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8251 – There’s some snakes, and they’re on a plane.

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View the Trailer for

SNAKES ON A PLANE!

here – http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane.

Four jobs I’ve had:

Taco Viva Cook
City Library Cataloguer / Page
Bouncer
Child Advocate

Four movies I can watch over and over:

The Thin Man
Time Bandits
Planet of the Apes (old school)
12 monkeys

Four places I have lived:

Boston, MA
Alexandria, VA
Marathon Key, FL
Bangor, ME

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Red Dwarf
Kim Possible
Mythbusters
Mst3k

Four places I have been on vacation:

Yucatan, Mexico
The Hospital (for my Back Surgery)
Walt Disney World
Bremen, Germany

Four of my favorite dishes:

General Tso’s Tofu
Cinnamon Life Cereal
French Toast
Riblets

Four websites I visit daily:

Livejournal
WebMail
Google.com
Yahoo.com

Four places I would rather be right now:

Home in bed.
soaking in a whirlpool
getting a backrub
playing with Newtski
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8248 – Thursday, is it?

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Ramma-frazzin’ ding dang gig. I had to bail on the dinner party last night because of last minute tech issues. I felt like a heel cutting out 5 hours before the scheduled time, especially since I was looking so forward to the get-together. There’s another one next Wednesday… I’m going to do everything I can to make it.

The Grampa poll yesterday yielded some very nifty results and replies!

Tonight I go over to RS’s place and set the computer up so Gabe can burn himself some music safely (on top of making sure RS’s machine is up to snuff for the rest of the office’s duties.)

Friday, I’ll see Mom and Wilton off for their trip to Brazil for a week. I’ll be on call again, so they’ll have to swing by my place, but that works… We’ll do Chinese food to ring in St. Patty’s.

LONDON (Reuters) – Bats, whales and dolphins use it to communicate. Baby rodents call their mothers with it and now a rare Chinese frog has shown it can hear and respond to ultrasounds, scientists said on Wednesday. Continue reading 8248 – Thursday, is it? →

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8246 – Ides of March. It feels like it!

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Oh, gross. Papa John’s pizza newest ad campaign is a reworking of the Go-Go’s… singing “We got the Meat”.

There are far too many ways of misconstruing that.

Dinner Party with WM tonight! Stuffed Shells and Vino! Somebody advise me on a wine to bring, please.

Moment of Lyric: mp3

This is the central scrutinizer…
Joe has just worked himself into an imaginary frenzy during the fade- out of his imaginary song
he begins to feel depressed now.
he knows the end is near.
he realized at last that imaginary guitar notes and imaginary vocals exist only in the imagination of the imaginer
and ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway?
so…so…excuse me…so
who gives a fuck anyway?
so he goes back to his ugly little room and quietly dreams his last imaginary guitar solo

Isaac Hayes quits South Park

“This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology,” Stone told the Associated Press. “He has no problem – and he’s cashed plenty of checks – with our show making fun of Christians.”

Well, yeah… not to mention Jews, Mormons, Atheists, Rednecks, Santa and who knows what else. Funny how he bailed once they picked on his team.

Spent some time in 2nd Life yesterday.. got to meet big brain’s analogue, bought some dragonfly wings, and had fun visiting kitten and rafe with herm.

bigbrain2

bigbrain1

Big Brain’s eyes follow you wherever you go. He’s got a blond on his mind.

You’re 40% Irish

You’re probably less Irish than you think you are…
But you’re still more Irish than most.

1 year ago – free flow, dreams and fragments, night stalker, zombie test, batman new times, pete & pete, cadavers away!, wedgie, autodialer, magnet phrases, beheading, I used to believe…, adp off call, mootpoint praise

2 years ago – strip mall of sin pics, doug made it to Seattle

3 years ago – French toast origin… not invented by “Mr. French”, bus piccies, name game, movies with Dan, pelican poem

4 years ago – grand conversation, love quiz, a good Friday five, odd news, miss Cleo born in LA, of American parents, crossword stuff

5 years ago – first hint of the scooby movie, good vs bad stuff about the day, gnomes on snailback

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8245 – word of the day

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mulligrubs (MUL-i-grubz) noun

   1. Grumpiness; colic; low spirits.

   2. An ill-tempered person.

[From mulliegrums, apparently from megrims (low spirits).]

“I got the dismals. Not exactly the dumps or mulligrubs, more like moody and uncertain, as when you don’t know what’s going to happen next.”
Fred Schmidt; Middle East Thing Puts Chill on Festivities; San Antonio Express-News (Texas); Dec 30, 1990Geotarget

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8244 – Sexual offender myths

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From – CSOM

Myths and Facts About Sex Offenders

There are many misconceptions about sexual offenses, sexual offense victims, and sex offenders in our society. Much has been learned about these behaviors and populations in the past decade and this information is being used to develop more effective criminal justice interventions throughout the country. This document serves to inform citizens, policy makers, and practitioners about sex offenders and their victims, addressing the facts that underlie common assumptions both true and false in this rapidly evolving field.

Some particularly informative ones – Continue reading 8244 – Sexual offender myths →

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8243 – mi*

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Was dragging a bit yesterday, I practically fell asleep during apheresis. Workplace has been quite hectic, and some storm cloud vibes, as well. I’m hoping it’s just the fund raising aspect, but a lot of showing of tooth and claw recently. RS has the right idea about working from home. (I doubt she’ll ever come back to the office full time, after moving to the home-office idea.)

Mostly played with Newt and chitty-chatted last night… not a bad way to unwind after a long day. Quite nice, actually.

Leftover palm doodle that time forgot -(from Octoberish, post hurricane)

cooperate
Heaven knows I could use some now!

Set up wifi hot sync on my new pooter. works well. (thus the doodle)

Abram, the Safety Ape!

1 year ago – hello tomorrow, Robots movie, found art pictures, alligator sounds /swamp witch, silly putty, pi day, IR webcam hack, free fonts, tally hall, ashes scattered, polar bears, open records, memory meme

2 years ago – subpages broken, Shazam!, Dead Like Me, CS sucks as a tech, vamp game

3 years ago – walkabout pics, lovieness, got unreal server hopping

4 years ago – thoughts of my sweetheart again! Roman tub, dreams of owning a pet grooming store, insurance woes, and palm doodles

5 years ago – Happy b’day kundalinidreams (no longer ljing), Dkmfkmkglklkgbkvbkbv,looking for a job as demagogue…(I’ll still take it, if anyone’swanting), happy unbirthday to me, uck!, edit this page (now dead), aprivate post to my sweetheart alone, a timeline of Scotto history,veggie lo mein, muppet trivia, and Rolf singing you and I and GeorgeGeotarget

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8242 – Walkies on Sunday.

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Walkabout on Sunday was good, I got more color, but think I dodged the burn bullet again. The ball cap let my nose still get a little red, however.

I walked to Mizner Park, just to check out the place, and it’s fared for the worse. I used to live behind there, and liked it a lot… but now, there are no bookstores.. (liberties is gone!), the international museum of cartoon art has been gutted, and the two cool wacky-weirdo art stores have been absorbed by other type stuff. bleh.

I’d hoped to go to my old hangout, Beany’s, for a veggie-cheese sammich with the vinaigrette that I love so well… but sadly, it was closed, but just for Sundays.

I abandoned Boca’s blandness, and retreated to the bus stop (I was too bushed to walk for a bit), and rode back to Hillsboro… and then crossed over to the 94 and hit the Deerfield mall. I stopped off for a breather at the movies… caught “The Hills Have Eyes” and was surprised. It was better than I thought. (Make no mistake, it is about mutants killing people trapped in an out-of-the-way location, but it was done well for what it was.) Afterward, I stopped off at EB and picked up a copy of counterstrike:source on sale. I’m looking forward to playing multi with hav and kev once I polish my skills a bit.

Roaming area, (note, some was done by bus. I walked about another 8 miles.)

I made a lot of use of autostitch today, clicking on the pictures makes them larger, as usual.

Pictures from walkabout – I saw unicorns and turtles and dolphins and killer mutants

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8240 – On justice and on friendship, there is no price, but there are established credit limits.

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Walkabout was fun, but uneventful. I wore a ball cap this time, and it’s a good thing… my arms are a lot darker than when I left. I put in just under 10 miles of footwork yesterday, and slept quite well as a result.

Visited another different Thai place nearby for lunch… man, the food was awesome. Bamboo shoot salad served with lime juice, chiles, mint leaves, rice powder and cabbage. Yum woon sen – clear bean thread noodles with browned tofu, chile paste, onions, mushrooms, lemon grass and mint. Tom kah soup – a spicy coconut soy milk concoction with lemon grass, lime leaves and other spices. It was all totally vegan, too! Not one hint of critter in there.

I think that once I confirm my techs are switched over, I’ll do some more walkies as well, and hit that Dali exhibit… maybe take myself out for sushi (or as bhk likes to call it, @). [edit – whoops! the museum is closed on Sunday]

DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone

*very* handy little resource… simplifies MS Access or SQL for the average web app nicely.

Speaking of which, I put OpenOffice on my new pc, and had forgotten how keen it is, compared to MS Office. Open Source, all the features, none of the bloat. Win-win. It’s a total MS Office replacement, now that BASE is in there.

the human ton and handy

“Yeah..even now she sulks like Achilles in his tent. Achilles?…It’s the Iliad?…It’s Homer?… Read a book!”

Had a moment of feeling a bit like Handy there yesterday. People get very touchy when opinions differ…. The other side got pretty wound up to the point of hostility and hyper-defensiveness over something amazingly trivial, (a difference of opinion – I feel that Micheal Crichton is an anti-science hack writer, who ends stories with explosions rather than more satisfactory conclusions — She thought “he is awesome”.) and it really could only be settled by having a detente called. I have to make a point of just walking away at the first sign of pointlessness. I can agree to disagree, especially with someone I don’t have to see every day. I’m glad that nonsense is over now.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch: 9
Quality Time: 9
Words of Affirmation: 6
Acts of Service: 5
Receiving Gifts: 1

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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Moment of Lyric – mp3

There’s a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins

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8238 – Word of the Day

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crapulous KRAP-yuh-lus, adjective:

1. Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach.

2. Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old [1]reprobate.

These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows.
— T. Coraghessan Boyle, [2]Riven Rock

The crapulous life which her future successor led.
— Lord Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III

The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
— Stephen McKenna, Sonia

Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache.

References

1. file://localhost/search?q=reprobate
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014027166X/lexico

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=crapulous