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Nice way to see how neat and clean your local establishments are – I just did a quick check of the burger king across the street.
(Seach by name, then ft lauderdale fl)
results –
Boiled some eggs for traveling breakfast this morning, turned out surprisingly good… chilling right after hard-boiling set them up just right, and no ugly ring between yolk and white, and not sulfuric-stinky at all. Cheap morning food – a dozen eggs for a dollar, three eggs at a throw is two bits a meal.
I’m still a total newbie at yoga, but three days into it, and I’m digging it, even though I’m not quite so bendy as mr yee, the rubber-man teacher. Not doing it in the morning, but I’ve started doing 20 min morning when I get home from work, and then the 20 min nightly about an hour later.
EN Had a bit of a panic over Cedarville, AR and Wichita, KS last night… a bit of stress about mapping, but it was quickly resolved.
Dave has sinus surgery last week… was getting repeated infections since Wilma. I hope this will fix it.
4-second frenzy – play a bunch of games, 4-seconds each. perfect for the trendy pseudo-ADD set.
In the spirit of Wonder Woman – Theoi Project, a comprehensive guide to the Gods (Theoi), Spirits (Daimones) and Monsters (Theres) of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
E-paper for Danny – FOLEDs – Flexible Organic Light Emitting Devices – “FOLEDs are organic light emitting devices built on flexible substrates. Flat panel displays have traditionally been fabricated on glass substrates because of structural and/or processing constraints. Flexible materials have significant performance advantages over traditional glass substrates.” – How it works
What does that all mean, you say? Well, I’m rolling up my monitor now and going home!
Moment of Lyric: (mp3)
Article discussing religious uses and values concerning the wearing of rings. (Episcopal rings, both at an earlier and later period, were sometimes used as receptacles for relics.)
Note – Flemish (A variant of Dutch) is spoken in much of Belgium.
My Cat’s got Knees by Joel and Jaqui. Also, I like your pants.
I sort of dig the revised rust monster from mearls.
Cool underground city pictures
Via Springheel Jack – We screwed up Lake Okeechobee so bad, we have to build a new one
Am I too old to be enthusiastic about the coming Ninja Turtles movie? I think it looks pretty nifty, but I’m looking more forward to Zoom.
Between a kink in my back, steady thrumming rain outside and a steadily purring Newton inside, I fairly well slept away my Saturday. Touched base with a number of nice folks, too.
Moment of Lyric – (vox audio)
The warmth of your love’s
Like the warmth from the sun
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come…
Don’t let go of my hand
Now the darkness has gone
This will be our year
Took a long time to come…
And I won’t forget
The way you helped me up when I was down
And I won’t forget
The way you said “darling, I love you”
You gave me faith to go on
Now we’re there
And we’ve only just begun
This will be our year
Took a long time to come…
The warmth of your smile
Smile for me, little one
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come…
You don’t have to worry
All your worried days are gone
This will be our year
Took a long time to come…
And I won’t forget
The way you helped me up when I was down
And I won’t forget
The way you said “darling, I love you”
You gave me faith to go on
Now we’re there
We’ve only just begun
This will be our year
Took a long time to come…
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come…
The Electric Company – Victor Borge – Audible Punctuation
http://www.youtube.com/v/2F0Lrz8DWtE
1 year ago – GrayP, Allergy results, Candice gives me her number, google hybrid, love song / mind control,
2 years ago – I Robot, The Flo, LiveJournal Gallery, 1000 white cards revisited
3 years ago – Evil Fish, Bro, Brace, bazillion questions meme, crow tools, Elton Ock, LJ pings for you
4 years ago – Janet Reno, 1000 blank white cards, lost links, Dumpster Diving,singing kitty, palm sketches, snickitty-snackitty man, managing activism
5 years ago – melted heart, epizootic ,hair bears, playing majestic
6 years ago – bedtime thoughts
Perhaps the best gift for a gamer, ever. (and depending on the player, it might be a nice secondhand results gift to the group.)
Willow creates handcrafted soaps out of all-natural ingredients. Her Handmade Soaps For GAMERS premiered with rave reviews at Gen Con Indy 2005.
Currently available is the NATURAL 20 –a scented soap with an actual d20 embedded in it — the most popular soap at the show! via eryx_uk
Debunking the Christian Democracy Myth – Quotes from the Founding Fathers
suicide invalidates insurance policies, but any death obliterates a conviction that is not final – via lizaboo
I’ve been feeling a rather blah mood underneath my basic mostly chipper vibe for a little while now. I’ve got a lot of good things going in my life, but still feel a bit of malaise. I think it’s just a combination of the time of the year, general stresses and the like.
I get cheered up quickly when I think of good people I know…LJ folks, not to mention phone calls or hanging out with Danny really energize me and return my thoughts to an even keel. (Usually… sometimes Danny and I commiserate to a point of being mutually cranky…or at least mutually tired.)
Coworkers are a mixed bunch… GG and TD are cool, but the higher much-a-mucks have been really stressed lately, and that’s contagious. Nobody’s really given me any direct guff, but lots of guff “near me”. I have to remind myself to just let it go, and not feed into that mentality.
I’ve got 7 vacation days left to use before 8/25. Not sure what I’m going to do with that, but I know at least part will be sent going up to Virginia, to relax and enjoy myself. (Staying at the crash pad near Mom and Wilt.) Hopefully, a little sidebar to the Keys could happen, too.
I feel good that I’ve raised enough money (between my junk-food fund, now at about $70, plus the kindly donations of folks who click on my webpage ads at about another $100, and outright paypal donations of about $25) to do the bees option, Trees, and chicks a couple of times over. Unless I find an even better charity, that’ll be where the funds go at the end of this month.
See, I feel less bleh, even just typing about making an improvement, and thinking about good folks in my life. Needless to say, Newt is a fine calming and cheer-bringing medicine, too. Thinking about it, I only lapse to humbug when I forget about all the spiffies.
Soccer / Football – Who Should I cheer for?
Alert Map. I am altogether too fascinated with this.
Here’s a breakdown of what the icons mean
When I build my superhero lair, this is going on a large screen on the west wall of the ready room.
An unknown object has dropped from the sky in a remote village of Tsurma, Kiyawa local government area of Jigawa State. The object labelled “Adolphus 12” carried the French national flag that was covered with an 8 inch polytene bag attached with electronic gadgets, telephone numbers of France and Benin Republic. Eyewitness account told Vanguard that the strange object dropped in the village around 5.00 pm local time after a slight rainfall, which caused apprehension and tension among inhabitants. The eyewitness account stated that the object which appeared to be remote controlled from an unknown centre attempted to take off again before it was tied down by the villagers who subsequently alerted the Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Muhammadu Nuhu Sanusi. Vanguard reports that the object that was about the size of a 2,000-litre water tank has an inscription that says “whoever finds it should call the numbers attached, this is not dangerous, and it is a scientific experiment.”
The object also has an antenna, four aerial wires, and a transmitter that looks like a satellite transmission mechanism. Vanguard further reports that the sleepy village was to turned to a Mecca by the news of the strange object as crowd estimated at about 10,000 trooped there to catch a glimpse of the object. Following the development, the Police authority in Dutse sent a team of expert from Bomb Disposal Unit to ascertain the true picture of the object. Briefing newsmen on the incident, the Jigawa Police Public Relation Officer, ASP, Ejike Nwakalor, confirmed that preliminary investigations indicate that the object is a safe scientific gadget with no destructive element, but could not say if it was an espionage object.
How To Make Anything Look Like a Toy – see also –
10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop (virtual photographer is a new fave don’t forget the extras)
Moment of Lyric – (Youtube is my hero, yet again)
Very superstitious, writing’s on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders bout’ to fall,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
oo When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin’ strong,
You don’t wanna save me, sad is my song.
When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, yeh, yeh.
Very superstitious, nothin’ more to say,
Very superstitious, the devil’s on his way,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no
Spidey 3 Trailer Yay, Sandman!
Obscure Characters in the DC Universe
Self-reminder about more youtube cartoons.
1 year ago – mp plans, tired, miami vice movie filming, outdoor bro, open id, falling body, florida on florida, pictures, I don’t wanna be stoned, zombie dogs, To live instead of exist
2 years ago – pick up the phone, explosion world, virtual frog dissection, viruses,giant clothes, roadsign, hulk coloring book, ebooks, puppy stops killers
3 years ago – plushie microbes, night flight, handguns, Scientology, newt pics, playboy
4 years ago – Newt smarts, moment of zen, moment of poop, political compass, dusty apt.
5 years ago – weird emma, peremptory, yum!, broken linkies, evil news, name poll, who do you love
6 years ago – breakup w/ April, Candle, submarine
Last Night’s Din-din is even better as breakfast (due to it self-marinating) Lazy bachelor recipe, but here it is.
Tasty bean salad
3 cans black beans
2 cans of corn
1 can garbanzo beans
red and green onion, chopped
fresh cilantro to taste
sliced mushrooms
1/2 tsp. cumin
pinch of cinnamon
pepper to season
juice from a lemon
1/2 to 1 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 to 1/2 cup olive oil
salt
pepper
cayenne
Drain everything that comes in a can and put it in a big bowl. Chop all of the veggies and add them in. Mix the olive oil, vinegar and lemon juice in a separate bowl, then stir it in. Add the seasonings and adjust to taste.
How they reworked Brando into the new Superman movie. Pretty nifty!
Free Movies, Cartoons & Documentaries
Keen perspective art in the subway
Japanese War Tubas only a few decades ago were the very pinnacle of modern technology and your best bet for locating an enemy in the distance or in the dark (that’s Hirohito on the right).
Brings Overture to “Die schöne Galathee” by Franz von Suppé (mp3) to mind, for some reason.(I really like the Pygmalion scene)
Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective.
via graypumpkin –
Pre-eminent scientist, inventor, and respected mixologist Doctor Bunsen Honeydew reveals and demonstrates (with the help of his trusted assistant, Beaker) the amazing combinant power hidden behind movie theater concessions stands across the globe.
Regardless of the very real threat that terrorists might find a way to use this frighteningly accessible technology against us on our own soil, it gives us some comfort to know that when we find ourselves trapped and alone, fighting for our lives against the Gorn on a desolate alien planet made of nothing but Diet Coke and Mentos, by god, we’ll know what to do.
I’m back to playing turn-based pente online. Anyone who’d like to challenge me, the name’s scottobear there.
1 year ago – GP & Batman, magic waffle pixies, yubnub, google maps, Lore, grasshoppers, awesomedome, journal scraped
2 years ago – Summertime, silliness, doodleboard, rage icon (since added), extreme heat warning, wifi bike, earbags, pudding pop poll
3 years ago – newt pic, dialects, sacred texts, monkfish, fold up robots, William Marshall RIP
4 years ago – Tope/taupe, cookie puss rap, Francesco ups the rent due to tile, bigbrother time clock installed at FMM, bird pee, random 5, lj virus
5 years ago – Bateman’s smoking cat, communion with dip, W’s approval rating (pre 9/11) & quiz, languor, evil news, mushy thoughts
6 years ago – time poem
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Hooray for mail!
Yesterday I got two lovely bits of mail…. a postcard from Bubbles, and two bookmarks from ilene! The postcard was a pleasant surprise… Bubs has the best handwriting… able to fit a lovely amount of content onto a mailer. The Bookmarks are even nicer than I’d hoped they would be. A monkey on one, and Newton on the other.. what more could I ask for?
ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost ( and other shows) legally and for free! They need to do this with other shows/networks.
New Superman Returns Trailer is looking pretty keen! – I’m fairly enthused, but I don’t think that I like the new Lois Element.
Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3
Speaking of Which, nice collection of ad-free lyrics – LyricWIKI
Wooden PC Case Mods. I really, really like these. Beautiful.
Archives on Hold Due to LJ being spotty – will update later.
1 year ago – no goat butter, hotmail down, mongolian deathworm, mzk pimps maressa, music quiz, snl conspiracy theory rock, orlando hooker mugshots, religio-quiz, Kamandi song,
2 years ago – teacher appreciation week, rockfish, locals, time travel, discworld 15, Rainy day, clues, silly photos
3 years ago – words, artificial hippocampus, scavenger hunt, stupid cheese, word ties
4 years ago – entry loss, how newtie was adopted, bus and such
5 years ago – diastema, baba yaga, lamprey eel brain in a robot, clue-by-four, pococurante, deadly sin poll
Funny.. SoFlaChris and I discovered Plazes within about 5 minutes of one another. Newtcam was added.
On the way to the meeting yesterday, a 16-wheeler ran over a piece of steel, which spun off to the right, and caused Elsie’s window to explode into the cab of the car. She was lucky… it took a big divot out of her doorframe. If it had hit an inch earlier, she’d probably be at least in the hospital right now. Fortunately, she’s unhurt. I got a spray of tiny glass fragments in my lap, too. I think this’ll be a good opportunity to clean out her car.
Brush fire caused me to bail out of SL unceremoniously. Launched an evac, and looks like folks are all ok.
Kat and GP have been so quiet since returning from vacation… only a post and a couple of comments from Kat. I hope they return to regular lj’ing soon!
These mustache tattoos made me think of GP & Kat. I admit that I was a tempted a smidgen by the idea, m’self.
Bibliochaise, is a literal armchair library “for those who like to be immersed in deep reading.”. The chair can house up to five linear meters of books.
Rush Limbaugh Arrested, out and done Continue reading 8329 –
World History Sources – Guides to analyzing particular types of primary sources as part of world history. Each guide includes an introductory essay, a list of questions to ask when working with a particular type of evidence, interactive quizzes called “You be the Historian!”, an sample analysis of one source, an annotated bibliography, and an annotated list of relevant websites.
Folkvine cute Flash site for Florida Folk art.
Turn sunshine into electricity with the PowerPocket 12V solar charger. Four flexible photovoltaic panels deliver up to 6.5 watts of power to recharge portable electronics like your cell phone, PDA, iPod or digital camera. In bright sunlight, many devices can be charged as quickly as they would plugged into a wall outlet. You can even trickle charge your automobile battery using nothing but sunlight! Includes 12V DC auto power plug, 12V DC power outlet, 18″ battery clamps, 4″ barrel connector and 8″ extension cable.
Seen Yesterday:
1 year ago – Egyptian origins, clown confession, big brown bear, trix returns to simplicity, hugs, fleet week, chitchat w myid8myego, kind entry, country bears movie, human gene in rice, funeral dance, FL gun law self defense, energy crisis, Cheney & Abadullah
2 years ago – Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia, Andy Griffith factoid, CS out, Cute Newt Pic
3 years ago – vanessa/rosie/fernanda/Chloe, seafood fest, gift exchange
4 years ago – Foomy goes poof, nifty human tricks, Quick little story, full moon thoughts, Prof. Eben Norton Horsford.
5 years ago – bricolage, misc news, email tags, lj burp, uck, how to catch a polar bear, prezzies
Pictures from Yesterday –
Autostitched pre-sunrise… spiffy orange clouds
Newt hanging out on the porch with me while we wait for a house cleaning.
Moment of lyric – youtube video
The visual part of my brain wonders why a yellow sun in a blue sky doesn’t have green around it. The Logical side understands a bit about the atmosphere and diffuson, bu tthe visual side isn’t buying it.
Hot, fresh b’nanner pancakes is a great way to start the day. I need to get some blueberries for next time.
A Florida mall dispute ended Saturday night with the arrest of the Easter Bunny on battery charges.
Some pictures from yesterday bright and early –
Actually, I take a little micro-umbrage at that, because the stories have him as resurrected, not just reanimated.
I’m not a terribly religious man, but I do enjoy the sentiment of the Franciscans.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Some of those can be a little difficult at times.
As an agnostic, I’m not looking for eternal life, but I do want to be a part of making the world better for everyone. Pardoning is something I especially still need to work on. The lure of personal justice and worse, vengeance is quite strong.
Very handy freeware list for windows. I’m especially fond of Windows powertoys allowing me ot put cleartype on my big old CRTs
I forgot to mention the shopping find of the day yesterday –
They also make BBq sauce, and it’s quite excellent, not ot mention the silly picture on the front. Apparently they’re a fairly local Florida company.
Hm. I’d really like to see what the actual parameters are for lj top 40.
My LJ is now at #8, but it bounces all over the place each update. It doesn’t seem to differentiate between individuals (like me), communities (like craftgrrl), or lj-specific journals (like news)
Continue reading 8302 – Would a zombie icon be inappropriate for Easter?
Spent some time with Tina and her crew over at Murphy’s. She was showing off her new car, and is probably going to quit Murph’s and just stay with her day gig, now that the car’s bought.
Getting together with Danny after work… still don’t know what we’re doing. I’m fairly surprised he’s not going to some sort of services.
Here are some friends who invite you into their [web] homes to enjoy records with them. Let’s go for a visit! These recordings are typically old rarities that have not been reissued on CD format.
Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – Mp3 via basichip
I’m starting to agree about the Free music overload!
Newt was shown in yesterdays Zefrank video news post. Sadly, Zefrank says that animals aren’t allowed in any known League of Awesomeness. It seems I must submit a power move of my own, and thenget Newton into the league’s good graces later.
Maybe I should show my eyestalk yoink power move!
Yes, no, I, this is
Got together with Kat and Graypumpkin yesterday at lunch. Nice time was had lunch of bagel sammiches and I got gifties of Issues 4 & 5 of The Thing Comic, 1, 2, and 3 of the grant morrison superman comic, and a cool squishy toy.. an awesome replacement for blinky. It was nice visiting with ’em… It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen ’em. ’94, I think. We spoke about the usual.. fmaily, firneds, comics, livejournal, sushi, the appropriateness of naming a flower shop “adam and eve” -quoth kat “I’d like some apple blossoms, please!”, the danger of shrimp trucks.
Squishy octopus is pretty awesome, and he looks more durable than Blinky – hidden inside his swirling, glittery maw, are the two ultimate yin yang of good/evil of the deep… a great white shark and bottle nose dolphin, eternally battling inside the octocosm.
Squished – blue fluid with glitter in mouth.
Dolphin inside!
Shark inside!
I didn’t give ’em the Dr. Who dvd, because I didn’t know we were doing lunch until mid-morning. If I was a cool guy, I’d drop it in the mail for them to come home to… or I can try and ge tthe first ep of th enew season on Sat, first.
If I wasn’t a dolt, I’d have taken pictures but I was too busy enjoying their company to remember my camera. Tomorrow they’re off ot tampa, and I doubt I’ll ge tot visit again before they head back to the lone star state. I look forward to seeing them again sometime soon.
Kudos to Mandy on her first day at the Chem lab!
Kev took a job doing programming as a civilian for the DoD at Gitmo. (The same place Hav used to do his gig.) Sounds like a sweet deal.. they’re training him, giving security clearance, paying for his lodging.. (everything but food and phone) great pay too.. only downside is, well.. it’s Cuba. He’ll get time off and such, but he can’t bring the puppies or kitties with him, either. (That’d be a deal breaker for me).. It’s about a 2 hour flight from here, so returning won’t be much of an issue on holiday. (about a month off every year).
I’m really happy for him.. he’s finally doing something worthwhile, well-paying, and for a boss he respects. I suspect he’ll really flourish there. He’s heading out there ein June, so we’ve got to have a few “fart parties” before he’s off to points south. I really would love for him to tell the pilot “TAKE THIS PLANE TO CUBA!”, but that’s probably a bad first impression.
AB was fired yesterday – wasn’t cutting it. RP will be out new agent ni Michigan… I think she’ll do a good job. RI is off to Texas for a week, and I think we’ll all get things done. It’ll be nice to have a new tech outside of the state.
1 year ago – new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards
2 years ago – wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA
3 years ago – Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.
4 years ago – angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!
5 years ago – identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up
