7805 – midweek. hchello, hchello!
Then and Now Amusement park pics
Bob, bob, bobbin’!
Cheered myself up with this moment of lyric – MP3
Walking down the street
with some evil in my eye
and some thoughts in my head
that were making me feel high
on my head was a hoodie
in my ears was some bass
was walking by my dog
when I saw that sexy face
come towards me
with a little cheeky smile
if she was a phone
I’d pick her up and dial
the fire brigade
or zero zero zero
she stopped me in my tracks
and I said ‘mmm hchello hchello…’
7804 – will special characters show?
Yet another reason I keep the space in my last name.
Icelandic wordplay: vonbrigði means “disappointment”, but von brigði means “hope alteration”.
Maybe not as good as Manslaughter / Mans Laughter or Therapist / The Rapist, but that is my family’s taken name over there.
7803 – mope mope monkeys on a bike!!
Still feeling a little mopey, and more than a little like a cave-bear. I’m really just not in the mood for interaction with loud, noisy little peeps today. Both Friday and Monday have been cranky workdays. Today would do well to change the pattern.
Usually, Autumn will lower gravity, not raise it.
Poor Herm got her ankle hurt on vacation… I hope she’s feeling better soon. Sweeties shouldn’t get owies.
A group of children, all wearing ape masks, rides their bicycles to the park for a picnic. Along the way, all but one are eliminated for violating basic bike safety rules.
One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)
Edward Everett Horton narrates. Mr. Horton provided the wonderful narration for Jay Ward’s Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, too.
Best Bike safety film, ever. I love how they keep getting killed, but the rest continue on to picnic. Nelly was cute when angry, but Filbert is my favorite demise.
See also the remixed trance music video. Hooray for open source!
Moment of Lyric
7802 – Shy street penguin
Shy street penguin
Originally uploaded by alexandra666.
Awww… Cute Graffiti! 😀
7801 –
Yahoo Podcast search – NPR as an example
makes it a lot easier to tune into science friday, certainly.
7800 – leeches, leeches, leeches!
Sometimes, I feel very reclusive. I like the idea of retiring to a cave. A place with a fire, a wall to draw on, and a personal store of food by an underground spring full of fresh water. Maybe an opening at the far end where the sun can get in, but not so close that rain gets everything.
Perhaps an oceanside opening, too, and a comfortable area to curl up with the Newt-cub.
Only the sound of dripping water from distant stalactites, and maybe torches flickering, leaving a little smudge on the wall where it burns a bit too close.
If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.
Actually, I have some friends that I networked to via a net-pal, and the net-pals themselves is gone.
Age of Empires III is out and about… may be my Christmas prezzie to myself. It looks gorgeous… and I imagine the gameplay will be up to the usual high standards.
More thoughts about Wallace & Gromit… They didn’t have a bunch of science fiction fans called “the Inventive Cheese-eaters” or whatnot (though it does have it’s own fans, certainly), and I’m sure the movie will do just fine on it’s opening weekend. Fans Serenity could learn a bit from that sort of cinematic Social Darwinism… Good movies will do just fine, with or without some cult-like fan base. I really rather think the name “Browncoats” is just a smidgen too close to “Brown shirts”, too. I suspect that the Browncoats didn’t do much to get people to go see the movie.. other science fiction fans were going to check it out, because they’d already heard of it, one way or another… I figure they were preaching to the choir.
Wallace and Gromit did well, I’m sure, and it’ll surprise me if it doesn’t have better opening numbers than Serenity did.
That said, RT has W&G at – 95%… that’s a pretty fantastic rating. I know it’ll be something people will want to watch on video every Halloween with Great Pumpkin and Night of the Living Dead. I can’t say that about Nightmare before Christmas. (the closest similar popular movie I can think of)
vs. Serenity at – 81%, which is still pretty respectable, considering that most fans of the show really weren’t crazy about it… (and most non-fans that I know also didn’t dig it). I guess the Joss formula of the 80 lb super-girl is still pretty marketable. Will people want to watch it in 5 years? I imagine it’ll end up on UPN as part of the recycled Sunday sci-fi movie run, along with Ghostbusters II, because the better and more popular movies will be too expensive to syndicate. (Like Ghostbusters the first)
On a tangent – some favorite Halloween movies – Usually, I like a light opener (comedy or classic) and then actual horror after.
- It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- Ghostbusters
- The Mummy (Both the Karloff original, and the Brendan Fraser vehicle)
- Young Frankenstein
- Night of the Living Dead
- Alien
- The Shining
- The Fly (Vincent Price)
- The Thing (Newer one) – I like to Follow up with Big Trouble in Little China
- Evil Dead
- Poltergeist
- Hocus Pocus
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Beetlejuice
- The Exorcist
Just of the top of my skull.
7799 – panorama and one line thoughts
“If you’re not with us, you’re against us” makes as just exactly as much sense as someone saying “If you’re not an apple, you’re a banana.”
hm… I won 25 prints through snapfish, but don’t use the service… anyone reading this want ’em? First come, first serve.
Nuts! I forgot all about the Hukilau! Maybe I can do a little catchup today.
HP is back in town.. I’m glad her vacation was nice, and that she made it back to her critters!
7798 – palm post 6.21p-10/08/05
Wallace & Gromit didn’t disappoint… it was excellent, and wasn’t watered down at all. Lots forany age to enjoy, plus a number of fine nods to classic horror films to boot. Plenty of laugh out loud moments, and the opening feature with the Madagascar penguins was also excellent. The kids at the show had a great time, and there were no screaming babies or annoying cell phones.
Aside from that, walkies were composed of roaming the Aventura mall and people-watching. There is a huge population of cuties, elders, kids and tourists to eyeball, not to mention punks, thugs, goths and other pseudo-fashion trendies.
It was nice to sleep in and then go out and about mostly undisturbed.
Thought about dying a colored streak in my hair for halloween… gray, and when asked about it at work, just claiming “what I saw… I can never tell… anyone. ever.” and then shuddering, saying no more.
sent via palmtop
Priest revealing how to destroy the were-rabbit.
Fountain in the mall, shot from the 2nd floor
7797 –
More sleep was obtained Friday night. I crashed hard.
Please notice when you are happy.
I think I’m going to go hit the Wallace & Gromit movie today… it looks crackin’ good.
I’m still a little sleepy… I might go back to bedski after I switch the phones over to ECN.
Good Morning, Newt!
Testing time-lapse NewtCAM. may be a high-speed day’s overview later.
7796 – local graffiti paint & sticker
Looks like there’s a new guy on the scene “Emnity”. Toro, Blackie, and Dose have all been in the area for a while.
Dose is still kickin’
Messy, but spiffy
I’d like to have this sticker, to be honest.
7795 – Friday 5
1. Have you ever been to the emergency room? Yes, several times. I’ve been taken there by ambulance twice, the rest were walk-ins, usually related to bronchitis or back issues. I don’t usually have accidents with flame, sharp objects or the like. Bro has gone far more times than me, due to accidents.
2. What’s the worst pain you’ve ever had? When my back was at it’s worst, before my 2nd surgery.. riding in a car was tortuous, scream level agony. I’d rather have all my teeth snapped in half, and be made to chew tinfoil than go through that again. I am not exagerrating.
3. If you could choose your doctor, do you prefer someone of the same or opposite sex? Doesn’t matter to me.
4. Do you take vitamins? A multi-vitamin in the morning. I sometimes suspect that vitamins are a sham, but if that’s the case, the power of the placebo effect is shining through.
5. Would you prefer to go to the doctor, the dentist or go sky diving?
Doctor, most certainly.
7794 – Friday! At Last!
Weekend plans? None, really. Relaxing, I hope. I may actually have the whole weekend off from call, if the stars are right.
HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome.
I’m glad they mention PeerGuardian. (Hint, add all lists provided.)
The first time I’ve looked at the lj portal page in a bout a year.. they’ve cleaned it up a little bit, but I don’t see any non-cosmetic differences.
1 year ago – met some VIPs, mooks, pente, Kiwanis, free stuff, Everything you can think of is true
2 years ago – land art, land shark, MOND, vamp hint, Nice weather, pesky people, squids, space, sea and starburst fruit chews.
3 years ago – gps, Cherey scary face, bro bawl out, star wars gangsta rap
4 years ago – hubris, birfdaze, AOE2-Con, religious words as verbs, on working local outwards
5 years ago – Ray Ig & Robbo, Salty dog pub
Protected: 7793 – poor Liz.
7792 – all sorts of misc junk
good-ish vibes about the Deerfield place.. they’re checking me out financially and socially and criminally, and I think I’ve passed any tests they might have.
Newt and I had a fun frolic for his b’day… nice, gentle evening, all told. A vid or two may be forthcoming, depending on how they turned out.