I overslept this morning… only the sunlight woke me. Not sure why I stayed in snooze-mode so long.

May be going to a get-together with Eric and his pals Saturday. We’ll see what the weekend brings.

How Paris Got Hacked?

The Gorilla cover Gallery. – “Welcome to the ultimate in gorilla cover obsession! These covers are a result of many hours of scouring the web (mostly Ebay on a twice or thrice weekly basis) and a lifetime of collecting that has focused on gorilla covers in the past year or two. The galleries have climbed over the 500 mark (whew!) and will likely cycle in new ones on a semi-regular basis. I think you will be hard pressed to find it’s equal anywhere!”

Sakes, it has really grown since I last visited.

1 year ago – Newt-beliefs, Police pay an unkind visit

2 years ago – fairy tales, country bears, lj poop, palm doodle, A Reading Rainbow of Prophesies, misc news

3 years ago – Tulpa-thoughts, L&B have the baby

4 years ago – one of my favorite bear piccies, hoogerbrugge, Haiku arena is founded, rough translations.

I don’t know how I got my Movies from netflix yesterday, but get them I did. Fritz Lang’s “M”, and Anchorman. The third is coming from a different depot, and is expected by Saturday (probably Thursday)

I’m pretty distracted this morning… My mind isn’t settling on anything for a long enough duration to really think too closely or focus yet.

The is 4 years old. Remarkable. I’m delighted that something I created has thrived and survived so well. Often imitated, never duplicated.

Every Calvin & Hobbes. I wonder how long this’ll stay up before the comic Syndicate gets to it?

Maybe I’ll take photos of the apheresis tonight. I don’t recall taking any pictures there yet.

Overtown, Miami has a new website. I look forward to seeing it blossom.

1 year ago – Hating on Monday Meetings, Good Links for odd sound, I start giving away Itunes codes, bro screws up

2 years ago – Thinking about getting a hearse, dream edits, Streets of San Fransisco, Jim Rockford Answering Machine Archive

3 years ago – Went to ER over my back, Travel & Newt pictures, confluence

4 years ago – stomp furby, Pete & pete, got interviewed by The New Digital Reporter, How I define good/evil, the is born.

Went for sushi and walkies with Dan after work today. We wandered East on Broward blvd, and took in the tree-lined realm of Victoria Park. Nice evening.

Got a message from bro on the phone when I returned, I guess he’s not in the hospital after all. I’m left wondering if / hoping it was a wrong number.

I’m disappointed in you, Hunter. All you’ve been through, and you cut and run, *now*? No sense in crying over spilled milk, I guess. I hope you have found peace.

Interesting rework of Cadmus in the last JLU. I don’t like Prof Hamilton as a bad-ish guy. I also don’t know why an invulnerable Doomsday-type would wear boots. He doesn’t seem to be the type interested in fashion. It was nice to see Obsidian… I wonder if that Means Alan Scott will make an appearance with the JSA after all?

Moment of lyric:

I am no superman, I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh, that’s for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are is where I belong

I’m getting warmed up for Freedom Force vs the Third Reich. The Demo is now available. Kudos to them for releasing it in both standard download and bittorrent format!

I’ll be visiting Modforce soon enough, too.

is at 1786
is at 154
is at 10, 2 dead

Assorted Q&A

Got a Call Sunday Morning from Atlantic Shores Hospital, but no message. I tried to call back, and they wouldn’t give me any information. I suspect it was my brother getting into a program, but I don’t know why no message was left…and my bro probably wouldn’t call the work cell phone. I had a moment of panic.. I didn’t know the hospital, and since it was on the cell, I thought maybe Mel or Danny had been hurt somehow. Once they explained it wasn’t an emergency room, I calmed considerably.

I spent almost all of Sunday in the apartment… only left to take out the trash. I should make a point of more travels over the weekend. Playtime with the Newtster was a lot of fun, though. I spent far too much time surfing the net, too. I’d hoped to get with Dan today, but it wasn’t in the cards. I’ll see him after work today, though.

How Motherboards are made – A factory tour – via sammykun

The complete story of the Joker’s Utility belt. (approx 2MB of piccies) hooray for ! Also, the cork is explained.

Bah on GeoUrl for being so slow to reopen… I still have my coordinates in my journal from last time. I love finding websites that are also in my immediate vicinity.

Yet another 2-headed baby. – It looks like this one may be ok after the operation. color me morbid, but I wonder what will be done with the non-functional twin-growth?

I wonder how long before the Paris Hilton news breaks national networks? (warning, some of the tiny cam pics are not safe for work) A clever little doo-bee passed the news to me yesterday morning, via . Drudge broke the news about 2 hours or so later to the world at large. I love watching information spread like the outbreak of some sort of virus. If it’s a hoax, it has already spread like wildfire.

Downloading last weekend’s JLU. If Netflix and bittorrent keep up, I may not need cable at all pretty soon.

Watching my downloaded episodes of Angry Beavers makes me miss Ornj and the days when my bro was a bit healthier.

Side note –

The Natural Enemies of Beavers :

• Bears
• Wolves
• Lion
• Semi Truck
• Speed Boats
• Falling Trees
• Icky Bugs
• Fast Moving Rocks
• Hat Makers
• Bloodthirsty voles
• Vicious Banana Slugs

Natural Enemies of Scotto:

• Heavy Traffic near a crosswalk
• Deadlines
• Drama
• Neckties
• The Terribly Smug
• Middlemen
• Office Politics
• Slippery Bathroom Floors
• Money

Thanks to Beaucoup Kev for breaking the news to me that Essential Defenders is coming out! That, Iron Fist and Luke Cage… Now we’re talking!

Danny’s “fun-teach week” this year will be “Graphic Novels”. Focusing specifically on page layout and art styles. I’m hooking him up with some sample goods… Madman, Hellboy, Sandman, Justice League (Giffen’s stuff), Romita’s Hulk, and Green Lantern: Mosaic. That, along with Danny’s manga and other misc should give an entertaining variety for them to look at.

From: Pulp and Adventure Heroes

“Six-Gun Gorilla. Perhaps my favorite entry in this site, the Six-Gun Gorilla appeared in Adventure and Wizard in 1926 (I think). I do not know who created him. O’Neil was an actual gorilla, who had been trapped as a baby, brought to the States, and sold to Johnson, a Colorado prospector. Johnson, a kind man, treated O’Neil very well. He also taught O’Neil how to dig, fetch firewood, haul up buckets of water, cook, clean, and (oh dear) load and fire a revolver. Naturally, when Johnson is murdered for what he knows about “the great mother lode,” O’Neil ooks revenge. He straps on a bandoleer and two six-shooters and begins tracking the thieves across a hundred miles of Colorado mountains and badlands. He picks them off one by one, meanwhile discovering a talent for holding up stagecoaches and using them to chase fleeing gunmen. It’s all great fun, really.”

If I ever had to kill someone, even in self defense, I’d want to see the body committed to flame until it was ashed. I like a sense of completeness.

That said, I hope I never have to even wound anyone, let alone put the lights out for good.

Moment of Lyric:

pray for a man in the middle
one that talks like Doolittle
I believe
in Mr. Grieves

Click to enlarge my current icon:

Newt, Sunday Morning, 10am

1 year ago – Wishing for Dr. Feng Shui, Quit FFXI, Time out with Danny and his wife

2 years ago – DDoS on LJ, Friday five, Nordis is full of crap, parking spots pictures, The Groovenians = blah

3 years ago – robo-triffid, daily pictures, back hurting

4 years ago – Chariots of the Gods, reminders, Geocities stops hot links, my nesting instinct.

A river with a fear of heights… that’s almost interesting.

I almost went to the ren-fest yesterday, but then I remembered it’s expensive, and is mostly bleh, save for the mud show and renfaeries, which rock. Instead, I just sort of shuffled around and burned the soles of my sneakers walking.

I’m thinking of applying something like this or this to my new journal/website layout.

ganked from here.

I make my letter “o” in a clockwise circle, and my “e” starting with the center stroke, not the outside. I wonder if it’s because I’m left-handed?

Hm, No Gray’s Anatomy, but I got Soylent Green instead. Chuck Heston makes a good post-apocalypse leading man… this combined with Omega Man and Planet of the Apes proves it. Plus, in SG, he gets to smack Chuck Connors around like a rag doll (including a kick to the beans that lifted the Rifleman right off of the floor.) I can easily see New York or Miami suffering from that level of overcrowding in 20 years, certainly in the 50 from the time that SG was filmed. I also forgot: DICK VAN PATTEN IN CHARGE OF SUICIDE BOOTHS!

p.s. Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream is one of the best flavors at the best ice cream store in Miami, The Frieze. I’m overdue to head back there… the last time I had it was August 12, 2001.

How do I know? My journal is the only thing that comes up on a google search for Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream. Same goes for Yahoo.

More random glass tiles

Rats, the condo I was shopping for is pending sale. 😛

The Thin Man was excellent, as always. I’m glad that I had it sent out… I really dig Nick and Nora Charles. (Maybe why I like Elongated Man so much, when written properly.) William Powell just rocks… Richard Diamond is still my favorite incarnation of Powell’s Detectives… I like his Private Eyes a bit more over easy than hard-boiled. I’d guess that I have about forty or fifty radio episodes saved on the HD. He’s not a bad singer, either.

[edit: flying_blind rightfully corrected me… Richard Diamond was played by Dick Powell, another excellent performer.]

Pictures of Walls – I really like this one.

Blue Ice cubes? How degenerate!

I forgot how much the opening theme music to The President’s Analyst reminds me of the old Batman TV show, even while a man is knifed in the ribs. The rest is pretty wacky stuff, too. I’m amazed that it’s on DVD. It becomes superb once full blown paranoia sets in. I’m glad the music is the theatrical music, rather than the reworked vhs stuff.

Someone made the singing fountain into a geocache! I took an Italian coin, and left a hair tie with a little froggy-bead.

Moment of Lyric:

Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don’t you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
Well we’ll float on good news is on the way

The Joker’s Utility Belt

Rats, the condo I was shopping for is pending sale. 😛

The Thin Man was excellent, as always. I’m glad that I had it sent out… I really dig Nick and Nora Charles. (Maybe why I like Elongated Man so much, when written properly.) William Powell just rocks… Richard Diamond is still my favorite incarnation of Powell’s Detectives… I like his Private Eyes a bit more over easy than hard-boiled. I’d guess that I have about forty or fifty radio episodes saved on the HD. He’s not a bad singer, either.

[edit: flying_blind rightfully corrected me… Richard Diamond was played by Dick Powell, another excellent performer.]

Pictures of Walls – I really like this one.

Blue Ice cubes? How degenerate!

I forgot how much the opening theme music to The President’s Analyst reminds me of the old Batman TV show, even while a man is knifed in the ribs. The rest is pretty wacky stuff, too. I’m amazed that it’s on DVD. It becomes superb once full blown paranoia sets in. I’m glad the music is the theatrical music, rather than the reworked vhs stuff.

Someone made the singing fountain into a geocache! I took an Italian coin, and left a hair tie with a little froggy-bead.

Moment of Lyric:

Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don’t you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
Well we’ll float on good news is on the way

The Joker’s Utility Belt

I would never want a medicine cabinet that asked me “What’s Wrong?” every time I open it.

HAPPY 5^th BIRTHDAY LIL BIT!!

Went with Danny last night to a high school basketball game.. Cardinal gibbons vs Chaminade Madonna. His team lost… something like 48 to 28. We hit ol’ Denny’s up for dinner afterward.. it was a nice night, and a lot of fun for a spur of the moment sort of trip. If the pictures come out, I’ll post ’em later tonight.

The irony of a Christian school with the mascot of a lion is not lost on me. Since it was girls basketball… they’re the “lady lions”.. wouldn’t that be lionesses?

Flipside, the Cardinal Gibbons mascot is “Redskins”. Why not a Gibbon? I would love to see a Monkey in red robes and a crazy pope-hat as a mascot. I’d buy the stuffed animal, t-shirt, ballcap… whatever the school had to sell.

Next three in my Queue

• The President’s Analyst
• The Thin Man
• Gray’s Anatomy

I remember recommending The President’s Analyst to GrayPumpkin, ages ago. I first saw it on super late-night TV in the early 80s.

Via Whims – “Loonatics” – revamped Loony Tunes for the new market. I think the new designs all look a bit too similar. I’ll be a hard sell, but who knows? There’s an off chance I’ll like it…. doubtful, but a possibility.

Moment of Lyric:

Hoping I would see the world with both my eyes
Maybe I will tell you all about it

1 year ago – There 2.0, stress

2 years ago – expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.

3 years ago – Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment

4 years ago – SOP, Territorial, haiku combat

To the invisible boatmobile!

It’s the dirty bubble… in all of his dirty roundness!

City of Lost Children was quite good.. though the actor’s narrative talk-over track was a little weak. Not sure why anyone would want the pan and scan version.. wide screen is a thousand times better.

Thursday.. more training of backup techs. I’m not going to complain.. they’ll take up slack where needed.I can only really train two at a time.. after that, and the one-hour session is lost in class time. It’s one thing to explain to a room full of cops how the system works… yet another to do the “under the hood” stuff. Two potentially good ones, and three so-so’s.

Mel radio silence broken. Things looking better. Rendezvous foreseen by the weekend.

Bro remains in the ether.

Hmm.. ep 16 of lost isn’t in my BT lineup… I thought it was broadcast last night. Is my auto-tv software letting me down? I’ll have to research later today.

Moment of Lyric:

miss_mcdonald – the oddest random LJ I’ve seen in a bit. (portal of evil’s random lj-picture site is fun.)

Music Band Fonts… When I was in high school, I’d have used the led zep and doors fonts way too much.

How to be extra gross at the bus stop. smoke a cig, eat a stinky grease burger and have no knowledge of that thing that most folks call “a shower”. the combined whiff of stale smoke, burger stink and BO was pretty overwhelming. I deal with stinkies often enough on the bus, but man… there’s a limit.

Captains Blog

I’m to lazy to write out the lj-poll code, so feel free to answer in comments.

What would you like written on your tombstone / burial spot / memorial marker ?

I plan on being ashed (unless I can be effectively mulched), so there won’t be a tombstone in my case… but if some weirdo put up a statue or something in my tribute, I’m not sure what I’d want written at the base.

JH served her notice … I’ll miss her. Hopefully we can blast the daylights out of each other online sometime soon in UT.

I never made it to the beach.. instead, I fixed George’s computer for him.. set up his new system, and mirrored his stuff form the HD to the other side.. also set up SF’s printer.. as best I could.. the ink cart was deady-dead. Big Kahuna was suffering a lot yesterday, everything seemed to be going bass-ackward.

Caught up with my JLU downloads. I’ve got the last two of season one, and the first two of this season. Cute cameo of Static Shock and Batman Beyond….Ed Asner as Granny Goodness is just too creepy, though. It’s nice to see some of the second-stringers get the limelight. A GA/Black Canary mission and a Mister Miracle. Not too shabby, even if I’m not thrilled with the New Gods.

I made Newton a bowl-sized ice cube, and he can’t stop licking it. It looks like a tiny fortress of solitude… transparent dome.

Bro’s cell phone is deactivated. Who knows where he is?

So busy yesterday, I didn’t get to talk to Mel at all. I wonder if that’s the start of a new pattern? Note, she didn’t call me, either.

Apparently, there’s a Netflix depot somewhere in Fort Lauderdale. Somewhere in 33340. Nice, I got two of my three movies today.. a one day turnaround. THX and Res Dogs…. of course now I’m paranoid that the third one got filched, but I suspect it’ll be in the box this afternoon.

1 year ago – Scotto on the enchanted path, bigfoot conference, Florida photos, Newt on his back

2 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

3 years ago – bloody mary, Dr. Who, feelings poll, sickie newt, tulpa starts, movie poll, fu-style poll

4 years ago – Haiku arena, weird al’s wishlist

I got the photo in the mail yesterday from edbook.. it’s great. I need to mat and frame it now. He gave me some great suggestions on how to do that.. I’m going to research my options more closely on that this weekend.

Kudos, Ed!

Today, chocolate is going to be cheap at CVS. Probably 50% or more off.

In a week, it’ll be 75% off

Two Weeks from now, it’ll be 90% off, if it’s anything like Christmas was.

I may do some buying then, just to get the cool tins, and leave the choccies at work to give the folk there a sugar buzz.

Moment of lyric:

Marshall, Will and Holly… on a routine expedition… felt the greaaaatest earthquake ever known….

Hey! Rik’s comic book is in this month’s previews! In the independent comics, just before City of Heroes – Bloody Mary Productions is the company. Comic title is ‘Tales of Bloody Mary’ #1.

Tate’s is going to be ordering copies, and it should be in the Hot Topic in Sawgrass, too, so I’ll pick it up one of those locations.

Hot Topic ordered 1000 copies of the book, too .. and two Army bases want to carry some.

Good going!

Current Movies heading my way:

• THX 1138: Special Edition
• Reservoir Dogs
• The City of Lost Children

I’ll gobble those up by Saturday if they arrive on Wednesday.

I’m in the mood to swim. The ocean is within walking distance. Maybe after work today.

top 100 public domain e-texts this week at Gutenberg. (free for downloading!)

Tents with cows silkscreened on the side. cool.

1 year ago – Sun-sentinel cam changes direction, crittercam, condo shopping, I feel great

2 years ago – MP toys, work shopping, black bean hummus, key deer

3 years ago – Newtcam active in old apartment, how cell phones work/tracking, fibbed to, SOP

4 years ago – Monster!, SA goes in fro her job interview, got a love note, simpsons lame, cartoons, silly haiku, bro and I