Tag Archives: newton

Uncategorized

8106 – Fairly newt-intensive post.

Leave a comment

GeotargetSee what happens after I move away from Los Olas? They paint the whole area with free wifi. There were a ton of free hotspots to start with, but now it seems pretty constant. I’m just glad the main library has a big touchstone now…. students can bring their own appliances in and get data, rather than wait on the computer banks in the 3rd, fifth and ground floors. I can only imagine how much bittorrenting of pirated er, archival stuff over a big open network will happen.

I might get a chance to hang out with Dave Attell this week or next. More on that as it happens or doesn’t. He’s back on tour.

Hey, the whole run of the Flash tv show is out of DVD! all 21 episodes plus the 90 minute Pilot.

newt and mr man
Newton Meets Mr. Man.

newt and mr man
Mr. Man gestures hypnotically, to put the giant beast in his thrall, and…

newt and mr man
Chomp! Newt treats him like Tyr. Mr. Man must be from Newfoundland, a smoker or a fascist.

BONUS VIDEO – I Taunt Newton with a plastic bag, and then needlessly compare him to a Fox News personality. 665k quicktime movie via palmtop (on Youtube as a flash video too)

1 year ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues, ex-coworkers read my journal, parrot jungle?

2 years ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts

3 years ago – fogwalking, SOP

4 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day

5 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, siddhartha

Uncategorized

8104 – system still out for repair.

Leave a comment

GeotargetThis card is my problem with compusa, along with really poor communication or support /offering of alternatives.

In a nutshell, it’s been since November 10th that my Computer has been at the shop… everything else needing repair is fixed according to them.

Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra Video Card, AGP, 256MB DDR
Nvidia
Manufacturer: PNY   
Mfg Part #: VCGFX595APB
Product Number: 308120
$499.88

However, that bad boy has been out of stock at the manufacturer, and at all known compusa stores in a 50-mile radius for the last 8 weeks.

With a $500 price tag, I’m obliged to wait, because I really can’t drop that chunk of change on something that I should be getting under warranty.

The guys at the shop have given me two timelines, both of which have passed, now. I’m not quite sure what I can do, save for waiting.

Meanwhile, I have to do my work on poor ol’ Battered lappie, My Toshiba satillite back from a time when Windows Me (I’ve long since replaced that with win2k pro) was “cutting edge”.

I’d say that the only time I’ve had worse customer service/ communication was with Comcast… I have since boycotted them, though I’ve heard that they might not be so bad in other areas outside of SoFla.

Not having big brain has cost me some very significant social chat and play time in 2nd Life, LAN party activities with the old FMM crowd are out of the picture… plus, all of my downloaded movies / Netflix DVD archives are ground to a halt while the machine is gone… not to mention a lack of Newtcam.

I never realised how many people watched good ol’ Newt during the day… I’ve gotten somthing like 80 emails politely requesting when he’ll be back online again. If Big Brain is down another week, I’ll hook Newtcam up to Lappie so folks can get an orange kitty fix.

I can only imagine what happens when pretty girls shut off their webcams. I suspect horny stalker-type guys aren’t nearly as polite as cat fanciers.

Uncategorized

8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz

Leave a comment

GeotargetUnsurprisingly, bro bailed on us getting together today, but I was still determined bike around the region, heading north this time.

I walked my bike to the gas station on 10th & federal, aired up the long-flat tires, rode east to the beach, north on a1a to palmetto park, went west to federal, and then south to 10th. a nice, scenic circuit, but I was too busy enjoying the ride in the cool weather to take many pics. 14.4 miles, total route (I doubled back a few time s to check the bike shop, and rode up Dixie to see what was new. I picked up some cool stuff at the art store which was having an insane blowout sale… one of those foot-tall wooden manikins for drawing bodies for $4, a thick pad full of 12 x 18″ newsprint paper for doodling on for $0.75, and a couple of graphite pencils for a buck. it was all 20% off those prices, too, so I got a lot of fun loot for less than what lunch would’ve cost me out. I wonder if Newt’ll mangle the wooden guy… the manikin is similar to the wooden Christmas tree ornaments that Newt loves to smack around.

Geotarget3602 calories burned if I was walking… I wonder what that translates to in cycling? Probably not nearly as much.

Here’s my route 14.4 miles, give or take.

bike-about Sunday morning
Wings place – still hasn’t repaired the impaled sign since Wilma.

bike-about Sunday morning
Island Water Sports – Contrary to the prior image, they wanted a giant shark head first in the roof. By the way, on the inside, there is a giant shark head coming through the ceiling, too.

bike-about Sunday morning
I *think* that this is the Boca chamber of commerce, but I’m not sure. I really like the curvy divot on the side, slicing some of the windows.

Knight Rider Hasselhoff

You are Knight Rider Hasselhoff. You kick ass, you’re dead sexy, AND you are the proud owner (or perhaps life partner) of a talking black Trans-Am. What else could one ask for?

WHICH HOFF ARE YOU? at QuizGalaxy.com

Uncategorized

8069 – New(t) Year’s Eve

Leave a comment

GeotargetDear 2006,

Please be nicer to everyone than your older sibs have been! I got along ok with 2005, but really liked the time I spent with 2002-2003 a lot more then ’04 and ’05 combined. Let’s get off to a good start and keep things as full of peace, love and happiness as possible.

Trying hard to not sound too much like a hippie,

Your Friend,
Scotto

testing brightness filters on my most patient model.

3 newt pics -click for a bigger view

newt 12/30/05
crazy orange! “auto adjust settings”

newt 12/30/05
standard indoor settings

newt 12/30/05
Best result, -2 white, indoor A setting.

many soundtracks for the sampling here

Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk
“Computer Talk”
4.6MB 160kbps mp3 – via Party Ben

See Also –
99 Voodoo Children – Jay-Z and Jimi Hendrix

Bootystition – Destiny’s Child and Stevie Wonder

1 year ago – Sgt@arms, newt wakey pic, events of the year, number test

2 years ago – got together with Danny for his b’day, turned him on to discworld. Blessings, new year’s resolutions, fly guy, conspiracy

3 years ago – Musical acts I’ve seen, x-ray piccies of my spine

4 years ago – gray pumpkin, new years resolutions, frankenquirrel, pig eyeballs, spam, new years wishes

5 years ago – watching spongebob with cej, D&D movie, fresh birks, shopping, saw Andy, chilly night

Uncategorized

8032 – Cool Yule Day of Winter2!

Leave a comment

GeotargetNewt is a master of stealth. I’ll call him a fuzzy little shadow-slicer.

Kev’s coming by after work today to see the place, kick Newtie-bear around, exchange prezzies, and hang about.

Blackbird’s head on a raven’s torso. It’s subtle.

Newton’s got eyes like two slitted, amber fists when focused on stalking the crinkly stuffed flea of doom.

He sings…

I’m bad ju-ju,
I use voodoo if I choose to,
I’ll harness the powers of evil to abuse you!

which reminds me… The mighty Boosh strikes again!

The Tundra rap:

Whiteness,
Nothingness,
Endlessness
Death

The whiteness of the whale
Pales in comparison
Oh my god!
Who the hell are you?

I’m little Johnny Frostbite moving around
Freezin’ you up freezing you down
Like an icicle
Comin’ in your tent like a cold night scissor bite
Arctic death
Infinite night

They call me tundra boy because
I move like an arctic lizard
When the Blizzard strikes
I disappear like a pipe dream
All that’s left is the gleam
On the tent peg

Boosh, Boosh, Stronger than a moose
Don’t lock your doors or we’ll come through your roof top
Stop look around take your mind off the floor
Because The Boosh is loose and we’re a little bit RAW!

Ice, floe, nowhere to go
Ice floe, nowhere to go
Lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundraaaaaaa!

1 year ago – Mel’s prezzies, Jill good / ADP sucks (both are long gone), tell me meme, No Godzilla, Bush / Scalia / Thomas

2 years ago – RotK w/Dan, 51 successes, gabbed with sedef, Atom feeds

3 years ago – cravings, adoration, sinanju

4 years ago – stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there’s a whip, there’s a way

5 years ago – cards, filters added

Uncategorized

7980 – Monday? Already?

Leave a comment

GeotargetLike Barney says before he steals Fred’s Holiday Pebbles cereal… “Ho, Ho, Ho, I’m Huh, huh, hungry!”

A bowl of cinnamon life will do in a pinch. Slices of banana sound weird with cinnamon, but it’s pretty tasty. Bananas are better tossed into pancakes or monkeys, I think.

Oh, the joys of the holiday season. Dave Barry’s annual gift guide is here.

This is not your ordinary gift guide, the kind that features gifts that somebody might actually want or use. The gifts in this guide were selected because they meet a very strict criterion, which is that when we saw the item advertised, we said to ourselves: ”Are they SERIOUS?” The idea is, if you give one of these items to somebody on your list, that person will be much less likely to want to exchange gifts with you in the future.

Finally, some real humor in the Cathy comic strip. AAAHH!

Moment of Lyric: mp3

…

Uncategorized

7948 – last entry from my old place

Leave a comment

GeotargetMeal with Momster, Wilt, Rosmary and Yizzy went well… unfortunately bro could not come with us. I ate to bursting, and napped for an hour when I got home. After the nap, I procrastinated for a bit, by surfing the net on borrowed wireless and gave big snuggies to the newtster rather than stack boxes right away. at about 7 I went to final packing proper,and once I hear form Danny, I’ll know when we’ll be picking up the truck and trying move #2 in earnest.

Rosemary (Wilt’s sis) is pretty cool, my first meeting with her. Yizzy is ok, a bit on the cheapskate side.

Bro was baker acted yesterday, after meeting the psych. He’s now in a ward without a phone, but they can bring one to him. He tried to check out with his injuries and they made him stick around.

Apparently, some local “friends” have his stuff, even though he is supposed to be out of Hollywood. I suspect that he’s totally back to where he was before, and is ashamed to tell me. All I really want is for him to be healthy, but even that seems to be a bit of a stretch.

[update- he was released on his own about 10am this morning]

Uncategorized

7939 – Sunday, Sunday…

Leave a comment

GeotargetWell, moving yesterday just didn’t work out. U haul broke down, late meeting, and Dan wasn’t feeling well. We rescheduled for Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving.

Today I’m going with Dan, his wife and his parents to his school’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace… I’m really looking forward to it, as I get along very well with his parents. I was going to hit the Miami Book Fair, but the rain is making that a bad idea.

Looks like Gamma’s going to cut sofla some slack! It’ll still be a rainmaker, I think.
gamma-111905

Old Picture of Newt with a predator face on.

Cute-Newt hunter face, 11 seconds later.

A google image search on Scottobear returns 960-ish images… the vast majority of which are of Newtie.

uberbastard was rolling through town, but the timing wasn’t right for a get together…he was cool to give me a call and toss me a friendly wave, however. Maybe a strongbow at the poorhouse is in order next time!

I still have to call Wendy up and see what’s happening with the dinner party thing in the near future.

Monkeys in the national gallery. (search on any ol’ thing you like!) (NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public
Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

PLH, Dear journal!