Ugly day at work yesterday, punctuated by warm flashes of light and comfort from points outside. Those flashes resolved into a soft, soothing ambient light after I got home, and spent time with those I truly care for. Sooth from beings four-footed and two. One work call came in, but aside from that, the night was calm and most reasonable.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Had to take call part of Sunday night.. threw my Monday schedule totally out of whack. Lots of work needed doing, and I got the bulk of it done… mostly sweep-up today, with paperwork, I expect.
Tar cart detail… the wheel and everything is totally coated. stinky, smoky, icky stuff. IT’ll keep me and my stuff dry come the next hurricane.
Hail weather.. 20 minutes prior, there were clear skies, and sunshine. I was fortunate to get a lift home, rather than trudging through that to the bus stop.
Power Records Plaza – provides the book and record version of the Justice League theme. Ouch. I still sort of dig Metamorpho’s though.
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley’s ethnographic book Maori Tattooing has been the standard reference on Moko, or the Maori art of face and body tattooing, ever since it was published in 1896. Dover recently reprinted it. The above photograph of Major General Robley with his collection of tattooed Maoria heads comes from Medicine Man,a gorgeous book about Henry Wellcome’s museum of curios
Moment of Lyric – mp3
Here we are stuck by this river
You and I underneath a sky
That’s ever falling down down down
Ever falling down
Through the day as if on an ocean
Waiting here always failing to remember
Why we came came came
I wonder why we came
You talk to me as if from a distance
And I reply with impressions chosen
From another time time time
From another time.
1 year ago – Got some mojo and a Date with Magda Planned, gummi smurfs, stunt city, free Dr Who books (legit), YNOT DOSE info
2 years ago – fortune cookie, GP phone call, GR still reporting, L.A. Story, martial arts monkey, aeroplayer, poetry, McKay vouchers suck
3 years ago – Language Police, Eclipse, Net-poop, bro gig
4 years ago – I get a love note, mysteries of directional detection, yoda cool, sun & moon, day & night
5 years ago – dev writing, pastiche, Randy Travis
Was supposed to get together with Kev after work, but it didn’t work out. Tonight it is! Taking care of some old business and hanging out before he heads for Guantanamo Bay.
I am very happy with an email I just got… maybe some *very* nice vacation plans for Labor day in the cards! (September Holiday)
New monkey species is more unique than thought Continue reading 8350 –
What my neighborhood will look like if the water level rises 8m. Strangely, the lake won’t be submerged. I’m pretty safe 7m and lower, storm surge-wise. Note, 8 meter is about 26 feet, or about two stories. I’m on the third floor. (Approximately 30 feet up.)
12 hours at the air and sea show – time lapse
sunset, many brush fires to the west making the haze pleasantly brownish orange rust.
So, dolphins refer to each other by individual names and thus have the concept of identity, eh?
I’m known as Scott von Berg (or searchble by the nickname of scottobear) on 6 degrees if you want to link to me.
I sent a few emails out, but got lazy.
Some old doodles on the palm, recently synched –
Tired, blank. done earlier this week.
Surprising, because usually my doodles are happy-ish.
Well, with the exception of –
When I was little, I wished I could accurately throw a quarter hard enough to explode cinder block. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind having that ability now. Why did I want to explode cinder block? I don’t remember.
Pictures on the camera, one in the waiting room tweaked a bit. Pictures behind here
sniffy newt
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
logging in to see newton on cam makes me insanely happy.
he’s my bud.
I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?
That’s one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I’ve got about a decade’s worth of memories of High School world and times after… and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don’t have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev’s about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school… and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my “Computer Pals” (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It’s kind of funny… Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don’t know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes – for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we’ll talk again, but I’d put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can’t just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship… I don’t really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and “good old days” sort of stuff.
That’s the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends… if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem… ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about… but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting… Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.
Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.
Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo – about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.
Does impersonating W’s voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?
Moment of Lyric – MP3
World History Sources – Guides to analyzing particular types of primary sources as part of world history. Each guide includes an introductory essay, a list of questions to ask when working with a particular type of evidence, interactive quizzes called “You be the Historian!”, an sample analysis of one source, an annotated bibliography, and an annotated list of relevant websites.
Folkvine cute Flash site for Florida Folk art.
Turn sunshine into electricity with the PowerPocket 12V solar charger. Four flexible photovoltaic panels deliver up to 6.5 watts of power to recharge portable electronics like your cell phone, PDA, iPod or digital camera. In bright sunlight, many devices can be charged as quickly as they would plugged into a wall outlet. You can even trickle charge your automobile battery using nothing but sunlight! Includes 12V DC auto power plug, 12V DC power outlet, 18″ battery clamps, 4″ barrel connector and 8″ extension cable.
Seen Yesterday:
1 year ago – Egyptian origins, clown confession, big brown bear, trix returns to simplicity, hugs, fleet week, chitchat w myid8myego, kind entry, country bears movie, human gene in rice, funeral dance, FL gun law self defense, energy crisis, Cheney & Abadullah
2 years ago – Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia, Andy Griffith factoid, CS out, Cute Newt Pic
3 years ago – vanessa/rosie/fernanda/Chloe, seafood fest, gift exchange
4 years ago – Foomy goes poof, nifty human tricks, Quick little story, full moon thoughts, Prof. Eben Norton Horsford.
5 years ago – bricolage, misc news, email tags, lj burp, uck, how to catch a polar bear, prezzies
Strange things afoot at the Bus Station yesterday morning. Unusual man lurking about, patrolling all of the bus bays, hiking at a good clip.
Click here to see him meander past on shaky-animated gif style video. – about 1 meg.
Wow, do I hate to iron, especially first thing in the morning. Makes me a big ol’ grumpy scottosaurus. I think I’m going to ask Fatima how much she’d charge to do a few shirts and pants. I’m just not so great at taking care of those.
Swung by a pawnshop on the way home, just to eyeball what people were selling… picked up 3 dvds for $15. Buckaroo Bonsai (Special Edition), A Monty Python TV series Dvd (contains the Deja vu, silly walks and spanish inqusition episodes), and True Romance.
Crashed right out when I got home. Played a bit with the Newtster, ate a sammich, fell asleep. Not bad, but I’d have liked to do more. Read, play SL, or the like.
Seriously considering getting a short haircut for summer. I need to look up the “donate hair to kids” places.
The visual part of my brain wonders why a yellow sun in a blue sky doesn’t have green around it. The Logical side understands a bit about the atmosphere and diffuson, bu tthe visual side isn’t buying it.
Hot, fresh b’nanner pancakes is a great way to start the day. I need to get some blueberries for next time.
A Florida mall dispute ended Saturday night with the arrest of the Easter Bunny on battery charges.
Some pictures from yesterday bright and early –
newtcam-action
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Newt having an “easter egg” hunt of sorts… chasing an egg-shaped ladybug toy around the house. Soccer-foot!
Actually, I take a little micro-umbrage at that, because the stories have him as resurrected, not just reanimated.
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 –
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)
Continue reading 8302 – Would a zombie icon be inappropriate for Easter?
Dreamt that I was in Disney world chasing a shape-shifting Newton. Hippo, Crocodile, Puma, then Newt, depending on the tone of voice I was using to call to him, and what part of the magic kingdom we were in… mostly Haunted Mansion / Tiki Birds region. He seemed to stick with changing into other animals, but was always recognizable by me, somehow. I finally caught him at Pirates of the Caribbean, on the island with the impaled skeleton. (where the seagull is sitting).
Went with Danny out to Masamune, my first time there. The food was superb. I’d have to say the spicy tofu appetizer was the best I’ve ever had. I’ll be going back pretty frequently, I suspect. I also had a cucumber roll, salad and tempura veggies. It was nice to have about 5 hours with Danny for the first time in an age.. he picked me up at work, did some shopping (I got a new UPS battery at the Depot, and he got a DVD at Barnes & Noble -The Quest for Fire.
Outside was a weird security tower/siege machine looking gizmo.
It seats one inside, has a light flasher on top, wind gauge, speakers on all sides, and can be elevated to about four stories or so. it seats one, and has a nice air conditioning unit on top, a swell as very dark-tinted windows. I wonder what purpose it serves in the parking lot? Some sort event there later?
We got to catch up.. I’m glad things are going quite a bit better for him and Jan, for the most part.
Freaky, sinister seeming Easter tradition in Spain – processions in classic pre-inquisition Christian garb.
Too bad we don’t do this here, but I suppose some folks would confuse ’em for Klansmen.
