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8126 – lj shakeup
Cool Icon of the moment – 
Worked Late both Tuesday and Wednesday…I’m hoping that I can but out a bit early today or ideally tomorrow, maybe to give me time to pick up big brain if it’s all better by then.
Well, this might calm down some holier than thou Mozilla preachers out there (don’t get me wrong, I surely prefer firefox over MSIE – but anytime somethinggets a new feature, some clown will find a way to clog the pipes.) Problematic enough that Livejournal is reformatting how page URLs are laid out. Added Kudos to LJ_maint for being about as vague as possible regarding this issue in the meantime. [update – news clarifies things a bit better here. ]
My suspicions about Lost seem to be coming to light –
From Damon Lindelof (one of the creators of the show) – “If you’re watching the show because you’re waiting for the big answers to come, you have to understand that by the nature of what it is — it’s not a movie, it’s not a series of movies, it’s not a trilogy, it’s not a miniseries — it’s going to be on the air for as long as ABC wants to keep it on the air…how can you ever possibly think that Lost will end in a satisfying way? Carlton (the other co creator) and I can almost guarantee you that it will not.“
That said, I still dug the Mr. Eko/Charlie/Island Monster Episode enough to follow along. I just won’t plan for it all to come together in any good way when the show ends… I’ll just toss it in the box with X-files, Twin Peaks, and the rest. Like those, when it turns to poop, I’ll stop watching, until someone recommends a particular episode. Heck, I’d already resigned myself to that anyhow.
1 year ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb
2 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy
3 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites
4 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names
5 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing
8125 – Easy way to get that Episode of Lost or whatnot.
Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers [via]
8124 –
I don’t know what I was thinking… that all of the homeless would pack up and go into lockdown, but they seemed even more populous than ever on the ride to work yesterday. I mentally tallied 36 as the bus rolled by them.
Big Brain’s video card arrived damaged. Murphy’s law, I imagine. They’re sending another one, and it should be installed by Friday. Gary, the Head muck-de-muck apologized again, and gave me “his personal guarantee” that it would be installed and my machine would be ready for use by Friday after work.
Yeah, yeah, right, right. We’ll see.
Is it a sign of Newt really disliking my mashed potatoes if he hops on the table and scratches, trying to cover it up like it was in the sandbox? I suspect the chives are what set him off.
Moment of Lyric: (video link)
After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
’cause the life that lived is,
Is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
The names it has blow in the past?
And with this crutch, it’s old age, and it’s wisdom
It whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
1 year ago – mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides
2 years ago – popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong
3 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry
4 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn
5 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal)
8123 – Beware the Ghost who walks
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian man who was believed dead caused panic when he returned, causing villagers to think he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reported Monday.
Children screamed “Ghost! Ghost!” and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi’s brothers, who had shaved their heads to mourn his death in line with Hindu tradition, fled when he appeared, the paper reported.
Villagers and family members have ostracized him, forcing Raghuvanshi to file a complaint with local police. The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.
Raghuvanshi’s troubles arose after he was jailed last year. In prison, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment from which he recovered but a distant relative told his family he had died.
8122 – update on that article.
8121 – i…am god!
iamgod
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Click to make bigger.
This is from DC’s “Tarzan lord of the jungle” #232.
The lead story “Tarzan and the lion-man” was written and drawn by Joe Kubert.
Found via scans_daily
8120 –
Groggy, foggy head this morning. Can’t seem to shake off the stupids.
Bro’s rolling in big dollars lately. I suspect he’s up to more than pressure cleaning, but don’t know for sure. He did sound clear and solid on the phone last night.
Florida Homeless Beating Caught on Videotape. Continue reading 8120 –
8119 –
something beginning with Q!
Via kat78731 – the Falling Sand game – dang addictive.
| Greed: | Very Low |
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| Gluttony: | Low |
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| Wrath: | Very Low |
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| Sloth: | Medium |
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| Envy: | Low |
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| Lust: | Medium |
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| Pride: | Very Low |
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8118 – Martin Luther King Day
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
» Americans to Celebrate King Holiday By Serving Others
» View 2006 MLK Day of Service Project Listings
» Click here to register your MLK Day of Service Project
» National Service Agency Announces Grants to Support Service
Projects on 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
» View the 2005 MLK Day of Service Photo Gallery
During his lifetime, Dr. King sought to forge the common ground on which people from all walks of life could join together to address important community issues. Working alongside individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds, Dr. King encouraged Americans to come together to strengthen communities, alleviate poverty, and acknowledge dignity and respect for all human beings. Service, he realized, was the great equalizer.
On January 16, 2006, as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, Americans across the country will celebrate by honoring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will remember and memorialize Dr. King by participating in service projects in their communities. Together, they will honor King’s legacy of tolerance, peace, and equality by meeting community needs and making the holiday “A day ON, not a day OFF.”
8117 – Dang, them hobbits sure are short!
This miniature hobbit house is insane! Outstanding detail… I’m quite impressed. It’d be cool to use as a miniatures wargaming set piece. (thanks, applelard )
8116 – Work, again? BOB SAGAT!
I didn’t do much of anything this weekend. I didn’t put on shoes. I didn’t leave the third floor. I did clean house, laundry, etc.
Watched the heck out of the Kong DVDs… all the special edition stuff… Harryhausen’s test footage and the documentary on “the making of” was pretty dang impressive, and Harryhausen’s commentary was good on the movie disc, too. A lot of it was interpolated, due to the movie being over 70 years old.. just about everyone remotely involved in the project are long deceased. It worked out quite nicely, however, since the material hasn’t changed in that span,either.
Mr. T doing a happy little dance. (don’t sniff the rest of the site unless you’re not at work and have a strong stomach.)
In fact, I’ll just snag the animated gif from the shockwave,and post it here, instead.
Found it searching for –
Remember kids… believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don’t do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs.
1 year ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches
2 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc
3 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life
4 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.
5 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links.
6 years ago – Newt was Neutered!
8115 – Robert says Andromeda Strain, I’m more for Night of the Living Dead
Hey, the Stardust probe made it back! (thanks 
Robert!)
Reuters Article Continue reading 8115 – Robert says Andromeda Strain, I’m more for Night of the Living Dead
8114 – Sunday Dawns and I’m already awake.
The nudge feature is mostly pointless, I think. You could accomplish the the same thing handily with an e-mail or comment in their journal. I hope that they continue to implement other more groovy features. I do confess that it’s interesting to see when some of the more tardy people have last posted… I’m more likely to just drop someone that hasn’t posted in about three months. (unless they’re a very special circumstance)
I’ve found that I have another superpower: the ability to make RS have to go pee. If we get into a discussion about anything for more than a minute or three, she has to rush off to the potty, do her business and come back when done. This has been documented at least a dozen times, and she’s able to stay at her desk for hours on end.
Last night’s dream involved me being strapped to a table with electrodes bolted to my ankles. When they ran current through them, all of my skin began to peel like a bad sunburn and underneath the fresh skin was a dark, mossy green. Somehow I knew that the treatments were causing a strange growth of all my internal flora… whatever else touched the new skin (like a a scalpel) it burned and was turned quickly to vapor. I don’t recall any smells. They finally figured out that shark’s teeth could touch the new skin without burning up, so they incised and pulled out the rock that was making the bad plant-reaction in my body. I was healed, and buried the rock in the ground of an empty lot, hoping it would help jump start a fresh garden there.
It’s hard to chop down a tree with a saw made of shark’s teeth.
No Dice going out with Dave or Dave last night… Today it’s going to be more solo journeys, methinks.
Moment of Lyric:
Me and your sister
Went by the river
Your sister jump in the water
I jump in after
I’ll never forget,
Everything was set
But I didn’t get
She Tell me yes
She Tell me no
She tell me nonononono.
Just check out this website.
This picture makes more sense than most management decisions I’ve seen in my entire working lifetime.
1 year ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA
2 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck
3 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires
4 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols
5 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things
8112 – Oh… Crap
It’s the little things that make me happy…
Voice Balloon Reads – “OH.. CRAP!”
I mean, really. How can people not take comics seriously as an art form?