2nd Batch of allergy shots, and then platelets. I have to see if I can still donate today after the shot.
Dan goes back to school tomorrow or Friday, for kids begin on Monday. I wonder if we’ll get to goof of any more before he’s back in the grind?
The New Semagic LJ client is a lot friendlier to tags.
Moment of Lyric:
good day at the club. MP brought me a gift.. she got me an ounce of Abercrombie & Fitch “Fierce”. It smells nice, and I also got some lovely smooches. It’s a pity that she’s going back to Columbia on June 3rd for a few months, but at least we can email back and forth.
Susie’s going to part-time some other club.. or maybe she already works at another one. Either way, she invited me to visit at that one, too. I’ll surely go.. she keeps me in free drinks and is a funny little busybody.
Tipping rockabetty Mzk with a Pabst Blue Ribbon T-shirt from eBay. Remember, the “Billy” in “Rockabilly” stands for “Hillbilly”.
Also at the club, I won a bottle of Panama Jack spiced rum. This its the first time I’ve had alcohol in the apartment for maybe two years. Maybe some Rum & Cokes are scheduled for my 4th of July!
I was out sick for two days, and I missed about 9 episodes of the Rockford Files on WGN! Dang screwed up sleep schedule! Yesterday, I got home about 7 or so, fell asleep, and woke up at 4:30 this morning. I’ve got to get back on track by Monday.
Don Lapre is back, now Selling “The Greatest Vitamin in the World” Dang, how is he allowed to continue to push his stuff?
I remember David Spade making fun of him on SNL ages ago. He’s been scamming folks that want to get rich quick for well over 15 years now! Man, the junk that’s on TV at 5am. He’s still a physical spaz, too.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Thank you to all the fine folks that helped to nurture, raise, and otherwise bring children into the world.
Bro called me multiple times while I was out from a pay phone to get his lost cell. He wants it delivered to my apartment, even though I’ve told him time and again that I don’t want anything of his associate with my place, but he ordered it already. He’s probably going to camp out by my mailbox Tuesday morning, looking for it.
Yesterday was pretty nice, all told.
Stats: BP=118/81, iron @ 44, cholesterol highish, at 172, type A positive
I got:
Things seen out yesterday on route to and from doing blood work.
BMX graffiti, on bike shop
Racing bikes, also on the side of the Bike shop
Maltese Crosses? The I in “mission” is a candle… I look forward to finding the explanation for this. (it was the exit sign from a church parking lot… folks going to spread the word, no doubt, but when I think of the Mission Field, I think of foreign countries, like the Peace Corps, or whatnot. Then again, Fort Lauderdale can be pretty alien to a missionary mindset.
The corner of Sunrise and NE 20th. Stomping grounds, near the Thai food place and the Japanese market.
More YNOT Graffiti.. no sticky-letters this time. Near Federal and 5th.
YNOT from a different perspective. No sign of “DOSE”.
Bernie Dexter – Bettie Page-style pinup model.
Hitler’s ghost was roaming about Europe until 1970 Continue reading 7352 – Brought to you by Captain Scotto Laserous Explosion and Kitty-Newt Exploserous Laser
Lovely cyberman cameo in the Dalek episode of Dr. Who. Also, more “Bad Wolf” imagery. (Just an In-joke?) Rather my least favorite one so far, but it was still worth a watch.
Moment of lyric –
And you know it like a poet, like baby doll
I bet she tried to say she gave me her all, she played ball
All bets off! The Villain got the dice rigged
And they say he accosted the man with the sliced wig
Allegedly; the investigation is still ongoing
In this pesky inition he gots the best con flowin’
The pot doubles, now they really got troubles
Madman never go *pop*!, like snot bubbles
Someone remixed a bunch of President Bush speeches and rearranged his words so that it sounds like he’s singing “Imagine” and “A Walk On The Wild Side.” (part of an entire album called The Party Party. Download it here.) via boingboing
Awesome.
I still think a freshly baptized baby (Especially if still wet from the fount) would be an awesome weapon against a vampire. Actually, I wonder how great a recently baptized born-again martial artist with a sharpened wooden leg would probably be the best. While wearing a Crucifix. At High Noon. In the Desert. On a clear day.
After the club, I went to see Sahara… it was a cute, dumb action film. Quite enjoyable. Solid Dirk Pitt fare.
I was complimented on my gentleness on Saturday, and was reminded that the Spanish word for toad is sapo (frog is rana). I can communicate in Spanish like a first-grader.
(El nombre de mi gato es Newton y él es anaranjado.)
During walkabout yesterday, a coconut nearly dented my noggin, and landed on the sidewalk with a really solid *THUNK* . If Isaac Newton lived further South, he’d have just discovered a concussion rather than a theory about gravity. If I was about 2 feet to the right, Newton-cat would’ve had to wait a while before a litte change.
Travel Pictures:
more sticky letter graffiti, right on the bus. TRIK
They’re coming for you, Barbara.
Doing a lot next weekend… Friday with Jeff & B, Sat with Kev. This weekend, not so much. Pay rent, and bills, take call, go to the club, bar food, chit-chat, play with Newtie.
Some folks I know are getting pestered by that Primerica MLM network Scam. They’ve been at it for a while – see Sanjay’s entry.
I remember when they were calling me after I started posting my resume online with Monster and Dice, back in ’03. They claimed I’d be in a management position, but fortunately I sniffed around and found out what was really up. The weird thing was that they didn’t even mention the company name at first.
Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings
A Stratellite™ is a high-altitude airship that when in place in the stratosphere will provide a stationary platform for transmitting various types of wireless communications services currently transmitted from cell towers and satellites. It is not a balloon or a blimp. It is a high-altitude airship.
Wifi via airship. Coolness. Sky Pirates of all kinds can’t be far behind!
Moment of not being a total geek. I can wait for Sirenity to be shown on tv. I enjoyed Firefly, but the small screen is just fine. I may do the next Star Wars flick wit h Kev and the gang, though…social nerdity is more fun. I’m far more interested in Romero’s Land of The Dead.
To supply the needed Nerd quotient: The Ladies of Star Trek (HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!)
Yet More of YNOT DOSE:
Dose on a on-way sign
Ynot Dose near CVS… actual graffiti, not stickers
1 year ago – Team Laser Explosion Secret Fan club, Eels, ADP sassmouth, php nuke is el-sucko
2 years ago – Travel plans, work, finn’s karma, Saw Murray
3 years ago – May Day Coming, Snuggles Newt, Super power, Chupa Blabs
4 years ago – web poll, dj poll, bit o’ fiction, My pet Skeleton, naughty news – lots of breasts, a bunghole, creed and a mime, mum.org letter for menstrualhut
Ah, that’s why I didn’t get into Anarchy online.. full screen doesn’t support dual monitors all that well…keeps minimizing, and running it windowed gives me a black screen. Dang annoying.Still, pretty neat when it ticks over properly.
My internal monologue has been strangely quiet lately. normally, I have a multitude things bubbling around inside my head, with different things breaking the surface, like raisins in ginger ale. my Monkey and robot seem to be teaming up against central control. Monkey is behind the whole thing, I’m sure.
H-words:
I never knew the meaning of the term histrionics until I hung out with RP gamers (sadly, more OOC than IC) and read random journals online.
I’d never seen hubris in action until I read livejournal.
What else can be found if you just do a random cross-section? Hedonists. Hysteria. Heckling. Hypochondriacs. Haughtiness. Hyperbole. Hotheads. Hubbub. Hypocrites.
In fact, it seems that I may be a bit hypercritical (as well as a bit hypocritical) when it comes to online journals for the most part. Of the journals I read regularly, very few are like those mentioned above, though everyone has one or two elements there.
Oh yeah. Some good H-words too. Helpers, Humanitarians, Hotties, and Humor. Also, a Herpetologist. (In no particular order) That makes it worthwhile.
Moment of Lyric:
I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere in the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah
Walkabout pics –
More YNOT DOSE everywhere.
The backs of traffic signs seem to be the biggest location
Step into history – Some snazzy sites in Florida. (nifty sites for all 50 states)
Games for the Brain (I’m partial to anagramania. and square words.)
Exploding toads baffle German experts Continue reading 7324 – Sunday
Happy Birthday, Bettie Page!
Dear Smoking Gun. Don’t talk to me about Vaseline and Michael Jackson. *shudder*
Kari seems to be doing ok, so far. Not sure if she missed the predator launch or not.. we may’ve sent it out simultaneously.
Replacing Monday meeting with meeting today, because Big Kahuna is off to the Carolinas this weekend, and won’t be back until midweek.
Things seen yesterday:
Bus Heiroglyphs. What does it mean?
Sidewalk Closed, use other side.
More Sticker “ynot dose” graffiti. By the station (like here, from 3/13/05)
Newton in the Dresser.
Not seen, A space monkey.
Pictures I shouldn’t look at before the coming air show. I really hope this forklift picture is a fake.
The Banana plant is an herb, not a tree. (The stem does not contain true woody tissue.)
There’s not much difference between doe snot and does not.
I got to talk to ramscan for the first time in an age last night.. that was pretty cool. I have to make a point of catching up with him more. It sounds like he’s doing well, and rightly so, he’s a nice guy.
The Japanese have developed a Super-Strength “exoskeleton” to help the disabled and elderly.
No repulsors, chest beam or rocket boots on it. yet. Though in a slightly creepy coincidence the “suit’s” name is HAL.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624945.800 Via Gray Pumpkin
Things written on Taco Bell sauce packets –
1 year ago – Eucharist toss, RI peeves me, there, vamps, CS mail-skim
2 years ago – country meme, there-crew, battle-imp
3 years ago – dreams, make out places in Ft Lauderdale, lone gunmen gone, chupa vs tia
4 years ago – ljwhores, undulant, Earth Day, international kite fest, 10 reasons sex is good for you, Peru shoots down US planes.
Meeting went well. Bigger issues than I had thought, but that’s a good thing, too. Dr Russell is a very interesting person. Obviously very quite smart (10 out of 10, I suspect), and very down to earth. I’ll be doing a follow-up with him in the next week or two.
MASS in Concert this weekend…Broward Center for the Performing Arts Fort Lauderdale, FL. April 7-8, 2005 – MASS will feature their instruments both indoors and outdoors for this public event. They will also inform the attendees about the sculptural design of MASS instruments. I think I’ll saunter over there and check it out.
Did blood again… watched Undercover Brother. I was amused.
All about Manners. Aww Kitty Cuteness! – This could easily be a day in the life with Newt. Her cat is named Newt, too! (No Gravy for my Newt.)
Bill allowing people to “meet force with force” heads to governor Continue reading 7283 – Quick like a bunny
I have that appointment at 3pm today… I’m a bit apprehensive, but I anticipate positive results. I see one big possible negative hanging overhead, but hopefully that won’t cause any issues.
Brother called last night.He’s homeless, but asked me where to get a cheap personal DVD player or portable TV. I advised him to save his money, and to save for an apartment or at least to pay his probation officer. He likes to read sometimes, so I also recommended the wonderfully free library nearby. His priorities are really out of control… He’d rather risk going back to jail, but have a portable tv set that requires batteries and safe shelter? His thoughts are some of the most unfocused as I’ve ever seen… jumps from topic to topic, never sure of what he’s even talking about. Thoughts of survival for him.
I’m still amazed that this is all just a bunch of dots. a bunch of pixels on the screen. Heck, the whole world is a bunch of tiny little dots, too, come to think of it. I liked hydrogen atoms better when they has solar-looking nuclei with an orbiting planet electro, rather than the sphere within a sphere look it took on in my later science classes. I like electrons as a little ball, not a cloud.
Not sure why, but I’ve had a dramatic upswing of site hits. The biggest draw is that torn/mime video, by far. I am very fond of it, too, but Monkey vs Robot is still my favorite.
The Broken Umbrella Archive. He sees Broken Umbrellas, and takes pictures of ’em.
I don’t care what anyone says, I like the alternating Orchestra/Disco “wacka-wacka” theme to Space:1999.
Moment of Lyric: (mp3)
But I know
I have MINE and SHE has HERS and HE has HIS
YOU have YOURS
THEY love US and WE love THEM
What’s OURS is THEIRS, that’s how it is with friends.
300 island resort designed to look like a world map. I love it. Check it out in Dubai… Maybe I could visit my buddies sedef and oneeyed!
images from yesterday –
Apparently they will be featuring a time machine at this year’s air and sea show. Pretty bad typo, and it’s propagated on all of the city buses and billboards. It’s supposed to be April 30th – May 1st. They got it right on the Website. I wonder how long it’ll be before they fix ’em all? This is the first time I’ve seen the advert pasted on the side of the bus, but it’s rather dirty already, so I’ll guess it’s been on a day or two, maybe a week at the most. I plan on being out of town, or just staying inside most of that weekend. It’s a mob scene.
ouch. Poor little barricade got plowed into… I wonder how much damage the car took. I’m not innocent of barricade abuse either, thought I prefer to drown them. (4 paragraphs down)
More Letter-sticker graffiti. BASIX. It looks like the “I” and especially the “X” are from a different set. Pasted to the back of a stop sign near the corner of 17th and Federal.
1 year ago – smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game
2 years ago – sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.
3 years ago – landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar, nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers
4 years ago – Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi Preggers
The morning came with a minimum of fuss, more out of habit than anything else. More energy this morning… I was running on fumes yesterday. Today is going to be a walkabout and a mind-blanking workout.
I am really glad that I have so much bandwidth available on my website. People have been hitting the audio and video pages pretty hard the last few days.
Current Reality Settings – Better than yesterday, but I want to get back to 4-color, wacky, full.
Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color / Thermograph / X-Ray )
MPAA Rating (G / PG / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On / Wanton Murderous Rage)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse / Blend / Puree / Oh, Ugh!)
Global Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Personal Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Batteries (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Well, the get-together yesterday was delayed, but maybe next weekend. constance1010 had to work, at the last minute. Hopefully I won’t be on call next go ’round, and can catch her and tarpo.
Sights and sounds from what I did instead –
Scribble-doodle – more from the TNT people from before?
More Sticky-letter graffiti
Little band in the riverwalk pavilion. the crowd was nigh-empty:
What the band was playing – 145k ogg
There’s some bad juju in the air this month. I wish I was more superstitious, so that I could do some sort of banishment ritual and feel that it works. Flies banging on a windowpane, promising something outside that’s probably unpleasant.
Bid on a replacement model for my poor dead camera on ebay.. it’s so old that I can safely bid about $50. I don’t really need a brand new bleeding-edge camera for snapshots.
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What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
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You scored as Utilitarianism.
Your life is guided by the principles of Utilitarianism: You seek the greatest good for the greatest number.
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
–Jeremy Bentham
“Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible.”
–John Stuart Mill
You scored as Justice (Fairness).
Your life is guided by the concept of Fair Justice: Everyone, yourself included, should be rewarded and punished according to the help or harm they cause.
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
–Leonardo da Vinci – I truly agree with this sentiment, which is why my merciful side suffers.
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don’t want the most-remembered term of 2005 to be “feeding tube”.
People don’t give hips and collarbones enough credit in the sexiness department these days.
Moment of Lyric: (mp3)
What’s that sound
Comin’ from the dresser on a night as black as pitch?
What’s that sound
Comin’ from the bureau, do I dare turn on the switch?
Them bones, them bones, them dry bones
All bleached and deathly white
I’ve got skeletons in my closet and
They’re rattlin’ tonight
The cheat bone’s connected to deceit bones
And thereby connected to lies
I-love-yous said indiscriminately make the sockets for the eyes
The love bones knock against the hate bones
And fingers click in time
There won’t be sleep for the weary tonight
‘Cause all those bones are mine
I forgot to mention… on Friday, Dan gave me a copy of Kelly’s Heroes. on VHS. I don’t own a VCR anymore. I wonder where I can go to swap it out for a DVD version? It’s a great flick.
There’s a solid piece at Wired News about Buprenorphine, a treatment for heroin that kills withdrawal symptoms quickly, but without the abuse potential of methadone. Unfortunately, it hasn’t taken off as expected, in part because of some ill-conceived regulation:
After bupe had been on the market a year, the law was amended to permit methadone clinics to prescribe it, but only under the same rules used for methadone (one dose per visit), which erases one of bupe’s major advantages – that you don’t have to schlep to a clinic every day. Meanwhile, many methadone providers have remained openly skeptical of the new med, fearing that it will further stigmatize methadone, or siphon off their most stable patients. The government reimburses methadone programs for the number of patients they oversee, not for the specific services they provide, so the payment for a stable patient who takes a dose and goes to work subsidizes treatment for more fragile clients with multiple addictions, mental illness, housing and unemployment issues, and more.
The regulatory problems didn’t stop there. Influenced by tales of unscrupulous methadone clinics taking on huge case-loads for the reimbursement cash, Congress barred doctors from maintaining more than 30 bupe patients at a time. And in a monumental blunder, the law classified giant HMOs like Kaiser Permanente, as well as hospitals, as single providers, with the same 30-patient cap that Kolodny has in the solo practice he maintains on evenings and weekends. Four years later, the law remains unchanged. One clear sign of the law’s unintended consequences: The world-renowned Addiction Institute of New York (better recognized by its old name, Smithers) doesn’t mention bupe in its advertising because with a 30-patient limit, it fears it would have to turn people away.
In elementary school I remember the teacher telling me that the vowels were AEIOU and sometimes Y and W. But I can’t think of a single word where W is used as a vowel. Are there any?
Sure. Try “how,” which is phonetically equivalent to “hou,” as in house. Ou and ow are diphthongs–that is, two vowel sounds that kind of slide together when you say them. W and Y are often called semivowels because they go both ways, as it were, depending on the company they keep within the word. (Low morals are obviously a problem at every level of our society.) In cow, for instance, W is a vowel, but make the word coward and you can hear W working as a consonant. Similarly with Y become I in copy and copier.
I dig how Google and Yahoo are duking it out.
Last month’s launch of Google Maps was impressive, but not as cool as Yahoo’s placing of live traffic conditions on its map this month. Google’s webmail product, Gmail, caused a fuss by offering accounts capable of storing a gigabyte of mail, four times that of Yahoo Mail. No problem, said Yahoo last week, Yahoo mail users can have a gigabyte too. Google’s purchase of Blogger gave them a place at the blogger’s table, but it has done little with it. Yahoo’s blogging tool, Yahoo 360, launches this month, allegedly fully integrated with the rest of the content they produce.
Google has an image organizing application in Picasa, sure; but Yahoo just bought Flickr, perhaps the smartest and richest online application ever written. Yahoo has a rich site summary (RSS) aggregator, Google does not. Yahoo has a search engine for online movies, Google does not. Yahoo has quietly launched search.yahoo.com/cc, a search engine engineered to find and index Creative Commons material.
1 year ago – Hellboy, Le Gren, Marlin Maniac
2 years ago – Bro issues w/LL, sponsored links, Meredith out front
3 years ago – Walkies, baby sharks, programming, local hones go to 10-digit dialing, Reality settings, Wolf files, army men, schoolhouse rock
4 years ago SOP, enature, symbols, psa for my bio page, C++ DST bug
I’m getting about quite a few hits a day from the readablog feed search engine. I’m wondering what search queries are bringing ’em in?
Banksy installing four pieces in New York’s most prestigious museums – The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Natural History.
Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with author name plaque and explanation.
Yesterday’s audio moment with the mentally ill – Laughing boy. What was my ride from home to the blood center like? Play that 14-second clip on repeat for about 25 minutes. I was bordering on mild lunacy myself by the time I got to my stop.
Good Day Sunday. Random standing in line fraternization at Einstein’s with a Brazilian girl who was convinced that eyes are the gateway to the soul. She told me that she could tell that I was a kind and gentle person by looking there. Well, If I have to take a big-guy cliche, I’d certainly prefer to fall in to the gentle giant (rather than the rampaging man-child, hulking dolt or savage bully). We chatted for a bit, and got along famously. She has a 7-year old son and is going to be getting two kitties after they move next weekend. I advised her to make ’em indoor kitties, because of the city. Serena is a short (5’2ish?), slightly built gal with angular but very attractive features. Very thick, long brown hair (Just about to the tailbone) with a slight wave to it, makes mine look short in comparison. Big Brown Eyes. Lunchtime conversation was quite nice, and I gave her my number. She mentioned that once she gets a land-line that she might need help getting on the internet (especially in getting mp3s and burning music) with her laptop and I offered to be of service. She doesn’t smoke, only drinks in moderation, and knew that it was the first day of Spring. No visible tattoos, wore a crucifix on a thin gold chain and small gold stud earrings, Didn’t know it was Palm Sunday and had never heard of Passion Sunday, doesn’t eat bacon (or any kind of pork… she had a chicken and some sort of veggies on a sesame seed bagel, with orange juice). Her major at university was communications, and now works in public relations.
wow, that was weirdly written. mental fragments ripped from my head a little at a time. The majority of those factoids were drawn out with basic conversation.
Not a huge fan of Conan, but the Walker:Texas Ranger clips kill me. BEAR TRAP! PUNCH!
Random Scotto Factoid: It’s my belief that homeopathy is another word for placebo. Which is to say that it can work for people sometimes… the power of suggestion is a strong one. But I think the theory of super-dilution is a bit off. To the best of my knowledge, no homeopathic remedy has ever been shown to work in a large randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial.
Moment of Lyric:
On an island in the sun
We’ll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain
collection of photos… of “Cameras Prohibited” signs.
Woo! Lovely Birthday Prezzie came in the mail yesterday! Thanks mucho, kindly little doo-bee! I’ve been wanting to read it since I knew it was compiled in one volume.
My cable went out last night for about an hour. The house is a lot more quiet with no tv sounds in it, filling the background.
Bad juju yesterday. Monday, throughout. New moon today, maybe things will start fresh along with it.
Moment of Lyric – tacotacotacotacoaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai
Taco ninja has an awesome theme song. (via GrayPumpkin)
Anyone want to bring me a Kind Veggie Burrito with Falafel, or some “Nothing died for this chili” chili?
They also give out free condoms.
Wow, Ol’ Supes really is a jerk, isn’t he?
last bit of cemetery pictures in my lj gallery
Woo! Lovely Birthday Prezzie came in the mail yesterday! Thanks mucho, kindly little doo-bee! I’ve been wanting to read it since I knew it was compiled in one volume.
My cable went out last night for about an hour. The house is a lot more quiet with no tv sounds in it, filling the background.
Bad juju yesterday. Monday, throughout. New moon today, maybe things will start fresh along with it.
Moment of Lyric – tacotacotacotacoaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai
Taco ninja has an awesome theme song. (via GrayPumpkin)
Anyone want to bring me a Kind Veggie Burrito with Falafel, or some “Nothing died for this chili” chili?
They also give out free condoms.
Wow, Ol’ Supes really is a jerk, isn’t he?
last bit of cemetery pictures in my lj gallery
