Ugh, can’t sleep. Back’s tweaking up for me big time, and it’ll be a while before meds kick in.

Changed icon to The Thing as Blackbeard, at least for a bit. It sums up how I feel about things as a whole. Things aren’t the best by a long shot, but there are certainly some elements that I am surely growing fonder of as the days pass.

Occupying my time with Character Studio 4 tonight. Holy cow. It’s fun… you get a sharp little armature configuration, slap on a musculature, and twiddle for some great creature effects and design goodies. (I would be painting miniatures, but I can just step away from this immediately if sleepy time effects start to kick in.)

Read this amazing story about a 1930s pulp adventure film that’s being shot entirely with blue screens — not a single set, just a few props and the actors in costume. The story and style sound like something I’d dig I just hope it all works out.

archived for posterity

Controls for hoverboards-

Flipping passed the cartoon network last night, looking for background sounds. GI Joe is on, and I catch a snippet of what the Joe team and Cobra are trying for…The MacGuffin Device.

Ok…now is that the writers being lazy, having fun, or both? The same three minutes had the thug minions in a brawl outside hollering “Breath mint! Candy mint!” I want to work for writing cartoons, just to put stuff like that in the scripts.

I plan on going with Danny to Pier 66 for drinks and conversation sometime this month. There’s a rooftop lounge that revolves every 66 minutes and is reached by an exterior glass elevator. Great for taking in the region, I understand.

Today, Dave’s planning on bringing by his old TV since he got a new one for his house, and the elder didn’t sell at the garage sale. Hopefully I’lll be able to dig up the controls for the tube on my universal remote.

Working on making a few shirts for users in There… an “Om Mani Padme Hum” as well as a male Ganesh / Female Shiva set of tops. Not much eastern stuff in there, short of the standard yin-yang symbols.

A year ago – new 2nd monitor, tasty tea

two years ago – anchorite, Iraq frog missile, my first sighting of that annoying java kill email that fooled Danny’s wife, evil news, poll about how you feel about people, banjo player joke, rave reviews of Zone alarm & commentary about spyware, coprolite, I hear the first story about Ornj’s fish Genocide & panda hut,

three years ago – Awakened too early, used to have an embedded real genius sound file.

new there stuff coming soon

Told Frankie next door in polite terms that my house isn’t a phone booth… he gave me some line about him thinking I wouldn’t mind some company occasionally. Um, I don’t consider coming over, using the phone and leaving a visit.

I told him it was ok once in a while, but from now on, keep it before 10pm, and not every day. Plus, no incoming calls, please.

We’ll see how it goes.

three quests coming up. Red pill hunt, a chase, and a regular scavenger hunt.

all for prizes!

I’ll have to let Josie know that pgm is going to be a team, once I talk to the rest of the pgm’ers.

Hunt For the Red Pills of the Matrix

UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DEFNITIONS

The Worm_Fizzer.A has been causing some folks problems lately, uses its own SMTP and also plays via Kazaa network.

UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DEFNITIONS

Now for fun stuff.

If I had a hammer…
Rain on the duckies because you are the Rainmaker. See also Friends, a nice reworking for the tortoise and the hare. It’s nice to see buddies working together. Sometimes turtle is on top, sometimes the bunny is.

Another fine bit of coolness from Orisinal

TV 7/19/2003 – The Cartoon Network will premiere a new animated series featuring a teenage Robin. In Teen Titans, based on the DC Comics series, Robin the Boy Wonder unites teen superheroes Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven as they join forces to defend the world against a new generation of supervillains, all the while dealing with the horrors of being a teenager.

The full press release

Yay for Beast Boy…though I’m surprised they didn’t go with his other moniker, “Changeling”. Maybe that means the Doom Patrol Might make a guest appearance? I don’t know.. it’s in the far future… hard to say. Another picture

Talked a bit with Sappho at FMM… it sounds like she’s doing well, and life is much the same at work. Thursday the big boss comes in, so Dexter Thursdays are now Dexter Fridays, but everything else is as is.

This is pure, bottled genius. I’d love to create a LJ that’s written entirely by a program that goes to this site every 2-5 days, captures the output, and posts it as an entry.

Even more ambitious: Write another part of the program that generates and posts ambiguous, ELIZA-like responses to 1 out of every 10 or so user comments. How long before someone caught on, d’you think?

Redefining the Term “Blustery Day”… The next time you’re feeling hot & oh bothered, why not whip out a Winnie the Pooh vibrator?

There’s about a million honey jokes I could make right about now, but I’ll refrain.

Sing ho for the life of a bear!

In unrelated news, I’ve found the perfect setting on my toaster oven for toast. Perfect toast. Oh, how I’ve missed it!

Back From Physical Therapy.

My guy is ok, not as amazing as the last one I had, years ago. The workout is much the same, traction went surprisingly well, and getting into position for the TENS / Heat therapy was surprisingly difficult. I left feeling worse than when I entered, but I think it’s a pain of the “good” variety. I’ve got a worksheet of eight different routines to do twice a day… the bridge is the most problematic, but I think that strength will be built up pretty rapidly there.

All in all, it took about an hour and a half… I’ll be repeating the procedure on Thursday and Monday.

I have the xml automation about in place… a few bits of sample data to test for extra weirdness, and I think we’ll be ready to rock and roll.

Newt’s such a mamma’s boy… I leave the apartment for 2 hours, and he’s mister hello when I get back… I suspect part of it is the smells of the outside world, too.

OK, so it might be right up there with cold fusion and other technological flimflams . . . but it might not.

In this Discover magazine article, scientists (and more importantly, businessmen) believe they can turn just about anything — waste from poultry processing plants, manure, plastic bottles, old computers, garbage, you name it — into fuel oil, and do it cheaply. Read the article and decide for yourself.

Update: The article discusses a full-scale plant in Carthage which was to be running by the end of April. A spokesman for the company now says “The Carthage plant will be fully operational later this spring, by end of June we hope.”

kitty quiz

Private investigator came around this morning asking about Tom out front… I was sleeping, but a card left in the doorjamb had a case number and the investigator. They asked about his red Mitsubishi eclipse, and I told them that Tom hasn’t been around since at least march, maybe earlier.

I imagine it’s just a repo job, but I remember that Tom came East from California…and that he supposedly went to Paris.

Diet Barq’s Cream Soda is much better than Diet A&W Cream Soda.

Vampire Clue – “The closest shop to here is Discount Potions, right by Horror and 77th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while.”

Physical Therapy tomorrow, Thursday, and Monday at 2pm.

Don’t forget!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

To everyone who has acted as a caregiver and nurtured a living thing. Newt brought me a dead lizard. How did he know?

*Huggo*

Won a cool 60’s style blue and purple tie-dye buggy at the theme party last night… Top door prize. D got an orange butterfly top, and the other prizes were a men’s tie-dye, and I forget what else.

That makes 4 vehicles that I’ve won, (not counting the groovy pirate buggy that I was given).

evil rumor – ribbed for her pleasure