Bangs! Thank you, Eryx_uk, for the Axis and Allies Starter set! What a great b’day prezzie! It looked like the postman was playing football with the USPS box, but the contents inside made it without a hitch! Most awesome. I bet Danny’ll have a good time playing counter to me, as well. It’ll have a place of honor next to Zombies!!, Mage Knight and Heroclix.
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8233 – A return to the land I once knew
New brain came! Everything looks pretty marvy, except that they forgot to send the external 160 gig drive. Calling them today to find out about that. Frankenbox can go back to rest… but I may leave him alive to act as a newtcam server.
Second life was smooth as silk, and not a reboot in sight, save for system updates.
Having a fresh system is nice… boots up super-quick,and loads of room to maneuver.
Comp usa is also still lagging about getting the backup of my system back to me. I may just torrent the lost / rome, etc shows over again.
Cordless keyboard and mouse are keen, but I fear power outage when I least expect it.
Sunburn, part two has begun. Operation snakeskin.
Man faces jail time for selling crack
A City of Poughkeepsie man faces a stint in jail for dealing crack in the city last year.
Landocalrissan Butler, 25, of Winnikee Avenue, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in Dutchess County Court to attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. Butler told Judge Thomas J. Dolan he had five small bags of crack in his pocket Dec. 22 when police arrested him on Morgan Avenue. He said he intended to sell the drugs.
In exchange for his plea, Butler was promised a sentence of six months in jail and five years on probation. He will also be required to forfeit a cell phone and $432 police said he obtained through illegal drug sales.
Butler remains jailed pending his sentencing, scheduled for April 4.
Moment of Lyric (mp3)
8232 – note to self – Saturday walkabout?
WHAT: “Dalí on Tour” (art exhibition)
WHEN: now through May 20 (click here for museum hours)
WHERE: Coral Springs Museum of Art (NW Broward)
WALLET: cheap ($3?)
WEB:
– Coral Springs Museum of Art – home page
– Coral Springs Museum of Art – current exhibit page
“An exhibition from the Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida and a Collector’s Exhibition of Dali prints, lithographs, etchings and sculptures curated by Jerry Bengis“
8231 –
Current Music – mp3
Thanks, firpo!
Answers to yesterday’s test.
1. The word “snausages!” said the proper way will make me bust a gut laughing. *FIB*
Though, it can make me chuckle. The old commercial of the dog poking his head out, exclaiming “SNAUSAGES!” can make me laugh, albeit briefly.
2. One of best high school friends was killed by a blow to the head from an iron frying pan, as a result of a car accident.
Brent Ashland. Coming back from a camping trip, freak accident. pulled up short behind another driver, slammed on his brakes, and the skillet brained him. That was that. He had a lot of potential, dumb way to exit.
3. I’ve accidentally poured cheetos in a bowl, poured milk over ’em, and ate a spoonful like cereal before realizing my terrible, terrible mistake.
Always pay attention to what’s in the pouch on top of the fridge. even when you’re six years old. Seriously.
4. I say thank you to automatic doors and street lights when they let me pass.
It’s an unconscious response. Preprogrammed manners. Plus, I saw Herbie the love bug as a kid, and Buddy Hackett talked about a street light that didn’t like him. I appreciate robots helping my travels comfortably and easily. When the machines take over, I’ll have a position of authority.
5. I’ve been published in both Popular Science Magazine and the Unknown Armies Hardcover RPG rules.
Yup. Livejournal actually got me in PopSci (11/13/2003), and UA has me in the credits as a rumormonger. (published August, 2002)
Lakini Malich has made a startling discovery that will change the way the world views the brain-rotting laugh vacuum Garfield:
If you remove Garfield’s thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat.
He offers a second collection:
here’s some more, chronicling Jon’s spiral into depression and eventually madness. It’s what Jim Davis wanted.- via cruel.com
1 year ago – Millennium Spheres, new dr who, dice quiz, Earth2/We3, Jack benny, Donner party, Karma?, bittorrent
2 years ago – motorcycle Chernobyl tour, led mug, jk to revise hp, dan tech slips, bluto song, haiku
3 years ago – palm pics travel, WWII thoughts, site down
4 years ago – Newtosill, Daffy duck, Morning here, dreams, poem tag, bubblegum alley, cute animals
5 years ago – The bed, Cool old comic books, disclaimer, OJ
8230 – variation on a meme, I pollified it.
feel free to post a guess in comments, if you can’t do the poll above.
Science!
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people — by glowing when it needs water.
The students said on Tuesday that they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it “lights up” when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.
The light is hard to detect with the naked eye but can be seen using an optical sensor developed in collaboration with students at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
The development of such plants could help farmers to develop more efficient irrigation of crops
8228 –
Sunburn much more manageable today.
Hav pointed out that the Miami International Film Festival is going on right now. I’m going to swing the FLIFF next weekend myself, I think. I want to check out Manderlay.
Cool word of the day-
“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Ubuntu also means “I am what I am because of who we all are”.
(it’s also an open source linux flavor, but that’s neither here nor there.)
Made plans to go to Uber’s pal Wendy’s place next week with a few of her pals for a little dinner party… stuffed shells! I wonder what I should bring? Bottle of wine? I should probably ask when the time gets closer.
Moment of Lyric (Mp3)
A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan
And I am doing the best that I can
All the eunuchs, they were standing in rows
singing, “Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can.”
Sad song, last dance and no one knows who the band was
And Henry, you danced like a wooden Indian
Except this one mattered and I felt it had a spirit
And I shot the story because I didn’t hear it that way
And it’s hard to be a human being
And it’s harder as anything else
And I’m lonesome when you’re around
And I’m never lonesome when I’m by myself
And I miss you when you’re around
The short list: Viagra, LSD, X-Rays, Penicillin, Artificial sweeteners, Microwave ovens, Brandy, Vulcanized rubber, Silly Putty, Potato chips
nabbed from christin and eryx_uk
Your senior year in High School is supposed to be “the best year of your life.”
Let’s see how much you remember: (Getting close to 20 years back! 1987)
Who was your best friend? I floated between four groups of friends. Kev / Brent-Steve-KevinC / Pam / James-Mark : all were fun folk to hang with. I’d say my best friend of the lot was Kev, and I still hang with him from time to time.
Who did you have a crush on? Man, I was mushy about a bunch of girls my senior year. PamM, PamP, Charlotte, Jane, and Elizabeth all leap to mind immediately, and I’m sure I could extract more with even an iota of effort.
What sports did you play? None my senior year
What kind of car did you drive? Powder Blue Gran Torino, and later, a white grand le mans
It’s Friday night, where were you at? Variable. see compartmented friends above. Best bet was probably Kev, I think.
Were you in the “In Crowd”? Nope, though people liked me.
Ever skip school? my senior year, I skipped an average of one day every two weeks.
Ever smoke? Nah, I tried cigs early on, and didn’t like ’em. I didn’t even like to smoke weed.
Were you a nerd? I had the benefit of looking like a bit of a brute, so folks didn’t really call me a nerd.
Did you get suspended/expelled? I was suspended once for fighting. It was self defense, but policy is to screw everyone involved.
Can you sing the Alma Mater? the first chorus, yes. the whole thing, no
Who was your favorite teacher? Tough.. my senior year was fun. Mr. Berry, Electronics / Mr. Meyhew, Programming (C & Pascal) / Mr. Miezinski , Drafting / Mr. Eck – Marine Biology
Favorite class? Marine Biology – probably the most interesting and educational class I had my whole high school career. Excellent teacher and content.
Beaucoupkev makes an superb point about Luthor’s origins as a Super-enemy. It’s not about being bald.
1 year ago – LDMs, RI high-tails it, elevator prank, screaming turtle, sunburn recovery, doctor d, pelican memory, ghostbusters/gaming, weather tracking, first mention of google video, record bro, freeware alternatives, interaction quiz, Burdines dissolves into Macys, Florida gambling, greyhound rescue
2 years ago – visited with Kev, 12 things meme, bro, CoD, train ride pictures, Newt Healthy
3 years ago – Wakeup, SS card, LAN party, classifieds
4 years ago – groceries, cloud makers, Lj folks, virus PSA, mapmaking
5 years ago – fly me to the moon, edelweiss, web-games
8229 – I call him “yawny”
8227 – Good walkies yesterday!
Pictures from walkabout yesterday… St. Ambrose was having a carnival.
Found a little carnival on walkabout Sunday – clicking icons makes ’em bigger
53 photos
Three videos at youtube, too. you may want to mute the sound.
Honestly, none of the videos thrill me, but I had fun taking pictures. I autostitched a few just for grins. I’m surprised my piecemeal feris wheel didn’t work out, but others seemed to blend pretty well.
While on walkabout yesterday, I ambled north on federal Highway, just to see what I might see. As I passed the IHOP (30 minute wait…Sunday morning pancake crowd is thick.) I saw a ferris wheel rising up over the steeple of the St. Ambrose Church. Nothing was moving yet, but as I drew near, more goodies came into view. Hungry from lack of flapjacks, and with visions of funnel cake dancing in my head, I sauntered over to take a closer look.
The guy doing parking informed me that the fair wasn’t going to get rolling until 1pm, but I was welcome to roam around. (The time at that point was 11am) I took advantage by walking the grounds, and taking some pictures of all the rides and stuff before anyone was around, queued up, or whatnot.
I was bad, food-wise.
- Roasted ear of corn. $2
- Funnel cake $2
- French Fries mit der cheese $3
- a bake sale brownie $1
- about 2 liters of soda pop.(a $1 can at a time) $5
I did not eat the deep fried snickers bar that one stand was selling. I mean, I have my limits.
Highlights of the day was playing bingo (I spent $18, and won $12 of it back), Winning the 4pm 50/50 raffle – spent $6 for 5 tickets, got $148 back.
Entertainment was mediocre, an overly loud dj, and some stage band.
Let’s see, other money spent – $15 for a all day ride wristband.
$5 for another 6 raffle tickets (chance to win $2500.. they’ll call if the winner isn’t present)
$5 for a basketball hoop shooting carny game.. I won Newt a stuffed tiger (on Newtcam, at the moment) Sunk 5 balls out of 7. ($1 a toss, or $5 for 7)
So.. Amount spent – $48. / Amount brought in – $160.
Net profit for walkabout – $112, a stuffed tiger, some color on my nose and cheeks, lighter hair, and probably about 4 lbs before walking calorie burn-off. Not a bad day!
Moment of Lyric (mp3)
First I learned to crawl
Then some other strokes
I can never remember any real good jokes
Do you feel like swimming?
Yes right now yes right now
I know a way to swim all the way downtown
It’s a lot like swimming first time over your head
It gets easier when you move your arms & legs
And for air you lift your head
Why don’t we try it right now?
Yes right now Yes right now
We’ll go by way of the garden fat with tomatoes and beans on the vine
Sweet like the way it was like swimming for the very first time…
1 year ago – ren-fest trip w/pictures, Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
2 years ago – Newt-vet pics, Carpathian undead, radar on chip, Aerial Recon Archives, exorcist in 30 secs (by bunnies), punctuation meme
3 years ago – Gali sends me fan mail from Israel, ape music in my mind
4 years ago – playing the numbers, the bolters, euphemism generator, lj-ref link-list. (including 6 degrees), being romantic, superman 2, magic item poll, street signs of the world
5 years ago – filepile, interview, SQL issues, Kung fu Oz, CJ & Herman – part 2
8225 –
Nice chitty chat with bhk last night, off and on while I took cases in AR, PA, ND, GA and FL. Most had happy endings and full recoveries. visited qdot briefly in SL, but couldn’t stay long to to the same calls.
Hurricane season in 3 months, and there are still a lot of blue roof, I hope things are gentle this year.
Beautiful day out this morning, so walkabout is imminent. Until later, Dear Journal!
Batman and Robin, Mexico Style
Also, um, what?
Belated friday 5 via eryx:
- What color is your hair? Brown, with sun-blond highlights, and a little gray.
- When is the last time you accepted a dare? hmm.. not sure when last I heard “I DARE YOU!”
- Do you think you could have an affair? Not likely.. I’m monogamous and very loyal to my mates.
- How often do you feel like walking on air? Well, I wouldn’t mind being able to fly.
- How about despair? Despair is useless. Assuming everything is bad or will turn out poorly is just defeatist. There’s always hope.
Moment of Lyric (mp3)
Trying to avoid
Being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going
Around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind
But the crumpled-up bag
Moves exactly as fast
As the speed at which you walk
To avoid being hit in the leg
Aaaah
To the amusement of others
You are hit in the leg
By the bag
And as soon as it touches your leg
It’s completely attached
Trying to pull off a bag while still casually walking
Only increases the merriment
So at first you consider violence against the onlookers
But then on second thoughts
Maybe the bag
La la-la
La-la la-la
La-la la-la
La-la la-la la-la
Buppa-ba ba-ba
Buppa-ba ba-ba
Buppa-ba ba-ba ba
Ba ba ba buppa buppa ba ba
Buppa buppa buppa ba
Buppa-buppa-buppah-buppah-buppah ba
But it’s made out of some kind
Of stretchy new plastic
That cannot be ripped in half
Sadly you walk on in anger and shame
Not considering the fate of the very next one
Who will try to avoid being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Ever and always
Around the world
Everywhere you go
There will always be those
Who will try to avoid being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind
1 year ago – scottobear.com renew, trip to deerfield, free fonts, chat crash w/bhk, gp puts me on to spidey bible, what? WhaT?, H2GT2G, Chimp attack, giant steps
2 years ago – blogspam treatment, work, serial adder, 7-eared kitty, clown sweater, Ephemera, visited bro
3 years ago – book meme, palm doodles, picture issues
4 years ago – mopey, bro helping out, Dick Hymen – Master of Jazz Piano, super tugboat, Newton’s name, pet name poll, magic ingredients
5 years ago – Perseus tools, loved ones sick, flying monkeys, The 30 Least-Quoted Lines from Shakespeare, nosepilot, 5k comp
8226 – newtcam
animated archive of 030406
Continue reading 8226 – newtcam
8224 – Spore
Why didn’t anyone tell me about Spore sooner? veblefetzer hosted this gameplay video, and I’m pretty dang impressed. Now *that*’s my kind of sandbox.
The game allows the player to begin with developing a creature as a cellular entity and eventually creating a creature with more sophisticated brain functions, which will change the nature of the game to a more RTS-type game (he cited a particular favorite of his, Populous), where players will control herds of creatures. Once you upgrade the “hut” around which the creatures centralize, the game changes into what he called “a simple version of SimCity” where the player manages technology and interacts with other cities that have sprung up around the world.
The creature creation tool is quite simply amazing, not to mention the programming that regulates (automatically!) how the creatures walk, run and move
He demonstrated how the player can eventually purchase a UFO to travel between planets–and eventually star systems–to populate, conquer, or simply observe. Particularly impressive was the game’s emergent gameplay and seemingly infinite possibilities for playing creatively
Definitely worth a BANGS!
[edit – more info on Spore here, at wikipedia. sharp!]
8223 – Saturday, on call.
RS dropped from full-time at the office to working part time from home. I think that’ll work out much better for her.
For about 17 cents a minute, SpoofCard lets you send any numeric string as your Caller ID code. It comes with optional voice modification. And you don’t need a computer to use the service.
Joan (the building governor) called me up yesterday, and told me that she needed the key to my condo, “in case of emergencies”. How did she find out that her old key didn’t work? She went up to my place with the super to repair the oprch screens, and got upset that she couldn’t get in.
First of all, I had the screens repaired before I had even moved in, and I documented that to her in no uncertain terms… in December.
Second, there was no notice that she’d be going into my home. It surely wasn’t an emergency.
Third, She couldn’t be bothered to *telephone* before trying to get into my place.
Fourth, Newt’s in there… and she doesn’t have the reaction time to stop him if he decided to bolt.
Needless to say, I got a little hot with her on the phone. I told her that she is under *no* circumstances to enter my place without my permission or presence. She won’t be getting a key anytime soon now. I’m glad I found out before relying on her
Her excuse was “well, I rang your doorbell, and nobody answered, so I figured I’d come in and take care of it”
um, no. What if I was having a shower or sleeping soundly? If I came out of there / work and spotted her in my apartment, I would very likely have tossed her happy ass in jail… or vibrated her carcass into its component atoms by screaming at her at the top of my pongid lungs.
8222 –
German Engineering in der haus, ya. Router took a nosedive last night, had to reconfigure it and the modem (took about 30 min of setup and testing.. just pesky)… and hp’s system went kerflooie, too.
Kimberly Clark is now offering a new type of toilet paper designed to train kids on how much toilet paper to use.
Cottonelle For Kids has doggie tracks printed on the toilet paper, and at roughly every five sheets is a cartoon drawing of a dog. Parents are instructed to teach their children to follow the tracks and then tear off at the dog.
Your moment of Scotto hippie tree-hugging upset – via flablog
A roundup of recent editorials on the Ocala National Forest part of the sale:
+ Daytona Beach News-Journal: Endangered lands — From almost any public-minded perspective, President Bush’s plan to sell off up to 300,000 acres in the national forest system and 500,000acres within the Bureau of Land Management is a mistake. From some vantage points, it looks like an outright scam.
+ Ocala Star-Banner: Fire sale of forest is reckless — The idea of selling off chunks of our national forests as a one-time budgetary stopgap, as the Bush administration is proposing, is shortsighted fiscal policy that would set a dangerous precedent.Selling off 973 acres of Ocala National Forest land as part of the proposed 306,000-acre dispersal in 41 states, is also environmentally reckless.
+ Orlando Sentinel: A land grab — the bush administration wants to support “rural education” by selling300,000 acres of forestland, including almost 1,000 acres in the Ocala National Forest. Doesn’t this rob the communities of the very thing that defines them as rural? Are we missing something here?
+ St. Pete Times: Taxing our forests — president bush’s disdain for our national forests has hit a new low. First he made it easier for the timber industry to log public forests under a program mockingly named Healthy Forests. Now Bush wants to sell off pieces of national forests in 35 states, including Florida, for development.
For several weeks web journalists have been linking to a compilation page by Paul English, who took it upon himself to put together a list of how to bypass corporations’ voice mail systems to talk to a real person.
The site became extremely popular, so now English has created a new site called gethuman, which lets consumers report how it is to deal with companies.
A major part of this site is the gethuman database,which is the phone number list for stores, utilities, insurance companies, credit card companies, and lots more. In many cases the instructions say to just hit ‘zero’ or say ‘representative’ but for some companies there is an actual phone number that goes straight to a person. There’s also a useful page of tips on how to deal with companies in general.
If you’d run across the phone list before, note you’ll need to change your bookmark to the new gethuman address. (thanks, Liz!)
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Day is ending
Birds are wending
Back to their shelter of
Each little nest they love
Nightshade’s falling
Lovebirds calling
What makes the world go round
Nothing but love
When Whippoorwills call
And evening is nigh
I hurry to my blue heaven
I turn to the right
A little white light
Will lead you to my blue heaven
You’ll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That’s nestled where the roses bloom
Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We’re happy in my blue heaven
You’ll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That’s nestled where the roses bloom
Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We’re happy in my blue heaven
We’re happy in my blue heaven
1 year ago – power out, mark lenard, color wwi pics, free stock photos, 20 ways to say no, knife, razors and laws, vonnegut on writing, newt pictures and doodles, cravings, costume changes, handy freeware,
2 years ago – pondering public entries, nice gab with the Cs, ADP sucks again, Zombie Recipe, Cat w/hands, gov overrides names.
3 years ago – 03/03/03, MRE, rudimentary lj search engine
4 years ago – fake trading floor, Olive Garden screed, Hsien-Yu Pi-Jen
5 years ago – Owls in Myth & Culture, 3-d fax printing, Dogen
8220
These will help my coming healthy lunches out, considerably.
Hickory Smoked, especially
This has been around on the web for a while, but I still find it fascinating – Louis Wain was an artist who drew images of cats for children’s books. As he began to suffer from schizophrenia, his art style changed dramatically.
8219 –
Newt’s Due for a checkup… I’ve got to call his doc and maybe get him in there on Sat.
That’ll be easy because there’s no getting with Danny this weekend, He’s sounding really burnt out. I’ve been really weary recently too. Maybe it’s time for something specil to recharge my batteries, but I’m not sure what that might be.
Don’t know if the new SL code is more stable but it didn’t crash after the up date… got a nice visit in with HP before beddie bye last night.. not a single reboot!
Well.. it’s Lent, and many folks are giving up something for personal improvement, even if they’re not of a particularly religious persuasion. What would I give up? I’m starting late, but I’m going to try to totally cut out fast food lunches until Easter. Let’s see how I do.
What two verbs would you like to be known by, dear journal?
Moment of Lyric: mp3
I don’t want you
But I hate to lose you
You got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea
I forgive you
‘Cause I can’t forget you
You’ve got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea
I want to cross you off my list
But when you come knocking at my door
Fate seems to give my heart a twist
And I come running back for more
I should hate you
But I guess I love you
You’ve got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea
1 year ago – netflix, adp trimming, ann nortons, superhero motivationals, euro-seekers, I scream-you scream, new term, disney fonts, viva broward pix, florida school study, poor applicants,
2 years ago – Newt-clipso, ADP did poorly her first night, Spiders dine on their master, Gators, lj-spam
3 years ago – Newt Better, pc virus, pioneer 10, Balloon v1.0, lotr quizzes, cool motorcycle helmets
4 years ago – Newt at the vet pics, shadow govt, stikfas
5 years ago – CJ adventure (filtered for submissions), up late, newt checkup