This morning, I preferred an extra 20 min to –

A. sleep

B. eat breakfast

(C. have a nice shower)

D. surf the web / LJ

E. Other (_____________________)

And so I did. I may be a bit hungry, sleepy, and behind on my journal… but I’m clean!

The Baroque Bohemian Cats’ Tarot.

State police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet. Police said the girl, whose identity they withheld, photographed herself in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts. She then sent the photos to people she met in chat rooms.

She has been charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.

I wonder if she’ll be listed in the sexual offender logs, and be required to register her location whenever she moves, now?

LSD use is way down in recent years, according to arrest records, hospital records, and surveys with high schoolers. Slate looked into it, and came up with two reasons why. First and foremost, the DEA busted a couple of guys in rural Kansas back in 2000, who supplied 95 percent of the country’s acid. The other reason is the breakup of the Grateful Dead.

I went to read a book I’d lent to my brother and he’d returned to me about a year ago…once I opened the pages, the thick, but stale stink of cigarette smoke filled my nose, and possibly the rest of the room. He must’ve read the entire thing while chain-smoking… the scent was incredibly horrid. I don’t mind a little cig smoke, but this was something else. It amazed me that the tome managed to hang on so tightly to that aura … I had to close the book and put it back on the shelf. I find myself wondering if it’ll smell that way forever, until it’s aired out somehow. If an archaeologist found it in a hundred years and opened it up, would it still blast that scent in a billowing cloud of century-old particles?

The book was Great American Ghost Stories, by the way.

GrayPumpkin (Who will be in town with Katt starting Wednesday) reminded me of The Surrealist Compliment Generator – Your face is like an imperfectly shaven tennis ball. And yes… in some ways, it is. However “The ocean’s foam matches the froth of hair streaming through your lips.” is a bit much.

Two cool case mods – Habitrail & Easy bake oven

Passover joke

Synced from the palm –

VS had a lunch meeting, so I dined alone today… wandered over to the Denny’s next door in a semi-stupor. I was rather drowsy and semi jet-laggy just as a result of all the assorted Nevada / Michigan, and now Ohio duties I’ve got to keep track of. My first visit inside that Denny’s… it seems wrong to eat at a place like that during normal daylight hours.

My mindset was that I was having an out of body experience, though I was still in my body. I was sort of vegging out… there was a feeling as if my life essence was inside me, but sort of swirling around like smoke, and not flowing through my veins and filling the flesh-vessel properly. My foot-stuff was in my liver, eyes in my knees, and so on. Some sort of mental stun. I was communicating fin, but there was a lack of focus… a fuzziness around the edges.

Happy Day! A shiny Maryland Quarter in my change! A good omen, and it served as a lens to bring my thoughts into focus and a spring into my step.

Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o

Rubbed against something the wrong way during the night or something…the area of my back near the shoulder blades has a pesky itch that could only be purged by a nice scalding shower.

It has me wondering what would come through that spot on my skin.. wings? How huge a span would I need to get off of the ground? I figure it’d have to be at least 45 feet or something… I’m over 6 feet tall and my bones are hardly hollow.

Somehow, I’d be more likely to expect Zim/Otto Octavious-style manipulators and extensor-legs.

It’s going to be tricky, avoiding all the chocolate next week.

Doing my annual viewing of the Ten Commandments, some of the best scenes (snake-staff, for one) were interrupted by news of Miami fires, possibly deliberately set. I hope no one was hurt, or lost homes as a result of those. I really think that they could’ve picked a better-named spokeswoman for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue than Vicki Burns. There was a haze off in the distance, but I couldn’t smell smoke from here.

Back to the movie… When I was a boy, I thought that the Hebrews leaving behind Moses should have had elephants, for some reason. Horses in Egypt always struck me as odd; I figured that they’d just use camels for everything, or oxen to pull the bigger things. I wonder now what camel meat tastes like… man eats ox all the time, and horse now and then… is camel considered a domestic food?

Fire story

Hm. A pleasant change this year was that nobody alerted me last night of the Daylight Savings Time switchover… all of my devices except for the TV and caller ID switch automatically. (Correction, Caller ID switched with my first phone call of the day.) This Spring, Daylight Savings time changes and takes place 45 different times around the world. Here’s what time it is in assorted regions.

Passover / Easter coming next week. I wonder how that’ll affect the folks on call? More or less busy?

Hm…interesting review of Ft. Lauderdale in the Sun Sentinel… Not so Rowdy Spring Break Continue reading 6581 heh… "Girls gone mild" →

Hm. A pleasant change this year was that nobody alerted me last night of the Daylight Savings Time switchover… all of my devices except for the TV and caller ID switch automatically. (Correction, Caller ID switched with my first phone call of the day.) This Spring, Daylight Savings time changes and takes place 45 different times around the world. Here’s what time it is in assorted regions.

Passover / Easter coming next week. I wonder how that’ll affect the folks on call? More or less busy?

Hm…interesting review of Ft. Lauderdale in the Sun Sentinel… Not so Rowdy Spring Break Continue reading 6581 heh… “Girls gone mild” →

ok, I’ll play.

ok, I’ll play.

Hellboy was fun, though I think that they may’ve included *too much* stuff from the assorted comics for one movie. Abe Sapien seemed especially well done, and the movie’s weaknesses are to be expected of any superhero movie. (Strange, but appropriate to hear Frasier’s Brother Nile’s voice coming from a gill-man.)

City of Heroes is fun, Le Gernouille (Leapfrog was taken) is hopping around fighting crime nicely.

picture of Le Grenouille

The dials on Scotto’s universe today are –

Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color / Aura-Vision)
MPAA Rating (G / PG / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse/Blend/Puree)
Global Soundtrack Volume (off, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Personal Soundtrack Volume (off, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Batteries (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)

Ok… tonight is either Hellboy or Dawn of the Dead, with or without Dave. I’d like to have a little fun mayhem before being on call this weekend. Oddly, I know for a fact that four years ago yesterday I was on a date, watching Rear Window at the Gateway theater with April. I hope that she’s gotten her act together at this point, and is on the right track. That was just an odd situation, one I should write about more sometime.

I’m flattered that Sammy’s using the name “SamBot2000” as his robo-hero. (The character design is nice, too.)

No pranks yesterday! Yeah! I feel great! Thanks!

To celebrate, Happy Squirrel piccies from yesterday

Sum up your opinion or impression of me in one word, leave it as a comment in this posting, and then post this sentence in your own journal, if you please.

I just got nifty anony-post reply to an entry from January of last year looking at Ossuaries. The link given has 60 high-quality pictures of the display and the church from the outside.

Thanks! I really like it when anonymous people are friendly and helpful, and don’t just spam my site.

Sakes… the screen shots from City of Heroes make the joint look awesome. Papa Smurf!

Cute 4/1 gag… friends & friend of now reads “Stalking and Stalked by” on the bio page

links to a virus, not the link shown –

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:40:02 +0200

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follow the link to read the delivered message.

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source email came from – ip3e838ce6.speed.planet.nl, spoofed to look like livejournal. totally weak.

The life-sensing experiment seemed to work pretty well… I know that the cat out back was weirdly attracted to me when I got home.. though he may have just been talking to the Newtster, and came running my way when I turned the corner. It was a pretty good vibe to remind myself how much of what surrounds me is alive. I found myself thinking about the moss on the sidewalk, wondering about microbes in puddles, people next to me on the bus… It’s a fun mindset to run with.

The Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin. Round beds, cages, upside-down furniture, padded/collaged walls, rooms with coffins for beds, or sleep on tiny buildings as a giant.

Yesterday I showed CS a link to local privacy laws, which includes wiretapping and eavesdropping. (I’ve seen him recording stuff with his palmtop a couple of times, and thought I’d point it out to him.)

I think it is fairly straightforward –

“Twelve states forbid the recording of private conversations without the consent of all parties. Those states are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.”

Good to know…of course, I would like to ask a few PI and Lawyer-types just how sound that all is. If someone records you without your permission, and you find out about it.

His reply was a simple “Dude, the law doesn’t apply.”

Ok, maybe it doesn’t, but it sure seems that way to me. I’ve always been under the impression that you could take pictures of whatever you wanted to in public, but recording people’s voices was pretty taboo. If you want me to take you seriously, don’t call me dude.

He also mentioned that he’s actively seeking employment elsewhere, and plans to go back to school to leave the IT industry this August. I think he’s just riding out this gig until the big Kahuna cuts him loose at this point. That’s fine, but he shouldn’t be surfing the hire-pages at work.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

I foresee good things in the month ahead. Possibilities and potential that are mostly hidden, but could bloom nicely. Sunlight reflecting off the moon.