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9393 – Sunday –

August 10, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Had the blues, went for a walk on the boardwalk, took some pictures of flowers and crabbers,napped, watched some tube, had veggie cheeseburgers and salad with chocolate mousse for dessert! yum. Grocery shopping, watched dr who, and first ep of primeval…I liked the end of the dr who 2-parter (He’s a professor at a school in 1913, and is in deep cover…unknown even to himself.)… but the punishments went by pretty swiftly.

some pictures from our walk –

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More here – bhk took the excellent flower photos – I did more of the crab boat stuff. I think BHK looks especially beutiful in that middle bottom pic, though I’d had a rough morning.

My blues have mostly faded now… I’m a bit exhausted but doing ok.

meme swiped from eryx_uk

01. How has LJ changed your life?
Got me married to the wonderful and love of my life BHK and introduced to friends both new and thought to be long lost.

02. What do you do before bedtime?
watch some tube, play a board game or read

03. What are you going to have for dinner tonight?
We had burgers and salad! yum!

04. What is the ONE place you want to go before you die if you had the money and the time?
I’m pretty open to traveling and experiencing new things.. I have no one place I must see… but I want to see as much as I can!

05. What scares you?
The thought of hurting others, even accidentally.

06. What do you do in your free time?
Walkabout with BHK, playing games both digital and analog, relaxing

07. If you could speak another language (meaning one you currently don’t know), what would it be?
I’d love to be fluent in German, so I could talk more effectively to relatives overseas.

08. What personal belonging do you have with you everywhere you go?
I take a lot of stuff with me, but the most personal is either a gold $1 coin or the pressed penny.

09. What was your favorite song or musical group when you were young?
Definitely a Beatles kid, but if young counts as high school (sophomore – 1985) than I’d lean to They Might Be Giants or Maybe the Talking Heads.

10. Are you a risk taker?
Depends on the risk. I won’t bet my life on things, but I’ll venture a gamble here and there. Not generally.

11. Is being tagged fun?
It depends on the tagger, and expectations thereof. It can be!

12. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Nearly 50. Hopefully still surrounded by loving family, and perhaps more friends that are local.

13. If you could be anyone for one day, who would you be?
I’d like to try being who I am based on what other people think I might be for a day. Depending on who is looking at me… big, sweet guy? evil thug?

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
No one tagged me. I nabbed the meme myself. Eryx is a nice guy and I’d like to meet him in person someday.

15. Would you rather be single & rich or married but poor?
As long as I’m married to BHK, I prefer married.

16. How many children do you want to have, if any?
I have no idea.

17. Is reality objective or subjective?
Objective, but some may *think* it’s subjective.

18. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
What does that even mean? The one on the left? The one I’d be more likely to get along with in the long run? Heck if I know.

19. Would you have 100% safe sex with a stranger for $10,000,000?
Not likely. That’s too weird a scenario for me to buy into. Besides, I’m married!

20. What is your favorite color?
Rust-orange at the moment.

1 year ago – voice posts of em, em & kitty pic, chuck e cheese

2 years ago – nifty clock, internal words, writing slowdown, eyes, mediocre bad guys, tv, milk pocky

3 years ago – Magda’s Bday, allergy shots, dreamt of killing my sister, PM memory, brown bag, meteor shower, bad breath detection, google homepage

4 years ago – construction, fay wray RIP, dan’s school blocks lj,alcohol, SPcharacter, aerial photos, UK Prozac pee taints water supply, LC’s scrapbook, CoH tempting battle cries, flower meme

5 years ago – Puzzle Pirates (with a cutie mermaid), Arabia-cam with Mom and Daughter(I met oneeyed and sedef as a result of sweet’s poochie’s booty-ticks.), vamp-game, Kings of Africa, lovely chat

6 years ago – man killed for playing the banjo, Trek happening a dud, but we discover heroclix, (already thinking customs), rorschach poll

7 years ago – 3 things poll, deracinate, cormorant, broken newt pic, 25 things to keep in mind, ja da, rate your risk (links now broken)

8 years ago – spent out, color quiz, looking forward to going to breakfast, Rowlf sings, Beaker sings

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9392- Saturday –

August 9, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Went to Aardvark and picked up Mosquito, Humans!!, and Toledo (BHK got comics – Archies 60’s and Archies 70s, to go with her 80’s book… and NYX.)

Mike kindly threw in a Zombie Fluxx flamethrower expansion pack… and we got a 1,2,5! card, too! I was surprised that we hadn’t gotten that promo in the mail from the Looney Labs directly yet.. I’m glad Aardvark is looking out for us! May hang out with Mike & Tara sometime – brought ’em veggies from the garden – pickle salad recipes.

Went to the other Mexico restaurant… *that’s* where the chef went! Food was great, and the decor was really sweet, too. It’s usually a 7-8 at the other place, it was maybe a 8-9 at this location – a little hard to find from the road… there’s another Mexican restaurant coming up on the corner – I fear that might mean trouble for Mexico’s Lusby site.

While we were there, we spotted a neat kit-tricycle vehicle – see photos below. click to embiggen.

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We got home, and crashed out.. both BHK and I have been really fatigued lately… summer heat? I’m sure I left something out – I’ll leave it to BHK to remind me.

Until Later, Dear journal.

Elephant painters!

A million decapitated Darth Vader heads, artistically decorated.

1 year ago – stinky on the bus doodle, meteors, metro bomb?, dresden canceled, SLorpedo, doodles, game design, newton leap pic

2 years ago – looking forward to Autumn, man who knew too much, pumpkins, que sera sera, florida health inspection resource

3 years ago – teacher memories, bro, shogun warriors (including great mazinga), 1970s Spanish Adult Movie Posters, Pic of Danny and I as heroclix fight an oncoming zombie and lobster-man menace.

4 years ago – Alabama, chatty-newt, spiky moods, war ellies, world audit, hijabs, olympic torrents, fake beheading.

5 years ago – vampire monkey dream, programming, puzzle pirates, nicotini, quizzes and kama sutra safe sex, blunt truth, mehndi designs

6 years ago – istockphoto, emergency day at work early-arrive (I wonder what’d happen if Sappho and Kev were out at the same time, now?), escape from alcatraz w/bro, misc meter quizzes, looking for cave/sea piccies

7 years ago – scud, agon, evil news, Wally out of the loop (he’s still awaiting trial for some of his crimes), Thai din din, colon contents, just finding out about bubba-Ho tep

8 years ago – geophagy

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9391 – Friday

August 8, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

08/08/08 08:08:08… PM

Nice day at work today – we took a field trip to the Port of Baltimore and a CSX location.

Some piccies – click to embiggen, as always, dear journal.

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Nifty container lifts, a burned out building that was used in Enemy of the State, and some giant bumpers.

Got home, and… had some dinner! BHK made an awesome dinner of pizza and salad yum-noms!

Additionally, the video card installed, quick as a wink, while the pizza was being put to the last heating phase.

The 8800 GT is at *least* 4x faster than my old ati x1600 , and I haven’t had any of the hot pixel problems so far now. The old ati x1600 still plays games pretty well. Maybe I’ll put it in my server just to have a backup game device.

“A lady noticed her computer was running slower after she had brought her computer in to be repaired. She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photos and uploading it to a website. The repair technician that installed the software has done this to at least 10 women and has photos of at least one undressing.”

1 year ago – waiting for 8/8/8, goads have lived in house next door for 23+ years, north beach, emily coming pic, HOT out, coward/cowherd origins, Oshi with icehouse

2 years ago – priceline beats expedia, register to vote, Chinese Ghost Festival, exfoliate/defoliate, hangin’ round the ceiling, walkabout/geocache plans

3 years ago – meetings, school restarts, club shuffle, thank you – sim-sim-salabim, danny the street, vidcam hacks, google total, unf. kids books, How bona to vada your eek!, teacher, miami storm pic

4 years ago – Bro health care, lj post issues, losing some gentleness, scotto-flaws& nice things, vintage newspaper strips, no jack black as GL, funw/google searches, older archives, deep sea images, phone safe,keylogger, slowed chipmunks, JL cartoon, character makeups, europreart

5 years ago – Teen Titans, Antidepressants, narghile, steve burns, ebonics, red kryptonite poll, bro health

6 years ago – ZIM!, fun fact, fumbuckery, added newt pic to bio, after he shocked me, site reboot that didn’t come to fruition

7 years ago – some thoughts about gamers/negative side, including a dragon-con flashback (that caused some upset in the role-players community), who in a crowd?, Upside-down, RPG poll, caterwaul, Name Generator, dinos in your region, Wally Caught stealing, begins the end of the WDB era at IMT.

8 years ago – grumpy, in general and regarding TV

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9389 – Thursday

August 7, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Went the dentist – got a temp filling and I need a crown. Later at dinner, the temp filling fell out, but it’s aok for now.

Went to the Walgreens and I got BHK a pedegg – foot callous remover and orange zester, apparently. I think it’s a pretty surreal device, and is more surreal to me en espanol.

Watched latest Psych and Dragon’s Den… that’s about it!

Hey, Thanks, Knife-wielding robot! You’re not as dangerous as you sound, I guess!

crazy robot doodle by me, article via

I just realized something about German boardgames. Seldom do you see dice. Cards are drawn and are sometimes used as randomizers, but you can still play the odds a bit – it’s rare to roll the ol’ bones. I wonder why?

Bengie’s is showing Wall-E, Dark knight and step brothers… I don’t think that I care to see Dark knight again, so it looks like we’ll wait another week or so before our return trip to the drive-in.

Follow up on the mayor’s “drug raid / dog shooting” indecent. He’s completely innocent, it seems. Prince George’s County Police really fouled up, in my opinion. That and the armed car chase through my neighborhood (well outside PG county jurisdiction) only adds to my problem with that organization. Some sort of Internal Affairs review needs to be done… but it seems unlikely.

“The mayor’s counsel also disputes authorities claims that they killed the dogs, Chase and Payton, because one of the dogs was coming at officers. Maloney says one dog was running away and the other was shot some distance from the front door.

Still, county law enforcement officials say they do not owe the Calvo’s an apology. Chief High defended the officers actions, but expressed regret over the death of the dogs.”

As someone that’s been at swat team gunpoint more than once… (06/02/2001 when my landlord went loopy with his guns over his face cancer and 02/24/2004 once when my bro committed “grand theft boat”.) – I can honestly say that sometimes the police has good reason to hold someone under potential deadly force. I’m thankful that neither I nor Newton were shot

Well, bro is right on the border of the 44 violation points rule. (he has exactly 44 points)(pdf info ) If convicted of all of his charges, he could either do under a year in county jail, or over a year in state prison.

from here –

If total points are equal to or less than 44, the lowest permissible sentence is a non-state prison sanction (however state prison up to the statutory maximum can be imposed).

If total points exceed 44, the minimum sentence is established by taking the total point value subtracting 28 and decreasing the remaining value by 25%. This end result value is the lowest permissible prison sentence in months.

This means than only those offenders scoring 44 or less points may receive a non- state prison sanction under the code. All others must receive a state prison sanction, absent downward departure from this structure. The threshold under the guidelines for mandatory prison incarceration was 52 points.

and from here

The magic number is 44: Anyone scoring above 44 points “must” be sentenced to state prison under the Code. However, the plea bargaining process can a) reduce the number of counts charged, b) have an agreement not to score certain items, c) substitute charges, d) reduce the actual count charged, or e) several other creative techniques can be used to get someone sentenced to a non-incarcerative sentence. Note the departure grounds under Rule 3.992(b), but also note the actual language of the “Sentence Computation” because someone charged with a felony can be sentenced to state prison even if the score fewer than 44 points. For this reason, felony cases are always very serious legal matters.

For his Faces of Evil project, Hans Weishäupl made composite photographs of the world’s worst dictators by photographing hundreds of people in each dictator’s country and stitching them together. The results are a bit disturbing, particularly when viewing very large, clear, vibrant color photos of long-dead monsters like Stalin or Hitler. (via conscientious)

1 year ago – dc to nyc bus, pg county car chase update, chocolate gum, ex debt, louise fadeout, ljopoly, cruel 2 b kind assassination game

2 years ago – finished pride & pred / monkey politics, Newt pic, kid rolling ajoint on the bus, solar powered sun bricks, firkin, 8500, flying model plane in miami, flight plans to maryland

3 years ago – deepest sender, jumping pictures, walkabout autostitch, mangrove tunnels

4 years ago – tmbg thoughts, sugar water vid, space issues, Rick James dead, Burpin’ at Newt, Magical Trevor, cocktail demons, nifty charts, Newt Videos, CoH Pix

5 years ago – Zombies, Army Men, mean cannibal pudding, time travel spam, vampire game, celeb phone calls, cej chat, bro request

6 years ago – Earth and Beyond Playtest, Kev & Bailey, fat parrots, french fry girl palm doodle

7 years ago – harried, inculpate, plane lands just down the road on andrews as a makeshift runway and kits my regular bus, wondering about lj’s image server (still not ready!), happy thoughts, magic can of soda

8 years ago – grumping, Space cowboys shows old man butts

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9388 – wednesday

August 6, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Newton sunning upstairs on Pyecam – he loves going up there from about the time I leave the house to midday, when the sun has passed, and the heat-beam has shifted.

More images from this morning’s Newtcam – BHK moved it closer to the ledge. clicks embiggen.

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Tooth is definitely damaged – filling and tooth itself have pulled apart, and the tooth portion is loose. we’ll see what happens tomorrow. Pain is ok – still only at medium headache level.

BHK and I have really gotten into following the blogs of a few WUSA9’s folks – Kim Martucci and Angie Goff, specifically. They’re trapped in a horrible blogging software called pluck, but once past that, it’s really fun to see folks that are brand new at the whole on-line journal thing… and puts a more interactive and social face on folks you normally only get to see in a one-way medium of TV. I’ve mentioned both Kim and Angie before once or twice, and they both seem to be swell people.

ok, last timeline for the upgrade until they get here, or unless they’re late.

1 item – delivery estimate: August 13, 2008 – August 19, 2008 – 2 gigs of RAM
1 item – delivery estimate: August 8, 2008 – NVIDEA 8000gt Video card.

Retronomatopeya … Flickr set of sound and movement effects from comics

1 year ago – Pickles get made!, Sunflower, Raquel Welch as space gal, light table for treehouse, zendo, hello kitty cops,

2 years ago – Monks in a circle, ken nordine, contact lens thought, 9-volt batteries, dragonball live action in spanish, shades vary electric bill,

3 years ago – Mona moves on from work, Lisa is a good name on lj, NASA pics, walkies phone post

4 years ago – Thinking Wolfsonian, CEJ, Skeletor, bro, bandwidth crooks, awesome search phrase, cat poop coffee, silly ad, Where do they make balloons… (hey, synchronicity)

5 years ago – miniature oranges, orisinal games, tv in my head, first/last meme, newt on a windowsill, daler mehndi

6 years ago – Newt Wakies, Croc bite brings beer, scotto-man, overtired, funions

7 years ago – vcr tape, gaming, militate, warren, scientific independence for researchers, Frontier Psychiatrist, evil SUV

8 years ago – many folks join my Friendy-list (probably due to addition of interests) , grover, graves museum

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9387 – Tuesday

August 5, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Middleman, Monk and a combo of ratatouille, noodles and tofu patties for supper. Both BHK and were bushed tonight. Where has all of our energy gone?!

I feel for Morgan Freeman, re: his car accident…. and surprised I haven’t heard and “driving miss daisy” jokes yet.

Pye napping on cam – stretching out his big ol’ fluffy paw!

Bread… made up to look like far too realistic body parts. Don’t look if you’re at all squeamish.

Ohh.. I thought my video card shipped, but really – “Status: Electronic Shipping Info Received

The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on August 3, 2008 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if / when available. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.”

So… I can expect it later this week or next. RAM is going out tomorrow.

What the heck …. The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ (better known as the Knights Templar) have just launched a legal action against the Pope: among other things they want him to recognize the seizure of assets worth an estimated €100Bn, and restore the good name of the order. (More here.)

See… the whole National Treasure, Indiana Jones, Da Vinci code is coming back to bite folks on the tush now.

1 year ago – Newt leg-up pic, hanging out, dream wizards – got cosmic wimpout and polarity, lighthouse tofu, mormon temple, pickle-time!

2 years ago – bow beats atlatl, newt trip out, 11:11, California pizza kitchen, interview meme, cpap ick, electroe pic

3 years ago – bro picked up, last Danny day, blue-ringed octopus, konfabulator, tags, high speed cat photos, bus-sleeper, taser vs rennies

4 years ago – malam bails, lyric, BttF / Mr Fusion, busy, dream, neti pot, bro’s court visit, avocado memories

5 years ago – isketch, dan’s last summer day, ebay phishing, earth as art, kitty swf games, vampire game, dirty bathroom poll

6 years ago – pleasant dreams, headache passes, Bailey the puppy, puppet play!

7 years ago – code, up late, F/X porn, coloring book, jack-in-the-box

8 years ago – house to myself, foodies

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9386 – monday

August 4, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

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Cukes and Newton hanging on the ledge… leg all pork-chop like!

Today was mostly rest after work- busy weekend of lounging, work me out. BHK, Newt and Pye all snuggled up close while we watched top gear and venture brothers over more tasty ratatouille … now it’s time to crash. g’nite, dear journal.

1 year ago – picked up some icehouse pieces at aardvark, tv watching, no hits on amnesty day, kids today (super sweet 16)

2 years ago – Danny’s last summer vacation day, pictures, hovering sombrero, many memes done in comments, hidden gp address in comments

3 years ago – cute mousie, taken, chatitn’, elevator express, ks sex preds

4 years ago – riding the bus, mystery creature, tv music in my head, a great new euphemism, maps, dr who, avengers, creep

5 years ago – COPS, nifty interfaces, Creatures, TV, Clay-o-rama rules

6 years ago – Signs movie, cancerless cigs, hellboy movie, scary bunny, 2nd wishes,Oz scary, zombies land on beach, Anna Nicole show hurt to watch

7 years ago – Oz quiz, Dictionaraoke, Day planning

8 years ago – Florida panthers, everglades restoration efforts, lj adds interests

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9385 – Sunday

August 3, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Off to a slow-pokey start today – I think we got out the door at something like noonish. BHK and I went on a little journey to St. Michael’s, primarily to hit the maritime museum we missed last visit.

The place is a good bit of land to walk over… thankfully, much of it is inside and nicely air-conditioned. I liked the sense of humor that a lot fo the exhibits had… some fairly off-color quotes about sailors and fishemen. I wasn’t totally wowed by the place – one visit was good, but I don’t think that I have any great need to return.

The Solomon’s Island Museum is a lot smaller, but they have River Otters (Two- Bubbles and Squeak) on site, which is very tough to compete with.

In fact, I think that BHK and I had more fun seeing the occasional wild squirrel, duck or jackrabbit than the exhibits.

Headed home, once we were appropriately sun-baked. Sundown on the bridge. We stopped at Holly’s Restaurant for a little nibble that turned into a massive pile of food. I’d say the big win there was the cream of crab soup… french fries were a little soggy, and were the weak link.

Pictures from the trip – at flickr – for st. peter’s church and bunnies and duckies and cute little squirrels eating pine cones and sunsets and bhk trapped in a sailboat thingie and my head being pinched by a crab claw and the ATW man looking all scary.
look under here for lots of thumbnail photos to enlarge!

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9384 – Saturday

August 2, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Got my shots – minor reaction, but nothing tragic.

Met up with the in-laws, and headed to selby sub shoppe – pizza for all, I got a black bean burger and fries. Tasty as all get out!

We planned on heading to Annapolis after to go see Wall-E, but instead we stopped at Toys-R-Us, and picked up Marvel Heroscape and Good Ol’ Scrabble.

Heroscape is cute.. sort of like heroclix or D&D miniatures. The fun thing is that it’s cross-genre, so you can have cowboys shooting at zombies, fighting robots, ninjas, superheroes and cavemen all on the same board. (and if you like, you can make custom cards for units very easily – so you can have spongebob fighting a paperclip, if you want.) Basic rules are quick and easy… advanced rules look more fun, and maybe another moment or two to learn.

BHK and I opted to head back home after getting our loot – there was a storm brewing… even tornado warning, and we wanted to be curled up at home anyhow.

We swung by the ATW man – done up as a prospector – I’ll try to get better photos of him later.

Watched some tube, lounged, and the in-laws came over – we half watched Micheal Clayton while we played scrabble – Chris dominated.. and she was half asleep. I’d hate to think of what sort of opponant she’s make at full mental charge. Chris scored 258 to my 247 and BHK’s 162 – and Chris laid all of her letters down first turn… accounting for 63 of those points! I was feeling a little sour-grapey, but not too much… our dictionary is a bit on the lightweight side… time to get something unabridged. The plus size was that it caused me to rethink words I’d use in a pinch… like “QI“, but instead, items that are in more everyday language.

The folks went home, but BHK was still up for a wordgame, so we went with another – BHK dominated me at upwords – beat me by more than 40 points.

My brain is melted a bit.. until later, dear journal!

Upgrading the computer in the newtcam room at home – ordered 2 GB more ram for my system (Crucial 2GB Kit (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-4200 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC 240-PIN DIMM, to be specific) -ups my desktop box to a proper 4 gig for less han $50, and a new video card – (EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 Superclocked Edition PCI-Express Graphics Card (512-P3-N802-AR) – got it for less than half what it usally costs – $300 card for $160, less anothera $20 rebate for a total of $140

Super saver shipping means possibly slower send times, but the price was right, and I don’t need it super soon.. I can wait a week or two.

SWAT team kills 2 dogs in raid on Md. mayor’s home

(Italics and bold mine.)

BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. — A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there.

Prince George’s County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff’s office SWAT Team.

The package was addressed to Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic. His mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and his mother-in-law are “persons of interest” in an ongoing investigation.

“We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box,” Calvo said.

Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies “apparently felt threatened” when they shot the dogs.

Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said.

Calvo said he doesn’t have any idea how the package ended up at his house. He called the raid “the most traumatic experience” of his life.

Calvo, who called his town “Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway,” gets a small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works as a state finance officer.

“These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and would come up to them and pet them,” he said.

So… the police brought drugs to the house, and then raided him… but then didn’t arrest or press any charges? They *did* however kill his two dogs.

1 year ago – ATW man stolen, Petey Greene / “Talk to me”, Vassal, pictures while waiting for the bus, new nuclear reactor in calvert county

2 years ago – paperclips, cross-dressing crooks, reading Pride and Prejudice, I predict a riot, good talking to folks, writely (now google docs)

3 years ago – sick of summer heat, paper robots!, spiffy car, where do they make balloons?, animal crackers, ADP nearly nailed, bugs bunny, heart shaped land, baron von bludd

4 years ago – sleepy, meeting, a year at current gig, 5 senses, scarecrow, codecs, game-dancing, oh danny bot, land of many colors, rain and running newtie-pic

5 years ago – bidet poll, food, vamp game, first gig paid poorly, games on the website

6 years ago – talked to rob (we never got together), baron von bludd, strange black blobs

7 years ago – rainy, Owen Ng, broken drug war link, Thunderstorm, code red, lord humongous

8 years ago – Finished HP2, started hp3, foodies, moved to the 12-8 shift at IMT

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9383 – Friday

August 1, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

8/1 – Lughnasadh, the holy day of Lludd, Samhain, next! My next birthday is 6 months from now – and the last is six months in the past, give or take a few hours.

Dagwood night with the in-laws and BHK! Tooth was bugging me a bit, so I didn’t consume too much.

Watched more of Black Magic with Raymond burr and Orson Welles. Not a terribly excellent film. A lot of scenery chewing, and a good excues to cuddle on the couch.

Quote of the moment – “Everything you think affects your spirit, your mood, and your ability to contribute to others.”

I think of a home ready to be robbed when it’s August and I see a Christmas Wreath on the door… or one that’s open to squatters.

Water on Mars: confirmed.

Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.

The lander itself added, on Twitter, “FTW!” (I imagine and hope that’s “for the win”, not the other one… “f*** the world”.)

I want a robostool. (No, not robot poop, dear journal.) See also:“Take a seat” is a robotic chair that follows you around

Yeah, so I want a pet chair.

Sam Raimi plans to do a superhero series with Disney called The Transplants.

PSA of the moment –

ANGIE GOFF IS RUNNING THE:

for Charity Group

FINISH FOR KIDS

VISIT HER RACE PAGE BY CLICKING HERE

It’s a great cause (The Carefree Foundation and Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children), and her first marathon… if you can spare it, help the kids out by pledging some funds on her race page.

“Technology Review has up an article about Shapeways, a new online rapid-prototyping service that allows users to upload digital designs which are then printed on 3-D printers and shipped back. A spinoff from Philips Research, the service gives small businesses, designers, artists, and hobbyists access to prototyping tools that were once available only to the largest corporations. The fee for a typical printed object is $50-$150. Their video shows the steps behind the process.”

Oh boy… custom stuff never had it so good.

1 year ago – Pepper pic form the garden, upcoming events, Emily reminds me of Wendy and monkey shenanigans, picture taken from subway ride to work, games, turning heat into electricity using sound, all optical magnetic recording, Kat tells BHK and me to get a room (in comments)

2 years ago – sharks don’t have knees, boiled eggs, yoga, map issues, Dave nose-operation, 4-sec frenzy, Theoi project, FOLEDs, grammar rock, man tosses a car, hungry ghost month, TS Chris

3 years ago – peaceful Sunday, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, PB-J time, Grizzly Golf Attack is true, “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.”

4 years ago – Rob Shea Quote, appropriate for E-journals everywhere, I played with mercury, JL meme, music, Dave, Rain, Social entity, first hints at Mike-drama, search shortcuts, albinos of the 19th century, echolocation alarms

5 years ago – crazy dreams, Kate Bush, starmark poops but new gig, writing systems, non-castaways on gilligan’s isle

6 years ago – istockphoto, dead links, Shitou Xiqian, smiled at, fortune cookie, walkerbot, Liver Eatin’ Johnson

7 years ago – hungrybaby, New Apes movie lame, wiseacre, Champions stats for the Shadow, Dwayne Dibley?, Poul Anderson passes away, LJ moves in space

8 years ago – Everway character- wanders the storm path

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9382 – Thursday

July 31, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Tooth is still giving me minor fits. Antibiotic seems to be taking it down, though. It was a little hard to chew supper, but it was quite tasty.

BHK went thrifting yesterday with Tina – got some good loot – a few chick-lit books for herself, a kepler and his mom on witch trial book for me, along with a white dress shirt, also for me – some brand new kitchen knives. (as opposed to what… bathroom knives? office knives?)

Additionally, when she got my antibiotics at the drugstore, she picked me up yellow and red canisters of drying model clay. could be handy to make some game pieces, or just silly fun sculptures and items. It’ll be good practice for future sculpey stuff.

Seeing BQ.. erm, SaH reminded me that BHK and I are long overdue for a meal at the vegetable garden. Rockville isn’t all that far away and despite what R.E.M. says, I could hit the Micro Center up there, too. I’d also like to visit Yuan Fu, which was our alternate plan if VG was closed.

I guess that since I do crab and shrimp that I’m more of a pescetarian than a true veggie.

One of the most nifty game ideas in a long time – levelhead – it uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors. In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.

check out the video demo to get a good idea how it works.

Also – it looks like the Ghostbusters game is in a bit of trouble… may not get released – at least for a while. It looks good, and the chance for another year of development might even make it worth the wait.

Looks like LJ usership is drooping – Stats as of the moment –

How many users, and how many of those are active?

Total accounts: 16234592
… active in some way: 1801088
… that have ever updated: 9622881
… updating in last 30 days: 973782
… updating in last 7 days: 550314
… updating in past 24 hours: 194650

1 year ago – friendship amnesty day (fizzle-pop), tasty food, pictures of said foods, artomat, scribd, project gutenberg, gaming thoughts, nomnom kitty in comments

2 years ago – good thoughts, Danny gets me Wonder Woman on DVD, Saw Monster House with TW, walkabout pix of constrution/graffiti/etc, punk rock girl

3 years ago – what’s in my fridge, cosmic treadmill, 37 inches of rain, falling people, sky high powers

4 years ago – went out w/Dan to ole ole, riverwalk pics, SAD Dave, Daimajin added towish list (and it was gifted to me before the hurricanes came!), star wars kid gets an ipod

5 years ago – Web design, poo, web stat, psa, orange newt-head!

6 years ago – broken links, spamdemic map, floppy poll, dinner sick, new semagic client

7 years ago – hinterland, kickshaw, I like cooking, planet of ??? poll, Champions Spectre, my gal wants to leave me for the Asian prince, shaking hands,treat pack

8 years ago – idiot, the good and bad of the day, Good Chinese food, bad April

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9379 – Wednesday

July 30, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Oh My Goff! –Emmy award winner Angie Goff profiled me, the kitties and Alan & JC’s pup Chae on her blog entry today ! (Picture here from the entry… eek and awesome. BHK is going to tease me mercilessly – She’d better watch it, or she’ll get She-Ra’ed.) The WUSA9 team all have blogs it seems, and the bulk of them are very entertaining!

Called Dr. Wolfe – cracked my back tooth, the one with the composite filling. I’m taking antibiotics starting tonight, and I’ll be seeing him in a week for a fix-up. It only hurt a wee bit yesterday, but has progressed to headache level annoyance now. I wonder if the tooth will come out of my noggin before thursday… it feels a bit loose.

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recent Pyecam captures of Newton in the “treehouse” – as always, click to embiggen them!

We need to get pye in the light like that, so he doesn’t look like the phantom blot !

A very interesting graph of the estimated ideological positions of US voters, senators, and representatives shows that members of Congress are much more liberal and conservative than are US voters, who fall somewhere in the middle. (via 3qd)

Maryland Renaissance Fest is coming up. I figure we’ll go again, probably for one weekend, this time to just people watch, if nothing else. Scottish Weekend might be fun.

Got a postcard from the bro. He sounds better when he’s sobered up. I’ll be writing him sometime between tomorrow night and this weekend. It breaks my heart every time I think of him… I thought I was mostly over it, but I’m really still fairly tender about it at times. If luck enters the picture, maybe he’ll get some good, solid treatment, but I won’t get my hopes up.

His arraignment was supposed to have been on Monday – I wonder how long before public records will give me follow-up info? He’s got a calendar call on 9/2/08 – I guess I’ll know more then.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

“I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen,” said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. “They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn’t they heed me before it was too late?”

1 year ago – payday, mas90, chalupacabra, Ultimate Blade Runner set, Amy on her way home, All Star Superman, Harry Potter, Metatron

2 years ago – first pente loss to bhk, newt and squirrel pic, dice wars, proximity, nobility, vista speech off, clip art movie, hotspot hacks, gamelan,

3 years ago – entry loss, sky high good, Danny wins prizes, calls while not on-call, 10k superballs, Newtcam Law and Order, meme stuff, pics of lisas, and autostitch garage

4 years ago – museum pics, slippery, Loveless

5 years ago – tv shows, comic fonts, paper money, sound resource, gay high, starmark, CA2, tunnel walkies pix, Dan visit, toys

6 years ago – random voog glimpse, infrasound, dinner timeline, GRASP, hate group mapping, Jen plans on being wed, FMM steals paid time from me, mach 8 jets

7 years ago – animal traits poll, Museum of Black Superheroes, remonstrate, Pompano info, evil news, mental health day, rainbow newt poll, icq/lj tech trouble

8 years ago – April stress, New everway group review, Babel fish translations, green lantern, Jerry’s Birthday bash, Discover marquee, Bev Preggers, Bro working at Amici’s, We Like Pie, 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

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9377 – Tuesday-

July 29, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

The backyard cornucopia strikes again!

More from the garden. Pumpkin, squash, a ton of white eggplant, some skinny purple and green eggplant, tomato and cucumber. Nice mix of colors in the back yard!

BHK made pseudo-chicken in cream sauce with peas over a bed of egg noodles… side of green beans in sesame oil. yummmy goodness.

Middleman – titanic tuba episode is maintaining quality nicely.

http://rolcogames.com/ -cool site for pawns, little meeples, whatnot. The Game inventor kit is brilliant.

Matt Thompson has some advice for you: stop buying cheap-ish pseudo-generic drugs from Walgreens, Rite-Aid, and Duane Reade and start buying really cheap true generics.

As you might know, Benadryl (available at Walgreens.com for $5.29 for a box of 24 capsules) and Wal-dryl ($3.99 / 24 capsules) are otherwise known as “25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI.” Compare [with the true generic available at Amazon]. Yes, that is 400 tablets containing 25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI, for about $10 when you factor in shipping.

Heed his words. Here’s 300 tablets of generic Claritin for $11.00, 100 tablets of generic Zyrtec for $6.99, 240 tablets of generic Zantac, 1000 capsules of generic Benadryl for $20.34, 1000 tablets of generic Advil for $11.70, and 1000 caplets of generic Tylenol for $13.91.

Seek the Six – New Prisoner “puzzle” promo. Fairly slow loading a the start, but nifty. (I am number 952805… apparently it’s not news to most!)

1 year ago – Blueberry pancakes, naptime, gaming with BHK and Amy

2 years ago – starting yoga, newtcam pics, visiting pals, comics, wrestler name, Jonathan Coulton – Bigfoot & Leonard Nimoy, cool cartoon, spoof caller id service

3 years ago – met the Lisas, strawberry shortcake, Kamandi, cat cartoons, I remind JL of Rob from High Fidelity, meme-y thing, out with Dan

4 years ago – turtlenecks, skinbags, touchscreen, firestarter, recent tunes, oomiaq, walkies, manatees

5 years ago – tour guides, politics, bollywood, starmark, windows psa

6 years ago – swastika, dreams, newt, birds of prey, lizard droppings, zebrelle

7 years ago -WoG III, Chai, bro, coloring book, lj down

8 years ago -no-thang

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9375 – Monday

July 28, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

This morning’s Harvest – BHK plucked this beastie before I headed to work.

picture of giant tomato from the garden!

If you enlarge the photo, or look carefully, you’ll see Tsuro, Marriage material, Canasta Caliente, Rook, Kahuna, Balloon Cup, Catan Dice, umm.. Carcassone H&G, and nibs and nabs of other part of the game shelf. Some printer cartriges and screen wipes.

Looks like I’m going on a trip to Port of Baltimore either Thursday or Friday next week! I’ll be in the field that day from 9:30ish to 2:30ish, give or take.

That’s a good thing… my port knowledge could use a little visual update – my last trip through Port Everglades was years ago.

Polished off the Tim Powers fault lines stuff I’d been meaning to read again… I may have to get back to Fluke and polish it off this week!

Big salad and a side sammich for dinner tonight… those quick pickles are lasting a long time!

I missed a veggie hot dog eating contest?!?! I bet I’d have cleaned up. (via Mr T in DC )

Forgot to mention that we pre-ordered Monty Python Fluxx, Marian Fluxx, and Pink Treehouse at Aardvark‘s. Just doing our part to keep the Looneys in business!

Gentle night tonight – I got home, we unwound and hit the sack fairly early. Until Later, dear journal!

1 year ago – abandoned italian village, doodle of me with a pyramid nose by bhk, minisodes, coloring book, girls at tennis, quiz, kitty pic

2 years ago – 8484, monet, 12 monkeys, talking with danny, walkabout pictures, crypto trivia (useful for playing hangman!), netflix goodies, I get my yoga pack from BHK, hungarian wellness mud, bus stop, sunrise

3 years ago – shots, Danny and wee free men, glowing breast implants, saturn’s radio emissions, little 12-toes, cool flying star wars ships, Teele suicides

4 years ago -thoughts on journaling, $20 recovered, retro science book covers

5 years ago – bro, woolly panda, mood scents, anti-piracy vid, alphabet meme, bubba ho-tep, visible embryo, deaths, reunified my homepage

6 years ago -Peter Gabriel bald, change the flavor of your sexual secretions, abunch of broken picture links, worh1000 coolness – Persian elephant

7 years ago -chores, Tron 2.0, tick quote

8 years ago – got invited to an everway group, palindromes, food, translations

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9373 – Sunday

July 27, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Woke up slowly, played a bit with Garry’s Mod, which I find to be hilarious, went over to the in-laws for hanging out listening to the Eagles and O.A.R. with Adam and the gang, and then we had hot dogs, quick pickles, chips and etc for tasty happy fun time.

The quick pickles were from our garden –

The cukes were a little stubby, but BHK’s mandolin made short work of slicing them.

BHK and Larry took the Element up to the mechanic for repairs – It’ll be out of service for 10 days, getting the windshield fixed and the hood / bumper dents removed. The trees still haven’t been removed form our yard yet, but the time is approaching to do so. We’ve got the green ford as a loaner until the element comes back.

Planning for 3 big events coming up next month – BHK birthday, Larry’s Birthday, and Larry & Chris’s wedding anniversary. (not in that order.)

Larry’s a tricky one – I suspect that a trip to see Good Deale Bluegrass (though Chris doesn’t want to go) would be the best gift for him. New Neil Diamond album out, too. There’s the Christmas Show at the Ram’s Head… but that’s usually reserved as a Christmas Present. Maybe at the Bluegrass show in Deale.

Larry and Chris is easy – a card and food.

I’m not going to spill any beans about BHK’s b’day, as she reads this… and I want it to be a surprise. I’ll let you know what happens later, dear journal.

BHK got back comfortably – we watched an episode of Fawlty Towers, and one of Burn Notice – now it’s time for bed!

Until later, dear journal!

1 year ago – Williamsburg dream, BHK, Amy & I dine at the in-laws, more gaming, start my BGG account

2 years ago – Japan’s underground photography, free wifi attractive nuisance, 2nd life updates, tough times in the congo, fishbone, ape-o-naut doodle / gays in space

3 years ago – A/c unhappy, Lisa/Lisa plans, Jacques the Monkey, Candice fickle, shots, Tom Waits, Abandoned amusement and theme parks, grumping, “shut it”, mallah and the brain

4 years ago – monkey doodle, palm pictures from the bus, lavender-newt, notes from the road, atm jam, CoH, lj-flower, monkey yawn

5 years ago – palm doodles, power-outage, all consuming, power of burqas, sonic bullets

6 years ago – some day tripping, cool squirrel, Belgium is a myth, tongue-trimming, lj hot-or-not, Life imitates Real Genius!!!

7 years ago – overtired & grumpy, cockaigne, evil news, flash, evil news

8 years ago – wanting to go on a group outing, discover marquee

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