While I was in the shower, bro came by and snagged the packet of change on my doorstep in case I didn’t hear his knock. Perhaps it’s best that I don’t see his face. I can’t let him ruin my whole weekend.

Going out with Danny today at about noontime.

Possibly a Movie? Maybe Sin City, maybe Gunner Palace.

April Fools’ Day – Origins, pranks, articles.

Comedian Mitch Hedberg was found dead in his New Jersey hotel room on 3/30. Obit I really liked his work.. one of the best comedians I’ve ever seen on stage.

No concrete evidence, but he’s got a history of heroin abuse, and died of a “heart attack”. Great. That’s news I needed to hear today. I’d like to take a baseball bat to his coffin right now. I know it’s a sickness, but hell.

My brother would rather live on the fucking streets, stealing half-smoked cigarette butts from ashtrays and getting stoned than straighten out. How powerful a hold does something have to have on a person to let it override everything else, including eating, being clean or having a place to live?

Son of a bitch, I’m pissed off now…. I can feel heat coming off of my body in waves and I’ve got adrenaline shakes.

I’m going for a walk to cool down.

Stay the fuck out of my way, if you know what’s good for you.

While I was in the shower, bro came by and snagged the packet of change on my doorstep in case I didn’t hear his knock. Perhaps it’s best that I don’t see his face. I can’t let him ruin my whole weekend.

Going out with Danny today at about noontime.

Possibly a Movie? Maybe Sin City, maybe Gunner Palace.

April Fools’ Day – Origins, pranks, articles.

Comedian Mitch Hedberg was found dead in his New Jersey hotel room on 3/30. Obit I really liked his work.. one of the best comedians I’ve ever seen on stage.

No concrete evidence, but he’s got a history of heroin abuse, and died of a “heart attack”. Great. That’s news I needed to hear today. I’d like to take a baseball bat to his coffin right now. I know it’s a sickness, but hell.

My brother would rather live on the fucking streets, stealing half-smoked cigarette butts from ashtrays and getting stoned than straighten out. How powerful a hold does something have to have on a person to let it override everything else, including eating, being clean or having a place to live?

Son of a bitch, I’m pissed off now…. I can feel heat coming off of my body in waves and I’ve got adrenaline shakes.

I’m going for a walk to cool down.

Stay the fuck out of my way, if you know what’s good for you.

Vaykay Day off to a poor start.

Did I sleep in? No, because my brother called and woke me up at 6:20 this morning, but hung up before I could talk to him. (he must’ve realized he was calling too early. He called back at about ten past seven, to give me his latest sob story about his bike going stolen and living on the street and how he needs money for a daily bus pass to get to work. I know that’s likely a pile of bs, because day labor stops reeling in at 6am.

I went to my change jar and set him aside the money in nickels and dimes, because I don’t currently have any folding cash on me… and I won’t give him anything more than a fiver at any rate. He picked up his food card here yesterday, and apparently he’s cashed that all out already, too… so I made him a few PB&Js to take with him on the road. It hurts that I can’t do anything to really help him, and I feel squeamish about giving him even bus fare’s worth of dinero, because I worry that he’s going to spend it on drugs.

[update: 7:30 – he called back and asked if I could write him a check for $20 to pay someone to “give him a ride around today”, and look for his bike. I told him that I was sorry, but I couldn’t do that. He said that he understood, but said that he figured he would ask. In a way, I’m glad he did, because it actually helped to strengthen my resolve about refusing him bigger funds.]

He says that he’ll be by inside of an hour… he was surprised when I told him I wasn’t going into work this morning… I think that he’d prefer to pick up the money and not face me. He mentioned that I could leave the money in the mailbox if I was heading out to the job.. that also means that he’ll have to come by sooner than later if he wants his story to hold water.

In other family news: Mom bailed on supper out last night, and it’s just as well. Her leg was bothering her, and I was beat from the day… we gabbed on the phone for about 20 minutes and that went well.

I gave GEO (big Kahuna’s Husband) another tutorial on the computer after work, and showed him how to scan, print and burn images to CD (and rewrite) he’s a swift guy, and grasps technology quickly for a guy in his mid-70s. His photography is amazing, too.

All new Making Fiends! (Special 4/1 edition!)

More spam-comments from

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this time about diet, loans and Viagra, all in the same post (My birthday, 2003). did they figure out how to bypass the catchpa?

Random walkabout photo from lunchtime yesterday.

More Sticky-letters. Kram? Mark Backwards? Same guy that did Buk-50?

Contemplating a new cammy-cam-cam. Vacation-time. Save Money, Or Spend it? Probably save it.. I need to get some bucks to Dave and to Kev.

American Social Hygiene Posters ca. 1910-1970

Moment of Lyric:

I saw you ‘cross the dance floor (dancin’)
I thought of birds and bees (reproductive system baby)
And when I tried to speak to ya (talk talk)
My tongue unraveled to my knees (flippety-flippety-flop)

I tried to say I love you (love you)
But it came out kind of wrong, girl (wrong girl)
It sounded like “Nunubididoo” (tongue tied)
Nuh mur nuh murh ni nong nurl

I was just offered a small donation from a guy to use my “combover” doodle (I come up pretty early in google searches for that hairstyle) on his letterhead if I’d put his name on it. Apparently he’s losing his hair. I said, sure! and promptly modded the doodle for him. I’ll donate the money to my charity fund. That’ll be my first piece of sold and commissioned art done on the palmtop.

I still prefer monkeysaw or Newt.

Christopher Eccleston (who did a fantastic job) the Doctor in the new Doctor Who tv show, now he’s quitting. Bah.

Eccleston, whose first appearance as the ninth Time Lord attracted around 10 million viewers, feared being typecast.

A second series of the new Doctor Who, which will again be written by Russell T Davies and produced by BBC Wales, has already been commissioned.

1 year ago – Ossuaries, CoH, LJ 4/1 gag, impression meme

2 years ago – If I were a, fuel cells, JKG, 20,000 leagues

3 years ago – reprint, life changes, teacher with 17 dogs, that’s my baby whale, critter poll, pikachu vs badger, doc visit, mario moonlighting

4 years ago – midget wrestler, glow worm, april fools, nice dreams, I don’t like AFD, Computer update, midget wrestler-scotto

Tony’s Collections– I dig the Keyrings Man, that’s a lot of knickknacks.

Sick Call Excuse Generator.

mine is totally accurate – Tomorrow is Mental Health Day! SO Right! Long weekend coming up! Not even an excuse, but a long-planned weekend.

Doodles drawn on the bus, and a picture of Newt’s most grumpy face.

Ape-O-Naut! See: Famous Monkeys Through History for more info.

Man on the bus reading the paper and talking to nobody in particular. “We’re all ants! Those Fatcats in Washington don’t care about us!”

I don’t think I’ve ever used the term “fatcats” in writing before.. or said it before today. I like it. Say it with me, won’t you, journal? Fatcats. Fatcats. Fatcats.

Speaking of Fat Cats, this is Newt’s most withering gaze. Ok, he’s not really that fat.

Amazing how many people are seeding last night’s episode of lost (#19). It’s really the best time to grab it. over 7800 people seeding and more than 15,000 sharing pieces of it? No wonder it comes down the pipe so fast.

Moment of Lyric:

I miss your gentle voice
At lonely times like now
Saying it’ll be alright
I miss my friend
The one my heart and soul confided in
The one I felt the safest with
The one who knew just what to say
To make me laugh again
And let the light back in
I miss my friend

People at work are starting to forget that my cell phone isn’t for calling me on a whim. I have to answer it right away, because I’m the go-guy if the system breaks, or a tech has any issues. I don’t need to be called out of a shower to be asked about mundane work crap that can wait until office hours.

Best overheard phrase last night: “I bit me a vampire once. Tasted like corn.”

Thief Steals Poop From Woman Walking Dog Continue reading 7271 – End of my work week! →

met mzkitten yesterday, and she’s a total doll. Very nice, funny and a smartie (not to mention babe-a-liscious.. her boyfriend is a lucky fellow!) All LJ meetings should be so swell. I was compared to uberbastard, which is high praise.

Note to self – Burn Jen some Godsmack. She was a sweetheart, too.

Want to see a picture of mzkitten taken in a dimly lit room with black lights?

The kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford has raised new concerns over how to track the more than 30,000 registered sex offenders and predators living in Florida.

Continue reading 7269 – 1,800 sex offenders missing →

Scottobear is feeling nostalgic…

That Reaction? Lists, some with bullets.

Random GrayPumpkin memories:

• Plotting a television show – “GG”. Mad Science. Adventure. Awesome dialogue and terrible cliches. It couldn’t be worse than Xena or Buffy.
• “Countdown” threat prank.
• talking about telling people that he used to be one of the most brilliant men in the world… until the “accident.”
• speaking in gibberish at the McDonald’s Drive through
• Calling Katt “Hon-hon”
• Talking about a coming 4th Star Wars movie to the video guy

Random Katt memories:

• Screaming at a guy to YIELD! next to her on the road
• A button-up shirt with a necktie-design on it
• Looking for that special sort of clay on a baseball field, and not finding it.
• Coining the Term “Evil Druid Cloak”
• “SAVE US, DOCTOR FATE!”
• A-Team / Blues Brothers Fandom

Misc cool GP&K Combo Elements –

• B-52s, esp “Housework”
• Wendy-Niece
• overnights
• D’Art, Dice and Milk rings. at 3 AM
• Mystery Cow
• Char-hut / Bagel Mornings (The first time I had strawberry cream cheese)
• The best 2-player & a GM games ever & general playing off of each other.

I like Danny more now that I’m not doing the RPG paper and pencil thing with him. That brought out our differences… GP and I both do really well just playing by the seat of our pants, and Dan’s a mega-planner. I loved Dan’s props, though. Paper Miniatures, especially. Little Black lizards. Paladin Station.

Doug – laughter overload, one of the least malicious people I know, knows everything related to the silver age

KW – Blare death flip out, Dragon: only in emergencies, dbase III

Elaine – Spilling a pile of pretzels and saying “the cat will get it”

Kelly – Eating Apples with a knife and being a potential date

Rick – Mattress on the floor and a drool-basset named Merge

Rik – TMBG concert, and changing tires in the rain, good wookie-voice

Tony – Silver Hammer. Big, shiny scaredy-hero running away when a goose said “boo”

Maybe I’ll follow up on some of those with stories.

The Old Negro Space Program The Shocking-But-False Story of America’s Blackstronauts

Random collection of Newt-angles.

Papercast weblog… my favorite version of this is Alex Toth’s page.

Moment of Lyric:

prepare yourself
for the time of reckoning is close at hand
and that hand will be heavy
and its aim will be true

update – community deleted? I wonder why? Copyright issues, perhaps.

1 year ago – lemon fanta, diet pepsi slurpees, pet sweaters, bro stuff, awesome man, Galaxy Quest, mp3s, virus, apt/newt pics, chernobyl cyclist

2 years ago – There, light bulb pops, the rack, TAG approaches, heroX=mediocre

3 years ago – ice dreams, mock French, animal cams, keywords, yahoo plays bad, peep research, hut destroys a troll

4 years ago – Random Mail, music mix, palm BS picture, pantywaist poll, storms, blogger down

3/27/05 1:10 pm stopped at shooter’s, having an iced tea and
artichoke/spinach dip. sun is strong, so I’m under the umbrella by the
pool. pretty waitress-Sam. supposedly there’s a live band and a bikini
contest at 3; not my usual scene, but I think I’ll stick around.

2:03 pm excellent food, good music. crowd is varied, folks with kids as well
as 20-somethings. no real spring breakers.

phenylalanine =

I need sunglasses, but I always lose ’em. A squinter’s life for me, I guess.

so many women with piercings / tattoos / breast augs… more yes than no.
welcome to ft. lauderdale.

2:33 pm “Mighty Quinn” starts up – good jam, ugly band. Shaved hair, cheap
sunglasses, superb guitarist, vocalist needs training… weakest link.

2:54 pm covers of mellencamp & sublime, loking for audience participation … bring back the jam!

3:11 pm hotel california… great, and then he sang. tears of blood for easter. not happy tears.

3:53 pm still no contest… vocalist so bad it’s not worth it, even with the babe-o factor. adios, shooters, hello elbo room!

sent via palmtop

Sam, my Server. Rawr!

Waitress Hive, Sam in Center. I got the cutest one! I win!

Pouty-kid on the path back from shooters. He was mad about something, but got curious when I started fooling with the PDA.

3/27/05 10:15 am out on the waterbus, spending the morning cruising the river. pictures to follow, if opportunity arises.

12:14 pm Taking route A; doing famous houses, riverfront. fullest I’ve ever seen it. spring break

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Water Taxi, pre boarding – bilge running

Before it became crowded

Navy Boat! so odd to see military craft in civvy waters

Hmm.. Since I won’t make it to ultra, maybe today I’ll snoop around for colored eggs. When I was little, my parents would help the Easter Bunny out by hiding little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs all over the house… we’d have a hunt all over the indoors, and put ’em in our baskets. Dad would pretend that he could smell ’em, and later, when I was old enough , I took the role of sniffer to assist my bro in the hunt. The baskets already had a couple of jellybeans and a yummy, (but hollow) chocolate bunny, too. I was shocked the first time a friend showed me that they had a Bunny made of *SOLID* chocolate. We dyed 3 eggs each, to make an even dozen… mine would always have at least one purple one with an orange Charlie Brown zig-zag, with dots in the valleys and the inverted Vs. Another would have some sort of face, usually sort of angry. The third… wildcard. Stripes usually were part of it.

Easter is where I learned to like hard-boiled eggs with lunch… and about the only time they were anywhere near the house, because I liked scrambled eggs even more.

Flashback to here.

Biggest Easter Egg in the world

Getting into Deadbolt lately. I dig the “goth learns to play surf-rock” vibe.

Hung out with Danny yesterday… we went to a Venezuelan bakery, had a little breakfast of juice with bread stuffs, and walked the plaza a little bit afterward. We burned off the meal, and headed over to our favorite watering hole…. sat at a table and just hung out for about four hours, chitty-chatting and relaxing.

It was also nice to talk to K the other night. Just gabbing can be a good break.

piccies from yesterday, and bus ride

Going out and about with Danny today. I suspect it’ll be Pirates of the Spanish Main (as we did here)

Moskau, or why Germans can’t win a world war. (higher quality mpg)

I’m of German and Russian stock… This movie was made when I was 10 years old, and I think the guy in Blue is Dr. Evil’s lost cousin.

Moment of Lyric:

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I’ll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Random doodle drawn on the ride home… it started as a man holding onto balloons and flying, then a vase on a table…but then I got a wizard-y vibe.

Slugbaby snowsuits are scary.

The Jarvis Sow Bung System Model VC -for the cutting out of sow bungs. Man… how did that set of keywords find my site? *shudder* Warning, pretty icky.

Caffeine contents per serving
(12 ounce soda or iced tea, 7 ounce coffee or tea, 2 ounce espresso)

I love the scene in The Incredibles where the generi-guard gets his bell rung by a thrown coconut.

I’ve wanted to see this happen to Rick Sanchez for a long time. (Drunk driver who and left the scene of the crime deserves a tazering)

Famous homosexual quiz

scottobear : is Duke Furryface.
The Squirrel Name Generator

newton : is General Crazy Whiskers .
The Squirrel Name Generator

both are totally accurate.

My Easter Bunny Name is: is Mortimer Cottontail.
Take Are You Worthy of Bunny-dom? today!
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Newton’s Easter Bunny Name is: is Captain Snow Stretch-Hop-A-Long.
Take Are You Worthy of Bunny-dom? today!
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Not so accurate.

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I’ve been having a bit of trouble coming up with writing assignments this last week.

The source of the Doctor Who leak which saw the first episode of the new series splashed across the web has been sacked, the BBC reports.

Bush likes smooth-domed men. Look out, mootpoint!

Working today after all, because it’s a half-day, and none of my techs can start before 5. (EN *might*, but he’ll have to see what’s up at his other gig before confirming)

tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it’s URL and transforms the syntactic structure of the website into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. first each tree is initialized, than all html links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed.

I like the huge forest it made of my LJ… I was mesmerized watching it grow.

I got mentioned extensively as a reference regarding the org I’m with in a Michigan News Magazine Spinal Column.

Drawn after Camera took his fatal bounce. Apparently I have no sense of scale or a smooth line when I’m on the bus.

They Might Be Giants : Blood-Mobile

1 year ago – playing with icons, palm doodles, magical flesh fearing saw, bro still in the pokey

2 years ago – throat tickle, possible gig, FMM stuff

3 years ago – yahoo kills pop3, Can Asians Think?, llamas!, spring break, Egyptian musk, cat-recognition flap, rice dreams

4 years ago – Green Eggs & Hamlet, moody, China, Sophomore Uses List Context; Cops Interrogate