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9240- tuesday

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http://drop.io/ is brilliant. I tested it, and it seems fun and stable.

Example – http://drop.io/scottobear



A drop is a ‘discrete’ chunk of space you can use to store and share anything (pictures, video, audio, docs, etc) privately, without accounts, personal registration, or an email addresses. Drops are not ‘searchable’ and not ‘networked’, they just exist floating in space, as points for exchange for individuals or groups.

Create as many as you want in as little as two clicks and set things like a password, whether others can add to the drop, and how long you want it to exist (you can renew later). Drops are a simple platform for sharing which are by default private, but can be flexibly used in a range of ways from sharing family photos and videos to collaborating on work documents.

Each drop has four primary input methods – the web, email, voice, and fax – and a few secondary ones like ‘widgets’.

Anything you input into a drop can then be retrieved on the web at the drop location

you can also:

A. email to create: Email/MMS new@drop.io to create drops on the fly, put in the subject line your desired drop name, attach the files you want dropped.
B. Download as zip: click download as zip, download the whole drop at once
C. Drop Logo Change: you can now customize your drop’s logo by clicking it
D. Mobile View: goto drop.io/yourdrop/m and it will format for your phone
E. Titling and text editing: just click on the text and edit
F. Subscription: get notices via email or RSS when your drop is updated

Attach media and email/MMS it in. scottobear@drop.io

Voicemail

Leave voice messages at this drop.
646-495-9201 x 45671

Conference call

The number below is your drop’s private conference call line. Please note, your call will not be recorded.
218-486-3891 x 247901499

To put a fax into this drop, sender must prepend this coversheet. Sometimes a fax can take up to 30 minutes to be received.

Current settings –

Type: Basic (100 MB)
Expires on: 1 year from last view
Others can: View, Add Notes & Files
Files: 2 files



Now that I’ve put this out there, I wonder how active it’ll become? Send me something, dear journal! I’ve got 100 megs just waiting. 🙂

Neil Armstrong was 38 when he walked on the moon. I’m 39. I can barely moonwalk. Just Sayin’.

Pictures of Newton, taken yesterday, while I un-kinked my back. This is how Newton looks when I first lay down… he climbs up on my chest, face to my face, and stretches his paws to my chin… usually just his right, but sometimes both.

Taken with the palmtop… sadly, it’s about impossible to get a good shot of Pyewacket, unless he’s under very bright light… he turns into a black smear with a pair of shiny yellow eyes. Newt’s black whiskers barely show, but his whites are pretty visible.


50 things I’ve done meme finally officially finishes with #50 – I…

50.’have run a live camera from my place (Newtcam ) for about 7 years now, most of it on 24/7… with only a little downtime due to power loss, internet issues, broken computer, etc. For the primary reason of looking in on Newton (and now, Pye, too) when I’m not at home. It does double duty as a security camera, as it collects photos of any motion and throws them to the net, both for people to see the most recent one, and an archive for me to sift through just for fun.. make animations or whatnot. The security side of things would be that someone breaking into the house would be caught on cam, and picture would be uploaded to the net – so even if the machine is gone, I still have some images stored offsite.

I like that so many people tune in to see what’s going on – Newtcam averages between two and five thousand hits a day, from all over the world.

I may do more of these, as they occur to me but at least I got my goal complete! I have no idea what #51 will be.


It’s been exceedingly hard to get out of bed the last week or two… this week especially. I feel so tired when the alarm goes off. I can’t even open my eyes properly until I’ve taken a hot-cold-luke shower. I think I’m going to have to start hitting the sack just a little bit earlier than my preset of 10/10:30, to see if that helps.

BHK made some of the best tofu/black rice stir fry last night… nom nom nom.


The Pope arrives today… that means even more traffic than usual for DC… it’ll likely brings it to Gridlock / Miami levels. Even though I’m not of that particular faith, I think it’d be interesting to see the man, but I suspect that I’ll be better off just heading on home.


1 year ago – breakfast with in-laws, Tina, taxes, soda pop lids

2 years ago – good saturday, dream, masamune, police thingum, spain’s easter, dr who

3 years ago – sleepy, mr t sings, music videos, flash gordon moment, sanjay patel, lobster vs sea hare, guy killed at my bus stop, orbital mind control lasers!

4 years ago – Ella Enchanted, army-men bowl, palm doodles

5 years ago – April Winchell’s media, pda burp, sleepy kitten song with some profanity

6 years ago – spam radio, falling dreams, walkies, fabric softener, story seed, NEWWWTON IS A GOOOOLEM

7 years ago – Easter, working on a shopping cart, my first 10 lj friends, family meal, walkies, css issueGeotarget


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9238 – monday

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Work went well… not too bad for a Monday. I’m still feeling a little creaky, and tired, but I’m doing better than I was yesterday. It’s good to take some time and charge the ol’ batteries.

we’re looking at a nice return on our taxes, MD state and Fed combined with the gimme from the fed this year into something quite pleasant.

50 things I’ve done meme nearly concludes with #49 – I…

49.’hurt my back when I was about 16… and I’ve been fighting the after-effects since. Did I cover this topic already? Probably, but this is a variation on the theme.
Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to have less mobility than I have now… I’ve got / had more than a couple of friends here and there that are more disadvantaged than I am… Bound to a wheelchair, amputee with an artificial leg, a couple of folks dealing with achondroplasia or the like.

When I went to the FDR memorial, I got a bit frightened – fairly irrationally. My back and leg problems have followed me throughout my life – FDR ended up in a wheelchair at 38, due to polio. I began wondering how I’d react and adapt to that situation; it’s a very real possibility that could be the result after I have my spine worked on. I don’t think that I’d adapt very well, at least at first.

There have been times where I’ve needed a cane to get around… that’s not too bad, but you lose a hand for common day’s use, which seems to be needed a lot, even if it’s just your off-hand. Upside, it’s easier to wield a sword cane or umbrella. That said, you can carry a sword umbrella with you, even if you don’t have a limp.

Ah well… at least I fit more comfortably into a crowd than an otter in a monocle. Sure, he’s cute, but he’s got limitations, too… Needs to be kept moistened all the time, and can only communicate via a series of barks and grunts.

Come to think of it… I know a lot of people that prefer to communicate that way… he might be ahead of the game if you got him some moisturiser and a polite pair of pants. (preferable on a belt – he doesn’t have the shoulders for suspenders.)

Anyway, I hope I don’t lose any more of my mobility or become reliant on a prosthetic / device assist. That really scares the hell out of me.

I wonder how much of my body will be patches / fixes / upgrades, by the time I die? How many bits of plastic, surgical steel, cadaver bits, and titanium? I kind of dig the fact that if I’m ashed, there’s already a few pins to be found in the powder… or I could wreck the blade on a mulcher, should I get tossed into one for whatever reason.

Let’s see… currently, I have a pin, and a little mesh in my back, some fillings in my teeth… and that’s about it, save for scars where I’ve been sewn up.


On a lighter note… (than otters?) This week looks beautiful. I wonder how hard it would be to lure BHK to the office for a little lunch while it’s so sunny and warm? Wednesday-Friday are all set to be in the low 70s and without clouds.


Cookie Monster recently interviewed on NPR.


It cracks me up when I see a web designer’s site that doesn’t work anywhere but IE7. How do those people still exist?


1 year ago – Pictures of Llamas!, Slugs, video game goodies for BHK and me, booksale, BHK invades my journal caveman-style

2 years ago – hanging out at murphy’s, dan plans, music sharing, quizzes, good friday, commander usa

3 years ago – work, club visit, poorhouse, Tomi visit, mai kai tiki torch night, figa, aliases, admiration meme (999 entries ago)

4 years ago – memory sparks, adp issues with new hire

5 years ago – jkg, stikfas, pictures

6 years ago – library cats, vending machine art, The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues, plants, middle earth poll, poop

7 years ago – touch of evil, dsl, love, spermGeotarget



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