release the hounds!
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doodled until newt came over to lay on top of it
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8104 – system still out for repair.
This card is my problem with compusa, along with really poor communication or support /offering of alternatives.
In a nutshell, it’s been since November 10th that my Computer has been at the shop… everything else needing repair is fixed according to them.
Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra Video Card, AGP, 256MB DDR
Nvidia
Manufacturer: PNY
Mfg Part #: VCGFX595APB
Product Number: 308120
$499.88
However, that bad boy has been out of stock at the manufacturer, and at all known compusa stores in a 50-mile radius for the last 8 weeks.
With a $500 price tag, I’m obliged to wait, because I really can’t drop that chunk of change on something that I should be getting under warranty.
The guys at the shop have given me two timelines, both of which have passed, now. I’m not quite sure what I can do, save for waiting.
Meanwhile, I have to do my work on poor ol’ Battered lappie, My Toshiba satillite back from a time when Windows Me (I’ve long since replaced that with win2k pro) was “cutting edge”.
I’d say that the only time I’ve had worse customer service/ communication was with Comcast… I have since boycotted them, though I’ve heard that they might not be so bad in other areas outside of SoFla.
Not having big brain has cost me some very significant social chat and play time in 2nd Life, LAN party activities with the old FMM crowd are out of the picture… plus, all of my downloaded movies / Netflix DVD archives are ground to a halt while the machine is gone… not to mention a lack of Newtcam.
I never realised how many people watched good ol’ Newt during the day… I’ve gotten somthing like 80 emails politely requesting when he’ll be back online again. If Big Brain is down another week, I’ll hook Newtcam up to Lappie so folks can get an orange kitty fix.
I can only imagine what happens when pretty girls shut off their webcams. I suspect horny stalker-type guys aren’t nearly as polite as cat fanciers.
8103 – Halfway to the end…
Hijinks. Awesome word,three dotted letters in a row. I forget where I first heard about that, but when it was mentioned on the Simpsons, it came as a weird shock… parallel stupid observation.
Midweek…I may make it all the way through, yet. Big time flu bug going aorund the office… let’s see how many folks call in sick over the next 3 days.
Bernard Pivot / James Lipton Ten Questions Meme:
1. What is your favorite word?
kumquat
2. What is your least favorite word?
Like (when used as a form of punctuation)
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Walkies
4. What turns you off?
The Willfully Ignorant
5. What is your favorite curse word?
Acronym – BOHICA, also smeg/smegma.
6. What sound or noise do you love?
Newt trill-purring
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
peacocks early in the morning, sounding like wailing weirdos.
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
independently wealthy philanthropist
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Torturer / “Intelligence Collector” for Chile.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Hey, good to see you. C’mon in, we’ve got a spot for you in Valhalla!
My name using Egyptian Hieroglyphs!
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My name using Egyptian Hieroglyphs!
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Script by jackol
1 year ago – turtle thought, dinero, illumination, tv torrents, vampire hunting with a stand up bass, metasearch, mucho folks fired for keeping online journals, iraqi abuse cheerleaders, server location flying_blind introduces me to the term blague which is a perfect alternate to blog.
2 years ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout
3 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies
4 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby
5 years ago – looking to the future, all the words
8103 – Reminder to self
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
You’ll do well to remember that, Scotto.
8102 – Today I learned –
Dinosaurs are a specific subgroup of the archosaurs, a group that also includes crocodiles, pterosaurs, and birds. although pterosaurs are close relations, they are not true dinosaurs. Even more distantly related to dinosaurs are the marine reptiles, which include the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. Mammoths and mastodons are mammals and did not appear until many millions of years after the close of the Cretaceous period. Dimetrodon is neither a reptile nor a mammal, but a basal synapsid, i.e., an early relative of the ancestors of mammals.
I honestly didn’t know that pterosaurs and marine reptiles didn’t count as dinos, or that dinosaur wasn’t a catch-all term before today, and I’ve loved early critters for well over three decades. Talk about a hole in my education!
-as a side result of this entry of graypumpkin ‘s
Also testing out this site to seek out info re: sexual predators over a mapped area –
Type in your home address or a family members address. The web site will bring up a map of your neighborhood with small colored boxes on it. The small House icon represents your address; the colored boxes represent sex offenders in your area.
Click on the colored boxes and it will bring up the offender’s photograph and the exact address, names and employers. Click ALL AROUND, you will be amazed at the information you get!
Seems to work better with MSIE than Mozilla
8101 – More spidey for you.
here’s the full fansubbed first episode of the spiderman tv show – I’ve hosted it on youtube for ease of viewing and bandwidth issues. (The fans have taken a lot of liberties with the translation, but it’s all for fun.)
My gift to GrayPumpkin, Kat, and BeauCoupKev.
Silly quizzes Continue reading 8101 – More spidey for you.
8100 – Dang it, is it only Tuesday?
A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here’s the relevant language.
“Whoever…utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet… without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person…who receives the communications…shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
Hmm… I wonder how enforceable this is, and how it’ll change the face of the internet? Telephone use? Talk Radio?
The answer to my ESP poll was Wavy Lines. I suspect there may’ve been some circle after image bleed over due to the moon-talk and icon. Very interesting… most people knew that I’d go with wavy lines. Fully 40% of people answering got it right, as well as 33% getting the circle vibe. Spiffy that folks know me that well, give a one in five chance to get it right.
Let’s try it again – I’m looking at an image, and focusing on it… which one is it?
The problem with LJ:
We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.
Thanks Ilene for the two icons!
Superkitty red and superkitty blue!
Keywords: superkitty – red – via ilenebook – happy kitty
Keywords: superkitty – blue – via ilenebook – mad/sad kitty!
Yahoo acquired Webjay! Is Google and Y! and MS buying everything these days?
meme, a la eryx_uk
Here’s what you are supposed to do: Copy (not forward) this entire meme and paste it onto your journal. Change all of the answers so they apply to you.
Continue reading 8100 – Dang it, is it only Tuesday?
8099 – Walkabout thoughts.
I sometimes look at roads, and wonder where they came from. Before they were paved… were they cobblestone? Before that, a dirt road? Before that, a Indian path in the woods? Before that, some animal tracks?
Is the patch of Federal Highway that I ride down, curving a little inland and a little closer to the coast now and then every day the result of some deer running through high grasses to avoid a panther?
Gamera’s Travel Journal – (Knowing Japanese will help here) Aww… I want a plush Gamera!
Of course! Why didn’t I think to get my grappling hook on Amazon? Good thinking, oneeyedcat!
The Mighty Boosh, Series 1, Episode 7 – Electro – via google video
Not my fave episode, but the spirit of jazz makes me happy.
8098 – Andy in lockup. Let’s see how he likes it.
Bro’s pal Andy was arrested today. He’s under wraps until September 26 for that grand theft charge and “resisting a merchant”… I’ll have to look that one up.
See mugshot gallery to compare, or entries on 2/24/04, 2/25/04, 11/21/04, 1/30/05, 6/7/05, somewhere in 7/2005, 8/3/05.
I really hope that means bro will keep his nose clean for a little while.
Continue reading 8098 – Andy in lockup. Let’s see how he likes it.
8096- We’re Ants! I Must SLEEP!
8096- Originally uploaded by scottobear.
“We’re Ants!” guy is trying to sleep in the back, but is scrunching up his eyes so much and sitting so stiffly that it seems more like he’s avoiding horror than getting any rest. He appears to be wrapping himself pretty tightly.
Woman eating an egg and bacon sandwich, the meat is rubbery, she pulls on it, stretching until it breaks, snapping into her mouth. I get a distinct hyena/carrion vibe.
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8097- Kid with bank
8097-
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
On the road again, dear journal. Kid across from my seat is fiddling with a broken teddy bear bank wrapped n tape that he pulled from a victoria’s secret bag.
8095 – Spidah-san
Ugh… Monday already? Monday work meeting and then a dog & pony for FDLE at 10.
Holy cow… why did I not know until yesterday that there was a live action Toei Spider-man TV show in Japan (Circa 1978), where he apparently had a neato motorcycle, instant change suit wristband (a-la the flash’s ring), could talk to spiders, and had control over a giant robot? I guess it makes sense, since he was a gadgeteer, (building webshooters and spidey-tracker, anyhow)… In Japan, I think that if you can wire up a tesla coil, you can have a giant robot. Spidey’s Opening Title on youtube -and a short but entertaining clip from the show… I need someone to translate either the Japanese, or the Spanish Subtitles. Graypumpkin, maybe? The Toei version looks a lot more entertaining than the lame American live-action version.
Toei spidey team up with machine gun mariachi – the awesome
Toei spidey – ninder scenes – uses webbing as a noose.
More video clips here – just search youtube for Toei Spiderman
From the same guy that has me singing the dang Iron Man theme again. (the cool 1966 version, not the longhair rock star 1996 one.)
Hey, there’s an Ambush Bug for Heroclix! A shame I really stopped playing a year or two ago. That’s the first one that would have me actively seeking it out (now if they got a Morrison Doom Patrol collection out, I’d be stoked, too)
Moment of Lyric: (Mp3)
There was a boy who knew he could be anything that he wanted to.
Everybody told him he had a singular special destiny.
Everybody said he’d go far–everybody said he’d be a star.
They said he could be anything he wanted to be–then he turned into me.
Now it seems increasingly unlikely that I’m gonna grow up to be Luke Skywalker–not gonna be Indiana Jones.
And after all this time it’s probably not gonna turn out that I’m the super-powered heir to a world that isn’t there anymore.
But somebody told me I was special.
Somebody told me that I could be anything I wanted to be.
How could they have known the dreams I had were not the dreams they had for me?
They said I could be what I wanted–they had no idea what I wanted.
And I don’t mean to seem ungrateful for all their encouragement and praise.
I just meant to say that I don’t intend to stay and spend another wasted year, cause at the end I bet I’d still be sitting here wasting time and waiting.
I’m waiting for my Lady of the Lake to come and crown me king.
I’m waiting for my rocket to land so I can get my power ring.
I’m waiting for my radioactive meteorite to fall.
I’m waiting but I ain’t got no meteorite at all.
I’m waiting for my story to begin.
I’m waiting for my/ I’m not done.
Don’t count me out of it–my story isn’t over yet.
I’m not the son of some roman god but anyway I think I’m gonna be okay.
And looking back I find it seems I’ve always had unlikely dreams but I can’t let that stop me now, it’s time to grow up anyhow.
And I may not be Hercules but here’s my new philosophy: buh buh bah buh buh bah buh bah buh buh
end of song.
1 year ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet
2 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office
3 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters
4 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote
5 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigo
8094 – Not just Nazis and Mad Arabs anymore!
8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz
Unsurprisingly, bro bailed on us getting together today, but I was still determined bike around the region, heading north this time.
I walked my bike to the gas station on 10th & federal, aired up the long-flat tires, rode east to the beach, north on a1a to palmetto park, went west to federal, and then south to 10th. a nice, scenic circuit, but I was too busy enjoying the ride in the cool weather to take many pics. 14.4 miles, total route (I doubled back a few time s to check the bike shop, and rode up Dixie to see what was new. I picked up some cool stuff at the art store which was having an insane blowout sale… one of those foot-tall wooden manikins for drawing bodies for $4, a thick pad full of 12 x 18″ newsprint paper for doodling on for $0.75, and a couple of graphite pencils for a buck. it was all 20% off those prices, too, so I got a lot of fun loot for less than what lunch would’ve cost me out. I wonder if Newt’ll mangle the wooden guy… the manikin is similar to the wooden Christmas tree ornaments that Newt loves to smack around.
3602 calories burned if I was walking… I wonder what that translates to in cycling? Probably not nearly as much.
Here’s my route 14.4 miles, give or take.
Wings place – still hasn’t repaired the impaled sign since Wilma.
Island Water Sports – Contrary to the prior image, they wanted a giant shark head first in the roof. By the way, on the inside, there is a giant shark head coming through the ceiling, too.
I *think* that this is the Boca chamber of commerce, but I’m not sure. I really like the curvy divot on the side, slicing some of the windows.
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You are Knight Rider Hasselhoff. You kick ass, you’re dead sexy, AND you are the proud owner (or perhaps life partner) of a talking black Trans-Am. What else could one ask for? |
8092 – Time to row the ocean, I think.
Letterman 1 – O’Reilly 0
“I have the feeling that 60% of what you say is crap…” and with that Dave Letterman captured the essence of what is Bill O’Reilly. (via onegoodmove thanks firpo for putting me on to that site)
Letterman gets in quite a few good shots in the video.
Moment of Lyric (swf video)
Lying in the corner of a room with a stick in my hand
I’m pointing my stick at a far away land
My stick it has no leaves it grieves me to say
I’m gonna find a new stick then I’ll be, I’ll be on my way
I want to row you across the ocean so blue
Till we find the man
Who kissed all the women in Japan
Old women with no face trying to call out my name
Screaming she’s just been stabbed by a
Chargrilled accountant from Spain
Would you like to dance with me
She whispers from three miles away
We could dance the tango the I’ll be,
Oh I will be on my way
I want to row you across the ocean so blue
Until we find the man
Who drowned all the children in Iran
I wonder how many people in the world worship the moon… actively pray and give offerings?