Heard from the family. Bro says his cell phone was drained, and the momster flaked it. We’ll try again next week.

Sunday, I’ll be putting in a quick visit to the RenFest with the Big Kahuna. I’m actually looking more toward the one in Vizcaya, next month. Hm…Maybe I’ll find some more fun trinkets for my beloved there.

Speaking of loved ones….

(-via beaucoupkevin and scans_daily)

Memes

Never did hear back from the blood relations. I’ll have to try calling again this evening.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Stop Motion & Clay Animation

Great site if you’re into stop motion and clay animation. The link goes to the movie showcase that members of the site have posted. Check out the rest of the site while you’re there.

Coffin-Cam – “Being dead and buried doesn’t mean you can’t have friends over!” I figure it’s a hoax, but even so,it’s only a matter of time before something like this really happens. (via *all over the place*)

Scrabble Experiment in CSS/Xml

I was mistaken, GP and Katt met at the Kaybee in the Pompano Fashion Square.(the Mall of the Dead… Not to be confused with the Strip Mall of Sin, across the street.)

Neat idea… a Chocolate Voodoo Doll. Exact vengeance, and have a lovely little snack at the same time.

Hm. I got stood up for Birthday Dinner by my Momster and Bro.

That’s pretty weird. I left a voice mail with bro, and mom’s phone is just ringing. I wonder if they both flaked on me, or if something is up?

Sakes, I could’ve been eating with the hippies tonight.

Ah well, delivery it is then. How about some lovely eggplant parm for Din-din, Scotto, ol’ bean?

Great Idea! I was just craving some o’ that.

Groovy. Tell you what, you call it in, and I’ll pay.. Whaddaya say to that?

Sure! Got enough?

Yup! $30 in my pocket of fresh B-day money, don’tcha know.

Hey! then get a nice treat, too… a cannoli!

Ooh, good one! that’ll be nice later on.

So, what’s on the freshly opened agenda for tonight?

Hmm.. hard to say. Maybe some Eddie Izzard on the Downloaded movie queue?

I can do that… though there’s also some more firefly episodes, now… and The Maltese Falcon.

Tough call. Let’s start with comedy, and do Falcon… save firefly if there’s available time.

Ok. speaking of call… order supper.

Right. Let me just finish this LJ entry.

Okie doke, but hurry up… I’m hungry.

… for all fellow Cat and Dog lovers. MOA is going for the “broad appeal” exhibits. Methinks any move that keeps the arts alive is a good one.

On Display at the MOA: February 5 – June 6, 2004

Se7en Sins Meme (via pilarcruz) Continue reading 6445 What's up at the Museum o' f Art… →

Well, Dear journal, since you asked so nicely, I’ll tell you. I made out like a bandit.

• Lunch from Tokyo Bowl (Veggie Sushi)
• $20 Starbucks gift card
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah – Giant Monsters All-Out Attack on DVD
• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
• Dinner at Sushi Rock (Tempura Veggies)
• Tron 2.0
• Simpsons Hit & Run
• Invites to Dinner with the 1. Hippies 2. Bro and Momster
• $30 inside a nice birthday card
• Many good wishes/ecards/IM’s from lots of fine folk.

I’m very fortunate and quite thankful!

I’ve tested Tron 2.0, and it’s pretty darn fun… I’ll be interested in seeing how it plays multi-player online. Only installed Simpsons, though what little I have seen of it looks good. It is a little disconcerting to me that The Simpsons is on 3 CDs, and Tron is on only 2.

Of course, now, I want to stay in, and play my games… but I must leave, more’s the pity.

Lost in translation didn’t quite make it to Danny, but I’ll see if I can’t re-code the VCD in a format that he’s more likely to work with. (There’s some irony there, I suspect.)

Until Later, Dear journal.

On this date, in 1969 at 8:30 AM EST, Boris Karloff passed away. Also, I was born. How’s that for a fun Scotto factoid?

Happy Groundhog’s Day, Candlemas, Pidyon Ha-Ben, Imbolc, Lughnasadh, Thesmophoria, Farewell to Lords of Misrule’s Trickster phase, etc.

You’re one year older, one year wiser,
Rock ‘n roll star, king, czar, and a kaiser.
A room full of friends, a mouth full of cake,
Every present is for you and it feels pretty great.
You’re the man of the hour, the V.I.P.
You get the first slice of the p-i-e,
But first blow out the candles and make a wish.
Put a smile on, cuz it’s your birthday, bitch!

Go Scotto, it’s your birthday
Go Scotto, it’s your birthday

Walkies yesterday had busier streets than the other Sunday’s “28 days” vibe. Looks like very few people on Los Olas give a flying fig about big football.

Also, yesterday, I saw a place advertising “VIET MARKET”… my mind got muddled, and for a brief dyslexic moment I thought it said “YETI MARKET”. I thought that’d be a nice place to get a nice, sturdy hairbrush, or mountain-climbing equipment… but no, they just sold yummy-looking baked goods and Vietnamese cooking supplies. Echoing through my mind was Race Bannon talking to some Nepalese folk, and the quote in heavily accented English… “A terrible justice has been done.” (Episode 22…

Tonight, I go out to dinner with Danny, and find out what computer games he got me.

Update – it was Tron 2.0, and Simpsons Hit & Run.

A sort-of-recently-discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows just about anyone with a little HTML knowledge to lead you into thinking you’re somewhere you’re not. A link you click on could display a particular URL in the address bar and a totally different page on the screen. It could quite easily be used by credit card scammers to fool you into giving them your information. For a live example of the exploit, click the following link: www.cbs.com. [update – fixed, if you get a windows update]

If you get taken to a different web site, then you’re in trouble, because Microsoft doesn’t have a fix for this yet. (via World of Stuff, and Netsquirrel)

A year ago, the Museum F Art, Tinkle-pig, Newt, and other palm-cam pics.

Florida Division of Forestry has lots of local links that are nifty. (via a sidebar in 1st&main)

• Fire Weather
• Lightning Detection (A more up to date one is here)
• Observed Weather Conditions

We’ve had 5.5 inches of rain this month, and it’s only the first!

Here’s a list of the soon-to-be-dead KB stores, organized by state. If you ain’t down with watching a football game today, maybe you should head to KB and get some slashed-price goodies. I think that’s what I’ll be doing. (via matt) Maybe I’ll hit the Boynton Beach store…. I think that’s where the GrayPumpkin and Katt first met. It’d be nice to get a memento before it turns into a “Scotch Tape Store” (like that ancient SNL skit).

[update- 6:42pm] – It’s sunday.. The Malls close at 5pm. no way to make it there tonight, so instead, I opted for a chocolate milkshake and peoplewatching at Picasso Joe’s.

Oh, this was left on my camera… there’s some of those JW’s from before.

Don’t worry, I’ve encased them in protective Sinestro forcefields. (Thank you, Qwardian weaponsmiths! Weaponers? What kind of word is that?)

cut to protect friend’s pages width.

Poll is a modified version of Unconscious Mutterings

top 100 Movie meme

My agent is going to eyeball some condos out in Hollywood for me today… With any luck, tomorrow morning, I’ll be able to get a good look-see at a few nice ones, after chores get done.

Zuma… a fun little marble game.

Damp, Dark, wet, chilly day. Florida is playing at being Seattle.. or Stereotypical London, perhaps. I have been quite enjoying it.

Well, I’ve seen a couple episodes of Firefly, now, and it’s a cute series. Elements that I especially like is the western feel, and the majority of the characters are nice enough. Also nice is the lack of aliens… Humans have plenty of drama to go around on their own…plus, I’m a sucker for western-style space stories.

• The Captain (Malcolm) – Kind of bland, but an ok guy. My idea of the best “bland leader guy in a pseudo-western” is Brisco County, Jr. Hard to live up to that.
• The Combat Chick (Zoe)- entertaining, but I keep seeing her as the backup girl from Cleopatra 2525. I’m sick of the name Zoe, too.
• The Pilot / Combat Chick’s Husband (Wash)- I like him. He’s got a minor part in the series, but it’s a good one. May be my fave. Like me, makes little rubber dinosaurs play out melodramas when otherwise bored.
• The Prostitute (Inara) – bores me to tears. A romance between her and boring captain is boring². I don’t feel any tension there.
• The Mechanic Girl (Kaylee)- I like her. Hard not to like a cheery, cute, sort of shy redhead with a brain. Also may be my fave.
• The Thug Guy (Jayne)- entertaining lines, but a super-stereotype. The actor doesn’t have a lot of room to maneuver.
• The Doctor (Simon) – Haven’t seen enough to get a vibe.
• Smartie/Emotionally Fragile girl (River)- Haven’t seen enough to get a vibe.
• Priest (book)- Even though it’s Detective Harris from Barney Miller, he’s aged and different enough that I can split him into another role (unlike combat chick). He’s the third member of my “big three” characters.

All told, it blows away the last two Star Treks.. Voyager and Enterprise. Though that’s not really saying much. It’s on a par with Andromeda. Not uber-great, but better than most of what’s on TV.

Making Danny a DVD of Lost In Translation today, my first real test of WinMPG Video convert on a large file. (I’ve fiddled with little movies of Alligators and other stuff I’ve captured with my camera, but never some 700 meg gargantuan.) If it works out, I’ll try a VCD of Time Bandits for him, to. I’ll give it to him when he takes me out to dinner on Monday. (Handy burning hints are at DVDRhelp.com… even handier is just using Nero)

Just got an email update – Federal return 1/31/2004 6:07:59 AM Accepted – That’s that!

Also got my first in the wave of PIF virus-attached emails. I knew to look for it, but my web interface is nice enough to scan before downloading, too.

I don’t know why, but Newt is interested in taking bites out of the line of my left bicep this morning.

I wonder which of the RenFaeries will be at the show this year?

Via President Match (via argumentplease )

1 Kerry Score: 100%
2 Edwards Score: 95%
3 Clark Score: 93%
4 Kucinich Score: 91%
5 Dean Score: 90%
6 Lieberman Score: 88%
7 Sharpton Score: 85%
8 Bush Score: 31%

These scores are a little misleading, but overall, it seems fairly accurate.

A history of Early Motive / Pop-up books. The Illustrations on some are great.

Friends will miss editor – as will Bat Boy

Eddie Clontz died early Monday in Salt Springs, near Ocala. Complications from diabetes. Only 56, he was one of the most creative guys in the business, although you won’t find his brand of journalism in a daily newspaper. Until three years ago, Eddie edited the Weekly World News. Continue reading 6437 Making vids, prez quiz, Farewell Eddie Clontz →

I’m pooped. I’ll sleep quite well this evening, methinks. Lovely long dreams of being snowed in with my beloved, telling stories that I can’t remember the plots to, but entertaining, and being entertained nonetheless.

Another nifty “Universal translator” – Translate this Page! (Nice thing about PHP referencing… it’ll translate whatever page this is pasted on.. a friend’s page, my journal, my homepage… whatever.) 49 languages, not including dialects.

The Orgulator – cool website manips in MSIE … Load a URL into this window using the entry field above and then click the buttons at left to flip, blur, invert or otherwise muck about with the look of the page. via waxy_org (Lots of other toys/tools here, too.)

See also – http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/reference.asp

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