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8445 – archive catch up

1 year ago – power outage, cool magicians, my eyes are blue, klaxons, past life/ice cream/coffee, stem cell steaks

2 years ago – pizza with dan, adp screws up, paid users get lj-priority, making fiends, Fiona apple mp3, Miami Travel Piccies, condo

3 years ago – trolls, naughty hulk, wonder woman movie

4 years ago – Wave of Husband killings, apple nipple monkey, star trek chairs auctioned, Ashcroft afraid of kitties

5 years ago – brackish , some broken links, dancing poll, tried mcD’s yogurt &fruit, Le Petomane, band name poll, bid farewell to some junk

6 years ago – angry beavers, scary movie, don’t look behind youGeotarget

8443 – Synced and then edited from palm

On my way to work yesterday morning, I discovered that a person walking on the courtyard path (me) can easily see into the third-story condos just by looking up, with head level. I also learned that at least one of my elderly neighbors watches tv at 6:20am without a shirt and probably pants – with the shades open. I continued my journey to the bus stop, determined not to keep my gaze earthbound the rest of he way, despite the perils early on.

grayday-nosky
Gray Day – No Sky or Sun

A monochrome twilight followed shortly after, no absolute black or white, but a nice variety of the range between grew more visible as the sun lifted past the horizon.(I assume, for the direct light lay blocked by thick mats of sky cotton.) More than a few squadrons of birds were in the air, one of which seemed to be missing two members. Rather than a symmetrical V-formation, they were cruising as a giant “check mark” – five birds, three in diagonal line to the right and rear of the lead bird, and just one to the left rear. Either two birds were missing, or one of the guys on the right didn’t like lefty’s breath or missed his takeoff cue.

villager-riot-supply
Villager Riot Supply

Plainclothes security gave me a minor chastisement over taking pictures in k-mart. He questioned what was up, and Dan explained to him that I’m just a hobbyist who likes to take pictures of things. (this case, gardening equipment that struck me as “villager armory, in case of Frankenstein”. I got similar low-end flak from security at tri-rail last weekend. (not that he stopped me from taking some in a more covert style)

K-mart guy seemed to be interested in just enforcing the rules, while Wackenhut-boy was a bit more spazzy-zealous in his endeavors. I was much more likely to obey k-man, as a result. rattle a baton at me and it just makes me more resistant.

Additional pictures from time out with Danny and goofing with Newt under the lamp.

beans homecookingblurrynewt4 blurrynewt3 blurrynewt2 newtlampbw newtlamp blurrynewt


1 year ago – talked to Arnie’s Sec, newt and graffiti pix, autostitch, wifi theft arrest, reality show premises, j-walk on podcasts, programmer joke, google maps goodies, flightgear, wifi hotspot backpack, my messy office, bear-knocking, sex pred info pages,

2 years ago – combos/snausages , wisdom, serving sizes, ramen, Rockford Files, Planetarium pictures, weather, sock thief

3 years ago – call block, snapple, intelligence gathering, Batroc, flashback cartoon, addictive data

4 years ago – oz/floyd connection, pimps at sea, rss feeds start, cat dreams

5 years ago – sweetheart returns, unpacking videos, 1992 tax info, the challenge, corn chowder, kubrick quiz

6 years ago – Rowlf sings, April actually kicks back a few bucks, pondering a new recorderGeotarget

8442 – Meme-a-leem-deem.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

I miss somebody right now.  (My pop, My bro, and a few old friends I never see anymore.) I don’t watch much TV these days.  (Well, I do watch a few shows on the CPU, though. 4 shows total.) I own lots of books.  (Many, of all sorts – Popcorn to Depp Thought)
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (I did wear reading glasses for a while, but I got better.) I love to play video games.  (Depends on the game, and my state of mind.) I’ve tried marijuana.  (Haven’t smoked in a long time, but yup, I’ve tried it.)
I’ve watched porn movies.  (I’m not sure I know of anyone over 18 who hasn’t seen one.) × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (Nope.) I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (Usually.)
I curse sometimes.  (But not so much as I used to.) × I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (Not too much. I have changed a lot over the last Decade, however.) × I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (Used to, not anymore.)

it goes on…

8441 – Friday! T-minus 28:30 until My Launch for the Keys!

Nice time with the Danster last night. He’s probably at about 50% go for Dragon*con. I’ll be going unless some unexpected financial issue comes up to stop me. He had curried duck, and I had a boatload of veggie sushi. He paid for dinner, and I bought us 3 packs of pirates each… and I got a sea monster! Calyspos (traded from Danny for a huge French Clipper ship… fair trade, both are rare, he’s got a nice French fleet, and my Spanish fleet would love to have a giant squid on its team)

Danny also gifted me with Darwinia as a pleasant surprise, as well. I imagine that I’ll spend nice bit of time fiddling with that, too.


Looks like it might be a bit rainy down south this weekend.


Sometimes, a Brain in a jar quoting Nietzsche to a Super-intelligent Gorilla can make me misty.


My land line took a bad bounce, and now the ringer no longer works. I can still send and receive calls, but have no idea when an incoming call is… well, incoming, unless it’s call waiting while I’m on the phone already, or if I’m actively looking at the caller ID. I think I’ll just forward it to my cell phone for the weekend, anyhow.


1 year ago – busy, tiny text, hurricanes gone?, pedometer, one, london explosions, waterspoits, 48 questions,

2 years ago – condo bid, There-updated, MORE vizcaya pictures, pelvic thrust stormtrooper, spidey2, @ poll

3 years ago – Frankie, restoration of library, lovejoy, danny, lj-interests, health, baby tats

4 years ago – Newt ([info]jamacianjungle dreamed that she got to play with him!), palm entry, grim reaper song

5 years ago – wereturtle, moved into new place

6 years ago – reschedule, April, jenjen finds journalGeotarget

8440 – This must be Thursday.

Perhaps the best gift for a gamer, ever. (and depending on the player, it might be a nice secondhand results gift to the group.)

Willow creates handcrafted soaps out of all-natural ingredients. Her Handmade Soaps For GAMERS premiered with rave reviews at Gen Con Indy 2005.

Currently available is the NATURAL 20 –a scented soap with an actual d20 embedded in it — the most popular soap at the show! via eryx_uk


Debunking the Christian Democracy Myth – Quotes from the Founding Fathers


suicide invalidates insurance policies, but any death obliterates a conviction that is not final – via lizaboo


ln quiz

8437 – Monday off, bayyyybeee!

Lately, the weather is proper rainy season fare – warm and humid, dense, moist atmosphere even when the water falls from the sky. All you need for a soothing shower would be a bar of soap and some privacy.


I’ve been feeling like it’s time for a change. Something simple, even like getting that haircut that I dodged a month or so back. As long as I don’t have to use a lot of product, I’d probably be ok with short hair.(after a period of shock adjustment)


Why is it so much more acceptable for a stranger to try and bum a cigarette off of someone else (even if they’re not currently smoking… or even holding a pack of cigs), rather than say, a stick of gum? does the addiction make the beggar more brave, or maybe the social side of smoking is the thing.


Yesterday, I went to breakfast and see superman with Tina – had a nice time, and I think that I enjoyed the movie more the second go. Going to put plans in motion to maybe get Danny and Tina to go see pirates after my journey to the keys.

We visited the Victoria park diner, 17th day open. cash register receipts still read “Miami Subs”. The food was reasonable, but big louie’s is better both in quality and cost. On the ride home, I spoke with an employee – the franchise owners are still the same ones that owned the Miami Subs before it was converted. Given the location, I suspect that they can’t help but succeed. (Unlike the archives cafe… which is closing as of 7/7. The place is already mostly boxed up. To be honest, I’m amazed it lasted as long as it did. The “new location” is selling books on ebay from the garage, it seems.


I lovely time gabbing with bhk on the ride to the theater – I’m envious of the fossil-rich environment where she lives.


Monday’s plan is a good walkabout if it’s not too rainy – otherwise, stay in and clear a few more boxes.


Moment of Lyric – youtube video

8436 – Halfway through the year!

A recent discovery has me happy, curious and a bit nervous. (Something that I should’ve recognized quite some time ago, but my normally perceptive self has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to that sort of thing.)

In other, vaguely related news, I quite enjoy the scent of hickory smoked apple-cured bacon, even if it is really just the freshly-oiled and reanimated Hoff, standing in the sun. Shoo, flies!


I forgot ot mention yesterday that on Friday, Danny and I picked up a pair of “Cursed” Pirate game boosters… hoping fo ra ghost ship or a sea monster. No dice, save for a couple of spooky crewmen… but the ships I did get were pretty keen… a little one-masted pirate ship and a spanish schooner that are both especially good looking and capable. Some of the new crew are impressive, but a bit costly at 7-10 points, depending on what they can do.

I will be buying more packs, because eI really want a kraken or other sea monster to mess with folks.


That’ll teach me to go out on the porch barefoot after the floor is freshly mopped.

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Footy-prints in the reflection.


Moment of Lyric – Youtube video

8432- farewell, June. I won’t be missing you.

Friday. Payday. Right before a 4-day weekend. Good thoughts for July… June fairly stunk, with a few nice exceptions. June seems to often be a bad month for me.. I’m glad it’s passed for another year.

Rather rushed this morning, more to follow tonight, or from the bus ride, no doubt.


Moment of Lyric – mp3

All alone in this world am I
Not a care for this world have I
Only you keep my eyes open wide
Yes it’s true
I live for you

Not a thing in this world do I own
Only sadness from all that is grown
In this darkness I wait for the day
Yes it’s true
I live for you

For many years I wait
For many tears I wait

All this time my thoughts return to you
Give my love, that is all I can do
Wait in line till I feel you inside
Yes it’s true
I live for you

For many years I wait
For many tears I wait

All this time my thoughts return to you
Give my love, that is all I can do
Wait in line till I feel you inside
Yes it’s true
I live for you


teddygun

A Japanese company called Sunamiya has developed a gun-shaped party cracker that shoots out a teddy bear. The teddy bear would then parachute down.

Developers hit on the idea after noticing that it had become a trend for people to throw teddy bears into the air instead of bouquets at wedding receptions.


1 year ago – Missing the good ol’ days- Sam and Max, a9 maps, Chee-chee gone, pumpkins are berries, flickr-google earth hack, movie plans, maps

2 years ago – planning a trip, big rock candy mountain, getting journal-spam

3 years ago – Heroclix Icon, Playboy Mystery, The Thorns, Octopus hot dogs, KingKong, Acme Illustrated Catalog, Newtcam pic (see the day prior for oneof his gut sticking out), Lunch with Danny, Las Olas Walkies, awonderful surprise chat.

4 years ago – settling in, south beach remote cam, Newt-lassie comparisons, power puff/marley

5 years ago – Rookie Bodine, good thoughts, crash test dummy plot seeds, redolent, the power of cheese, Ornj goes camping

6 years ago – shotgunGeotarget

8429 – Thursday again, yes it is.

Got some writing accomplished last night. Basic outline, some bits of dialogue. It’s not coming together in “freeflow” style I usually go for, but building on a planned skeleton seems to be working for me so far. 6 characters is a bit stereotypical so far… protagonist, romantic interest, street contact, police interface, villain and victim. I’ve got the method, but some aspects of the implementation aren’t quite on the beam. It wa skind of hard ot get rolling, but about 15 minutes in, the flow improved.

(Writing to Linda Ronstadt’s unreleased Keeping Out Of Mischief album certainly promotes noir. Got to love a good torch song from a voice like hers. Thank you, internet for obscure, but easy to download, lost vinyl!)


I would really like some of these USB Powered Air conditioned clothes in a Hawaiian print.


Bing, Bang Boing – The bounce-a-dilly whatchamagame with the bingaroony sound. (and the rnifty 70’s commercials) My neighbor Jason has the smash-up derby ssp racers, and they were a hoot. (via my my littler big sis, ldy)


Moment of music – mp3

Rotating head, keeps on the right side
Coiled up and tense remains on the lookout
Expects to be shot or get given the bullet.
Rotating head tries to look on the bright side of things.

8428 – More Links, less thinks.

I’ve been feeling a rather blah mood underneath my basic mostly chipper vibe for a little while now. I’ve got a lot of good things going in my life, but still feel a bit of malaise. I think it’s just a combination of the time of the year, general stresses and the like.

I get cheered up quickly when I think of good people I know…LJ folks, not to mention phone calls or hanging out with Danny really energize me and return my thoughts to an even keel. (Usually… sometimes Danny and I commiserate to a point of being mutually cranky…or at least mutually tired.)

Coworkers are a mixed bunch… GG and TD are cool, but the higher much-a-mucks have been really stressed lately, and that’s contagious. Nobody’s really given me any direct guff, but lots of guff “near me”. I have to remind myself to just let it go, and not feed into that mentality.

I’ve got 7 vacation days left to use before 8/25. Not sure what I’m going to do with that, but I know at least part will be sent going up to Virginia, to relax and enjoy myself. (Staying at the crash pad near Mom and Wilt.) Hopefully, a little sidebar to the Keys could happen, too.

I feel good that I’ve raised enough money (between my junk-food fund, now at about $70, plus the kindly donations of folks who click on my webpage ads at about another $100, and outright paypal donations of about $25) to do the bees option, Trees, and chicks a couple of times over. Unless I find an even better charity, that’ll be where the funds go at the end of this month.

See, I feel less bleh, even just typing about making an improvement, and thinking about good folks in my life. Needless to say, Newt is a fine calming and cheer-bringing medicine, too. Thinking about it, I only lapse to humbug when I forget about all the spiffies.


Soccer / Football – Who Should I cheer for?


Ice Cream Truck Music!


Alert Map. I am altogether too fascinated with this.

Here’s a breakdown of what the icons mean

When I build my superhero lair, this is going on a large screen on the west wall of the ready room.

Sample –

An unknown object has dropped from the sky in a remote village of Tsurma, Kiyawa local government area of Jigawa State. The object labelled “Adolphus 12” carried the French national flag that was covered with an 8 inch polytene bag attached with electronic gadgets, telephone numbers of France and Benin Republic. Eyewitness account told Vanguard that the strange object dropped in the village around 5.00 pm local time after a slight rainfall, which caused apprehension and tension among inhabitants. The eyewitness account stated that the object which appeared to be remote controlled from an unknown centre attempted to take off again before it was tied down by the villagers who subsequently alerted the Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Muhammadu Nuhu Sanusi. Vanguard reports that the object that was about the size of a 2,000-litre water tank has an inscription that says “whoever finds it should call the numbers attached, this is not dangerous, and it is a scientific experiment.”

The object also has an antenna, four aerial wires, and a transmitter that looks like a satellite transmission mechanism. Vanguard further reports that the sleepy village was to turned to a Mecca by the news of the strange object as crowd estimated at about 10,000 trooped there to catch a glimpse of the object. Following the development, the Police authority in Dutse sent a team of expert from Bomb Disposal Unit to ascertain the true picture of the object. Briefing newsmen on the incident, the Jigawa Police Public Relation Officer, ASP, Ejike Nwakalor, confirmed that preliminary investigations indicate that the object is a safe scientific gadget with no destructive element, but could not say if it was an espionage object.


How To Make Anything Look Like a Toy – see also –
10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop (virtual photographer is a new fave don’t forget the extras)


What’s on my flash drive.


Moment of Lyric – (Youtube is my hero, yet again)

Very superstitious, writing’s on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders bout’ to fall,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

oo When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way

Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin’ strong,
You don’t wanna save me, sad is my song.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, yeh, yeh.

Very superstitious, nothin’ more to say,
Very superstitious, the devil’s on his way,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past

When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no


Spidey 3 Trailer Yay, Sandman!


Nick Brandt’s African photos.


Obscure Characters in the DC Universe


Self-reminder about more youtube cartoons.


1 year ago – mp plans, tired, miami vice movie filming, outdoor bro, open id, falling body, florida on florida, pictures, I don’t wanna be stoned, zombie dogs, To live instead of exist

2 years ago – pick up the phone, explosion world, virtual frog dissection, viruses,giant clothes, roadsign, hulk coloring book, ebooks, puppy stops killers

3 years ago – plushie microbes, night flight, handguns, Scientology, newt pics, playboy

4 years ago – Newt smarts, moment of zen, moment of poop, political compass, dusty apt.

5 years ago – weird emma, peremptory, yum!, broken linkies, evil news, name poll, who do you love

6 years ago – breakup w/ April, Candle, submarineGeotarget