Hmm.. must remember to renew domain, mine is up in a week! I’m glad Dave reminded me. I’ve owned scottobear.com since ’97, and had a cheeseball freebie geocities page long before that.

I was going to catch a Movie with Dave last night, but there was literally nothing either of us wanted to see. Ah well. Maybe we’ll play some mage knight, or just hang some other time.

This morning, I’m getting together with Danny, heading to Deerfield for a bit, so he can put in an appearance, greet the SF club, and either poke a nose into the Ren-fest or bounce off for a day of just goofin’.

Moment of Music….

Mashup of : The Beatles – Yellow Submarine / Genesis – That’s All

From here (also here)

This guy has a *lot* of free, handmade fonts to look through.

Severe system crash last night…. sorry about bailing mid chat, bhk… it was fun while it lasted! Power blinkies and chkdisk made it slow to recover.

Mr. Sun Citizen Journalist Starter Pack

Montage-a-google. Create a quilt of thumbnails based on a search term or phrase. my first try was newtcam.

GrayPumpkin put me on to the Spider-man Bible site… our conversation eventually devolved into Christo-MODOK (MESSIAH ORGANISM DEIFIED ONLY for KINDNESS) Put a goatee, plasmatic Kirby-dots surrounding his be-haloed crown of thorns around this guy, and you’ve got a Big Jesus head firing of bolts of goodwill. *KWIZAM!* PEACE BE WITH YOU! *BRITZO!*

Oh, that’s probably going to end up offending someone. Only if they don’t know me. I love MODOK. He’s my Favorite Giant head-in-a-body after Arnim Zola. (And blatant ripoff-homage the Hypernaut.) JC is pretty dang cool, too.

What? What?

HG2TG Trailer. Hm. Interesting Zaphod Redesign, and Ivan does a good Marvin voice.

Note, My PDA is more entertaining than a Guide, but less so than a Mother Box from New Genesis.

Chimps critically injure sanctuary visitor

St. James Davis had severe facial injuries and would require extensive surgery in an attempt to reattach his nose, Dr. Maureen Martin of Kern Medical Center told KGET-TV of Bakersfield. His testicles and a foot also were severed

Friday, at last. The week went quickly, but I’m looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.

Pomade. Yuck. Not my thing.

Raising Arizona and The Third Man made for an odd double feature. Two movies I love for very different reasons. Sweet Noir, and Sweet Sillies.

Lumbee Indian talk still going on in a post I did three years ago.

University of Florida scientists extracted 25,000 neural cells from the brain of a rat embryo to create a live computation device and taught it to fly an F-22 fighter jet simulator. “When we first hooked it up, the plane ‘crashed’ all the time,” said Thomas DeMarse, 37, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, who developed the technique. “But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft.” DeMarse pointed out that his research could lead to scientists building living elements into traditional computers.

A Japanese software designer introduced a robot programmed to chat with lonely old people to keep them from going senile. The 18-inch Snuggling Ifbot, which sells for $5,600, comes dressed in an astronaut suit with a glowing face and has the conversational ability of a 5-year-old, the language level its programmer said is needed to stimulate the brains of senior citizens. “By talking with this robot,” said Takao Ohsuga of Dream Supply, which developed Snuggling Ifbot’s software, “seniors who are often alone can stimulate their brains and avoid becoming forgetful.” Ohsuga added that work is under way to program the robot to speak English to teach the language to Japanese children.

Mayor L. Douglas Wilder of Richmond, VA, ordered metal detectors removed from City Hall as a cost-cutting measure, then announced that a team of eight to 10 bodyguards was being assigned to protect him. The switch from metal detectors will save $200,000, but the security officers will be responsible only for the mayor’s safety, not that of other City Hall workers.

Why am I still up this late? [approx 2am]
I’ve got to be showering for work in less than 4 hours.
This is what happens when I start my movies at 10.

Zombie Quiz

Well, nuts. Power outage, big entry destroyed, auto-draft function didn’t make it. So, quickie recap.

Husband of the Boss was Mark Lenard‘s roomie in school. So, I’m tutoring a colleague of Spock’s dad on how to use a computer. George used to hang out with Jack Benny & Mary Livingston as a kid, too.

Last Boss had Bill Daily visit once in a while.

Color WWI pictures

Free stock photos, more free stock photos., and still more.

20 ways to say no

I should pick up a new swiss army knife sometime soon. Something slim and compact… I don’t need a fish scaler or laser pointer built into it. The Lefty has my interest.

In a more optimistic spin on Sturgeon’s Law, I firmly believe that 10% of everything is more than worthy of your attention. I tend to agree with hanlon’s razor, too.

Additionally, I’m not crazy about Cole’s Law.

Kurt Vonnegut – Eight rules for writing fiction Continue reading 7212 – reconstruction →

If you can’t show up on time (over a half hour late for a scheduled 1-hour training) to three different interviews, and then make a surprise appearance on a day I don’t have you scheduled, I will assume that you either can’t properly follow instructions or don’t have it together enough to do the job well.

I’m glad I have three other applicants that look like they’re on top of things.

Netflix has been disappointing me lately. the last 4 movies I’ve received have been cracked, scratched, or otherwise unviewable. Especially disappointing because one of ’em was a movie I wanted to show Danny. That one, even the replacement was screwed up. I took it as fate, and moved on.

ADP is bailing on Monday nights. That’s got to hurt.. that’s $200 a month out the window for her, after she didn’t get her raise. I’m thinking of picking it up myself, if I can get paid the same rate. If not, I’m sure one of the other techs might like it. MM has a class Monday nights, and EN already has 3 nights a week. I don’t want to overburden him. Maybe Kari, Oona, or Phillipa.

Add to my local places to visit and take piccies – Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens

(Maybe invite tarpo, constance1010, mzkitten and her boy along?)

Wow, the Rock has lost a lot of weight. He looks downright skinny lately.

Superhero Motivational Posters. – I rather like Adventure and Brainpower.

Moment of Lyric:

There’s only one thing that I know how to do well
And I’ve often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that’s be you,
Be what you’re like,
Be like yourself,
And so I’m having a wonderful time
But I’d rather be whistling in the dark

Duck found with this search, now? More Euro-folk seeking scotto out.

Best thing called out at the Ren-fest on Sunday. Peasants jeering at a couple with Ice cream cones… “I Scream! You Scream! We All Scream, because we’re hunnnngryyyyy”

Danny introduced me to a new phrase yesterday – “wanker’s cheese weasel maneuver” for a slimy little cheater activity. He’s been on a diet this last week.. no more pizza parties for us.. sushi and salads in the immediate future, anyhow.

Disney’s theme park fonts

Viva Broward pictures resized – You can see them here.

Break at work, I figure I’ll upload what’s in my camera. Some scenes from life I haven’t put online yet, that I’ve been meaning to.

This entry will be edited over time, for file size, scaling, hosting location, etc.

I’m really blessed to live in an area where the people are interesting, pretty, and active.

Shots from “Viva Broward” on the Riverwalk.

hmm, the thumbs don’t seem to want to link…. naughty image shack. well, here we go then:

more non-thumbed hosted here –

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/030105/

Mayah and Cathi – hooray for hippies!

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/030105/IMG_0339.JPG

Mayah.. how big she’s getting!

http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/030105/IMG_0341.JPG

(old link to Mayah’s First B’day – http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/1276782.html)

Quick breakdown of http://scottobear.com/lj/archives/030105/

319 – Obligatory Cute Girl by the water. (Thumb 2, above)
321 – LORD OF THE FLIES! RUN! (thumb 3, above)
325 – Watch where the kick goes!
326 – Hand-spring kick (capoiera)
336 – Obligatory Colorful Local Winter Park Resident (thumb 1, above)
338 – Singer, not as good as Charo.
339 – Hippies and the Kidlets
341 – More Kidlets playing
343 – More Grass Skirters with Batons
344 – Still More Grass Skirters with Batons
345 – Yet Still More Grass Skirters with Batons

I still can’t get enough of this mime doing “torn”.

Moment of Lyric:

Illusion never changed
Into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see
The perfect sky is torn

I’m going to invest in getting a deep massage sometime very soon. My back is very tight lately. I wouldn’t mind a mud pack on my forehead and cheekbones, either.

Nude Man Steals, Wrecks Philly Police Car Continue reading 7208 – days run to weeks, lately. →

Good Morning, Dear Journal! (via)

I’ve been really groggy these last few days… sleeping at odd hours, and stupefied like I was drugged. I’m going to have to re-plot my snooze schedule a bit, methinks.

Cool little game emulation Java app. I’m very impressed. I almost want to learn the bit myself.

Is February over already? Dang. So much for such a short month. Still not as traumatic as Feb ’04, so good for me.

Invisible crew this weekend. No sign of any of my favorite bipeds. No Danny, Dave, Kev or Mel answering the phone. Weekend walkabout was fun but only a few good photo-ops. Beautiful weather, at leas tot me. gray, overcast, never quite rained, but it was cool and comfortable.

Note to self – on one of the long weekends ahead, maybe visit the Bok Sanctuary. I was reminded of that after seeing Fushu Daiko at the Ren-fest? That’s an awesome group, but it seems more than a little bit out of place. That’s right, I went to the ren-fest after all. I got a comp, and a guilty reminder from Jen that I haven’t seen her almost since last year, so I off went.

Ing is mildly ren-anachronistic too, but you won’t see me complaining about her or her bare midriff either. An excellent hugger, to boot. She’s another “little sister”. I got awesome, lovely hugs from four people, and that totally made it worthwhile.

It was nice to see the RenFaeries, too. Foxi’s getting better looking every year… not sure how she does that. Maybe it’s because she’s letting her hair get long. I can’t believe they’ve been at it for nine years already!

I half-thought that I saw PamM in the crowd at the mud show, curiosity got the best of me, and I investigated. It wasn’t her, and I really don’t know what I would’ve said if it had been. “I thought it was you! Well, bye!” seems sort of rude. I’m sort f torn, I’d like to make up with her, but I really don’t think I want her in my life. We were really great friends at one point, and then it went poof, and then we were really great friends again, and then it went poof again.

The mud show cycled out the #3 performer again, and both washing wenches are different these days. No new material from either group in over 5 years. I guess the mud act is polished enough to make do with three standbys.

Thanks, sammykun for the link to this movie of larpers lightening bolting. (only seems to work in MSIE) He says its old, but I’ve never seen it.

Best use of mime “singalong” I’ve ever seen. I have newfound respect for the art.

I did not watch the Oscars. Don’t much care. I liked the Incredibles. Movies are only expensive TV shows these days, for the most part. I expect I’ll be doing a lot of scrolling during today’s journal-reads.

Today’s secret word is klaxon. Use it at least once in conversation.

UNUSUAL TECHNICAL IMAGES OF EQUIPMENT USED IN WORLD WAR II – featuring technical cutaway drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft and arms

I want this guy to be the stunt coordinator if they ever make a Captain America movie that doesn’t stink.

Writing on the Run – Easy, practical, inspiring ideas to make time and space for writing. I’m going to follow up with this. Really.

I’d like to co-author something with GrayPumpkin after his current project is done, and after I get the short story I’m currently working on spit-polished.

Moment of Lyric:

Do it like a robot to headspin to boogaloo
Took a few minutes to convince the average bug-a-boo
It’s ugly, like look at you! It’s a damn shame
Just remember All Caps when you spell the man name

Third Woman Sues Gorilla’s Caretakers Continue reading 7206 – Come down off that smokestack and eat →

Sunday, here again. Woke up at 4am… maybe I’ll try going back to bed after I switch the phones over.

If I gave a quarter to every person that asked me for money yesterday on my walk, I’d have handed out $4.75. That’s a lot of quarters, man.

The Awakening of Consciousness – pretty nifty cgi film… a fun mix of 2d/3d dev.

I think I still like the simplicity and music in Mr Scruff – Sweetsmoke better. Plus, it has pie.

Bro is in a maintenance program now… I don’t have a lot of faith in methadone clinics, but we’ll see what happens.

The ninja strikes silently, without warning. Like cobra. like.. the flu. The silent wind of doom blows with fury tonight. *whoosh*

Hmmm.. I was supposed to get together with EN yesterday, but I never heard from him. Maybe he meant next weekend.

Scheduled 2 more days off. 3/25 and 4/1. Stretching my time into tasty little long weekends. Coincidentally, that’s spring break, so I might get a chance to goof with Danny a bit on those days, too.

The creator of the BK commercial with the rewrite of Big Rock Candy Mountain will never find hobo’s paradise.

Moment of Lyric:

A garden is it’s own perfect world Where everything has a place
Every leaf, every stone, every speck of dirt. But where’s my place?

Assorted Photos from the week: Continue reading 7205 – Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant. →

This has been happening a lot lately in other linkzones, but it’s the first time someone’s using my name to increase hits in an Amazon review. weird.

I’ve reported it to amazon.. we’ll see how long it lives.

So… they found the downside of Splenda

Some Mighty fine Superman Origin Comics.

GeoURL is back in action. URLs near me.

Test for text to speech phone post number 1. Hello, dear journal. This is very possibly the voice you’d hear if Newton ever decides to enter posts for me, in the event that Scotto is unable to do so himself. I hope that your day is going well. Peace, and I’ll be seeing you. (Charles alternate)

(note, I converted them from wav to mp3 to save bandwidth)

Text to speech engine. Good for scrambled ransom notes, maybe? Rich and Charles are my two favorite voices.

Random doodles done while I waited for breakfast-water to boil.

Even my abstracts are a little concrete.

I had an itch on my shoulder.. I imagined this was the cause. little green dust mite.

fooling with simulated transparencies

Hiring the A-team.

1 year ago – I’m a radioactive zombie, monkey hate clown!, got a $13.86 check, land mine detection flower, action figure art, desires in life poll, barbie prowler

2 years ago – pipe snag, Jim Rockford, Newt Vet, Movie idea, Pravda Headlines, I’m awesome, palm doodles

3 years ago – Star Wars Pants, spy-cow, Reizan, Scientists cross pigs with spinach, 1979,

4 years ago – lj comments burpy, Kitty love, monkey-news, Proposed Indian Names for Certain White People, Hatt-Baby, Twist Endings, ineffable, Bozo Matic, Callipygean, cool picture of a grasshopper, poetry is all in the format, In the Skin of the Lion

Hmm.. that meme is making the rounds quite a bit. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen so far.

Here’s mine.

Ten Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t

1. Worked as the only male in an otherwise all-female environment in several jobs including my current gig, before RR arrived.
2. Masqueraded as a cousin of my platonic roommate of the opposite sex so that her church wouldn’t cast her out.
3. Filled rubber gloves with “El Scorcho” sauce and hung them serial-killer style in the walk-in freezer of my first job.
4. Got a Scholarship to Ringling Brothers Clown College, but opted out for a more lucrative career.
5. Held an enemy in place by clamping one hand on his neck, the other on his crotch, and threatened to feed him his own private parts if he didn’t leave my younger brother alone. My brother never found out about it. I think the words I used were “I will rip your nuts off, stomp ’em flat, and make you lick ’em off my shoes if you don’t cut that shit out.” I meant it, too.
6. I convinced myself at an early age that since the human brain was made up of electrical impulses, and that an electromagnet is just a steady flow of electrons in one direction over a common core that I could magnetize my head if I just thought the right combination of memories and sensory inputs… like “remember that time at grandma’s house, while sniffing burnt toast and blinking your eyes really fast”
7. I’ve been all male parts of a wedding ceremony except the groom and the priest. (ring bearer, usher, best man… even acted as “father” to give away the bride) (edit: as of 10/25/06, I’ve been the groom, too! :D)
8. Alienated some good friends (broke the camel’s back with a poorly-chosen, but well-meaning comment), but made up after a decade of radio silence.
9. Posted an average of over 4 entries a day since May 19, 2000. (I’ve slowed my pace to mostly only one or two a day, lately.)
10. I’ve raised this little guy from when he was 3 weeks old. Still pretty dang cute for a 5-year old!

Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial games that have been liberated and made free in playable form to the public.

Not bad… They’ve got a few good ones in there.

Moment of Lyric:

I listen for your footsteps
Coming up the drive
Listen for your footsteps
But they don’t arrive
Waiting for your knock dear
On my old front door
I don’t hear it
Does it mean you don’t love me any more?

Justice League Office Space. Robin makes a good Samir. (via Everybody I know remotely interested in one or the other)

1 year ago – Bro drama, free music

2 years ago – fates, evil idea, doc trip, sorghum

3 years ago – mail, fonts, Celtic Religion – Knowledge base

4 years ago – Haiku, thoughts, flatus, dream fragment

Hmm.. that meme is making the rounds quite a bit. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen so far.

Here’s mine.

Ten Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t

1. Worked as the only male in an otherwise all-female environment in several jobs including my current gig, before RR arrived.
2. Masqueraded as a cousin of my platonic roommate of the opposite sex so that her church wouldn’t cast her out.
3. Filled rubber gloves with “El Scorcho” sauce and hung them serial-killer style in the walk-in freezer of my first job.
4. Got a Scholarship to Ringling Brothers Clown College, but opted out for a more lucrative career.
5. Held an enemy in place by clamping one hand on his neck, the other on his crotch, and threatened to feed him his own private parts if he didn’t leave my younger brother alone. My brother never found out about it. I think the words I used were “I will rip your nuts off, stomp ’em flat, and make you lick ’em off my shoes if you don’t cut that shit out.” I meant it, too.
6. I convinced myself at an early age that since the human brain was made up of electrical impulses, and that an electromagnet is just a steady flow of electrons in one direction over a common core that I could magnetize my head if I just thought the right combination of memories and sensory inputs… like “remember that time at grandma’s house, while sniffing burnt toast and blinking your eyes really fast”
7. I’ve been all male parts of a wedding ceremony except the groom and the priest. (ring bearer, usher, best man… even acted as “father” to give away the bride) (edit: as of 10/25/06, I’ve been the groom, too! :D)
8. Alienated some good friends (broke the camel’s back with a poorly-chosen, but well-meaning comment), but made up after a decade of radio silence.
9. Posted an average of over 4 entries a day since May 19, 2000. (I’ve slowed my pace to mostly only one or two a day, lately.)
10. I’ve raised this little guy from when he was 3 weeks old. Still pretty dang cute for a 5-year old!

Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial games that have been liberated and made free in playable form to the public.

Not bad… They’ve got a few good ones in there.

Moment of Lyric:

I listen for your footsteps
Coming up the drive
Listen for your footsteps
But they don’t arrive
Waiting for your knock dear
On my old front door
I don’t hear it
Does it mean you don’t love me any more?

Justice League Office Space. Robin makes a good Samir. (via Everybody I know remotely interested in one or the other)

1 year ago – Bro drama, free music

2 years ago – fates, evil idea, doc trip, sorghum

3 years ago – mail, fonts, Celtic Religion – Knowledge base

4 years ago – Haiku, thoughts, flatus, dream fragment

Adding Insult to Injury Just try to collect!

via – http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/1118807/