Real-time Newtcam running again for a bit.
Just added a fun little image to my userinfo and the toybox
Random Teen Titans Factoid – in one of their incarnations, they had their headquarters in the basement of a Long Island disco.
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I’m on call this morning while Kahuna goes to get her hair done… probably until 2 pm or so.
I wonder if Danny’ll take the day off of work…. A few months ago New Line Cinema announced they would hold special screenings of the extended editions of the first two Lord of the Rings installments in the weeks prior to the release of the third and final film in the trilogy, The Return of the King. In addition there was talk of a special ass-numbing marathon screening, in which all three films would be shown consecutively. The last would only be available at a few theaters around the country, though. I’d like to do it, but I prefer to watch movies at the house in my jammies these days. I don’t think I’d be up to twelve hours in a movie theatre with whatever crowd of Tol-cretins I feel it might attract. Con-folk. Loudies and smellies, wrecking the experience.
Speaking of people that suck… “You have drunk 10063 pints of blood. Your rank is Supreme Vampire “ next rank at 17000 pints.
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ – “Stuff you don’t need…but you really, really want.”
The Surrealist Compliment Generator.
“Your fingers sublimate into volcanic gases with the slightest cooling touch from the antennae of a passing lyre.”
“Send me your hang nails. With great eagerness I will knit them into divine papal integuments.”
Famous Funerals (not for the squeamish)
Picasso Archive , and Picasso Gallery – Large size images
Leviticus 11:22 “These of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.”
Cool. You can eat something that was a plague! Yum, locust! (But leave the pelicans alone! 11:18)
current mood:
current music: World Leaders sing ABBA
Bigfoot / spine / work / chimp-child
I need surgery, 1 day in the hospital, 4 weeks PT and it should be all good. Following up at the regular doc, but as it stands, I need 2 ruptured disks, and 1 herniated disk taken care of. it’ll be much like the one I had about a decade ago, only nobody will bring me a Usagi Yojimbo action figure this time, I imagine. Rick (the one that looked like Willie from “v”) brought me one last time, and I really dug that bushido bunny.
Prop2 took her departure better than the gals at work did. I think this is a good thing… but I changed all the email/network/ remote access/ etc passwords today. I was trapped there until about 6:30 tonight… but I guess that makes up for me being late due to the doc’s. I’m officially the Director of Operations now. Prop was very understanding, and I imagine she saw it coming. she offered to help me wherever she could, and though I don’t imagine I’ll run into many bumps, it was very kind of her to offer, given the circumstances. I hope she finds a good gig, and swiftly.
Ben Stein *creamed* the debate on Tough Crowd tonight.. three stand up comics, Colin Quinn and probably one of the brightest political and legal minds in the entertainment industry. I really admire his power over words and ideas, even if I don’t agree with many of his beliefs. (I have Nixon and Kissenger issues.)
Police expert claims Bigfoot ‘proof’ “A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet that the Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, creature exists.” Continue reading Bigfoot / spine / work / chimp-child
Well, prop2 is losing a lot of her sympathy credit in the office. She called at 9am this morning (she was due in at 8) and said that the power was out, and that she was waiting to hear back from FPL as to whether or not it was an inside the house thing or something else. What she *didn’t* say was why her jobless husband was not available to do that while she got to work… She never called back to even say she’s stuck at home for some nonsense reason… FPL seldom takes more than a half hour to get on the stick… I can’t say as I remember any time short of a Hurricane that has caused interrupted service for more than an hour. Tomorrow, I visit the neurologist and hopefully get some good, progressive news to counter the lightening strike that’s going to hit at work. I still feel bad for her, and sincerely hope that she finds another gig soon, preferably better suited to her.
I’m going to be in the print issue of December’s Popular Science Magazine! (Well, the letters page.) Continue reading
Psst… I figured out who Newbie looks like to me… The girl from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, especially in the hair/ eyes / teeth and speech patterns. She was cracking me up today, talking about some of her boy’s antics. They’re such a cute couple… he looks like Chris O’Donnell form “scent of a woman”. Newbie and Rhode Island were very resistant to going on call. I imagine I’ll be on 2 weeks a month until we get more people.
Sent my Brother a nice care package… The letter had a few more zombies and a magneto heroclix top, as well as some sweets and smokes.
Escher for Real! – the work of M.C. Escher needs no introduction. We have all learned to appreciate the impossibilities that this master of illusion’s artwork presents to the layman’s eye. Nevertheless, it may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called ‘impossible’ drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects.
Well, it’s October, so a teensy change to my graphics this month!
Speaking of the season, a good story from a couple of years ago – increasing mobile phone usage is destroying ghosts, possibly through the disruption of electromagnetic fields that would otherwise be causing lightweight hallucinations. But why would it be disrupting them, rather than strengthening them? Why aren’t we getting more ghost sightings and flying saucers and unexplained senses of presence, now that the air we walk through is thick with wireless transmission? Continue reading
Ok.. went to the Doc this morning, and he’s approved my going to a neurologist to see if there are any other alternatives to surgery. I’m doing reasonably well, so I’ve got high hopes and reasonable expectations. The insurance company has been hassling me doctor terribly, to the point of him mentioning, “I know it’s not your fault, but they’ve disrupted the whole office with incessant requests and pointless forms.” Apparently, they’re under the doctor has orders now to put stuff in a file (I imagine circular) and just contend directly a maximum 2 times a week, and ignore the rest.
I wonder how things with my brother went at the courthouse today… I hope everything got sewn up with a minimum of fuss.
While I wait for 11 to roll along…
Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web – Mucho Scotto-used linkage.
Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway System
I am a sucker for abandoned places, especially tunnels. The adventure possibilities are endless. Morlocks. Gene Hackman – Luthor’s lair from the first Superman movie. The Beauty & the Beast TV series. Grant Morrison’s Invisibles.
Giant lizard terrorizes Beirut
He’s big, he’s a carnivore, he’s terrorizing the neighborhood’s residents, he’s been swimming in people’s pools and he’s already claimed victims – several cats, a dog and apparently even a horse. Continue reading
Had some lovely veggies, rice and tempura… bro got spicy chicken. We gabbed and played yahtzee… spent some quality time together. I’m going to miss not seeing him on his birthday or Halloween, but we’ll be in letter contact pretty much daily.
Going to the doc first thing tomorrow morning, at last to have him review my most recent MRIs. I hope that he and I both like what he sees.
Ever Been in a Turkish Accident? – The U.S. State Department warns of 25 significant dangers to look for when driving in Istanbul or Ankara, Turkey: “Vehicles backing up (in reverse) on exit ramps and on main highways.”
Free PDF ebooks, mostly classics.
Today’s Eats –
Water: 6 Veg/Fruit: 2 Milk: 0
Points: 41.8 Adj: 0 Act: 4.9 Rem: -2.9
Bank: 30.4 Adj: 0
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes
Breakfast: 8.0 points
8.0: Croissan’wich w/ Egg & Cheese
Lunch: 6.5 points
0.0: Side salad
1.0: Kraft Fat Free Ranch dressing
5.5: BK Veggie Burger w/o Reduced Fat Mayo
Dinner: 10.1 points
3.1: Rice; white; glutinous; cooked
3.1: Rice; white; glutinous; cooked
0.0: Mixed veggies
0.2: Soy sauce made from soy & wheat (shoyu)
0.2: Soy sauce made from soy & wheat (shoyu)
3.5: Oil; peanut; salad or cooking
Snack: 17.2 points
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
4.3: Toaster Pastries; POP TARTS; Frosted chocolate fudge
Activity Log: (Min:Int:Points Desc)
25:M:2.7 Bus-walk
20:M:2.2 Evening- stretches
9/3/03 7:52 am
I need to remember to just sit tight at breakfast and just head over when 8am comes. There’s no reason to lurk around waiting out front, though I expect to get a key soon.
Dinner with the bro tonight…I expect to spend some flex points if we dine out.
Going out to dindin with the bro… sushi, I think.
Good, long productive day.
Ok, revised launch times again. Gives me ten more minutes of rest.
Blogshares Total Portfolio: $961,917.95. Folder: 15 blogs.
Bad Toon Rising is a collection of drawings of well-known cartoon characters produced by amateur artists entirely from memory and without any reference materials whatsoever. (via boing boing)
An International Catalogue of Superheroes: The purpose of this site is to build up a database of information about various superhero characters from around the world. For decades American comics, and especially those from two prolific publishing houses, have dominated if not the market, then certainly the public’s perception of it. There are few people in the world that would not recognize Superman, Batman, Spider-Man or the X-Men, and there are hundreds of websites devoted to those characters. That is not the focus of this site.
Woo! From the Vampire game “You are sire to 16 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (6072 pints), Liliana (2285 pints), MissV (1794 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), gilbella (1043 pints), Sierina (180 pints), Soul Harvester (25 pints), Morgoth (18 pints), bloodytears666 (17 pints), renwick (6 pints)” I wish it gave me an option to view full lineage.
Only 5 more months until my birfday!
Got my packages into the mail, so goodies (and forwarded goodies) should be winging the way to points north as I type this.
Getting together with the Bro tomorrow for an early supper at Tokyo bowl…I figure we can get out convo caught up there over some California rolls and miso, or bean burritos and rice. I want to spend as much time with him as possible before he heads off.
Ol’ Network gave us some trouble today, right as I was setting up an email account.. I thought first that the pc was down, then the server.. it turned out internet was broken across the board. A mild setback and we were up and running in under an hour.
I had a nice email convo, and got to call Kev on the phone to ask for him to donate some hardware, software and license stuff to ACIM, and also make a tentative appointment for a get together at IHOP for some tasty nighttime breakfast.
Putting a lot of our donated art stuff from Las Olas on eBay, and tracking that is going to be a daily fun stop
for Kat – (since I can’t seem to sign comments at Enigma) The Billboard website. Look at the Charts on the left. Albums, for example.
Today’s eats –
Water: 6 Veg/Fruit: 4 Milk: 0
Points: 34.9 Adj: 0 Act: 0.0 Rem: -0.9
Bank: 33.3 Adj: 0
Bank Max: 35 Point: 0 Act: 0
Bank Method: Start on Monday
Vitamins: Yes
Breakfast: 8.0 points
8.0: Croissan’wich w/ Egg & Cheese
Lunch: 6.5 points
5.5: BK Veggie Burger w/o Reduced Fat Mayo
0.0: Side salad
1.0: Kraft Fat Free Ranch dressing
Dinner: 13.5 points
3.1: Chik patties – morningstar
3.1: Chik patties – morningstar
1.4: Peas sweet; 1 can; solids & liquids
5.9: Veggie munchees -12
Snack: 6.9 points
4.8: ice cream ; low fat fudge ripple – 1 cup
2.1: Cereals; LC OATS 1 cup
Up and at ’em, Atom Ant!
Well, I’ve got a fair amount of sleep under my belt (about 5 hours… I prefer at least 6) so I think I’ve got a decent amount of Scotto-fuel to get me through the day.
I’ve got the things I’m going to mail off today, and my bank deposit. Hopefully, I can get that stuff taken care of sometime midday. It’s raining and thundering out right now… I’m in a decent mood.
Nostalgia Central – A one stop reference guide through three decades of music, movies, television, pop culture and social history.
Until later, dear journal.
a year ago – John Walker Lindh, Old Maid, debian, red flags, my tarot card, underdog
2 years ago – Reading location poll, start page, bat-music, Amazon dreams, JH Noir
3 years ago – Empathy Rating, me, and the bionic woman
Fuckin’ Frankie comes by at 11:30 to use the phone.
Today was supposed to be a day of rest and comfort. From 3PM on, that simply wasn’t the case. Tomorrow will be a better day… I’ll be able to focus on other issues. There were a few positives about the day… Fortunately, I have some good anchors to keep me grounded. Added bonus, short week ahead.
I get to be a piglet for dessert snack tonight, because I need to catch up on my points, and I’m not in the mood for orange juice.