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9367 – Tuesday – Date night!
Let’s reuse a graphic I’ve already posted this week!
Taking my pumpkin to a 3-d movie. (BHK’s nickname is pumpkin, amongst others. Sorry, GP.)
Journey to the Center of the Earth We’re hustling to see it… we’re fearful it’s going to leave the theater before we can catch it…We loves us some 3-d movies. Review later.. we won’t be disappointed.. it can be Dr. Tongue’s 3-d house of pancakes… if it’s in 3-d, we’re all for it.
Speaking of which – The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the folks behind such innovations as the color bar test pattern, want to codify a standard for watching 3-D content in home theaters. They’re casting the net wide to include all possible sources and displays, from over-the-air broadcast to DVDs and Blu-ray. Ars points out that Hollywood is both excited to sell you their movies again, this time in glorious 3-D, and worried about potential lost revenues at 3-D theater screenings of, say, George Lucas’s 3-D Star Wars remake. via Ars Technica
[edit] Back from the movie, and we had a lovely time. The kids in the audience enjoyed it, the giggles and screams and the “pop-up” parts added to the overall appeal. It was a lot of fun, and I wouldn’t call it a stinker at all, contrary to popular opinion. BHK feels that it’s her fave movie of the year, thus far. I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I liked it, too. Fave bits fpr me included pseudo-snakehead fish and aquatic dinosaurs, and lots of gratuitious “look! 3-d, in your face” bits.
Now, it’s off to Red Robin for supper, and then toddle on home!
A factoid I just came across: If not for the Beatles, we wouldn’t have CT scans, aka CAT scans, the advanced medical scanning technology.
1 year ago – Potterdämmerung, Jaspers with Cyn, terrible slang, honeymoon photos, Apocalypto, superdupergames, upcoming games
2 years ago – postcard, tiny Tarzan, MW network, golden age red tornado, Stevie wonder sesame street , comic book eras
3 years ago – Books added to palm, Australian link, Bus station security, Apollo Mission, HTML cleaner, Google lj friend map, geek quiz, looking forward, Friday fine
4 years ago – Mango, Spyware, Pi Approximation, Look out, Ghost tour
5 years ago – Sam Jack, Ghosts, MRI, filters
6 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity
7 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies,sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy
8 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ
9326 – thursday
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Joss – maybe I can take BHK on a little date there to celebrate the felling of the trees this weekend. Barring that, maybe the trolley will happen. I’m not sure why I’m so gung-ho about riding it.
BHK made fajitas tonight – tasty and super healthy!
via tiffany bridge –
The Smithsonian has joined The Commons on Flickr, which started as a pilot between the Library of Congress and Flickr to increase access to publicly-held photo collections and allow the public to contribute knowledge and information (such as tags) to those collections.
The Smithsonian’s photostream contains some fantastic gems, including portraits of scientists, cyanotypes cataloging the Smithsonian’s other collections, and cool photos from past Folklife festivals.
the ethics of stealing Wi-Fi. Many of us been guilty of the same crime at one point or another — according to the article, 53% of us at least. But how guilty do we really feel? As it is officially a crime to steal wi-fi (Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who ‘intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access’).
When two plastics (polymers TTF and TCNQ) are placed atop one another, a thin strip forms that conducts electricity “as well as a metal”.
The TTF-TCNQ interface conducts electricity much better than standard semiconductors. “The electron concentration there is an order of magnitude higher,” Mannhart says. “That has the power to create new effects, from magnetism to superconductivity.”
1 year ago – pogontrophy, shoes, agnostic’s prayer, work- day 2, outside pics2 years ago – bdays!, doing ok about dad, weaver dies, choco-dice, walking on air, monday meetings
3 years ago – pictures(motorcycle and newt), tut, lj interests, jbee b-day, gp dream, severe thunder, ft laud evacuation info for hurricanes, UFO tv losses
4 years ago – palm vnc, Newt Chroma key, paypal spoof warning
5 years ago – doctor’s appointment, time-traveler micronaut, lizard!, clear sky clock, baby dolphin beached
6 years ago – packing, location thoughts, bicycle, brushing newt-teeth
7 years ago – evil news, Jb’s bday, gadabout, lj-topology, time for timer, crown of crap, sambo’s
8 years ago – roadwork
9324 – Wednesday
Watched the quiz boy episode of Venture brothers last night… mostly character filler and “spot the reference”. This season hasn’t been as good as last, so far – I hope it catches speed soon. Speaking of TV – I haven’t viewed middleman yet, but I keep hearing good things. It should be on our tivo – need to check and see if it was snagged.
I’ve been at my gig for a year today – hard to believe. In some ways it seems like I’ve been there a lot longer… in others, only a few months.
Looks like DV has moved on from my old gig as head of MIS at ACIM … and Tiff is gone, too. They just can’t hang on to folks there. I noticed that Obama earmarked $300k from his state to support the ACIM service – I wonder how much of that actually went to help Illinois?
Nice light dinner of sammiches over some silly reality TV. BHK was disappointed when the guy on Farmer takes a wife snuffed out the one she (and I) thought would take it. I still think the whole thing is more scripted than ugly betty, but I’m a reality show cynic.
Why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police – per a law professor and a policeman. (5th amendment – youtube)
newton and pye sleepin!
a year ago, they’d never have slept this close together.
Being woken in the dead of night by noisy neighbors blasting out music could soon be a thing of the past. Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an “acoustic cloak”, which could make objects impervious to sound waves.
1 year ago – father’s day stuff, der singleringen!, first day at IANA, (office and server room views via cameraphone), lightning bug hitches a ride
2 years ago – Newt grumps at tina, tiki idea, mango fest, Danny movies, flash pages bad, miami pic, baby gorilla news
3 years ago – hobo sign icons, Goodyear blimp crash, pictures, Guide to Hobo / ’30s slang
4 years ago – slow email, drunken sailor song, testing remote palm broadcast, running away, nice letter of thanks
5 years ago – creaky knee, infrared zoo (Graypumpkin’s first visit?), remote cpu destruction of file-sharers, tiny robots, ghetto fries
6 years ago – tiling my old place, chocolate doughnuts, happy pill, instinct of awareness, how to make a smoke bomb
7 years ago – Evil News, blimpies heroin story, poop-poll
8 years ago – nuffin
9314 – Wednesday
Todays entry, via wordle – 
Getting quite a bit better – still have a rattle in my chest and more coughing but the muscle aches and weakness is mostly gone. I’d say I’m currently firing on five out of eight cylinders.
A/c is now fully charged again – the repairman said that we’d be really baking without any refrigerant by Friday night. I’m glad BHK was there to explain what had been going on to him.
Tried calling my brother today – his voicemail is full. I haven’t heard from him since he was last bailed out. His hearing for the latest is in a week – I see in the public records that something was dismissed based on “Lack of Prosecution”. Not sure if it’s the same item, though. I need to research Thomas A Reynolds, it seems. Looks like his thing is real estate – probably an eviction notice long since passed.
BHK made ratatouille for dinner tonight, and the stars aligned for the movie to be playing on TV while we ate. Larry stuck with some pasta and sauce… BHK gave him some bake and eat tempura shrimp, too… He doesn’t know what he missed… zucchini, eggplant, tomato sauce, some olive oil in there… it was really good stuff.
Horror vacui:
Horror vacui is the filling of the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines and anything else the artist might envision. It may be considered the opposite of minimalism.
I love that I can still learn new words and phrases every day.
via dnw – Scientists discover how optical illusions work. All of them.
The short version: It takes a tenth of a second for images to get from your retina to the processing centres of your brain. People have known this for decades, but we still see things in real time.
The new theory says that what we’re seeing isn’t what’s there, it’s what our brain projects will be there in a tenth of a second – our brain is processing predicatively, showing us it’s best guess for the future. And that’s why optical illusions can fool it, by confusing it into predicting a future that then doesn’t happen.
1 year ago – many pictures from the garden, my dapper hat, evil jesus fish, thaumaturgic border protection,
2 years ago – monkey chow diaries, idea on how to make the world a better place – implemented tip jar for feeding the hungry, people want what they can’t have, many quizzies,code monkey, podcaster legal guide, sympathy for the devil covers
3 years ago – On Call, Rainy, mouse ni the house, drop foot, audio books, santana, house info
4 years ago – full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias
5 years ago – D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rental warnings – things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there -quest
6 years ago – MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia’s angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what’s better
7 years ago – evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku,got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist’s sexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll
8 years ago – Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it’s over with April
9302 – Monday
BHK and I may go see The Fall tonight… I also I really want to see Son of Rambow before it leaves the theaters, too. We’ll see how we feel after dinner.
So.. it’s June already! Second day and so far, so good. Maybe we’ll buy a bicycle today!
Walrus man sent me this, to add to the coloring book community
awesome.
via robin laws –
A bachelor in the Japanese town of Kasuya, concerned that he was the victim of serial burglary, installed security cameras in his home. Instead he discovered that a woman had been living on the top shelf of his closet for over a year.
An enormous Antarctic iceberg will be known as “Melting Bob” after being named by a Hampshire schoolboy.
From ABC News:
A University of Melbourne team has broken new ground, extracting genes from the extinct tasmanian tiger and bringing them back to life in another living creature.
The team put the thylacine DNA into a mouse embryo in what the university’s Dr Andrew Pask says is the first time DNA from an extinct species has been used “to induce a functional response in another living organism.”
The thylacine DNA reproduced in the mouse’s body and showed biological function, reviving hopes that the tiger may one day be successfully cloned.
1 year ago – I first see psycho rodent, books, Fahrenheit 451 misinterpreted, google gears sql, docmorph, network security tools, readymechs paper toys
2 years ago – mom and wilton project, a year without cable tv, o fortuna, castles, mr rogers rocks, friday 5, susp
3 years ago – June 3 is Free doughnut day, fog of war, one word movie (still fun!), blood, mp, I read to newt, bro telemarketing, book review, sloth defeats gluttony, killed comcast!, poor at philosophy, solar powered recharge backpack, deepest sender works, newt pic
4 years ago – pikachu combat icon, Weather, transit of Venus, GP call, Cult TV, tree, journal remix
5 years ago – First use of Thing as Blackbeard, Character Studio, My first hint of Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, bro gets a new phone after a bike crash, photo-Friday “transportation”
6 years ago – Apartment Shopping, world’s smallest website, markers defeatcdprotection, sum of all fears, coming home fumigation, smile creators
7 years ago – SWAT Team visits my apartment, prompting me to move. (No-nose flips out, cam pictures, too)
8 years ago – newt recovers from Fritz’s Parasite, and I discover Imood.com
9272 – Thursday-
BHK made a fantastic and healthy supper of bean/spinach salad and spicy stir-fry tofu “beef” and broccoli. Delicious and nicely filling.
Chris and Larry are heading out of town this weekend… and they’re taking Tigger with ’em. No real Mother’s Day things happening this weekend after all – maybe a nice day of painting some pottery, instead?
The latest and greatest version of VZ Navigator (4.0), which tosses in traffic avoidance for 75 cities, along with 3D view plus some other nifty stuff is live right now. (Includes Baltimore and Washington dc!)
I’m looking forward to seeing how solid it is!
I’m still on the phrase “STEAMED CATFISH IN BANANA LEAVES!”
Sorry.
More info on ITALIAN SPIDER-MAN.
Not Sorry.
I’m alternately happy and sad that LJ has finally disabled this stalker feature – Users will only view the number of entries they are allowed to read in calendar views. (Source)
Volcanoes spewing lightning? Wizard war, more like.
Speaking of same… I forget if I’ve mentioned it or not, but save for a little too much fanboy junk, I pretty much dig the Dresden files books… but I can’t seem to get into Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera “Horse and Swords” fantasy stuff.
1 year ago – saltine bandit, rockin’ sleestaks
2 years ago – mongolia head, sleep, black hat, hurricane info, battle of the beasts
3 years ago – Mother’s Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics – graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler’s ghost
4 years ago – Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic
5 years ago – PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)
6 years ago – Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI
7 years ago – weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd poll
9264 – Friday
Gentle evening last night – watched 27 dresses with BHK and Chris over supper – gigantic bean salad, with left over zucchini and Thai curry soup. Delicious.
The movie wasn’t bad as far as chick flicks go… The most curious thing to me was that there were no minorities, elderly or babies in the film of note. With the exception of the Girl’s dad, everyone was a white 20-something…and I think of New York being pretty diverse.
I’m going to go from full beard back down to goatee… it’s getting warmer now. Monday will be a fresh week!
Not sure if I like the new icon… I may look a bit too serious here. I wonder how much the tone of my journal has changed?
Has technology made us ruder? Put your stupid phone down for one second and read this to see.
I likely have at *least* twice the mass of most other bodies.
The formula for force: force = mass x acceleration
The formula for momentum: momentum = mass x velocity
The formula for impulse: average force x time
I suspect that I have only about 1/2 the acceleration though, so it likely balances out, force-wise.
1 year ago – freeciv / freecol, lj posts turned to audio posts, annmarie garden
2 years ago – 8333, palm diet, catagoriz, meanface, bro drama, stupid math tricks, tales to astonish
3 years ago – Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme
4 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes
5 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues
6 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving
7 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUP
9201 – thursday
Happy first day of Spring!!
Egg-dying went well… the white spots denote 4 eggs that cracked, and the ones TM took home for herself and MO. Adam took one – he’ll be giving it to a girl at school – and he certainly enjoyed the fajitas that BHK made. Larry and Chris (and mostly Adam and Tina, too) spent the bulk of the visit glued to the tube while BHK and I did the majority of coloring. My faves are the family eggs (there’s a Scotto, BHK, Pye and Newt in the mix) as well as a couple of oddballs – speckeld ones and hot pink / green… both of which are more vibrant than this photo shows. more in depth pictures later, possibly.
GP‘s got me interested in Encounter Critical. It’s by S. John Ross, an added bonus (I dig the mechanics of Risus, though I’ve never played it.)
twitterwise, I’m on the Orange Team. icons when in civilian duds, and on team business.
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How could I choose another color?
I really want the cell phone legislation banning use of a handset while driving in Maryland to pass. The beltway is rough enough without people crimping necks and not looking at the road. Whatever happened to the idea of pulling over to talk?
I’d love to see some sort of magic technology that blocks non-emergency cell phone use in the driver’s side of a car while the wheels are moving.
Same goes for the front-seat DVD players, and audio systems that go louder than a range of safely hearing what’s going on outside of the vehicle, as far as I’m concerned. Color me a fascist, but I don’t need anyone being more distracted than they already are… If I could find a way to implement a breathalyser / urine tester for safe driving, I’d probably do that, too. And bumper-transponders that forbid tailgating based on the speed of the vehicles in question.
Heck, just use my magical wishing ring to stop all accidents – one of my characters, miniMAX first developed his size-changing abilities by trying to develop desolidity tech for vehicles… they never crash into one another!
After all those years, I still want a hyper-intelligent 4-inch tall talking ape to be my lab partner in fighting crime and solving the world’s ills… or clean, safe teleportation technology. Or a magic wishing ring that can put people in protective bubbles, and heal them when they’re hurt.
Thoughts about this is coming from the fact that I’m having trouble feeling a lot of sympathy for TM’s uncle…. he apparently tried to kill himself by driving his car into oncoming traffic. Seriously… I understand being in pain and lashing out, but there are *PEOPLE* driving and acting as passengers in the other cars! If you want to off yourself, I have no problem with that… but leave everyone else out of it.
I feel bad for TM, though – she’s been dealing with his nonsense for a long time, and right before this happened, she blew him off via the phone, and her other family did the same. I don’t know all the details, but I hope that once he’s out of the hospital he gets worthwhile treatment, and a maximum sentence for attempted suicide / attempted vehicular homicide / assault with a deadly weapon(car). I know his head is full of bad wiring, but I’m finding it very hard to forgive his behavior, no matter how sick he is. I just have to understand that he’s not in his right mind, and hope that he is removed from driving and doing anything that can hurt anyone else until he is sufficiently repaired.
50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 38. I…
38. ‘have written 9200 journal entries prior to this one, the vast majority of them posted publicly to the world. Some entries are only a line or two long, others are entire short stories, continued across a few posts, because each entry only holds a maximum of 65,535 bytes. (That’s about 16,000 4-letter words.) The journal will be 8 years old in just under two months.
39.’has owned scottobear.com since 1998… that was 10 years ago, March 12. It will need to be renewed again before March 11, 2013. I’ve got some time to scrape up the money to do so… it’s pretty dang cheap. My website’s look has changed a few times over the years, as has the content under the hood… it is quite due for a fresh coat of paint, and a revisit to the links contained inside. I started my first website with ol’ geocities in 94-ish, back when it was free, and before it was owned by yahoo. that arcane url is lost to me, maybe forever? Who knows if I can dig it up form the web sometime? either way, it was migrated to scottobear.com about 4 years later, and has remained there ever since.
From assorted sources (vchip, mgk, time) – a photo series of rival Kenyan tribes fighting for land with bows and arrows.
Look closely. This is Kenya, specifically a hill overlooking the Olmelil Valley, where Maasai warriors are clashing with members of the Kalenjin tribe on a regular basis. The tribal violence is a depressing comment on a country that only a year ago was promoted as a stable democracy in volatile West Africa. TIME has an interesting photo journal of the battles.
“We were using swords but they were not effective,” says Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. “In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows],” he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow factories, but police forces do not.
“Victims with arrows, sometimes poisoned, lodged in their heads and chests have become increasingly common“, say officials in Rift Valley hospitals.
“We cannot know the time of day when they (Kalenjins) will come. If they catch you off guard, you’re dead,” says Samuel, 25, holding a bundle of ready arrows.
Kalenjin elders train their boys how to use bows and arrows from an early age, the Kikuyu men say. But Kikuyus have had to learn quickly to fight back with the same tools. Several secret workshops employing 50 workers churn out bows and arrows for munition. “We have no other choice for now,” he says.
1 year ago – first full day at the calvert gig, bhk and I go shopping for work clothes, grownup table talk, spam attractive entry
2 years ago – rebis picture, deaf language, chacarron, math, phallic removal, open source, fake cigs as meds, prisoner comic book
3 years ago – Brady Kids welcome the equinox, shamrock shake, cosmic truth, mp3s,experimental gameplay, get your tasty hot sweet potatoes in Japanese,teen kidnappers, good advice, invisible mermaid airfare
4 years ago – openoffice, Visited w Dan, open door poll, people of worth
5 years ago – Al gore, Blue’s clues, Cranky Finn
6 years ago – Spring!, Socks, overturned issues, Linda let go from FMM, LJ directory, cool picture link
7 years ago – walkies, 2 chris-sites, both have long since been left dormant, lj broken
9074 – Thursday
Chinese food tonight! Yum, and Hooray!
BHK and David went to the thrift store today – brought home some treasures :
She got me a comic book of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham‘s first appearance in Marvel Tales (Tails). I actually dug Steve Mellor’s art in Goose Rider and the cover even more than the main story.
A black embroidered shirt, and a yellow sweatshirt, both in excellent condition.
Also picked up a pretty broad assortment of books – to be cataloged later.
Also, squid shake.
Cancel that.
After Din-din, we jammed a bit – David on acoustic guitar, Larry on mandolin, and me on the bass. It was fun, but I was full of food and very sleepy, so we cut it pretty short.
The DORmino concept uses an oversized mousepad to soak up the bleedout warmth of a laptop, which embedded electronics convert and transmit to power a wireless mouse. No need to recharge, no dead batteries to pollute the environment.
I need something like that to charge my electronics, based on the warmth I throw off… If I can knock out a baby or a small animal with my temperature, surely the therms could keep my blackberry and digicam juiced up for when I want to use em! How handy would that be for other stuff… a trickle charger in the sofa to keep the remote powered!
I’m just saying.
Looks like the one over-enthusiastic and socially frustrated gamer-type on the icehouse mail list is taking an indefinite leave of absence. I wonder what it’ll be like with a better signal-to-noise ratio ? Half the reason I lost interest in pyramid games and participation on the list was due to that guy… maybe the group will get back into friendly design mode rather than debates about wiki formatting and award shows.
Note to self – make a ghost statue.
Pretty keen – Microwave glucose sensor.
For diabetics, the daily routine of pricking their finger to check blood-sugar levels can be an annoying and inconvenient task. But now, a Baylor University researcher has developed an electromagnetic sensor that could provide diabetics a noninvasive alternative to reading their blood glucose levels, and new research shows the sensor works and is effective.
Today’s search engine hits of my journal – someone really wants to see bunnies melt!
| melting bunny |
| chocolate haas |
| melting bunnies |
| melting rabbit |
| armored polar bear |
| melting chocolate pictures |
| quiz meme |
| calvert county and motorcycle shop train |
| louis octopus potato head |
| armored polar bears |
| mistletoe dung on a twig |
| bubbles3563 |
| compliments for a lady |
| scotto grotto |
| chocolate hass |
| weather on February 28, 2008, washington |
| sunday souse scotto |
| sander plug |
| “pomonkey indians” |
| melting chocolate bunny |
| sweeney todd hoody |
| melting chocolate photos |
| pictures of melting chocolate |
| pomonkey indians |
| melting chocolate rabbit |
| haas melt |
| two such as you with such a master speed |
| cbsrmt |
| fluffy cat |
| where will spy satellite passably come d |
| cathy s scotto |
| black fluffy cat |
| stephen jacoby |
| larry newton |
| crabs for christmas mp3 |
| “dicecapades” |
| armored bear |
| pyewacket |
| grotto in maryland pictures |
| lj scotto |
| melting bunnys |
| octopus+mr.potato head+video |
| chocolate rabbit melt video |
| potato head birthday cake |
| prank bots |
| xenobiology pictures |
| bird dung good luck |
| aardvark videos calvert county |
| joe carnival shoes |
| pictures of chocolate melt |
and on my website as a whole –
| hero machine |
| melons |
| freaky |
| heromachine |
| mothra |
| newtcam |
| freaky pictures |
| boners |
| shrieker |
| listerine |
| scotto |
| death note oekaki |
| humility |
| jetpacks |
| scottobear.com/toybox/hmach10/heromachine.html |
| yoruichi |
| bleach yoruichi |
| cracks.me ataxx |
| disco gif |
| freaky%20pics |
1 year ago – email responses still slow, thrift store near andrews, county called for an interview, how I will die
2 years ago – shout run, booze song, ms ipod packaging, 60’s wonder woman tv show, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos, googler hacks, bible promotes cooking with poop, ADS weapon
3 years ago – sleepy, bye-bye feb, bok sanctuary, renfaeries, almost saw PM, lightning bolt!, oscars, klaxon, WWII tech, leaper, writing on the run, gorilla nip lawsuit, john irving, NA birds, george wendt decapitated, Hally razzie, FUD-o-pedia, kerby fanmail
4 years ago – Superhero dreams, chant poll
Leap Year, 2004 – art, buttons, beach erosion, dreams, and bro update
5 years ago – Dexter-doggie, filtered legal question, Stressy-day
6 years ago – Clucky-newt, Zorkbot, water-cooled notebooks, Dooce fired over her journal, 3d html, wcag in haiku
7 years ago – news links, monkey robbers, gallery of huge beings, Vehicle mounted active denial system, Invictus, Ozymandias
9062 – sunday
spent the bulk of the day indoors with tv and the kitties – bhk a little sick, my back was creaky. Nice day to stay in, relax, and not wear shoes all day.
Watched The Soup, Redneck weddings and read books the whole day away. A nice way to recharge after yesterday’s long-term walkies.
Tree-trimmer guys came back and hammered down the bridge part they knocked over – and finished trimming and proper cleanup.
Jumper‘s getting quite the stinky reviews. Maybe we’ll just wait and catch it on Netflix when it drops to DVD… next weekend. 15%… by comparison, Hottie & the nottie got 7%. if it’s only barely twice as good as a Paris Hilton vehicle, I’ll pass. Jumper got 15 positive reviews and 88 negatives as of this writing.
I’m still game to see No Country for Old Men. – 94%, 179 positive, 11 negative reviews.
The Pentagon will try to shoot down a spy satellite before it crashes to Earth. I want to see the video of that.
Princeton engineers’ weather modeling suggests that the city of Baltimore experienced about 30 percent more rainfall than the region it occupies would have experienced had there been no buildings where the city now sits. While thunderstorms are thought of as being purely forces of nature, the research suggests that man’s built environment can radically alter a storm’s life cycle.
1up has a list of what game companies have donated to which candidates – sort of interesting to see which designers / folks went where.
data gathered via fundrace – a really nifty tool to see what’s up – my zip code shows $840 dollars went to Republicans, and $0 to Democrats, while my in-laws city (right next door) donated $3,426 to Republicans and $1,800 to Democrats
Austin, TX is a little more happy to spend on both sides… it is a bigger city… I was surprised that it spent just a little bit less than Miami.
1 year ago – Sleepover with Amy & Tina, Jackass 2, annapolis pix, ducks, dogma, and Alex Haley.
2 years ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter
3 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog
4 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris
5 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk
6 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it
7 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooter
9045 – Thursday
Feeling better, but not at 100% Maybe 60%…. Better than the 15% yesterday. – went back to work, mainly because I had far too many meetings I couldn’t afford to miss. Accursed Bronchial tubes!
Physically achy from the coughing, but otherwise doing ok. Got a nosebleed right before my 10am teleconference… that was a hoot.
Later tonight, after dinner, I got to replicate my hulk icon from yesterday… so… there we are. *Blarf*
Heading to bed at 9:30 tonight good rest will mend me up. Poor BHK is coming down with it, too.
This afternoon, I thought to myself … “Wow… Aimee Mann sounds a bit like the chick from ‘Til Tuesday“… then I found out that she *IS* the chick from ‘Til Tuesday.
Duh.
“This week a sub-$100,000 rocket belt was unveiled and will be on sale this summer, but that’s the sad thing: it’s still not a real jet pack. Here’s a fascinating inside look at the human-flight industry, full of law-suit scandals, technical difficulties, fuel-economy woes and endless delays. The good news? It all points to the next generation of rocketeer research, with real applications for medical rescue and military technology actually coming on the horizon. From the article: ‘With a little patience, and a little funding, we could actually have the pleasure of grumbling over regulatory issues we never dreamed possible. Like being limited to specific kinds of air strips, because the jet strapped to your back is classified by the FAA as an ultralight. Or being required to wear a ballistic parachute, because Amarena’s Thunderjet design could reach altitudes as high as 10,000 feet (and, for the record, speeds of up to 160 mph, provided someone can solve wind-resistance issues).'” – via /.
Favorite joke of the moment –
1 year ago – swim meet, sci-fi writer meme, dead valentiner link, misc sentence finish meme,
2 years ago – G0DLAND, Tchuby Tchuba, Bangles, Angel Eyes Newt, Unicorns LA, Bullfight Just Desserts, Ham the chimp / space monkeys
3 years ago – Newt and I relaxing pics, Scotto playlist, Lazytown, bro issues, how they did singin’ in the rain remix
4 years ago – DVD burning, RenFairies, Prez-match, pop-up books, first touch of firefly (I still think Zoe is an overused name)
5 years ago – New moon, new year coming, Charles Dickens joke, skull sales, Job at FMM ends, Bday prezzies
6 years ago – Fiscal responsibility, Ghetto voices, online “privacy”, Marine Park is a bad and disreputable online store, newt lovies
7 years ago – being mushy, schedule issues, The Invisible Men, flax seed
8979 – tues
Poor BHK is feeling a little under the weather, and my headache is fading from the stabbing noggin-ache to a dull oceanic roar in my skull.
Tonight we had veggie-loaf with corn on the cob, potatoes and the last of our garden’s zucchini. Hopefully we’ll get to planting another batch for an autumnal harvest. The in-laws were over to watch the tennis semi-finals, but I wasn’t really into it… so I thumbed through the books BHK grabbed for me at the library.
The World Without Us is pretty neat. (I was first nudged there about this time )
From the Inside Flap
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.
The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York’s subways would start eroding the city’s foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists—who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths—Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.
From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth’s tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman’s narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn’t depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.
via the Science blog & springheeljack –
If you eat the right grains for breakfast, such as whole-grain barley or rye, the regulation of your blood sugar is facilitated after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was previously not known that certain whole-grain products have this effect all day. This is due to a combination of low GI (glycemic index) and certain type of indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products. The findings are presented in a dissertation from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. The dissertation shows that even people who have had a breakfast low in GI find it easier to concentrate for the rest of the morning.
1 year ago – flickr maps, out with TW and saw Pirates, no putt-putt, Rope swing for Danny, It must be love, words that make me laugh, cherry-chocolate milkshake
2 years ago – Katrina new orleans satmaps, on call again, cookies for genetic goodies, big rock candy mountain, elephant prosthesis
3 years ago – More Frances, Dan Snores, Newt Pics, observations.
4 years ago – neurologist, giant lizard in Beirut, grizzlies, Y-chromosome vanishing, work drama, Cathi’s dad gets’ trach, Egyptology, Ft. Laud ghosts, Scientology
5 years ago – freaky temple, edbook’s llamas, Bush behaves a bit, bad dream, Friendly street light.
6 years ago – contretemps , liverish, Rhinestone Cowboy, social lubrication, spiritual/paranormal/xenobiological poll (fascinating results), stopping b/w theft, Anne Heche a loony
7 years ago – No Norton, Supers Gaming, interests, met twinstar & estokes
8849 – Voice Post
Not too bad! It missed popcorn, chupacabra, and the yeti, but did admirably well on proper nouns, locations and such.
8393 – Cue the organ music, another week has begun.
Mon-*DUN DUN DUNNNNN*-day. Another morning meeting o’doom, and then I contend with Semi-annual and quarterly statistics for funding. Tedious, but the bean counters will leave me alone while I assemble the stats.
Moment of Lyric – (link to copy, right?’s page hosting it)
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, “Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you”
The Secretary of Defense is giving President Bush his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”