“If you’re not with us, you’re against us” makes as just exactly as much sense as someone saying “If you’re not an apple, you’re a banana.”
hm… I won 25 prints through snapfish, but don’t use the service… anyone reading this want ’em? First come, first serve.
Nuts! I forgot all about the Hukilau! Maybe I can do a little catchup today.
HP is back in town.. I’m glad her vacation was nice, and that she made it back to her critters!
Wallace & Gromit didn’t disappoint… it was excellent, and wasn’t watered down at all. Lots forany age to enjoy, plus a number of fine nods to classic horror films to boot. Plenty of laugh out loud moments, and the opening feature with the Madagascar penguins was also excellent. The kids at the show had a great time, and there were no screaming babies or annoying cell phones.
Aside from that, walkies were composed of roaming the Aventura mall and people-watching. There is a huge population of cuties, elders, kids and tourists to eyeball, not to mention punks, thugs, goths and other pseudo-fashion trendies.
It was nice to sleep in and then go out and about mostly undisturbed.
Thought about dying a colored streak in my hair for halloween… gray, and when asked about it at work, just claiming “what I saw… I can never tell… anyone. ever.” and then shuddering, saying no more.
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Fountain in the mall, shot from the 2nd floor
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!)
