Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o

Rubbed against something the wrong way during the night or something…the area of my back near the shoulder blades has a pesky itch that could only be purged by a nice scalding shower.

It has me wondering what would come through that spot on my skin.. wings? How huge a span would I need to get off of the ground? I figure it’d have to be at least 45 feet or something… I’m over 6 feet tall and my bones are hardly hollow.

Somehow, I’d be more likely to expect Zim/Otto Octavious-style manipulators and extensor-legs.

It’s going to be tricky, avoiding all the chocolate next week.

Doing my annual viewing of the Ten Commandments, some of the best scenes (snake-staff, for one) were interrupted by news of Miami fires, possibly deliberately set. I hope no one was hurt, or lost homes as a result of those. I really think that they could’ve picked a better-named spokeswoman for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue than Vicki Burns. There was a haze off in the distance, but I couldn’t smell smoke from here.

Back to the movie… When I was a boy, I thought that the Hebrews leaving behind Moses should have had elephants, for some reason. Horses in Egypt always struck me as odd; I figured that they’d just use camels for everything, or oxen to pull the bigger things. I wonder now what camel meat tastes like… man eats ox all the time, and horse now and then… is camel considered a domestic food?

Fire story

Hm. A pleasant change this year was that nobody alerted me last night of the Daylight Savings Time switchover… all of my devices except for the TV and caller ID switch automatically. (Correction, Caller ID switched with my first phone call of the day.) This Spring, Daylight Savings time changes and takes place 45 different times around the world. Here’s what time it is in assorted regions.

Passover / Easter coming next week. I wonder how that’ll affect the folks on call? More or less busy?

Hm…interesting review of Ft. Lauderdale in the Sun Sentinel… Not so Rowdy Spring Break Continue reading 6581 heh… “Girls gone mild” →

Hm. A pleasant change this year was that nobody alerted me last night of the Daylight Savings Time switchover… all of my devices except for the TV and caller ID switch automatically. (Correction, Caller ID switched with my first phone call of the day.) This Spring, Daylight Savings time changes and takes place 45 different times around the world. Here’s what time it is in assorted regions.

Passover / Easter coming next week. I wonder how that’ll affect the folks on call? More or less busy?

Hm…interesting review of Ft. Lauderdale in the Sun Sentinel… Not so Rowdy Spring Break Continue reading 6581 heh… "Girls gone mild" →

ok, I’ll play.

ok, I’ll play.

Hellboy was fun, though I think that they may’ve included *too much* stuff from the assorted comics for one movie. Abe Sapien seemed especially well done, and the movie’s weaknesses are to be expected of any superhero movie. (Strange, but appropriate to hear Frasier’s Brother Nile’s voice coming from a gill-man.)

City of Heroes is fun, Le Gernouille (Leapfrog was taken) is hopping around fighting crime nicely.

picture of Le Grenouille

The dials on Scotto’s universe today are –

Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color / Aura-Vision)
MPAA Rating (G / PG / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse/Blend/Puree)
Global Soundtrack Volume (off, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Personal Soundtrack Volume (off, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Batteries (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)

Ok… tonight is either Hellboy or Dawn of the Dead, with or without Dave. I’d like to have a little fun mayhem before being on call this weekend. Oddly, I know for a fact that four years ago yesterday I was on a date, watching Rear Window at the Gateway theater with April. I hope that she’s gotten her act together at this point, and is on the right track. That was just an odd situation, one I should write about more sometime.

I’m flattered that Sammy’s using the name “SamBot2000” as his robo-hero. (The character design is nice, too.)

No pranks yesterday! Yeah! I feel great! Thanks!

To celebrate, Happy Squirrel piccies from yesterday

Sum up your opinion or impression of me in one word, leave it as a comment in this posting, and then post this sentence in your own journal, if you please.

I just got nifty anony-post reply to an entry from January of last year looking at Ossuaries. The link given has 60 high-quality pictures of the display and the church from the outside.

Thanks! I really like it when anonymous people are friendly and helpful, and don’t just spam my site.

Sakes… the screen shots from City of Heroes make the joint look awesome. Papa Smurf!

Cute 4/1 gag… friends & friend of now reads “Stalking and Stalked by” on the bio page

links to a virus, not the link shown –

To: scottobear@livejournal.com
Subject: Mail Delivery (failure scottobear@livejournal.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:40:02 +0200

If the message will not displayed automatically,
follow the link to read the delivered message.

Received message is available at:
www.livejournal.com/inbox/scottobear/read.php?sessionid-25960 [link goes to a virus page, not the link shown.]

source email came from – ip3e838ce6.speed.planet.nl, spoofed to look like livejournal. totally weak.

The life-sensing experiment seemed to work pretty well… I know that the cat out back was weirdly attracted to me when I got home.. though he may have just been talking to the Newtster, and came running my way when I turned the corner. It was a pretty good vibe to remind myself how much of what surrounds me is alive. I found myself thinking about the moss on the sidewalk, wondering about microbes in puddles, people next to me on the bus… It’s a fun mindset to run with.

The Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin. Round beds, cages, upside-down furniture, padded/collaged walls, rooms with coffins for beds, or sleep on tiny buildings as a giant.

Yesterday I showed CS a link to local privacy laws, which includes wiretapping and eavesdropping. (I’ve seen him recording stuff with his palmtop a couple of times, and thought I’d point it out to him.)

I think it is fairly straightforward –

“Twelve states forbid the recording of private conversations without the consent of all parties. Those states are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.”

Good to know…of course, I would like to ask a few PI and Lawyer-types just how sound that all is. If someone records you without your permission, and you find out about it.

His reply was a simple “Dude, the law doesn’t apply.”

Ok, maybe it doesn’t, but it sure seems that way to me. I’ve always been under the impression that you could take pictures of whatever you wanted to in public, but recording people’s voices was pretty taboo. If you want me to take you seriously, don’t call me dude.

He also mentioned that he’s actively seeking employment elsewhere, and plans to go back to school to leave the IT industry this August. I think he’s just riding out this gig until the big Kahuna cuts him loose at this point. That’s fine, but he shouldn’t be surfing the hire-pages at work.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

I foresee good things in the month ahead. Possibilities and potential that are mostly hidden, but could bloom nicely. Sunlight reflecting off the moon.

Nevada is on Pacific time… three hours short of mine. Calling at 10am here is
like 7am there.

That’s going to make callbacks ugly. I’m going to have to allow for some
overlap, or to tell them to call back no later than 1pm PST (4pm my end)

At least Michigan is in the same region.

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Nevada is on Pacific time… three hours short of mine. Calling at 10am here is
like 7am there.

That’s going to make callbacks ugly. I’m going to have to allow for some
overlap, or to tell them to call back no later than 1pm PST (4pm my end)

At least Michigan is in the same region.

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Ugh, the Miami Herald is becoming a registration site soon. Yet another reason to keep reading the Sun-Sentinel online. I keep a fakey-fake profile, just to avoid giving advertisers good cookie info, and register to a stinky email account used only to collect spam. I’ve been keeping an alias since Radio Shack asked for names and bio info before selling you a simple spst switch. (used to make my first black box when I was 12 or 13.) Not that I’ve been to a RS in ages. I don’t think that they collect info directly like that anymore… but the stuff they sell is so overpriced.

I also discovered SmartTraveler, too.. traffic info and cameras posted all over the place (not just South Florida)

Random Factoid – De Soto brought 13 pigs to Florida ~1525. Today, only China has a greater swine population.

Dan and I babbled a bit about super-group names. not many are worthwhile, but we came up with a couple of goodies.

“…chewed by a rat when Telly was a baby.” (Famous people with missing digits.)

I’m going to play a little mental game with myself today. I’m going to see if I can open up my mind and detect life out and around me…try and “sense” where / what things are, and just try to hear whatever vibe it might be throwing off. see if I can do the aura-vision perception vibe. Sense lizards, the difference between grass and maybe an insect or two… see if I can detect where in the office different bodies are without hearing or seeing them.

I’m pretty confident that I can perceive life in my apartment, but that’s easy. Me, Newton, that’s it. I close my eyes, reach out and see what subconscious cues tell me where he’s located. That is, of course if he isn’t sitting right in front of me, as he is often wont to do… not too difficult to triangulate where the creature that’s purring like a lawnmower and is pressing his forehead against your right hand. What I’m typing here is that it doesn’t take Matt Murdock/Daredevil.

Hmm… quote in my head this morning… “Shift your cargo dearie… show ’em your larboard side…WE WANTS THE REDHEAD!! Strike your colors you brazen wench! No need to expose your superstructure! ” Ah.. Classic Disney.

Until later, dear journal. Don’t take rum, where you can get gold. Mind ye, if they only have rum, take it.