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6781 – Amber Alert links up to Web Monday
The nation’s Amber Alert system will be connected to the Web starting today, a major technological boost that users say should make it easier for the system to thwart child abductions by transmitting messages over pagers, cell phones and BlackBerrys.
6780 – Some remainder wildlife.
Assorted Wildlife, in the middle of Miami. I’m not sure where I want to go on my next trip.
Home of Ol’ Flipper.
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6779 – more pictures – Miami rails
It’s amazing that I managed to stay mostly un-rained on all day long.
6778 – Yawn a more Roman way!
Nice Trip to the Seaquarium Yesterday.
Some snapshots, more to follow as I clean ’em up.
Phone Post: 6777 – 2nd phone post from trip
Phone Post: 6776 – at the stop
6775 a die-lemma.
Hmmm… do I risk the rain, and take a journey to the Seaquarium today? I have to decide if I want to journey that far South again. Upside, I might get some spiffy pictures from the metrorail, if nothing else.
To get there, I’m going to take the 55 to the central term, from there to the Lauderdale Tri-Rail station … then take Metrorail to Brickell Station. From there take Bus B to Key Biscayne, this will drop me off in front of the park. Map – Public Transportation Trip Planner
I’ll percolate on it for an hour and decide then.
Meantime, here’s a happy mind flayer, enjoying his breakfast.
Random Scotto factoid: I’ve never liked using blue ink, especially from a ball-point pen. I think it has an odd look about it, and black has much better contrast. Red’s ok in small doses… valentines or highlighting errors. I don’t mind “fun” colors like purple or green.
I wonder how that blue caught on? Is it cheaper? Was it really fun and different when first released? It seems to be the color of choice at schools.
I have very small handwriting. Depending on my mood and level of weariness, it can go from fair to totally illegible.
A French anti-AIDS organization created these ads depicting super-heroes with the disease. Link one, Link two (PDF files). (via boingboing)
Warriors…. come out to play-ayyyyyyy!
Until later, dear journal.
Archives –
1 year ago – odd dreams, Gary hart, pizza box solar oven, hunting for Bambi hoax, walnut walks with a bellydancer
2 years ago – CHiPs, Spreading rumors
3 years ago – Music Mystery Solved, exegesis, evil news, Earhart’s wreck perhaps found, I discover Google image search, sea creature poll, why poop is brown
4 years ago – Scheduled Departure time set in stone, something at Archie Mcphee no longer there, sitcom nudity-logic
6774 I like the rain
Rain rain rain.
Splash splash splash
fun fun fun
*nyerrroowwwwws like an airplane in formation*
Rain rain rain!
*choocka-chooka*
Oh, such rain we had… it was delicious.
Very spiffy flash site about 60’s spidey cartoons and the voice talent that were a part of it.
Time to Roll.
LEAVE NO EVIDENCE!
Phase 2 is underway.
To any who would oppose me… PREPARE YOUR BLADDER FOR IMMINENT RELEASE!
I hate to be the bad guy, but you must be disciplined or you’ll never learn.
Until Later, Dear Journal.
6773 KoL, Webcam thwarts crime, and so on.
Lots of local construction, but I never hear the hammers or workers.
Things just sort of grow here.
Nice Freebie Gothic / horror fonts – also links to classic Eerie Comics. (I actually had the issue with “Swamp Monsters” in it. Warning, may not be safe for the squeamish.
I now work with one of the Florida Marlins, a retired Miami Dolphin, and Kenny Rogers’ brother. Somehow, if we all walked into a bar, there would have to be some kind of wacky punchline at the end.
I have to ask how Kenny feels about the drunken, mentally deficient, kitten-eating MadTV representation of him.(see also, KR’s Jackass – big file, let it buffer a bit)
Woo-hoo! my littler-big-sis hooked me up with a Seal-tooth,a familiar-building method to make use of it, and a lovely-large load of meat for use in KoL. Funzies! Thanks, ldy!
6772 – Nuts and doodles.
Doodled on the way home yesterday.
Recent comments (returns last 10 if your a freebie, last 50 if you’re a paid user ,both posted by you, and entered into your journal. – must be logged in, of course.) If you own any communities, that works, too, via a drop down. Makes it easy for me to monitor the hut without having to flip through all the entries.
nifty! (via flying_blind, by way of waning_estrogen.)
In HoL, I’m now a level 3 Frog Director. The spooky forest is nifty.
6771 – ahh… cooling precipitation!
This is *exactly* what was needed. Ah, 81F, and the humidity has been rained to the ground.
nice, nice. about time.
6770
You can get a skewed perspective on human behavior working at the gig that I do. A sampling of policemen (both good and bad), a few menopausal co-workers, folks with dementia, sexual predators, troubled kids, messed up families and the like could make a lot of people jump to the assumption that everyone on the planet is somehow off-balance, and not only by a little bit.
My mindset is to look at it like I’m a fireman… sure, I see a lot of houses on fire, but people don’t call when there *isn’t* a fire…. it’d be a fool who thinks all buildings are burning, everywhere.
I’m glad that there are co-workers and cops that are solid and on top of their game to reinforce this belief. (Not to mention swell folks outside the industry.)
I still would gladly see proved child molesters tossed onto a penal work-island for life. There’s no reprogramming them without falling into the “cruel and unusual” category of brainwashing/torture that I know of, so the next best thing is to isolate them, until a cure is found… in my opinion. I don’t think that a well-run penal colony is cruel or unusual for “unreformable” criminals. Make whatever counseling is deemed appropriate available, but also make them work for their keep.
Infectious Disease trading cards, from the CDC. collect ’em all! Who needs baseball players when you can play flip or put Ecoli or rabies in your bicycle spokes?
thanks for the link, gael!