Talk radio.. mostly folks trying to update from the road. Some folks a little drunk… it’s fun to her folks monologue in varying degrees of skill. Surprisingly, nobody singing. odd – some seem to be from quite a while ago… I guess it’s based on when the journal was scraped. random dates from a week ago to two months ago. Spiffy to see user names in my mp3 player… gives me misc journals to eyeball if they seem interesting. via brad’s journal
Listen to public LiveJournal voice posts, non-stop:
http://radio.bradfitz.com/ljcalls.m
Enjoy, while it lasts. Brad may take it down if it takes up too much bandwidth.
This is not an official LiveJournal feature (yet?). This is all done on my brad’s server, using public data,
as anybody else could.
Well, I’m running late.. suffice to say it’s a nice 60’s-ish electro-organ/harmony groovy/haunting sort of song. It’s a good walkabout tune, especially when on one’s own.
Changed the layout and color scheme of my journal a little bit while Fatima cleaned house for me. Looks like Rosemary’s branching out, and Fatima will be the new cleaner-upper.
Shot for some earth tones and greens, but I don’ t know if I’ll stick with ’em yet.
Looks like some serious rain today… minimal walkies, then.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
KittenAuth Test – best human vs bot security ever. (via waxy)
KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals.
The current 9*9 design displays 9 pictures and requires that the user clicks 3 pictures of kittens. The location of the kittens in the grid is random and to make things more fun the contents of the pictures changes too.
What to do? Where to go?
Maybe a trip south to Miami? North to Palm Beach? Just Stay home and do laundry, fool on the internet and play with Baron von Newtonstien?
A few basic appointments today… Cleaning lady, Newt’s Checkup, but after 1 or so, I should be free. I have wanderlust, but no urge to do any actual walking. Perhaps a bike ride is in order. I’ll have it worked out by the time Rosemary leaves.
Whoops, Cleaning lady’s going to be here soon, time for me to fix up a bit beforeI head to the porch.
Time for me to vamoose. Until later, dear Journal!
1 year ago – golf day, audio entry, ransom notes, Stuffed animal seven, google maps silliness, 3-coffin pope burial, pirates and fonts!
2 years ago – Religious notes, Super Mommy and Evil robo-lights, Manatee Escaped Tracking , Nevada, and stupid CS
3 years ago – Rachel, dreads, easter
4 years ago – Rick comments about QaF, Happy to come home, yahoo dilemma, elephants, sleeping in airports, singing Eugene, virtual om
5 years ago – back talk, Dan’s spring break, got a grove gig!, beautiful world
