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8368 – We both like the Recess Cartoon.


Nice phone time with MM. I’m looking increasingly forward to the top of July… it’ll be here before I know it! I hope Newtie’s on better behavior than he was with Kev. I may be heading to Dragon*Con at the top of September this year, too, if everything works out as well as I hope.


Bad Phone time with Bro. looking to mooch – asked about places to sell plasma.. I don’t sell it, I donate it. wanted to drive me around for gas money… I told him it’d cost him more in gas to drive his truck up here. He needs to just get the heck out of Hollywood.. every time he goes there, he goes back into his old patterns.


via pilarcruz

Leave your name and:
1. I’ll respond with something random about you
2. I’ll challenge you to try something
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours

Okay, 8 is totally optional.


Added Bonus, Sedef will be in town in September, and hopefully the Weezle, too!!


Glad I waited on watching last week’s Dr Who with this week’s…. a two parter. Quite well done, too. Hooray for Zeppelins, Parallel Earths and Cybermen! (The Term “Maximum deletion” is rather silly, though.)


I’m going to give Tarpo’s scavenger hunt a try next weekend. (I’d prefer to be going to Balticon, but that doesn’t look likely, with work and such… My boy EN is off to Idahos, so I’ve got to snag his shifts if I can’t fob them off on anyone else.)


Moment of Lyric – mp3

Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina,
She’s a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize,
She’ll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry Uncle,
From the Red Sea to Greenland they’ll be singing the blues,
Well they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe,
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
Well she’ll ransack Pakistan and run a scam in Scandinavia,
Then she’ll stick ’em up Down Under and go pick-pocket Perth,
She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Oh tell me where in the world is… Oh tell me where can she be?
Ooh, Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam,
Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu…!
Well she glides around the globe and she’ll flimflam every nation,
She’s a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery,
Her itinerary’s loaded up with moving violations,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?


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Ah, my idea for a coffee bomb has been reproduced in nature. Those Wolfgang Puck self-heating lattes are being recalled. Sometimes they catch fire, explode, and/or dump the heating chemicals into the coffee itself. It seems one can in five is bad.

More info

8333 – Only 1777 more posts until I hit 10000!

Upon yesterday’s weighing, I’ve gained all the weight I lost on WW point plan back. no good. I’ve been eating poorly since October, and it was building up for a while before then. Time to go back to the plan, account for everything, and lose it again. This time, no going off plan.

Starting Today, I’m back to using the palmtop to monitor everything. This time, no sloughing off once the holidays roll by… Rather pesky that I’m starting from Square one again, but at least I know of a system that works for me.


catagoriz – a nice guide to web 2.0 apps.

I’m especially digging Alkemis.


Meanface is an ongoing experiment in which you draw and submit a face. Each face submitted counts towards the ever-evolving meanface.


Bro called again (at 11:30pm), to do an arrest lookup for him. Some guy on coke charges – looked rough in the mug shot. Bro first told me it was some girlfriend’s dad, but then I saw the guy was born in ’65. I asked how old his GF was, and he said 28… caught him in a lie there. He changed his story afterward – Next call I get from him after 10, I’m just going ot ask him to call me during more civil hours.


Stupid Math tricks

Can you count in ding-bong? Here’s how:

1 one

2 two

3 three

4 four

5 ding

6 six

7 bong

8 eight

9 nine

10 ding-ding

11 eleven

12 ding-bong

13 thirteen

14 bong-bong

15 ding-ding-ding

16 sixteen

17 ding-ding-bong

18 eighteen

19 ding-bong-bong

20 d-d-d-d

21 b-b-b

22 d-d-d-b

23 twenty-three

24 d-d-b-b

25 d-d-d-d-d

26 db-b-b

27 d-d-d-d-b

28 b-b-b-b

29 d-d-d-b-b

30 d-d-d-d-d-d

From number 24 and over, all numbers
are combinations of
dings and/or bongs.

Tales to Astonish! (the streaming radio alone is worth the price of admission.)


Bro called Sunday night too, by the way – claimed he was in Miami, but on researching his phone number, it originated out of Hollywood. it may just be his local phone, payable by the minute.. I’ll hope for the best with him.


1 year 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

2 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes

3 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues

4 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving

5 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUPGeotarget

8171 – Scotto hears a Who!

I saw an owl on the school fence, walking home from the bus stop last night. It was super cute… a tiny thing, maybe the size of a can of soda-pop… I was a little shocked, because I think of Owls as big birds of prey The bird looked like a brown and white feathered capsule, with huge yellow eyes and long skinny legs. I stopped in my tracks and admired it for a moment and then went to take a picture. It took off before I could snag him, but I found a very close approximation… it was a burrowing owl! (The mascot of my old university) Apparently they don’t get very large, so I doubt what I saw was a baby though it looked babyish to me at the time.

burrow owl

He flew off into this tree, outside of my view. The creepy yellow light looked nifty and I had the palmtop out, so I took a picture.

owl-tree

It’s odd… I think of owls as these huge predators, but this guy would’ve had trouble with a rat, I think. Maybe an anole or a mouse is more his speed. I’ll be coming back to see if I can spot him again. I really love living close to this sort of wildlife.


That Space piggy picture got well over 3500 hits over the course of 12 hours yesterday…that’s more hits than my coverage of the hurricane back in October, and I thought that was nuts. I wonder if someone else linked to it, because only a couple of dozen bounced through my journal-site to that page.


Made plans to go see Wicked with Danny some time in the weeks ahead. I’m looking quite forward to it, though I wonder how much he’ll like it. It was his idea, so groovy. Yikes.. I wonder how much he’ll balk when he finds out they’re between $109 and $225 per seat? I suspect I might be flying solo. A bit more expensive than the $5 seats for Arsenic and Old Lace at his school.


Pretty Keen – estimate to price of any address.


Floating wind turbines

The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is an innovative lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at a lower cost than all competing systems.

magenn wind turbine

The magenn flying wind turbine is held up by helium generating 4Kw,enough to power your needs. It costs around $10,000, but it could pay for itself in about 6 years depending on how you use it. It’s anchored by a tether that can extend up to 1,000 feet above ground. Generally, 400 feet is enough to catch the minimum 3 meters/sec wind speed needed to sustain a nice supply of electricity. No towers or heavy foundations are necessary and sizes range from small “backpack” models to large megawatt generating devices.


Moment of lyric (take your pick – mov, or youtube)