SINGAPORE (AP) – People in strait-laced Singapore were urged Monday to act like monkeys – the Chinese zodiac sign for the coming Lunar year – for the sake of their country. Continue reading 6420 – A new day, a new year….Kung Hee Fat Choy, ook ook! →

Took the long route home, by water bus. Stopped off at the pet store, and got Newtie a little present of fresh cat grass seed, and a fountain soda for myself (a root beer with vanilla ice cream float at the used bookstore, to be precise.)

There was a tour group on the water bus, so the captain gave some guide talk… I didn’t realize that in the 30s they made the first three Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan flicks just up the street from my house in an (at the time) undeveloped area of the New River. Also saw Jay Leno’s tourist place, and Lee Majors’s home. Funny, I’ve never seen the actors when out and about. (I did see James Coburn, once, though, a few years back.)

It was fairly overcast and cool today, but not so much that I’d call it brisk.

Pictures from the water bus, and on the wall by the used bookstore

I got a nice compliment from the Gray Pumpkin yesterday about my perspective on things being a draw to my journal.

Old Palm Doodles – I really should go back to scribbling more.

Free Band Names – There are some good ones. I particularly like –

• SEX IS A BULLFIGHT?
• THE WINTER THE ROBOTS FELL IN LOVE
• HOBO TOOTH

Diet coke with Lime… love the taste of citrus, and diet coke is yummy, but if it’s anything like diet coke with lemon, I’ll pass.

Current shower song… I sang it in a deep baritone this morning. I fear I may continue singing it as I walk the curb. It’s a good tune to bellow in full hair-down, scary monster mode.

The Sinister Ducks – March of the Sinister Ducks – MP3 ~3meg

Lyrics

Nifty word found (or refound) today –

crapulent (KRAP-yuh-luhnt) adjective

Sick from excessive drinking or eating.

[From Late Latin crapulentus (very drunk), from Latin crapula (drunkenness), from Greek kraipal (hangover, drunkenness).]

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida is located in the heart of Miami, the Gateway of the Americas, and is accredited by the American Association of Museums.

Piles of Fun – Hippocrates’ treatment for hemorrhoids, 400 B.C.: Continue reading 6417 And It's Tuesday. →

Nifty word found (or refound) today –

crapulent (KRAP-yuh-luhnt) adjective

Sick from excessive drinking or eating.

[From Late Latin crapulentus (very drunk), from Latin crapula (drunkenness), from Greek kraipal (hangover, drunkenness).]

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida is located in the heart of Miami, the Gateway of the Americas, and is accredited by the American Association of Museums.

Piles of Fun – Hippocrates’ treatment for hemorrhoids, 400 B.C.: Continue reading 6417 And It’s Tuesday. →

Happy Birthday, flying_blind!

Saw Big Fish with Danny last night…(Peter Pan started a smidgen too early) it was good, but I saw it maybe jut a little too soon after Ted passing away. It was quite enjoyable overall. I really didn’t notice the score to the movie…which was supposedly fantastic, but it didn’t stick in my skull at all. The Preview for Spidey2 looked good, too! Doc Ock is squatly stocky after all, has the dark glasses and moderately bad haircut.

Before the movies, the air was cool and fresh after a few hours rain, so we walked from my place to Las Olas. We had conversation over delicious bread, *huge* garden salads and Bass Ale in front of the Big City Tavern…(We didn’t go to the propane-smelling bridge-place, because it was closed) we watched people go by, and gabbed about religion, the clothes young people are wearing these days, and Tolkien, mostly. A lot of our usual topics just didn’t come up. The servers were excellent… left us alone, but slid in when we needed anything. We roamed up the street, past the singing fountain.. it was doing a Paul McCartney gig… Live and Let Die, and Magical Mystery Tour. It was especially well-synced to the Bond song.

After the movie, there was a lot of low-hanging mist or cloud cover, allowing for city lights to reflect back… it was pretty surreal.. made the horizon, and sky look like a movie backdrop.

Some Pictures

Happy Birthday, flying_blind!

Saw Big Fish with Danny last night…(Peter Pan started a smidgen too early) it was good, but I saw it maybe jut a little too soon after Ted passing away. It was quite enjoyable overall. I really didn’t notice the score to the movie…which was supposedly fantastic, but it didn’t stick in my skull at all. The Preview for Spidey2 looked good, too! Doc Ock is squatly stocky after all, has the dark glasses and moderately bad haircut.

Before the movies, the air was cool and fresh after a few hours rain, so we walked from my place to Las Olas. We had conversation over delicious bread, *huge* garden salads and Bass Ale in front of the Big City Tavern…(We didn’t go to the propane-smelling bridge-place, because it was closed) we watched people go by, and gabbed about religion, the clothes young people are wearing these days, and Tolkien, mostly. A lot of our usual topics just didn’t come up. The servers were excellent… left us alone, but slid in when we needed anything. We roamed up the street, past the singing fountain.. it was doing a Paul McCartney gig… Live and Let Die, and Magical Mystery Tour. It was especially well-synced to the Bond song.

After the movie, there was a lot of low-hanging mist or cloud cover, allowing for city lights to reflect back… it was pretty surreal.. made the horizon, and sky look like a movie backdrop.

Some Pictures

Rainy-day Sunday. So much for any sort of extended outing with Danny. Dinner and a movie might be the extent of it. (If that.) Should I give up now? Thor’s right. Who knows? With Florida weather, it could dry up, and just make for a lovely evening in a few hours. I’ll roll my dice, and take my chances. Maybe Goldilocks with the helmet will help out and cut me some slack.
2 cam images from today inside/outside

Going on an outing with Danny tonight. Maybe get supper at that “Marijuana-Propane-under-the-bridge” place. (last photo in this entry) and finally get to see peter pan?

Dear Cartoon Network, Please do not break up the fun superhero shows with Yu-gi-oh and whatever other toy-sales ‘toons, please. I think that having Justice League and Teen Titans together in a block is a stronger way to go.

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Happy 75th Birthday, Popeye!

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Planet Comics #17 (March 1942).

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A history of Duckburg – A history of Disney’s Duckburg based on the stories of Carl Barks and Don Rosa.

DUCKhunt links to lots of Rosa articles and artwork all over the web. -all via msterling

Powerskip looks fun, but dangerous.

Well, that’s annoying.. where did my last post (6413) go? It was only an hour in the making. Bah.

It acknowledges that it was posted (Date updated: 2004-01-17 18:15:28)

Was it a result of Santa Cluster Maintenance? (I’m currently on Santa – Cluster 7)

Who knows… maybe it’ll reappear when the service is done. [update: Tonight’s earlier login problem and Santa’s earlier unplanned downtime have been resolved, but we’ve run into some additional problems while fixing it. To fix those problems, we’re taking each individual sub-cluster of the Santa cluster down, one at a time. While we’re working on each subcluster, users on that subcluster may be unable to login, post, or have their journals available for other users to view or post in.]
update

I regularly interact with people all over the world in my journal. The Middle East, The Arctic Circle, Australia, Italy, and the UK, just to name a few outside of the USA… and I think that’s just too cool. In There or FFXI, it seems much more USA-centered, even though there are folks in there from everywhere, too. (A solid Asian population in FF, a lot of Brits/Israelis in There, or so it seems.) LJ has the distinct advantage of being more multimedia and immersive into real lives, though, and that’s an engrossing element to me. I go through phases where I just barely skim my read list, and other times, I gobble it up whole. I like looking in on people, and watching them grow.

I learned yesterday that Muslim Mona is expected to go into an arranged marriage, but is dodging it until she finishes university. It seems so strange to hear about arranged couplings in this country, in this day and age. She’s an interesting case study, and seems to be a nice person.

Deep-fried cow brain burger (if you think that’s appetizing, you’re probably already infected) Continue reading 6412 The Mixmaster is fascinating. →

Florida black bear is denied endangered species status by U.S.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cbear15jan15,0,1477814.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
Continue reading 6409 – email post – black bears "not endangered enough" →

Florida black bear is denied endangered species status by U.S.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cbear15jan15,0,1477814.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
Continue reading 6409 – email post – black bears “not endangered enough” →

I picked up a box of “Mad About You” DVD cereal for Katt…that’ll teach her to sass my cereal buying tastes!

Let’s see how things roll with the Big Kahuna back. I hear Nevada went really well!

Computer’s chips turn into potatoes Continue reading 6408 mars, potato chips, cereal →