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7444 – Monday, and so it begins again!

Happy Birthday, ldy!
Hope it’s a great one, littler big sis!

Also, Big lovies for Sedef today!


Flip side of listening to audio books, OTR, etc… my eyes actually shut off a little when I focus on my ears. My multitasking skills are weak when it comes to processing sensory inputs, it seems.


Looks like the Hukilau is progressing nicely! The New Website is up, and it’s looking sharp. Great music, too. A shame it’s all flash, but it’s lovely, nonetheless.

If folks are going to be in Fort Lauderdale at the top of October, I hope to see you there!

I have to remember to call and set reservations tomorrow morning, so I don’t forget later on.

954-563-3272 I think I’ll hit the 7pm show, rather than the 10. I wonder if I could lure Danny into going? Doubtful, as it’ll be well into the school schedule. Maybe I can tempt him by sending him to the Dames A’flame website.

BRING ON MONKEY ZUMA!


Made tentative plans for Danny on Thursday. Moroccan food and belly dancers, maybe?


Bro had me make a phone call for him to get a ride from some clown with a Texas number on his cell phone. Whoever I called is pretty shady. He called me from “Uncle Bob’s”, his storage facility on Sample in Pompano.


Criminy… a Speed Racer Geico commercial? I’m pretty impressed.. the got the voice talent spot on.

Random Scotto Factoid – Speed Racer is how I found the link between 5 and the board game “Go”. (A lot of Japanese show titles make a bilingual pun out of “go,” the Japanese word for “five” and the English word for, well, “go.” That’s why Speed Racer’s car is the Mach 5 — the Japanese name of the show is Maku Go Go Go)

Have they gotten around to showing classic ‘toons again on the cartoon network? I’d dig watching some of Speed Racer and the Herculoids sometime. Any show where characters are named “Lightfingers Klepto, Jr” or “Ivonna von Vondervon” is fairly groovy to me.


CVS seems to charge for food by weight rather than content. A packet of cereal, cheese crackers, cookies or a soft drink all seem to go for about $.05 per ounce, give or take. Maybe I’m making connections where there are none.

The initials stand for “Customer, Value, Service”. I suspect most of the employees at the store on Broward and Federal don’t know this.


Recent comments is a good way to stay on top of posts if mail doesn’t come in a timely manner.


Dr. Who was another follow up episode from a prior one (This time, the TV Satellite one, a hundred years later). More consequences. I didn’t think that I’d be too fond, but I really rather liked it. One of the major plot points was pretty obvious, but it mostly served to push to the season finale.

I appreciate Jack’s Holdout skills. “It’s a pleasure, which is the only thing that matters in the end.” Which means I still don’t like his character very much. I’m starting to wonder if the Doctor is going to pick up a stray every third episode, give or take?

Again, I wonder about the suggested age group for the show. It’s still written for clever 10-year olds, but has more sexual overtones and violent innuendo than I’d like for a 10-year old to see. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it. The market for most science fiction/action shows doesn’t have to be very intelligent, just entertaining… sex (well, at least “Single entendres”) and violence (bloodless ray-beam death, and exploding aliens) are certainly that. It’s still more intelligently written than anything the Sci-fi channel has produced.

I suspect that I’m being too much of a prude, and it’s really written as popcorn for 13-years rather than a younger group.


Teeth! via the something awful goons and sammykun (A semi-instructional video for first graders.)


I forgot how much I like the Impact font.


Moment of Lyric:

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become


via daniela

Pink Floyd reuniting for Live 8 (Like she said – Roger Waters must be broke!)


1 year ago – Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime

2 years ago – Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics

3 years ago – Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.

4 years ago – perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation, Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news

5 years ago – April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals

No acromegalics were harmed in the making of this entry.

7442 – Love, Hate, Hope, Faith.

Track 15 of 53 (about 4 hours) of Going Postal. Quite pleasant to listen to while eating dinner and petting the cat. Much like old-time radio. Goes a lot slower than my standard reading speed… I can usually grind out a whole book in that span, but the voice talent is a nice trade-off. I’m in no rush, after all. He does a superb Igor, in particular.

Not a bad way to fill time while locked in.


[EDIT: – I slept in until 12:30??? The night was longer than I thought!]


Got a free pie after having to wait 2 hours. I called at the one hour mark, and they mentioned he was on his way… called again at the 1:45 mark, as my place is about 3/4 mile from the delivery joint. Turns out the delivery guy was pinned in at the beach…. I still tipped the guy, as he was friendly and apologetic. When all is said and done, I didn’t mind sitting tight a bit for a large pineapple and green pepper pizza for $2.


Grabbed the Pilot for Global Frequency… pretty typical Sci-Fi channel fare. It has the potential to be a good show, if they step away from the needless stutter-cut/bullet time/speedup-slowdown film/ matrix crap. A neat idea… I hadn’t read the comic, so I don’t know how it compares to the source material. If it got some good writing and stays away from “my cell phone is a mother box” scenarios, I think it’d be a nice blend of Delta Green style Mission Impossible vs. The X-files.

Haven’t watched the new Who episode yet, but I’m sure I will have before bedtime tonight. I have no idea why it came down the pipe so slow… 1600 seeders, and I was only getting 26kB/s? The Daily Show was giving me 165!

I don’t know why nobody seems to seed Kim Possible. It’s the only show I can’t seem to fill my queue with. Thank goodness for DC++ and bittorrent… Since I got NetFlix, I really don’t need to mooch movies online, so it’s all strictly TV rips these days. That reminds me, I need to swap out my current stack of movies, and see what’s heading my way. The first Season of Carnivale and Get a Life, I think. *There’s* a dandy combination.


I forgot about my writing assignment again until just now. I wonder if I’ll ever get around to doing it properly.. doing an outline, writing a rough, stepping away for a day and coming back to edit cleanly. It seems that they’re always born whole cloth, no real structure outside of a scene or two, and just stitched together as I go. Bad form. I think keeping a journal these last few years has actually helped to make me a lazy writer, contrary to my original plan.


If all goes well, I see MP next weekend. I’ve got to clean up the apartment, as I’ve let it go to bachelor slack again.


oneeyedcat and her “praise the lord” bracelets got me thinking about something. Jesus had all those loaves and fishes going on…. nobody thought to make a fish sandwich? (About 1700 or so years before this guy invented it.)


Mister Little Brown Mousie made an appearance yesterday evening, but then high-tailed it behind the fridge. I was afraid to move it, for fear of killing the little guy, so I put Newt in the bathroom, got the broom, and opened my front door in an attempt to make some noise to flush him out and send him packing. No dice. It’s driving me to distraction… I don’t want to hurt him, so I’m going to have to get creative if I want to evict my new housemate.


Speaking of food and large groups:

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has released a game called Food Force. Available for download for free, the game is compatible with Macs and PCs. The WFP’s goal in releasing Food Force is to educate players about world hunger and the work the aid agency does.

The game puts players in charge of a hunger relief effort on the fictional Indian Ocean island of Sheylan, ravaged by a civil war, flooding and drought. You lead a crack multinational team of WFP professionals including a logistics officer, nutritionist and air drop specialist, and you must lead the team through six missions to bring food and supplies to the desperate natives of Sheylan — everything from air surveillance to figuring out a good balanced diet, airdropping supplies, and helping natives get the most out of their natural resources by planning future farming efforts.


Yesterday, I got a post in my journal from Havagan… haven’t heard from him in an age. I rather thought he might show up at the trip to Sith with Kev and the FMM crew, but no such luck. He left IMT/FMM when? Last time I mentioned him in my Journal was 8/8/2001 (or his real name on 1/24/2001), and was already gone (as was Tman and Pixx)


The Momster & Wilt are going on a cruise next week, and she brought over some stuff that wasn’t going to make it through the time they’ll be gone. Score me some blueberry yogurt, granola and diet coke. It came at a good time, because Mr. Cupboard is bare, save for some green beans and tomato soup. yummy, but not exactly breakfast fare. She also gave me a double sawbuck for dinner and a movie, which was quite welcome, too.


RI on Friday raised the question to me in front of everyone else “Who would you say is the most sane person in this office?” and then narrowed it down to just her and me. I answered that sanity is a pretty subjective term, but that I thought that I had a more calm and balanced demeanor, and that she had more personality quirks than I do. (Which is saying something. I think that I’m a pretty quirky guy.) She then got a little perturbed… I think because she wanted to set herself up as the bastion of stability or something. She then wanted me to list out her quirks for her… I really didn’t have any more time to put into that conversation ,and I told her that I’d point ’em out as I saw them. She seemed really surprised… I wonder what set off that conversation before I arrived back at the office?

Speaking of which, note to so many people lately who “keep it real” or whatever: You can tell the truth and explain how you feel about things without being a jerk. People who say “I’m not a bitch, I just tell the truth” seem to think that they’re mutually exclusive. Not the case. You can be up front with a person and not be vulgar about the whole thing.


Got to meet Chloe-puppy and she’s adorable as can be. A four month old baby toy yorkie, about the size of 1/3 of Newton (and weighs even less)


Moment of Lyric: (mp3) via

My sweet farm girl, she’s jolly of my pride
My sweet farm girl, she’s jolly of my pride
She knows I know how to keep her satisfied

Continue reading 7442 – Love, Hate, Hope, Faith.

7440 – Saturday, in the computer room, with the rope.

Thick rain, but didn’t sleep much last night. On call today… hopefully it’ll be nice and peaceful. EN forgot to launch the SP calls at 7 pm last night, so I’m going to fire ’em off tonight.


Some slight ankle-pain in my left leg. I wonder if it’s a result of my drop foot and the weather pressure change?


Somehow, a little brown mouse got into the house after all the rain last night – he ran under my dresser, and Newt wants a piece of him really badly. Neither Newt or myself can get at the little guy right now, but it’s only a matter of time.


Downloaded the Audios of Hat Full of Sky and Going Postal, since I couldn’t locate it in text format. We’ll see if I can get into listening to the book on the bus rather than reading it. If they’re good, I may go back and get the rest in that format. The problem with audio is that I can go from active to passive listening, and miss things during change of focus. When I read, it’s always active. If I had the book playing in the background while I read LJ or the like, audio will still be head, but some subtleties can drop off. Snatched TV like Lost or Dr. Who is easier to grip, because my eyes are on it.


Moment of Lyric:

Oye como va
Que ritmo
Bueno par gocar
Mulatta


1 year ago – full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias

2 years ago – D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rental warnings – things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there – quest

3 years ago – MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia’s angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what’s better

4 years ago – evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku, got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist’s sexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll

5 years ago – Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it’s over with April

7437

The Friday Five

From your vantage point in front of the computer, you spy, with your little eye…

1. Something that is red:
Stripe on the Burger King building across the parking lot. I want hash browns. I get none.

2. Something that is shiny:
Rain puddle outside. little drops are still splashing in it

3: Something that is ugly:
Beige Painted-over wood paneling

4. Something that is made of wood:
Froggy Noisemaker from Danny.

5. Something that is sharp:
Hmm… not much here. nothing with an edge, but my mechanical pencil could puncture you!

7435 – FRIDAY! AT EFFIN’ LAST!

Good thoughts for Whims and her family right now.


Bro visited mom at work, was looking sharp. Clean, short-sleeved shirt, solid mindset, has a gig telemarketing. It was good for her to see him in decent shape for a change.


I want to sleep the whole weekend away. Just float in limbo, comfortably. Talk to some good friends, relax with the Newtie-boy. Maybe toss in a loaf or two of fresh baked bread and honey.


Got a free lunch donated to us at work yesterday… Lenny’s gave the company a platter of three big ol’ subs. Italian, Turkey and Veggie. I can dig a free lunch… ECN also gave me a bag of M&Ms for dessert.


I got to talk to MP for about a minute yesterday. It was nice, but far too short.


Looks like tropical storm Arlene is going to miss South Florida. – Rainy Weekend here.

Weather stuff

7432 – Thoisdee

Bro called yesterday morning, and was very thankful for the bailout.


Monkey with a Popsicle, compliments of beaucoupkevin and Alice.

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/060905/hotmonkey3.jpg
Sour apes: A monkey bites into a lemon Popsicle on a sweltering day at China’s Tianjin Zoo.

You know what they say… *Monkeys, shown here eating Popsicles, are aware of injustice.* (scroll to article near bottom)

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/092303/MonmonkeypopX.jpg

When I got home last night, they were tearing down the little 2-bedroom house in my backyard. That’s a shame… I think that little building had been there since the 1930s or before. Cute little Key West-style place done in white with navy blue trim. I can now look out my bedroom window and see two streets over.

I rather think that I preferred the cozy sense of privacy that I had before, but we’ll see if I change my mind over the next couple of days. I wonder how this’ll effect security and flyby factor for the next major storm?

The street lamp bleeds a little mor [brief visit from Newt-foot on keyboard – /././../] e illumination over now.

Newt was watching the earthmover equipment with fascination…I wonder what he thought they were, from his point of view? I suspect he was more interested in the noise that they were making than anything else.

I didn’t even know the guy in the house had moved out. My brother used to hang out with the tenant’s son, a bodybuilder guy that eventually went to jail for some sort of assault / battery charge on a cop.


I have to remember to let GrayPumpkin see this.

Shatner does Se7en : Soon after the movie Seven came out, the MTV Movie Awards got William Shatner to do this parody. He plays the lead roles as each of his more famous characters: Captain Kirk, TJ Hooker, and himself as the host of Rescue 911. Includes a guest appearance by Carmen Electra as an alien.


Moment of Lyric: (mp3) (I wish I could remember where I found this)

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible – Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Continue reading 7432 – Thoisdee

7431 – what’re you doing? thingum

Your NOW and LAST by Nightflax
What color is your hair? Brown with a little blonde, auburn, black and gray mixed in
How Tall are you? 6'5ish
What music are you listening to? Orbital – Doctor Who
What can you see (other than the computer)? Newt chewing on a business card *again*
If you reach out your left foot, what will it hit? A big subwoofer
What can you hear? Music, newt chewing, keyobard clicks, a/c whir, pc fans, crunching toast
What is bothering you? the distance from here to colombia
What are you in love with? Newt snugs
What do you dislike? free-floating anxiety
What can you smell? peanut butter toast
What hurts? pain? Nothing on my body is currently hurting.
What is on your head? a brown hair tie elsastic
What is your computer's background? MP and Newtie.
What is in your wallet? bus pass, assorted business cards, seven dollars, a condom, newt whisker
What position are you in? sitting, leaning to the left a bit
Where are you? home, in front of big brain
How are you feeling? Not bad. a little sleepy
Who would you like to hug? I'm a hug whore. I'll hug just about anyone that isn't stinky. That said, my pref currently runs to MP & Newt
Where would you like to be? Cuddling in South America
What color are you favouring? Orange, usually, but Red, Green, Blue and Black are all nice.
Who is messaging you? nobody at the moment.
Last…
Who is your most recent Xanga, LJ or DJ entry from? on my reading list? eryx_uk / commented? phillykat
Who is the last person you saw? a guy with a moustache driving a shovel-truck
Who is the last person you missed? MP
What is the last place your feet took you to? My chair, here.
What is the last place wheels took you to? Home, via bus.
What is the last drug you took? multi-vitamin before breakfast
What is the last thing you said? Hmph. hot!
Who did you last speak too? the toaster oven. (last living thing, Newt – last human bus driver “thank you!”)
What is the last book you read? Last completed – Night Watch / Current Read – Rereading Bratpack
What is the last TV show you saw? A snippet of Smallville. Last Whole show – Family Guy
What is the last Movie you watched? Fog of War
Take this Survgen survey!

7430 – Humpty-hump

So, now I have 100 user pictures available now. I’ll just repopulate with all my old saved ones. The only one I can’t seem to find is Papa Smurf from the old days, which is easily recreated. I also tossed a couple of stock one found in my travels that struck my fancy. (Zombie Robin, Zim and the pig, Ewok Love, and the meow cats.) I made a couple of others too, that I’d been meaning to resize.

I currently use about five with regularity, depending on the primary topic of what I’m writing about and the remaining are all silly-filler. Maybe I should make a theme out of a few, like 20 or so?


Got a lovely phone call from MP yesterday.. that took the edge off nicely.


1. Copy and paste this into your journal:
< *font color="yourusername"> < *b>yourusername< */b>< */font>
2. Eliminate the asterisks.
3. Replace “yourusername” with your user name.
4. See what color you are.

scottobear


For posterity, a current picture of me, that makes me look a bit like Rocket Red 4 out of uniform. My widow’s peak seems quite amplified, too.

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/060705/scotto060705.jpg
Using Newtcam for a non-newt pic!

The Bear! (found via the photo meme and greenelvish)


Moment of Lyric – mp3

I heard you on the wireless back in ’52
Lying awake intent on tuning in on you
If I was young it didn’t stop you coming through

Oh-a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Continue reading 7430 – Humpty-hump