More sleep was obtained Friday night. I crashed hard.
Please notice when you are happy.
I think I’m going to go hit the Wallace & Gromit movie today… it looks crackin’ good.
I’m still a little sleepy… I might go back to bedski after I switch the phones over to ECN.
Good Morning, Newt!
Testing time-lapse NewtCAM. may be a high-speed day’s overview later.
Looks like there’s a new guy on the scene “Emnity”. Toro, Blackie, and Dose have all been in the area for a while.
1. Have you ever been to the emergency room? Yes, several times. I’ve been taken there by ambulance twice, the rest were walk-ins, usually related to bronchitis or back issues. I don’t usually have accidents with flame, sharp objects or the like. Bro has gone far more times than me, due to accidents.
2. What’s the worst pain you’ve ever had? When my back was at it’s worst, before my 2nd surgery.. riding in a car was tortuous, scream level agony. I’d rather have all my teeth snapped in half, and be made to chew tinfoil than go through that again. I am not exagerrating.
3. If you could choose your doctor, do you prefer someone of the same or opposite sex? Doesn’t matter to me.
4. Do you take vitamins? A multi-vitamin in the morning. I sometimes suspect that vitamins are a sham, but if that’s the case, the power of the placebo effect is shining through.
5. Would you prefer to go to the doctor, the dentist or go sky diving?
Doctor, most certainly.
Weekend plans? None, really. Relaxing, I hope. I may actually have the whole weekend off from call, if the stars are right.
HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome.
I’m glad they mention PeerGuardian. (Hint, add all lists provided.)
The first time I’ve looked at the lj portal page in a bout a year.. they’ve cleaned it up a little bit, but I don’t see any non-cosmetic differences.
1 year ago – met some VIPs, mooks, pente, Kiwanis, free stuff, Everything you can think of is true
2 years ago – land art, land shark, MOND, vamp hint, Nice weather, pesky people, squids, space, sea and starburst fruit chews.
3 years ago – gps, Cherey scary face, bro bawl out, star wars gangsta rap
4 years ago – hubris, birfdaze, AOE2-Con, religious words as verbs, on working local outwards
5 years ago – Ray Ig & Robbo, Salty dog pub
good-ish vibes about the Deerfield place.. they’re checking me out financially and socially and criminally, and I think I’ve passed any tests they might have.
Newt and I had a fun frolic for his b’day… nice, gentle evening, all told. A vid or two may be forthcoming, depending on how they turned out.
eryx reminded me (indirectly) of another great crazy-long word, weezle & the dBfly inspired me to record the instructional mp3.
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an unofficial name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug east of Webster, Massachusetts. The Nipmucks and other tribes gave it a variety of similar names. Most people call it Webster Lake, because they can’t pronounce the Nipmuck name, but others, including many residents of Webster, take pride in reeling off the Nipmuck version.
It’s pronounced like this:
Char-gogg-a-gogg-man-chaugg-a-gogg-chau-bun-a-gun-ga-maugg (mp3 of me saying it slowly.)
Slip it into conversation!
Newt is *six* years old today! He’s still a little babyhead to me. Here’s to my favorite red-fuzzed libran quadruped. Video of Newt a few days ago
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Here are some baby pictures… it still seems like it was only yesterday.
Newton pic! 2 3 4 5
See also, Newt lays the smack down on Tarpo
I think he’ll get the same gift as last year.. a big cardboard box filled with paper wads and milk rings.
Happy Ramadan!
Blackmail Boxes. -I wonder how much trouble he could get into for defacing government property?
I’ve had the Beatles (sort of a medley alternating) stuck in my head all morning. CCR is a good blotter, but it’s still playing in the background.
Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down.
Clouds of myst’ry pourin’ confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin’ to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm.
Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.
Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain.
Heard the singers playin’, how we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, tryin’ to keep warm.
Still the rain kept pourin’, fallin’ on my ears.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain.
1 year ago – American date, zoomquilt, prowlies at the river, tiny plaid ninjas, pompano condo, WiT gender mislead, 3 things, penis tragedy, Newt 5
2 years ago – Newt pics (4!), Avengers adult-themed?, 400-million year old spider genitals, factoids, laundry, displacer beast, rick sanchez, tiger attack, tree octopus, DC atlas, Marvel directory, identity theft of a sex pred, under water vehicle, jack johnson, mouse taxidermy
3 years ago – cpap broke, newt 3, chattie colors, dumbass Falwell, Harper Lee, condiments, blonds not fading out, Chirac witchcraft, verisign sucks
4 years ago – Newt 2, epicene, robot meme, religion, disney poop, Lilly passes away, pet quiz, motto quiz, age of kings, perl and quilting
5 years ago – newt 1, pee-bags, cats guarding the dead, autistic taters, hunters get flooded, movies and walkies
Mehrzweckflugzeugausschreibung.
I love that word.
I could say it all day long.
Mehrzweckflugzeugausschreibung. Mehrzweckflugzeugausschreibung. Mehrzweckflugzeugausschreibung.
Translates roughly to “Multi-purpose fighter advertisement.”
Mehrzweckflugzeugausschreibung.
That’s my word of the day. I love the German language.
I also like to say “Yucca Flats” and “Ricardo Montalban”.
Installed new Nvidia drivers (9/2/05 ones) and my system is looking *great*. Second life at a higher resolution and less crash issues. I’m going to reinstall farcry, and see how that does, next.
The higher res desktop frees a lot of real estate up, too. I’m impressed.. it’s like I’ve got a new system. 1280 x 1024 x 2 monitors (so it’s actually 1280 x 2048, if you want to get technical) it makes it pretty hard to revert to the 1024 x 768 single screen at work.
Big boss in Maryland today, opening the state with a press conference… If things were different with cej, I’d probably be going along as well. Oh well, it was a good run, for the most part.
This is the case peer-to-peer file sharers have been waiting for. Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has counter sued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices.
If you can only watch one Kafkaesque Flash animation about the ennui of being a giant fat chicken-juggling bear on a unicycle in a German circus with dreams of freedom, make it this one.
Random Video of Newt and I listening to birds outside
also, I have to get a new battery for the laser pointer, so I can mess with Newt like this some more.
Heard from an old High school pal who used to hang out with Steve Jacoby, Brent Ashland and Me. Clayton was the reason we had all the cool Print Shop signs in our Raiders of the Lost Sock movie. We’re talking 8088 IBM PCs, and Apple ][+ era stuff. He found my lj on a google search. For Taco Viva.
Last time I saw him.. 1986ish? Another lifetime ago.
Default password database. Handy!
Scooby Doo, Where Are You? just wouldn’t work without Ted Nichols’ musical scores. Yes, it’s the same couple of themes recycled over and over again. But too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Sample… “It” Appears mp3. Great stuff. I tromp around like this already. (see Also – Red Beard Laughs)
One Small part of the Scooby Doo Case Files.
Cool icon of the moment –
Moment of Lyric: (Thanks for the Monday morning pick-me-up, Dani!)
I heard the sound of water dripping on tile, looked down, and noticed my foot was bleeding. A tiny puddle of red had formed, before I staunched the flow with a paper towel. I have no idea what I cut myself on, but I didn’t even feel it.
Going out to lunch with Jenjen this afternoon. Hopefully, it’ll be funfun!
I wonder what GrayPumpkin is up to these days… hopefully he’s just busy. Oct-Dec can be quite a time for him and Katt, visitor-wise and so on.
Ah, here’s my issue – error – VC316-2, VC316-1W – Video memory – Hardware
I suspect all the power spikes gave it a fry. Next paycheck, I’ll grab a new video card, and see how that works.
Video Journal Entry. Nothing special, really.
I sometimes read the word “Flower” (like the plant) as “FLOH-er” (like something that flows).
Icon o’ the day – Rainbow Raider!
“We’re gonna find our father, but between everything here and there, we’re going to kill everything bad.”
I heard that quote played in the background while I was reading stuff online. The show was Supernatural but I thought about how keen it would be if these two were just delusional murderers raised by some psycho who got trotted off to jail. I flashed to the “monster hunters” are killing innocent people who were impeding there progress in recovering their father from some institution…. the show, instead of being another “Project Bluebook/X-files/Chill Game” type gig could instead be the insane POV of a pair of guys sublimating homicidal activities with some severe schizo hallucinations. Two guys traveling around leaving a trail of bodies in their wake, blaming invisible “monsters” nobody’s ever seen. The FBI is going to take ’em down, and soon.
That said, I actually kind of like Supernatural for what it actually is… yet another bogey-hunter show.
National Geographic has a live webcam pointed at an African watering hole. “Embark on a quiet adventure and watch wildlife gather at Pete’s Pond. Baby baboons scurry in the dust. Wildebeests push and shove to make room at the watering hole. Warthogs wallow in the mud. Catch these moments and more in these video clips.” See Also – Baby Panda cam! and of course, NewtCam.
I’m happy. I saw elephants. Speaking of which, this would make a great tattoo –
Last night’s fortune cookie –
| “A well-aimed spear is worth three.” Lucky numbers 34,25,14,33,40,8 Learn Chinese – Watch – Shau-baio |
Random brain burp –
A Three-legged dog walks into a saloon and says “I’m looking for the man that shot my paw.”
Nyuk nyuk.
