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8343 –

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Ze’s anti-intellectualism song is quite catchy. His Daily videocasts are the bees knees, even if Newt’s not allowed in the League of Awesomeness. (last 8th of the cast)

It’s Free Comic Book Day! Go get some!

Cleaning lady Day, so I’d best hustle up and get the porch ready. While thee, I’ll be plotting out my plan for the day.

Nice kinda-compliment of yesterday – i always get about a third of the way through your meme’s when i stop thinking “i’m gunna have to marry this guy.” and start thinking “what a goof ball, he’d drive me nuts.”

Moment of Lyric – Instrumental – MP3

Well, if you want lyrics, listen to the Sammy Davis, Jr. Version.

On the way home, I saw the blue angels practicing for today’s air and sea show.

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1 year ago – no bro, pervy on lj arrested, phillykat back!, local public service net-casts, users deleting, rainy 5/5, woman jailed for faking her death

2 years ago – RIP Rod Roddy, Black magic death, 4F, a friend suffers

3 years ago – poser5, South Florida vodou, python, song lyric

4 years ago – good smells, bro-doc, great books and classics, monsters, I wrote thepuppyfrog poem, long ol’ survey from a while ago (the same one I did the other day), e-prime mentioned

5 years ago – movies, newt’s middle name, Architect. hot air, lcd drops, writing exercise, quotes, newt-happies(tmi?)Geotarget

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8342 – Q has the lowdown on what happened to LJ recently –

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The dishonor of Blue Security

There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

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8331 – silly aim prank bots – “I say, old bean, have you seen my hat?”

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I keep getting hit by the aim bot that starts out with “i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?”, usually aim user chewableputty.

An explanation of how the bot works is here.

Check out the google search – it seems to be happening to quite a few people.

The greathatsby bot scans LJ users for AIM screen names then sends two people the same message and relays their replies to each other so each person thinks the other person IMed them out of the blue.

Sort of a new version of the 3-way calling prank. I’ve gotten pings (even when invisible to aim) maybe once a week for the last 6 weeks. a nifty part of the trick is that it auto translates your im name to the bot name when you’re in chat, too. so if you identify yourself as “I’m biglug23” it’ll say to the other side “I’m chewableputty”.

a way around it is to break it up with spaces or some other character – b’i’g’l’u’g’2’3′

other bot names –

chewableputty
thegreathatsby
bananahoedown
studbeefpile66
studleyqbeefpile
dirkfunk3000
dirkfunk5000
funkyplumber238
hatfact0ry
ofhatsandmen
scrubtron
iamscrubtron
scrubtronwashere
scrubtronics
octosausage
goatblaster16
greathatsby64
bananahootenanny

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8327 – many questions.

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1. What does your LiveJournal name mean?
My name and my stature/demeanor (usually more of a teddy bear than a grizzly)

2. Elaborate on your default photo.
my original back from when I first started.. .my face pressed up against a scanner… looks like a peeping man at a window.

3. Do you still talk to your ex? Why?
Which Ex? RG, yes. Because we have common interests, and are able to be civil.
MM, CJ, D, AT, PP, PM, Magda? Nope

4. What’s your current relationship status?
Friendly with some folks, but nothing physical happening. I can’t seem to synchronise schedules or hammer out distance issues at the moment.

5. What exactly are you wearing right now?
forest green/drk blue plaid shirt, dark gray/black pants, black sneakers, gray socks, dark blue hairtie, Boxers with little multicolored atomic symbols.

6. What is your current problem?
Not functioning at fullest potential. Need to Lose all me re-tacked on weight, and get to coding again.

7.What do you love the most?
Newt’s pretty high up there!

8. What makes you happiest?
when folks I care for are truly happy

9. Are you musically inclined?
a bit… I can keep a beat going, know how to read music and play at a low-to-fair level. Maybe more from a desire to have some music, rather than actually having some in my heart already.

10. If you could go back in time, and change something, what would it be?
Probably CLEP out of High school, go straight to college from 9th grade.

11. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day what would you be?
Currently existing – Gorilla, otherwise a Triceratops Mythological? Maybe a Huffalump.

12. Ever have a near death experience?
Every time I cross the street in Fort Lauderdale, it seems.

13. Name an obvious quality you have?
Big feet

14. What’s the name of the song that’s stuck in your head right now?
Coattails of a dead man –  Primus

15. Who did you cut and paste this from?
eryx_uk & christin

16. Name someone with the same b-day as you:
Brent Spiner

17. Have you ever vandalized someone’s private property?
Yup. Many times, especially if you count TP’ing.

18. Have you ever been in a fight?
verbal – many times, fistfight, a few. gunfight, never.

19. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience?
yup, as part of a crowd, nothing solo.

20. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Eyes, generally.

21. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
“Gimme the biggest Iced Chai you’ve got” (they mutter something in crazy moon-man starbucks language.. venti or whatnot) “Whatever the biggest iced chai you have, is fine.”

22.Have you ever broken a bone?
Collarbone… ask Graypumpkin and Kat about that. 

23. Has anyone ever said that you look like a celebrity?
Grizzly Adams, Silent Bob, Travis Tritt

25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
Yup.

26. Do you wear braces?
Nope

27. Are you comfortable with your height?
Sure, it works for me… can be difficult folding into cars, but other than that, I’m a-ok.

28. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you?
Hard to say… I’m usually “the romantic one.” of a couple.

29. Do you speak any other languages?
I can speak foully in at least 6 languages, and find the bathroom in four.

30. Do you have a crush on someone on your LiveJournal?
Well, I have affection for more than a few folks. Not sure if I’d color that a crush.

Friday 5 –

1. What’s missing from your life? 
supersonic zeppelins. a personal rocket-belt. true democracy. an educated majority

2. Do you like to get drunk?
Nah, not really. I like the taste of rum drinks though.

3. Have you ever kissed a stranger? 
Yup, and I didn’t even have to pay a dollar!

4. Do you smoke? 
Nope. Fire not for internal use. I prefer to abuse my body in other, less expensive, and longer-term ways.

5. What makes you happy?
Hugs from folks I care aboutGeotarget

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8311 – four-twenty, duuuuude!

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Met with the momster after work yesterday, and reviewed some options regarding the grandmomster. Her brother has power of attorney, but it looks like he’s cleaning her out while grandmuh-mah slowly fades from reality on double doses of sedatives and Alzheimer’s’s. minimal highlights for future ref: mom 25%, di 25%, doug 50%, after sig’s college is paid. Speaking of little sig, bigger sig’s bought a building in Colorado and will be doing some more real estate shortly. There are a lot of sibling infighting on mom’s side of the family. Dad’s side just dies early from accidents.

Getting hotter out.. and the dragonflies (and damselflies) are *everywhere*. I remember when I was very young, I thought that they were poisonous and that they stung like scorpions. A few varieties out there, but mostly the brown ones with the striped wings, and the blue-bottle-glass looking damsels.

insomnia makes a few good points about lj’s new ad-level membership.

that and the following promise made in ’04 —

Stay advertisement free

It may be because it’s one of our biggest pet peeves, or it may be because they don’t
garner a lot of money, but nonetheless, we promise to never offer advertising space in our
service or on our pages.

A bunch of great sesame street clips, including Robert DeNiro imagines he’s Elmo! Also vaguely disturbing – Grover’s Health Minute – Teeth

Had a nice time playing “greedy greedy”, a dice game with the gang in SL. Sort of a hybrid of yahtzee and cosmic wimpout.

Political Philosophy quiz

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8302 – Would a zombie icon be inappropriate for Easter?

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Actually, I take a little micro-umbrage at that, because the stories have him as resurrected, not just reanimated.

Have some more Easter Lore.

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 –

baldheadedsauce

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)

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8295 – And we’re back. Again. Monday. Yes.

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GP and Kat are in Florida for the next week or so, arrived Saturday sometime. May get together with ’em either tonight or tomorrow, if the stars are right. (They have a very demanding schedule when in town, and understandably so… both sets of parents live down here, and they want ’em as much as they can get ’em.), got to talk to GP yesterday on the phone for a while, and it was a fine time – mentions were made of the insanity of genius, and how people can breed for a longer period now, and family politics. (The youngest child will be the baby, even if they have children of their own. Interesting that both GP and Kat are both last-borns to older parents. My Folks had me when my dad was 23, and Mom was 21.)

(Though it seems other vacationers are Killer bees)

Wonderful rain today… classic Florida big drops in wind that causes it to fall at about a 45 degree angle. I’m glad my porch has enough of a roof overhang to stop things from getting soaked… nice to sit out there, soak up the ozone smell from the thunderstorm, and just soak up the sights and sounds around me. Not a bad time to do laundry… made everything smell sort of rainy-fresh that was hung up out back, though it took forever to dry.

Finally finished re-downloading Dr. Who 2005 season and the Christmas special; Burned the dvd. Hopefully, I’ll remember to hand them off to GP and Kat. (and another set to Danny when I see him next week). They look even better in High Def.

Next series, HBO’s Rome. I need to get that to a few people on my reading list.

More free fonts to fill up your computer with!

I’m kind of partial to ogrejuice and Deanna.

Perversely fascinating. Bad Talk radio.. mostly folks trying to update from the road. Some folks a little drunk… it’s fun to her folks monologue in varying degrees of skill. Surprisingly, nobody singing. odd – some seem to be from quite a while ago… I guess it’s based on when the journal was scraped. random dates from a week ago to two months ago. Spiffy to see user names in my mp3 player… gives me misc journals to eyeball if they seem interesting. via brad’s journal

Listen to public LiveJournal voice posts, non-stop:

http://radio.bradfitz.com/ljcalls.m3u

Enjoy, while it lasts. Brad may take it down if it takes up too much bandwidth.

This is not an official LiveJournal feature (yet?). This is all done on my brad’s server, using public data,
as anybody else could.

Moment of Lyric – mp3 – via

Well, I’m running late.. suffice to say it’s a nice 60’s-ish electro-organ/harmony groovy/haunting sort of song. It’s a good walkabout tune, especially when on one’s own.

By the zestful zither of Zeus!
from an old Marvel Super heroes activity book – I colored it a bit, but just to clean up a photograph used as a scan. That’s the original quote, looking weird in a square voice “balloon”.

Here’s some mp3 resource links

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8291 – And… it’s a Friday.

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Devo – Live on “Fridays” Girl U Want & Gates of Steel

Hey, so it’s Friday! It’s been a long week, even with Tuesday off. I’m looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.

Made myself a new icon, testing lj’s auto resize images. looks ok. I’ll wear it for a bit.

Lost was the best one in a while last Wednesday. Some decent acting, and set pieces.

Designed a mega-trampoline for 2nd Life, and it seemed to go over well with the 3 Sirens crowd. Launch and sound works well, but you still land with a heck of a thump. version 2.5 will be a bit more gentle. Timmy Turtle’s pursuit mode is more realistic, too. (if you outrun him, and another person is closer, he’ll home in on them.)

Viruses “trained” to build tiny batteries

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8182 – Gimme a noun, I’ll bend it.

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Happy V-Day!

Tell someone you love how you feel today!

Do it again tomorrow. Make it a habit.

I haven’t held a sand dollar for nearly three years. When I was a kid living on Marathon key, we used to pick up sun-bleached ones by the bucketful. I remember painting them and giving them as valentines to some of the folks in the area where we lived… at the time, I had no idea that it was the dessicated skeleton of a five-jawed sea creature related to the sea urchin. That makes me think that they’re even more cool now. I never thought about it, but they’d make a pretty neat sort of decorative scale mail if sewn together.

I’ve been using BANG! as my interjection (mp3) of choice lately, thanks in part to GP’s meddling and Kat’s haircut commentary.

Miami Cloud Art 2.10.2006

temperatures have begun to stabilize and any further falls between now and 800 am will be small. most of the immediate coastal locations will remain in the lower 40s with the suburbs generally
in the upper 30s. – I pity the northern states, if it’s this cold here.

Bro told me his house was robbed, then the story changed to some guy taking all the money for some job he ran, then changed to is girlfriend taking it. Whatever. Upside, he *does* sound a lot sharper.. I’m likely to believe him when he say’s he’s not using.

I got my b’day prezzie from phillykat- cartoon factoids! it’s even nifitier than I’d suspected, and more from sedef and oneeyed – g0dland & 7 soldiers

The most groovy comic-booky birthday ever this year! Thank you!

Moment of Lyric – mp3 – via

If you go away, on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night birds’ song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay, I’ll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We’ll sail the sun, we’ll ride on the rain
We’ll talk to the trees and worship the wind
Then if you go, I’ll understand
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning ’til
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
I’ll be dying slowly till the next hello
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay I’ll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I’ll sail on your smile, I’ll ride on your touch
I’ll talk to your eyes that I love so much
But if you go I won’t cry
Though the good is gone from the word goodbye
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away as I know you must
There’ll be nothing left in the world to trust
Just an empty room full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
I’d have been the shadow of your dog
If I thought you might have kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

1 year ago – dream, wartuning, slacker, torrent tv, gm-ginger kitties, questions meme, christo, newt stalking pic, zefrank’s st. val history, whims-cute card, work peeve

2 years ago – V-day, hippie visit results, Nefertiti documentary mostly drama – not much document, cheese doodle sculpture, anonymous reviewer bug amazon

3 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics

4 years ago – rerun V-day poetry, JB figures out about SA & Me, wandering pics

5 years ago – How Do I Love Thee?, I resemble Dan Conner, Men cause the mutations, tea room & old TV, TMBG lyricGeotarget

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8160 – too hot for tea, but I’ll take it anyway. It’s a nice day

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GeotargetWow, thanks everybody for all the warm birthday wishes! Also, thank you to Oneeyed and Sedef for the great gift! I’m not sure what I’m going to get with it yet!

Like Phil, I saw my shadow, so a bit more cool weather for me, I hope

I’m officially part of 40 faces now, too!

Had a nice day so far, slept in, played with Newt, rode the bike downtown and got my homestead, voter’s registration, and ID all straightened out for the new address. I think I’m pretty much done transferring stuff to the new place, now. The new Florida state ID cards are pretty, and apparently I straighten out to 6’6″ on the wall height chart.

Buckle up! – Video testing an unmanned Plane vs. Concrete safety wall. Wall wins.

Got this from acoolsecretary :

Yay, monkey!

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Also, very cool cards from Mom and Ldy, not to mention swell waves in other folk’s Journals and websites.

Danny’s getting sick, so probably no get-together tomorrow. Poor guy sounds more disappointed than I am that he’ll have to use his sick day actually being sick. My Plan B? Probably go to the spa and get a sports massage and try to get some jacuzzi-time in.

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8126 – lj shakeup

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GeotargetCool Icon of the moment – if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate

Worked Late both Tuesday and Wednesday…I’m hoping that I can but out a bit early today or ideally tomorrow, maybe to give me time to pick up big brain if it’s all better by then.

Well, this might calm down some holier than thou Mozilla preachers out there (don’t get me wrong, I surely prefer firefox over MSIE – but anytime somethinggets a new feature, some clown will find a way to clog the pipes.) Problematic enough that Livejournal is reformatting how page URLs are laid out. Added Kudos to LJ_maint for being about as vague as possible regarding this issue in the meantime. [update – news clarifies things a bit better here. ]

My suspicions about Lost seem to be coming to light –

From Damon Lindelof (one of the creators of the show) – “If you’re watching the show because you’re waiting for the big answers to come, you have to understand that by the nature of what it is — it’s not a movie, it’s not a series of movies, it’s not a trilogy, it’s not a miniseries — it’s going to be on the air for as long as ABC wants to keep it on the air…how can you ever possibly think that Lost will end in a satisfying way? Carlton (the other co creator) and I can almost guarantee you that it will not.“

That said, I still dug the Mr. Eko/Charlie/Island Monster Episode enough to follow along. I just won’t plan for it all to come together in any good way when the show ends… I’ll just toss it in the box with X-files, Twin Peaks, and the rest. Like those, when it turns to poop, I’ll stop watching, until someone recommends a particular episode. Heck, I’d already resigned myself to that anyhow.

1 year ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb

2 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy

3 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites

4 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names

5 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing

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8114 – Sunday Dawns and I’m already awake.

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GeotargetThe nudge feature is mostly pointless, I think. You could accomplish the the same thing handily with an e-mail or comment in their journal. I hope that they continue to implement other more groovy features. I do confess that it’s interesting to see when some of the more tardy people have last posted… I’m more likely to just drop someone that hasn’t posted in about three months. (unless they’re a very special circumstance)

I’ve found that I have another superpower: the ability to make RS have to go pee. If we get into a discussion about anything for more than a minute or three, she has to rush off to the potty, do her business and come back when done. This has been documented at least a dozen times, and she’s able to stay at her desk for hours on end.

Last night’s dream involved me being strapped to a table with electrodes bolted to my ankles. When they ran current through them, all of my skin began to peel like a bad sunburn and underneath the fresh skin was a dark, mossy green. Somehow I knew that the treatments were causing a strange growth of all my internal flora… whatever else touched the new skin (like a a scalpel) it burned and was turned quickly to vapor. I don’t recall any smells. They finally figured out that shark’s teeth could touch the new skin without burning up, so they incised and pulled out the rock that was making the bad plant-reaction in my body. I was healed, and buried the rock in the ground of an empty lot, hoping it would help jump start a fresh garden there.

It’s hard to chop down a tree with a saw made of shark’s teeth.

No Dice going out with Dave or Dave last night… Today it’s going to be more solo journeys, methinks.

Moment of Lyric:

Me and your sister
Went by the river
Your sister jump in the water
I jump in after
I’ll never forget,
Everything was set
But I didn’t get
She Tell me yes
She Tell me no
She tell me nonononono.

Just check out this website.

panda fire
This picture makes more sense than most management decisions I’ve seen in my entire working lifetime.

1 year ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

2 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

3 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

4 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

5 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things