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8767 –

BHk’s cousin David and his girlfriend Gill came over for a crash pad spot before heading off to DC – Nice folk. Dinner with the In-laws at Mexico, and then BHK and I slapped the kids around in trivial pursuit, and then we all watched Stranger than Fiction, which wasn’t bad at all. We politely scoffed at the in-laws invite to go see Wild Hogs, but they seemed to have really enjoyed it. We preferred to stay home and eat chocolate chip cookies.


1 year ago – New brain arrives, peel, crack sellin’, swing on a star

2 years ago – banana man, dindin with mom, hollow men, voted, did a good deed, renewed domain until 3/11/2008

3 years ago – cool snail mail, Best commentary on “the Passion”, star trek on ice, Spalding Gray found, lj spam, SOP

4 years ago – Laundry w/bro, flaming justice, birds with arms, hulk dance

5 years ago – Who are you quiz, seven wonders, breakfast for dinner, Bfast poll

6 years ago – declaration of love, celeb pet names, payday, tmbg, yeti-scottoGeotargetVisitor Map

8746 – Sunday

Breakfast with Tina, and then Amy, Bhk and I went to Annapolis again, this time, we saw Ghost Rider! It was a fun movie, if weak in a lot of areas. Good job of camp + comic-book scary. I made the same observations to BHK that Graypumpkin did here, where he also recounts the bizarre synchronicity between north beach an austin life.

(points of Honda Element, Orange-ish and Blackish- kitties, disease, mexican food and loving mates in particular)


Squirrel Tracks by our bridge! They have since turned to water, and remixed nicely.
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1 year ago – compusa saga continues, C&C generals, Li’l Bit 6!, song meme, newtcam up,

2 years ago – Lil Bit #5!, basketball w/danny, netflix du jour, loonatics 2.0

3 years ago – There 2.0, stress

4 years ago – expected last day at FMM, web-subscribers, barbie sex, Nordis hoses me.

5 years ago – Newt wakies, proxo, palm entry, haiku/ D&D class alignment

6 years ago – SOP, Territorial, haiku combatGeotargetVisitor Map

8745 – Saturday –

Tonight is the sleepover with Amy and Tina!

After a long comedy of errors catching up with Tina-bo-beena, we finally arrived at the HQ to watch Jackass 2 of all things. It was funny, in a sort of “what the heck kind of nimrods” kind of way… but I did like a few of the sight gags a bit.. the boxing-glove valentine in particular was pretty dang funny.

We went to Annapolis and walked around a bit – saw the Alex Haley Monument, and window-shopped at a few stores. We intended to see Ghost Rider today, but our timing was off. However, Sushi at Joss makes everything better. Even mo’ betta’ was that Amy surprised us and bought supper!

Some photos from Annapolis – Aforementioned Haley Monument, dogma graffiti, state capitol, Ducks, and sundry other sights.

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1 year ago – lego service, lion roar, LS left, misc linkies, nccic, yeti beware sign, (fo)-chief’s letter

2 years ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog

3 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris

4 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk

5 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it

6 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooterGeotargetVisitor Map

8744 – yikes,! entered to catch uppify

Friday in a Nutshell –

Amy Visited tonight – late and waited a long time… Tina and the folks couldn’t catch up but we had yummy mac and cheese, made with basil ziti and mixed stuff (spinach and tomato) I highly recommended eating bhk’s mac & cheese. it’s goo-ood! After supper, we played fluxx and watched Shark Boy & Lava girl.

Good excuse to clean house. (BHK is a whirlwind of soap and suds!)


1 year ago – eye close poll, work bail, boosh, canal discovery, compusa check?, gg

2 years ago – Jill Gone, BK & GO, JLU, Newt’s treat, mel-fade begins

3 years ago – Scotto on the enchanted path, bigfoot conference, Florida photos, Newt on his back

4 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

5 years ago – mickey gas mask, donkey kong jr, google bought blogger, mere-vallie, Scotto shop-palm, palm pic of the SG building, odd news

6 years ago – Haiku arena, weird al’s wishlistGeotargetVisitor Map

8678 –

Rest in Peace, Pete. I forgive you for Everybody Loves Raymond. Young Frankenstein more than makes up for it. Geotarget


Quite a busy day today… Xmas shopping and visiting with Tina and Doug were the biggest bits. Ended the day watching Grey Gardens, which was amusing at first and then sad, and then just sort of turned into a codependent mother and daughter bickering at one another in a run-down mansion filled with cats and raccoons. I don’t think I’ll be seeing the movie about them when it’s released next year.

Oh, we also went to a comic store that will probably be a new haunt for me – green alien head. Some nice folks, and a few people that are interested in purchasing my heroclix / mage knight doubles. I picked up a few things from the heroclix dollar bin for the christmas tree… wendigo, sasquatch and some others, plus bhk and I split a booster pack of horrorclix. aside from the fact that someone nicked one of the figures and closed it back up (a dire wolf), we got some goodies in there too. A Scarecrow, zombie cop, and an exorcist priest fig that a lot of fun. No Zombie Lawyer.. but maybe I can trade for one. They do gaming there, but I’m not sure if I’m wanting to hop into that scene just yet… might be worth a drop-in visit though. They do play pirates, heroclix and such… I’d like to maybe do a Champions game sometime, just for old times sake, but I suspect the group dynamic wouldn’t cut it for me.

Also found a site for LAN parties, world of warcraft and other such stuff. I was pleasantly surprised to see a place like that… I may try to bid on building them a website.. might make some coin and meet some counterstrike teammates for when big brain is reassembled.

It’s been rather difficult to shop for the Mrs as yet, given that she and I are joined at the hip (and I like that) – it makes it tricky to buy a surprise for her. I’m going to try to hitch a ride with either Tina or Larry to do some indy shopping, otherwise, it’ll have to all be done online.

Tina was amazingly generous with the wedding present, by the way. A huge collection of light green crockery a green vacuum cleaner and a wad of dough to start us on our nuptial way.

I still have to mail Danny’s Xmas prezzie – keeping things pretty inexpensive this year, due to the no-job situation. Mostly gifting folks on BHK’s side of the family. On my end, it’s just Wilt & Momster and Danny. Everyone else is getting at best a card. (not that I usually gift a lot of folks, anyhow)

I’m way behind in reading LJ. Or really writing in it. My new life is both very hectic and domestic at the moment, and I’m loving every frickin’ minute of it. Money will be tight but manageable for the next few, while I continue to pursue a gig. Just a numbers game at this point.


1 year ago – sam and max, Atari 2600, favorite things

2 years ago – I discover that Romanian pop tune (OZONE – Dragoste din tei) before the weirdo kid cam sings it around the world, Oceans 11, pollo tropical makes me sick

3 years agothe secret message, Bro & Danny visit, lizards in the tummy, truck surfing, riddle, some reference

4 years ago – nightmare, balloon hats, fudge and dinosaurs, Danny and I win a Tomato Recipe contest!

5 years ago – nice dreams, flesh eating robots, wacky day, SOP

6 years ago – coffee, hello kitty murders, village blacksmith, books to read, I get a Sigmund and the sea monsters tape!

8672 – a good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Job fair today at general dynamics – wish me luck! Promising stuff for project manager and more programmer-ish doings as well. Dusted off the ol’ suit and had speaks with some nice folks. Afterward, we hit stoneys for tasty food, and then went back to the in-laws to visit a smidgen with tina, doug, larry & chris. lovely orange moon rise again tonight.


Tonight, Newt, BHK and I watched Barbarella for the first time. Oh, the cheese. It makes me to laugh. The suck, it makes my ears pop.


DirecTV installed tomorrow…hopefully the return of channels will bring a modicum of good movies? hooray for obtaining a tivo! still will torrent this and that from bbc, anyhoo.

1 year ago – big brain waiting on repair, foggy morning pics

2 years ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post

3 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart

4 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

5 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

6 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.

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8646 – Tuesday.

BK was out sick yesterday… so hopefully I’ll see what’s up if she’s in today.


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Cruising down the road after the drive-in… driver is bhk, vehicle si the love cube – blue & white honda element.

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Snacky-cart driving by during flushed away – photo taken by bhk.

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Freaky keen eyeball graffiti on the wall in coconut grove, as we left miami.. sort of reminds me of barnacles, or space monsters.


‘Spider Girl’ gang held in Chile

Police have arrested two members of one of Chile’s most notorious gangs, known as the Spider Girls. The all-girl gang of teenagers were infamous for climbing up buildings in Santiago to burgle luxury apartments.

In a spate of high-profile robberies in 2005, they made off with thousands of pounds worth of jewelery.

Lurking in the gardens of expensive parts of Santiago, the four girls hurled ropes and hooks up to balcony railings, hauled themselves up and walked through the flat windows. They then walked out of the buildings as if they were visitors.

The gang members were arrested last year but three of them were sent to reform school rather than prison because of their age.

They vowed to change their ways but after being released, one spider girl, Yasna, returned to her old tricks, recruiting a new member,Marcielle.

Despite both being heavily pregnant, they still managed to climb up to the third floor of some flats.


1 year ago – moon cake, doom patrol, politics, Life Pref, butt jokes and political statements preferred

2 years ago – monet’s b’day, comment/entry stats, america’s age, torrenting shows via rss, vouchers unconstitutional, prednisone, taking falluja, work vacation, newt pics

3 years ago – bollywood, pt, hooray for adhesives!

4 years ago – Male contraceptive, Dan met OJ Simpson, Newt-spoon Wrestling, peephenge, eating on the cheap.

5 years ago – evil news, gallimaufry , happiness machine recycled, writing apache modules

6 years ago – Bee-man lives, lucha, schizo-masons, Brian commentGeotarget

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8644 – Eat a Bagel and Go!

Eat a bagel and GO! was our battle cry today, as BHK took charge and we managed to get up and out of the house by 10:30… not a trifling feat, considering our collective penchant for the lounge-about-the-houseisms.

(bhk thinks not, but I think maybe so.) I really dig having a walkabout cohort.

(our other battlecry of choice is “We’re Grown ups, We’re Married, We can do what we want!- that mostly applies to ice cream dinners, however)

We hit vizcaya with great enthusiasm…Quite enjoyed touring the grounds with bhk(more pictures from my last visit in ’03 on the vizcaya tag)

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Green Dome, Pelican, red wall, stone boat, grotesques, stone boobies,spanish moss, pictures of a stalker european, sneaking into a secret door, quinteanos, swimming pools, fountains and foo dogs

highlights of the day were seeing a manatee in the wild by the stone boat, and holding hands with my beloved on the bench by the east gardens.


After vizcaya, we toured around and ultimately went to the swap-shop drive-in to see flushed away… very cute, but I think that I enjoyed the novelty of the drive-in even more than the movie. Very easy to sneak drinks and smooches in without an usher giving us any grief… we’ll be going back again before sauntering to points north, I suspect.

I was pretty impressed by flushed away… they kept the look and feel of aardman, despite it being all cgi rather than claymation. cute moments and lots of fun bits, though I think that the setup for a sequel was a bit over-telegraphed.


1 year ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

2 years ago – bro issues, newtie love, lost, getting it,link sponsor

3 years ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

4 years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

5 years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

6 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget

8637 –

Found out a few days ago that my sweetheart and I share a fondness for Joe vs the Volcano.

Any excuse for Abe Vigoda and Tom Hank’s Soul. (my first ever flickr pic)

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Palm doodles from our journeys together – most drawn by bhk

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After meeting Kenny Roger’s Bro Randy with me at CSI

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we can have fun with anything, including alligator man, cops, the dmv, and the emergency room. love conquers all

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Kona’s got a new love interest!

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bhk, in minimalist format

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drawing my widow’s peak suddenly looks like a spider at halloweentime

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I’m not copping a feel while being checked for pneumonia. also, I had my pants on.

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She kilt me. see also this photo.

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Sagebrush!what’s he doing in the doodle pack?


1 year ago – doodle, not much to say, instant karma, sonic weapon vs pirates

2 years ago – man hit loses shoe, love stapler, quantum leap movie, golden age, et joke, comm blackout, super face distortion, funerals online

3 years ago – Localfeeds, Fending off Mooch, fixit, skinny cow, cell phone rules,enlightenment doodle, Dan brews the weasel for the sci-fi club, Floridaicon, back picture, mascot / transit poll, volusia

4 years ago – ghost hunts, yo-yo crab smack, fun links, paypal card, finished bellydancer

5 years agolj_nifty, Dave Hlubek tattoos, bats, poll about evil, they fight crime!

6 years ago – someone duplicates all 1029 of my interests, Suess, Toora-loora-looraGeotarget

8613 –

Happy Birthday, eryx_uk!
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Say! Speaking of the UK, My keyword auto-downloader picked up episodes one and two of torchwood! Does that mean I’ll be getting dr who episodes soon? That’ll make up for the ended season of Venture Brothers.


Got to thinking about my old superhero concept for Stigmata yesterday… then Billy Crystal / Bruno Kirby with blackhellkat… Which invited the Burger King / Burger Christ comparison via initials.

Burger Christ. What a great, blasphemous name for a fast food joint.

Many terrible biblical puns came up for foodstuffs afterward.

“The Flood” – Jumbo Drink, served with a toy ark for the kiddies.
“Pound of Flesh” burger
Gadzooks – french fries shaped like nails. (ketchup or graypumpkin‘s sacred dipping sauce on the side)
Garden of eden apple/walnut salad – you can only order it once, then you’re barred from the restaurant. bhk added the idea of a snakey crouton.

The others aren’t leaping immediately to mind.. oh! “Lot’s Wife” Salt shakers and Noah’s Animal Crackers (comes in pairs)

Just terrible.

It seems I’m not the first to think of Burger Christ.
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Watched Open Season yesterday, as it got a trifle too hot at Viva Broward. (I did get my Arepa, so the journey was worth it.) The movie was *a lot* more funny than I’d thought a vehicle featuring the voices of Ashton Kutchner and Martin Lawrence could be.


Walkabout pics from yesterday. Mostly construction and the Mexican place at riverwalk. (Compare Saturday’s walkies pic with Sunday’s… pretty dang similar.)

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Our tree’s face lost an eye. I like him better as a cyclops.

Sneaky guy in sunglasses found his way into my wacky statuary picture. I like it better with a friendly wave. He offered to take my picture with stuff, but I politely declined – he seemed a little off-kilter, and I didn’t want him to break or steal my camera. When he walked away, he yelled over his shoulder “We’re the people our parents warned us about!”.


1 year ago – wilma approaching, pirate scotto, chakra poll, Terry in Cancun, newt-wiggle pic, torchwood arcticle, newt grump-sphynx pic

2 years ago – Newt entry, voted, bittorrent, 33 questions, randomness

3 years ago – German Dukes of Hazzard, the finger, vanishing penises, prepping for the doctor, spidey-doodle, SA.com gets PMing!

4 years ago – Paper Airplane sim, freebie movies, Dave got a hill giant, Newt head-waggy, Where’s George bill comes back, belarc

5 years ago – Walkin’ Pneumonia, chat proggies poopin out, 5 hours in ER/pharmacy.. waiting, mostly. palm-stream post

6 years ago – First use of GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING as a joke, Summertime, heavy work dayGeotarget

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8572 – They’re coming for you, Barbara.

NOAA, DOT, IRS, SAA

So many acronyms full of potential around me these days!



Here’s a hidden program in Windows Xp, it is a very useful graphics tool for designing your own fonts, logos and icons.

To start the program go to Run in the Start Menu then type eudcedit and click OK.

It will then open the program, and you just select a hexadecimal code for your first character from the grid to start then click OK and you are now ready to begin designing. Using the set of drawing tools on the left you can do your own design. When you have finished you can save your character, either in a particular font, or all fonts. via


I just downloaded Night of the Living Dead down to my PSP. you can d/l it or watch it directly on archive.org or google video. It’s one of my all-time fave scary movies.


Happiness is Roddy MacDowell with silly string on most recent Columbo. I honestly don’t know if I prefer him in protagonist or antagonist roles. It did really put the focus on the dangers of smoking and “modern answering machines”, if nothing else. It seems that Columbo went from drinking bourbon on the job in ’68 to passing on booze entirely in ’72. I wonder if the Mrs. turned him around?


1 year ago – bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae

2 years ago – MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski’s – Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme.

3 years ago – IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.

4 years ago – mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren’t loved, sculpey, eraser clay

5 years ago – Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan

6 years ago – The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway GroupGeotarget

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8563 – What *is* the melting point of a gorilla’s head?

Yarrr! It be Talk like a pirate day and Adam West’s 78th B’day!


First Columbo movie was fun…the M.O. of letting the bad guy be lulled into a false sense of security by a bumbler is a solid one. The writing has held up, and the acting is a lot better than other shows of the period. Nice use of Double Indemnity on TV as a story within a story.


Wow… the menstrualhut has over 2250 members now. When I first started it, I had no idea it’d still be growing and active five years later, pretty much on its own. I’m going to have to swing by the Museum of Menstruation when I’m in Maryland. His site is a goodly part of why the hut got rolling in the first place.


Washington D.C. (AHN) – A heap of debris taken from quarry trash in Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what researchers believe is the oldest writing ever found in the New World. Researchers say the serpentine block dates back almost 3,000 years and was created by people from Olmec civilization.
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8559 – Sucking on an applehead at 4am

So much for getting a good night’s sleep… Sometime after 8:15pm, my tech’s phone stopped working. I got my first wake-up missing kid page at 12:15am, and then this latest one out of Sarasota at 4am. I’ve got to launch an expansion at 6, so it seems that a solid 7-8 hours straight is going to be impossible until after Fatima leaves at about 11ish. Maybe I’ll try to nap on the porch while she’s working cleanup. Upside – Taking call Friday night will pay for the cleaning service on Saturday. If ECN doesn’t contact me, I’ll get the funds for working Saturday, too… but I’d rather have the day free to do my walkies or sleepies or whatever in peace.

I sort of fell asleep on autopilot… I somehow managed to take my meds, but neglected to put on my cpap before bed – sort of a poor move, because my throat is a little snore-sore now.


Re-watched Charley Varrick while doing my Friday night putter. Fun flick, and probably one of Walter Matthau’s best non-comedic roles. I like a good caper flick… I’m looking forward to showing it to my sweetie over a big bowl of popcorn on a rainy day sometime soon. On the dvd now is Key Largo. Funny How different Florida looks in the old movies… Men in shirtsleeves and ties, and baking for it, because there’s no A/C and nothing but palm fronds and gin joints… the docks look like something out of a popeye cartoon.


Morningstar vegetarian corn dogs are a *billion* times better tasting when heated in the toaster oven at 350f for 20 minutes, rather than super-nuke in the microwave for six minutes. Absolutely worth the additional 14 minute investment. (plus, you can heat a vegetable or soup in the micro while you wait, to round out the meal)


I’ve subscribed to Matt Kindt’s online strip, Superspy. It’s sort of fun to turn on the PSP and have a fresh bit of art on it to peruse.


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1 year ago – Friday plans?, ignis fatuus, flickr toys, graffiti board

2 years ago – sin city preview, goodbye romania, spambots, team rocket, dark tower, mt dew poo, cej in from the rain, palm doctor trip pics

3 years ago – apple jacks, skulls, orisinal cats, belly dance

4 years ago – fun with fonts.

5 years ago – coloring book, newt pics, drug poll

6 years agojavamental & mochaGeotarget