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6793 I don't know why he's complaining… he can stay home.

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I’m not really fond of Monday’s week-start review meetings. it takes hours, and isn’t as productive as I’d like. At least I usually get to give my presentation first, and then bail. I have a lot of stuff to get out of the way this morning, to boot.

Strong sweet tooth lately… not sure why I’m craving it so much. It’s not like my body is in need of raspberry sugar for proper functioning.

I have a case of wanderlust, and as soon as I get the new tech fully worked out, I’m certainly going to take a trip. I just have to decide the duration and destinations.


Recently received this as ebay feedback: – I would, without hesitation, endorse this man for president. Well thanks, Kevin! Site Meter


APOD: A Solar Filament Lifts Off – Amazing.


World’s Finest – Batman/Superman Fan film, from the makers of Batman – Dead End. (via)


I didn’t know until yesterday that Ray Bradbury has been wheelchair-bound since his stroke in ’99. Or if I did, I forgot that I did.

His short story, A Sound of Thunder has been made into a movie… (previews)

It seems the movie takes the introduction and runs with it, probably not in the direction that I want to see, let alone the message.

Speaking of Movies, I really don’t see how the studios could improve on The Manchurian Candidate. Someone tell me what the new Gulf War version has to do with Manchuria ? (The Original was based on the Korean war… thus the title.)


Mathematical Atlas: A gateway to Mathematics


“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” ~Ansel Adams


Hmm… that image up top might make a good icon. Let’s see… Maybe.

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I don’t know which Private Eye is the most definitive to me… Lew Archer, Richard Diamond, Sam Spade, or Philip Marlowe. Digging Archer right now, because I just finished The Drowning Pool. (the first time I’ve read it since my days at the BBCL) I’ve never seen the movie, but wouldn’t mind checking it out, now that the tale is fresh in my mind.


Archives –

1 year ago – Bambi hunt a hoax, online games, lj diversity, comic book/cartoon thoughts, including the doom song.

2 years ago – some missing pictures, wondering about my eyes, watching TV, evil news, some palm pics, Newt pics

3 years ago – senescence, thegosis, arrival as a pod, loving thoughts

4 years ago – Buds for lunch (I’ll miss that rare treat), dealing ok with winding down.

6792 – Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or Q.

Snickers with almonds is very tasty when frozen, but I preferred the chilled tangerine I also had for breakfast. Tasty morsels. I don’t use the word morsel often enough. Or Scrumdiddlyumptious. Ok, ok…I lied, dear journal…. I say scrumdiddlyumptious at least once or twice a month. Though, to make up for the “morsel” imbalance, I also hardly ever say “Oh, snap”.


The soft, spicy odor of incense, wafting in from the corridor between my bedroom and bath brings me calm on hectic days. It’s getting easier for me to realize when I’m tense lately, and once I know that I’m stressed, I can channel that attitude out to make way for more productive behavior.

When I decide to veg out…I usually sit Indian-style or other comfortable position, usually with Newt nearby. I let all the random jetsam spinning around in my mind slowly settle onto the floor of my mind for proper storage or disposal. Sometimes whole books hit the ground when the mental wind slows down, but usually it’s closer to fortune-cookie slips of paper and multi-colored index cards with quickly scrawled information on it, including “continued on card number XXX” written on the bottom. Sometimes the connected card is nearby or someplace that I can retrieve it quickly, other times, it’s probably in one of the piles off in one of the corners.

I picture my mental room as octagonal-shaped, having hardwood floors and highlights, a network of bookshelf-columns radiating out from the center, and glass walls leading up to a covered dome with a skylight on top. Secret Memories of an ancestor that was into trepanation? I don’t see any self-surgery in my future. The amount of light inside reflects my mindset, with thick drapes that could blot out an atomic blast when darkness is absolutely needed.

There are monkeys, too. Or Ghosts. Maybe Monkey Ghosts. That’s it. Probably genetically enhanced… or with some sort of mystic talisman thingie.


Storywise, sometimes I don’t see myself as a main character. It’s easy to fall in the role of support, or walk-on… no limelight, but more like Wilson on Home Improvement, though, if I was to stretch the example, I suppose that I could grab the Al role here and there. I try to be helpful and am mostly soft spoken, a little too off the beaten path to be a primary focus. I suspect that’d change if I was under the same roof with my sweetheart, rather than having us end up being the wacky neighbors.

Then again, there was the Grizzly Adams TV show. Random trivia… Ben the bear was named for Ben Franklin.


Whims got me itchin’ for doughnuts…she makes hers with prepackaged dough… I didn’t have any, but I found this little recipe.. and the bread maker!

Bread Machine Doughnuts

6789 Pictures and stuff

I, Robot was a fun, predictable, dopey action movie with robots and Will Smith. Exactly what I expected, and it was fine by me (save for the awkward product placement). Afterward, we swung by The Floridian, and gabbed over supper… Danny seemed a little distracted, but that’s understandable.


Well, of course I signed up for the photojournal service. See here for more details. First Gallery

Let’s see if it works – pictures are clickable

6767 Newt asked me this earlier.

He usually says “mer?”


I think I’ll go to the Seaquarium some Saturday soon. I want to see one of the baby manatees before he’s returned to the wild, but the rehabilitation pools understandably aren’t open to the public.

Want to sponsor a baby manatee?

Come to think of it, it’s so warm out lately that I bet there’s a number of manatees just up the street. I’ll have to swing by and see.


The term “coagulated blood” is on my mind today. I’m not sure why.


I could go for a Twinkie right now… or some angel food cake with strawberry preserves. And have a dip in a nice freshwater lake. And a smooch from my sweetheart. Throw in some shade-trees over that lake.

Nice.


Dan’s changing the color scheme of his website. I think it looks fairly nice and cheery as-is, even though the colors were slapped in quickly, just to show him how the boxes delineate. I can see him going with a monochrome blue… and I don’t see it looking as fun.

the layout in brief

6760 – museum pix, waiting for news on my condo, misc

The condo owners are out of town… silly for them to list it and not be available until later, but, whatever. I’ll know more today, I think.


Did the guy that invented combos see a snausage, and think it would be tasty for people to have a snack like that.. or was it the other way around, benefiting dogs?


Intelligent observation overheard ages ago – “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”


I can’t believe that a single packet of ramen noodles is considered to be “three servings”. That’s almost as bad as the “two fig newtons per serving” rule. Who decides this stuff? Very full people who aren’t so hungry and don’t like the product?

Random ramen factoids –

  • “Ramen” is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters lo mein, which means “boiled noodles.”
  • Ramen was popularized in Japan by a 17th century samurai named Mito Komon. You can see Mito’s actual ramen bowl and a reproduction of his favorite meal in the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan. The museum that attracts 1500 visitors a day–more than Japan’s national art museum.

I’m in the mood to watch the Rockford Files again.


Random Scotto Factoid: I had trouble remembering the difference between definitions for vertical and diagonal, until I learned the word vertigo. Likewise, horizontal was never a problem, because I already knew the word horizon. I learn better by association, rather than simply by rote.


Planetarium Trip Pictures

6748 – 183 Days into 2004. 183 Days to go.

Lazy daydreams and nice thoughts of mi Habibti this morning. Not much for writing, so here’s some linkiedoos.


Five pounds of silly putty for $60. (plus shipping) Egg not included, but you can buy 144 glow in the dark plastic eggs for $5.


Things in the sky on this day in:

  • 1900 – First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. (Nobody ever remembers Fred.)
  • 1947 – An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
  • 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
  • 1982 – Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
  • 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Very groovy tunes on Smoke and Mirrors, leftyrok! Thanks for sharing them with me! the cd case’s production values are sharp, too. 🙂


Regarding this post from a couple of weeks back… The lizard I saw was a Knight Anole. Thanks for the herper info, Bart!


Classic ELO.

6723 – Telecommunications and Newt

Happy Birthday, Juliabee!


VNC for the palm. Amazing, wonderful. Like having PCanywhere from my palmtop to both my work and home computers, via the palm. If I wanted to, I could play City of heroes remotely, from *$, if I wanted to, now. Insanity. I’ve already used it to logon and update virus defs on my company web server from home.

It’s about as multi-platform as can be… check out the home page. Ah, and the source is available. got to love GPL.

Note, if you’re doing it via a router… port forwarding is your friend.


Robots are our friends (sometimes they slice human flesh) (via waxy_org)


Paypal’s latest warning to me, from the website –

6721 Morning-time once more

Hmm.. it looks like my email rattles around the ether for up to 45 minutes before landing locally. I wonder if there’s a way to fix that?

Upside, the new host spam-filters all those virus attachments before they get to my sorting spot, now.


Regarding the whole “what do you do with a drunken sailor” song.

As far as I understand, ‘Captain’s Daughter’ was a tool of discipline, usually either a lash or something similar. to “kiss the captain’s daughter” (for light shipboard transgressions) was a light beating, while “put to bed with the captain’s daughter” would be a beating until the sailor passed out from the pain.

(Related, if you’re kissing the gunner’s daughter, it means that you’re being bent over the cannon for a flogging.)

Other misc – A Cat O’ nine tails had nine lashes because superstition had it that a flogging by a trinity of trinities would be more sacred. The whip consisted of a handle made of rope about 3 1/2 inches thick in circumference & about 18 inches in length. At the end are fastened 9 tails made of log line with at least 3 knots on each tail. “Flogged around the fleet”, a man was lashed in a long boat & rowed to each ship in the harbor where he’d receive 6 lashes per ship as all hands witnessed. The cat was aways put in a red bag to disguise the bloodstains… also giving new meaning of worry when “the cat’s out of the bag”

Also, the term “poop deck” makes me laugh.

“Arr, Where be the Cap’n?” “He’s right there, on the poop!”


I wonder what Danger Turtle is up to these days?


Test Images Palm-broadcast to my website-

6484 Damn… Frankie the mooch was treated better.

Warning, foul language ahead.

Oh, the fuckin’ drama.

Police came by my apartment tonight, looking for my brother.

I assume it’s for something serious, as there were six cops there, 3 of whom swarmed into my house, wearing bulletproof vests another one had a gun to my head, outside, while two more looked at my ID and shined lights in my face.

The first thing out of my mouth? “Don’t let the cat get out!”

A cop’s got a fucking gun to my head, and I’m afraid that Newt’ll get outside and be hit by a car.

A guy’s got to have priorities, I guess.

They came here, because the ass-monkey that answers to my brother’s name registered his truck at this address. I didn’t know his exact home location, but I was happy to provide his cell phone number and to call the mother up to get the location of his apartment.

I guess they were looking for Andy, too… I knew full well that he was a problem, and bro was warned time and time again. He was just at court yesterday, and I guess he or his pals just couldn’t wait to screw up yet again. I wonder if this is going to have effect on his currently deferred charges, and my bond money?

I want to know what my brother did… Crackhead Mooch Frankie only got two cops, no drawn weapons. No-nose psycho Landlord got 12 police cars, a fire engine and a fire-car.

So, it’s worse than being a combative, lying crackhead, but not as bad as a suicidal, gun-toting loon. Good to know. So, I have a range to work in. I know my brother has a nose.

I *hate* having some other guys running around all over my territory. Looking at mail on my counter, reading the screen of my computer, and so on. I’d consider 4 of the cops as power-trippy cocksmokers… the other two looked like they could at least be a little respectful and work with me communications wise.

The lead cop had the nerve to ask “Why are you so jumpy if you don’t know what’s going on?”

My reply was “I didn’t like having your God-Damn gun pointed in my face… it’s a pretty jarring experience, and I hope you’re never on the other end of it. That makes me jumpy. If you had a half dozen guys show up with guns and flashlights out of the blue, you’d be jumpy, too.”

I didn’t finish the sentence that was in my head that basically ended with “You nazi, piggy motherfucker.”

Now, I know what they did was for their own protection, but that’s the thought that went through my head. Jackbooted, pig-shouted, jerkoffs. I work with nice cops every frickin’ day. Heaven forbid if a missig kid call came while I was at gunpoint.

I’m currently looking here to see if bro or one of his pals has been picked up. plus it’s interesting to see who else turns up.. it’s refreshed every quarter-hour. This one is useful, too.Site Meter

at the moment, he’s got a felony (open), 2 municipal ordinances, and a misdomeanor.

He was warned that I wouldn’t pay bond to get him out this time (if they’ll even grant bond, considering the situation.)

No more drama, please. Gimme some love, life.

# 6236 super shower, newt pic, eclipse

I’ve returned from having the staples out… didn’t hurt a bit, only one even pinched at all on removal. I think that the bandage glue was more irritating to me than the staples were. I now have a row of butterflies there that will come off over time as I wash. I took pictures, but the shots don’t really show anything special, so I won’t bother hosting or posting. But I did get a shot of Newt getting all in the camera, so I’ll throw that in. The sounds of the staples coming out were not unlike someone clipping overly long toenails, and tossing the chaff into a plastic cup.

Newt, 20k jpg.

#6219 borg parts, cat wrasslin’, Dan sick, still need a hair wash

Running my hand lightly over my bandage…I count the bumpy ridges of the staples there. Nine, equally spaced, they remind me of rings used to hold a shower curtain in place. I wonder what the clinking of them being removed would sound like in a glass ashtray…I envision the sound being similar to bullet being removed and placed in a metal tray like some sort of slow scene in the middle of an action hero’s film, being repaired in a grimy doctor’s office after crawling away from a gunfight… left for dead.

Maybe it’s more like a row of scuta… (singular scute)

The ozone in the air is making Newt bouncy and full of the wrestling-urge…his rear claws rake at my wrist while I rub his tummy. I go to take my hand away, and he grabs on with his front swabs and chomps down on my thumb using just enough pressure to keep it in place. I’m tempted to brush his teeth after wearing him out, but I think he’ll get the week off, until I can handle him more surely.

Dan has a bad case of the flu today. I hope he mends soon, and also hope that he didn’t leave flu-germs here. I really don’t want that on top of everything else.

Hair-wash nurse will return tomorrow morning.. she was ill-equipped to deal with me. If I could get in the shower, I wouldn’t need anyone to to help… the idea is that I can’t get the wound wet. She’s coming back with a basin, as I can’t bend under the sink.

#6219 borg parts, cat wrasslin', Dan sick, still need a hair wash

Running my hand lightly over my bandage…I count the bumpy ridges of the staples there. Nine, equally spaced, they remind me of rings used to hold a shower curtain in place. I wonder what the clinking of them being removed would sound like in a glass ashtray…I envision the sound being similar to bullet being removed and placed in a metal tray like some sort of slow scene in the middle of an action hero’s film, being repaired in a grimy doctor’s office after crawling away from a gunfight… left for dead.

Maybe it’s more like a row of scuta… (singular scute)

The ozone in the air is making Newt bouncy and full of the wrestling-urge…his rear claws rake at my wrist while I rub his tummy. I go to take my hand away, and he grabs on with his front swabs and chomps down on my thumb using just enough pressure to keep it in place. I’m tempted to brush his teeth after wearing him out, but I think he’ll get the week off, until I can handle him more surely.

Dan has a bad case of the flu today. I hope he mends soon, and also hope that he didn’t leave flu-germs here. I really don’t want that on top of everything else.

Hair-wash nurse will return tomorrow morning.. she was ill-equipped to deal with me. If I could get in the shower, I wouldn’t need anyone to to help… the idea is that I can’t get the wound wet. She’s coming back with a basin, as I can’t bend under the sink.

*Happy 4th Birthday, Newt!*

(Link above goes to a pic of him from the first couple of days I had him at work… about Oct 21, 1999, I think)

The Birthday boy!

Most recent shot of Newt to his B-day

Newt!


AVENGERS #71 – NOW RATED MATURE READERS
This morning, Marvel notified retailers that the next issue of Avengers, #71, originally due to be in stores next Wednesday will be delayed until October 15th, and its normal “PSR” rating changed to “MR” or Mature Readers due to adult content. Continue reading