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8498 – Buddhist monks, when threatened, will form a protective circle. (Just like musk oxen!)

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Ken Nordine has a website, where he regularly journals and does audio broadcast. Who knew? I was a huge fan of his voice work back in the 90s.

I can’t say as I’ve ever seen Frog eye/Goat eye contact lenses. Split, rounded pupils would have a fun freak-out value.

Do any toys use clip-in 9 volt batteries these days? It seems like almost everything is rechargeable, AAA or AA, with a few ancient or greedy things that run on C or D cells. I have always thought the little square batteries were more fun to look at and play with. I have a rechargable 9 volt for my TENS unit, but that’s about it… back in the 80s/90s, It seemed like all my walkie talkies and portable radios used 9Vs.

Apparently there are no A or B size batteries.

dragonball - man with a boid

Nothing is more fun on a lazy Saturday evening than watching a Cheesy Martial Arts Movie on the Spanish channel. I’ve been mildly wanting to see this for about a decade or so. Watching it dubbed in Spanish just made it the much more surreal.

dragonball - turtle man and crew

The amount of savings on my electircal bill from closing my shades rather than leaving them open was a whopping $2. I’ll continue through August, just to see if it was a fluke.

1 year ago – Mona moves on from work, Lisa is a good name on lj, NASA pics, walkies phone post

2 years ago – Thinking Wolfsonian, CEJ, Skeletor, bro, bandwidth crooks, awesome search phrase, cat poop coffee, silly ad, Where do they make balloons… (hey, synchronicity)

3 years ago – miniature oranges, orisinal games, tv in my head, first/last meme, newt on a windowsill, daler mehndi

4 years ago – Newt Wakies, Croc bite brings beer, scotto-man, overtired, funions

5 years ago – vcr tape, gaming, militate, warren, scientific independence for researchers, Frontier Psychiatrist, evil SUV

6 years ago – many folks join my Friendy-list (probably due to interests) , grover, graves museumGeotarget

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8488 – Monday, again!

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I’ve got some good thoughts to buoy me through Monday Meeting!

Every day is a new challenge, but I’ve got some good ammo to combat most challenges that come my way lately.

Danny sent me the complete first season of the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series! (The Pilot Movie, and 13 regular episodes). Very Keen. Apparently Paradise Island is in the Bermuda Triangle, according to the show…I always pictured it in Greece.

Had a nice walkabout yesterday… went to riverfront to check out the place before it gets torn down to make way for condos. Took a few snaps, met up with Tina. We had a little bite to eat at the Italian place, then saw Monster House. I quite enjoyed it, though it was a bit slow at first… and I wasn’t expecting a PG rated thing in that style. Some pretty unexpected turns, and character actions that were rather creepier than an evil house that eats people.

Post movie, we chitty-chatted and got ice cream before it was time to go – getting spoiled.. I just had a cone with Danny last Thursday.

Still haven’t seen Pirates (Movie-time conflict), and putt-putt is being saved for a day when we can get a bigger crew together.

Pictures of construction, graffiti, and etc.

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8487 – Good Morning, Dear Journal!

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Lovely talk on the phone last night, that went well into the wee hours. I simply didn’t want to hang up, but fatigue eventually drew me to snooze-ville. I woke up about an hour later and stumbled upon an interesting lj, and ended up engaged in some interesting conversation there, too.

I’m not feeling fatigued this morning, and I got my first pente defeat at the hands of bhk, trying to sink The Dreaded Pirate Greybeard’s Pente-ship Barkin’ Lotus!

newt and friend
newt and friend on the porch yesterday.

Dice Wars – very simple, but addictive. I think proximity is a lot of fun, too. It has a revered place on my pda.

I heard a great quote the other day – “True nobility is not about being better than anyone else, but being better than you used to be.”

Beautiful thought, and I’m all for it.

Video: Microsoft Vista speech recognition demo gone bad

Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.

The XP recognition works reasonably well for me, save for some of the more esoteric phrases.

Animated movie from 787 clip art samples. I really like it.

Mighty Illegal Wireless Hotspot Hacks – the most useful thing for me was showing how to make my laptop a hot spot. Some very interesting info that can be reapplied a few different ways, but mostly importantly, insure the validity of where you connect.

Still unsure what I’m up to today – no word on putt-putt or movies or whatnot, but I’m off to get ready for my day. Shower, Yoga and morning walkies. Until later, dear journal.

Today’s Music has no lyrics – a sample of gamelan. Flying Goldfish Flower by Christine Southworth (mp3, 7 MB) – via

1 year ago – entry loss, sky high good, Danny wins prizes, calls while not on-call, 10k superballs, Newtcam Law and Order, meme stuff, pics of lisas, and autostitch garage

2 years ago – museum pics, slippery, Loveless

3 years ago – tv shows, comic fonts, paper money, sound resource, gay high, starmark, CA2, tunnel walkies pix, Dan visit, toys

4 years ago – random voog glimpse, infrasound, dinner timeline, GRASP, hate group mapping, Jen plans on being wed, FMM steals paid time from me, mach 8 jets

5 years ago – animal traits poll, Museum of Black Superheroes, remonstrate, Pompano info, evil news, mental health day, rainbow newt poll, icq/lj tech trouble

6 years ago – April stress, New everway group review, Babel fish translations, green lantern, Jerrys Birthday bash, Discover marquee, Bev Preggers, Bro working at Amici’s, We Like Pie, 29th Scroll, 6th VerseGeotarget

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8486 – from the “south wing”

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First morning of Yoga went well, though I think I prefer the evening program so far. Taking things slow and easy, but I’ll be bendy as gumby in a bit.

Newt’s already started practicing, too. I dig the time stamp, 04:44:40.

On the Porch now – Newt got pretty excited about a little black squirrel on the outside balcony, but other than that, I’m just lounging outside and soaking up the humidity and enjoying the peace and quiet. Only real sounds are the fountain burbling and an odd rumble in the distance. Newt has since calmed down

Odd to watch Kids in the Hall unbleeped. Recorded back in the day when you could say “shit” on Canadian TV, but not on the Comedy Channel.

I haven’t planned a walkabout yet, but I think maybe a little journey to points west. Possibly doing putt-putt with mental_circles, home_grown_cl, and hedache tomorrow, if they recover from the Bowling for Soup concert tonight.

Forgot to mention that I went with Danny to a little comic book store in Boca Raton on Thursday. Quarter bins have given way to dollar bins. I picked up a few 1963 comics that had fallen by the wayside a move or two ago. A shame the Annual never made it to print. I was saddened to see that the Thing Series has come to an end. graypumpkin and kat78731 brought me a two or three issues when they were last in town, and I filled up to get all eight. The store’s Comic Book Guy(tm) said it was a fan favorite, but sales just weren’t enough to keep it alive.

Looks like a few of my flickr pictures are being published in schmap’s fort lauderdale guide!

Your Wrestler Name Is…

Bloodstained Adonis

Under the Pines by Jonathan Coulton is a Sad Love song about Bigfoot and Leonard Nimoy. Poor Leonard.

Spiffy Pirate movie! – Pretty entertaining French cartoon.

http://tvm.phpnet.us/

When you enter a number to dial and select a voice this program will dial that number and then read the message to them. The caller ID number can be made up. I’m bookmarking it…that has some nifty potential.

1 year ago – met the Lisas, strawberry shortcake, Kamandi, cat cartoons, I remind JL of Rob from High Fidelity, meme-y thing, out with Dan

2 years ago – turtlenecks, skinbags, touchscreen, firestarter, recent tunes, oomiaq, walkies, manatees

3 years ago – tour guides, politics, bollywood, starmark, windows psa

4 years ago – swastika, dreams, newt, birds of prey, lizard droppings, zebrelle

5 years ago – WoG III, Chai, bro, coloring book, lj down

6 years ago – nuffinGeotarget

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8483 – YOU BLEW IT UP!

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Sort of lame that Lance Bass is pulling the ‘Ellen’ card right before he’s starting a new show.

It’d be cool if his new TV program is about how he caught “The Gay” during his Russian Space Shot, and returned to a planet populated by talking apes. I’d watch it.

For three episodes anyway, until it turned into Will & Grace, with Ape-o-Nauts.

Even Space Monkeys can’t save Will & Grace.

Sorry, Monkey.

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8470 –

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Lets see how today goes. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. I imagine it’ll fall somewhere in between.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar

If Vox is good for nothing else, it’s a decent resource for hosting pictures that everyone can see (Flickr and Saudi don’t seem to mix)

Also hosted here at flickr

From Left to Right – Original Newt pic, Black and white makes him look like a kitten, and two “Bleached” Newts, by playing with filter settings.
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More Newt lounging in the water closet… plus his vandalistic shenanigans against the end of the TP roll.
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Went on a surprise trip to outback with GG. It was nice to vent, and just commiserate for a bit.. and better, to talk about other stuff entirely over tasty pasta w/ cheese.

Some think toes are ugly
Some think toes are sweet
I think toes
Are little rows
Of fingers for your feet.

1 year ago – RIP Scotty, bleeder likes my eyes, thumbdrive apps, paper rocket, logo toy, taters, london transport

2 years ago – politics, monster poll, last time meme, job market

3 years ago – mahjong, zombie movies

4 years ago – Visiting Danny, played Pokemon, orcs n the hood, reign of fire with Dave, beef recall

5 years ago – eremite, watched the sun come up, poll creation, why I trim, cooking poll

6 years ago – got the first LJ client, movie ponderingGeotarget

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8461 – Monday? Oh, odds bodkins.

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Apparently the Algorithm march is some kind of sensation that I’m late to learn about. More power to ’em!

You Are 24% Control Freak

You have achieved the perfect balance of control and letting go.
You tend to roll with whatever life brings, but you never get complacent.

Sunday was a true day of rest… I only ventured outside to do put clothes in the washer and dryer… and that was after sundown. I took a couple of short naps, gabbed on the phone a bit, and paid attention to the Newtster.

“I hesitate to say anything nice about him, for fear that it would be used against him. And that’s a terrible commentary on the state of politics and the political climate today.”

– Senator John McCain, Republican / Arizona, on Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat / Connecticut.

This Page shows the current Fairy Doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Each thumbnail links to a page, which elaborates on the specific location of the fairy door, represented. The Pin map shows the distribution of the tiny doors. Tiny doors have been the principle element in common. Some of the location have tiny windows and even elaborate interior spaces as well as fairy doors. The miniature doors match or coordinate with the larger human doors of each location.

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I can surf Flickr at random for hours…it’s more a nosy delight than random LJs. I don’t know if it’s just easier to produce quality or interesting pictures over the cliche of 1000 words, but there it is. Maybe there’s just a lot more to see than there is to say.

1 year ago – Kev day, pictures of train station/toys/etc, mr moonlight

2 years ago – mind flayer doodle, travel plans, blue ink, Warriors…., phone posts

3 years ago – odd dreams, Gary hart, pizza box solar oven, hunting for Bambi hoax, walnut walks with a bellydancer

4 years ago – CHiPs, Spreading rumors

5 years ago – Music Mystery Solved, exegesis, evil news, Earhart’s wreck perhapsfound, I discover Google image search, sea creature poll, why poop isbrown

6 years ago – Scheduled Departure time set in stone, something at Archie Mcphee no longer there, sitcom nudity-logicGeotarget

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8467 –

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Mom brought over some furniture from a house she sold… pretty nice, a computer desk, chair, printer stand and a low bookshelf. She’ll be coming by sometime this week to take care of a few issues before they zip off to VA for a few months. One of which is my will – disposition of my loot and Newt in the event of my kicking the bucket. (Hers is all set up now… I’m the executor, should something happen to both her and her husband.)

Kevin Smith talks about Superman – From the college lecture DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith, which is pretty great storytelling from an engaging speaker even if you’re not a huge fan of his movies.

Windows In Your Pocket – handy boot info for flash drives.

2 floating things I saw yesterday.

Inside the Coral Square Mall –
Lion fish. (He must be 12 years old, or they keep cycling in new ones… he’s huge, too.)

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