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Put the poodle back in the basket.
A few sites for positive change – None of them cost a penny but can help to do good works.
The hunger site – free food to the hungry
Breast cancer site – Help to fund free mammograms
Child Health site – Help save young lives for free
Rainforest Site – help to preserve our rainforests
Animal rescue site – Feed an animal in need.
Ok.. now that I’ve built up some positive karma, let’s whine a little about whiners.
In The Silence of the Lambs the egregious psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter explains to Agent Clarice Starling why he killed one of his own patients: “I simply could not endure his interminable whining any longer. Besides, his therapy was going nowhere. Believe me, Clarice, there isn’t a psychiatrist in the country who wouldn’t like to refer a few cases to me.”
That sums up how I feel about a lot of the journals out there. I’m glad that I have the easy way out, and can opt not to read them or even link. I feel that a few of the journals I’ve seen (none that I regularly read, though some certainly exist on my friends friends page) in passing are written by “professional victims.” I can’t help but wonder if a daily whiney / angst journal can be good, because they’re getting it out of their system, or if it’s a bad idea they’re feeding that sense of misery and isolation to the exclusion of any other feelings. I suspect it’s more often the latter. I do know that journals will sometimes have hostility, angst and melancholy in them… heck, I do it enough. The flipside, of course is the folks that write that way out of a desire for attention or coddling. “Woe is me, woe is me” loses a lot of its strength after hearing someone say it for a year.
The ones that complain and *only complain* deeply, heartfully about the most non-issues are what get me. If something bugs you, do something, and make a positive difference. The world’s a big place with plenty of room for improvement.
My name is Elmer J Fudd, millionaire.. I own a mansion and a yacht.
Well, Newt didn’t mind the fireworks too much, yesterday, though when someone right out back started firing them off, he peered through the window, and Mer’d at each explosion. Fortunately there weren’t too many. *Pop* Mer? *Pop* Mer! *Pop* Mer! He’s been afraid of thunder when it’s right on top of the house, though.
I was going to go out to breakfast this morning, but decided it was nicer to just relax a bit and have a cup of instant General Foods International Coffee, Orange Cappuccino. Yummy, though I’m partial to the Swiss Mocha. I’m overdue for Coffee with Sappho and Ihop with Kev.
My daily spam between my regular mail and my registration mail is rather high, in my opinion. ~90 mails daily in the junk mail account, and about 70 in my regular mail, too. Filters work ok, but some things still fritter through. My bulk mail folder is especially large and I use a disposable addy whenever there’s a chance of it being harvested or traded. It’s not gotten too bad yet, but I might not feel the same way a bit more down the line. I’m wondering if perhaps I should consolidate my addys, and redistribute? I’ll concern myself more with it later on.
Danny spent a long time yesterday working on homework… he had to outline 4 chapters, and when I called him, he’s spent 2 hours outlining a 30 page first chapter. That seems too long to me, but I have no idea what the chapter contained. I figure that it’s a Danny-ism… making more work for himself than is needed. I’m amazed at his current Saturday Schedule… 8-hour cram class and then goes out with the wife for 3 hours dancing that night. He must be fried come Sunday. I’ll give him a call midday tomorrow and see how he’s surviving. He just had a pesky doctor’s visit, too… that can’t be helping matters.
Most of my nearest and dearest are needing repair in some way lately… Hip/back, hand, skin, legs… It seems most folks in my age group are starting to see the warrantee expire. Oh for a super-fixy bacta tank!
In other Star Wars nerdy News, while talking about bellybuttons, *someone* suggested mine was similar to a sarlacc, drawing in lint akin to Boba Fett with my yeti-hair acting as graspers. I’ll have the world know that my navel is generally lint-free.
Extra dork bonue – RPG stats for Sarlaac
Looks like weather station K4VAE was back online, but is down again. Bah.
There’s a guy building a castle out of old printing plates.
archived
I still feel free use the term “fairer sex”, because as a whole, I do find women to be more pleasing to the eye than men. If politically correct monkeys don’t like it, they can lump it. On looking up fair maid, I think definition two is rather comical. I may yet use that in the future.
I’m looking forward to this… Apparently it’s running trailer son Finding Nemo (when you can get there in a timely manner). The Incredibles – Pixar. Oh, you can bet I’m looking forward to it. Pixar supers! I notice that the music is like a slower version of OHMSS.
Also, Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to Marvel Comics’ most famous black superhero, Luke Cage. Ben Ramsey (THE BIG HIT) will write the adaptation of the long-running character. Luke Cage is a former gang member from Harlem that is framed by his best friend and sent to federal prison on drug charges. While in prison, Cage volunteers for a medical experiment that ultimately gives him super strength and bulletproof skin. Using the new powers, Cage escapes and becomes Luke Cage: Hero for Hire. Avi Arad will produce for Marvel Studios. I wonder who could play him well? As long as it’s not Will Smith, I’m cool. What about Iron Fist? Luke Wilson would be horrid, yet well cast, I think.
Sweet Christmas!
There’s a weakness in my heart for zombie movies…I hope 28 days later is good. I’ve heard some positive things already.
Scottobear’s Weekly Fotolog Stats/Reminder
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Spreading a meme from who knows where
COMFORT TV OR COMFORT BOOKS?
Comfort books, unless I’m too tired to even read, but unable to get to sleep. (Which happens a lot when I’m in need of comfort.) Cartoon Network, Discovery, and History Channel work wonders.
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR FAVORITE SHIRT?
My current favorite shirt is a black white and red Tie-dyed “Pirates of the Caribbean” shirt I got from Disney world back in 2000. It’s comfy, has hippy and pirate context, and reminds me of a lovely little vacation.
DO YOU WRITE? IF SO, WHAT DO YOU OVERUSE?
I write, and probably rely too much on detail of the area rather than cutting to the point of the story. Too much scenery. (It’s the first thing I start trimming.)
BAND YOU HATE MOST?
Any that’s playing too loud outside my bedroom window. I really like all sorts of music.
PUNK IN DRUBLIC?
Nah, I don’t even drink all that much in private.
DUDE, I CAN’T *BELIEVE* PEOPLE…
Worry so much about the opinions of strangers with no apparent knowledge about what they’re talking about. I’m concerned with opinions of folks that matter to me, and professionals in the field…not Joe Blow off the street. (Even most professionals don’t matter to me, either, honestly.) The opinion of someone I know and respect however is very valuable.
FIRST BOOK I REMEMBER READING ALL BY MYSELF.
I can’t recall much of my very young childhood, but an issue of Spidey Super Stories (a kids comic cross-promoted on The Electric Company television show.) Sometime in the early 70s. Easy Reader was in it, and Spidey was fighting the Lizard, while Spidey teamed up with Easy Reader to fight the Vanisher. (Edit) In fact, after a little googling, I just found a picture. April 1975 issue (so I was about 6 years old), picked up at the grocery store. I’m sure there were books before that, but that one stands out in my mind because I bought it with my own money and made a point of reading it on my own. There was a teenage-girl named “Thumper” who likes to dress like Napoleon Bonaparte and uses a boxing glove she hides in her vest to whack people in the back of their head when they’re not looking. Her origin? “When the Thumper didn’t get a Yellow Pony for her birthday… she got very angry and turned to crime. Dressed as the great French Hero Napoleon, the Thumper looks for someone to Thump.” It was something very close to along those lines.
Hmm. You know, I hear that’s the exact same origin Mysterio originally had. Except replace the line about ‘someone to Thump’ with ‘someone to try desperately to frighten with rubber bats’.
I’ve come to a conclusion. Morgan Freeman must reprise his role as Easy Reader in the next Spidey movie.
I need to go to a comic book store and pick up a copy of this just to have again. Three Villains, Lizard, Thumper, and Vanisher. Pretty good for a kid’s comic. 35¢ well spent.
Tiny, banana-scented stickers.
Aww!! Giant plushie microbes! How cute are they? (via applelard…Athlete’s foot and the common cold are both so cute!
Broccoli Wokly can be purchased at Piggly Wiggly.
continuing a headstone theme…
From earlier this year, dream of Newt at a graveyard, breaking a skellie…
I’m going to hop into my amazing x-5 nitro-burning dyna-plunge® crust-crawler sedan, made in Austria (probably by hopping gnomes), designed for burrowing lithely through the earth and into dreamland, with my sweetie by my side. (I saw an ad for it in the back of Hammerhead Comics, right next to the one for X-ray specs:”Look at your friend’s head. Is that really the throbbing brain within?”) Hee-hee! After working all summer at the state fair’s pony-ride concession, I sent away, and six to eight weeks later, Hoo-Boy!
Off to dream Leopard-spotted dreams of comfort and rest.
Nighters, dear journal.
Weekend Musts –
Spend some quality time with m’loves… Sweetheart and Newtles.
Get goodies to Sweetie, Rob, and Moira.
Enjoy the weekend
Finish Homepage (make it all match new layout, anyhow.)
Obtain –
- Kitty Litter
- Newt-food
- Shampoo
- Soap
- Washington Mutual info
- clean laundry
- supplemental groceries
The brain is a symbiotic parasite – but some (much maligned) individuals have found a way to break free of it’s tyrannical influence!
Why is it that some creatures get along perfectly fine without brains and some don’t? And also, why is it that the brain always has that oh-so-convenient protective shell of bone for every animal that has it? And why is it that the sensory organs are always mounted in such a way that the point of view is from the brain’s perspective?
Well try this idea on for size: Maybe the brain is actually a symbiotic parasite, possibly even extraterrestrial in origin!
There was a time when all the native life forms of earth were all without brains, then all of a sudden creatures with brains started popping up. Usually it was the creatures with the robust bodies that got brains, so perhaps the reason this occurred was because the brains had weak, probably invertebrate bodies and wanted to trade up.
As I mentioned, it was a symbiotic relationship, because brains have a superior ability to process sensory input and store useful information for later. At first it would have been fairly crude, with the brains making connections with the soft tissue and nervous systems of creatures they worked with.
Eventually, somewhere down the track, brains developed the ability to drastically alter the physiology of the creatures they worked with, so that they could ride in rather than on their partner creatures.
This works with the extraterrestrial origin theory, as brains could in fact be aliens with biotechnology far superior to our own…so while we are busy building cars and helicopters and spaceships to ride about in, the brains just saw about adapting what nature had created for their own use.
Eventually it got to the point where many creatures were born with a brain inside them as a functioning vital organ, which was much more efficient than each brain attaching itself to a host. In fact, by now the symbiotic relationship is so strong that those creatures who are born with brains can no longer function without them, due to control of vital homeostasis processes. This was probably intentional, as the brains early on would have ensured ‘loyalty’ by threatening a host with extreme pain or even death through heart palpitations.
Of course, this isn’t a hard and fast rule. Remember zombies?
They’ve got no brains, and what are they always trying to eat? That’s right – Brains!
Zombies are arguably the best representation of humanity’s natural state in modern times. Somehow or other they have managed to break the cycle of bondage to our brains that we are all born with, and they’re pissed off and out for revenge!
So if you see a zombie, feel free to gladly let him or her eat your brains, because they’re actually doing you a great favor.
See also the Zombie Nutritionist.
Scribbles from Today, as always, hover mouse over image for minor commentary.
My mind drifted to micro to macro scale, and then to old west Science fiction. Migelito Loveless, where are you now?
That Steam gatling has – Robot legs, a front loading steam engine (wood or coal heat the water), a lovely pressure gauge, a steam whistle(whoo-whoo!), and a giant front-mounted gatling gun.. The flat top also serves as a bun/pastry warmer.
Ah, superglue. So handy. So useful.
I got a tube, and have been fixing all the little doodads that’ve needed it for the last week.
Toy soldier with removed arm and sword? All better! Freaky guy riding his robot scorpion? Legs are all good now.
Desk drawer with loose knob? Fixed!
Broken book spine? No more!
Very satisfying…and I didn’t glue my fingers together.
Today’s a relaxing day… just doing the little niggling nit-noids that need to get done, but nothing too pesky. I got all my outside stuff done early… paycheck, groceries (got my brownie mix! and a lot of fresh fruit to counter any potential guilt…) They’re building a super-duper uber-Publix right on the other side of the tunnel (I didn’t know it was the only tunnel in all of Florida!) … figures.. Once they change the home delivery plan to something very useable…I wonder what the difference is between tuna for cats and regular tuna is? Do kitties prefer it to be a little stinkier or something, or are there just fewer federal guidelines for feeding non-humans?
I would take advantage of grocery delivery, but I like to get out and shop for goodies, do a little people watching, and maybe the odd impulse buy.
Random Scotto factoid – My Favorite Michael J Fox movie is The Frighteners. I really like how it goes from goofy Ghostbusters to a deep sympathy and pity for the main guy, to “holy crap!”, and back again.
Note- I never liked TV’s “Family ties”… but the sporadic episode or two of “Spin City” that I’ve seen with him in it was pretty good.
Protected: Blue Fairy, Blue Lady, BVM…. or how quoting a bunch of sources can look like original writing.
When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken…
I want to just goof off today.
I’d like to get to work, have someone offer to take me out to a long lunch near my house, and have Kev call mid-payment of the check, and have them drop me at home… so I can return on Thursday, refreshed.
Erica in accounting (She’s been at the company for five years, from 16 to 21…) gave her week’s notice on Monday.
Another victim of the hubbub here at work, and not wanting to work with the Finn too closely. More’s the pity… ol’ Rico is an excellent worker, and a good person. We keep swapping out wheat for more chaff… I wonder who’s next to call it a day?
Taken out for potato pancakes. That’d be nice.
Next week or so is birthday week… Bro and Kev.. This weekend it’s going to be prezzie time. Bro’s easy, Kev… I’ll have to roam the software and toy store aisles, and see what calls my name. Also sweetheart’s Lj-versary.
Newt’s Birthday is first week next month, and sweetheart’s is the second week. They’re both easy to shop for too. Then I’ll be set.
Beat the Geeks on Ben Stein’s Money… I suspect the geeks’ show is dying, to have to guest star elsewhere. I don’t like the movie geek “Marc”…he gives me a weird vibe. The TV and music geeks look like they could carry a pleasant conversation though.
Sending more healing vibes to my sweetheart… she’s still sicky, :(…. *huggo-lovies-mendo-fixits* it seems to be going around, too. Everyone should be drinking lots of fluids, and resting!
Enough dawdling… time for me to head out. I think I’m going to spoil myself a little today, and get a big, hot lunch of something really good tasting, and probably not too good for my health.
Have a happy, dear journal.
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prologue, or why fonts are fun.
SO DON’T BELIEVE ME! I don’t care. They exist! (They do!)
And they wait! (Oh yes!) They wait! In the dark. To suck the marrow from your bones. To scoop the soft tasty parts from your skull (for dessert!)
Creatures of mist and memory…
The nightmare people.
And… they’re coming, brother! they’re coming…
…for you!
And only one man can stop them…
Scottobear!
Strange visitor from beyond humanity, once confined to a forgotten sacred cave by a den of mutated turkey vultures — Mr. Scott O’Bear, heir to the mysteries of the unknown, miraculously escaped his ordeal unscathed! Purified by the experience, he exacted swift vengeance on his ghastly tormentors as Scottobear!! Since then he has wandered the earth, searching out other such abominations… and destroying them!!!
Probably not to be continued….
Protected: Close Encounters With Cthulhu
The streetlight (traffic signal) at the corner of 4th street and 3rd Avenue likes me. It *always* turns green when I approach, from any direction. I’m going to take its picture, and find it a mate on the internet. That’s how nice it is.
I think it appreciates the fact that I wave, smile, and say thank you when it lets me pass.
A little politeness goes a long way.
My day, in chunks, told from newest to oldest.
Nigh Nigh.
Going to bed.
Swiss cheese.
Battle damaged black cat (he’s ok)
Everyone hates the Finn
Wendy’s Frosty and Baked Tater with Chives
The Finn gets catty about Sappho
McDonald’s hash browns & Orange Juice
Bike ride
More Newtie Lovin’
Wake up
Sunrise
Newtie Lovin’
Dreams about my Sweetie Belly dancing