A quick and easy way to add your land line or cell phone to the do not call list for telemarketing.

The number listed below is for the national Do Not Call List.

Call this number from your cell phone, and follow the instructions.

(888) 382-1222

You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

You can also go online to https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

A monkey sits in offers and sips a can of coke in Lopburi, Thailand, Sunday Nov,28, 2004 during Monkey festival. The festival has been hosted since 1989 by a local businessman who believes the monkeys were behind his family’s good fortune. A total of 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of fruits were offered to the monkeys roaming the area. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

more pictures of monkeys at the feast!

The last episode of Lost was 42 minutes and 1 second out of a traditional hour. So… that’s 17 minutes and 59 seconds of commercials…and people wonder why I download episodes wholesale.

Eye contact is a good thing. There’s a powerful strength there.

I got a lovely holiday card from meredith and heath, thank you! (I’ve kissed little Newt’s noggin as requested.) 😀

It’s nice to have the whole house clean. It makes the whole place’s vibe feel a lot more fresh.

A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper may be fired in connection with a Blount County case in which a dead man was cited for traffic violations. Continue reading 7043 – fa-la-la-la-la, la-la- um… line? →

VS asked me today at lunch why I was so dead set against the diamond industry. (Her uncle is a jeweller.)

I told her a bit about blood diamonds (not for the especially squeamish)

http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/BloodDiamonds.html

and she came back to me with “well, I’m not that deep… I do know that I want a diamond engagement ring.”

I was pretty stunned… Her attitude was “sure, people suffer, but I want my rock”.

Sakes… if you must have one, you can certainly do a little research and work around it.

Continue reading 7042 – blood diamonds →

Police sketch face maker thingum – http://flashface.ctapt.de/

Passing the warning Hartz brand products can be dangerous to your kitties.

by way of blackhellcat and faerie’s entry.

Building a case against a stalker for a friend… she’s filed a complaint at the police department , building a case for a restraining order. She got bounced from Pompano Pd, to Oakland, to Broward… they kept giving her nonsense about jurisdiction. Why so many stalker-nuts in the world? Ah well, building a paper trail is half the battle.

I remember the good old days when cutting edge computer graphics were vectors, and my favorite meal was alphabetty spaghetti letters in tomato sauce, right from the can.

1985ish.

Random Scotto factoid:

I tend to attract women with at least five of the following attributes, usually seven or more –

• Artist (usually singer)
• depressive, or manic/depressive
• clever
• extremely multi-faceted
• OCD, especially the Obsessive side.
• likes to smoke herb
• nice breasts
• inked or pierced
• younger than me, by 5 years or more
• Married too early, and divorced within 2 years.
• Whimsical, but a capacity for dark humor, too.

Not too bad, all told. I’ve never had a relationship with more bad than good. I’ve consistantly been a good provider of emotional support, physical security, and love in general.

Danny has been having trouble hearing what I have to say lately. I’ve been wanting to tell him what’s been happening lately, but things seem to get sidetracked. He’s got a lot on his plate, of course. I hear he’s going to the AIDS play that one of his students wrote/is participating in this weekend.

Dreams… sensuous, violent, gentle, pastoral, ethereal, it’s all something. In the subconscious while your unconscious… free falling through your imagination. Funny what your mind touches when the tethers are removed. It’s sometimes betrayed by the limits of its own potential. I’m happy that I don’t hallucinate… or if I do, that I can work with them.

1 year ago – Old palm doodles, Roy Disney quits, Haley born, Dead Bugs

2 years ago – annie cat, clash of the titans, palm doodles, ebooks

3 years ago – Yuanwu, submitting stories, laundry, Spartacus, cuban tree frog

4 years ago – Scotto’s, bleh, bleh recovery, Dune quote, body-mod poll

Passing the warning Hartz brand products can be dangerous to your kitties.

by way of blackhellcat and faerie’s entry.

Building a case against a stalker for a friend… she’s filed a complaint at the police department , building a case for a restraining order. She got bounced from Pompano Pd, to Oakland, to Broward… they kept giving her nonsense about jurisdiction. Why so many stalker-nuts in the world? Ah well, building a paper trail is half the battle.

I remember the good old days when cutting edge computer graphics were vectors, and my favorite meal was alphabetty spaghetti letters in tomato sauce, right from the can.

1985ish.

Random Scotto factoid:

I tend to attract women with at least five of the following attributes, usually seven or more –

• Artist (usually singer)
• depressive, or manic/depressive
• clever
• extremely multi-faceted
• OCD, especially the Obsessive side.
• likes to smoke herb
• nice breasts
• inked or pierced
• younger than me, by 5 years or more
• Married too early, and divorced within 2 years.
• Whimsical, but a capacity for dark humor, too.

Not too bad, all told. I’ve never had a relationship with more bad than good. I’ve consistantly been a good provider of emotional support, physical security, and love in general.

Danny has been having trouble hearing what I have to say lately. I’ve been wanting to tell him what’s been happening lately, but things seem to get sidetracked. He’s got a lot on his plate, of course. I hear he’s going to the AIDS play that one of his students wrote/is participating in this weekend.

Dreams… sensuous, violent, gentle, pastoral, ethereal, it’s all something. In the subconscious while your unconscious… free falling through your imagination. Funny what your mind touches when the tethers are removed. It’s sometimes betrayed by the limits of its own potential. I’m happy that I don’t hallucinate… or if I do, that I can work with them.

1 year ago – Old palm doodles, Roy Disney quits, Haley born, Dead Bugs

2 years ago – annie cat, clash of the titans, palm doodles, ebooks

3 years ago – Yuanwu, submitting stories, laundry, Spartacus, cuban tree frog

4 years ago – Scotto’s, bleh, bleh recovery, Dune quote, body-mod poll

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/leisure_godzilla_dc

Continue reading 7038 – Godzilla Honored with Star on Walk of Fame →

December!

Eek… that means Christmas & New Year’s is on the way… so fast!

Someone was shooting off bright bottle rockets and other fireworks at the riverfront last night. That was a nice surprise.

I think Mercedes Lackey’s writing is pretty weak, but I’m enjoying this piece she wrote called “The Last Straw”, where she rails against some of the more lunatic fringers in science fiction fandom. (or SCAers, or pagans, or whatever… ) Not all of ’em, mostly the people with boundary issues and reality issues. (via tdj, by way of queenmabwords)

Brother called. It makes me physically sick.

2004 Interim Report By Florida Medical Examiners Commission On Drugs Identified In Deceased Persons

Continue reading 7037 – Don’t get the shrimp if you want a kiss goodnight. →

December!

Eek… that means Christmas & New Year’s is on the way… so fast!

Someone was shooting off bright bottle rockets and other fireworks at the riverfront last night. That was a nice surprise.

I think Mercedes Lackey’s writing is pretty weak, but I’m enjoying this piece she wrote called “The Last Straw”, where she rails against some of the more lunatic fringers in science fiction fandom. (or SCAers, or pagans, or whatever… ) Not all of ’em, mostly the people with boundary issues and reality issues. (via tdj, by way of queenmabwords)

Brother called. It makes me physically sick.

2004 Interim Report By Florida Medical Examiners Commission On Drugs Identified In Deceased Persons

Continue reading 7037 – Don't get the shrimp if you want a kiss goodnight. →

Identity theft – http://www.myfloridalegal.com/identitytheft

Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agents have arrested a Hialeah man on charges he stole another man’s identity and used the victim’s information to purchase more than $30,000 worth of appliances from home improvement stores throughout South Florida. Continue reading 7036 – FDLE Agents Arrest South Florida Man For Identity Theft, Grand Theft →

How to Kill a Mockingbird

Looking back on my journal, it’s sort of odd to see comments from folks who have passed away. There’s a weridness about finding notes from those that have moved on, or been removed from the equation entirely.

Pak. Chooie. Unf.

Unf, Unf, Unf.

Cleaning house… time to do it top to bottom, spic and span. I’ve hit my clutter limit again.

Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy

A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood. Continue reading 7035 – And so, another month ends. →

sent via palmtop

busfolk, including backpacker 11/29/04

bus station bricks

one-legged hobo, distant

one-legged hobo, closeup 11/29/04

Ann Coulter is a former Key West drag queen? It must be true! It’s on the internet!

Monday after such a lovely long weekend. I hope to the powers of creation that the Monday meeting is blessedly brief. Rhode Island returns from vacation and will discover LH’s departure… I hope she doesn’t wig out too much.

Maybe there’ll be TeeGee pie. I have no pie here. That would get me to drink coffee.

Coffee and pie. Breakfast of champeens. It makes kids jump like little green frogs! I’m feeling extra hoppy just thinking about it! I also have a strong craving for scrambled eggs with salsa this morning.

The full moon is amazing this month.

Random Great Movie Line: “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.” – The Outlaw Josey Wales

Mel and I got together for a spot of lunch and tooling around the neighborhood. Aside from the accessories, I think Mr. Cow got a fresh coat of paint.

piccies from yesterdays walkabout