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8007 – Humpdy hump, once again.

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GeotargetSpent two hours with the condo commandos last night to get a signature on a form that would otherwise have cost me $100.

I figure I got paid $50 an hour to listen to old folks talk about vodka, strokes and building maintenance. Not a bad deal, really. Entertaining.

Critical Miami gets Dooced before he’s even started work. Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to keep a journal with opinions online… I’m glad his old employer took him back.

Kong opens today… I’lll probably catch it this weekend.

I’ve discovered that I’m more than moderately good at juggling… or I was really in the zone yesterday. Newt really wants to chase beanbags.

Moment of Lyric: mp3

We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in
We’re not daffy or dilly, don’t go ’round willy nilly, seems to us kind of silly, that we don’t fit in
We may be diiferent from the rest, who decides the test of what is really best
We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in!

1 year ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH

2 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done

3 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku

4 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite

5 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-time

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8006 – Tuuuuuesday the Thirteenth!

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GeotargetNew Sam & Max game! I love those guys.. the TV cartoon really did them no justice.

Showing my age… I remember getting the Atari 2600 for Christmas. Combat Rocked, adventure was fun, but not nearly so much as tanks or planes duking it out. 1978 was a good year. I was 9 years old, Star Wars had come out recently, and I was still high off of living in Richmond, VA… Visiting the Smithsonian as well as other museums and and historical monuments was a regular event… maybe twice a month or so. That Atari was durable… lasted a good decade of regular use. Even at 18 I still liked to drag it out and play asteroids or moon patrol. I got into the consoles a bit, but the intellivision and colecovision didn’t do it for me. They had better graphics, but worse gameplay. By the time the first nintendo came on the scene, I was more interested in hanging out with my buddies than Mario or Luigi. Probably one of the most durable investments in a holiday present ever.. $200 in 1977… well worth the $20 a year for entertainment, not counting the extra carts. (I tended to buy an additional game every 3 months or so, plus Christmas/Birthday got to be easy for a while.) I’d guess that I had about 50 cartridges by the time I was through, and I’d estimate 47 of them were well-played and loved. (I was not fond of the E.T., Sneak’n Peak or Indiana Jones games… but they were the rare exception to the rule. Yar’s Revenge, Ms Pac-man, and Joust more than made up for them.

Moment of Lyric – mp3

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites, when the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad

1 year ago – I discover that Romanian pop tune (OZONE – Dragoste din tei) before the weirdo kid cam sings it around the world, Oceans 11, pollo tropical makes me sick

2 years ago – the secret message, Bro & Danny visit, lizards in the tummy, truck surfing, riddle, some reference

3 years ago – nightmare, balloon hats, fudge and dinosaurs, Danny and I win a Tomato Recipe contest!

4 years ago – nice dreams, flesh eating robots, wacky day, SOP

5 years ago – coffee, hello kitty murders, village blacksmith, books to read, I get a Sigmund and the sea monsters tape!

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7998 – Just another Manic Mondayyyyy…

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GeotargetWent on a long walkabout yesterday… down Hillsboro to the beach, and then around to the Deerfield mall out on Powerline to see the Narnia movie and get $3.99 all you can eat buffet pizza at Cici’s. Shared a table with a Jamacian lady on “holiday” in the states – I put holiday in quotes, because she was working her vaykay in a child care center. I dug Narnia… the Christian allegory was there, but it wasn’t so heavy handed as to annoy any but folks that got offended at Tron or E.T. for the same stuff are going to bark louder over this.

That said, I quite enjoyed Narnia. The kids chosen to play were well-picked, and Edmund would make an excellent “Kid Miracleman” should someone decide to kick Alan Moore in the ribs and squeeze out the rights to make a movie. I quite enjoyed the CGI, which was smooth and believable despite what I’d heard earlier. I wonder how people that are unfamiliar with the books will do with the talking animals and other remarkable characters in the movie? Some might say it makes for a younger audience, but there are some grim parts that a little kid might not fare so well with, especially in regards to Aslan. (it is bloodless, but still strong content) I might’ve picked another person than Tilda Swinton to play the White Witch in the film, despite the fact that she did a fine job, I kept seeing the Borg Queen (even though Alice Krige is a totally different actress). The movie is as loyal to the story as I remember it (hasn’t been read for years… possibly/probably a decade or more.)

If I had a kid, I’d certainly take ’em to see it over any Harry Potter flick. I may look for the Narnia stuff as Audiobooks.. I suspect that it’ll transfer to listening-stuff better than Lord of the Rings.

Walkabout stats – 12.2 miles, burned 3034 calories. Good thing, considering that I scarfed down a pile o’pizza at Cici’s. I’m glad there isn’t one closer to work, or I’d be in diet danger.

Nose is a little sunburned from being out and about all day. Adds to the “Santa Look”.

Hm. That brings up a question.

I’d heard yesterday that 61% of folks in the USA wear corrective lenses. Can that be true? More than not?

Ah, here’s the breakdown.

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7997 – palindromic number

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GeotargetTalked with Val yesterday… Rhonnie (22) is dating her paramedic instructor (38). Kind of gross, but I don’t know the whole story. I’m just glad that she’s happy and having a good time. Russ is doing well, looking for places to do his residency. Grew a beard so that he wouldn’t look so “doogie houser”. $15,000 just in flights around the USA looking for a place to set up his gig. He’s going to have to be a doctor to pay off all of the debt he’s accrued, it seems.

Kreuger gets out of jail this weekend, but the sex offender thing is going to follow him until he gets cleared. I honestly wonder if he’s innocent.

Police called me up, looking for my bro to act as state’s witness… I was right about my guess regarding my brother’s “accident”. He was badly beaten up by someone that didn’t like his smart mouth. I contacted the office in charge of the case, (who left a subpoena at my old address) and passed along my bro’s phone information. I suspect this might be why he’s moving north, too… it’s probably just not safe for him to be in this neck of the woods anymore. Maybe a severe beating is what it took to get him the hell out of Dodge. I hope he can keep his stuff together.

Never did get to hit the movies yesterday.. just went grocery shopping with RS and her kidlet. Man, I thought my bill was bad.. try feeding a family of four with two hungry, healthy growing kids! Narnia might happen today, if the stars are right.

They are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorize the people of Japan.

Jellyfish fun facts:

  • The most poisonous jellyfish is the Australian sea wasp, or box jellyfish, with enough venom to kill 60 people. Wearing tights is an effective defense
  • The largest jellyfish ever found was a lion’s mane, with a bell 2m (7ft) across, and tentacles extending more than 35m
  • The notorious Portuguese man o’war is not a jellyfish at all but a collection of different organisms including stinging tentacles
  • Jellyfish have both male and female characteristics. A group releases sperm and eggs which mix in the water
  • A collection of jellyfish is known as a smack

1 year ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5

2 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.

3 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words

4 years ago – evil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions

5 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incident

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7994 – Silent Serenade

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NewScientist: Mice are rarely the source of romantic inspiration, but it now appears that male mice may serenade potential mates with melodies approaching the complexity of bird song. Mouse songs are sung at ultrasonic frequencies, which is why no one has noticed their complexity before, nor indeed been moved to celebrate the tunes in romantic poetry.

how could she resist?

Tim Holy and Zhongsheng Guo, of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, US, recorded the vocalisations made by male mice in the presence of female pheromones. They then digitally modified them to drop the pitch by several octaves into the range of human hearing. You can listen to a male mouse producing a snatch of song, here, and a more determined croon, here.

If I had a decent cellphone, It’d make a sweet ringtone!

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7993 – Singing “Newt’s pink nose” to “blood makes noise”

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GeotargetBro called from New Port Richey. Apparently he’s going to live up in Tampa now…That’s a good number of hours away, if he’s actually going there. I’m pretty much all for it. He’ll be away from his “buddies”, or if he’s not, they’ll be away from my domain. He says that he’ll be down once a month to get medicine from his doc, but that sounds like bull.

I’m very happy that it’s Friday. I need a break from this week.

Rearranged the yahoo ads on my site, put them in newtcam and other inner areas, removed ’em from the front page which was too cluttered already.

New replacement motherboard is in, I may be back on SL by Tuesday!

Hey, some Tori Amos
from Little Earthquakes
Girl
Silent All These Years
Happy Phantom
Tear In Your Hand
Little Earthquakes
from Under the Pink
Pretty Good Year
God
Bells For Her
Baker Baker
Cornflake Girl
Cloud On My Tongue
from Boys For Pele
Father Lucifer
Professional Widow
Marianne

from phillykat, even though she stole my purse twice

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

They Might be Giants – Where do they make balloons? (lyrics and such here)
suzanne vega – Blood Makes Noise
neutral milk hotel – king of carrot flowers
peter gabriel – shock the monkey
the peanuts – mothra’s theme
queen – another one bites the dust
seal – make someone happy

I tag anyone who wants to share!

1 year ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things

2 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks

3 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards

4 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll

5 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping

Welcome to my wall scrawls.