getting up extra early this morning to get a lead on walkies while it’s still cool outside.
If I’m going to walk for an hour in august, I may as well not bake! 🙂
In other news, my LJ client isn’t connecting, so I’m having to type this into notepad and then transfer it to the web client. bah! poop on LJ!
See you when I return.
Christmas in the Summertime
August is as good a time as any to bring it up. (filthy monkey wants some holiday spirit!)
http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html
Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
(Some of mine to follow, I think later today)
Two things blogger has over LJ – I can embed any html into it I want, without compromising security.
Shockwave, Java, whatnot. 🙂
http://www.scottobear.com/blog/blog.html
Two upsides for LJ –
friend’s list & a nice memories feature. Ah well, I can always point my friends over there if I want to show something off.
ok…
where are foom23, saerlithe, & larisa?
{update} ok.. I got answers on the first two… how about #3?
hee hee… I knew it. as soon as I set up a contingency plan, either LJ’s working fine, or I have to work double-time today, so I can’t post anyhow.
Well, it’s nice to have the fire exits clearly marked, anyhow.
Good News! Newt’s coming into work with me tomorrow! I should get some extra litter to keep at work.
Next possibility… Newtcam @ work? I have the laptop.
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=8867790&nc=87 –
lj news with a nice, complete state of affairs. state of the goat address. I know I appreciated it.
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=8796814&nc=20
an excellent commentary by bandicoot about what’s been going on in LJville lately.
How can you manage the finances without a reasonable campaign to promote paid accounts and ensure a reliable stream of income? The present percentage of paid accounts is flat-out embarrassing. At some point, hardware requirements aside, paid full-time employees are going to be necessary to keep LJ running, and you can’t do that without a better paid-user base. And that requires financial management that is currently non-existent.
If LJ doesn’t get good, coherent management soon, it’s going to bog down and die. And that would be a real shame. – a quote from same message.
My emergency plan… either here – http://scottobear.com/blog/blog.html
or here – http://www.deadjournal.com/~scottobear
just in case LJ has a case of the stinkies today. I hope they get their act together soon, though. (I prefer deadjournal… same goonsquad atmosphere…)
but blogger has a nice post proggie. (Mind you, livejournal will be my permanent journal.. I have a lifetime account… but I’m going to have a backup plan.)
Surfing for no good reason other to procrastinate. after reading 5 random journals in a row, I shake my head, and crack open the message sealed in a light ceramic coating that has ejected from the spy slot of my machine.
l uhdoob hqmrb fubswrjudskb… hyhq wkh vlpsoh vwxii!
I gaze at it for a moment, and nod my head in agreement.
The decoder ring was right… I only have one choice. The laptop case folds open and the hairs on my arm stand on end as the pulse laser starts to prime. There’s a blinding flash of light, a sharp crack of rended air… and the mean folks, their journals, and a good chunk of the posts they make are reduced to the faint smell of ozone and a few swirling wisps of smoke. Gone are the trolls, the ignorant posters, and those that write things to deliberately hurt or insult others, sent to a better place, left to (in the vernacular of Mr. T) jibba jabba amongst themselves, and allow me to read something I’d enjoy reading instead.
Or at least that’s what would happen if the world were the way it should be.
Agent Scottobear, Out. I will return in the morning. Don’t make me have to call in an airstrike.
Thank you, my friends for being of entertaining, informative, and kind demeanor. So many rare jewels out there… I appreciate you all the more when I trip over journals about being racist, terribly cruel, or just plain dumb.
*big hugs to you folks*
Rule of thumb. Forget the random feature, and browse the friend’s lists of your friends. Odds are better that you’ll find something to your liking. Even better than interests lists, I think.
“I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see. I have a heart as big as the moon, as warm as bathwater. We’re superheroes, man! We don’t have time to be charming! The boots of evil were made for walking. We’re watching the big picture, friend. We know the score. We are a public service, not glamour boys! Not captains of industry! Not makers of things! Keep your vulgar moneys. We are a justice sandwich, no toppings necessary! Living rooms of America, do you catch my drift? Do you…dig?”
the tick, red dwarf, batman (adam west), and the twisted tales of Felix the cat.
Did I mention that I love having unmarked tapes lying around? It’s like the Scotto Channel. All stuff I liked enough to record, and promptly forgot about.
This evening’s Fare was (with tasty ramen & sweet peas), with a side of mandrin orange arizona tea –
Batman/Green Hornet Team up.
red dwarf – (Back to Reality: The crew of Red Dwarf discover an abandoned space ship on an ocean bed but suddenly the salvage operation doesn’t sound quite so sexy when they realise all of the occupants of the vessel committed suicide. Attack by a gigantic sea monster makes escape the favorite option. )
twisted tales of felix – star trek spoof, clean the planet… amazing art! (reminds me of blackie. 🙂 )
Tick vs the Aztecs. (the first appearace of Speak!)
A fine evening’s entertainment. mighty fine. I’m sort of happy I’ve been without cable for so long! I discovered I have 735 npcs in my database… more than I’ll ever, ever play. I alphabetized them, numbered them, and will make a nice searchable DB of them over time, just so the gamer community at large can enjoy… my net-book contribution.
I wonder how many folks will play my pcs? I know that miniMAX was picked up by a pbem, as was nexus and green lantern ’67 (greenpeace). The vast majority of the NPC’s are adaptations of comics chars… I think I have 4 or 5 versions of the fantastic four, for example. different capabilities, point levels, or systems. Mostly Champions and GURPS.
speaking of multi-genre gaming…D&D clue? Bilbo, in the orc cavern, with the vorpal blade… I sort of like it.
By the way… welcome back,
I’m turning in. I’m going to read a bit, and dream of my sweetheart in her purple jammies.
Good Night… follow the trundling Scotto-pod to his preferred habitat… the nightchamber. Pleasant dreams to all you meat people, plasma folk, and fellow pods.
Got off my butt, and will be having cable installed next Saturday sometime between 11am and 2 pm. Pricey… 19.95 a month until December, then it jumps to $41.50 (at which time I’ll either renegotiate, succumb to the new pricing, go with another company, or get a direct TV setup. for now, $20 is ok. If I kill it before December, they charge a $20 kill fee.
my plans for today.
Spend time with sweetheart, and give her lots of love.
Spend time with Newton, and give him lots of love.
Buy some pants (tore a pair yesterday, they need replacing)
get an area rug/Persian at Walmart
shop for a sofa/bookshelves/coffee table at the following –
Faith farm, salvation army , wal-mart, consignment. Mission: find a nice one, and have it delivered. (I can honestly say it took my admiring my sweetheart’s abode to spur me on to furnish mine. )
figure out how I want the living room to be arranged.
I figure that if I don’t see my sweetie by about 1pm, I’ll launch and get on the chores, and save the fun lovey stuff for later.
Note to self, do review of planet of the apes later.
nutshell – it wasn’t bad. better than three of the sequels from in the original series. compared to the original, it had very little heart. entertaining, though.
looks like lj is having some image issues… none of the emotion icons, or lj user /etc seem to be making themselves visible.
good to lounge to. 🙂 join me, and listen to
Contents of the cool packet in my box today.
4 paper cocktail umbrellas, no 2 colors alike.
6 fuzzy mini pom poms, about 1/4″ in diameter. again, all unique colors
issue 8 of chewie (check out
origami heart, stapled shut. (should I open it?)
skotto bracelet. (she ran out of “c” beads, even cooler as I’ve long wanted the letters C and Q stricken from the Alphabet. they are extraneous. replace them with a character to mean the ch sound. that is all.)
a wet nap
a vote yes on indian gaming button.
fragile sticker
corrosive sticker (very cool!)
hawaiian mafia staff car sticker(?!)
sheet of rubber duckie stickers(~35 mini ducks)
blank shield & banner sticker to make a family crest sticker.
(I left a voicemail on the excite account, too…I’m thinking I’ll have to subscribe to chewiezine.. the price is right. 🙂 )
does anyone else use http://www.droaidarena.com ? it looks interesting. battlebots online?
if you want to whomp on me or my ‘bot (The Newton, v.01), feel free to seek out Scottobear there, too.
I hate ICQ. Apparently my wonderful girl was on a half hour ago, and I didn’t get any messages until I messaged her just now.
Stupid tech has been a bane all day. LJ crapping out, ICQ. 🙁 My day started out so nice, too.