Last night there was a lot of weirdness with the DSL modem disconnecting… I wonder if I need a new device? I imagine bellsouth will provide one if it turns out to be the case. (I do have the service plan, but was on hold for almost 45 min last night. Hopefully a day-call will yield better results.)

Hooray for surprise presents in the mail! I got a lovely care package from the KSA of sage , a yummy assortment of tea and a really nifty necklace made of wooden beads. Thank you so much to my pals in Dharan! Newt is crazy about all of it too.. he’s sniffing the sage, batting at the necklace I’m wearing, and I’m getting ready to prepare myself a nice cup of English Breakfast Tea. Yum!

Long as heck meeting yesterday… but at least we got the division of duties worked out. MM was very helpful in doing research for me, but she can’t go on call until codeRED gives her a login, for security and legal reasons.

My Scrabble© Score is: 14. What is your score? Get it here.

Cool Thing #12 about having a 2-monitor system with a nvidea card… I can work on my programming / documentation on one side, and still watch a movie at the same time “full screen”. Last Night’s Film – Casablanca. Tonight will either be Dune, The Medallion, Existenz, The Sinbad Cartoon or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, depending on my mood.

PT shows a marked improvement…my flexibility is way up, and pain is way down. Laura gave me a tin of cookies for beaming her a ton of palmtop games and the Davinci code…The Merengues are especially tasty, and “melt-in-your-mouthy”, though I think my favorites are the sugar cookies with M&Ms in them. Something very basic and elementary school nostalgic about ’em. Calculating the point values was tricky, but I figure I can have 3 cookies a day and stay within quota, if I don’t fudge anything else.

Fleeting moments with my sweetheart make me smile. Schedules have been tricky as of late, but I foresee better things on the horizon.

Later today is sort of a Year’s End Overview and a planning session for the top of the New Year. I hope it doesn’t take too long, I’d rather be doing the actual work, rather than talking about it for hours, if it could be helped.

Cool Thing #12 about having a 2-monitor system with a nvidea card… I can work on my programming / documentation on one side, and still watch a movie at the same time “full screen”. Last Night’s Film – Casablanca. Tonight will either be Dune, The Medallion, Existenz, The Sinbad Cartoon or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, depending on my mood.

PT shows a marked improvement…my flexibility is way up, and pain is way down. Laura gave me a tin of cookies for beaming her a ton of palmtop games and the Davinci code…The Merengues are especially tasty, and “melt-in-your-mouthy”, though I think my favorites are the sugar cookies with M&Ms in them. Something very basic and elementary school nostalgic about ’em. Calculating the point values was tricky, but I figure I can have 3 cookies a day and stay within quota, if I don’t fudge anything else.

Fleeting moments with my sweetheart make me smile. Schedules have been tricky as of late, but I foresee better things on the horizon.

Later today is sort of a Year’s End Overview and a planning session for the top of the New Year. I hope it doesn’t take too long, I’d rather be doing the actual work, rather than talking about it for hours, if it could be helped.

Tokyo Bowl delivered my supper last night … Veggie rolls and some seaweed salad. Healthy and yummy. Pretty much my fave lunch these days. I have been craving it since Friday night, and was willing to blow a little fun money on myself.

Wondering where Dennis, my new landlord has been. It’s well past the top of the month, and I’d like to give him my rent (hard to do, since I don’t have an address or phone number for him yet.)

Random Scotto Factoid – I don’t much care for martinis, but green olives stuffed with pimento are yummy.

Chomp Chomp Safari! – a fun bejeweled-type puzzle game.

Where Scotto has fun with image filters – a shot taken last night in the parking lot, and some manips. 5 images, about 350k total. 4 small, 1 wider

There were so many elements last night conspiring to give Danny a hard time, and he pulled through it like a trouper. I’m glad that there were a few positives in a mostly negative evening. I *have* to make a point of taking him out someplace solo and just having a grand time without those unhappy elements. Maybe give him what he actually was expecting for his b-day, a sushi dinner and a nice movie, my treat. Hopefully I can take him to see Peter Pan before it leaves theaters. He deserves some good view of mermaids and pirates (and maybe a little Mai-Kai) for showing his colossal restraint.

Spoke with Doug Wu briefly last night… it looks like he’s launching for Seattle next week, at last! I’m very happy for him.. he’s been trying to make the exodus for what seems like a dog’s age.

I’m glad that we have better security on LJ now. It was a minor concern of mine, but I never posted about it publicly.

Incredibly Bored? Want to see my current Work to-do list? (Gives an idea of what is on my plate right now.) Does anyone else use J’s to do functionality?

Handy way to search your livejournal for keywords in Google (for public, indexed messages only, of course) –

site:livejournal.com username keyword

For example, if I wanted to look for entries that have been updated via palm, preferably pics and doodles in them, I’d try –

site:livejournal.com scottobear palm

It’ll do until LJ gets a better internal search. Sorry, friend’s-only journalists!

I may’ve linked to this before, but MeFi reminded me –

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Upsides of tonight’s trip out with Danny –

• Good food, good chocolate milkshake.
• I saw Auntie Val and Rhonnie. (And a bunch of Rhonnie’s Swedish Volleyball teammates. Heh, that sounds *so* made up, but it’s true.)
• Cool fish-headed manikins on Las Olas.

I can’t believe my little cousin is 20 years old… what happened there? I remember quite vividly when she was born. I really need to spend more time with them, considering how close we are regionally. (They’re only as far as Boynton.)

Uncle Bobby and John Johnson got a 25 foot boat together, and I missed seeing Russ by a day or two.

I’m going to start carrying my digicam, and give up on the palm cam, I think. The quality is so much better with the good camera.

Today is Danny’s 42^nd birthday, and he, Janet, Dick and I will be hitting a sushi joint and seeing a movie to celebrate. I suspect we’ll catch Peter Pan. Interesting that it’s pretty much 50 years after the Disney version. I didn’t realize how old the cartoon was. My mother was six!

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Today is Danny’s 42^nd birthday, and he, Janet, Dick and I will be hitting a sushi joint and seeing a movie to celebrate. I suspect we’ll catch Peter Pan. Interesting that it’s pretty much 50 years after the Disney version. I didn’t realize how old the cartoon was. My mother was six!

Dropload is a place for you to drop off files for someone else to pick up later. The recipients you specify are e-mailed instructions on downloading the files. All files are removed from the system after 48 hours, whether or not they have been picked up.

Dodgeit is a free, web-checkable e-mail address that also offers an RSS feed to let you know when new mail has arrived.

Engineers have developed a harness for a handgun that allows you to fire around a corner without exposing yourself to return fire. Continue reading 6386 Stream of links and thought, peppered with hr’s. →

Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.

Love is
is not rude,
it is not self seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices in truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.

-1 Corinthians 13:5&6

New Ninja Turtles isn’t too bad, the art is akin to the MIB / heavy lines, simple colors, but detailed look. The origin episode tonight was cute.

Played FFXI with Sammy and D for a while tonight, stayed up later than my norm, because I can sleep in tomorrow. I still think that monthly fees for this sort of game are annoying, especially if it’s more than $5 a month. It seems to be a bit gouge-y. However, I did get my link-money today, which is $20 found, so I can put half of that into the game for a little while, anyhow. I’m liking the non-combat stuff… I want to learn fishing and woodworking, so I can sell my wares in the auction, and be virtually self-sufficient.(But not have it be so much work that it’s another “job”.

Found a lot of Kurosawa films for download via DC++. Six, if you count A Fistful of Dollars.

Newt’s aging pretty well, I think. He’s still a total babyhead at 4.

• Newt, Late 1999 (First Day, at IMT, 3 weeks old)
• Newt, Mid-2000 (At home, April/May or so, No-Nose’s Apartment, during a major cleanup)
• Newt, 2001 (At home, Pompano-place #2)
• Newt, 2002 (Same Place as above)
• Newt, 2003 (Current Location in Ft. Laud)
• Newt, 2004 – Taken at about 2am. More to come this year, I’m sure.

First Call of the New season, a 12 year old black male in Tallahassee. The kid already has a gang tattoo as an identifying mark. (JLP) He went missing at 7:30 last night, and has run away before, but isn’t considered habitual (yet?) So, some folks are getting an early morning wakeup after New Year’s eve festivities. I really hope that the kid turns out all right, and that he’s just out fooling around, and not up to anything really detrimental to himself or others. I’ve been up for about an hour or so, and will probably crawl back into bed for an hour or so soon.

[update- 10am] – Child returned home at 4:30 am, mom didn’t bother notifying the police to call off the search. Thanks, Ma!

Ah, only a few more hours left to 2003.

Let’s see… Some Blessings I can count. Just off the top of my head.

• My Beloved
• Newt
• My brother is on his way to good health.
• I’m getting in better and better shape.
• Old friends coming out of the woodwork.
• At a gig that makes a positive difference in the world.
• Made a number of kindly friends.
• The vast majority of this year’s stresses have been alleviates or are in the works for correction / removal.
• Improved Computer system

Not too shabby.

Some New Years Resolutions (I have about the same ones every year.)

128×48, the graphic resolution of the original TRS-80
160×160, PalmOS devices in their original PDA form factor
640×480, sometimes colloquially called VGA, since it was the big advance brought by IBM’s introduction of VGA
800×600, casually referred to as SVGA, the comfort zone on a 15-inch CRT
1024×768, generally said to be XGA. Much liked on a 17-inch CRT
1152×864, which is about as much as most people can stand on a 17-inch CRT
1280×1024, generally considered optimal on a 19-inch CRT
1600×1200, graphic design sweet spot, at least until something better than a 21-inch, 72 dpi CRT goes mainstream

My current desktop: 2048×768 (2*1024×768)

Since it’s Pretty much the New Year, I’ve taken down the Christmas Decor on my site… I’m thinknig about a nice birthday / candlemas / Imbolc / Groundhog’s one for February. Here’s one of my fave online cards for the holidays… arrow keys move.

I hope that 2004 is superior in every way to 2003 by means of love, happiness and health to any and all. Though, if it comes down to it, I’m putting my loved ones first, then myself, and then everyone else gets what’s left. 🙂

Ah, only a few more hours left to 2003.

Let’s see… Some Blessings I can count. Just off the top of my head.

• My Beloved
• Newt
• My brother is on his way to good health.
• I’m getting in better and better shape.
• Old friends coming out of the woodwork.
• At a gig that makes a positive difference in the world.
• Made a number of kindly friends.
• The vast majority of this year’s stresses have been alleviates or are in the works for correction / removal.
• Improved Computer system

Not too shabby.

Some New Years Resolutions (I have about the same ones every year.)

128×48, the graphic resolution of the original TRS-80
160×160, PalmOS devices in their original PDA form factor
640×480, sometimes colloquially called VGA, since it was the big advance brought by IBM’s introduction of VGA
800×600, casually referred to as SVGA, the comfort zone on a 15-inch CRT
1024×768, generally said to be XGA. Much liked on a 17-inch CRT
1152×864, which is about as much as most people can stand on a 17-inch CRT
1280×1024, generally considered optimal on a 19-inch CRT
1600×1200, graphic design sweet spot, at least until something better than a 21-inch, 72 dpi CRT goes mainstream

My current desktop: 2048×768 (2*1024×768)

Since it’s Pretty much the New Year, I’ve taken down the Christmas Decor on my site… I’m thinknig about a nice birthday / candlemas / Imbolc / Groundhog’s one for February. Here’s one of my fave online cards for the holidays… arrow keys move.

I hope that 2004 is superior in every way to 2003 by means of love, happiness and health to any and all. Though, if it comes down to it, I’m putting my loved ones first, then myself, and then everyone else gets what’s left. 🙂