City of Heroes update (via Whimsy) Making it hard for me to pass up.

I’m thinking of some sort of leapfrog guy… maybe sort of Batroc the Leaper. Hey, Batroc has his own Blog!

Bro’s current situation… going to get his truck out of hock today. $500ish. Public Defender says that it looks like he’ll probably get three years probation, after sitting tight waiting for trial for another two weeks or so. I’m going to visit him at the North Broward facility.

Apparently my Dad’s Brother was in town for a few days, and I missed him this week. I heard from my Uncle Bob last night (Val’s Hubby, Rhonda & Russ’s Pop), and he mentioned that he was down. Funny thing is that Bobby is pretty dang laid back, and Bill is rather bombastic and overbearing. (in Bobby’s words, “it was a nice short visit…. taken best in small doses. 1 aspirin good, a bottle, bad.)

Trying to trim this gif to 40k for icon use (from the video found here)…It may be simpler to redraw it in black and white.

Rockin’ Video (Walkie Talkie Man)… with amazing knitting. Hooray for nutty yarn recording studios! via

Had a nice time gabbin’ with Sammy last night… I got to preach the word of The GIMP art program… originally for UNIX, there are now Windows, OS/2 and Mac versions available.

Neat Cemetery Search Engine

I want to give my beloved some strong noggin-squeezin’s. A good solid snug-squish, to let he know that she’s adored.

speaking of Head-hugs…

I’m crushing Newt’s Head!

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=224688&auth=kqfs

Another attack, I’m now going to screen comments by anyone I don’t actively
link to, in order to prevent more messy spam.

hits struck on entries 6402 and 6427, again.

[update-9:40am offending journal suspended. nice work, abuse team!]

remember, if you want to complain about spammers, it’s just a link away…

http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml

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Well, I’m going to have to hit the green grocer after my normal day’s duties. I fell a bit off of my points-diet last week, and I should get back on task. Less bread, more greens! Also, I’m craving skinny cow ice cream sammiches. I will not get any “spring oreos” with robins egg blue filling, even if they do have cute ladybugs on the cookies.

I voted yesterday… there were *no* other voters there when I arrived at lunchtime. I got to use the touchscreen system, but didn’t see any members of Pax Christi anywhere.

Got my business cards… put my first one to use yesterday.. tossed it in the free-lunch fishbowl at quiznos. Newbie does a pretty funny “they got a pepper bar” impersonation.

MONKEY POPS! (with sound) Yummmmy

The TENS is a joy. I wish I’d gotten insurance to send me one ages ago.

Gator goes for ride on the bus – A Pasco school bus driver brakes for the 4-foot reptile, which students haul onboard. Continue reading 6521 just a cool hot-dogger hangin' ten today. →

Well, I’m going to have to hit the green grocer after my normal day’s duties. I fell a bit off of my points-diet last week, and I should get back on task. Less bread, more greens! Also, I’m craving skinny cow ice cream sammiches. I will not get any “spring oreos” with robins egg blue filling, even if they do have cute ladybugs on the cookies.

I voted yesterday… there were *no* other voters there when I arrived at lunchtime. I got to use the touchscreen system, but didn’t see any members of Pax Christi anywhere.

Got my business cards… put my first one to use yesterday.. tossed it in the free-lunch fishbowl at quiznos. Newbie does a pretty funny “they got a pepper bar” impersonation.

MONKEY POPS! (with sound) Yummmmy

The TENS is a joy. I wish I’d gotten insurance to send me one ages ago.

Gator goes for ride on the bus – A Pasco school bus driver brakes for the 4-foot reptile, which students haul onboard. Continue reading 6521 just a cool hot-dogger hangin’ ten today. →

user valentit_love9 is spamming all of the same entries that I got the indian
porn spam in previously. that user has been banned, but if I get another spam,
I’ll screen all non-linked people in LJ as well as just anonymous comments.

I wonder what keywords are activating those entries?

Obviously a bum account though…

Date created: 2004-03-08 08:11:43
Date updated: Never.
Journal entries: 0
Comments: Posted: 1,367 – Received: 0

1367 comments posted in under 12 hours?
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[update: submitted it to abuse, anyone else that’d care to comment or follow along there can at –

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=223774&auth=an84

]

got a cool air-freshener and sushi postcard in the mail yesterday… thanks, calamity! It was my pleasure to be the first one to add a little dinero to the transportation fund! I hope you get some good travel-luck soon.

My favorite commentary on the whole TPotC thing thus far –

(via byrd)

Star Trek on ice!

Random weird connection of the day (at least to me)

Kathy Garver – Cissy from Family Affair was the voice of Firestar on Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, and Rachel in The Ten Commandments. From her Family Affair Days, she looked a lot like my babysitter’s pal Patty, whom I had a terribly fierce, yet platonic crush on as a young pod. I think that Kathy was quite the cutie in her time.

Spalding Gray has been found… sadly, it was in the East River.

He was one of my favorite monologists (is that a word?), and was a fascinating person overall. He’ll be missed, a lot. Monster in a Box was even better than Swimming to Cambodia, in my opinion. I still think of barking like a dog when stressed and buying pens for parking validation at a doctor’s office.

I hope you’ve found some peace, at last… but it’s a shame you had to step out the way you did.

Some excellent observations on writing.

Ever wonder what a site that had a rather nasty radioactive accident might look like years after?

This young woman and her motorcycle have ventured and found out. Very interesting, the sheer creepiness factor is rather high.

I sort of like this LED beer mug.

JK Rawling is going to go back and revise the Harry Potter books? “For all those children who know every twist and turn of the Potter plots, she had a word of warning — when she finishes the saga with Book Seven, she will settle down and revise them all. ”

Man, I’ve long since said that she needed an editor, but I figure it’s rather too late, now. Why write new books, if you can just alter the internals of known big sellers, and release ’em again? Bad Show! Do ’em right the first time, and save other cool story elements for *a new tale*!

Go play some fun 80’s games.

Random Scotto CoD factoid.. every time I’ve let the computer pick a side for me to play on in multi-player, I’ve been a German. Now, is that just some “Rosenkrantz/Guildernstern Are Dead” luck, or is it because people naturally want to play the allies, and I get tossed into the side that needs more players? I’ve come up Kraut 8 times out of 8. It’d be nice to play a Brit or whatever as a change of pace.

Dan showed the true difference in our ages yesterday… he’s on the side of “folks that don’t know how to properly set VCR clocks” and I’m on the other. I think there was some educational hump we went over regarding people born after 1964 or so. (Of course some mileage may vary.) I think that most folks under forty are able to deal more comfortably with remote-control based technology, and computers in general than most folks born before then. Note that I say *most*. He couldn’t for the life of him figure out how to turn off subtitles on his DVD player. (It eventually turned out that the button on the remote marked “subtitles” was the answer.) He’s not a stupid guy, far from it… but he simply hasn’t much familiarity with technology that I take for granted.

My favorite Bluto Song Quote from the Popeye movie:

I’m so mean I had a dream of beatin’ myself up;
I broke my nose, I broke my hand, I wrestled myself to the ground and then
Choked myself to death then broke the choke and woke up!

That’s how mean I’m mean. I’m mean.
Ya know what I mean?

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	scottobear
Your haiku:	he told me that he said i guess that’s the fun thing about graypumpkin
Username:
Created by Grahame

seventeen syllables at random from my head –

some people are just
boxes full of dust and hair
waiting for pick up

Some excellent observations on writing.

Ever wonder what a site that had a rather nasty radioactive accident might look like years after?

This young woman and her motorcycle have ventured and found out. Very interesting, the sheer creepiness factor is rather high.

I sort of like this LED beer mug.

JK Rawling is going to go back and revise the Harry Potter books? “For all those children who know every twist and turn of the Potter plots, she had a word of warning — when she finishes the saga with Book Seven, she will settle down and revise them all. ”

Man, I’ve long since said that she needed an editor, but I figure it’s rather too late, now. Why write new books, if you can just alter the internals of known big sellers, and release ’em again? Bad Show! Do ’em right the first time, and save other cool story elements for *a new tale*!

Go play some fun 80’s games.

Random Scotto CoD factoid.. every time I’ve let the computer pick a side for me to play on in multi-player, I’ve been a German. Now, is that just some “Rosenkrantz/Guildernstern Are Dead” luck, or is it because people naturally want to play the allies, and I get tossed into the side that needs more players? I’ve come up Kraut 8 times out of 8. It’d be nice to play a Brit or whatever as a change of pace.

Dan showed the true difference in our ages yesterday… he’s on the side of “folks that don’t know how to properly set VCR clocks” and I’m on the other. I think there was some educational hump we went over regarding people born after 1964 or so. (Of course some mileage may vary.) I think that most folks under forty are able to deal more comfortably with remote-control based technology, and computers in general than most folks born before then. Note that I say *most*. He couldn’t for the life of him figure out how to turn off subtitles on his DVD player. (It eventually turned out that the button on the remote marked “subtitles” was the answer.) He’s not a stupid guy, far from it… but he simply hasn’t much familiarity with technology that I take for granted.

My favorite Bluto Song Quote from the Popeye movie:

I’m so mean I had a dream of beatin’ myself up;
I broke my nose, I broke my hand, I wrestled myself to the ground and then
Choked myself to death then broke the choke and woke up!

That’s how mean I’m mean. I’m mean.
Ya know what I mean?

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	scottobear
Your haiku:	he told me that he said i guess that’s the fun thing about graypumpkin
Username:
Created by Grahame

seventeen syllables at random from my head –

some people are just
boxes full of dust and hair
waiting for pick up

Call of Duty is pretty keen! I tried out the multi-player, and I’m not quite ready for it yet… the first solo player mission is pretty nifty so far.

I think I’m going to pass on going grocery shopping today, and save it for tomorrow or Tuesday… I have enough to get by fairly well, and was out far too long on Saturday for my liking, though I enjoyed it.

An assortment of piccies from yesterday’s train ride – 9 shots total

Hopped the city cruiser to tri rail, from the las olas stop, and took the 2pm (Sat.) Fort Lauderdale up to Palm Beach. Kev and I got together, exchanged Christmas and birthday gifts, dined on Bud’s fantastic french fries, and watched the newish Looney Toons movie on DVD. Paul and Bheesh skipped out, as is the normal pattern, but Brad came by for the movie, and left shortly afterward. We played some Simpsons’ Road Rage and Mechassault head to head on his Xbox, and had a good time catching up and shooting the breeze. He’s got a 50-inch lcd TV that makes playing games quite a hoot.

Karen has a new boyfriend that drives down to see her all the time from Cocoa Beach… Lauren Had a fourth child, and apparently she’s getting her tubes tied now. Al looks like he’s lost some weight, too.

Felix and Jinxie are big now, and Dexter is just about a hundred pounds. Strange that Indy and Tippy are long gone now… Ripley is an old Maid now, and still the bottom rung on the pack’s totem pole… even servile to the kitties.

The gifts I received were Command and Conquer:Generals (for Christmas) and Call of Duty (for my birthday). Looks like I’ve moved from driving and throwing games to some war for a while. Not sure which I’ll run with, first… probably call of duty.

I lent Kev Tron 2.0 and Simpsons: Hit and Run to keep him busy now that he’s just coming down off of some of his older games.

12 items meme that’s floating around