I saw the short commercial, but didn’t get to see the bit of testimonial footage I did for the longer bit.

The most recent Dr. Who 2-parter was an odd combination of actual drama, slapstick/fart jokes, Men in Black, and an issue of 2000AD. I’m glad that there were repercussions of Rose just launching off like she did. Rather a neat spin on UNIT, too.

I can’t help but wonder if I’d like it as much if I’d never seen the old Dr. Who series as a kid. Probably… they’re pretty entertaining fare.

Next Week… Daleks!

I need to burn episodes 2-5 to a cd, and toss ’em to Graypumpkin.

Freaky Club guy – shaved his face, but not anywhere below the jawline. His behavior was in an odd place, too. He put Mari and Mzk sort of at odds for a bit. I think Mari was suffering from some cramps, to.. I noticed that she was clutching her lower abdomen every so often.

Weather yesterday was magnificent. perfect humidity level, temperature, and amount of sunshine. I would like 100 days like that a year, please.

I have to remember to call up the HR and find out if that thing two weeks ago was fruitful or not. I suspect not, because they didn’t call me.

Newt was amazingly affectionate last night and this morning, doing that trill-purr he does when he’s in happy-happy mode. Sleep was wonderful for the first time in a few weeks.

Got to talk to Tomi voice, albeit briefly. He sounds good, and is still in seeming good spirits. I think it’s been at least 15 years, if not more since we last communicated. A lot of time there… nearly half a lifetime.

pope icon of the moment –

Dave Attell was at the Poorhouse Saturday night (as a civilian, not a performer)… looking forward to Wednesday with Mzk and the gang.

Most Condoms in India Used to Make Saris Continue reading 7325 – The work week begins anew. →

EN had more tech issues yesterday… the poor guy’s backup machine couldn’t cut it, so he used a neighbor’s machine to take care of things. I’m still glade that Oona and MA are available as backup.

Played around with mzkitten‘s pic yesterday… fun to fiddle with a human model for a change! Got to spend some time chitty-chatting with her, sammykun and uberbastard too. Uber mentioned anarchy online and a nice person in my region that I might want to hang with, too. Anarchy is free until January, so I’ll fool with it for a bit. We’ll see if it’s got the WoW / CoH vibe going for it.

I’m just going to do chores today… maybe go see Kung Fu Hustle with Danny, and maybe hit the ol’ watering hole for a few hours.

I dreamt that I was out on walkabout with Newt… He wasn’t walking… I was pushing a shopping cart, and he was riding in the front compartment. This was obviously an insanely stupid scotto, because he wasn’t on a harness, and

Cutie Cthulhu-toons. (via eryx_uk)

1 year ago – I want a rest, CoH beta final night, Tornado, d’s Birthday, screen caps

2 years ago – drugstore screw up, dream, bro issues

3 years ago – chopping block, little-boy voice, I want to be Diplomat to gorilla city, tesselations, z-cardz, morikami

4 years ago – red riding hood, webhits, rear window

IQ Dips More on Email Than Pot

Scientists find distractions of email, instant messages, and phone calls temporarily lower employee IQ by 10 points—more than twice the effect of marijuana. Continue reading 7322 – *gibber* →

http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_research/17282.html

1.17% of the population of the USA has a LiveJournal account?

That seems very, very inaccurate.

That TV commercial re: Broward County Transit I was in will be airing this weekend on Florida Local stations:

Saturday, 4/23 – CBS4

Air & Sea Pre-Show
7:30-8pm
BONUS: 9-11pm

Sunday, 4/24 – UPN 33

Air & Sea Pre-Show (Encore Presentation) [i.e. Rerun]
12:30-1pm
BONUS: 9-10pm

Kari on call tonight, so I’m parked at the HQ again once I get home. Big Kahuna is back from Seattle, so I’ll be catching her up with pictures from the trip and making her aware of our latest four recoveries. Texas and Indiana have been really taking off.

Elephant Calling

My semi-monthly blood-sticker saw me on the news the other night. When I got to the center, they pumped me for both platelets and information about the org. I may’ve won over a convert or two to do volunteering.

Newtie-picture flashback orange love.

It has been 41 years since Johnnie Mae Chappell was murdered by the side of the road. Her friends and family have never stopped fighting for justice. Continue reading 7319 – Detective won’t stop seeking justice →

TALLAHASSEE — With the abduction and murder of yet another child fresh in their minds, members of the House unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to give certain sex criminals either life sentences or lifetime satellite tracking after they get out of prison. Continue reading 7318 – Lunsford bill passes →

Ran around There.com a bit last night… still pretty much the same.

I swung by the club long enough to drop off a card and see if I can get a little nighttime extra work out of it… it’d be nice to have a little mad money, the people are nice and the networking there is excellent.

Random object meme

Let’s see how many times the phrase “Vatican votes to Annex the Sudatenland” comes up on TV in the next 24-48 hours.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany has been selected by the Roman Catholic church as the new pope. (Pope Benedict XVI)

From the Monkey/SWAT news article earlier :

Truelove is spearheading the department’s request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.

Wait a minute… aren’t humans considered to be primates? The ape suborder Haplorrhini includes gibbons, orang-utans, gorillas, chimps and humans, I think.

EN’s net is still out, so I took the opportunity to toss Oona on again. Much slower evening than Friday, but I still stayed at HQ, in case something weird came up.

My First house. (well, the house I went from birth to 2nd/3rd grade),Age 11ish,Age 15ish.

My current address is 1501.1 miles (Approximate Travel Time: 23 hours 5 mins) from the first place I was raised. (According to Yahoo maps.. for some reason, map directions are broken on Google right now.)

I did a search on Scottobear on google. it returns “about 45,800” back. yikes. I’m 99.99% sure the name is unique on the net.

via http://metaatem.net/words/scottobear (change the word at the end to suit you.) Easy way to make a ransom note!

Watched the Krypto Cartoon that introduced Streaky. (The Canine Space Patrol wasn’t bad, either… renamed “Dog Star Patrol”. I haven’t seen Ace, the Bat-hound, yet. Apparently, Krypto will team up with Ace to chase after the Joker’s Hyenas. ) All in all, it seems to be a good kid’s show.

Got a nice hello email from Tomi.. pretty nifty that he still reads my journal!

I get about 15 human-placed anonymous lj-spams a day. I’m really not sure what they think that they’ll accomplish.. no other human will see it but me, and I just delete ’em right from being screened. no spider will pick ’em up.

Testing speech recognition with sound clips.

this is not very good, but so far all told it seems to work.

It still needs some training – My saying Newton –

Need to / new time / new Tom / to one/ noontime

I wonder if someday all of my posts will be audio, automatically transcribed to text automatically?

I really like this picture of a clown and her tea party.

News follow up

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A self-described husband and father of two children is in jail after police say he lured a 14-year-old boy over the Internet for sex.

Bobby Minnis, 42, was arrested after police say he lured a boy to his home in Fort Lauderdale and had sex with him 10 times over the course of several days.

Images: (my hairy mitts in first pic, and face in 11th) Continue reading 7313 – hoffman’s assortment →