Tag Archives: family
8550 – this sammich tastes funny
The Rapture Index – The prophetic speedometer of end-time activity
I wonder what part “banner ads” have in the movement to the end times? We’re currently at 155?
Lovely, giggly day yesterday. Tracheotomy Pooh-bear and stories of “Sleeping Booty” made it dash by.
Michael Jantzen’s Wind Pavilion is a nice facelift to the rotating apartments concept that debuted in Curitib, Brazil back in 2004. This particular version of the wind pavilion is proposed to be a lightweight structure primarily made of fabric to randomly rotate in the wind. Rotation would not only provide the building with an ever changing shape, but also electrical power to light the building. Michael proposes that the building could be made out of various materials and could take on many different functions such as an apartment complex.
Link to my Current listen – I created a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Station on Pandora. Have a listen if you like, dear journal. (Here’s my regular listen)
App-Stick – Directory of Free Portable Applications for Your USB Memory Stick
8467 –
Mom brought over some furniture from a house she sold… pretty nice, a computer desk, chair, printer stand and a low bookshelf. She’ll be coming by sometime this week to take care of a few issues before they zip off to VA for a few months. One of which is my will – disposition of my loot and Newt in the event of my kicking the bucket. (Hers is all set up now… I’m the executor, should something happen to both her and her husband.)
Kevin Smith talks about Superman – From the college lecture DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith, which is pretty great storytelling from an engaging speaker even if you’re not a huge fan of his movies.
Windows In Your Pocket – handy boot info for flash drives.
2 floating things I saw yesterday.
Inside the Coral Square Mall –
Lion fish. (He must be 12 years old, or they keep cycling in new ones… he’s huge, too.)
Lion fish. (He must be 12 years old, or they keep cycling in new ones… he’s huge, too.)
8396 – Wehd-nehz-day.
I stayed home from work yesterday… but Dan came by to visit after 5pm – we checked out Lord of the Rings Online.. signed up for the Beta. Helped Danny figure out what sort of machine he’d need to play it, graphics-wise and such. No movie or Japanese foodies.
After sniffing out gaming tech online, we played pirates (see icon) – each of us won a game, and both were very close. I had superior firepower, he had speed on his side. Ramming and boarding were actually to my benefit for the first time ever playing the game.
I gave him a Rubyred Labs T-shirt as a victory gift from my valleyschwag pack. (I kept the stickers and perplexCity cards) Newt got along with Danny quite well, save for when Dan drew first blood in the pirates game… he exclaimed “BLAM!” quite loudly, and Newt leapt up on the table and yelled at him, and took a swabby-paw swat at his face. I swear, Newt’s more of a watchdog than a scaredy-cat.
After playing, we decided to stretch our legs, and yawns came in a rapid collection of waves… hard to guess what caused it. I think I yawned about 25 times in rapid succession… to the point where I got a little light-headed. Danny followed suit shortly afterward, though he only yawned about four or five times.
We went upstairs to the snack bar, but Target had no coffee, so we hit *$ on the way back. He bought me a pirate booster, so now I have a corsair and an American Ship… plus a Corsair guy that can create temporary fog banks with smoke bombs– not a bad addition to my current fleet of British, Spanish and pirate folks.
Dan’s shirt had a mermaid on it, but is no relation to the Feegee Mermaid. Yucka! – His shirt was more of one of these.(far more cute than feegee)
Going to grab a bite and visit with Tina today after work… should be a jim-dandy time. Perhaps we’ll swing by Dicey Rileys, too. I suspect Eddie Izzard is out, but I’m sure we can keep a steady stream of enjoyable banter going. I’m not used to having things happening outside of the HQ on “school nights”. It’s a refreshing change of venue.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
When your world is full of strange arrangements
And gravity won’t pull you through
You know you’re missing out on something
Well that something depends on you
All I’m saying, it takes a lot to love you
All I’m doing, you know its true
All I mean now, theres one thing
Yes one thing that turns this gray sky to blue
Thats the look, thats the look
The look of love
When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye)
Then your dreams fall apart at the seams
Your reason for livings your reason for leaving
Don’t ask me what it means
Who’s got the look? I don’t know the answer to that question
Where’s the look? if I knew I would tell you
What’s the look? look for your information
Yes there’s one thing, the one thing that still holds true
(whats that? )
Thats the look, thats the look
The look of love
If you judge a book by the cover,
Then you’d judge the look by the lover
I hope you’ll soon recover,
Me I go from one extreme to another
And though my friends just might ask me
They say Martin maybe one day you’ll find true love
I say maybe, there must be a solution
To the one thing, the one thing, we can’t find
Thats the look, thats the look
Sisters and brothers
Should help each other
Oh, oh, oh
Heavens above
Thats the look, thats the look, hip hip hooray, ay
Thats the look, thats the look, yippee ai yippee aiay
Thats the look, thats the look
Be lucky in love
Look of love
Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes,chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind,I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.”
Hmm.. note the chow info page mentions *NON HUMAN PRIMATES*
Ingredients
Ground corn, Soybean meal, Cracked wheat, Sucrose,Wheat germ meal, Animal fat (preserved with BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid), Dried whole egg, Dicalcium phosphate, Calcium carbonate, Iodized salt,Vegetable oil, Choline chloride, Stabilized ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), Ethoxyquin (a preservative), Ferrous sulfate, Zinc oxide, Copper chloride, Manganous oxide, Cobalt carbonate, Calcium iodate, Sodium selenite,Vitamin A supplement,Vitamin D3 supplement,Vitamin E supplement, Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Calcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic acid, Biotin,Vitamin B12 supplement.
1 lb of chow per 35 lbs of monkey? Man… that’s a lot of food!
8385 – Friday. Hoping for a good weekend.
Meeting with mom was interesting. We discussed bro and the new project she has with Wilton. Apparently, in her will, if she and Wilton go together, I am to be executor of the estate. That’s a lot of responsibility… bro’s share will go into a trust… he can use it for education, rehab or appropriate health expenses, but never will a dollar touch his hands, for fear that he’ll spend badly.
M&W’s company will be doing some work up in Sterling, VA (about 15 minutes from Dulles airport, or 40 min from DC) during the months of August through October, so I have a free crash spot should I want to visit points north during that time. Sally and Bill are up there, too… I can’t believe that she’s 61, and he’s 50, now. Have twenty-five years really passed that swiftly? I still remember Sally and Mom working at the salon, and my going to see Star Wars in the same plaza. Now, their kids are in the late 20s, too. I’d love to visit the old house, hit the smithsonian Air & Space museum, and visit some LJ-type folk.
I am officially one year cable-tv free. (though I cheat and snag a couple of shows via bittorrent.) Take that, comcast!
Moment of Lyric – mp3
O Fortuna,
velut Luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem;
egestatem,
potestatem,
dissolvit ut glaciem.
8384 – I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
I am of a positive mindset in a melancholy time… got news of a quiet patch ahead, but I’m confident of things working out for the best in the long run. I hope that they’ll seem that way along the short and middle run, too.
In related news, I do believe that dreams can come true. I’ve seen it happen, and for that I’m happy. It continues to be a good week for dreams.
Lunching with mom after work, catching up on family business, and will generally gab. Remembered what was going on on Friday – maybe a get together with some old coworkers for a brew, maybe karaoke? Maybe not.. those things tend to evaporate. I want to visit with Kev again before he hits gitmo, too.
Blood donation and shots went well. I’m glad I’ve worked out a schedule where doing platelets is feasible.
Aardvarks!!!
Superman Slurpees at 7-11! I think Sucking the brains out of Yoda made for a better mug, but this one is nicely geeky, too. I wonder why they didn’t do this with the Batman/x-men movies?
Note to self, do not iron while sleepy… looks like I set the heat too high and treated a blend like cotton. Ah well, excuse to get a fresh shirt or two! I was more peeved that I had to iron *two* shirts, rather than carbon-scoring the first one. Better the shirt than me!
If I had posted only one entry day for each my 8384 entires… that’d be just about 23 years worth of journal posts. Yikes.
Second Life updated to 1.10.1 yesterday. No noticble change, though bug fixes:
* Improved avatar lighting to more closely match in ‘nearby lights’ and ‘sun/moon only’ modes
* Improved flexible attachment behavior while crossing a region boundary
Bro swung by work yesterday, looking for some coin “for gas”. He’s got his calendar call tomorrow, so we’ll see how that goes. He was looking much cleaner and in order than when he visited mom.
1 year ago – club cast of characters, roadside hummer politics, keyhole turns into google earth, fed plantains, raining heavily, narc law
2 years ago – boogieman, hurricane season begins, diseases database, map24’s awesome zoom, WAKAW!, Dan Tardy visit, piccies of fembots & crane boats, found sounds
3 years ago – MacGuffin, New TV (broken), There Shirts, hoverboarding
4 years ago – new 2nd monitor, tasty tea
5 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
6 years ago – Awakened too early, used to have an embedded real genius sound file
8361 – Who’s that baby trading walnuts for gold?
Feeling lazy, but going to work. Dang ethic!
I’ve got tentative plans to have MM over to my place on the 4th of July weekend! I need to plan out some fun Florida host-type activites…. see who’ll be at Revolution and maybe a day trip to Vizcaya/Art/Science Museums. Metrozoo? Monkeys?
It’ll be nice.. first time I’ve had a houseguest at the new place, and I’m very excited!
Bro going to court in June over shoplifting charges. *cough* DUMBASS *cough* A flashlight from office depot.
8353 – Mamma’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers!
Well, Momster and Wilt are pretty sick and out of commission, so that frees up my Sunday brunch schedule. Walkies it is! I’m not going to dine out this morning, because I know it’s pretty much a universal restaurant crowd sort of holiday. It just means I can go to a non-mommy-type place with relative ease today… maybe a movie?
Had a lovely long phone talk yesterday, to make more vacation plans, but we ended up simply chitty-chatting… that was quite nice, too.
An Alien Saucer is hovering overhead. A cone of coherent lime green light erupts from the bottom center of the craft, and strikes a man walking down the street.
He vanishes with a flash, and a popping sound of air rushing to fill the void where he once was.
Poll inspired by this video. (quicktime, via)
Moment of Lyric – mp3
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Oh no, they say he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!
| > WARNING |
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From Go-Quiz.com
Some Nifty Found communities –
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adayinmylife – Share a whole day of your life in pictures.
little_details – A place for writers to ask questions about details that they want to get right
1 year ago – feeling better, writing, Danny in june, chocolate lucky charms, james randi, Rippy RIP – now Viggo, Thomas Szasz, Flickr goes Ajax, ex-boss nearly a million in tax debt, times tables, hairy feet, Belle & Sebastian mp3, v for vendetta bg, jesus vs greek gods
2 years ago – Stan/Satan, Wifi in office (has since moved), first new palm pics, coming moonlight movies, Stay Tuned, Rawwr, Downtown ft laud treasures.
3 years ago – Update Virus Defs, Rainmaker, Frankie Mooch Phone booth, there stuff and quests
4 years ago – Termite inspection, apt shopping – tenants rights, web page fiddling, fonts, Tman, Name a Terrier
5 years ago – ossify, evil news, tumor talk, veggie poll
8333 – Only 1777 more posts until I hit 10000!
Upon yesterday’s weighing, I’ve gained all the weight I lost on WW point plan back. no good. I’ve been eating poorly since October, and it was building up for a while before then. Time to go back to the plan, account for everything, and lose it again. This time, no going off plan.
Starting Today, I’m back to using the palmtop to monitor everything. This time, no sloughing off once the holidays roll by… Rather pesky that I’m starting from Square one again, but at least I know of a system that works for me.
catagoriz – a nice guide to web 2.0 apps.
I’m especially digging Alkemis.
Meanface is an ongoing experiment in which you draw and submit a face. Each face submitted counts towards the ever-evolving meanface.
Bro called again (at 11:30pm), to do an arrest lookup for him. Some guy on coke charges – looked rough in the mug shot. Bro first told me it was some girlfriend’s dad, but then I saw the guy was born in ’65. I asked how old his GF was, and he said 28… caught him in a lie there. He changed his story afterward – Next call I get from him after 10, I’m just going ot ask him to call me during more civil hours.
Can you count in ding-bong? Here’s how:
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1 one 2 two 3 three 4 four 5 ding 6 six 7 bong 8 eight 9 nine 10 ding-ding |
11 eleven 12 ding-bong 13 thirteen 14 bong-bong 15 ding-ding-ding 16 sixteen 17 ding-ding-bong 18 eighteen 19 20 d-d-d-d |
21 b-b-b 22 d-d-d-b 23 twenty-three 24 d-d-b-b 25 d-d-d-d-d 26 d–b-b-b 27 d-d-d-d-b 28 b-b-b-b 29 d-d-d-b-b 30 d-d-d-d-d-d |
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From number 24 and over, all numbers
are combinations of dings and/or bongs. |
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Tales to Astonish! (the streaming radio alone is worth the price of admission.)
Bro called Sunday night too, by the way – claimed he was in Miami, but on researching his phone number, it originated out of Hollywood. it may just be his local phone, payable by the minute.. I’ll hope for the best with him.
1 year ago – Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme
2 years ago – nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes
3 years ago – highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues
4 years ago – lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving
5 years ago – misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUP
Protected: 8326 – Friday.
8315 – Saturday.
Meeting with the momster after Fatima cleans up the joint this morning. Maybe do lunch together and gab more about the current familial hubbub.
Another morning on the porch to come. I may need to get a box fan to put out there, before the summertime hits in full.
Moment of lyric (youtube video)
When I was surrounded by the world you were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded who has kept me grounded
As the other girls thrashed my very name
Then I looked over just in time to see her smiling back at me
And saying everything’s OK as long as you’re inside my blue veins
Your blue veins
Yeah and the feeling that you gave me no matter what I do or where I go
It always will remain
And those who would enslave me to get to me must get past you and will have no luck
Cause you’ll protect me from all pain (that’s true, yeah, but)
The most beautiful, yeah the most beautiful thing cause anything else can’t compare?
Must be the blood that’s running through your blue veins
Your blue veins
Your blue veins
And I know you won’t deceive me like the rest and there’s nothing you need to explain
You always were the first one to believe me when I said to you girl
I think it’s gonna rain
But I could be wrong
Yeah but all of these things all these things they’re all truly nice
but ain’t nothing ain’t nothing compared to the love that’s running through your little blue veins
Full day today. Possible trip to dentist, chores, mom visit, maybe dinner with the crew at W’s if the timing works? Speaking of Dinner… I could stand a little breakfast. Time to forage. Until later, dear journal. As always, Newtcam should be live.
1 year ago – Bettie Page’s bday, MJ & vaseline, bus ride pics, newt and a space monkey, air show, ramscan, banana tree herb, exoskeleton, taco bell, email kills iq more than pot
2 years ago – Eucharist toss, RI peeves me, there, vamps, CS mail-skim
3 years ago – country meme, there-crew, battle-imp
4 years ago – dreams, make out places in Ft Lauderdale, lone gunmen gone, chupa vs tia
5 years ago – ljwhores, undulant, Earth Day, international kite fest, 10 reasons sex is good for you, Peru shoots down US planes
8311 – four-twenty, duuuuude!
Met with the momster after work yesterday, and reviewed some options regarding the grandmomster. Her brother has power of attorney, but it looks like he’s cleaning her out while grandmuh-mah slowly fades from reality on double doses of sedatives and Alzheimer’s’s. minimal highlights for future ref: mom 25%, di 25%, doug 50%, after sig’s college is paid. Speaking of little sig, bigger sig’s bought a building in Colorado and will be doing some more real estate shortly. There are a lot of sibling infighting on mom’s side of the family. Dad’s side just dies early from accidents.
Getting hotter out.. and the dragonflies (and damselflies) are *everywhere*. I remember when I was very young, I thought that they were poisonous and that they stung like scorpions. A few varieties out there, but mostly the brown ones with the striped wings, and the blue-bottle-glass looking damsels.
insomnia makes a few good points about lj’s new ad-level membership.
that and the following promise made in ’04 —
Stay advertisement free
garner a lot of money, but nonetheless, we promise to never offer advertising space in our
service or on our pages.
A bunch of great sesame street clips, including Robert DeNiro imagines he’s Elmo! Also vaguely disturbing – Grover’s Health Minute – Teeth
Had a nice time playing “greedy greedy”, a dice game with the gang in SL. Sort of a hybrid of yahtzee and cosmic wimpout.
8290 – Bus post – 040606 – 7am
It’s been a little while since I last heard from my brother. I’m hoping that is a good sign. He’s still unaware of my street address, though he could get it with only a modicum of detective work. He’s very clever, despite his best efforts to harm his own faculties. No news frequently translates into good news.
dreams of being pulled like taffy and being planted as a new species of tree. no dryads, will ‘o wisps or wood nymphs came to soothe me. there were peacocks, but fortunately they were mute.
sent via palmtop
8253 – quick recap
Samuel L Jackson on Ellen on SNAKES ON A PLANE (youtube)
St. Patty’s plans got sacked for me at the last minute, this time, Mom and Wilt just had far too much to handle before launching this morning for parts south. Instead, I opted to go to Bonefish Mac’s, a place run by one of RR’s pals. IT was pretty festive and fun, though it wasn’t terribly Irish…. no green beer, though I did have a couple of Heinekins in green bottles with my grilled cheese and veggie-wich. Met some friendly folk there, and Bethany gave me her digits. (Ulterior motives, though – she needs her computer updated. Still, she’s nice, and fun to talk to, so it’d be good to get a buddy that’s a local.)
Was reminded that I can get tossed into a crew of random-folk and come out of it with a lot of comfortable conversation. That was a big win, and there were no real jerky-types at all… only one downer guy, Robert, a tile-worker / carpenter from Pennsylvania, having trouble finding work. I cave him Wilt’s card for renovations, etc… maybe he’s worth a shot as labor. He’ll have to wait a week for Wilt to return, but aside from that, I think Robert’s chances are good for finding a basic gig.
1 year ago – much work, webjay, Danny invite, George, potential condo piccies (many mock the pre-move decor)
2 years ago – Astronaut Jones, Square Bear, speak and spell, Frank R paul, I create an fdle syndicated lj
3 years ago – iwo jima in the rock garden, I start using jarhead, wish for peace
4 years ago – facemaker, cab stacking, poem tag, timeline, roles I’ve filled, cool bunker
5 years ago – cartoon logic that works, alice, I want tasty snack food, lone gunmen, workplace desires
8182 – Gimme a noun, I’ll bend it.
Happy V-Day!
Tell someone you love how you feel today!
Do it again tomorrow. Make it a habit.
I haven’t held a sand dollar for nearly three years. When I was a kid living on Marathon key, we used to pick up sun-bleached ones by the bucketful. I remember painting them and giving them as valentines to some of the folks in the area where we lived… at the time, I had no idea that it was the dessicated skeleton of a five-jawed sea creature related to the sea urchin. That makes me think that they’re even more cool now. I never thought about it, but they’d make a pretty neat sort of decorative scale mail if sewn together.
I’ve been using BANG! as my interjection (mp3) of choice lately, thanks in part to GP’s meddling and Kat’s haircut commentary.
temperatures have begun to stabilize and any further falls between now and 800 am will be small. most of the immediate coastal locations will remain in the lower 40s with the suburbs generally
in the upper 30s. – I pity the northern states, if it’s this cold here.
Bro told me his house was robbed, then the story changed to some guy taking all the money for some job he ran, then changed to is girlfriend taking it. Whatever. Upside, he *does* sound a lot sharper.. I’m likely to believe him when he say’s he’s not using.
I got my b’day prezzie from phillykat- cartoon factoids! it’s even nifitier than I’d suspected, and more from sedef and oneeyed – g0dland & 7 soldiers
The most groovy comic-booky birthday ever this year! Thank you!
If you go away, on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night birds’ song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
But if you stay, I’ll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We’ll sail the sun, we’ll ride on the rain
We’ll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I’ll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning ’til
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
I’ll be dying slowly till the next hello
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
But if you stay I’ll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I’ll sail on your smile, I’ll ride on your touch
I’ll talk to your eyes that I love so much
But if you go I won’t cry
Though the good is gone from the word goodbye
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
If you go away as I know you must
There’ll be nothing left in the world to trust
Just an empty room full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
I’d have been the shadow of your dog
If I thought you might have kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
1 year ago – dream, wartuning, slacker, torrent tv, gm-ginger kitties, questions meme, christo, newt stalking pic, zefrank’s st. val history, whims-cute card, work peeve
2 years ago – V-day, hippie visit results, Nefertiti documentary mostly drama – not much document, cheese doodle sculpture, anonymous reviewer bug amazon
3 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics
4 years ago – rerun V-day poetry, JB figures out about SA & Me, wandering pics
5 years ago – How Do I Love Thee?, I resemble Dan Conner, Men cause the mutations, tea room & old TV, TMBG lyric