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9323 – Tuesday – man loses left side in accident, he’s all right now.

June 17, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

The first estimate on cutting down the dangerous trees in our yard is right at $5000. $3100 for removing the two trees near the house (with the one near the power lines costing the most) and 1800 for the ones near our elderly neighbor’s house. The tree guy said the one directly behind the house looks like its dying.

Second had the $3100 reduced to $2200 – we’ll see what the guys tomorrow think. Still waiting to see what’s to be done re: the Element’s windscreen.

Had in-laws over for veggie meatloaf, salad and stir-fry veggies – all were delicious. (Larry had hot dogs – still doesn’t want to try non-meat stuff … not like hot dogs are all that higher in critter content!)

This Thursday the 19th is, according to WMATA, “Dump the Pump Day.” Residents are supposed to take advantage of metro in order to see how much money they will save on commuting costs for a day. They are also sponsoring a related contest to guess the daily ridership on Thursday – you could win a $100 SmartTrip card.

Thanks to an anonymous whistle-blower, a Walgreens pill-flipping scheme has been blown wide open, according to CBS. "Pill-flipping" refers the practice of pharmacies that purposefully switch Medicaid patients to more expensive versions of certain drugs for the sole reason of collecting more money from the government. Naturally, when this happens, taxpayers pick up the bill. Athough, Walgreen’s officially denies any wrongdoing they have agreed to pay the government more than $35 million.

Open-Source Tower Defense is a Half-Life 2 Mod. You can choose from 4 upgradeable towers to see how long you can last protecting your castle against never ending waves of bugs. It’s a project of OneEyed that is now opensource for everybody to use.

Contains:
– Game Files
– Source Code
– Map Hammer .vmf file of the map.

Checkout the moddb website for more info over here.

1 year ago – 70 questions with bhk and scotto

2 years ago – cleaning day, flying rays, quizzes

3 years ago – Thai/sushi instead of Moroccan, retro illos, heat, tiresome week, groovy quote, shinto, Child sacrifices in London, hobo sign decoder sheet

4 years ago – audioblogger/pic remote links a no-no, bro being bad, domain shuffle (newt has an email now!), local language map

5 years ago – sleepy newt-pic, black spot, signmaker, Scott spellings, Man of iron-isms (game notes from 1995), talked with Doug Wu

6 years ago – Doug and Cathy, animal babies, Gaming. (wow… must be something about this week for reflection), Barbie, SQL for rgladiator, a kiss goodnight, forgotten silver balls.

7 years ago – Reminder that tomorrow is Kev’s Sister’s B’day, 7 things meme (I wonderhow many of those have changed?), missile silo home, how to be a superhero, superpower origin poll, enchiladas of doom

8 years ago – not a thing, but I know rough waters are ahead

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9316 – Friday the 13th

June 13, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Happy Birthday to Ldy, my littler big sis! she’s …what, 5 again this year?

I *still* have “froggy went a-coutrin’, he did ride” in my head.

I must’ve done something dreadfully bad to deserve this. Great… now I have pet shop boys in my head.

“What have I done? What have I done? What have I done to deserve this?”

Looking forward to a weekend without feeling too ill.

Artomatic. Book Sale. Father’s Day. Hive. Music by the beach? Gardening? Relaxing? A ride on the Trolley, maybe?

Am I forgetting something?

Maybe our Swarm of the Snakehead screener will arrive in time for a weekend viewing! (Writer Seth Hurwitz spotted my mention of it in my journal, and was kind enough to shoot us a review copy!)

BHK made a big salad from stuff at the farmers market – lots of yummy breads and other goodies, too. (Blueberry sun tea, some onion spread for the bread… it’s just all very delicious) – our neighbor went early, and brought her some corn and strawberries, too.

Tons of fireflies out tonight! That made it feel especially summery.

After supper, we watched “I now pronounce you chuck and larry” – it was what I expected, cute.

Random Newtcam / Pyecam archive shots – (They shoudl really be called Officecam and loftcam, since both boys go on both cams all the time.)

note the windows – most ~ at 10pm, but lightning kept striking nearby.

additional kitty pictures added for archival purposes. first is another leap shot.

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Mini-steamroller. We’re that much closer to having Killdozer / Soylent green havesting technology, I tells ya.

35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) spent 4 hours reading into the Congressional Record 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush.

1 year ago – If I could change one tihng about law books, $25 ticket, BHK went to the Newsomes, how the presidents stack up

2 years ago – draggy meeting, sofla mass transit planner, stress reliever ape, waiting, got vista beta, body heat, possum man, free comics, manatees

3 years ago – Lovies for ldy and sedef, tunnel vision, hukilau, danny, bro, speed racer for geico, cvs ood by the lb, dr who, impact font, pink floyd reuniting

4 years ago – Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime

5 years ago – Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics

6 years ago – Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.

7 years ago – perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation, Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news

8 years ago – April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals

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9314 – Wednesday

June 11, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Todays entry, via wordle –

Getting quite a bit better – still have a rattle in my chest and more coughing but the muscle aches and weakness is mostly gone. I’d say I’m currently firing on five out of eight cylinders.

A/c is now fully charged again – the repairman said that we’d be really baking without any refrigerant by Friday night. I’m glad BHK was there to explain what had been going on to him.

Tried calling my brother today – his voicemail is full. I haven’t heard from him since he was last bailed out. His hearing for the latest is in a week – I see in the public records that something was dismissed based on “Lack of Prosecution”. Not sure if it’s the same item, though. I need to research Thomas A Reynolds, it seems. Looks like his thing is real estate – probably an eviction notice long since passed.

BHK made ratatouille for dinner tonight, and the stars aligned for the movie to be playing on TV while we ate. Larry stuck with some pasta and sauce… BHK gave him some bake and eat tempura shrimp, too… He doesn’t know what he missed… zucchini, eggplant, tomato sauce, some olive oil in there… it was really good stuff.

Horror vacui:

Horror vacui is the filling of the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines and anything else the artist might envision. It may be considered the opposite of minimalism.

I love that I can still learn new words and phrases every day.

via dnw – Scientists discover how optical illusions work. All of them.

The short version: It takes a tenth of a second for images to get from your retina to the processing centres of your brain. People have known this for decades, but we still see things in real time.

The new theory says that what we’re seeing isn’t what’s there, it’s what our brain projects will be there in a tenth of a second – our brain is processing predicatively, showing us it’s best guess for the future. And that’s why optical illusions can fool it, by confusing it into predicting a future that then doesn’t happen.

1 year ago – many pictures from the garden, my dapper hat, evil jesus fish, thaumaturgic border protection,

2 years ago – monkey chow diaries, idea on how to make the world a better place – implemented tip jar for feeding the hungry, people want what they can’t have, many quizzies,code monkey, podcaster legal guide, sympathy for the devil covers

3 years ago – On Call, Rainy, mouse ni the house, drop foot, audio books, santana, house info

4 years ago – full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias

5 years ago – D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rental warnings – things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there -quest

6 years ago – MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia’s angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what’s better

7 years ago – evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku,got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist’s sexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll

8 years ago – Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it’s over with April

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9313 – Tuesday

June 10, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

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.

US operating prison ships, holding abducted people away from any place they might get a legal recourse.

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, simple

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9304 – Wednesday

June 4, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

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.

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 dead

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9297 – Thursday

May 29, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

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 – ... 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.

8 years ago – thankful for memorial day

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9295 – Tuesday

May 27, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Dick Martin died. Why does this make me feel bad or nostalgic? Laugh-in was old hat before I was born, but I loved seeing it on Nick at Nite.

Forgot to mention the awesome sub/pizza shop discovered on Saturday. Selby Sub Shoppe – found when we took a wrong turn looking for Thai food. Best mistake we could’ve made. Larry was especially happy that he didn’t have to consume anything involving curry or green beans. He got chicken wings, while BHK, Chris and I gobbled down some white pizza… with red sauce on the side.

So good. Also good was the lemon coconut cake, lemon pie, chocolate mousse pie and the lemon cookies. We seem to have an inordinate amount of lemon fondness in our desserts.

Random statement – I don’t think that Andy Kaufman was very funny, even in a meta-way. Entertainingly random, at best.

Current music – The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson

If you were falling, then I would catch you.
You need a light, I'd find a match.

'cause I love the way you say good morning.
And you take me the way I am.

If you are chilly, here take my sweater.
Your head is aching, I'll make it better.

'cause I love the way you call me baby.
And you take me the way I am.

I'd buy you Rogaine if you start losing all your hair.
Sew on patches to all you tear.

'cause I love you more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.

BHK got her first filling today – her personal tooth-care is far superior to mine.

Dreamt last night of being at the Disney lagoon – BHK and I were swimming with giant sharks, eels – no fish was smaller than half my size, most of them were between 30-40 feet long. At one point I was kidnapped, and was told that if I escaped, my entire family would be killed. I grabbed the person and immobilized him by snapping his arms and legs off like dried twigs – when I went to finish him, the police showed up and told me that his brain shouldn’t be damaged, as they needed it to ge tthe information on how he would hurt folks. I didn’t care to see him live, but I relented – though only if I could pack his head with salt and ash. That was ok with the police, who decapitated him, and put his noggin in a clear tube for analysis… the head was somehow still alive, but as long as he couldn’t speak, he couldn’t hurt us… some sort of vampire, or lich, maybe?

Adam is home from Haiti – note form MVW

[…]

I just wanted to say thank you for all of your prayers! Adam returned home safely this past Saturday evening. He did have his Dad take him to the Hospital late Saturday evening because he was not feeling well. He had something called “Acute Pharyngitis” but he is feeling much better now!

I finally was able to catch up with him at our friends home, Sven and Mary Thulin’s, last night. He promises to catch up with us soon and let us know some of the highlights of his trip.

A few things he did mention last night were:

Haiti has a 4% employment rate. 80% of the people are under the poverty line. 55% make less then a dollar/ day. He went to a town called Petit Goave for 3 days. They had no bathrooms to use, but only the Caribbean Sea for these 200 people. Adam’s team helped build a shelter out of tree branches and metal.

He was impressed with the local church they had in the center of the little town. He said “their faith is very strong and their worship is very intense.” One of the most important things I heard him say was that “As poor as they were, they were very content considering their situation”.

I guess, sometimes we just need to hear these things to remind ourselves of how blessed we really are.[…]

Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy

A small group in Santa Fe, New Mexico is claiming that the city is discriminating against them by having wireless networks in public buildings. How are these buildings discriminatory? Simple. These people are allergic to Wi-Fi.

1 year ago – pepper picture (first harvest from the garden), navicat, website revamp thoughts, sweet sue’s secret ingredient, 9 million bicycles

2 years ago – newtcam server down, social kicks up, movies, quizzes, juice newton

3 years ago – power outage, scruffies, grow an armchair, Audry Landers/ woodchuck/ Gene Rayburn, don’t step in the cake, swat monkey, em’s ink, best quote ever, soap for meth, Man Arrested for Wearing Grinch Mask, letter from mp, bro call, peacekeeping purse

4 years ago – animated newt pic, open courseware, a lovely phone call, athenos reply, name meme

5 years ago – Cross-sections, candy bars and otherwise, panoramas, hut-building, surreal candy, there b3 features, wvum, world as blog

6 years ago – Memorial Day, documentation, Jakushitsu, Animal crackers, flash & the elongated man, sleeping late with a cat, what’s better. (First appearance for the Newton-yawn icon)

7 years ago – nice dreams, four legs good, two legs bad, saw Shrek, first mobile entry from the laptop

8 years ago – I’d not yet committed to daily entries

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9294 – Memorial Day – Monday

May 26, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Thank you to all the people that worked so hard to make my life as free as it is.

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pictures – ATW man salutes our fallen heroes, and I complain about the heat. (Not nearly as hot as it was in other locales, so I hear!)

Slept well on the new bed – I wasn’t feeling so hot earlier, but a nap helped my back and headache quite a bit. Still a little nauseated, but not too terrible.

We had the in-laws over again and made more franks and beans for dinner, and this time, the bonfire and s’mores were a reality. Added bonus was blowing bubbles.

Opted out of the new town trolley to Pete Green’s – The route is cute, and could be a lot of fun – two bits to ride can’t be beat. I wouldn’t mind just taking it for a little day-tour out and about where BHK and I can relax and take in the scenery. I suspect that the trolley’s primary use will be for drinkers getting home safe… I’m all for it if it keeps the drunkies from behind the wheel.

I want to pick up a bike – the in-laws cycled up the beach for breakfast this morning, and I thought it sounded like a fun way to ge tout of the house for a bit.

I still haven’t decided what new e-books to put on the PDA – maybe I’ll take a breather and stick to pulp-books for a bit.

1 year ago – info about 20714, shaved ice man and diabetes, bake sale!, things going smoothly, satori quote

2 years ago – 2nd life upgrade, mm pickup issues, 26 letters about me a-d, wilma buiding, poo-poo ice, c-64 emu, super chicken, robot caveman

3 years ago – slack, WEP cracking in 10 min, forget me not panties, sithy meme, wiktrivia, Nosferatu download, writing assignment, how to fake fingerprints, sat maps make me think of people as ants

4 years ago – put motion detection on newtcam, last done meme, life on venus, AFMBE – Zombie Smackdown, FL Drugs, hummus

5 years ago – Memorial Day, freaky wind, There, superhero factoid, castrati, Skeletor and Gang, Chipotle, Joan Cusack crush

6 years ago – Gargoyle,

menstrualhut troll, comparison poll, memory from DC (my evil twin), yeti @ home, monster’s inc good

7 years ago – monad of John Dee, Morikami, Shrek good, Pearl Harbor bad, lj-death hoax, icky stuff, good stuff, o Mousewheel event, flash ponderings

8 years ago – subject lines, Hunter thinks that my first icon looks like I’m in the phantom zone, age difference, I have done all but the car on that list, 125 things about me

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9293 – Sunday

May 25, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Larry and I picked up the bed this morning – BHK and I napped a bit today. Feels good so far, but it is surprisingly high – maybe 6 (likely more) inches taller than the old one.

Picture, left – Larry, scrunched down a bit to magnify the “princess and the pea effect”.

Post-nap, the gang did lots of yardwork – my blueberry plant is in the ground now, as are BHK’s roses… and Chris’s tomato plants.

Closed out the day grilling hot dogs for the family – in-laws brought beans, cole slaw and buns… nice Sunny day today. We passed on the bonfire and s’mores – we were too full of dinner to move.

Instead, we watched some recorded top gear and hung out for a bit… bedtime again soon.

Current read – Gateway by Fred Pohl. Not bad thus far – got it free from the library bookmobile about a year ago… grabbed at random from queue when I realized that I’v epolished off all the ebooks on my PDA – will reload soon, but holding an actual tree-made book is nice. Funny that the paperback is older than Adam – Heck, printed in 1980 – it’s 28 years old. 1980 doesn’t seem that long ago, but I was 11 at the time.

1 year ago – lime-vanilla candles, beehive / blueberry / raspberry thoughts, music to keep an eye on, earache, plato quote, zefrank interview

2 years ago – apollo’s b’day, ask a ninja, atom ant, orange monkey hanger, godzilla mp3, singing fountain

3 years ago – bro stuff, lazy vibe, xanga murder, 3-d x-rays, sex offenders sans Viagra, church basement

4 years ago – messing with hello for pictures, blogspot for galleries, walkabout pics, How I feel about LJ politics, talked to a shoe-shine hobo, the pit, evil spirits. Got my wish for Doom Patrol on Teen Titans!

5 years ago – newtcam, lunch w/danny Teacher of the year!), Thracian Temple found, search test

6 years ago – talking with my bro about doing work as extras, played ps2, saw a raccoon, lj poetry (I miss that link.) , Apollo’s Birthday (Speaking of scrying), laundry day

7 years ago – doppelganger, Civet in perfume, Happy-Lucky Chinese Restaurant Game, Sea Monkey Update, project Gutenberg (read Two years in the forbidden city), crap about font usage, pee-banners, caption?

8 years ago – Outings solution, Newt a little sick

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9290 – Thursday

May 22, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

I think tonight is Thai night or is that tomorrow? Or did we decide to go with zucchini? Ah well, it’ll be a winner of a night, no matter what.

Had tasty leftover thai soup for lunch… maybe leftover pizza from last night for dinner? I guess I’ll know once I get home… I imagine my ride’ll be here soon! [edit: had a huge salad for dinner, and rounded it out with the remainder of the Thai soup. Pizza in box for tomorrow!]

Serious cough this morning – pollen? Faded as we left North Beach. [edit: didn’t return when I got back home – woodsmoke, perhaps?]

Watched House and Hell’s Kitchen – we’re about 3 episodes from the end on each. I can’t get over how abusive Ramsey is on that show – I’ve seen him far nicer to other folks, so I’m guessing it’s mostly an act. House wasn’t up to usual snuff… (the sopa opera star one) I guess ever season has to have the weak episode here and again.

It seems as though LifeLock isn’t as secure as Todd Davis makes it out. According to a LifeLock spokesman, his identity has been stolen. For two years, Davis has been daring hackers to steal his ID. Looks like he got what he wanted. CNN reports: ‘Now, LifeLock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and he knew it wouldn’t, because the service had failed even him.’

Whenever I think of James Garner, I think of three things. (usually in this order)

1. Rockford Files
2. Maverick
3. A Chevy Tahoe Commercial he did a voiceover for:

“Nobody Knows It But Me” written by Patrick O’Leary

The words of the poem are as follows:

There’s a place that I travel
When I want to roam
And nobody knows it but me.

The roads don’t go there
And the signs stay home
And nobody knows it but me.

It’s far far away
And way way afar
It’s over the moon and the sea
And whenever you’re going
that’s wherever you are
And nobody knows it but me.

I love that poem, but if pressed, prefer the Rockford files.

Best News Reporter name ever – Opheera McDoom followed closely by my old local Cinnamon Stouffer .

Discovered a few of the likely many benefits of the SQL UNION command. I’m surprised I’ve never used it until this week. I am also surprised that it defaults to DISTINCT, rather than ALL that seems counter-intuitive, but I’ll take it.

Newton tackles Pye again. Asserting Dominance? Pye gives as much as he gets and nobody ever hurts anyone else.

Insane highway cloverleaf –

Pictures of highways by photographer Ken Ohyama, link via pinktentacle.com.

1 year ago – acceptable in the 80s, shrek 3, pictures of otters, fireplugs and dressed up geese.

2 years ago – black adder / house, play-doh perfume, historical sounds, marco polo, a mouthful of crabs, paul anka, ninja name meme

3 years ago – breakdancing bodybuilding, bus trip with mzk pics, no magda, ear whispers

4 years ago – tman & pix, Confucius, there ‘closing’, wireless at the ‘mat, warchalking

5 years ago – PT, hoverbikes, rain, laundry video

6 years ago – more LJ reflecting (I averaged 3 posts a day back then), “VanityDeleters” and keeping LJ for the future, broken pic links to repair,awesome cd from sholanda

7 years ago – Life improved for me, LJ has gained more features, egress, rubber trackconversion, ramen noodles, kumbaya, answer to the woodchuck question.

8 years ago – Fritz gave Newt a parasite, my first actual entry

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9283 – Sun

May 18, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

cranky – I’m a sensitive / moody boy today –

slept a lot

watched finale of the office – nice closer.

played with newton and pye – frog on a string, mostly

I was more cranky – discovered that it’s primarily due to fears about health – back issues and surgery, especially. BHK helps me figure out why.

showered

went to mexico for dinner

wal-mart for after – got a happy, friendly galactus & human torch,(on discount, no less) bhk got a bubble baton

also – green and yellow t-shirts, socks, animal crackers, kitty litter.

came home

relaxed and watched our last psych – first season long missing tim curry / american idol episode

watched the soup

watched fruit carving

went to bedski, not cranky now.

1 year ago – follow-up interview at IANA, fixing linkedin to meet then-current info

2 years ago – walnut gold-trading babies, house guest plans, bro to court, get crank radio-light, scooby guests,

3 years ago – wep key cracking, chico crime, martial arts and felt, sentences, RR fixit, Sweet Strawberry Jam!, stopped someone from doing something stupid and permanent.

4 years ago – Bro crap (status remains the same), vaseline, singing science, speak & spell, moved to madcow

5 years ago – Skull dream, Scooby-doo fun & book henge in There, Ghetto Fries?

6 years ago – Pam got bell’s Palsy that lasted for a bit. Ann and Bob have adisagreement. Beans. Gummi Bears vs. Fingerprint Sensors, Charlie’s LJ mentioned

7 years ago – connubial, cadaverine, flamingos pink because they eat shrimp, tension thinking

8 years ago – Journal will be born in 1 day

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9279 – Thursday – It was all a dream.

May 15, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Dreamt last night that we were touring a pair of Monasteries – Tibetan style, Buddhist things. Apparently, I wasn’t too interested in the firs tone, and had to rush to the second before the bell rang – doors would lock and wild dogs tore apart anyone not inside one of the two feuding temples when the bells summoned them.

The ground between the two buildings slid and shifted… I (much more nimbly than I might’ve in waking life) leaped from stepping stone to stepping stone, avoiding too-clear water that was running thickly, like syrup. Once on the second place’s stairs, the dogs curled up and went to sleep.

The building itself was very nifty – all sorts of oddities inside, not unlike a Ripley’s. One was closed off with a curtain – a skeletal mammoth with an elephant-sized, but human shaped skull – save for a single tusk/horn curling upwards from the tip of the chin area of the mandible. I went to take a picture of it, but a guard (I don’t recall his garb – if he was a mall security type or a warrior-sort.. I just knew he worked there, wasn’t just some guy) told me that it was forbidden. He then smiled at me, took a picture with his cell phone and was promptly gored by the skeleton. The tusk tore a rip in him from crotch to throat and where he opened up, rose petals fell until the body was just an empty skin.

A different member of the monestary showed up and apologized to me – I couldn’t attend service, because the priest was shorter than me. However another fellow, taller than me would be available to walk me through services on Tuesday, at 8:30. I asked if he meant morning or night, and he laughed… “Don’t you work? – it’s at night.. it’ll be 8:30 pm to 10pm, then there’ll be snacks, bell ringing and wheel turning. Does your wife dance?”

I said that she did, though we really have never been.

I’ve never been to a Tibetan monastery… now, I suspect that I’ll be a bit disappointed.

After telling her about it, BHK says that I’ll never get hot dogs grilled with onions and green peppers for dinner again. I hope that’s not the case.

ok these are awesome: http://www.instantrimshot.com/ and http://www.sadtrombone.com/

Gorilla mask-wearing robber demands money, pants.

Police believe they have arrested the man who, wearing a gorilla mask, robbed a 62-year-old woman at gunpoint Monday night and later ordered another man to hand over his pants.

The woman was getting into her car at the 3035 Hamilton Church Road Wal-Mart at 10:15 p.m. when the masked gunman appeared. He pulled the car door open and tried to wrestle away her purse, police said. She fought back and kicked her assailant.

He, along with an accomplice, then got into a maroon Pontiac SUV and fled.

Less than an hour later, two 27-year-old men were walking back to their apartment from a Bell Road convenience store when a Pontiac SUV pulled up beside them. A gunman wearing a gorilla mask got out and demanded not only money, but the black cargo pants worn by one of the men.

The pair gave them money and the pants, and the gunman got back into the Pontiac and fled, police said.

At midnight, Officer Shaun Hardin spotted a maroon Pontiac Aztec and stopped it on Haywood Lane near Faulker Drive. The driver, Adrian Cornelius Alexander, 23, of Highland Ridge Drive in LaVergne, did not have a valid license and was taken into custody, police said. In the vehicle, police found a gorilla mask, bandanas, two bullets, several pairs of latex gloves and the black cargo pants belonging to one of the Bell Road robbery victims.

The victims identified Alexander as the robber, police said. He, along with his passenger Antwan Haynes, 18, of LaVergne, have been charged with two counts of aggravated robbery, police said.

Charges for the Wal-Mart attack are expected to be placed in the next two days, police said.

I just noticed that it’s the anniversary of my father’s death. It was ages ago… I miss him, now that I think about it, but I haven’t really had him in my thoughts much in recent times. I wonder why… I wouldn’t have realized if I hadn’t seen the archives, at least not until I saw 5/15 on my calendar at work, I guess.

1 year ago – Father’s Death Anniversary, Mom hears from Bro re: his sentencing, my challenges, happy to be “up north” and out of FL, people who have moved, more shaved ice (with pix)

2 years ago – bird flu / monkey pox, walkabout, podcasts, newtcam pics, jack lemmon, hoot, saucermen, exploding pants, bus ride poll, hail,

3 years ago – MP gift, pabst t, won rum, don lapre’s vitamin, personality defect, walkabout pics, monkey at large/safety in numbers, vampire sugar fuel cell, florida medicine is stupid, I smell good

4 years ago – first palm doodle on new palm, wireless sync, pics from houstons (hypno-orb), Library of Alexandria Discovered, Bones Found In Bag At Florida Cemetery

5 years ago – palm doodles, dreams / reflections on the old crew, chicken hawk cards,mailbox mystery, lunar eclipse, first use of publix grocery deliveries,Teen Girl Squad #3

6 years ago – saw waking life, dream thoughts, prep for star wars expedition

7 years ago – evil news, tumor thoughts, astley gives me defective hardware, humors,hunger-poll, Tsarist Russia photos in color, Paid users get fasterservers, Florida Joke

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9277 – tuesday the 13th!

May 13, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

BHK made delicious pea soup! The perfect thing after a long day at work. Nomnommy. We supped over Ugly betty and the new TV Show King trivia game for the wii. I beat Abraham Lincoln, BHK and Bughah’s Kitty Puddy (random computer players plucked from our Mii farm). I like it, but the wheel is a bit too random for me.

WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft’s research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and others. Windows users (only) can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics. The application allows viewing from different wavelengths such as X-ray, visible light, and hydrogen-alpha radiation. Business Week has a review and some background on the project, which has been in development for years. Google Sky beat them to the punch but Business Week opines that WWT’s interface is superior.

Albert Einstein’s True Religious Beliefs Revealed

(he rejects it as “childish superstition,” but also disliked the hubris of atheism)

In the letter, he states: “The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

Pictures of our town flooding from yesterday and before.

highlights from the slideshow provided by North Beach – reproduced here, but not taken by me.

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I’m really digging the combination of Pyecam and Newtcam. I just have to update my internal pages with Pye-links now. The cams are really mis-named, since either of the boys can land on either cam… the Newtcam is more permanently affixed in the sunny office, while Pyecam is on the more mobile, but less frequently live laptop
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Newt seems to be the most interested in playing in front of the cams… Pye prefers the living room, I suspect.

I’ve upped the resolution on both… I’m also considering making one or both live streaming video.

Who said polar bears are carnivores? That must be some tasty watermelon, is all I’m saying. Some great photos.

Forgot to mention the ATW man -He and his monkey-faced pal were pregnant with baby bumps for mother’s day. Clicks embiggen, as always.

“Burn Notice” returns on July 10 – so is it a summer filler?

1 year ago – mother’s day w/ family, gaia hypothesis, gavagan’s, jd’s party

2 years ago – fp with kev, rain, Pelosi kma, goofy armor, stairway to heaven backwards

3 years ago – work related, friday 13th, mood poll, zombie hunting, phone-sleeping, book meme, mp3, scientology vs fictionology

4 years ago – fam stuff, toe socks

5 years ago – recycling into fuel oil, kitty quiz, PT, Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator, potty poll, perfect toast

6 years ago – answer to oil dependency, iespell, memory of being a little kid w/ vampires, goofing around, dani postcard, 334, rain week

7 years ago – nonpareil, “hamburger helper, antibacterial”, family hangout, old coversheet, daydream, dead guy in living room, watermelons, a basic truth, lj-smell poll, cleaning up oil using human hair (and you don’t even need Superman to do it!)

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9273 – Friday!

May 9, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

BHK is continuing to make great gastronomic strides with her “meatball” and bean soup. The veggie meatballs got a little crumbly, but they still added excellent texture and flavor to the spicy bean brew. Had more of the salad from yesterday as well, and it was a tasty counterpoint of cold crunchy to the hot and spicy.

Watched the first half of Rataouille (hey! got the spelling in one!) over our supper, and it looks very cute thus far.

Rainy outside… tornado warnings for Calvert and Prince Georges Counties.

Lunch today will be more fajitas and salad – tasty and very healthy.

CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police.

Per the always aware flying_blind – “I was surprised to see not only how many Betty Boop cartoons there are in the Internet Archive, but how much other stuff the Film Chest cartoon collection contains. 66 cartoons! That’s like eight hours worth!”

The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container.

The art piece was called “Victimless Leather,” and according to The Art Newspaper:

The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened . . . Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.

Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…That thing was never alive before it was grown.“

Link via seedmagazine.com, original story here.

1 year ago – Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves – also lasagna, not shown.

2 years ago – allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie

3 years ago – little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factiods/excuses, sweater fashion, work form

4 years ago – MD, Nat’l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare

5 years ago – owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down

6 years ago – cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that’s all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost

7 years ago – menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)

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9270 – tuesday OH YEAH!

May 6, 2008 scottobear Leave a comment

Spent most of the day shuttling around, getting things in order, both at work and off-site. BHK and I made it home about 7:30, after supper at Ledo’s at about 6. – I ended up famished right around 9pm.. .I guess the small veggie calzone didn’t want to stick with me…. especially since I pretty much had been sans food all day.

Oh Yeah!

Thank you, cardboard graffiti artist, for making tuesday extra fun!

The thought was to go to the movies after my midday stuff, but neither BHK nor myself were really up to it – sort of fragged out and just wanted to get home.

Movies:

Despite all the reviews to the contrary, I suspect that I’ll like Hancock more than Iron Man. More than either of those, I want to see Wall-E.

Indy 4 I don’t have high hopes for, but I’m certainly going to see it if possible. I just want it to be better than National Treasure 2.

We still have netflix copies of Cloverfield and No Country for Old Men – Maybe next weekend for those.

Guys like this, *and* the people he sat in front of are two reasons I don’t like going to movies on opening night. If you don’t like what’s going on, either tell the manager, or leave. Those kids had witnesses and there are cameras in most theaters… his behavior was good at least for an assault charge, maybe battery too. (I’ll leave that to my wife’s legal knowledge.) Add to that that he’s far from a minor, and they were… way to lead by example.

Jailbreak 0.4 is out.. looking pretty sharp! I’ll get to it after I finish the Orange Box and Bioshock. (got ’em both for xmas, but I’m having too much fun doing other stuff to goof single player on the ‘pooter these days!

1 year ago – 5/6/7, walkabout greenery pics, Aardvark awesome, monsters menace america, moes & alan, freaky radio-spheres

2 years ago – ze sings, free comics, air show pics, compliment… sort of.

3 years ago – no bro, pervy on lj arrested, phillykat back!, local public service net-casts, users deleting, rainy 5/5, woman jailed for faking her death

4 years ago – RIP Rod Roddy, Black magic death, 4F, a friend suffers

5 years ago – poser5, South Florida vodou, python, song lyric

6 years ago – good smells, bro-doc, great books and classics, monsters, I wrote thepuppyfrog poem, long ol’ survey from a while ago (the same one I did the other day), e-prime mentioned

7 years ago – movies, newt’s middle name, Architect. hot air, lcd drops, writing exercise, quotes, newt-happies(tmi?)

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