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8120 –
Groggy, foggy head this morning. Can’t seem to shake off the stupids.
Bro’s rolling in big dollars lately. I suspect he’s up to more than pressure cleaning, but don’t know for sure. He did sound clear and solid on the phone last night.
Florida Homeless Beating Caught on Videotape. Continue reading 8120 –
8107 –
It’s a little flattering when folks use my icons as their own… Newtie Blah-blah is the latest one discovered in use by someone else. (Sadly, I’ve had to ask her to remove it, due to reasons of senitment and copyright.)
Grabbed the latest episode of Lost after getting high marks from a few people I trust… haven’t watched it yet, but have heard that it focuses on Eko, Charlie and the monster.
Also, Doctor Who will be airing on the Sci-fi channel starting in March. Funny how they changed their tune… I guess Battlestar Galactica’s success alone couldn’t float stinkburgers like Mansquito and the bulk of it’s original programming.
Ultraman Taro on Youtube! Bless Youtube for keeping me in giant rubber monsters.
Sam Raimi has announced his next project after Spidey 3…it’s The Wee Free Men. Crivens!!
Retrievr, a new service from Flickr, lets you search for images by drawing what you want the image to look like. I’ve been having too much fun.
Also, FlickrFling takes RSS feeds and dynamically assigns Flickr photos to them
the RSS Feed for my journal is – http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/data/rss change the scottobear to any other livejournalist to get theirs. I am way too fond of this little app, too.
Talked to the home office of CompUsa, and they’re going to fedex the part from Kentucky… Big brain should be ready for me by Tuesday night. Yeah, yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it. The boss also said that they’d toss in some gigs of memory in at cost, and install ’em for nothing.
Going to try to get Hippie Dave to get together with Comic Dave in Fort Lauderdale this weekend.
Another Chilly Weekend coming! Continue reading 8107 –
8106 – Fairly newt-intensive post.
See what happens after I move away from Los Olas? They paint the whole area with free wifi. There were a ton of free hotspots to start with, but now it seems pretty constant. I’m just glad the main library has a big touchstone now…. students can bring their own appliances in and get data, rather than wait on the computer banks in the 3rd, fifth and ground floors. I can only imagine how much bittorrenting of pirated er, archival stuff over a big open network will happen.
I might get a chance to hang out with Dave Attell this week or next. More on that as it happens or doesn’t. He’s back on tour.
Hey, the whole run of the Flash tv show is out of DVD! all 21 episodes plus the 90 minute Pilot.
Newton Meets Mr. Man.
Mr. Man gestures hypnotically, to put the giant beast in his thrall, and…
Chomp! Newt treats him like Tyr. Mr. Man must be from Newfoundland, a smoker or a fascist.
BONUS VIDEO – I Taunt Newton with a plastic bag, and then needlessly compare him to a Fox News personality. 665k quicktime movie via palmtop (on Youtube as a flash video too)
1 year ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues, ex-coworkers read my journal, parrot jungle?
2 years ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts
3 years ago – fogwalking, SOP
4 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day
5 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, siddhartha
8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz
Unsurprisingly, bro bailed on us getting together today, but I was still determined bike around the region, heading north this time.
I walked my bike to the gas station on 10th & federal, aired up the long-flat tires, rode east to the beach, north on a1a to palmetto park, went west to federal, and then south to 10th. a nice, scenic circuit, but I was too busy enjoying the ride in the cool weather to take many pics. 14.4 miles, total route (I doubled back a few time s to check the bike shop, and rode up Dixie to see what was new. I picked up some cool stuff at the art store which was having an insane blowout sale… one of those foot-tall wooden manikins for drawing bodies for $4, a thick pad full of 12 x 18″ newsprint paper for doodling on for $0.75, and a couple of graphite pencils for a buck. it was all 20% off those prices, too, so I got a lot of fun loot for less than what lunch would’ve cost me out. I wonder if Newt’ll mangle the wooden guy… the manikin is similar to the wooden Christmas tree ornaments that Newt loves to smack around.
3602 calories burned if I was walking… I wonder what that translates to in cycling? Probably not nearly as much.
Here’s my route 14.4 miles, give or take.
Wings place – still hasn’t repaired the impaled sign since Wilma.
Island Water Sports – Contrary to the prior image, they wanted a giant shark head first in the roof. By the way, on the inside, there is a giant shark head coming through the ceiling, too.
I *think* that this is the Boca chamber of commerce, but I’m not sure. I really like the curvy divot on the side, slicing some of the windows.
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8089 – Friday at last!
CompUSA called me today, apologizing profusely. He said that it was still on back order, but it will take between one and two *MORE* weeks to arrive. I asked him what could be done to expedite things, and he responded that he was very sorry, but really nothing.. that they didn’t even have a loaner machine to let me chew on while I dealt with things. I’m really pretty exasperated at the whole situation.
Today at work, there will be a few confrontations, and I’m not part of any of them. I suspect they may turn ugly. Detail to follow tomorrow or Monday, no doubt.
I remember watching the Skipper Chuck show right before school. There isn’t a Floridian who was a kid between 1959 and 1979 who doesn’t remember Chuck Zink and his show. It was truly part of South Florida, and Mr. Zink will be sorely missed. I encountered his show when my family was living in Marathon. Thank you Mr. Zink for doing your part in making our world a better place. Peace, Love and Happiness to you on your journey.
I don’t know a lot of Florida Natives… Kat and Kev are the only two folks I can think of off of the top of my head who might remember the show.
8080 – New Day, New Year
New Day, New Year
Originally uploaded by homeless one.
Dawn, New Year’s Day, 2006. The New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale
8026 – Egads. Only 5 days left?
Sampled a local Chinese food place after work last night. Very tasty, and they do general tso’s tofu.
I remember winning a full set of shadowrun stuff at a gaming convention years ago. Funny thing was that I never really played shadowrun after that.
Day 44. time eroding my sanity. wearing me down. It’s said that the video card should be installed today. I’ll believe it when I see it. Oh the melodrama!
Go build your own South Florida snowman over at the Sun-Sentinel.
Maple syrup on coffee ice cream.
Potato chips on vanilla
French fries dipped in chocolate shakes.
Man, what *won’t* people on my reading list eat? (well, a fourth won’t put pineapple on a pizza.), also a fourth of respondents were male. only looks like a correlation, in actuality, 5 of the 8 pineapple-haters were women, so it doesn’t seem to follow my theory of gender bias.
Also, I didn’t realize that 4 out of 5 poll-answerers would be women! I wonder if ladies are more likely to reply to a poll than men, or if it’s just LJ’s skewing more ot the female population?
Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Wheat Thins are yummy, but not healthy at all. Tasty, pizza-ish chips.
1 year ago – I lift mel w/one hand, video hits, anagram santas workshop, john dee’s crystal ball stolen, christmas meme, baby theft
2 years ago – considering an upgrade, Nigerian magic is weak vs bullets
3 years ago – Ft. Laud facts, Antarctic Life, Muslim Roundup, Bro at his worst finds a stray cat, make a supervillian desktop
4 years ago – Bodyboarding on lava, McMummies, xp patch
5 years ago – Restless, Special Olympics cheaters, wondering about where my parts were pre-me, palm reading
8018 – friday night out 12/16/05
8017 – friday night out 12/16/05
8016 – friday night out 12/16/05
8007 – Humpdy hump, once again.
Spent two hours with the condo commandos last night to get a signature on a form that would otherwise have cost me $100.
I figure I got paid $50 an hour to listen to old folks talk about vodka, strokes and building maintenance. Not a bad deal, really. Entertaining.
Critical Miami gets Dooced before he’s even started work. Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to keep a journal with opinions online… I’m glad his old employer took him back.
Kong opens today… I’lll probably catch it this weekend.
I’ve discovered that I’m more than moderately good at juggling… or I was really in the zone yesterday. Newt really wants to chase beanbags.
Moment of Lyric: mp3
We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in
We’re not daffy or dilly, don’t go ’round willy nilly, seems to us kind of silly, that we don’t fit in
We may be diiferent from the rest, who decides the test of what is really best
We’re a couple of misfits, we’re a couple of misfits, what’s the matter with misfits, that’s where we fit in!
1 year ago – cravings, pondering atmospheres, vocabulary words, adp ROYALLY screws up, ocular chili, its a wonderful life by bunnies, Mexican tomb of DEATH
2 years ago – Saddam captured, collective nouns, feral children, pod thoughts, tic tacs, and chores done
3 years ago – Lottery-coworker thoughts, Deathrace 2000, my favorite Chang Tzu quote, witch cow, mistaken identity, haiku
4 years ago – pumpernickel, Newt on my long-lost chair, moment of weirdness, wacky news, what we did before toilet paper, coprolite
5 years ago – sickies, FIGHT! game, Rhyme-time
7940 – 58.4 per 100,000 people.
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7930 – doot doo doo doo.
I still have the Frito Banditio theme popping up into my brain here and there.
Weird about the lag in the picture posts.. repeated itself twice, about 2 hours after the original post.I’ll have to make a point of waiting a bit longer before re-sending.
The people of Hialeah are idiots. (See the political record for the last 24 years.) A long term case of “we’d rather have corrupt criminals we know than a possible unknown quantity”.
Big Kahuna’s B’day today… maybe that’s why she had a case of the grumps yesterday. She’ll be 67 today, I think, and I figure that she’s got a solid two decades ahead of her, at least. Sadly, I don’t see more than a decade (and that’s probably generous) for her husband though.
Rhode Island was due back on Monday, and as of end of day yesterday still hadn’t come back. Rumors flying over the office of her quitting, but I doubt it. My suspicions are that she’s just stretching it out as far as possible.
I’m wondering what to do with my vacation.
Muslim Mona quit tech-work yesterday… I guess her real-world job, plus family, plus health just didn’t allow for four days a month. She’ll be missed… was probably the most competent tech I had. En’s really solid, too…only a couple of boo-boos here and there. Phoenix’s getting her first training today at 1pm, barring schedule issues.
Growing out the goat for a full beard again in prep to be a bit of a Santa for December.
Moment of lyric: mp3
7924 –
I’d like a comfy linen/cotton blend suit, and a snappy gray fedora. Not sure where that urge for a summer suit in November came from.
I can’t watch TV shows that place in hospitals, at least not around the anniversary of my father’s death or his birthday. I had an extended crying jag last night when I remembered that his birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks. First time I’ve really cried for quite a while. Ultimately cleansing, but think I hurt my side a little bit as a result. Newt was a great comfort to me.
I miss my dad. I miss the way my brother was when he was 12. I think that I get along with my mother better these days than I ever had as a kid.
The office has decided not to pay salaried folks for time away from work due to Hurricane Wilma… I’m going to point them to Hurricane Wilma Disaster Unemployment Assistance. To determine eligibility for Wilma DUA (or standard unemployment benefits), start by contacting the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation (Florida unemployment office) or filing an unemployment claim through same by 11/28/2005. For information about other types of Hurricane Wilma disaster assistance, browse the FEMA and FDEM sites.
I’m safe… I worked every day save for 2, and those two days I gave training and tech walk-through to our rep in Texas. I think that everyone else save for ECN and myself will end up getting docked a little more than week’s pay. (I wonder if the Big Kahuna will cut herself, too?)
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