Cats in Libraries A searchable map of libraries from around the world that have a cat in residence.

Hee, they mention Bookings…. he lived there when Doug was working there. A staffer eventually took her home to live, though.

Remember the art-o-mat? Now, a poetry publisher that not only puts out an online journal, but also distributes poems via gumball machines. As of now there’s only 7 Gumball Poetry machines worldwide, mostly in the Western US, but they’re ready to make more. Next time you’ve got a quarter jinglin’ in your jeans skip the gum and get some free verse instead. (personally, I prefer more visual arts in a vending machine, but it could be fun… I would prefer happy, or glowy poetry.)

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues. Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view. What exactly does it mean when someone touches their face, licks their lips, or dodges their eyes? You’ll find the answers in this huge compendium.. The most complete collection of body language you’ll ever come across. I could flip through this thing for hours. maybe I’ll synch it to the palm.

hmm… just got done singing a lullabye version of Bodies by Drowning Pool in goo-goo papa-baby talk voice to Newt. He seemed to dig it. I know I did.

My brother is doing quite well today, his new doctor is treating himright, and has him on a good sports medicine doc. I may even look him up, should my back tweak out on me agian anytime soon.

I missed an opportunity to go to the movies with trhe hippies tonight…they left a message at 2ish…I guess I was doing the laundry, and didn’t discover the voicemail until just now. Shoot! I’d have liked to go see a few things that are playing… Ice Age, Death to Smoochy, or even Clockstoppers. Ah well… next time. Spilled milk, I guess. Looks like I’ll resolve to do Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure on VH1, instead.

update- Hey! I didn’t know that Billy the kid was also the actuarial program from Tron!

The parade isn’t over yet for all of us “Four Color” Fans. With the monumental success of X-men and Blade in the movie theaters, Hollywood has more movies from the Comic Book/Superhero genre in the works. Doing a little digging at www.upcomingmovies.com has gleaned two-fistfuls of movies (Daredevil – Jan 2003, Xmen2 – May 2003, Hulk – June 03, Catwoman – 2003, Mage – 2004, Batman: Year one – 2004, Watchmen – 2004, Ironman – 2004, Fantastic Four – 2004 or 2005, Superman (the next movie) – 2004 or 2005) either in the works or in the concept stage.

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The Yellow Pestilence – http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4725/files/welsh.html

“This life tells us that Shortly after Saint Teliavus had received the pastoral care of the Church of Llandaff, on account of a pestilence which nearly destroyed the whole nation he was obliged to leave Wales. It was called the Yellow Pestilence, because it made everyone it attacked yellow and bloodless; it appeared to men in the form of a column consisting of a watery cloud passing over the whole region. Everything living that it touched with its pestilential breath either died straightway or became sick unto death.”

Seemingly this Yellow Pestilence appeared with some frequency; a vaporous cloud that floated gently down the valleys, descending on St David’s and rained down on the populace. All who were touched by the cloud, or who breathed of it, were struck down by the yellow plague, becoming lethargic, sick and finally turning yellow before succumbing to death.

What if there was more to it than that…?

In a time when buboes herald the coming of death across the land, and villages close their boundaries to all outsiders, turn away those travellers trapped between settlements and rain arrows on messengers who may carry the black death between towns, the Yellow Pestilence strikes in the valleys.

The villagers sicken turning bright yellow in hue, and die, only to rise again as the Yellow Pestilence feeds them.

And then clings to them, carried by their dead steps to another village.

And another.

And another.

Maybe actually apply this story to modern times. The plague is unearthed by miners and only by researching old myths can the zombies be stopped. If there’s time.

Got my chores done, but didn’t go to the garden center yet. I think a little nap is in order, first.

Watching Santo Contra las Mujeres Vampiro (Santo Vs. the Vampire Women) on local spanish television… right now he’s in a three-piece suit, beating up evil thugs.

Aye’! Es El Santo! Vamanos!

nigh night.

wakey wakey, corny flakey!

slept solidly last night… got my mojo in gear. Only a few chores to do today…laundry, general cleanup, and maybe a little shopping for some seeds to plant out front. Possibly some diddling with the web server project too.

strong lazybones urge, though… It’ll fall away once I get moving and this ape-cat stops lounging on my right foot, like a striped slipper. (that’s how I’ll decide when to get up….when he does. meantim, I’ll keep a-surfin’ and a-slackin’.

there… he’s up, and so am I.

Laundry, hoooo!

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claims to be “the only scientific organization probing the bigfoot/sasquatch mystery.” The site is full of Bigfoot/Sasquatch legends, theories, evidence (or lack thereof), research and projects, and news.

BFRO maintains a dubious, but thorough database of Sasquatch sightings around the world. Bigfoot gets around, that there have even been a few sightings in South Florida!

Here’s a cam cutaway to what my region is looking like.
to spare bandwidth

Where, oh where is my beautiful, sweet beloved?

Ah well, I’ll putter about while I wait for her to appear.

Congrats to Kidalicious on the new arrival! go say hey, and give ’em hugs!

New Moon tonight… dark and lovely out.

The baha men are trying to push a new album… didn’t anyone tell them that “who let the dogs out” is a one hit wonder song?

I’m sort of fiddling with pictures lately, making skins of my beloved, Newton (once I get a big-cat framework), and myself as superheroes for freedom force.

The Carpet Cougar, Magnificent Moonflower, and being known only as the Pod…I’m still debating what powers to give each.

I think Newt-hero will get a cybernetic brain, blitzkrieg, claws, superleap, running speed and charming appearance, to start…. Maybe a surprise attack, too… stealth?

Holy cow! look at the time! I’ve got to get to work!

angry kid, from the guys who did wallace and gromit.

not for the easily offended. cracked me up! Thanks to for pointing me there, and all the laughies!

off to work… some hip tunes on blue tube.. I’m jamming to this one right now… a nice start to the work day.

See you later, dear LJ. Let’s Roll!

I’m going to hold off on reformatting the laptop until monday, in case of a fatal crash… I want my machine working on the weekend… glad that I’ve backed up the important parts of my machine, though. Some very important pictures and data I would prefer to not lose.

A Programmer and an Engineer were sitting next to each other on an airplane. The Programmer leans over to the Engineer and asks if he wants to play a fun game. The Engineer just wants to sleep so he politely declines, turns away and tries to sleep. The Programmer persists and explains that it’s a real easy game. He explains,”I ask a question and if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5. Then you ask a question and if I don’t know the answer I’ll pay you $5.” Again the Engineer politely declines and tries to sleep.

The Programmer, now somewhat agitated, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer you pay me $5 and if I don’t know the answer I pay you $50!” Now, that got the Engineer’s attention, so he agrees to the game. The Programmer asks the first question, “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?” Then Engineer doesn’t say a word and just hands the Programmer $5.

Now, its the Engineer’s turn. He asks the Programmer,”What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down on four?” The Programmer looks at him with a puzzled look, takes out his laptop computer, looks through all his references and after about an hour wakes the Engineer and hands the Engineer $50. The Engineer politely takes the $50 turns away and tries to return to sleep.

The Programmer, a little miffed, asks, “Well what’s the answer to the question?”

Without a word, the Engineer reaches into his wallet, hands $5 to the Programmer, turns away and returns to sleep.

If Newton could yell “Death from above! Suffer, Yeti who is my father!”, he would have. I just got up to go to the bathroom, walked past my dresser, and was tackled by a predatory psycho-kitty. He is now sitting on my shoulders. He initially landed on my head, and I was totally unprepared for his oomph-tackle, and replied with a *waugh*. almost immediately after, I cracked up, laughing.

Want to see my freedom force dream team? I think they should fight the naked robot monkey (I bet my beloved would say “he’s just misunderstood!”.)

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no? Well, here they are, anyhow. lj cut to save friend’s pages.

Step one on the laptop trail… got her on the worknetwork, and backed all 9 gigs to one of the servers (the silly thing had over 100 gig free, so little guilt taking the space for a few days), and have begun burnnig it to CDs, for more perm personal backups. Tomorrow, I will reformat the thing, reset it tofactory, and copy just what I wanted to save locally. The Laptop will ideally run much better, and I’ll have freed up a healthy chunk.

Heard from my brother, and he’s doing a lot better, and has the next two days off to rest, soak, and recover. Now, he just needs to stay in, and not go stir crazy. I’m going to see if he wants any comics or books to read tomorrow morning. He’s set for food, and living cash, so we’re good.

I like the word sustained. It’s an excellent beginning to something even better, all things considered. That said, I think I’ll seek sustanance, and return in a moment.

I’m also happy in doing a job well. The monkeys in the laser department haven’t broken my tracking system yet, and neither have they made any unreasonable requests for future features. Fester *loves* that I made him a 16 point font version just for him. (his eyesight is poor… and it was an interesting test. when he logs in, it goes *boom*, with all the fonts and field sizes swelling out evenly.)

I cleaned out the laptop keyboard (aka, Newton shed-bench), and got about another kitten’s-worth of hair out of the cracks. Yeesh… at least it’s clean!

links found in sundry holes –

Eeek! David Hasselhoof Video. Is it wrong for me to say I like the guy? He seems like a nice fellow, and has never really done anything bad… I liked knight rider as a kid. (Must be the German side of me… they love him over there.) I do, however think that the video is extra cheezy. It’s the same sort of cornball foolishness that my buddies and I put together in high school… over a decade ago… except we mocked Zamfir ,master ofthe pan-flute. DH looks like my uncle bobby. that must be it. Coolby association. Bob is one of the coolest cats I know. (Married to my Dad’s Sister).

froguts.com is a great interactive frog dissection.

Scary Paintings of Michael Jackson. Nuff Said.

Do you remember wacky packages? I swear… I had about 50 of the raw goo stickers.