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9313 – Tuesday

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I still feel pretty-lousy, but went in to work – too much needs to be hands-on today – meetings, etc.

My shoulder muscles and ribs / stomach are all especially tender from the coughing. I’m being extra lazy with my entries until I feel more up to speed.

BHK made pizza tonight… I had two slices of green pepper and cheese. First real food eaten since Sunday. It was delicous, but I couldn’t consume more than that… or any pie for fear of retribution.

I can’t imagine a homemade blueberry pie lasting a week in my house. I must’ve been terribly sick, indeed.

Cut and paste links ahoy!


Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have gone to the dogs, so why can’t Cheeta the chimp get some love? The animal actor, whose credits include the 1967 comedy “Dr. Doolittle” and the “Tarzan” movies, is trying for the seventh time to get a sidewalk star and become the first monkey to get the honor. His handlers have launched an online petition to get supporters to urge the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to give him a star in 2009.

The 76-year-old chimp, who the Guinness World Records has called the oldest living, non-human primate, is retired and lives in Palm Springs. Cheeta also has a MySpace page. (see also – http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GoCheeta/ )


John McCain wants to kill folks on dialysis.


This video – A Washington DC news crew goes down to Union Station to interview someone from Amtrak about people who have been stopped from taking pictures even though there’s no policy against it. As the Amtrak spokesperson is explaining that there is no policy against photography, a guard comes up and tries to stop them from filming, saying it is against the rules.



1 year ago – justice frozen in carbonite pic (taken at the courthouse where I was married… and across the street from where I worked)

2 years ago – chatting with tomi & tina, redd foxx fairly suxx, many mp3s, cat trees bear, the hoff sings, weather

3 years ago – sleepies, bro on upswing, free lunch, tropical storm Arlene, ice cream truck music, newt, bus stop and pics, Coprology, hurricane, I spy

4 years ago – hungry-boy, Shambhala, lawn chair boat, Alan Yu vs. the invisible shrinking psi-agents.

5 years ago – good ol’ days, There-stuff, mummy locator

6 years ago – wonder twins movie optioned, Baiso, Rose Red, Bunko Shenanigans

7 years ago – Uddercream, Eugene Mirman, evil news, lit-quiz, chachi and opium

8 years ago – bubble, simpleGeotarget

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9312 – Monday

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Called in sick to work – in a cough-funk, but still available on cell phone to meeting – I barely moved from bed… haven’t had anything solid since Sunday midday.

a/c still broken – repair crew coming on Wednesday – apparently the tornado has affected a lot of folks.

not much to say, and I need some sleep – have some garden pics, dear journal – I’ll see you tomorrow!

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A little flooded out, but it’s still coming along.


quote of the day: (via shoebox)

“If I had to lose one of my senses, I’d want it to be my sense of impending doom.”
-Russ


1 year ago – full Saturday of book / yard sales – fab brew not so fab, dc divas, random survey

2 years ago – cut my foot, Danny wants to go to Vegas, re: tv hospitals and my dad, rubber soul mp3, dr smith, quizzles

3 years ago – bro bailout, monkeys and popsicles, demolition, Shatner Se7en, zombies from chaplain, lj friends quiz, hubbub

4 years ago – Rydia.net, bills, walk piccies, park urge, chimps, #478

5 years ago – D and depression, Dale moves, addictive cheese, kraft pack, Newt on a ledge

6 years ago – picked up freedom force, shopped for my current bike

7 years ago – sunset quiz, Seuss on the brain, the never fulfilled Stacy cpu, wild child.

8 years ago – Found Heather’s other journal, Touch, contemplating the transient nature of computer palsGeotarget

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9311 – Sunday the 8th (counting up to Friday the 13th)

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Today, I got sicker, bleah. Pains and stresses at an all time yuck factor.

Watched Old San Fransisco , assorted tv, and slept most of the day. BHK and I took a walk in the sun to try and loosen stuff up for about 45 minutes (or about a mile and a half) and while I think fresh air helps… I was more than ready to go rest afterward. For some reason, our water bottles tasted like onion.

A/C broken – house bounces between 80 and 95 degrees inside, depending on time of day. Fortunately, we have lots of ceiling fans, and the loft has a window-shaker unit, so the kitties, BHK and I won’t bake too badly as long as we stay upstairs.

thinking about my sweetheart, BHK – some savage garden –

Maybe it’s intuition
but some things you just don’t question
Like in your eyes, I see my future in an instant
And there it goes,
I think I found my best friend
I know that it might sound
more than a little crazy
but I believe…

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

There’s just no rhyme or reason
Only the sense of completion
And in your eyes, I see
the missing pieces I’m searching for
I think I’ve found my way home
I know that it might sound
more than a little crazy
but I believe…

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

1 year ago – grown up survey, aardvark trip for games

2 years ago – lj people vs people in real life, Maya / Ole’ Ole’ weak food-wise but nice conversation-wise, the fixx mp3, voice post, very silly comments

3 years ago – 100 icons (now 143), mp call, scotto-pic, the bear, erasure, swf nav-bar, now and last quiz

4 years ago – Mxyzptlk, Hosting, Newt Pics, why a bear, Ebola playset

5 years ago – Newtcam, Monster name, D, Lj top 40, @home, vampire game

6 years ago – no more flash embedded in journals, cleaning house post fumes, June bugs coming, supa-leap Newt, global warming rant

7 years ago – Argus, moon cathedrals, monkey fishing (later shown false), smart tags (where’d those go?), reading comics, dj account

8  years ago -ADD, Webcam obtained, meme, mind tricks, kite flying with April and DannyGeotarget

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9310 – Saturday

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Bugah’s baseball game is today – didn’t drive out to VA to see him – both BHK and I love that kid to death, but we’re both too sick to go up there and spread our germs to the little ones – that said, we did go to the doc for a shot.

Got shots, we played Yahtzee on the pda three times while I waited for clearance to leave, bhk does better than me in general, but I got her 2/3 games this time.

Hit the yard sale in front of the firehouse on the way home – BHK got a pair of books, something by Moning [edit – it was Darkfever ] (Highlander something) and The 13th Tale.

After a bit of rest, we decided to head to Aardvark, and picked up Arkham Horror, Grave Robbers From Outer Space and Marriage Material (as well as vol 2 of Irredeemable Ant-man, and Vol 2 of New Frontier.)

I started feeling much more poorly Saturday night – BHK is sick, and I have a severe cough, a fluid-filled chest, muscle aches, and back pain.

We started to do a puzzle, but I couldn’t even stay seated at the table…. so I flopped in front fo the TV and half-watched until we tucked in, at about 9 pm.

On a lighter note – we got our first nibs and nabs from the garden!

Blueberry … first eats produced this season by our plants… picture taken with cell phone.

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Who was part of breakfast that day… but his brothers and sisters later became part of this –

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Blueberry Pie! BHK’s first, and it was delicious!


1 year ago – garden pepper pic

2 years ago – LOTR online beta, valleyschwag, Newt defends me during a pirate game, yawny-poll, mermaids- traditional and feegee, monkey chow diaries, abc mp3, stealth-wing parachute, router hack, bro case update, of mice & men, freaturing superman and bizarro

3 years ago – teensy work text, human hamster balls, google-found webcams, old gi joe comics, jogging for jesus, Florida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalysers that busted them, Ex-deputy gets life for molesting boys, bro picked up for trespassing

4 years ago – zombie quiz, metamorpho with GP, Square-boy, Walken sings, Chainsaw owies, ST emulator, Bulldozer rampage, I go to a new host.

5 years ago – bro, pub-crawling with Danny, flowerpop clones my interests and flies off.

6 years ago – hero costume poll, sogyo poetry, fumigation finished, scopes sea monkey trial

7 years ago – baby helmet, deep sleep, grogginess, wag, folks sick all over LJ, shoe size poll, adaptation of science, spark words.

8 years ago – My life unapproved by the Comic’s Code Authority
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9308 – Friday –

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I haven’t been recalling my dreams lately. Less fitful sleep, but I wake up with a cough and some nausea most mornings. BHK made some yummy soup last night, but I wasn’t up to much eating for one reason or another. Maybe I’m getting a little cold or something?

Watched the last two episodes of house… the finale was pretty sad stuff… but I dn’t know how much I go in for the pseudo-surreal hypnoscapes and memory retrieval elements… and the fact that nobody checked out the jane doe was a pretty weak plot point, given the other in-depth review of the case.

Put an order in for Hive and the Mosquito expansion at Aardvark – it should be in by June 12 (a little under a week)! A little expensive, but the bakelite pieces will endure a long time.

Maybe I’ll make some out of glow in the dark fimo… or do variant pieces with other bugs. How would a ladybug move… or what might a lightning bug be able to do to switch up the game?

I already fear BHK will toast me at the game… she’s got a good mind for some of these logic puzzle hex territory things.. like hazienda.

Playing it online is fun, but I love the feedback of face to face and handling the game pieces. Plus, if the power goes out, you’re still set. (With the exception of pente and go I prefer most all games offline.) I first coded a version of pente for my good ol’ atari ST back in the day… the AI was weak, but not terrible. I think that I’ve learned a few more strategies since then, but there is no lack of humans to play with… and there are better AIs out there, too.


These free paper foldables are pretty keen. The cat in the vet collar is particularly inspired.


Bambi II: Oh yes… there will be blood. (thank [info]theweaselking)




L. Ron Hubbard’s 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology)


1 year ago – 150 questions meme


2 years ago – tuesday like buddy holly, poetry, long phone talk, csi project, under cold blue stars, 3 girl rhumba,


3 years ago – Org of American States, South America, Local Journals, burlesque, rain to sun, icons, journey to the center of the earth, I don’t much like Cap’n Jack, PO CHU-I, florida slave labor, rose garden, the Way-Outs, Spanish mixup at work.

4 years ago – D-Day / Normandy, Cold Reading, plague cookies, shockwave, meme, chill out, first appearance of [info]eryx_uk in my comments.

5 years ago – Hobbit Pub w/danny pics, DARPA

6 years ago – Troublesome evacuation issues for fumigation

7 years ago – evil news, laconic, hobbit names, aimbot, hungry, lj DDos, glow text abuse, misc wacky html, Scotto quirk, COPS, long chat with CEJ, Rudy-fibber, poo-health chart.

8 years ago – no-thangGeotarget

 

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9306 – Thursday

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More photos’ from yesterday’s tornado! – Chesapeake Beach Storm Damage – Photos – WRC | Washington

Folks here are really excited about it – After Hurricane Andrew, I’m glad it wasn’t as bad as it might’ve been. Big issue here was that it came out of nowhere, in a matter of moments – hurricanes you get a solid warning. THe roof that was blown off may finally allow for the smokey stink to fade from traders. 12 people were hospitalized, but no major injuries that I know of.

Chris and Larry lost some roof flashing, had a cracked window pane, and some broken tree limbs about the place, but thankfully nothing too devastating.

Most fascinating to me is the marble-sized hail that hit us on the way home… I really thought the truck’s windshield (already cracked, from an ancient wound) was going to shatter at one point.


I don’t know why I keep thinking today is Friday.. I’ve got to cut that foolishness out.

BHK hasn’t been feeling very well lately – Allergies, I think. I hope she mends up quickly! She made tasty stuffed peppers for supper last night – Chris joined us, as her house hadn’t cooled back down yet after losing power.


Two of the Milky Way’s arms have gone missing.– Don’t look at me! I haven’t got ’em! I suspect venus de milo – jealousy.





Mechanical Employees Only, originally uploaded by °Florian



Viva Calaca!! is a personal project by the young Art Director and Digital Designer Ritxi Ostáriz with music by Voltaire.

It is a 3 minute animation video, based on the Day of the Dead.



1 year ago – bhk cooks yum stuff, Putin believes in Giant Russian war robots and Cthulhu, plastic choking the oceans, tinfoil hats prevent cancer, abduction lamp best lamp ever, pie chart meme

2 years ago – monday, random words, africa, hudson hawk, wireless router config can be tricky, agape, bumper sticker

3 years ago – Blinky arrives and is celebrated, on my path, MP pictures, google thing meme, swingset, sockamagee, Shaq, writing group slacking, SMART BOY…”Jones” CLEANS EVERYTHING BUT THE..”Baby”, MI:3 rumors and Scientology powers, meetro, rainy

4 years ago – Laundry done, moribund, hungries, celeb-alikes, mindmap, google-search journal, work issue, radio.blog, pain-ray, newt-yawn pics

5 years ago – bollywood, gay days/ Disney, marketing spongebob cereal

6 years ago – Moscow Tunnel system, fumigation

7 years ago – Paterfamilias , living on bread alone / scurvy, hobos, secret Scotto factoid re:barbershops

8 years ago – nuffin, muffinGeotargetVisitor Map

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9304 – Wednesday

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Midweek. Time is grinding slowly, but exceedingly fine. Only one month to July 4 and fireworks everywhere!

BHK made some amazingly good quiche last night… fake bacon “fakon!”, broccoli and cheddar, and the other was a ricotta, broccoli cheddar – sides were tortellinis stuffed with brie, green beans, and zucchini – Larry came over and added corn on the cob for all, as well as grilled burgers for himself and Chris.

it was a short night – after supper, we pretty much went right to bedski… it was raining, and highly conducive to slumber.


Glad to see mootpoint back! I’m looking forward to seeing him post more frequently.


Wizkids was very good about getting my info to send me a replacement piece for Oshi – I suspect they were happy not to have folks begging for free heroclix or 4e stuff. I like the name for support – WhereIsMyFigure@wizkidsgames.com (My helper’s name was Rose – very kind and fast to respond)


James Earl Jones recites the alphabet, circa 1972 Wow… he looks pretty young, but his voice is still distinct.

See also – James Earl Jones counts to ten. Not nearly as good – I like the monochrome alphabet more.


“On average, your blog posts are around 1378 words in length. This is 262 percent longer than other bloggers who took this test.”

Most posts are probably longer than that, given that I sometimes toss a pic post up with minimal text.

Do you talk too much in your blog?


1 year ago – gave notice at the county, grilling out, started Fluke (still unfinished), baltimore vs dc, yabba pot

2 years ago – on call, giza pyramid, bunny hop pic, finger people, cosmos animations, fallentoad song, fantastic

3 years ago – full vs goatee, bro & PO, vs & rr try to hook me up

4 years ago – Local con, ADP fix it, free wifi, bro issues, Crew north, Cartoon stuff, rain, bad case

5 years ago – bro goes to ER, Tony & Caroline bad news, pt issues, brothel free to troops, pirate doodle, kraft offer, FIA hoverboats

6 years ago – fumigation drama, pelican preference, cricket magazine, Google labs

7 years ago – life roles, evil news, Paranormal investigation teams that I’d join, Allen Walton, hobo names, $10 webcam, classic Scotto lunch, nice dreams, mammoth riding.

8 years ago – figured out how to hack the info kiosk as the mall of the deadGeotargetVisitor Map

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9303 – Tuesday –

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No movie last night – instead we went to dinner with the in-laws, and after BHK and I played some boardgames. She won Labyrinth, and I took Oshi. (also discovered that the oshi set has one extra two-point piece, and one too few one-point pieces. we may play with pyramids in the future. (or penny, nickel, quarter as towers, for that matter)

Both were our first time playing – BHK got labyrinth for $1.61 at the thrift store yesterday… we’ve more than made our entertainment money back in a single sitting. We picked up Oshi from Aardvark a little while back, but hadn’t gotten to play until last night.

Other goodies BHK picked up from the store –

  • Green Orvis Mosquito-repellant shirt for Larry
  • Green lounge pants for Chris
  • Pink Bucket hat for herself
  • Green striped shirt for me
  • a few books, including Stephen Fry’s The Liar for me, and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook
  • a couple of puzzles, still sealed in the box. (corvette 1000 pc, spacewalk, homer simpson and an irish hutch)


Dreamt last night that I’d signed on to join the army for six months. Not really a dream of mine in waking life – a lot of the gang from high school were there – Steve Jacoby, James Dawsey, etc… we were all in training as sort of a semi-serious laugh. My big concern wa sthat I had to bring my own toiletries… like the army wouldn’t provide deodorant or shampoo.


thanks, ecto –

The first 2 parts of the “lost” film Italian Spiderman has been up for a week or two now and it looks to be just as ridiculous — and awesome — as the trailer had indicated. Give me Franco Franchetti (R.I.P) with his porn-star moustache and pump-action shotgun over Toby McGuire any day.

Italian Spiderman Movie – Episode 1 and Episode 2 [YouTube]



via rejectomorph –

SurLaLune, a huge website full of fascinating stuff about fairy tales:

“SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 47 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations.”



1 year ago – BHK dominates in SSX, priates 2, spies like us, convert stuff to other stuff, good eats, BHK gets me some Hawaiian shirts

2 years ago – Iron Giant, Swarm, Cim-nim toast, cookie monster graffiti, ping pong kitties, bus stop sunrise, OTR, porch entry, graypumpkin gamecock, x4, on call, fruit pies, podcasts

3 years ago – Celine Dion as MJ, Tragic Darth, Boynton Tasering, great sunset, Firpo, MSK in NM w/UTI, look-around camera, sex-pred lj, chat w/sammy, tyrant in the house?, human trafficking, 20 questions meme

4 years ago – Dan visit and a caveman waitress, speaker scam, call me Q.

5 years ago – isketch, skeletor & gang, Scott-heroes, Wold Newton, I LIKE stuff, ugly Oz from MacFarlane toys

6 years ago – virus spam, moment of zen, gute fahrt, pet psychic, Crossing over guy,newtcam banner (Never did see it in rotation.), homepage design ideas

7 years ago – |337 translation guide, parse, fun turtle fact, ultrasonic cheesecharacteristics, Hello Kitty Douche, lj portal, long distance distress

8 years ago – nothin’GeotargetVisitor Map

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9302 – Monday

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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

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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.comGeotargetVisitor Map

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9300 – Sunday

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Speed Racer and (new Pizza Hut a bust – too new and popular to get sit down seats) went to Selby bays subs – got a tasty veggie – they were hammered at 1pm – too nice a day!

I liked Speed Racer. Colorful, bright, and hit every aspect of the show. It went pretty long – 2:30 is a a bit long for a cartoon, but I dug seeing Pops go old-school wrestler on a ninja, and how well Racer X can fistfight from the comfort of inside his vehicle.

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If you’re a fan of the old cartoon, I don’t think it’s possible to be disappointed.

After the movie proper was over, BHK and I were digging the credits.. one of the brusha brusha staff was over-exuberant, and tossed my drink out… they replaced it.. but it was mildly peevish to have them get all up in our business while we were still watching the end bit. No after-credits stuff comes up, but there is monkey-shenanigans throughout the top of the end creds.


Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma vicinity, Cavalier County, ND

From the HABS/HAER collections in the Library of Congress comes these gorgeous photographic documentations of an anti-ballistic missile complex in North Dakota.

Several such sites were planned as part of the Safeguard Program, but only this was ever completed. And after being in operations for just 4 months, it was deactivated.


The 5 Most horrifying bugs in the world – The Bullet Ant shrieks at you, and then stings you, painfully. Oh so painfully.


According to our research, Scotto’ll be dead by

May 2048
at age 79



– probable cause –


DEAD AT 79

cancer



YOU DIE: 79.3 years
AVERAGE MALE LIFE SPAN: 72.5 years



As you can plainly see, you have more health and vitality than the average man.


1 year ago – got offer for gig, celebration, network issues, animals on fingers, it dept as snoop, colored water photos

2 years ago – positive mindset, but melancholy, lunch with momster, aardvark pic, superman cup, shirt scorch, 23 years worth of posting, bro visited work

3 years ago – club cast of characters, roadside hummer politics, keyhole turns into google earth, fed plantains, raining heavily, narc law

4 years ago – boogieman, hurricane season begins, diseases database, map24’s awesome zoom, WAKAW!, Dan Tardy visit, piccies of fembots & crane boats, found sounds

5 years ago – MacGuffin, New TV (broken), There Shirts, hoverboarding

6 years ago – new 2nd monitor, tasty tea

7 years ago – anchorite, Iraq frog missile, my first sighting of that annoying java kill email that fooled Danny’s wife, evil news, poll about how you feel about people, banjo player joke, rave reviews of Zone alarm & commentary about spyware, coprolite, I hear the first story about Ornj’s fish Genocide & panda hut

8 years ago – Awakened too early, used to have an embedded real genius sound fileGeotargetVisitor Map

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9299 – Saturday

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Had a lovely time shopping for Alan’s b’day present wrapping after my standard morning’s shots. Got a haircut (contrary to photo, I don’t plan on gelling it into a faux-hawk regularly), Lunched at Ledo’s, but I think the stop off at *$ for a little coffee drink took gave BHK a bit of sourbelly, so we headed home, napped and listened to the gumball-sized hail fall unexpectedly from the sky. (There were also tornado warnings, but no sign of that.)

The weather eased while we waited for the in-laws to get ready for the party… we were aiming for a launch time of about 5pm, and we left circa 6:40. Fortunately, we took Chris’s eternal case of time dilation into account, so we got there only about 10 minutes late.

Alan’s party was nice – quite a diverse group of people there, drunks and non-drunks – I finally got to meet JC and Mamacita, but Mamacita didn’t bring her Chihuahua with – maybe next time. I’d say the little house had about 50 people in it at prime time – they hired a doorman, bartender, and a few waiters – but it was a truly casual and pleasant outing… not a lot of seating, but standing wasn’t bad, thanks to my epidural earlier in the week.

He didn’t open his goodies – his true b’day is Sunday… I imagine he’ll like the blooming tea.

Tina and Matt were there – looks like Matt’s losing some weight – Good for him!


Interesting stuff. -(to me, anyhow) Built-in command line windows security tools.


RIP – Bill Elder.


for a quick minute of fun – played in browser. –Robokill.


1 year ago – mortgage, topology, newtcam2, condo issues, firefly and mosquitoes are out, linkdump

2 years ago – may ends, dr octagon, mad now unfunny in color, key west flare vigilante, fragged with bro, blood / allergy sticks, me as jeanbunny, mm flakes back

3 years ago – depth perception, bald oscars, intel drm chips, santana, nice monday, mp3 mashups (new locations here), pros and cons, Lost is Zork (even moreso with the green monitor), connections to people, fish heads, chipmunk stripes

4 years ago – Memorial day, hell in miniature, new mouse, zombie, quiet day, little house

5 years ago – comment screening, monty burns, ch-57, silly newt, matrix reloaded explanation

6 years ago – Prezzies and rain, springer, peanut butter soda, tempestmir introduces Newt to Newt. LRsetup program crashes out, sleeping Friday five

7 years ago – pervicacious, time changes, Mikey passes away, walkies, Hubris and Gnosis, heh yuh dun?, evil news

8 years ago – polytron, country musicGeotargetVisitor Map

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9298 – friday

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I need never hear the phrase “eyes like gimlets” or variant “gimlet-eyed” again. I like the word gimlet and all, but enough is enough.

Unrelated, I could go for some tasty quiche. Had some blah pad thai at Noodles & Co. in annapolis while we sought out Alan’s Birthday prezzie. It didn’t do much for me, but the cookies and cream milkshake en route home was quite good.


BHK reminded me of the Geister game… you can play it online at BrittspielWelt ! (If you see scottobear there, come say howdy!) If I can get BHK into the online version, maybe we’ll pick up (or make a home version of) the board game… plus… BrittspielWelt has a nice collection of Carcassone w/ expansions, not just Yucata‘s Hunters and Gatherers. (if you’re on yucata, say hi to scottobear there, too!)

Rules to ghost in comments – simple game – but fun.


Dreamt that Tigger taught Pye to smoke, and that he nearly burned down the in-laws house after getting too close to the gas fireplace.

Newton knows that kitties shouldn’t smoke! (And so does pip !)


“Hard knocks life” from Annie stuck in my head this morning, and throughout the day.

Just this part: (It’s all I know!)

It’s the hard-knock life for us!
It’s the hard-knock life for us!

‘Stead of treated,
We get tricked!

‘Stead of kisses,
We get kicked!

It’s the hard-knock life!

 Got no folks to speak of so,
It’s the hard-knock row we hoe!

Cotton blankets,
‘Steada wool!

Empty Bellies
‘Steada full!

It’s the hard-knock life!


Don’t know why.. my life is pretty keen, and without want.


May the Great Gazoo rest in peace. Plus, Blazing Saddles and the CB show. Thanks for the fun, Harv. Now go do that voodoo that you do so well.


The international space station’s only toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost no place to go. NASA officials responded, “You should have thought of that before you left home.”


This is what happens when I don’t mash the strongly agree or strongly disagree buttons. I respond to a few things with “Well, it depends…”

You are a

Social Liberal
(60% permissive)

and an…

Economic Moderate
(43% permissive)

You are best described as a:
Centrist










Link: The Politics Test



1 year ago – hot in the courthouse, shaved ice, adam and jimmy’s graduation, more lj spam, move to own domain?

2 years ago – nice time with danny, rocker meme, mm call

3 years ago – memorial day, bhk fridge magnet pic, dr who

4 years ago – spotty notepad frenzy, mood theme editor fixed, General Tao’s tofu, My cam catches right before lights out, Newt-bt pic, Nose beeps, streams of thought, sleepy newt wallpaper (or why using arrow keys is hard with the boy on the desk)

5 years ago – google news, kev, easter island, barcode, got a lovely peek-in.

6 years ago – complaining about the weather, disappearing languages, palm piccies that need to be re-uploaded, smoke ring gun

7 years ago – hoi polloi, nice walk, memory stream, super chicken, ask me a question, ostriches

8 years ago – stream of thought re:Newt, Fritz & AprilGeotargetVisitor Map

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Adam’s grandfather is in a bad way – he was sent to the hospital last weekend, was looking better on Tuesday, not as good yesterday. I hope he hangs in there, and mends up… at his age and level of health, I suspect he may be about done.

Was a bit sick this morning – nervous about the epidural , maybe… or low blood sugar. No food after 8am, minimal sips of water if needed. Still pretty sore afterward, but I should feel a lot bette rni the next few days.

BHK made Thai for me last night – make my last meal before the fast a good one. Green Curry veggies over rice, with a side of tofu in peanut sauce. The lady knows what I like to eat. After the epidural, we got Mexican – it was good, but I couldn’t finish my plate. Leftovers lasted until about 9pm.


Why the kitties like the windowsill – .newtcamleep2.newtcam bird. Clicks embiggen, as always.

Side note – Newt and Pyecam were down part of the day last monday – ftp server was broken, but it booted back up once I let the provider know.


Creepypasta – are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on 4chan. (could be upsetting to some viewers / nsfw, etc – it is on encyclopedia dramatica and 4chan after all.)


"A team at the university of Pittsburgh has finally advanced a 2002 technology enough for use in prosthetic limbs, the targeted application all along. Training computer models to the firing patterns of the neurons in the parts of the brain that control motion, they are able to project the intentions of a monkey to a robotic arm, which follows the will of the animal. The sad thing about the articles is that the beauty of the mathematics used to create and train the models is totally ignored."


Coverage at the BBC – This of course brings significant hope to amputees and other other people with physical disabilities.
(Note that this research has been going on for quite some time.)


1 year ago – outline of the day in reverse, pictures, annapolis, iana, tasty food, gastric psa from BHK,

2 years ago – weather, doodles, network, nat’l drivers test, why can’t we be friends,

3 years ago – out and about with with Danny, pics, palm doodles, Lost season 2 trailer, web screenplay, classic story role – wayfarer, year of the monkey, fridge magnet piccies, work senora, kalpa

4 years ago – beekeeping, silly rainbow, day after tomorrow palm review, COH, Danny pic at sushi, D&B, feeling sickie, bro issues

5 years ago – ljmatch, checkup, wet out, bob hope 100, letter from Rachel, banning superman as a baby name, dr doom sued.

6 years ago – bookstore, Viking ships, braids, Underoos, bad Iran Barbie grammar,people watching, photogenic folks, brothel/church/bowling memory

7 years ago – – evil news, phaster search, music poll, first sighting of the man-monkeyin Delhi, The Gambler, meemee sent me a colored picture of bubbles, candid newt pic (one red eye, one green eye!), south of the border, story about my brother and myself when I was 8, space movies.

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BHK got me a 2 new bathing suits – long-knee Hawaiian-style jams, one in blue print, the other red. I have never before owned more than one bathing suit… This is what marriage does to a fellow.

I can dig it.


The Homebrew Channel, elegant homebrew launcher for the Wii (new from the creators of the Twilight Hack; don’t miss the video) [via]

Also, Dr. Mario on the Wii is a hoot.

On the TF2 front – I want to try the steel map. It looks like it’d be a hoot with a large crew. noclip has launched a 24/7 steel server – The IP is 71.126.150.164.


Vacuation Card Game [Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Cary Playing Cards Database] : Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities



Bare Food Cupboards More Common in So. Md. – Southern Maryland Headline News

Most surprising and saddening to me was the following –

Brenda DiCarlo of the Southern Maryland Food Bank said she has noticed people making between $30,000 and $50,000 a year having to rely on grocery assistance from their local food pantries. Her statistics show the number of families seeking assistance has topped 10,000 this year, and that is only for the pantries she supplies.

“There’s been a huge increase…our pantries have had a 40 percent increase in new families needing food, and a 50 percent increase for returning families…there just isn’t enough money to put gas in the car and keep the lights on…a lot of people now just can’t make ends meet.”

DiCarlo’s first recommendation to people is that they call the Department of Social Services. Those who do not qualify for food stamps can still get a complete listing of pantries and programs in their area.


Blogging – It’s Good for You. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery. (I’m a little doubtful, but the numbers are there, at the moment.)



1 year ago – CNR RIP, bro doing ok, skeptics on 9 million bicycles,

2 years ago – johnny dollar, Alex toth RIP, JQ scotto factoid, on call hurts my social life, lj as a graph, old time radio, I’m Elmo?!?, movie guest stars, Juice newton, newtcam back online, ex-boss smells of skimming

3 years ago – weekend plans, green acres in french, rob zombie, to the devil a daughter, mandarin orange salad, haiku, fridge magnet message

4 years ago – random comments, emperors, popes, livestock, Doc Hastor, Buddha finger, jail complaints

5 years ago – rain, bro, bubba ho-tep, expressions I use, MONKFISH, hipster, nasty letter to Danny, compatibility meme

6 years ago – bday, razor, rain, sleeping late with cat, 10 ways to sneak fabric into the house, gollum cabdriver, victrola

7 years ago – I see you, obstreperous, Memorial Day, william gedney, launch, linux,Harmony review, Hank Scorpio, burgundy, Vegan Worcestershire Sauce,freakies

8 years ago – nuffinGeotargetVisitor Map