mulligrubs (MUL-i-grubz) noun
1. Grumpiness; colic; low spirits.
2. An ill-tempered person.
[From mulliegrums, apparently from megrims (low spirits).]
“I got the dismals. Not exactly the dumps or mulligrubs, more like moody and uncertain, as when you don’t know what’s going to happen next.”
Fred Schmidt; Middle East Thing Puts Chill on Festivities; San Antonio Express-News (Texas); Dec 30, 1990
From – CSOM
Myths and Facts About Sex Offenders
There are many misconceptions about sexual offenses, sexual offense victims, and sex offenders in our society. Much has been learned about these behaviors and populations in the past decade and this information is being used to develop more effective criminal justice interventions throughout the country. This document serves to inform citizens, policy makers, and practitioners about sex offenders and their victims, addressing the facts that underlie common assumptions both true and false in this rapidly evolving field.
Some particularly informative ones – Continue reading 8244 – Sexual offender myths
Was dragging a bit yesterday, I practically fell asleep during apheresis. Workplace has been quite hectic, and some storm cloud vibes, as well. I’m hoping it’s just the fund raising aspect, but a lot of showing of tooth and claw recently. RS has the right idea about working from home. (I doubt she’ll ever come back to the office full time, after moving to the home-office idea.)
Mostly played with Newt and chitty-chatted last night… not a bad way to unwind after a long day. Quite nice, actually.
Leftover palm doodle that time forgot -(from Octoberish, post hurricane)
Set up wifi hot sync on my new pooter. works well. (thus the doodle)
1 year ago – hello tomorrow, Robots movie, found art pictures, alligator sounds /swamp witch, silly putty, pi day, IR webcam hack, free fonts, tally hall, ashes scattered, polar bears, open records, memory meme
2 years ago – subpages broken, Shazam!, Dead Like Me, CS sucks as a tech, vamp game
3 years ago – walkabout pics, lovieness, got unreal server hopping
4 years ago – thoughts of my sweetheart again! Roman tub, dreams of owning a pet grooming store, insurance woes, and palm doodles
5 years ago – Happy b’day kundalinidreams (no longer ljing), Dkmfkmkglklkgbkvbkbv,looking for a job as demagogue…(I’ll still take it, if anyone’swanting), happy unbirthday to me, uck!, edit this page (now dead), aprivate post to my sweetheart alone, a timeline of Scotto history,veggie lo mein, muppet trivia, and Rolf singing you and I and George
Walkabout on Sunday was good, I got more color, but think I dodged the burn bullet again. The ball cap let my nose still get a little red, however.
I walked to Mizner Park, just to check out the place, and it’s fared for the worse. I used to live behind there, and liked it a lot… but now, there are no bookstores.. (liberties is gone!), the international museum of cartoon art has been gutted, and the two cool wacky-weirdo art stores have been absorbed by other type stuff. bleh.
I’d hoped to go to my old hangout, Beany’s, for a veggie-cheese sammich with the vinaigrette that I love so well… but sadly, it was closed, but just for Sundays.
I abandoned Boca’s blandness, and retreated to the bus stop (I was too bushed to walk for a bit), and rode back to Hillsboro… and then crossed over to the 94 and hit the Deerfield mall. I stopped off for a breather at the movies… caught “The Hills Have Eyes” and was surprised. It was better than I thought. (Make no mistake, it is about mutants killing people trapped in an out-of-the-way location, but it was done well for what it was.) Afterward, I stopped off at EB and picked up a copy of counterstrike:source on sale. I’m looking forward to playing multi with hav and kev once I polish my skills a bit.
Roaming area, (note, some was done by bus. I walked about another 8 miles.)
I made a lot of use of autostitch today, clicking on the pictures makes them larger, as usual.
Pictures from walkabout – I saw unicorns and turtles and dolphins and killer mutants
Walkabout was fun, but uneventful. I wore a ball cap this time, and it’s a good thing… my arms are a lot darker than when I left. I put in just under 10 miles of footwork yesterday, and slept quite well as a result.
Visited another different Thai place nearby for lunch… man, the food was awesome. Bamboo shoot salad served with lime juice, chiles, mint leaves, rice powder and cabbage. Yum woon sen – clear bean thread noodles with browned tofu, chile paste, onions, mushrooms, lemon grass and mint. Tom kah soup – a spicy coconut soy milk concoction with lemon grass, lime leaves and other spices. It was all totally vegan, too! Not one hint of critter in there.
I think that once I confirm my techs are switched over, I’ll do some more walkies as well, and hit that Dali exhibit… maybe take myself out for sushi (or as bhk likes to call it, @). [edit – whoops! the museum is closed on Sunday]
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone
*very* handy little resource… simplifies MS Access or SQL for the average web app nicely.
Speaking of which, I put OpenOffice on my new pc, and had forgotten how keen it is, compared to MS Office. Open Source, all the features, none of the bloat. Win-win. It’s a total MS Office replacement, now that BASE is in there.
“Yeah..even now she sulks like Achilles in his tent. Achilles?…It’s the Iliad?…It’s Homer?… Read a book!”
Had a moment of feeling a bit like Handy there yesterday. People get very touchy when opinions differ…. The other side got pretty wound up to the point of hostility and hyper-defensiveness over something amazingly trivial, (a difference of opinion – I feel that Micheal Crichton is an anti-science hack writer, who ends stories with explosions rather than more satisfactory conclusions — She thought “he is awesome”.) and it really could only be settled by having a detente called. I have to make a point of just walking away at the first sign of pointlessness. I can agree to disagree, especially with someone I don’t have to see every day. I’m glad that nonsense is over now.
My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.
| Physical Touch: | 9 | |
| Quality Time: | 9 | |
| Words of Affirmation: | 6 | |
| Acts of Service: | 5 | |
| Receiving Gifts: | 1 |
Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
There’s a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins
crapulous KRAP-yuh-lus, adjective:
1. Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach.
2. Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old [1]reprobate.
These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows.
— T. Coraghessan Boyle, [2]Riven Rock
The crapulous life which her future successor led.
— Lord Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III
The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
— Stephen McKenna, Sonia
Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache.
References
1. file://localhost/search?q=reprobate
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014027166X/lexico
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=crapulous
Compare and contrast –
Morrissey – 47 years old – Aging well. Probably better than he was 15 years ago.
Eddie Van Halen – 51 years old – Not so much. Get him some Oxygen!
Pictures from pomoba and cruel.com.
Remember Kids – Meth is bad for you!
Bangs! Thank you, Eryx_uk, for the Axis and Allies Starter set! What a great b’day prezzie! It looked like the postman was playing football with the USPS box, but the contents inside made it without a hitch! Most awesome. I bet Danny’ll have a good time playing counter to me, as well. It’ll have a place of honor next to Zombies!!, Mage Knight and Heroclix.
New brain came! Everything looks pretty marvy, except that they forgot to send the external 160 gig drive. Calling them today to find out about that. Frankenbox can go back to rest… but I may leave him alive to act as a newtcam server.
Second life was smooth as silk, and not a reboot in sight, save for system updates.
Having a fresh system is nice… boots up super-quick,and loads of room to maneuver.
Comp usa is also still lagging about getting the backup of my system back to me. I may just torrent the lost / rome, etc shows over again.
Cordless keyboard and mouse are keen, but I fear power outage when I least expect it.
Sunburn, part two has begun. Operation snakeskin.
Man faces jail time for selling crack
A City of Poughkeepsie man faces a stint in jail for dealing crack in the city last year.
Landocalrissan Butler, 25, of Winnikee Avenue, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in Dutchess County Court to attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. Butler told Judge Thomas J. Dolan he had five small bags of crack in his pocket Dec. 22 when police arrested him on Morgan Avenue. He said he intended to sell the drugs.
In exchange for his plea, Butler was promised a sentence of six months in jail and five years on probation. He will also be required to forfeit a cell phone and $432 police said he obtained through illegal drug sales.
Butler remains jailed pending his sentencing, scheduled for April 4.
Moment of Lyric (mp3)
WHAT: “Dalà on Tour” (art exhibition)
WHEN: now through May 20 (click here for museum hours)
WHERE: Coral Springs Museum of Art (NW Broward)
WALLET: cheap ($3?)
WEB:
– Coral Springs Museum of Art – home page
– Coral Springs Museum of Art – current exhibit page
“An exhibition from the Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida and a Collector’s Exhibition of Dali prints, lithographs, etchings and sculptures curated by Jerry Bengis“
Current Music – mp3
Thanks, firpo!
Answers to yesterday’s test.
1. The word “snausages!” said the proper way will make me bust a gut laughing. *FIB*
Though, it can make me chuckle. The old commercial of the dog poking his head out, exclaiming “SNAUSAGES!” can make me laugh, albeit briefly.
2. One of best high school friends was killed by a blow to the head from an iron frying pan, as a result of a car accident.
Brent Ashland. Coming back from a camping trip, freak accident. pulled up short behind another driver, slammed on his brakes, and the skillet brained him. That was that. He had a lot of potential, dumb way to exit.
3. I’ve accidentally poured cheetos in a bowl, poured milk over ’em, and ate a spoonful like cereal before realizing my terrible, terrible mistake.
Always pay attention to what’s in the pouch on top of the fridge. even when you’re six years old. Seriously.
4. I say thank you to automatic doors and street lights when they let me pass.
It’s an unconscious response. Preprogrammed manners. Plus, I saw Herbie the love bug as a kid, and Buddy Hackett talked about a street light that didn’t like him. I appreciate robots helping my travels comfortably and easily. When the machines take over, I’ll have a position of authority.
5. I’ve been published in both Popular Science Magazine and the Unknown Armies Hardcover RPG rules.
Yup. Livejournal actually got me in PopSci (11/13/2003), and UA has me in the credits as a rumormonger. (published August, 2002)
Lakini Malich has made a startling discovery that will change the way the world views the brain-rotting laugh vacuum Garfield:
If you remove Garfield’s thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat.
He offers a second collection:
here’s some more, chronicling Jon’s spiral into depression and eventually madness. It’s what Jim Davis wanted.- via cruel.com
1 year ago – Millennium Spheres, new dr who, dice quiz, Earth2/We3, Jack benny, Donner party, Karma?, bittorrent
2 years ago – motorcycle Chernobyl tour, led mug, jk to revise hp, dan tech slips, bluto song, haiku
3 years ago – palm pics travel, WWII thoughts, site down
4 years ago – Newtosill, Daffy duck, Morning here, dreams, poem tag, bubblegum alley, cute animals
5 years ago – The bed, Cool old comic books, disclaimer, OJ
feel free to post a guess in comments, if you can’t do the poll above.
Science!
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people — by glowing when it needs water.
The students said on Tuesday that they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it “lights up” when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.
The light is hard to detect with the naked eye but can be seen using an optical sensor developed in collaboration with students at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
The development of such plants could help farmers to develop more efficient irrigation of crops
Sunburn much more manageable today.
Hav pointed out that the Miami International Film Festival is going on right now. I’m going to swing the FLIFF next weekend myself, I think. I want to check out Manderlay.
Cool word of the day-
“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Ubuntu also means “I am what I am because of who we all are”.
(it’s also an open source linux flavor, but that’s neither here nor there.)
Made plans to go to Uber’s pal Wendy’s place next week with a few of her pals for a little dinner party… stuffed shells! I wonder what I should bring? Bottle of wine? I should probably ask when the time gets closer.
Moment of Lyric (Mp3)
A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan
And I am doing the best that I can
All the eunuchs, they were standing in rows
singing, “Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can.”
Sad song, last dance and no one knows who the band was
And Henry, you danced like a wooden Indian
Except this one mattered and I felt it had a spirit
And I shot the story because I didn’t hear it that way
And it’s hard to be a human being
And it’s harder as anything else
And I’m lonesome when you’re around
And I’m never lonesome when I’m by myself
And I miss you when you’re around
The short list: Viagra, LSD, X-Rays, Penicillin, Artificial sweeteners, Microwave ovens, Brandy, Vulcanized rubber, Silly Putty, Potato chips
nabbed from christin and eryx_uk
Your senior year in High School is supposed to be “the best year of your life.”
Let’s see how much you remember: (Getting close to 20 years back! 1987)
Who was your best friend? I floated between four groups of friends. Kev / Brent-Steve-KevinC / Pam / James-Mark : all were fun folk to hang with. I’d say my best friend of the lot was Kev, and I still hang with him from time to time.
Who did you have a crush on? Man, I was mushy about a bunch of girls my senior year. PamM, PamP, Charlotte, Jane, and Elizabeth all leap to mind immediately, and I’m sure I could extract more with even an iota of effort.
What sports did you play? None my senior year
What kind of car did you drive? Powder Blue Gran Torino, and later, a white grand le mans
It’s Friday night, where were you at? Variable. see compartmented friends above. Best bet was probably Kev, I think.
Were you in the “In Crowd”? Nope, though people liked me.
Ever skip school? my senior year, I skipped an average of one day every two weeks.
Ever smoke? Nah, I tried cigs early on, and didn’t like ’em. I didn’t even like to smoke weed.
Were you a nerd? I had the benefit of looking like a bit of a brute, so folks didn’t really call me a nerd.
Did you get suspended/expelled? I was suspended once for fighting. It was self defense, but policy is to screw everyone involved.
Can you sing the Alma Mater? the first chorus, yes. the whole thing, no
Who was your favorite teacher? Tough.. my senior year was fun. Mr. Berry, Electronics / Mr. Meyhew, Programming (C & Pascal) / Mr. Miezinski , Drafting / Mr. Eck – Marine Biology
Favorite class? Marine Biology – probably the most interesting and educational class I had my whole high school career. Excellent teacher and content.
Beaucoupkev makes an superb point about Luthor’s origins as a Super-enemy. It’s not about being bald.
1 year ago – LDMs, RI high-tails it, elevator prank, screaming turtle, sunburn recovery, doctor d, pelican memory, ghostbusters/gaming, weather tracking, first mention of google video, record bro, freeware alternatives, interaction quiz, Burdines dissolves into Macys, Florida gambling, greyhound rescue
2 years ago – visited with Kev, 12 things meme, bro, CoD, train ride pictures, Newt Healthy
3 years ago – Wakeup, SS card, LAN party, classifieds
4 years ago – groceries, cloud makers, Lj folks, virus PSA, mapmaking
5 years ago – fly me to the moon, edelweiss, web-games
