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8124 –

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GeotargetI don’t know what I was thinking… that all of the homeless would pack up and go into lockdown, but they seemed even more populous than ever on the ride to work yesterday. I mentally tallied 36 as the bus rolled by them.

Big Brain’s video card arrived damaged. Murphy’s law, I imagine. They’re sending another one, and it should be installed by Friday. Gary, the Head muck-de-muck apologized again, and gave me “his personal guarantee” that it would be installed and my machine would be ready for use by Friday after work.

Yeah, yeah, right, right. We’ll see.

Is it a sign of Newt really disliking my mashed potatoes if he hops on the table and scratches, trying to cover it up like it was in the sandbox? I suspect the chives are what set him off.

Moment of Lyric: (video link)

After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
’cause the life that lived is,
Is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
The names it has blow in the past?
And with this crutch, it’s old age, and it’s wisdom
It whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary

1 year ago – mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides

2 years ago – popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong

3 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry

4 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn

5 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal)

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8123 – Beware the Ghost who walks

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian man who was believed dead caused panic when he returned, causing villagers to think he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reported Monday.

Children screamed “Ghost! Ghost!” and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi’s brothers, who had shaved their heads to mourn his death in line with Hindu tradition, fled when he appeared, the paper reported.

Villagers and family members have ostracized him, forcing Raghuvanshi to file a complaint with local police. The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.

Raghuvanshi’s troubles arose after he was jailed last year. In prison, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment from which he recovered but a distant relative told his family he had died.

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8120 –

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GeotargetGroggy, foggy head this morning. Can’t seem to shake off the stupids.

Bro’s rolling in big dollars lately. I suspect he’s up to more than pressure cleaning, but don’t know for sure. He did sound clear and solid on the phone last night.

Video found on a search for Iguana and “scream like a girl” – Of course it’s some wacky asian game show.

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Florida Homeless Beating Caught on Videotape. Continue reading 8120 – →

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8118 – Martin Luther King Day

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“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
     – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

» Americans to Celebrate King Holiday By Serving Others

» View 2006 MLK Day of Service Project Listings
 
» Click here to register your MLK Day of Service Project

» National Service Agency Announces Grants to Support Service
   Projects on 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

» View the 2005 MLK Day of Service Photo Gallery

During his lifetime, Dr. King sought to forge the common ground on which people from all walks of life could join together to address important community issues. Working alongside individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds, Dr. King encouraged Americans to come together to strengthen communities, alleviate poverty, and acknowledge dignity and respect for all human beings. Service, he realized, was the great equalizer.

On January 16, 2006, as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, Americans across the country will celebrate by honoring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will remember and memorialize Dr. King by participating in service projects in their communities. Together, they will honor King’s legacy of tolerance, peace, and equality by meeting community needs and making the holiday “A day ON, not a day OFF.”

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8116 – Work, again? BOB SAGAT!

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GeotargetI didn’t do much of anything this weekend. I didn’t put on shoes. I didn’t leave the third floor. I did clean house, laundry, etc.

Watched the heck out of the Kong DVDs… all the special edition stuff… Harryhausen’s test footage and the documentary on “the making of” was pretty dang impressive, and Harryhausen’s commentary was good on the movie disc, too. A lot of it was interpolated, due to the movie being over 70 years old.. just about everyone remotely involved in the project are long deceased. It worked out quite nicely, however, since the material hasn’t changed in that span,either.

Mr. T doing a happy little dance. (don’t sniff the rest of the site unless you’re not at work and have a strong stomach.)

In fact, I’ll just snag the animated gif from the shockwave,and post it here, instead.

mrtdance

Found it searching for –

Remember kids… believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don’t do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs.

1 year ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches

2 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc

3 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life

4 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.

5 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links.

6 years ago – Newt was Neutered!

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8114 – Sunday Dawns and I’m already awake.

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GeotargetThe nudge feature is mostly pointless, I think. You could accomplish the the same thing handily with an e-mail or comment in their journal. I hope that they continue to implement other more groovy features. I do confess that it’s interesting to see when some of the more tardy people have last posted… I’m more likely to just drop someone that hasn’t posted in about three months. (unless they’re a very special circumstance)

I’ve found that I have another superpower: the ability to make RS have to go pee. If we get into a discussion about anything for more than a minute or three, she has to rush off to the potty, do her business and come back when done. This has been documented at least a dozen times, and she’s able to stay at her desk for hours on end.

Last night’s dream involved me being strapped to a table with electrodes bolted to my ankles. When they ran current through them, all of my skin began to peel like a bad sunburn and underneath the fresh skin was a dark, mossy green. Somehow I knew that the treatments were causing a strange growth of all my internal flora… whatever else touched the new skin (like a a scalpel) it burned and was turned quickly to vapor. I don’t recall any smells. They finally figured out that shark’s teeth could touch the new skin without burning up, so they incised and pulled out the rock that was making the bad plant-reaction in my body. I was healed, and buried the rock in the ground of an empty lot, hoping it would help jump start a fresh garden there.

It’s hard to chop down a tree with a saw made of shark’s teeth.

No Dice going out with Dave or Dave last night… Today it’s going to be more solo journeys, methinks.

Moment of Lyric:

Me and your sister
Went by the river
Your sister jump in the water
I jump in after
I’ll never forget,
Everything was set
But I didn’t get
She Tell me yes
She Tell me no
She tell me nonononono.

Just check out this website.

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This picture makes more sense than most management decisions I’ve seen in my entire working lifetime.

1 year ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

2 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

3 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

4 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

5 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things

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8110 – Birthday Prezzie, Batgirls and stuff

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Thank you, dear Shoo! My birthday present got here early, but I was good and didn’t unwrap the gift paper unless she said I could.

And she did. I got the 2-disc Special Edition of King Kong (1933)! Yay!

Much love to all the family Shoo in Shoo-ville! Newt also likes the box quite a lot, too. He’s currently sitting inside, gnawing on a cardboard flap.

Took a lovely late night swim in the pool at about 2am. The water was warmer than the air, which is always nice. I had a brief moment of iguana-fear, which quickly passed after I gave a quick sweep of the area. Very soothing to float on my back, staring at the moon and just thinking and feeling my toes and fingertips wrinkle up a little. Water is still the closest thing to hitting a reduced gravity environment for me… quite peaceful and I could feel a lot of physical tension flow away from my back, legs and shoulders. I was shivering a bit, despite the warm water, and I don’t know what that was…maybe the body unkinking? I may make a habit of nighttime soaks more often.

Hey, look at all the batgirls!

A gazillion of ’em!

Some new designs, some just different styles on the old stuff… pretty nifty lj meme. Some amazingly amateurish, others frighteningly professional.

Take me off the shelf and put me in a plastic bag, because I’m sold!

VS and KTM both submitted resignations this week.. that’s pretty much the entire community relations department. They’ll both be gone before my birthday. I hate to sound greedy, but I really hope this won’t affect my making a long weekend out of Feb 2-5 next month. I wonder how long RR has left before he high-tails it, too?

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Scottobear!

  1. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to Scottobear.
  2. The opposite sides of Scottobear always add up to seven!
  3. White chocolate isn’t technically chocolate, because it doesn’t contain Scottobear!
  4. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with Scottobear.
  5. Medieval knights put the skin of Scottobear on their sword handles to improve the grip!
  6. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill Scottobear.
  7. A bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and Scottobear!
  8. Ideally, Scottobear should be stored on his side at a temperature of 55 degrees.
  9. In the Spanish edition of Cluedo, Scottobear is the victim.
  10. Only one person in two billion will live to be Scottobear.
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Moment of Lyric:

My, my the clock in the sky is pounding away
There’s so much to say
A face, a voice, an overdub has no choice
And it cannot rejoice

Wanting to be, to hear and to see
Crying to the sky

But the porpoise is laughing good-bye, good-bye
good-bye, good-bye, good-bye

Clicks, clacks
Riding the backs of giraffes for laughs is alright for a while
The ego sings of castles and kings and things
That go with a life of style

Wanting to feel, to know what is real
Living is a lie

But the porpoise is waiting good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye

1 year ago – Spidey a teacher’s aide, palm doodles, bus pictures, bizarro ipod

2 years ago – Media player classic, Chinese connection, old gaming notes (with diagrams), Florida laws, high school meme, monkeys!, work hubbub

3 years ago – evil quiz, printable gizmos, supergun, enviro-boots

4 years ago – visited hippies, cool clock, warm, groceries, kevin smith quiz, silly linkies, ramble about x-ray-eyes, SOP, etc

5 years ago – fun quotes, romance test, victorian flower symbolism, bill hicks