Useful guidelines from Japanese business card etiquette.
“Do not write on the other person’s meishi in front of them – it is considered a direct insult.”… heh. I use my own business cards as post-it / scratch paper all the time. I wonder if that would confuse the mannered folk to see me draw a doodle on the back of one of my own.
Have you seen the blue eagle on the new US 57 cent stamp? Ye gods, it would be right at home at a Nuremburg rally. Someone actually wrote about it.
I don’t agree with those written opinions, but looking at the conspiracy theorist under a magnifying glass… you can see the knowledge he has, and the misapplication of same. A lot of the information *is* sound, but the reaching involved cracks me up. That sort of rant makes for a perfect additional spooky-loony character that gets killed off after explaining the plot to an invesigator or main character.
The guy seems to forget that the eagle is the national emblem of the USA. Has been for over 200 years, and that nobody has a market on art deco design. I wonder what shaped that guy’s perspectives to the current leaning. Is he just saying stuff to be inflammatory, or sell to a market? Does he really believe what he’s blathering about?
Landlord is coming over at 11am, so I had to clean house tonight, rather than leisurely tomorrow. I’ll be more comfy and ready for dreamland after a hot shower, and a little reading in bed.
upside, chores are done early. downside, I’m not sleepy at all now. It’s amazing how much dust and hair can accumulate over a week when the occupants of an apartment are a Yeti and a Cat with a monkey-brain. all swept up (I won’t vacuum at this hour… have to be nice to the neighbors, even if I closed the window and ran the A/C tonight, because the folks outside were a little loud.
I had a lovely pizza and beer night with the sweetie…”green monkey pizza” and killian’s red. tasty, tasty. animal planet, cartoon network, talking of childhood, cleopatra, silliness, weirdness, and earnestness. It amazes me that she doesn’t know how truly wonderful she is… a beautiful, intelligent, gentle soul. I just want ot pick her up and squish her. ‘strue. I love her so much, it makes my eyes cross. She giggled at me when I referred to Antony “pussing out” by comitting suicide after losing his final battle with Octo… as a result, Cleopatra, the last Pharoh, took an asp the the breast rather than deal with the new regime.
Wowie! Vatican file shows pope pardoned massacred Knights Templar! Unreal.
*yawn*
Newt is sleepy too! Talking to the little boy this morning…noticed something.
Freedom Force is cool. I’ll be buying it once my other projects calm to a simmer. (And I finish galactic battlegrounds and no one lives forever… birthday gifts as yet unplayed.)
Time change is coming up this Sunday… sort of surreal that most of the timepieces here reset by themselves… the VCR, computers, caller ID phone, palmtop. sometime in the morning, an hour will just distintigrate. I used to like staying up, and waiting for it to happen. I sort of got a kick out of *blink* and presto! an hour has flown! (or even better, later on…presto! rewind!)
The Poem Tag project is out of control… 131 and growing! that’s crazy… just follow the linkies. Well, I won’t abandon it, but I’m only going to add a maximum of ten a day.
I want the day to fly by, so I can get the weekend rolling, or a robot double to fill in for me at work. I’m looking forward to tonight.
Got a new supplier of tech, so I think I might build a web server for laughs, and just abandon the big brain project… use him for scrap. I can get a 1.7 machine for cheap-cheap, and it has a load of goodness. I will snag all the good bits out of big brain, (just the burner, and video card, really) , but the new machine will be XP / 2000 / *nix multiple boot, for brewing, doing software and net fiddling. Also, with the video card in place, newtcam will go 24/7 or so again! 🙂
Had a production meeting today, that showed where the company is going….looks pretty good, actually. I approve of 4/6 of the current 6-sided rulership, and think that 1/6 is useless for most things, and that 1/6 should not be in any position of power whatsoever.
The finn as an admin person is mostly pointless. with the GM position dissolved and her basic attitude, I can see her being removed. good riddance to bad rubbish, when it happens. (I forsee her having 6 months to a year before they boot her.) she lacks proper people skills or adaptability for the position.
Chupacabra will be a paper tiger, at best. I think they included her just to shut her piehole.
The Remaining four are excellent at what they do. I’m going to be Kev’s right-hand man, but will still actively seek another gig, until certain conditions are repaired, and maybe even once they are.
I want – a 401k plan, work that is rewarding and challenging, higher pay, and comfort. a hefty list, but the best time to look for a job is when you have one.
back from work… stocked up for tomorrow’s date night with the sweetie.
Yum for Killian’s Red!
At lunch today, I tried burger king’s veggie burger…it’s acceptable. a dead on 5 out of ten… I know it will probably become my default BK food now, until something better comes along.
A subject I’m delving into for my own uses. Three guesses whose works I’ve staked out for dissection?
ramble about music… runs in a circle
Joe: What is that, a teddy bear?
Waponi chief: No, it is my soul.
Joe: I hope you don’t lose it.
Waponi chief: So do I.
Had a very nice walk this morning.. headed up to the beach…population was low, so it was pleasant to roam a little. On the beach walk, I saw two different people walking with toothpick in their mouths…I wonder if they came from the same eatery. Things locally have pretty much calmed down, with most of the drunken school party-folk headed back to an education of a more institutional sort.
Last night I dreamt that friend’s memoirs had been published and was being very well recieved by the public…. but he’d forgotten to get permission to name names before setting the tome in print. People kept coming over to his house, with highlighted copies of the book in hand. For every incedent of the person’s name they were allowed to take one item from his house. Some folks went easy on him, taking little things… (like a spoon or videocasettes). A jealous “friend” took all the doors in his house… apparently he was mentioned a number of times, and wanted a cut of the profits. A lawyer was making sure that the things taken weren’t “disposable”… I asked if I could just take a paper towel, and was denied.
Off to shower, though the weather wasn’t really hot enough to warrant it. just a good jump start for the day.
Well, I can’t go to bed feeling misty. Let’s turn this boat around, and I’ll show another schoolhouse rock song that makes me feel goofy and smiley.
I know
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
random scotto factoid –
Schoolhouse rock can make me cry. The final five lines have always choked me up. I’m a sentimental pod, at times. I miss a cousin with 2 spare foot-digits that I’ve never met. Fine, funky beat, too. I could see Phish doing a cover.
Slow day at work today… launch postponed until I can get Bonnie to take a minute so I can reboot the machines. That minute wasn’t there today.
Back’s doing great! Not even a hint of the prior trouble today… I hope it keeps up.
Just synched up a new pile of ebooks into the palm, along with the new onion and newspapers… a delight to have a library I can take anywhere.
Melanie Griffith’s Website is disturbing to me… sounds and such. Bleh. But these are very spiffy indeed spokes things.
Wolf Files for this week: Parents are reaching a new level of tacky by endowing their kids with names like “Poppy Honey”, “Unique” and “Gouda”. I myself don’t want to be out of style, so I’m naming my child “Kiwi Kumquat”. Who the devil names their kid “Veal”? (That’s even a sick nickname, let alone a real one.)
I’ve spent a bit of time looking for an army men link I neglected to link to, before… it had star trek army men, little federation and klingons form the original show, and I mentioned them to
Nice walk this morning, but kept it brief… had a song on my lips, but I don’t know what it was. Something whistle-y, like the end credits to buckaroo banzai, or the charlie brown theme. baby sharks are not cute. they are just smaller versions of the big ones. I think that defeats the awww-cuties factor of the show. I do like the term “pupping” though for giving birth. I have about 4 people that are due for a pupping on my reading list… I wonder when the first one will pop out?
I’ve just finished writing about 2000 words into a story that I’ve neglected for far too long…I’ve discovered that I’d rather be poked in the eye than transcribe, so I’ll be doing most of my writing electronically again, either on the palm or laptop. Contemplating getting a stowaway keyboard for the palm, but I want to see if it’s really a faster and more comfortable way to write…. it might be simpler to just use the palm, and let any typos get remedied in post-production after synching it to the computer. Maybe this tiny version is an option.
Some successful programming this morning, I think the laser room is ready to go live with the new interface…I know that they may never see the easter eggs in there, but it’s still fun to have ’em.
Ouch! today’s the first day of 10 digit phone dialing… that’s going to screw up all our local phone room calling. I’m going to have to go in and twiddle all the numbers. d’oh. it was hard enough to call a cab!
The dials on Scotto’s universe today are – (An upgrade to the dashboard, with the help of
Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color / Thermograph / X-Ray )
MPAA Rating (G / PG / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On / Wanton Murderous Rage)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse / Blend / Puree / Oh, Ugh!)
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)
Why can I imagine a clunky old post-WWI era sub, painted with the Confederate flag, Dukes of Hazzard style?
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The black water mass off the coast of Florida got me looking around for more info.
Space.com has an article titled “Mystery of Black Water off Florida Solved”
Yeah, right. Nothing to see here, everyone stay home.
For something advertised as a mystery *solved* it’s decidedly noncommital about what the solution is.
The first paragraph:
“A mysterious patch of black water off the Florida coast, the extent of which was detailed by satellite images, is most likely the result of a bloom of algae, officials said today after examining the results of water tests.”
Most likely. Solved!
However, there is an “is” statement that stands by itself. Every reference to it afterwards is weaselly, but they say what it “is” before devoting the rest of the article to guessing what it probably might be.
“The bloom, which cropped up early this year and peaked around Feb. 4, is a nontoxic cousin of the red tide, which has been blooming off southwest Florida since last August.”
See, it “is” a cousin of the red tide. Although we don’t know what it is. But don’t worry, it’s a (presumably) non-toxic cousin of something we do know about, because it has to be because we don’t know what it is.
“Gil McRae, a scientist with the Florida Marine Research Institute, said the black water bloom does not appear to be hazardous to humans, adding that the event is not likely the result of polluted river runoff or any other human or mysterious cause.”
Uh huh. Does not appear to be, not likely the result of… really going out on a limb there, ain’t ya Gil?
“Nothing indicates that this is anything other than a natural event,” McRae said in a telephone interview. Importantly, he added, “there’s no toxicity associated with it like there is with a red tide.”
Uh, Gil? What would indicate that it is an unnatural event? I mean, other than not knowing what the heck it is?
“Some of these things were probably quite common in the past, but we didn’t know about them because we didn’t have the imagery,” he said.”
Yeah, and dragons were probably *really* quite common in the past, but we didn’t have cameras. Good thing, because otherwise all my time travel exploits would have been revealed, too.
“McRae said the bloom was likely caused by organisms called diatoms.”
But they are a non-toxic cousin of the more familiar red tide diatoms. We think. So, even though we can’t conclusively say that it *is* due to diatoms, since if we could we would, we can conclusively say that they are non-toxic. Because they have to be because we don’t know what the heck it is and it looks bad. So it’s safe and non-toxic. Trust us, we’re scientists.
“Why the diatoms generated a bloom remains unknown. McRae said it could be a transition of some sort from the red tide that has been present in the region and is caused by another organism.”
Oh, why bother? Whatever, buddy. A big black mass you can see from space, and you still can’t commit to anything but that it’s nothing to worry about and not likely the result of pollution or “mysterious cause.”
There you have it. The black water mystery – solved!