Possible check-em-outs this weekend.

Riverwalk Blues Festival – http://www.riverwalkbluesfestival.com/

Broward County Fair – http://www.browardcountyfair.com

Spongebob Movie? If with Dan, that “National Treasure” movie?

Maybe visit the Cinema Paradiso? http://www.cinemaparadiso.org/cinema/location.htm

Wannado City – http://www.wannadocity.com/grown_ups/directions.php

Seminole Casino – http://www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com/

If folks aren’t aware, you can go to Archive.org and stream or download tens of thousands of shows by artists. There are currently 2,774 Grateful Dead shows, stretching back to 1965, but those are coming down at some point — at least the soundboards are — as the Dead will be releasing the entire archive via iTunes at some point in the not-so-distant future.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php

If folks aren’t aware, you can go to Archive.org and stream or download tens of thousands of shows by artists. There are currently 2,774 Grateful Dead shows, stretching back to 1965, but those are coming down at some point — at least the soundboards are — as the Dead will be releasing the entire archive via iTunes at some point in the not-so-distant future.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php

“It’s the same story the crow told me, it’s the only one he knows. Like the morning sun you come, and like the wind you go. Ain’t no time to hate; barely time to wait. Whoa-oh! What I want to kno-ow, where does the time go?” -Grateful Dead

Many strangers visiting and mystery old-timers visiting lately. It’s sort of nice to see… Not sure what’s setting it off, but I hope it continues. The artist of the graffiti I posted on my journal actually found the pictures! (His is the blue bit to the left of the tree here, and possibly the rest. compare to his stuff in this entry.) LJ really is a small microcosm, even with 5 million journals out there. I love been so “googleable”.

When I think graffiti, I still think of REI.

My goatee has vanished into a full beard. That may change this weekend.

Urge for walkabout has returned, after revisiting my summer sojourn to Miami. Saturday after coming off of call, I’m going to go picture taking again, if the weather and mood is right.

Music on the mind. I want to hear singing, preferably live, or at least recorded live.

1 year ago – memes, rubber monsters, super heroes, pestered by CS, whistles, newtcam by skylight, mild MD drama

2 years ago – Haiku, Robert Culp, projects, bro lies to me

3 years ago – walking, TG pressures, Astley and his grey market goods, abc meme, morning move poll, misc news

4 years ago – gloating, monkey brains, Alton brown

5 years ago – Newt breaks 2 lbs!

I’ve been scribbling a lot of abstract doodles lately… fun to do. I miss the coloringbook community in its prime.

In 1787 the Continental Congress of the Confederation commissioned the first penny. Designed by Ben Franklin, the front featured the sun rising over a sun dial. The word “Fugio,” Latin for “I fly,” sat next to the sundial, and the motto underneath, which admonished everyone to “Mind Your Business.”

The Sodium Party (part of this cool website)

Dan’s a fussy ol’ fart, and doesn’t want to see the Spongebob movie with me this weekend. If he can’t get together, I’ll go it alone this weekend, and run the risk of looking like a big stoner. No worries.

Useful Web Applications

Maybe I’ll hit the Broward County Fair this weekend, too.

I wonder how sedef, oneeyed, bq, and sa are doing lately?

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Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater into fresh water.

I would like a pajama set done in prison stripes.

If you’re plugged, been slugged, down in the mouth or down in the belly, mad or sad or mean-spirited and dog-kickin’ angry, I got the stuff to make you right!

Random Lynching factoid: When you hang a man, put the knot of the noose behind the man to be hanged’s left ear… better odds of breaking his neck when he’s dropped. Otherwise, he’ll strangle, and probably take his time choking to death, instead.

I wonder if there ever was a James West / Jonah Hex crossover? I bet Hex’d do quite a number on Miguelito Loveless. Maybe toss in Brisco County, the Rifleman, the Barclays and the Cartwrights.

I want some of these for my ceiling. Duck butts. (reminds me of this song, too. 15 meg mov)

Random Scotto Factoid: I was part of a major RSS syndication drama, a few years back.

STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE

Stop making the rest of us look bad, demand Hollywood executives

Something about the weather is very comforting… Rain on glass, moonlight through a window, Newt nestled against my neck. No calls after 10pm! Friendly Chitty-chat. A good night last night.

Sammy and Whims are both a bit quiet lately, but still friendly.

Lack of interest in CoH lately… I hope that Freedom Force 2 has a good multiplay options and game world. CoH has the best team play games of any system I’ve ever seen, though. Nice balancing system between casuals and hardcore gamers.

Afrocaribbean religions

Thanks for the postcard, missv! Newtie thanks you for feeding the Thai-kitties!

I still feel a little guilty about having heroclix, which are also made overseas… I don’t know the conditions under which they were created.

Yu-gi-oh! Is one of the most annoying cartoons, ever.

I think the theme to Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends is great.

edbook‘s been posting a bulk of gorgeous, Autumn-y photos lately. Check ’em out.

What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers’ Habits – including the capability of tying the use of your credit card into who you are, how much your mortgage is, your driving record, your court dates…

I’ve discovered that I can do a pretty good impersonation of Ray Romano. How useful will that be later in life? Who can say? I suspect the answer is “not too much”. Interesting that one of the monarch’s main guards has a voice that’s similar.

Looking back a year in time… letting crackheads and thugs go free doesn’t sound a lot like the fascist state so many people are claiming that the US is turning into. Where are the jack-booted brownshirt thugs, when I want ’em?

1 year ago – Frankie the mooch timeline [MUCHO DRAMA FURIOSO!], 3-minute 4am phone post, Justice league, Spectre

2 years ago – Chevy Tahoe Commercial poem, Green Banana Moon, cool words, twilight

3 years ago – caption picture poll, turtle-butt breathing, big brain’s 2nd incarnation

4 years ago – memories feature added, strip mall of sin, mall of the dead, hunter thompson returns to reporting

5 years ago – the term “gullible” is removed from the dictionary

Not much to report this morning… Vague dream memories. Sensations of filtered rosy light, ease and comfort. I didn’t want to get out of bed, but one does what one must.

I want some of those Incredibles toys from McDonalds… but they’re made in China, and it’s McDonalds. Bah.

Maybe I’ll get to go to the Miami Book Fair international next year… last year, surgery, this year, on call. I may have to be very careful for next go ’round! Thank goodness for CSPAN2/bookTV.

_{Note to Mr. 5… See to it that Mr. 11 doesn’t make it to that fence. Don’t use your sidearm unless you have to. Civilian casualties will not be tolerated.}

Google Aptitude test answers

I’m worth $2,462,263.20! How much are you worth?

Hm. They must go by volume.

memey-memey

Monet’s Birthday

Well… let’s see. 7000 entries, in 1467 days.

My early days of heavy posting is skewing my count up to about 4.8 entries a day. Comments posted – 35,841 – That’s 24 comments posted per day. I know I’ve had a few 100 days and a few 0 days.

Busy-busy day on call yesterday…. makes me appreciate MM all the more.

The Declaration of independence was signed a century before Germany and Italy became “Countries”

Since I was on call, and couldn’t do much online gaming, I hopped back a bit into GTA… Man, those Ambulance missions are hard. I would like to see a variant of it online, with team action.

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS (or, How I’ll be getting episodes of lost in the future)

The 1st DCA rules once again that the voucher law is unconstitutional.

The first sentence of article I, section 3 of the Florida Constitution is synonymous with the federal Establishment Clause in generally prohibiting laws respecting the establishment of religion. In addition to the Establishment Clause language, article I, section 3 also includes the language of the no-aid provision, which expands the restrictions in state aid and to religion by specifically prohibiting the expenditure of public funds “directly or indirectly” to aid sectarian institutions. For a court to interpret the no-aid provision of article I, section 3 as imposing no further restrictions on the state’s involvement with religious institutions than the Establishment Clause, it would have to ignore both the clear meaning and intent of the text and the unambiguous history of the no-aid provision.

Full text here.

ACLU statement here.

(via flablog)

Taking prednisone (for the allergic reaction I had) leaves a real nasty aftertaste in my mouth. bleh!

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