6890 – Avast, me hearties!

The only accessory you need for Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19. The site’s creator, Grant Henninger, says: “Let me present t’ you t’ iPatch! It really has no purpose, but it was a fun site t’ build. Hope people get a good harty-har-har out o’ it.”


Well, Re: Ghost in the Shell… I liked the Basset. both styles of animation were good, but the CGI and cel-stuff didn’t mesh well.. rather distracting, actually. Sammy really dug it, so I imagine it’s just a question of personal tastes. Site Meter

Danny and I had a nice time at riverwalk, had lunch at einsteins, a beer at the ugly toona saloona, and talked about this that and the other as we walked around… they’re relaying the brickwork on Tavern row. I wonder if doing that on a Saturday is the worst possible time for business?


With all the hurricanes and tropical storms lately, I’m surprised more people aren’t trying to find that dang butterfly.


Camanche road sprouts Ronald McDonald dolls

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6889 – Written for me? (Speaking of Kong)

I think I’m sophisticated
‘Cos I’m living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody’s multiplying
Till they’re walking round like flies man
So I’m no better than the animals sitting in their cages
in the zoo man
‘Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an ape man
I think I’m so educated and I’m so civilized
‘Cos I’m a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man
I’m an ape man I’m a King Kong man I’m ape ape man
I’m an ape man
‘Cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an ape man
In man’s evolution he has created the cities and
the motor traffic rumble, but give me half a chance
and I’d be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
‘Cos the only time that I feel at ease
Is swinging up and down in a coconut tree
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man
I’m an ape, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man
I look out my window, but I can’t see the sky
‘Cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man
Come and love me, be my ape man girl
And we will be so happy in my ape man world
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man
I’ll be your Tarzan, you’ll be my Jane
I’ll keep you warm and you’ll keep me sane
and we’ll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man.
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an ape man.

6888 – Saturday, off call!

Downloaded and watched 50 first dates.. very typical sandler movie, cute and silly. Nice night.. not many missings to interfere.

Off to lunch and then Ghost in the Shell 2 this afternoon.. Sammy said it was great, so I’ll follow that lead. (I don’t know how fond I am of the acronym “GitS”.


I like the term “tuber” for potatoes. I don’t like it for people floating down a river.


“time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
-hector berlioz


Kong is King – You can watch as Peter Jackson builds the new King Kong movie. (Video production diary on the right) Weird that Andy Serkis (Gollum) will be providing motion capture and facial expressions for the computer generated King Kong. (He was ruled ineligible for a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2003 Academy Awards because his character Gollum in Lord of the Rings onscreen was computer generated.)

6886 – nature

Direct Hit by Ivan Could Sink New Orleans

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/vulnerable_new_orleans

NEW ORLEANS – The worst-case scenario for New Orleans — a direct strike by a full-strength Hurricane Ivan — could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say.

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6885 – The first eater is like the latter eater?

I was right, seasons do bring change. I can see color returning to the world, and I hope for more warmth, though the sun is retreating from the earth. I have a heart full of hope, reds, browns and ornj.


Proverb in the Kaonde Language:

Baja bantu bajila, pakuba baja nwena, baseka.
Those who eat people, cry; those who eat a crocodile, laugh.
Explanation: We rejoice when our enemies are killed, but we cry when our friends are killed.

Lesotho/South Africa

Mpa-tsehla ha e bolaee.
Translation: A full belly does not kill.
Explanation: Food without clothing is better than clothing without food.

Mo-ja-pele o ts’oana le mo-ja-morao.
Translation: The first eater is like the latter eater.
Explanation: Waiting time is the time that pays best.

‘Mele oa motho e mong ke chaba se hole.
Translation: Somebody else’s body is a far-away nation.
Explanation: What is experienced by one cannot be experienced by others.


Sadly Jumped the shark – Penn & Teller, George Carlin, Harlan Ellison. The pissed-off and snarky revealer of truth bit has worn thin, and made you guys look petty and mean.


City of Heroes First update is *sharp*. Well-timed, too. I like Eastgate, and the newly revised martial arts.


Am I weird for finding this robotoic pet blanket cute, rather than creepy?Site Meter

“Nicholas Stedman’s Blanket is a robotic sculpture in the form of a blanket that crawls around a space, finds people there and crawl over to and on top of them, “like a pet.” ”


1 year ago – regmon, 1911 pedia, giant squid eco, worst jobs in science (I get this quoted in scientific american!), micrographica, bodiless dancer, newtie pix, wwi gallery,

2 years ago – minipainting, break-in dream, palm monster pix, many, many newtie pix

3 years ago – nose art, monchichi, yahoo and bad linkies, wonderful chat with mi Moonflower.

4 years ago – vote rant, notepad, rocking faces on my magic couch.

6882 – Surrender Now, or prepare to fight!

Good thoughts this morning. High hopes for the future.Site Meter

My shelves are crowded. Is there ever enough room for books? Do they always breed, and spread out to fill any shelving to contain them?


Sin City preview. Interesting. They got a *lot* of names.


Goodbye Romania – By visiting this gallery, you will destroy it. Each visit will remove one pixel from these photographs.


Dang… spambots again and again. They still haven’t worked out that I screen anony-comments. I always remove them right away, and mark ’em as spam.

It seems LJ isn’t the only victim… Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win?

As long as I can filter-preview, I figure I’m good.. it’s a minor issue.


Why is this stuck in my head?

Prepare for trouble!
Make it double!
To protect the world from devastation!
To unite all peoples within our nation!
To denounce the evils of truth and love!
To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie! James!
Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!
Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
Meowth! That’s right!


Get it out!!


Play Dark Tower online!

The sounds are a real kick back to the old days. To be honest, I don’t think we ever quite played it right back then. We used to associate the “tomb” sound with flatus.


Doo The Dew: The Great Mountain Dew Pitch Black Green Poo ExperimentMountain Dew Pitch Black contains Blue Dye #1. PoopReport’s resident poop-color expert says that many kinds of blue dye (his experience was with Blue Dye #5 in Kool-Aid Purplesaurus Rex) “combine with bile, and form a brilliant green.”

Hm. Dark purple-black soda pop makes your poo bright green. Innnnteresting.

6881 – Humpty-hump

Now that the hurricane’s gone … get ready for the mosquitoesSite Meter

Like hurricanes aren’t scary enough… West Nile Virus and St. Louis Encephalitis! Eep.


I’ve been asked to participate in two elaborate net-hoaxes, set to launch in the distant future. I can’t go into details here, but I’m still deciding if I should participate or not. One is probably pretty useful to mankind, while the other is just sort of fun. Both are a little work, though, so it’ll have to bypass my naturally lazy streak.


Imagine, if you will, that Enron’s cadre of lying, cheating, stealing executives weren’t living it up in Dallas while bleeding granny dry in Fresno, but instead were taking advantage of grandmothers in Peking. What do you think the Chinese government would do to punish them?

Apparently, they’d kill them. Four employees of the nation’s Big Four state-owned banks were executed for fraud totaling $15 million. China didn’t disclose how they executed the men, but generally they either shoot them in the back of the head or inject them with poison.

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Bro’s still a dumbass

6878 – And I leap in, quickly.

Elric looked at the pit. It was ragged and deep and the earth in it seemed freshly turned as if it had been but lately dug.
“What must we wait for, Friend Corum?”
“For the Tower,” said Prince Corum. “I would guess that this is where it appears when it is in this plane.”
“And when will it appear?”
“At no particular time. We must wait. And then, as soon as we see it, we must rush it and attempt to enter before it vanishes again, moving on to the next plane.”

— Michael Moorcock, The Vanishing Tower

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That’s what it feels like when your internet is unreliable… or when LJ is playing games with the servers.

Users on the Madcow cluster (where am I?) will be temporarily unable to log in or view their journals. This problem should be brief, and will be resolved as quickly as possible. Because of this, users on other clusters may experience some slowdowns in accessing LiveJournal as well.


I gushed enough about to Danny about Shaun of the Dead that we may go see it in the theater this weekend. (Either that, or Sky Captain.)


Yesterday was rough.. almost all hardware issues, interrupting my regular workday.

Printer fuser, two network cards, and a video card all pooped out the same day. What’re the odds?

At least I got the website up to date and started stats.


Tracey Gold’s Mugshot.


Michael Andrews and Gary Jules: Mad World – Watch from above as schoolchildren create montages of moving figures in this heartfelt video.


Archives:

1 year ago – Hurricane Isabel, More Frankie the Mooch, St. John’s Wort.

2 years ago – Bonnie’s Boy Steals from FMM, and is caught on video, Newt bawls out a spaniel

3 years ago – music to my ears, LJ observations, handy word reference guide

4 years ago – Sesame Street Day!, Lower-case N song, We are all Earthlings, Ernie questions his existence. Wubba Wubba Song, Joel Reprimanded for surfing porn at work

6877 – Monday the Thirteenth!

meme from all over (found lately at calamity‘s):

If you wish, please reply to this post and write something you would like to do with me someday.

Then post this in your journal to find out what people want to do with you.


September is going to bring a lot of things, I think. Bro’s Birthday coming up, as well.

I feel isolated and a little out of whack today. A few possible remedies, though I suspect the most likely one is tincture of time. Autumn is nearly here, and I hope that the recharge it brings will bring more light, less glare. Drugstores are doing the Halloween thing, already. Part of it is probably due to the number of cases last night.. the most recent was at 3:30 am.

I’m mildly peeved that I had much of the weekend off, but still just spent it inside, reading. I probably could’ve done more, but really wasn’t too motivated. Got the basics covered.


Come to think of it… a good case against Voodoo actually working is Papa & Baby Doc’s long-term existence.


I miss arcades… back when there was a big room full of pac man and centipede-type games.


Wal-Mart at Mexico Ruins Sparks Protest

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6875 – We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl…year after year.

Looks like Ivan is doing a left hand arc around my location.

Good! I hope it leaves as many people alone as possible.


Been *very* flattered lately… I surely appreciate it.


Big Kahuna took call all day Saturday, and most of the day Sunday. Happy-happy! I’m disappointed EN hasn’t called back or shown much concern about his lost sheet.


Watched Shaun of the Dead, and it was very well done. One of the most entertaining flicks I’ve seen in a long time. I’m a sucker for slice of life / dark humor / zombie movies. I love how oblivious the guys were. Not as gory as I’d thought it would be, except for a few select places.

They had the worst improvised weapons known to any zombie movie. In it’s I’ve never seen a cricket bat used so well to fend off the undead… and the “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!” bit was sharp.

Speaking of which, should a breakout of zombieism take place in South Florida, there are a *lot* of places to hole up securely behind aluminum / wooden shutters, and so much construction stuff to fend off bites. (Not to mention more guns scattered about than the ATF)

Photos from yesterday’s brief walkabout to pick up medicine and groceries: Proof of Fort Lauderdale’s Zombie Security

6875 – We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl…year after year.

Looks like Ivan is doing a left hand arc around my location.

Good! I hope it leaves as many people alone as possible.


Been *very* flattered lately… I surely appreciate it.


Big Kahuna took call all day Saturday, and most of the day Sunday. Happy-happy! I’m disappointed EN hasn’t called back or shown much concern about his lost sheet.


Watched Shaun of the Dead, and it was very well done. One of the most entertaining flicks I’ve seen in a long time. I’m a sucker for slice of life / dark humor / zombie movies. I love how oblivious the guys were. Not as gory as I’d thought it would be, except for a few select places.

They had the worst improvised weapons known to any zombie movie. In it’s I’ve never seen a cricket bat used so well to fend off the undead… and the “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!” bit was sharp.

Speaking of which, should a breakout of zombieism take place in South Florida, there are a *lot* of places to hole up securely behind aluminum / wooden shutters, and so much construction stuff to fend off bites. (Not to mention more guns scattered about than the ATF)

Photos from yesterday’s brief walkabout to pick up medicine and groceries: Proof of Fort Lauderdale’s Zombie Security

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