Ah, Spring has Sprung. Time to wake up and smell the fertility. Ah, good ol’ Vernal Equinox!

Autumn turns to winter,
And winter turns to spring.
It doesn’t go just for seasons you know,
It goes for everything.

Sha na na na na na na na na,
Sha na na na na.

/Brady kids

I didn’t see any sign of McDonald’s Shamrock Shake this year for St Patty’s. (Just as well, no reason to go in there) In rebellion, I got some mint choco-chip ice cream on my walk yesterday. Spent a long time walking around up and down Los Olas, and then war-walked grid near my house. I have a lot of neighbors who walk dogs between 10:30 and 12:30. (Hooray for Sharkscan!)

Cosmic Truth Generator

Hm. LJ is supporting podcasting. If only I had something of value to say! (For Evidence, see prior entry.) I think it’s sort of goofy, actually, but any feature is a good feature, I guess. Custom RSS feeds are a good thing. Funny how I just made the RSS feed for blogdiggermp3 for sniffing out new audio in assorted journals. I guess audio broadcasting is handy if there isn’t a place to read, but for the most part, I’m a bigger fan of text. In honor of Podcasting, here’s Newt mad at a squirrel – 19-mar-2005 1:33pm I calmed him down shortly after.

Speaking of LJ features, why do I keep forgetting about the “auto-refresh” mode that LJ has?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/friends?mode=live

That will just update a page every so often to see if new posts have been added. Feel free to replace scottobear with whatever lj user name you prefer.

Experimental Gameplay Project – tower of goo is awesome.

Chief mentioned that I’m getting compensated for taking time yesterday to do training… works for me. I didn’t get to check out that condo, though.

I shouldn’t be telling you this, but you’re a good soldier, and have a right to know. If we lost this fight, we’ll be in a world of spit. Think of your dear old mother! Wearing bologna shoes, and corrective headgear! She thinks small animals nest in boxes of tapioca pudding left under the yumyum tree too long, but that’s the way she was raised, Mister! Rub that on your thighs, Mr. Moto, and see how far it’ll get ya!

Japanese vendor in small pick-up truck calling “yaki imo… oishii, yaki imo” (get your toasty hot sweet potatoes) via

(Part of the sleepytime scotto playlist)2455498

Three Teens Accused of Kidnapping Boy, 15 Continue reading 7249 – Mucho Audio →

Well, they claim that the guy they picked up is to blame for the Lunsford case, but I have some doubts. We did calls on the case, and there were absolutely no leads. It seems fishy to me.

I get to go into work today, for a short bit to train some techs. I hope that the overlap doesn’t step on my Realtor time.

Really digging Atlantis… almost more than the new Freedom Force.

See how your car would fare in a crash – view crash test videos for recent vehicle types and models. Crash tests are conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). I just like to see SUVs get smooshed.

1 year ago – club 977, Wine & Food, itunes, lj spam, Fri-5, nearby donations, First hint of New Dr Who, Newt big-head pic, color associations

2 years ago – heat, bad job recruiter, UT

3 years ago – city relic quiz, got into an argument with Astley, work nonsense, happy ending

4 years ago – awak but paralised for surgery, com ideas, animal eyes

Friday. Thank goodness. 10 hours from now, I’ll be back in the shack, and can let the weekend commence. I’m getting a little worn out this week. Too many things to do, not enough time. I’m glad ECN helped me out with the sex preds yesterday… hopefully I’ll be able to get RS and ECN to do more today, too.

Current Music – This starts off with some old Bollywood spy movie soundtrack mixed with 666 and Snoop, then goes into Luscious Jackson’s Naked Eye mixed with this really funny 60’s instructional track on how to pick up girls in the street (“You’ve got to master a few basic moves before you can move on to wild, uninhibited street-play”) finally topped off with El Rey y Yo by Los Angeles Negros (which is an awesome track). (thanks to Bionic J. Sasquatch)

Current Playlist – (via) Feel free to tune in.. Thank you, Webjay!

A good resource for all you new ipod-type people, too.

Danny invited me to his school’s production of Guys and Dolls on Sunday… I don’t think I want to go. It’s a roll of the dice, and I still might do it, if only to sing “Luck, be a lady tonight” for three hours afterward.

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Got to hang with George after work yesterday for an hour… I feel guilty taking money from him for teaching him how to use the computer. He’s happy.. he can burn a CD and organize his photos now, and I’m $20 richer, not to mention how much I enjoy his conversation and intelligence. The guy is really soft spoken, but has had quite the life.

Looking into a new condo tomorrow a 2-bedroom near the corner of Sample and Military Trail. I just have to investigate out the neighborhood, and check out the place myself.

Piccies from the realtor

Traditional Irish Folk Song – Denis Leary

It occurs to me that I haven’t seen a pine cone for quite a while. Did
I see any at Christmastime? it seems like the most likely, but I can’t
recall.

sent via palmtop

http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/1133625.html

It amazes me how unhinged in time that thread has become.

I wonder if it’ll keep getting random replies back and forth, a few times a year?

I still think saving Roanoake in a bottle like Kandor is a cool idea.

Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich is pretty darn good… they still capture the silver age goofiness feel nicely. The Rumble room feature is a really spiffy upgrade, and I look forward to making custom heroes like in version before. Meanwhile, fighting Evil Soviet Agents in Cuba works for me. Hopefully, the multi-player online features will be smoother this time around, too. (Just in time, too.. my old FF doesn’t work, since XP service pack 2 came out. )

Sadly, it looks like the skindex is down, and FF skins hasn’t been updated in a few years. Maybe after the game is released, folks will hop back on the design bandwagon. Zed’s is still active. Some fun ones here, too. Good Mesh source here.

Alex’s is still looking good, and is regularly updated. At last, I can have my dream team of Ambush Bug, Bouncing Boy, The Brown Hornet, and The Gentleman Ghost (With Batgirl, Black Manta, Solomon Grundy and Zatara taking up the slack)

Ah, there’s the page I was looking for… but it looks like Marvel killed the skins for their properties. Ah well, I’m sure I can dig up Spidey or the Hulk if I really want ’em.

Golden-agers… Hey! the Red Bee! The Human Ton (With Handy!) READ A BOOK!

Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin? Here I am! Here I am!

My earlier memory entry has me thinking… I wonder if GP and Katt still have the tape of that day at the store when we just goofed around?

I spoke with Josie Connell over at News 10 Michigan last night… very friendly, and seems quite intelligent. We went over what the agency is about and how we’ve been working in the state.

It’s really nice to see mootpoint back in action on LJ again.

Moment of Lyric:

Intense silence as she walked in the room
Her black robes trailing, sister of the moon
And a black widow spider makes more sound than she
And black moons in those eyes of hers
Made more sense to me
Heavy persuasion, it was hard to breathe
She was dark at the top of the stairs
And she called to me

Wireless servers detected as I rode the bus home yesterday.

• default
• lenrose
• Access1
• DrFranc
• 4thfloorA
• office
• linksys (4 or 5 of ’em)
• AMI
• MSHOME
• RPRS
• SMR
• wifi

and my favorite –

• getoffmy80211b

Coming Tomorrow or Thursday:

Current account locations –

scottobear is on Roastbeef, subcluster 9.
coloringbook is on Tbone, subcluster 9.
live_journalia is on Filetmignon
menstrualhut is on Soybean.

Aw… I want to be on Soybean!

Where are you?

New Episode of Making Fiends!

1 year ago – Danny Solo, Devilfinder, Paper toys, elephants-Yeah!, pages back up, COH

2 years ago – lovey, storms

3 years ago – palm-doodle dreams, guest map, location poll, Bert’s Love Song, decent left, menstrual hut memo page

4 years ago – evil news, got a permanent account.

Looking through glass eyes. Circles and spirals, curves and turns are the rule of the day.

Lemonade and frozen oranges for breakfast. Puckery, and I’m glad I didn’t brush my teeth *first*.

Shadowboxing before the morning shower.

The opposite of tunnel-vision. Walleyed?

Maybe it’s time for a buzz-cut and reset. This urge will pass.

Considering doing a pulp-style radio-show phone entry. Maybe a retelling of something written in the past. Something brief, maybe 20 minutes or so? Been Digging Firesign Theatre again lately.

It’s going to be all right. Oh blinding light.

I would’ve been great as one of those megaphone singers from the 1920s.

voe-doe-de-o, voe-doe-de-o, doe

Maybe a ukulele.

I’d look terrible in a straw boater, fake-raccoon jacket and striped pants, waving a pennant.

I could say 23-skidoo all I want. I guess I can still do that.

The term “entrenching tool” still makes me laugh. Shovel. It’s a shuh-vel.

“Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around. And he saw his neighbor, which was his mother, and he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold, she bore him in tears, an oak tree, which grew all day, and then fell over, like a bridge…”

Dreamt again of taking a ride with Newt in my own private rail car.

Moment of Lyric –

Won’t do no good to hold no seance
What’s gone is gone and you can’t bring it back around
Won’t do no good to hold no searchlight
You can’t illuminate what time has anchored down

Remaking Night Stalker with Stuart Townsend?

Zombie Attack Survival Test Continue reading 7238 – Beware the Ides of March… →

Revised Meme –

If you read this, even If I don’t speak to you often, please comment with a memory of me. It can be anything you want, It can be good or bad, just so long as it happened. Then post this to your journal. See what people remember about you…

I’m seeing lots of type being devoted to this celebration of open records, and now the AP has created a site where you can find all the coverage: AP and Freedom of Information.
Also: FOI Day, including A summary of recent open records changes (Federal and state) from the First Amendment Center.
(Via Liz Donovan.)

Hello, tomorrow. Good to see the darkness in full retreat. Soft light and slow movement will be the rule of this morning. I’m moving through a soft cloud of thought, and that seems to be working for me so far after waking.

I didn’t bother with Calle Ocho.. I preferred to do walkies around my little local zone, instead.

DSL back.. the modem just died, for whatever reason. Tech guy came out went “yup, the modem sure is dead” and replaced it.

Duh. Well, at least it didn’t cost me anything, except for Fri/Sat on dial up. I have been wickedly spoiled by video on demand.

On looking into it, I have a creeping sensation that I’m not going to like Robots, even though it’s getting good reviews. I think it’s the Robin Williams effect.

From my Walk, I discovered that almost all of the “Robert did it” and “Tepee” tiles have been removed, but I found a new one of each, hidden at ground level.

Peektures from walkabout

It’s seven in the morning, Sunday. I have an hour left of being on call. I’m far too awake for this time of day, but there I am. Weekend morning appointments are semi-criminal.

Missing the days of Woolworth’s snack bars and three comics for a buck. I have an urge to go to a half-empty 70s-style mall with orange walls, globe lights, and formica covered tables with random lines and speckled glitter designs on top.

Calle Ocho today, so no field trip to Miami. Crowded mobs. (at least Southwest Eighth Street between Fourth and 27th avenues.) Good food, fun music, pretty girls… well, maybe I will go. We’ll see what the afternoon brings. Not too dear a haul from Fort Lauderdale.

Moment of Lyric:

Even a man who is pure at heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright

I got a ton of writing done yesterday, because I was on a slow dial up connection and chained to the indoors. Nothing on the kid’s book, but a healthy chunk on the bar fight story. Bellsouth is sending out a technician to replace the modem this morning between 8-11am, and my productivity will return to an appropriately slack rate.

Random Scotto factoid: There are times that I wouldn’t mind a pot brownie, but I can’t have one due to the nature of my job. (Random Tests, even if I’m not on duty).

I think tulips look really fake.

The mummified head of famous spy Mata Hari is missing from its home at the Museum of Anatomy in Paris. A recent inventory of the museum’s holdings revealed that the head was missing.

Hari, convicted of spying for Germany in 1917, was executed that year. She faced a firing squad, refusing a blindfold. She also was said to have blown a kiss to the squad members before they fired. Sometime afterward, her head was removed from her body and taken to the Paris museum which houses the heads and brains of many other known criminals, among other items. The head is said to be mummified and has her trademark bright red hair.

Roger Saban, the museum’s curator, believes that an admirer or collector somehow walked off with the famous head. via

She’s my favorite mummified exotic dancer/ spy from WWI.

Face-character resources: Idaho mugshots Smiling drunks disturb and amuse me.

Girl Scout cookies remind me of Katt and her niece Wendy (who is now undoubtedly 20ish?) visiting my tiny little place in Boca… I wasn’t expecting anyone, but I was having a moment of insanity, listening to the Carl Stalling Project cranked up and doing some sort of crazy computer thing on my Atari ST. Probably playing Starglider or messing around, drawing outer space taxicabs with Spectrum512.

I was incredibly broke right around that time… I think a month or two later, my phone was disconnected, and I spent a month calling Graypumpkin from the payphone at the post office across the street to remind him when Quantum Leap was coming on.

I think I might’ve been moderately insane at that point in my life, too. At least unbalanced.

I still can’t believe that the term “MILF” has made it into common usage.

http://www.jesus-action-figure.com/ – via GrayPumpkin. (This is something he and I would have done in a heartbeat)

Monkey hot or not

More free fonts!

cool tools – A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. Chiefly interested in stuff that is extraordinary, better than similar products, little-known, and reliably useful for an individual or small group.

Mother blames game in suicide of 11-year-old son

Relatives say boy obsessed over Yu-Gi-Oh!; enthusiasts say it’s harmless