Brother didn’t get released today… they didn’t take into account his two most recent charges. After making him, my mother and her husband wait for three hours, it turns out that they were ill-prepared, and rescheduled for an April 2nd hearing. From what I understand, now he wants to take his case to court, rather than plead for 3 years probation.

That would make him an idiot.

Worst-case scenario, he could get up to five years in jail. Best case, of course, would be charges dropped. I think that’s highly unlikely, but what do I know? I wouldn’t roll dice on it.

Either way, we wait a week and see what happens.

Opposing legal advice – One Attorney says to bail him out, get him a residence, and a chance to find a job, that’ll look good when he goes to trial. Another says “if you bail him out, and he runs, it will mean financial ruin for you.” honestly, at this point, I don’t trust him not to run, even if he claims that he’s going to get off not guilty after taking it to trial. I also think that he’s learned nothing from his month in jail.

Anyhow, no dinner out tonight. It was raining rally hard this afternoon too… My umbrella did a nice job keeping my head and left shoulder dry, but the rest of me was soaked to the bone by the time I got home. I did, however, feel better after taking a scalding shower and parking my keister here.

battlecry meme

A company has figured out a way to make a table (uh, circular, band, whatever saw recognize flesh and more importantly, stop cutting if it senses it.

http://www.sawstop.com/video.htm

So much for the bitter, angry shop class teacher with the wooden hand.

Granted, I would be too chicken to dare the thing, but the logic seems pretty sound. Saw listens to the electrical properties of what’s being cut (i.e. sends a charge out to the saw and registers what comes back). Wood doesn’t hold on to a charge but flesh does. (via str8bloggin)

addendum… of course, some psycho robot intelligence is going to reverse the process, only allowing humans to be pulped, while preserving handy wood resources.

KILLDOZER 2004!! http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/brown/290/slugbot.html
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The New windows gimp is much more stable, and has a few more nifty effects. It’s a nice compliment to my PSP.

Me Morphing into Kellwood’s Sam-head

random Scotto thought: Do people who cross the street in countries where the cars drive on the left side of the road have the kids look right-left-right instead of left-right-left before crossing?

Didn’t get around to seeing Dawn of the Dead Last night… I’m going to try and go see it with Dave on Friday. I owe him a movie, and it’ll be nice to have someone to compare/contrast with.

palm doodles done yesterday during lunch –

The Frog-guy in his mask… he took a bit of a hit in his left froggy-eye. The perils of superhero combat!

some colored blobs

Calliope Fest is this weekend – http://www.calliopefest.com/

Over 25 Musical Acts – Art & Crafts – Activities

Located at Young Circle, Hollywood, FL

Yes, I’ll admit it… I like Lisa Loeb’s stuff.

I like it when the weather’s cool, not too humid, with a little breeze. If I were living in a region further to the North, I’d suspect snow or a storm of some kind. The air isn’t oceanic, but has a slight tinge of ozone to it.

The sky is gray, but there’s a rip where the sunlight is just pouring through, and makes a lovely JHVH / Moses movie moment.

I’m still getting follow up posts to the Roanoke entry from two years ago –

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

Apparently, there is still quite a disagreement about how things went down in that region, at least with one fellow who keeps coming back. I look forward to perusing his book and seeing how his tale varies from other folks. (The tribe itself seems to support the research done, but perhaps a genetic test of some of the tribe is in order to set the record straight for any dissenters.)

Since we’re on the subject –

herecomedajudge pointed me to a nifty City of Heroes link –

http://au.geocities.com/boxhead6177/freelancer.htm

There seems to be a nice collection of material.

I like it when the weather’s cool, not too humid, with a little breeze. If I were living in a region further to the North, I’d suspect snow or a storm of some kind. The air isn’t oceanic, but has a slight tinge of ozone to it.

The sky is gray, but there’s a rip where the sunlight is just pouring through, and makes a lovely JHVH / Moses movie moment.

I’m still getting follow up posts to the Roanoke entry from two years ago –

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

Apparently, there is still quite a disagreement about how things went down in that region, at least with one fellow who keeps coming back. I look forward to perusing his book and seeing how his tale varies from other folks. (The tribe itself seems to support the research done, but perhaps a genetic test of some of the tribe is in order to set the record straight for any dissenters.)

Since we’re on the subject –

herecomedajudge pointed me to a nifty City of Heroes link –

http://au.geocities.com/boxhead6177/freelancer.htm

There seems to be a nice collection of material.

Making another offer on the Astor condo. Deal sweeteners include me taking on the closing costs (about another $2k), and buy as is with the right to inspect. There really isn’t much to inspect except for appliances and A/C units. Anything major is under the maint of the building.

Hmm… none of my LJ replies are making it back to me… will they be lost, or will they come flooding en masse sometime later? I’ve noticed that some folks have had that error in the past, but it hasn’t been a problem for me in years. Funny, thing… thinking of LJ issues in yearly terms.

GIMP pre-2.0 for windows is out now! thanks for this info, ldy!!

Waxy is a smart feller… The temptation to goof off at work got harder to resist. Text games via IM: Remember those old Infocom games? Zork, Planetfall, Adventure, etc. Now you can play them on AIM, even save games!

‘Chimp Head’- Animatronic Mask Oh, man… I think the teeth need a little more carnivore appeal, but it’s pretty awesome. (via)

a year ago – cool chemical reactions, pronunciation query, gael returns , and a pic of newt.

two years ago – Happy chats, urban ruins links, some website renewal ideas, old icons. I forgot about this one… I was rather fond of the effect.)

three years ago – Baron Munchausen, computer needs fixifying, Coconut song, Oscar Picks, Crayola Crayon color timeline

Just received a call from bro’s atty, the state has offered him 3 yrs probation
in the district he intends to live. He will have to check in with his probation
officer once a week and not be able to leave that county without permission.
Absolutely no alcohol or drugs, if he stays clean and out of trouble he can ask
for early termination after 1 1/2 years. He will be taken from the jail for the
hearing and back before being released later in the day. He will stay at the
mother’s place until he has washed his things and has the truck packed to head
out. I’ll join bro and mother for dinner Thursday night.

We’ll see how it goes.

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Bubba Ho-Tep was a hoot, and it was nice to have tasty peas that were *HOT*. Hail to the King, Baby! It had a great soundtrack, too.. (no, not my current music.. that was a weird coincidence.)

I got plumb tuckered out early last night.. I think the movie did it. I crashed and slept hard, like I had a drawstring pouch of sand in my skull.

I’ve got a good feeling this morning and a smile on my face… but not much time to write, as I was early to bed, late to rise, and spent a bit of the morning playing with Newtster. Maybe I’ll sync my palm-writing in today when I return home.

Hope you have a fine day, dear journal!

Whoops… I’m in trouble.

Talk about being torn! I think Bruce Campbell as Elvis fighting ancient redneck mummies will win today, though… there’s always tomorrow night for the other Zombie movie.

Sunrise Cinemas – Gateway 4
1820 East Sunrise Boulevard,
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 (954)763-7994

If anyone would like to join me, I think I’m going to hit the 5:10 showing of BHT. I’ll share my corn.

Bubba Ho-Tep – (1:10 PM), (3:10), (5:10), 7:30, 9:30

Dawn of the Dead – (1:15 PM), (3:25), (5:40), 7:50, 10:00

I’d have thought the words though/piccie/link/via or newt would have come up.

So… it’s morning again, is it? Sunday was a lot less crazy-busy than Saturday, thank goodness. So little took place that I had to call the number to be sure that it was working. (it was). Pretty good, considering this is spring break season.

Dawn of the Dead this afternoon… no high hopes but looking for a fun diversion, hopefully better than the Texas chainsaw remake.

Catarina called me up from DD’s yesterday and let me know that the outdoor preggers kitty had 5 babies… anyone in the West Palm Beach region going to be in the market for an adorable kitten or two, six weeks from now? (That is, if she doesn’t become super attached to all of em… baby kitties are very appealing, and she’s got a slight cat-lady tendency already. One indoor, and one outdoor.)

I wish I knew more about Spanish politics… I really have no idea how to filter all the information that I’ve been receiving about the recent bombing and election there. somehow, I think it’s a pretty complex web, and I’ve only looked at two or three strands.

I did a quickie search on JTD,Jr , wondering where he’s been and what’s new… looks like he hasn’t updated his website in about nine months… and no copyright updates this year, something that was pretty important to him when I knew him. I’m guessing he’s still alive, as he’s listed as a guest at a JAFAX, which happens at the end of June. I saw that his mom was online, so I sent a pleasantry to her, figuring I could say hi, and see what was new… but after sending a hey there, she logged off. She’s kind of the flake of that family, so it’s not unexpected. I was pretty friendly with that family for a few years… an oddball crew, but wasn’t bad. Where JTD is and what he’s up to as of June of last year is still a bit of a mystery. My interest isn’t high enough to warrant more than a 5-minute cursory search. I’ll look again in a year, maybe.

Winged Sandals multimedia guide to Greek mythology from Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The untitled project – is a series of photographs of urban settings accompanied by a graphical text layout. The photographs have been digitally stripped of all traces of textual information. The text pieces show the removed text in the approximate location and font as it was found in the photograph. See the Project Statement to read more about the project.

Never mind that there aren’t any tigers in Kenya. The song is a zippy little tune.

Internet Movie archive… most popular free feature film download is the original Night of the Living Dead, closely followed by Reefer Madness, Gunsmoke Ranch, Sex Madness and D.O.A.

So enchanted with it, I created a Livejournal feed to notify me when they add more public domain films to the list… filmadd_feed I’ve created one for recent additions to the Internet Movie archive… Hooray for DOA and Night of the living dead, freely available for download, and all legal, to boot!

I already had NotLD (grabbed it a Halloween or two ago from somewhere), but DOA! hot dog… that’s some classic noir right there. Much better than that Dennis Quaid pseudo-remake in ’88. As an opener, I also grabbed the 3 Stooges short: Sing a song of Six Pants. I recommend downloading with something that can resume, because the timeout factor can be fairly high at certain times.

Discovery had an interesting show on… “Animal Face-off: Great White Shark vs Saltwater Crocodile” sort of a bio-science / robotic simulation version of those old fanboy arguments… “Who’s Stronger? Superman or Captain Marvel? Could Wolverine beat the Hulk in a fight?” The next one was Rhino vs Elephant. I understandably bet on the elephant, based on ellie being nearly twice the mass of a rhino, and because rhinos are notoriously dull-witted “run and impale types”. Plus, I just like elephants more. I wonder what will become of the hydraulic robo-heads once the show is over? Ebay, maybe?

Hmm… This one strikes sort of close to home… Tiger vs Grizzly. Newt and I get along just fine, thanks.

Something about the show; I didn’t like the Shark expert’s use of the term “prey item”… it seemed redundant. Isn’t “prey” usually sufficient? They weren’t referring to a number of prey units or anything like that. They also appear to need more eye protection during the testing.

The Croc footage on the show was amazing, plucking large bats out of midair with a 27 mph leap from the water, and taking out a zebra out of nowhere. The Shark footage was equally impressive, but stuff I’d seen many times before… It’s hard to cover new ground after shark week a few months back, and all the post-Jaws documentaries seen as a kid. Even though the shark ultimately won, crocs are more frightening to me because they’re amphibious. Want to avoid a shark? Stay seven feet from the water’s edge, and you should be fine. Want to avoid a croc? Get in the car, and drive away.

Speaking of which, it’s time I launch!

Playing with google’s “local search“, I sought out monkeys near zip code 33301. I don’t rightly know why Jiffy Lube came up on the list… Grease Monkeys, maybe?

When I did a local search for cannibals you know, just to be safe… I get The Local Bar Association( that figures), an Office supply center, and a bunch of Temp agencies! FOR THE LOVE OF ZEUS, POST IT NOTES ARE MADE OF PEOPLE!! PEOPLE!! /Heston in a scarf.

The Untitled Project, urban photos stripped of all typography.

I added a copyright disclaimer in my user info, for when I archive news articles…

Some news material is copyrighted by its original publisher.

It is reprinted by Scottobear’s Livejournal without permission, solely for purposes of criticism, comment, and news reporting, in accordance with the Fair Use Guidelines of copyright material under § 107 of U.S.C. Title 17.

I wonder if that’s legalese enough?

Cool Zombie Miniatures… I would love to have all of ’em! It would take forever to paint, but be worth it. It’d certainly make the Zombies!! beer and pretzels game a lot more varied and colorful. (The minis that come with the game are ok, but all identical. They need to vary the mix a wee bit. Mage Knight Zombies (ebay link, don’t take those prices seriously, just a way to see varied piccies) I swear, if I wanted to make some cash, I’d put all the plastic monsters I don’t have slotted to armies for sale, and see how much I could make.

Funniest Icon I’ve seen on LJ today –

Didn’t visit bro at the jail yesterday, on call during the time he’d have been available. Still haven’t heard from him via phone.

a year ago – palm pic, whiskerliscious-fuzzy-paw newt-pic, cat eaters, the coffee song, interviewed @ starmark,

2 years ago– radiology, reading lensmen books, riker in trouble for DVDing, corpse tupperware, Elisabeth, and a bunch of dead links.

3 years ago – IMT politics, and so on.

(feel free to answer in comments, and elaborate.)

What do I think? I think it is… not one that should always be accepted, mind you, dear journal.

Also, Mmmm… waffles.

I’m considering a little day trip to the Dawn of the Dead movie on Monday. I’ve heard that these zombies are quick, not shamblers, and that there’s no pivotal helicopter, but the rest is pretty much the same.

Today’s cases have kept me going like gangbusters, and it seems that nine year old boys with black hair, weighing 90 lbs is the golden mean. four of em. 2 solos, and a pair together. Not to mention the 37 year old bipolar woman, the 75 year old Alzheimer’s gent, or the 16 year old habitual runaway that already has a tattoo on her neck.

This is just since 12:30 this afternoon.

Good news is that over half have been found by the police, neighbors, family or friends already. (the duo, a soloist, and the 75er.)

Random Scotto factoid –

I think everyone has worth, some kind of value. I might not like particular people, but I think that they have a reason and rhyme to be the way they are. Like other items of value, some I like to keep nearby, and others I’d prefer were kept as far from me as possible. (Gold and Plutonium both fetch a nice market value, you know…)

Everyone has loved or been loved by someone at some point. I believe that everyone has made *some* kind of difference is someone else’s life, and that’s a kind of connectivity that makes us all part of a common whole. Nobody is born and lives in a vacuum. I wonder sometimes how far things can be read back… a friendly smile or someone giving the finger can set whole chain reactions in place. Mind you, I think that there are times when flipping someone off is required… even a punch in the jaw might be needed to put patterns in place to help the world flow a little more smoothly. However, extending a hand to help someone else, or to make some other friendly gesture is far more often the useful maneuver.

Bottom line? I don’t know. I’m rambling a bit. A good fundamental rule is “Don’t be an asshole, you’re better than that.”