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9048 – mon

A quick peek of my office, taken with my phone’s camera this morning – not seen, the bright moon and Venus, first thing upon leaving the house this morning. Brilliant. Wave hi to DC!

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Lunch of leftover Chinese food was almost as good as lunch of leftover BHK casserole… but not quite. Dang tasty, anyhow.

Strange… we had trick or treaters the day after Halloween, and were only too happy to give our crusty old candies that didn’t make the grade the night prior. I thought it was a fairly unique situation, but it seems that it’s not an isolated incident. Note – we gave cute little kids the good stuff – chocolate, and smarties for Daniel (as he’s lactose intolerant), but any teens that came by without costumes got nasty stale necco wafers and clove candies that we hadn’t eaten in about a year.

Side note… do I really have to link to what trick or treaters or Halloween is? I doubt it.

We don’t have much candy left at the house, but gals at work still have huge bowls set out. It’s a real challenge not to grab a kit-kat when it’s right in my flight path.

I wonder how old is the “right” age to stop trick or treating… I always figured the cutoff was age 12, but maybe that was just me.

BHK had a meeting with the city, and afterward, we met at Thursday’s with the in-laws for a late supper.


Zombie Picture taken on the metro a few days back… good ol’ Halloween.


Considering that a Ford Model-T got as good or better mileage than most of today’s U.S. automobiles, I guess it’s not suprising that Henry Ford was, according to this 1934 profile, well ahead of the game in biofuels and bioplastics:

Science is discovering means of transforming products of the farm into materials for manufacture. Through his experimental farms, Henry Ford now successfully converts the common soy bean into automobile parts and an oil which makes up 30 per cent of the Ford car finish.

Mr. Ford declares that this plastic industry, this evolution of industrial agriculture, still is in its infancy and that its possibilities and opportunities are limitless. As an example, he points out that his laboratories have produced from the soy bean a tough, hard, yet inexpensive material which stands a pressure of 9,000 pounds without breaking… Ford and his chemists envision the time when automobile bodies, houses, skyscrapers and even great monuments may be fabricated from the soy bean.

Then again: maybe biofuels aren’t such a good idea, anyway.

via treehugger / kottke


1 year ago – butterfly world, swensons, pix

  • Pictures taken (and more )- giant lobster with a smile, butterfly world, one-legged day of the dead guy, iguanas

2 years ago – lithgow soup, hot in apt, STUKA!! memory, lonliness %, bus riverwalk pic, sasha/magda, bro, chicken little, tiki pic

3 years ago – ft laud pix, incredibles, win security hole, MUDD, 68th recovery

4 years ago – stream of thought, sports clix first view, first use of hr-dividers regularly?, Daler Mehndi!, interaction

5 years ago – Singing horses, SPEAR LANCASTER!, Newtie Pic, Vote For DUKES!, cutup poetry, heroclix

6 years ago – superhero dream, evil news, Daler Mehndi, vote poll, felon poll,Q&A poll, sleep ramble, FE-co the wonder dog, posting ~6 entries aday, Entry #3152

7 years ago – dead links, real change, and a trip to see Charlie’s Angels Geotarget

9047 – sun

I was feeling particularly creaky this morning – got up an hour earlier than expected – So, BHK turned on the ol’ recorder, wand we checked out what was sitting on the magnetic circle, patiently waiting for us to view and delete.

The Soup ! Woo hoo!

Invader Zim Halloween Special… groovy!

Some werewolf thing… feeble, at best.. we watched for about 15 minutes, and then purged it.

And then, BHK found the shimmering diamond amongst my recordings of good eats and house…. Namely, Legally Blonde, the Musical on MTV. I was surprised to discover that there’s an Internet Broadway Database, kin to the Internet Movie Database.

She near to squealed with joy! Clapping her hands and exclaiming hooray, we sat down to watch it… I enjoyed watching her watch the show, more than the show itself, which was entertaining… I liked the bit about the Sorority being the Greek chorus, and the animal training of her dog was well done, especially for a stage production.

It was 3 hours long, dear journal. Thank goodness for high-speed commercial skipping. Without the breaks, I’d guess it was more like 100 minutes.

After tube-time, we spent a few moments doing e-mail, and whatnot we realized that the kitties were three meals from consuming us in our sleep so it was off to the store to pick up food-type reinforcements for the boys.

Though we thought only to grab some kitty-kibble and dash, once inside, we were sidetracked by a few things… namely peppermint candy cane flavored Hershey’s kisses and the holiday display. By the time we got out, supper time was upon us and there was a chinese food joint across the street that I’d never tried. Problem solved.

We got home, laid out a picnic blanket in the living room, set down the food and watched our remaining Ugly Betty (more Broadway – Wicked, this time.) and a Ramsey’s kitchen Nightmares from the UK. while we folded laundry.

A downright pleasant day, all told.

1 year ago – St. Aug pix

2 years ago – newt on keyboard, herm mending, two things meme, smackers, moving out, more oilman pix, godray/talkers, newt pix

3 years ago – newt switch, hollywood pd, database shuffle, texas chainsaw w bunnies, patriot act, patriotism

4 years ago – Frankie still around, locusts, lj pops, back heal pic, cool linkies, meanie babble

5 years ago – verb, palm cave art, Halloween candy gone.

6 years ago – RAW, Haiku, Tolkien, dead links

7 years agoSmitten, David Duke, Movies, FLIFF Geotarget

9046 – sat – nutshell outline

Saturday in a nutshell –

BHK playing XM-christmas all day long – Country Christmas replacing U-pop for the season? UNFAIR, I cry!

Allergy shots

  • painless, quick.
  • ATMs nearby charge too much
  • coffee at Giant’s Starbucks and cash back

Craft show

  • nice wreath
  • got a few little trinkets for Em
  • not much there of value
  • cookies.

Christmas Shopping

  • got some stuff for the kitties, adam and larry. Also, Hickory Farms nibble platter purchased

Candy Store

  • more treats for Chris and Larry, Chocolate-covered pretzels for me, java-cocoa for BHK

In-laws –

  • Watched Sabrina at with Adam, BHK and in-laws
  • just a snacky hickory farms / dip chip dinner
  • Happiness (french accent/ phallus joking)

got our wedding bands back –

  • BHK’s now inscribed – “oar to oar”
  • mine now inscribed – “wing to wing”
  • discussed lime-vanilla ice ring

Drove to Aardvark’s

  • 8-point buck sighted
  • BHK wants me to rescue a baby deer with a lasso.
  • Bought some treats for Danny and Eryx
  • Got promotional D&D figure/character sheet, d20
  • Got promotional Flying Dutchman Pirates Ship
  • Glow in the dark dice
  • unicorn dice
  • alien dice
  • crooked sided dice
  • bella sara cards

1 year ago – poetry I didn’t write, ran out of juice, newt pix in comments, GG sacked

2 years ago – Roger Ramjet, Underdog, and “Tick-tock” Tyler. Super Drugs, away!, great icon, work woes, condo stuff, power outage map

3 years ago – bush “wins”, monkey attacks, kerchiefs, hillary ahnold

4 years ago – lots of lj “coming soon”, AIM costumes, got a pointless commode, , nice chat, Awesome music, eye placement, 50 icons available, Pellucidar, City of Dead girls

5 years ago – Smitty-chat, bunnies, SOP, heroclix painting, ghost busters toons online

6 years ago – trogs, color-poll, hurricane, Hateful things

7 years ago – R&J Geotarget

8 years ago – Newt moves to kibble from liquid foodGeotarget

9045 – fri

Ah, good ol’ Friday. Friday, Friday, Friday. The whole weekend ahead of us!


PDA battery pooped out while I was on train.


Brisk out today!


NaNoWriMo… not doing it. Though I am seriously working to cracking down and devoting an hour each day to writing and fitness.



Where’s Newt?, originally uploaded by blackhellkat.

Pye knows… he’s just bluffin’.


Heh. I dig today’s sinfest.

Holy Samsara, Jesusman! Heal! Bless! Enlighten! Forgive! That oughtta show ’em!

1 year ago – Waiting for work to click over, cat armor, Kiss Coffee, butterflies and fishies, pic inside the log-trailer

2 years ago – condo victory, graffiti stickers pictures

  • pictures – power outage, graffiti, footless runner

3 years ago – fabric one atom thick, trick or treat memories, political honking, bandwith use, stormtroopers, al goldstein homeless, bro

4 years ago – Magicians companion, mending, brother visits outside, Vasser-mobiles, feeling my back, through bandage

5 years ago – Naughty Newt, Sleepy Newt pics

6 years ago – PI-Opener, Junior Fired, evil news, pawnshop poll, DBC gets sold out by a competitor, hala’s cousin’s desk a box, CH is a weirdo,Kaiser/Caeser/Czar

7 years ago – first instance for voter snark, seeds, met gael, Love’s Philosophy Geotarget

9043 – thurs –

Skipped the jacket on the commute to and from work today – 55-65F isn’t too bad with a long sleeved shirt. Once we hit 40, I’m all about the windbreaker and more.


Today is my momster’s 60th birthday. It’s funny… it seems like she should be both older and younger than that. I guess it averages out. My grandmother (her mom) just turned 85, and my bro just turned 35. 25 year split on them makes it easy for me to track the ages.


Hunter… by *sergey1984 on deviantART
White Tiger 2. by *sergey1984 on deviantART
White Tiger under water by *sergey1984 on deviantART
Big Fish or White Tiger. by *sergey1984 on deviantART
White Tiger by *sergey1984 on deviantART

Holy moley. Awesome pics of a white tiger… found via icanhascheezburger of all places.


Also, It’s Day of The Dead! Sugar Skulls for Everyone!!


BHK and I are going to celebrate tomorrow (as it’s a bit late tonight)
by playing some Zombie Fluxx and Killer Bunnies !


I dig today’s WOD –

macaronic (mak-ah-RON-ik) adjective

Involving a mixture of languages.

[From Latin macaronicus, from Italian dialect maccarone (macaroni), probably alluding to the jumble of macaroni and sauce on a plate.]


Halloween Backdrop is down from the website… I really need to spend a few moments and do a less dark redesign. Something that’s still organic, and cavelike, but more daytime, cheerful. The Sea cave concept and petroglyphs still come to mind. Maybe once time is a bit less tight.


What do you get when you dump 10 tons of surplus weapons-grade sodium into a frozen lake? Boom ! (via fullygeek )

(The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration. From a January 13, 1947 newsreel available at the Internet Archive.)


1 year ago – BHK and I at Old City house in St Aug, skates and ray pix

2 years ago – a/c out, back to the office from bso, costumes seen, power robot

3 years ago – robotman punkin, drac, mom’s b-day, life overview, keywords

4 years ago – Mending up the back (staple-pic), term metrosexual, fun linkies & news items, buddy map meme

5 years ago – Expedition with Danny

6 years ago – Love-o-lantern, candy corn and smiling fortune

7 years ago – Saint Isidore, Fake Penis, Steve Allen, Destroy the Moon, Kokinoshu Geotarget

8 years ago – Newt not skin and bones any more… broke a poundGeotarget

9032 – mon

Happy Birthday, graypumpkin!
monkeybday

BHK picked up Trauma Center, and it’s pretty darn good… the instruction is sparse, so you learn as you go. I didn’t like that aspect initially, but I rather like it now. You can surely tell it’s an imported game. We played it over dinner – I had spicy lentil soup and BHK that the ale & cheese. Yummy, filling, and just right on a cozy evening at home.


I wonder how a place like this works.
Is it something simple, like marking the rooms with colors that match a wristband?
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Some more autumnal minipics –
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1 year ago – gp bday, no viva broward, condo interrogation, humans b gone, work time fun, afterlife, fallen art

2 years ago – rs promoted to “office manager”, existential supplies, on call, mcd’s veggie Indian fare, gp bday, sketchplanet, tightrope bear, weather rough, creepy doll pic, zodiac killer poll

3 years ago – GP b’day, more office bricolage, image searches, friendy-meme, crime-scene creepy crawlies

4 years ago – RSP poll, Gamma World Memories, How to shave a cat’s nose, FCC shenanigans

5 years ago – Sniper strikes again, weird news, Cool Rubik’s Cube, Bookworm (it’s on my palm, as I type), Nice thoughts, Painting minis, AW community gets uppity. it’s now deleted. Rote 560 with my bike in front, bathy-Newt

6 years ago – Colloidal silver, geek test, memories of my first adrenaline rush, Los Dias de los Muertos, pieces of eight

7 years agomet agent orange, lite brite, 2am french toast run, painted desert dreams Geotarget

9030 – sat

Did quite a lot today – this weekend is themed all things Autumnal, I think. Visited a harvest festival, looked at trees, visited a tiny corn maze… and got my allergy shots. Best part of the day was a long and comfy road trip to mount airy – we has a picnic lunch behind the firehouse, looking down the hillside along the blue ridge mountains. A cheese sammich on a kaiser roll never tasted so good!  BHK is the best road-adventure cohort ever!

more pictures when flickr uploader works better!

meanwhile, here are some photos from today –

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S6300472 . S6300467 . S6300466 . S6300465 .

S6300464 . S6300463 . S6300462 . S6300461 .

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Much more interesting full size. I rather like the rusted out gas pumps.

1 year ago – hovering cocoon, stank eye pics, reinforced goat nock, monkey in a snow suit

2 years ago – Weebles, love, weather, skully doodle, skully bead, 50 questions, protecting kids, wilma’s a comin’

3 years ago – rain, ghostie-doodle, office bricolage, tv-b-gone, flash magnetic fridge letters, Lost, Cowboy Bebop, coke more mind-controlling, kenya,LH/ADP vs RI/BK. Guess who won?, fight

4 years ago – Rain, bro, work, roman forceps, human spontaneous involuntary invisibility, anatomic pathology case of the month, giant monster monopoly, broken post, referrer spoofing

5 years ago – spiced tofu, William Christopher, cute movie ads, 2001, rate my kitten, machine issues, leather man costume, boat show

6 years ago – pneumonia haiku, chores, bad dreams, rain, champa, pre-wetted toilet paper, Scotto factoids

7 years ago – Shot pool w/Robb, Technical Virgin, halloween, bro, Cathi b’day coming, late work, movies, cej Geotarget

 

9029 – fri

working streaming music for wii – http://www.finetune.com (or better – http://www.finetune.com/wii/aboutwii.html )

We broke down and got the internet channel for the wii last night – looks good! Already bookmarked some news sites, newtcam and lj. it reads pretty well, especially in single column mode. unfortunately, pandora doesn’t stream audio to the tv, but youtube works well. I’m going got try to locate some good streaming audio sites that aren’t too memory intensive and use flash or java rather than a proprietary system… maybe live365? Next to try is surfing to an mp3 to play it.


The autumn leaves are really starting to pop… on our way this morning to work, BHK and I decided that we’re going to have to go on a photo-mission sometime this weekend.


Brought Doughnuts into the office via Dunkin’s – they seemed to go over well. I’m glad it’s friday and the weekend has begun!


LONDON (Reuters) – Elephants can literally smell danger, according to a study on Thursday that shows the animals can sniff out whether humans are friends or foes. Continue reading 9029 – fri

9028 – thurs

Amongst the top keywords locating my website this week-

melons
hero machine
freaky
heromachine
mothra
beatnik
boners
wench
shenanigans
weinerflap
batgirl
monkey robot arm
saucermen
keen
newt
kitty hawk
newtcam
pictures of jetpacks
prettygirl
tunneling babies


current magical drink – Autumn colors are shifted 55mhz on the visual spectrum. I think BHK slipped me some.


This is the world’s largest online collection of found grocery lists. Why am I fascinated by this sort of thing? I think it’s the handwriting.


Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English 40% Yankee 5% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern

Quote of the day –

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
— Mark Twain


Click to view my Personality Profile page

Definitions – ESTP

Multiple intelligences –

Naturalist
Visual/Spatial
Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Bodily/Kinesthetic


Moment of Lyric – They Might Be Giants – The Mesopotamians (video via Kat)

We’ve been driving around
From one end of this town to the other and back
But no one’s ever seen us (No one’s ever seen us)
Driving our Econoline van (And no one’s ever heard of our band)
And no one’s ever heard of our band

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

Then they wouldn’t understand a word we say
So we’ll scratch it all down into the clay
Half believing there will sometime come a day
Someone gives a damn
Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

The Mesopotamish sun is beating down
And making cracks in the ground
But there’s nowhere else to stand
In Mesopotamia (No one’s ever seen us)
The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one’s ever heard of our band)
The land where we invisibly rule

As the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

This is my last stick of gum
I’m going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
Except for Ashurbanipal, who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-Daren

Hey, Ashurbanipal
I’m a Mesopotamian
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

“Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
I thought you crashed your car”
“No, man, I’ve been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
For the Mesopotamians”

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh

We’re the Mesopotamians
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh


Happy 7th B-day, Miz Lexie Luthor! I can’t believe you’ve grown so much!

I will sing the umlaut song for you.

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut

That is what I play all day long

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut

Night and day I play this song

umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut-umlaut


1 year ago – Gilmore-phooey, self port, CSI, deep sleep, emergency contact info for Floridians, fried coke, choco-skulls, Erlking

2 years ago – Lex 5, condo, bro leaves sh, mugshots odf stuffed animals, flavor quiz, Lost figs, hurricane wilma boomerangs around on us, briny breezes bro, cat-o-lantern, cthulhu lp

3 years ago – Lex is 4, Superman: Secret ID, Detlev, Ultimate Windows Boot CD,Walkabout pics, Jon Stewart on Crossfire, Conspiracy Cartoon,Abba/Cthulhu, flaming text msgs, Jeb sucks

4 years ago – lovechat, transubstantiation, D, Lost in translation, Green Bean drink, Japanese Ice Cream, Lemon diet coke=yuk

5 years ago – tombstone icon, lazer tag, taco viva (it’s gone?!), Wachovia, spam headers

6 years ago – Horror, Noir, bad resumes, Sappho and her partner split, first viewing of Enterprise, Reading Dhalgren

7 years ago – Alexis Rose is Born!, Floyd, people come, people go Geotarget

9027 – weds

‘Second Earth’ found, 20 light years away

Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky “second Earth” circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone.

The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth’s nearest stars, a cool red dwarf called Gliese 581, 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.

Measurements of the planet’s celestial path suggest it is 1½ times the size of our home planet, and orbits close to its sun, with a year of just 13 days. The planet’s orbit brings it 14 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. But Gliese 581 burns at only 3,000C, half the temperature of our own sun, making conditions on the planet comfortable for life, with average ground temperatures estimated at 0 to 40C. Researchers claim the planet is likely to have an atmosphere. The discovery follows a three-year search for habitable planets by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla in Chile.


I’m rather surprised that you have to pay Wii points to get the internet channel, (it was free until the end of June 2007, while in beta) but you get news and weather for free. I am sort of digging everybody votes – and that was free, too. The browser will probably be the first thing I drop points on… not like I really need it, with I don’t know how many connective devices in the house. PDA, PSP, X number of laptops, and Big Brain.

Contrary to my original belief, the points aren’t given as rewards for doing well, but can only be purchased. Pfth.

I’ll be interested to see what Newtcam and my LJ reading list looks like on the big tv.

BHK got Wii Play (good excuse to get another wii remote, and I’m a sucker for minigames – see Wario) – a lot of fun. I like the billiards game the most.

I suspect that our next few Wii purchases will be one or two of the following:


Two quotes, both pretty significant to me –

“Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.” — Mike Wickett

“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” — John Donne


Want to move from one Journal / Blog site to another?

It will allow one to migrate or move blogs from LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress and publish to LiveJournal, Blogger, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress – or possibly clone a blog.

the download is available at
http://linuxlore.blogspot.com/2007/09/livejournal-to-blogger-or-blogger-to.html

I’m going to test it out on my own server – just to see how it runs. I’m not leaving LJ, but it’s nice to know I can run a backup.


I’d like to get a shave with a straight-razor with my next haircut.


1 year ago – headless horseman, windmills, selfport, bhk gab

2 years ago – condo pesks, bcl pic, knit zombies, library comics, balloon criminals, atom sponge, psycho pirate, hawkman thermometer, shazam hulk, varsity rule, spectre

3 years ago – Danny/Kool Aid Man, Silent Running, Lappie first loses charge, weather change, MD witchcraft, Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull

4 years ago – big brain, doctor, palm doodles, 5 things, purple frog, shaky-photo

5 years ago – nicer weather, glow zombies, newt pic, dreams, quiz, port 135, Erica, Bailey, Dexter, hat pins, zombie icon test

6 years ago – Tor Johnson, dulcet, brown study, Bin Laden sued, sick at home, css,Orisinal games, Knight’s colors, friendly ultralight helps migration,Glenda, Dave Macs me, Library thoughts, network names

7 years ago – work, TorT, 5 good things, Arnie-flicks, nails in a post Geotarget

9026 – tues

BHK got me a Wii for our anniversary! I spotted it pretty much as soon as I sat down in the living room.
My Wii Code is 2667 2084 2657 3823. Get your own WiiBadge at WiiBadge.com!
Our online Number is 2667-2084-2657-3823 if any Wii peeps would like to add us.  Leave your wii number in the comments if you’d like me to add you!

Now I just have to find a game to play online with Bugah, since it seems the sports game that comes with it doesn’t go online multi-player. So far, I’m very good at baseball – terrible at tennis. BHK is excellent at bowling.


Also via BHK – PSA –Dogs in Danger – Stuff like this breaks my heart. (Dogs in Danger is a nonprofit national shelter outreach program at the forefront of a grassroots movement trying to help shelters save the lives of millions of innocent dogs.) I honestly can’t stay on that page very long – it makes me too sad.


Happy Birthday, Peradouro!


I had no idea that Batroc the leaper was a play on Batrachia, – I feel like a bit more of a copy cat with my old super “Grenouille” now.

Speaking of Marvel – Beaucoupkev‘s got me wanting to pick up a used copy of Marvel Ultimate Alliance now.

It’s got MODOK for corn sakes. I can only hope it also has Arnim Zola.


Zombie Fluxx will be waiting for us by Thursday! (And Aardvark has a demo pack coming, too! Hooray for spreading the fun around in the store!)


Transformers is out on DVD today – we’ll add it to the Netflix queue – even if it’s terrible, I’d like to check it out. I make a lousy robot.
but BHK’s cracks me up.


When people walk with change jingling in their pockets, I imagine that they’re wearing spurs.


Local Gamers are into Autoduel? I may need to investigate this further. BHK and I could spend some time getting up to speed, and maybe play some pyramid games soon, too.


From Eat for a week – corn soup (not like we need it right now… BHK makes wonderfully portioned meals – we tend to stretch it for at least half a week anyhow!)


1 year ago – Employee of the Month (Harland was the only good part of that flick), self ports, Halloween poetry, Shaolin Soccer, Infra-Man (man of Iron), youtube tools, McSpyware, PDF pad

2 years ago – hidden doors, thrown cameras, TV themes, skin mass cat, color words, Rowlf stamp, MSH gaming manuals in pdf, stabbing over microwave oven use, walkabout pics

3 years ago – cs progress, newt snuggle pics

4 years ago – riverworld wasn’t so good, net record, surgery prep, new techs

5 years ago – hop-frog, sugar skulls, Oktoberfest, newt-viking, Thomas?, sarsaparilla herb & Root beer recipe, newt-hidey pic, finn drama, Fort Lauderdale Massacre, oatmeal

6 years ago – panjandrum, greenmail, sick, zombie icon is born, stories of strength, what sort of monster-poll

7 years ago – football + nitrous, Limnognathia maerski, tv divorce, taco poem, insult quote, good fortune Geotarget

9025 – mon

chilly morning – waiting at the train station for my shuttle to arrive saw me trying to blow smoke rings with just hot breath. I couldn’t do it – not sure if it can be done… but it is fun watching steam flow slowly from your nostrils. You can pretend to be Fin Fang Foom, spraying acidic mist at imaginary foes.


Dinner was nice, but I had very little appetite – wrote my brother a letter, gently asking him not to stay in Broward county, but instead to try starting his life fresh in points north – maybe Tampa. A toxic “support system” awaits if he returns to Hollywood and its environs.


BHK pointed out to me that you can buy mp3 songs on Amazon now – with no itunes restrictions, for $.10 less per song than iTunes. It’s about time, and I’m all for non-proprietary formats or RIAA controls.


for later ref – http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/windows/


hmm.. lore on portal. The game sounds shorter than I thought, but still highly entertaining.


100 portable apps for USB drive (windows and Mac)


1 year ago – nice time with dan, pictures, photochroms, RS not carpooling over

2 years ago – things the same, invisible man pic, work gt

3 years ago – conspiracy rotary, sweet rain, Scotto q&A, handwriting analysis

4 years ago – noise with Sam and Frankie, big brain surgery plan, Riverworld, weird pics, execution map, speakeasies, tiki art, windows in bios, spoilers

5 years ago – 9-5 ends, rocket belts, palm doodles, Cej b’day, Szechuan Spiced Tofu recipe

6 years ago – dreams of my ex, sex, and giant ants in the old west, nipguards, random aims.

7 years ago – spirals, tom jones, crazy drunk link, newt’s crinkle flea, dr t and the women, and a cool, dream-comic strip Geotarget

9024 – sun

No Zombie Fluxx yet! ack! We’ll be picking it up next weekend, hopefully. I’d like to have it in time for Halloween!

Went grocery shopping and then to get a Wii, but they were sold out – I nearly picked up a copy of Portal to tide me over, and may next time if the Wii isn’t in stock- I hadn’t seen any portal reviews on the new Orange box (Half-Life2 Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 (multi player), and Portal, plus previous releases of HL2 and HL2:episode one) I think it’ll be worth picking up, possibly just for portal alone – TF2 looks pretty fun as well – I really like the “Incredibles meets First Person Shooter” school of art. I’ll likely download it from Steam rather than pay for it at Target, unless the price is significantly different.

Post-shopping, we swung by the in-laws to watch The Natural with them and Louise. Not a bad movie… not as good as I remembered it, but maybe I was tired, too.

We went home, went up to our “treehouse” for a late supper of leftover Chinese food for me, and fresh cheddar on whole wheat crackers for BHK – watched the first episode of Journeyman – slow rolling but got better at the end. Quantum Leap redux – seemingly uncontrolled time travel, following a person to set things right, can bring items back and forth through time. He also seems to return to his home time, unlike Sam.

We also watched the Simpsons – corn maze / police dog episode. Poor to fair writing. I think the best part of the treehouse is just curling up with BHK and the boys for solid snuggles and comfort – especially nice at the end of the day.

It’s a good thing I gobbled up what I did – our fridge is now officially *full*. I don’t think anything else could be put in there, without knocking something over.

I wish I had Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy abilities… I really don’t like running up and down stairs to the treehouse with stuff or just to see what’s going on once I’m settled in and comfy.

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1 year ago – mostly pics and video, gaming w/danny, election rigging

2 years ago – monster name, break dancing Dr. Zaius, Tarot meme, friday 5, 3 in a row picture

3 years ago – palm doodles, gray pumpkin ‘shop, dollhouse murders, flashtub

4 years ago – Halloween

5 years ago – moon pie contest, luck theory, work issues

6 years ago – love song, nap-coma, Cosquilloso, por supuesto, admirer poll, 28

7 years ago – membrane keyboard, ladies man, R.A.Wilson, donations, dogma Geotarget

9023 – sat

Rise and Shine! Early Bird gets the worm! Road trip to Virginia today with BHK! (in-laws and Louise will caravan with us, in another car)

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One of the ideas that BHK and I bandied about on the road trip after making up random drink names… like “The devil’s shoelaces”, “Cool Breeze” and “Bag o’ Tremors”, we started thinking about magical drinks that replicate experiences – “skydiving”, “slap in the face”, “Karate victory” were some of the more tame ones.

Stopped at Sheetz to get a nibble mid-trip…
Observations:

  • garlic fries good but swimming in oil at the bottom
  • mac and cheese bleh.
  • Cinnamon pretzel needs no frosting.
  • Coffee drink was sort of weak.
  • How many teenagers lurk there as a social thing?
  • Cups leap out an attack patrons.

I think we’ll stick to pre-packaged foods next time.

While at Bugah and Em’s b-day, met Nana (great Gramma), The Gramma and Roy. We all went to an Italian place for supper – Joe’s. From the school of “HUGE portions of OK food” The spaghetti looked great, as did the lasagna. I tried a bite of the eggplant parm, which was a little bitter – my veggie sub did fine.

Speaking of the birthday, I was surprised to see that BHK and I were the only ones to get the 10 and 5 year old any toys! Next closest thing to a toy was a gumball machine bank. Oh, wait – I forgot. Louise got Em a toy cell phone and necklace. Bugah seems to dig the skateboard, but it looks like the learning curve may be a bit more steep than we had initially thought. I’m confident that he’ll be all over it soon.

After playing tanks and a few other mini-games, Bugah’s given me the Wii bug again. We may try and pick one up this weekend. I also played Destroy all Humans 2 on the xbox with Bugah, which seems to be a nice sequel to the one we have for our Xbox at home.

Em was a sweetie – leading me around by the hand – we played some concentration (using dominoes to match the number of pips) before leaving for dinner.

We made it back to our place about 11:30 – worn out from the day’s ruining around and socializing. My hip was a little creaky after the drive, but no ill effects aside from that.

1 year ago – work sickies, Internet lawsuit fraud, giant prehistoric Syrian camels, free hp Lovecraft audio books, john Mayer and Sheryl crow bear costume,

2 years ago – supercar, monkeytown usa, pi song, obey the bunny, nazi?

3 years ago – h-bot, walkabout pics, sammich girls, mockery troopers, living tissuejacket, ff2, dan dog, bro evicted, Eau de humanity, Templar

4 years ago – nightmare, tri-bloc embalming, bra sizes, angry kid, sex resource guide, sweetalyssm’s bday, alien abduction tags

5 years ago – restless, newt, poo-fuel, baby costumes, bike ride w/bro, chupacabra,laser jet temp tats, honest opinion, kung fu channel, quizzes

6 years ago – hector, ap bday, sleepies, landlord issues, luxury

7 years ago – kingdomality, jobs, ghost dog-bears Geotarget

9022 – fri

Ahhh.. now *there* is the October weather I’ve been waiting for! 55 degrees! That’s the stuff!

Random bit of fun – the other day I saw a cyclist riding around on a penny-farthing bicycle… in helmet, spandex shorts and so on. I would’ve almost preferred to see a bowler hat and waxed moustache, but the clash of modern and historical was even better, I think.


Halloweenie Survey –

Childhood

What is the first costume you remember wearing?
Masque of the Red Death

What was your favorite costume?
Tin foil robot was a fun one… glowstick eyes!

Best Halloween memory as a kid?
CANDY! CANDY! CANDY!

Worst Halloween memory as a kid?
Going to the Li’l Demon Disco way back when, and dealing with dumb older kids bossing little kids around.

Ever TP or egg a house?
Not houses… but we did egg some kids that were mean to us… see above. We got punished – rightfully so.

Did you steal other kids candy?
Nope… but I did make some trades that seemed awfully in my favor – I give you my smarties, and you give me your fun size snicker bars? sure!

Misc Questions

If you were a character in a horror movie, would you survive?
I hope so! I’d probably be the “safe guy” that dies after you think the monster was dispatched, but really wasn’t.

Would you live in a house that was rumored to be haunted?
Sure… I’d at least check it out.

Would you live in a house where someone had been murdered?
As long as the killer wasn’t around to repeat the crime, sure.

Other than a gun, name the first murder weapon that comes to mind?
Cinder Block. Oh, ouch. Why didn’t I think of poison or a knife?

Would you ever be a mortician?
Depends… I think maybe yes.

Do U fit serial killer profile?
I don’t think that I’m antisocial enough.

Do you believe people can be possessed?
No, I don’t.

What is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life?
Seeing my dad on his deathbed is pretty enduring.

How do you feel about death and dying?
I think that it’s something that happens – I can be pretty sensitive or pretty well-armored to it, depending on the situation.

Have you ever seen a dead body, other than in a funeral home?
Yup.

Were you afraid to go in the ocean after you saw Jaws?
I was, but I was a little kid! I got over it in under a week.

Would you eat a human if your life depended on it?
Probably. I hope I never have to find out.

What was your last nightmare?
I dreamed that my body was made of plastic squares, and pieces were left behind wherever I went… I was worried that I’d run out, because I couldn’t put the acrylic/lego type squares back on.

Rather be buried alive for a night or sleep next to a dead body?
Sleep next to a dead body.

As an Adult

Did you decorate your house?
Sure!

Did you decorate your livejournal/myspace/website?
Homepage, yes – lj, no.

Do you still dress up for Halloween?
Sometimes! I don’t know if we are this year.

How long have been thinking about this years costume?
Hasn’t leapt to mind yet – but last minute works.

Planing on attending any parties?
If we get invites yes… a kid-built haunted house is in the works!

What will you be this year?
Not sure… I might just be a candy vendor!

What was your favorite costume you wore?
Flaming Carrot

Favorite costume somone else wore?
Six-limbed gorilla!

Funniest Halloween moment?
Seeing a mime and a guy in a fairy princess outfit duke it out in the parking lot.

If money was not an issue, what is your dream costume?
I’ve wanted to be God before… with two hand puppets… right hand is a Jesus Puppet, left hand a Devil – Just me in blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word “God” on it. not that expensive… maybe a functional
ED-209 ?

Supernatural

Do you believe in ghosts?
I’d like to, but I suspect they don’t exist – at least not in any way defined that I’ve seen.

Have you ever seen one?
I’ve dreamt of them.

First thing that pops into your mind….

Murder weapon?
Cinder Block – same as before!

Scary movie?
Alien

Halloween?
Chernabog

Vampire?
Holy Water

Monster?
Sea Serpent

Haunted?
Mansion


The Small Press Expo will be held in Bethesda this weekend, Friday and Saturday. SPX is the biggest gathering of independent comic artists and cartoonists on the east coast and will feature many local artists from DC, Maryland and Virginia. I’ve got other plans (birthday party – even more fun, and pre-scheduled)


Movies I haven’t seen yet, but wouldn’t mind catching in the theater while they’re still out –

3:10 to Yuma
Darjeeling Limited
Michael Clayton
Eastern Promises
We Own The Night
The Dark Is Rising – yikes… really poor reviews. Maybe not.

Whoops – Dragon Wars movie is already kaput? That didn’t take long. I guess it’s just as well.

No movie tonight, however. We’re preparing for the previously mentioned party for Bugah and Em’s… we’re going to be pulling the in-laws and louise in tow, so it should be a humdinger.


1 year ago – autostitch selfport, lost city, acim guest speaker

2 years ago – amusement park pics, halloween card, paper batmobile, hello, fl deadly force law, lost on itunes

3 years ago – bro drama, holidays, frontiers, world atlas

4 years ago – big brain breaks, hunters / harvest moon

5 years ago – Newt tuckered, Mage knight, independent woman

6 years ago – mulct, poo-spray, error handling

7 years ago – syndicate wars, Doom Patrol, ups and downs, suffixes, sw quiz Geotarget