9336 – friday

Friday! Weekend! Yahooties!

Cathy’s Yard Sale Preview went well. We got 3 bookshelves, confirmed out swap of the china cabinet for the huge red sectional, and got a few additional bits of loot – rechargable candle lights, a pizza stone for the oven, a cooler bag.

Farmers Market Dinner was awesome – I had a veggie-meatloaf sammich with cheese, garden veggies and bread & butter pickles. a meal fit for a king. dessert was pound cake with vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries. All while Watching O Brother Where Art Thou?

Life is good.




Fw: Cute cam pics
Newt and Pye Wrestling.

Fw: Pye
Pye, caught on cam bug hunting, while Newton Lounges.



This site lets you track the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle (when in orbit), and all sorts of other satellites in relation to their position over the earth with a familiar Google Maps interface. Very cool.



“…even if tomorrow we opened up every square mile of the outer Continental Shelf to offshore rigs, even if we drilled the entire state of Alaska and pulled new refineries out of thin air, the impact on gas prices would be minimal and delayed at best. A 2004 study by the government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that drilling in ANWR would trim the price of gas by 3.5 cents a gallon by 2027.”

via Brian Wood



1 year ago – Emerson, Heat, popular items, Danny and BHK see knocked up – poorly received, Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu hustle well received, too many pirate ships, port authority links, re-inking thor, gaming thoughts, naughty CIA

2 years ago – cavort, lambchop looks like mother jefferson, sing the blues, gravity’s rainbow, ze frank, hoff, more doodles, rain!

3 years ago – Work and junk, call tails, 8 facts, Roy Orbison in Cling-film, rectangles, monster toys, giant popsicle flood, Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders, creatureless jello, found footage, dumb laws, paris by night, phone post, things with many legs pictures,

4 years ago – le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro

5 years ago – new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list

6 years ago – Arsenic & peg legs, Dan’s Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)

7 years ago – nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WOrecord sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news,Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, PaulaPoundstone arrested for child abuse

8 years ago – Pre-breakup confrontation with AprilGeotarget



9335 – Thurs

That Meme –

Post 3 things you’ve done in your lifetime that you don’t think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with “I’ve done that.” If they have, you need to add another. Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they’ve done in their life.

1.  met my wife as a result of livejournal. (and honeymooned by visiting a whole mess of the ripley’s believe it or not museums up and down the east coast – from St. Augustine, FL  to Myrtle Beach, SC)

1. became a vegetarian on the 5th of july, 1990. (still do dairy and eggs – now crustaceans, too. )

2. discovered (after we broke up) that one of my ex-girlfriends was married and had kids the entire time we were romantically entangled.

3.adopted 2 cats, despite a strong allergy to them. (Fortunately, I’m used to Newt and Pye now!)
3. Helped recover hundreds of missing kids and elderly/confused adults (most just wander-offs, but at least six real kidnappings) over the course of three and some years.




Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It’s causing a major headache for lecturers who say it is almost impossible to detect.


The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.



Another Mummy movie coming out, in two months? I didn’t even know it was being filmed! Looks like no Rachel Weisz though. That’s not really a big loss – I liked her in the first film, but she sort of bleemed out on the sequel for me.

That, and I didn’t hear about the new Blood Bowl game. I’m really out of the entertainment loop lately! At least I can have a good violent Dwarfs vs Lizardmen football combat game before end of year.

See also – G is the latest kaiju monster mash to take Japan like storm, and features a giant robot made of tin.



Bill Clinton has offered his support to Barack Obama. When asked about his attacks on Obama during the primaries, Clinton remarked, “It depends on what your definition of ‘hollow, fork-tongued, naïve, flip-flopping little diaper baby’ is.”


green beans from our garden!

Green beans from our garden! Zucchini is soon to follow, and the eggplant is coming in nicely. We’re having the beans tonight for supper. yum-yummo!



1 year ago – pirate battle royale with BHK and Danny, tough schedule, visitors, good condo news, gigantor memorial, Danny with simpsons standee

2 years ago – Norman E. Borlaug, cartoons and superheo database, hitler cats, wildflower guide, words pants and trousers obscene, go your own way, lj vs Vox = FUD, the Zombies – music, comment meme, snake pic, bad day at work – amber link made by kids for kids – “we pass the slavings on to you!”

3 years ago – opening three of four windows, Batman Begins, keel evening, beverly domain, cjr’s guide to ownership, tickle a girl simulator, kind of creepy bumper sticker, broadcast list, las olas pic,

4 years ago – webalizer, laser keyboard, heat vision & jack, steak-umms, rasputin’s penis, bro issues, bandwidth

5 years ago – tired, mark twain burial, harrison ford finger-pointy, hot dogs, ditko, sodomy, sleepy

6 years ago – walkies, 1800autopsy, poddish feelings, Captain Kirk’s chair auctioned, peg legs, signed lease.

7 years ago – Noticing Newt’s getting to be so big (remember, I have a size 15 foot), got an email from Robin Tunkel, Evil News, horrible dream, Santie “quits” FMM, top 100 banned/challenged books of 1990-2000, why read poll, my free pc didn’t work out

8 years ago – Ockdiggity, poop troopGeotarget

9334 – Wednesday

Telecommuted in today -some slight bumps when Comcast passed out on us, but it was restored quickly enough, and I had the fallback of the cellular modem if I needed it.

Epidural went ok, painful, but hopefully productive. I got a bit panicked when I read the release forms this time (My heart rate went from 134/68 to 164/99 and back down to 139/95, once I focused. My average heart rate is still 119/79. – I certainly didn’t want to die as the result of a pain block, and once gave myself a little self-awareness, everything worked out for the best. I spoke with the doc about my rattling lungs, and he gave me a cursory look – it seems like they’re doing ok now, and the cough should be history soon.

Went to Mexico for a very late lunch (maybe 4?) and I chowed down, as I had to fast for the procedure. BHK didn’t eat very much, but she had a little nibble in the morning.

Swung by verison for a replacement holster, but they said it’d take at least a half hour to review records and check on the receipt.. we didn’t want to lurk that long, as my anesthetic was beginning to wear off and it was time to head home.

Saw the finale of Farmer wants a wife, and he took the better of the remaining options open to him, I think. i’ll be interested if he comes back next year for “farmer wants a divorce” and / or “farmer wants a baby.” Hell’s Kitchen wasn’t bad, down to two people I find interesting and both seem talented.



Origami minis for D&D. Cheaper than metals! To scale, too.



Note to self – Games that Are Worth Purchasing Solely for Playing Two-Player, but Are Capable of Supporting More Players

So many games that interest me seem to be 3+ player only (Catan, Stonehenge, etc) , it’s good to locate that sort of list.



1 year ago – pirates, shaolin soccer, travels with Danny and BHK, twerp-wad, falcons attacking our squirrels, danny with the simpsons,

2 years ago – walkabout pictures (broward stencil graffiti and items near the bookstore), Tijuana Taxi, popcorn mp3, tossing items west

3 years ago – weary, Alex Toth’s last birthday, journal entry length, stumbleupon, silver bullets, bso pics, data munging, dork, smashing pumpkins, dalek mood theme, call forwarding, testing flickr’s autopost, newtcam pic!

4 years ago – Ubermensch Baby, walk the drunk, hulk returns to blogville, talked with sedef, tiki beach doodle

5 years ago – sernya, Zod is Jor-El, plushie supers

6 years ago – random adds, new place, sleeping late with cat, riaa shaman defeats bad magic box, Francesco skips out, no cable.

7 years ago – oblation, wonderful world, chopping block

8 years ago – threadsGeotarget

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