Going for a sunup stroll on the beach, and maybe to take a swim at dawn. See you kids later!
*splash*
word of the day – eremite
eremite ER-uh-myt, noun:
A hermit, especially a religious recluse.
He is in the private cave of his freedom, an eremite, a solitary; he orders his mind as he pleases.
–Cynthia Ozick, “Writers Domestic and Demonic” New York Times, March 25, 1984
Eremite derives from Late Latin eremita, from Greek eremites, “living in the desert,” from eremia, “desert,” from eremos,”lonely, solitary, desolate.”
from queso- –
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-033.asp
If you haven’t heard about it elsewhere, then hear it here: if you run IIS 4.0 or 5.0 on Windows NT or Windows 2000, there’s a security patch you should probably install.
How far would you go?
My newest fun thing to do while waiting for data to compile –
http://images.google.com
Type in any word you want… I like stuff tha’ts sort of intangible like ‘love, hate, freedom’ and get a picture of it. (Not to mention a fast souce of clip are for all sorts of cartoons or otherimages)
The Green lantern oath in Norwegian… for example.
oh.. by the way…
– Det är en fågel!
– Det är ett flygplan!
– Det är… Stålmannen!!!
I was disappointed when MesoAmerican Saucermen didn’t come up. I guess I sewed up that timeline too tightly.
straight dope – Does voice-activated eavesdropping technology listen in on phone conversations for suspicious “keywords”?
Is it true that U.S. and Canadian federal law-enforcement agencies have a voice-activated system connected to local telephone networks that activates and records telephone conversations based on certain keywords? I only ask this because a reliable source told me so. However, I am very skeptical because I can’t believe any government agency has the authority, let alone the technology.
Evil News!
Adding Zing To Your Bosses Pop
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A 23-year-old man was being held in Kenosha County Jail Tuesday morning, accused of urinating into his supervisor’s Mountain Dew bottle.
Authorities said that the supervisor filed a complaint after opening the bottle and noticing that the soft drink did not taste right. A store worker informed him that he heard someone urinated in the soda.
Fatty Nose Eating Attack
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A man’s nose was bitten off during an early-morning brawl last weekend outside a Flandreau bar.
The nose was located and put on ice by Flandreau police officers. The victim and the nose were taken to the hospital for reattachment.
Scientist Test Destroying World With New Technology
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A powder touted as a potential way to weaken hurricanes sucked the moisture out of a thunderstorm Thursday in its latest test.
An airplane dropped $40,000 worth of the Dyn-O-Gel granules into a cloud 10 miles offshore. A television station’s weather radar confirmed the cloud then lost
moisture.
“The people in the tower visually confirmed that there was a tall buildup and the next moment it was gone,” said Kevin Sullivan, control tower supervisor at
the Palm Beach International Airport.
Spammobile On The Road
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Pork shoulders and ham parts. It’s Spam, and fans consumed more than 1 billion cans of it last year. That information–plus free Spamburgers–were doled out
at Beloit’s Hormel plant on Tuesday as part of the first local appearance of the Spammobile.
“We’ve been to a lot of different events, including Ozz Fest.”
Did I Fail The Test?
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A teen crashed into six cars Wednesday as she completed the final manoeuvre of her driving test: Parking.
Its Okay To Video Tape Pooping and Not Scooping
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A jury Wednesday sided with a 50-year-old botanist who videotapes dog owners who ignore leash laws and their own dogs’ poop.
A three-man, three-woman County Court panel took 15 minutes to acquit Patrick Murphy of misdemeanor harassment. Murphy sighed deeply after hearing the verdict and later said he’d change some of his methods of tracking scofflaw dog owners.
Teen Gang Attacked By Otters
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River otters attacked a 17-year-old houseboat vacationer, biting her and puncturing her skin more than 30 times, officials said. The severity of the assault by five otters was “unprecedented,” wildlife officials said, though three other minor incidents involving the furry water lovers have been reported at the lake in the last month.
This Hardware Store Sells Golden Showerheads
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A Windsor man has been charged with public indecency after being caught on a security tape urinating on another customer inside a home improvement store, police said…
The guard then saw Harris walk up behind another customer and urinate on the back of the man’s pants, police said.
Harris then proceeded to walk away from the customer, but then returned and urinated on the man two more times, police said.
words of the day – Slake, & Ambisinister. (Why? Because I’m a thirsty klutz this morning.)
slake SLAYK, transitive verb:
1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger.
3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water.
intransitive verb:
To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.
Slake comes from Middle English slaken, “to become or render slack,” hence “to abate,” from Old English slacian, from slæc, “slack.”
“My companions never drink pure water and the… beer serves as much to slake their thirst as to fill their stomachs and lubricate conversation.”
–Philippe Descola, The Spears of Twilight
ambisinister am-bi-SIN-uh-stuhr adjective
Clumsy with both hands. (Literally, with two left hands.)
Latin ambi- both, + sinister, on the left side.
Happy Birthday
*hugs* to one of my LJ daughters.
Ack.
Same trouble as last night. Stuffed nose, gasping for air way of waking up.
Not good. If it happens again tonight, I’m going to the doctor to try in figure a way to stop it, immediately. Fatigue is beginning to set in.
Anyhow, good morning. I’ve already showered, and opened up my sinuses… but, for me, with a steamy shower comes wakefulness, not an opportunity to go immediately back to bed. (Plus, my hair’s wet. Do I sound too much like a sissy when I say I can’t sleep with wet hair? It’s not comfortable for me.)
So, I’m going to read more of my book, stroke Newt, and have an early breakfast.I wish the local Theatre around here had some movies playing at this hour, I’m sort of in the mood to see something on the big screen, although I don’t know what. Just an urge. (Not that I want to get dressed or anything.)
Dang… now it seems that when I reply to e-mail LJ messages, it doesn’t recognize my password. I can do it local, but not across the e-mail… what’s up with that?
Protected: Squonk.
Rowr.
In a romantic mood.
I want to just head home, lower the lights, and cuddle up with the girl I love, and get as snuggly and close as possible. Going to burn some nag champa, and hope for heavy rain. 🙂
Protected: Flash is beginning to impress me.
I have perhaps 20-25 homemade burned CD’s of old time radio… (Jack Benny, The Shadow, Dragnet, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, etc). I figure about 11ish hours apiece. I can’t believe I’ve listened to all of them , and am now restarting from the beginning of the stack. I’d estimate I listen to about 2-4 hours a day, after folks go home… My Office-mate isn’t big on 1930s-1950s variety stuff. I can honestly say, that there’s a pile of quality entertainment on those CD’s. I’m not sure why my tastes run to nostalgia from before I was born.. it seems a little more honest, and not quite so… oh, I’m not sure. I’d just much rather listen to an episode of Suspense than Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even though they share a lot of elements. Weird Science, Horror, Fantasy… but without some of the more ‘modern TV’ trappings. Maybe because it’s sound only.. you can fill in your own special effects, character appearances, and I think they deliver a more solid story base sometimes. Also, you can have a show about only one or two people (Like the Shadow, and Margo Lane) and not know what/who the bad guy is in a mystery, or who might get killed. I think the hitchhikers guide is better as a radio show, than a tv miniseries, too (although both were quite fun). Added Bonus, you can listen in the dark, in bed, eyes closed.
Odds are good that the vast majority of folks today rarely listen to anything aside from music or talk stations on the radio anymore… and I think that’s sort of a shame. Drama, comedy and so on. Radio plays are a thing of the past… admittedly some of them should stay there, but there’s a lot of potential for good stuff, even as webcasts. http://prairiehome.org/ does webcasts of the one exception I know. Prairie Home companion is nice… music, comedy, drama, and homespun stuff, to the tune of our current age. I actually tune in once a week to hear the fresh stuff. It’s good. (The website’s better, because you can pick and choose the stuff you want to listen to during the show… So I can Jump right to News from lake Woebegon and Guy Noir.) Plus they have show archives that go waaaaaay back to the mid 90’s if you can’t get enough of it. (I’ve listened to them all, a little at a time… usually a classic episode after listening to a particularly good regular show.)
Not sure what point I’m making, other than “DRAMA RADIO GOOD! MONGO LIKE!”
I awoke this morning gasping for air like a landed fish. It seems that my nose stuffed up during the night, and with the cpap on, that’s a bit of a problem. I think the shock of such a rude awakening is what dissolved much of my dream today. I can’t recall what it was last night, save that my sweetie was with me, and we were laughing about something. I just remember us getting a wicked case of the giggles…
Newt’s a big doofus today.. cuddle-biting, wrestling with my ankles… (they’re just begging to be bit apparently!) I don’t want to go to work! I just want to play at home with the cat. Can I validate taking a day off? hmmm…. nope, not really… got a fresh project coming online in a day or two. Maybe I’ll skip work tomorrow if I can get away with it.