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What my neighborhood will look like if the water level rises 8m. Strangely, the lake won’t be submerged. I’m pretty safe 7m and lower, storm surge-wise. Note, 8 meter is about 26 feet, or about two stories. I’m on the third floor. (Approximately 30 feet up.)

12 hours at the air and sea show – time lapse

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an assortment of newt.

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sunset, many brush fires to the west making the haze pleasantly brownish orange rust.

So, dolphins refer to each other by individual names and thus have the concept of identity, eh?

Dolphins, like humans, recognize names

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8348 – Midweek! Humpty hump

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I’m known as Scott von Berg (or searchble by the nickname of scottobear) on 6 degrees if you want to link to me.

I sent a few emails out, but got lazy.

Some old doodles on the palm, recently synched –

mad mood
doing an inventory of moods after a particularly bad moment. done about 2 weeks ago

waiting
Tired, blank. done earlier this week.

Surprising, because usually my doodles are happy-ish.

Well, with the exception of –

madnoot

When I was little, I wished I could accurately throw a quarter hard enough to explode cinder block. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind having that ability now. Why did I want to explode cinder block? I don’t remember.

Pictures on the camera, one in the waiting room tweaked a bit. Pictures behind here

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8346 – Tuesday? It feels like Friday. Or Saturday.

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Ok, so it turns out form my blood test that I’m allergic to a number of foods that I’m pretty partial to, and I have to do another sleep study to see what’s up with my snoozles.

Allergist tomorrow. Sleep study Friday or Saturday, whenever they can fit me in. See what my options are.

Meanwhile I’m cutting into my bedtime even earlier than usual, and charging my batteries as best I can.

More to Follow later, of course.

Moment of Lyric- mp3

I don’t mind you comin’ here
And wastin’ all my time
’cause when you’re standin’ oh so near
I kinda lose my mind
It’s not the perfume that you wear
It’s not the ribbons in your hair
I don’t mind you comin’ here
And wastin’ all my time

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8345 – My brain feels the size and disposition of 5th century Mongolia.

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Sleep brings colors to my mind that mean nothing to the human eye.

Minor confession – When I log into multi-player shooters, If I wish to be the antagonist of the other players, I have an ID known as “Chapeau Noir”, and I type messages in a pseudo-French accent.

“AW-haw haw! Zee worm has turn-ed, has it not, monsieur?” Otherwise, If I’m playing but not looking to antagonize anti-frenchies, I’m just plain ol’ Scotto or Scottobear.

Woke up from sleep, and had a weird feeling that I was isolated…and that there was a hurricane coming. I was feeling a bit more panic that I do when a Hurricane is *really* coming. It passed a short time after I started the shower… very little trepidation now, though if I didn’t have the doc’s appointment later in the day, I probably would’ve called in sick to work. Since the office is right up the street, I’ll see how I do this morning. Still having some hot flashes, but no stuffy nose/cough or whatnot sort of symptoms.

I wonder if it’s a side effect of reading – Sketches of a catastrophe – Miami Herald’s Hurricane info.

  • Your best bet: Plan for the worst
  • When will we see the next Andrew? Data can confuse
  • Electricity and other utilities
  • Storm surge
  • Wind damage
  • Inland flooding

    • My biggest concern is a lack of clean water and electricity for *months* should a bad one hit. I can stock up on food, and I feel that my building is pretty sturdy.

    Battle of the Beasts seems quite poignant, but maybe that’s the fever talking. (hosted by sa – may be some not-so-friendly to work links)

    1 year ago – Mother’s Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics – graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler’s ghost

    2 years ago – Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic

    3 years ago – PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)

    4 years ago – Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI

    5 years ago – weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd pollGeotarget

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    8344 – Sunday, a day of rest?

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    I may be getting a touch sick… serious fatigue yesterday – 4×45 minute naps, and was still beat… mild hot flashes. I couldn’t be bothered to leave the house at all, so no free comic books, Morikami or air show memories for me.

    Still a bit weary this morning.

    Did you know that if you have a picture on flickr, make it private and then public again, all the favorites attached to it fall off?

    I found the security video feed to a store up the street from me. (It only seems to go live outside of business hours)

    Kids in the Hall – Dawn of the Dead.

    Yup, this sums it up pretty well. “We’re safe, but for how long?”

    70 free Streaming video channels,all on one page.(warning for folks with kiddies, there are some 18+ only channels on there, too)

    Nice cluster of channels from 18-22 when I tuned in, I hit – vintage superman cartoons, Gamera, an episode of Gunsmoke, some Italian horror and a Lou Costello bit.

    Moment of lyric – mp3

    Cut the fat off the back of a baboon
    Boil it down to a pound into the spoon
    Scoop the eye from a fly flying backwards
    Take the jaws and the paws off a ‘coon
    Take your time, I ain’t lyin’ for good cookin’
    Cause the rest of this mess ain’t good lookin’
    Take the fleas from the knees of a demon
    Tell your pals and gals and come screamin’
    To the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    They make wine from the spine of their bulldogs
    They dance and romance for 90 days
    It’s a test for the best for who stays
    at the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus

    Brush your teeth with a piece of a goose toenail
    After death steal a breath of a drunk in jail
    Pull the skin off your friend with a razor blade
    And tonight change tomorrow and bring back yesterday
    Shake your hip, bite your lip, and shoot your mother-in-law
    Put on your gorilla suit, drink some elbow soup and have a ball
    Get it straight, don’t be late, it’s time for mad fun
    Take off your shoes, and cook onion stew
    They have really begun!

    Feast of the Mau Maus has begun
    At the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    They make wine from the spine of their bulldogs
    they dance and romance for 90 days
    It’s a best of a test for who stays
    And a feast with the beast of the Mau Maus
    Yes, we’ll have a good time.
    C’mon and have a good time. *snort-laugh*

    Most Recent Listened Tracks on my winamp player (and ID-able by last.fm)

    Star Trek Cribs – The Director’s Cut

    1 year ago – bro search, strongman stunts, blood, mark of beast=50 less, monsters inc, day in the life, fishstories born (long since made dormant), unique id, Chlamydia Outbreak Kills Penguins, tv cars, voice post,

    2 years ago – quorn, sunset, mean newt face, pet stroller, entertainment pondering, jail hubbub

    3 years ago – There pirate quest (still no beards, but eye patches!), first PT, Being D’s spokesmodel, orange cat fan club

    4 years ago – Slept in, Star Wars Field trip, getting into php/MySQL, brush your cat’s teeth, pix of me working on bro’s computer, haiku, classic tv

    5 years ago – embedding is verboten, apartment desc, Mateo’s Josie is born!, good stuff, all around
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    8343 –

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    Ze’s anti-intellectualism song is quite catchy. His Daily videocasts are the bees knees, even if Newt’s not allowed in the League of Awesomeness. (last 8th of the cast)

    It’s Free Comic Book Day! Go get some!

    Cleaning lady Day, so I’d best hustle up and get the porch ready. While thee, I’ll be plotting out my plan for the day.

    Nice kinda-compliment of yesterday – i always get about a third of the way through your meme’s when i stop thinking “i’m gunna have to marry this guy.” and start thinking “what a goof ball, he’d drive me nuts.”

    Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3

    Well, if you want lyrics, listen to the Sammy Davis, Jr. Version.

    On the way home, I saw the blue angels practicing for today’s air and sea show.

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    1 year ago – no bro, pervy on lj arrested, phillykat back!, local public service net-casts, users deleting, rainy 5/5, woman jailed for faking her death

    2 years ago – RIP Rod Roddy, Black magic death, 4F, a friend suffers

    3 years ago – poser5, South Florida vodou, python, song lyric

    4 years ago – good smells, bro-doc, great books and classics, monsters, I wrote thepuppyfrog poem, long ol’ survey from a while ago (the same one I did the other day), e-prime mentioned

    5 years ago – movies, newt’s middle name, Architect. hot air, lcd drops, writing exercise, quotes, newt-happies(tmi?)Geotarget

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    8342 – Q has the lowdown on what happened to LJ recently –

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    The dishonor of Blue Security

    There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

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    8340 – Friday 5

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    1. Have you ever been to Mexico?

    Yup! Mostly for Ruins and Diving…. I’ve never been to TJ. Climbing a pyramid is hard work when you’re used to being at sea level, by the way.

    2. Do you know anyone who is currently in the military?

    Sure, tons of ’em, some in my family. Though the majority are retired, there are plenty of active folks. Best known I’d say is Cousin Kelly – Marine.

    3. What is the last party you attended?

    hm. Good question. Birthday, I think? J Peters had one at the club a month or three ago.

    4. What do you think about President Bush saying that the United States’ National Anthem should only be sung in English?

    Heck, I don’t care. If someone’s heart is in the right place, knock yourself out in the format. Spanish, English, Esperanto, ASL, Klingon, while dropping acid like Jimi or grabbing your crotch like Roseanne. That’s sort of what the USA is supposed to be about.. that whole Melting Pot thing. If it were another country besides this one, I’d say stick to the native tongue.

    Bush isn’t the first to try to remove native loyalties – Woodrow Wilson’s greatest fear was the 15 million immigrants that flooded into the United States between 1900 and 1915. The single largest ethnic group in the United States was German-American. Then there were the Irish-Americans — with the Irish Republican Army launching an uprising against British rule on Easter, 1916. Wilson feared that these two groups would not be willing to take up the fight for the USA. In fact, Wilson proclaimed, “Any man who caries a hyphen around with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of the republic.”

    5. French fries or freedom fries?

    French Fries. And it’s Sauerkraut, not Victory Cabbage. Kee-ripes.

    (Funny that Cinco De Mayo is about defeating the French.)

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    8339 – Cinco de Mayo. Friday. Fleet Week. There’s got to be a party somewhere.

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    Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality

    Via bhk – Kitty and rooster are friends!

    Happy Birthday, Buddha!!

    Just heard a commercial for Mega-M&M’s.

    I thought I heard “maggot M&M’s” Ugh. Not at 6am, please. Ack. Ptui.

    Nice to see that there are a few alternatives to fighting the masses of humanity that are going to be at Sunfest and the Air & Sea Show this weekend.

    I might do #10 – Try to get my head around the fact that the Ancient Spanish Monastery and St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach is the oldest building in the western hemisphere. It was built in Spain in the 10th century, purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and finally reassembled in Florida in the 1950s. Cistercian monks lived in the building for its first 700 years of life. 16711 W. Dixie Highway. North Miami Beach, 305-945-1461. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, but call ahead because it closes for the many weddings and receptions that are held on its grounds. Admission: $5 adults, $2.50 students and seniors, $2 children 12 and younger.

    Who knew that a 1000 year old building is right up the street?

    Moment of Lyric – REM by way of the Cardigans – MP3

    Oh, life is bigger
    It’s bigger than you
    And you are not me
    The lengths that I will go to
    The distance in your eyes
    Oh no, I’ve said too much
    I set it up

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    8337 – Only Thursday… or is it Thursday Already?

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    I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?

    That’s one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I’ve got about a decade’s worth of memories of High School world and times after… and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don’t have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev’s about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school… and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my “Computer Pals” (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It’s kind of funny… Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don’t know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes – for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we’ll talk again, but I’d put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can’t just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship… I don’t really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and “good old days” sort of stuff.

    That’s the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends… if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem… ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about… but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting… Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.

    Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.

    Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo – about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.

    Does impersonating W’s voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?

    Moment of Lyric – MP3

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    8335 – many questions.

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    50 questions via Eryx and Kat

    1. How tall are you barefoot?
    6’5/6’6″

    2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
    Nope, been in a room while it was happening, though.

    3. Do you own a gun?
    Not currently.

    4. Rehab?
    Nope.

    5. Do you get nervous before “meeting the parents”?
    Depends. Usually, yes, if I wasn’t a casual friend prior to dating … I didn’t with RG for some reason.

    6. What do you think of hot dogs?
    I love me some veggie corn dogs. Not like there’s any meat of value in animal-based ones, anyhow. Lips and Bung.

    7. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
    O Tannenbaum

    8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
    Water.

    9. Do you do push-ups?
    Not regularly. I prefer to punch a heavy bag.

    10. Have you ever done ecstasy?
    Not that I know of.

    11. Are you a vegetarian?
    Mostly, but I do eggs and dairy

    12. Do you like painkillers?
    If they work, and I’m in pain, yes. Not recreationally.

    13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
    If I told, it wouldn’t be a secret! Newton has helped on more than one occasion… Also, I’m friendly, can reach things on the top shelf, and will defend beauties from spider zombies.

    14. Do you own a knife?
    An assortment! However, tend to only use ’em for food prep.

    15. Do you have A.D.D.?
    I doubt it. Never been diagnosed..more likely to be obsessive compulsive, If I had to pick a thing like that.  I was recently considered to be a megalomaniac by a dear friend.

    16. Date Of Birth
    Feb 02, 1969

    17. Top 3 thoughts at this exact moment:

    I’m older than Eryx, but younger than Kat! (Though I think Kat looks the most youthful of the lot of us)
    I like the following terms: tizzy and twitterpated
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    18. Name the last 3 things you have bought:

    Burger King Garden Salad
    A blood test / doctor visit
    diet berries and cream dr pepper

    19. Name five drinks you regularly drink:

    water
    orange juice
    cranberry juice
    ibc diet tangerine cream soda
    diet cherry vanilla coke

    20. What time did you wake up?
    5:20am

    21. Current hair?
    brown with hidden blonde, red and gray.

    22. Current worry?
    Work

    23. Current hate?
    Hate’s pretty strong, though I am disgusted by some folks waving stupidity like a rallying flag.

    24. Favorite place to be?
    Curled up in bed with Newt and a good book

    25. Least favorite place to be?
    a pitful of rabid electric eels while dressed as eel food. I think. I’ve never tried it.

    26. Where would you like to go?
    the blue area of the moon

    27. Do you own slippers?
    yup, but I haven’t worn them in ages. Brown stuffed animal bear feet, complete with plushie toenails.

    28. Where do you think you’ll be in 10 yrs?
    Not sure…I suspect better off than I am today!

    29. Do you burn or tan ?
    burn a smidgen, and then turns to tan.

    30. Last thing you ate?
    blueberry yogurt and grape nuts

    31. Would you be a pirate?
    I’ve been known to share files now and again! Yarr!

    32. Last time you had an alcoholic drink?
    I forget! I tihnk I had a Cider when I got together with Danny about 3 weeks ago.

    33. What songs do you sing in the shower?
    whatever comes to mind. This morning it was the Snowmobile Driver song (MP3)

    34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a kid?
    Not a lot, really. I had a slightly unreasonable fear of vampires in the toilet that could come up when you flushed. I solved that problem but flushing in the morning.

    35. What’s in your pockets right now?
    the usual loot – digicam, pda, cell phone, billfold, keys, newton whisker, bus pass, loose change

    36. Last thing that made you laugh?
    GP’s rhyining of Kojak and kayak.

    37. Best bed sheets you had as a child?
    I actually had a few keeno sets… I think my Hot Wheels Sheets were my fave, but the most valuable would be the star wars ones, I suspect.

    38. Worst injury you’ve ever had?
    Back disabled me the worst, I think. a series of herniated disks.

    39. How do you stand on movies?
    I’m in favor of them!

    40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
    2

    41. Who is your best friend?
    Newt

    42. How do you feel about cooking?
    I prefer to cook for someone else… left to my own devices, I keep it simple.

    43. Does someone have a crush on you?
    It’s a possibility.

    45. What is your favorite book?
    Dandilion Wine – Ray Bradbury (my default answer, I also like a lot of mark twain’s stuff)

    46. What is your favorite candy?
    tough call.. I like chocolate bars quite a bit… take 5, milk way, etc..

    47. What songs do/did you want played at your wedding?
    O Fortuna, perhaps?

    48. What songs do you want played at your funeral?
    Big Rock Candy Mountain

    49. What were you doing 12 AM last night?
    Snoozin’

    50. Do you love the pain a tattoo brings?
    Only to my enemies… I long to tattoo mexican wrestling masks to the faces of those who do evil to me or mineGeotarget

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