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8130 – out with the work kids (and Tracy)

GeotargetNo video card yesterday. Perhaps today is Big Brain’s Day. Perhaps today, the moon will crack in fourths, and the glowing pink gas inside will descend from above to turn us all into delicious edible ferns for when the dinosaurs come back.

Dear Compusa…

If you can’t make your mind up, We’ll never get started.
And I don’t wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don’t, dear, confess.
And please don’t tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.


Out with the gang at Max’s at the Beach place. Pictures of Kaytee, Randy, Tracy and Vicki under the cut. Apparently, I’m the only person in South Florida without a hard E at the end of my Name… even our server’s name was Andy. Tracy’s new haircut was quite fetching, as was Kaytee’s. Liz couldn’t make it due to her flying out to be with her family due to Grandpa’s pancreas issues.

3 blonds and a bearded guy.

8126 – lj shakeup

GeotargetCool Icon of the moment – if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate


Worked Late both Tuesday and Wednesday…I’m hoping that I can but out a bit early today or ideally tomorrow, maybe to give me time to pick up big brain if it’s all better by then.


Well, this might calm down some holier than thou Mozilla preachers out there (don’t get me wrong, I surely prefer firefox over MSIE – but anytime somethinggets a new feature, some clown will find a way to clog the pipes.) Problematic enough that Livejournal is reformatting how page URLs are laid out. Added Kudos to LJ_maint for being about as vague as possible regarding this issue in the meantime. [update – news clarifies things a bit better here. ]


My suspicions about Lost seem to be coming to light –

From Damon Lindelof (one of the creators of the show) – “If you’re watching the show because you’re waiting for the big answers to come, you have to understand that by the nature of what it is — it’s not a movie, it’s not a series of movies, it’s not a trilogy, it’s not a miniseries — it’s going to be on the air for as long as ABC wants to keep it on the air…how can you ever possibly think that Lost will end in a satisfying way? Carlton (the other co creator) and I can almost guarantee you that it will not.

That said, I still dug the Mr. Eko/Charlie/Island Monster Episode enough to follow along. I just won’t plan for it all to come together in any good way when the show ends… I’ll just toss it in the box with X-files, Twin Peaks, and the rest. Like those, when it turns to poop, I’ll stop watching, until someone recommends a particular episode. Heck, I’d already resigned myself to that anyhow.



1 year ago – Lots of family drama, weather, link sponsor, classic C&H, 10 truths – 5 fibs poll, boxer vs rice, monkey king’s tomb

2 years ago – Happy b’day, FB!, MLK, Big Fish with Danny, hair in soy sauce, cotton candy autopsy

3 years ago – music and food for bro, silly sound bites

4 years ago – nice dreams, biochemical weapons and parking meters, I enjoyed Fellowship, poor choice in names

5 years ago – Massive layoffs, cartoon bird gender, misc writing, digging Jenny Lee’s singing

8116 – Work, again? BOB SAGAT!

GeotargetI didn’t do much of anything this weekend. I didn’t put on shoes. I didn’t leave the third floor. I did clean house, laundry, etc.

Watched the heck out of the Kong DVDs… all the special edition stuff… Harryhausen’s test footage and the documentary on “the making of” was pretty dang impressive, and Harryhausen’s commentary was good on the movie disc, too. A lot of it was interpolated, due to the movie being over 70 years old.. just about everyone remotely involved in the project are long deceased. It worked out quite nicely, however, since the material hasn’t changed in that span,either.


Mr. T doing a happy little dance. (don’t sniff the rest of the site unless you’re not at work and have a strong stomach.)

In fact, I’ll just snag the animated gif from the shockwave,and post it here, instead.

mrtdance

Found it searching for –

Remember kids… believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don’t do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs.


1 year ago – Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches

2 years ago – Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc

3 years ago – Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life

4 years ago – cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.

5 years ago – Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links.

6 years ago – Newt was Neutered!

8114 – Sunday Dawns and I’m already awake.

GeotargetThe nudge feature is mostly pointless, I think. You could accomplish the the same thing handily with an e-mail or comment in their journal. I hope that they continue to implement other more groovy features. I do confess that it’s interesting to see when some of the more tardy people have last posted… I’m more likely to just drop someone that hasn’t posted in about three months. (unless they’re a very special circumstance)


I’ve found that I have another superpower: the ability to make RS have to go pee. If we get into a discussion about anything for more than a minute or three, she has to rush off to the potty, do her business and come back when done. This has been documented at least a dozen times, and she’s able to stay at her desk for hours on end.


Last night’s dream involved me being strapped to a table with electrodes bolted to my ankles. When they ran current through them, all of my skin began to peel like a bad sunburn and underneath the fresh skin was a dark, mossy green. Somehow I knew that the treatments were causing a strange growth of all my internal flora… whatever else touched the new skin (like a a scalpel) it burned and was turned quickly to vapor. I don’t recall any smells. They finally figured out that shark’s teeth could touch the new skin without burning up, so they incised and pulled out the rock that was making the bad plant-reaction in my body. I was healed, and buried the rock in the ground of an empty lot, hoping it would help jump start a fresh garden there.

It’s hard to chop down a tree with a saw made of shark’s teeth.


No Dice going out with Dave or Dave last night… Today it’s going to be more solo journeys, methinks.


Moment of Lyric:

Me and your sister
Went by the river
Your sister jump in the water
I jump in after
I’ll never forget,
Everything was set
But I didn’t get
She Tell me yes
She Tell me no
She tell me nonononono.

Just check out this website.


panda fire
This picture makes more sense than most management decisions I’ve seen in my entire working lifetime.

1 year ago – Jambi back after the great LJ crash of ’05, William Schmidt’s art, film feminism, chemical weapons, mag knight w/Danny, DVDA

2 years ago – DVD cereal, Mars, cluck cluck cluck

3 years ago – smokies, palm sync, empenadas, Malawi Vampires

4 years ago – nice walk, moody, gave sappho a lj code, midnight pooper, newt patrols

5 years ago – pictures of me with tarpo at No-nose maldanado’s, company on the rocks, ramble on humanity, temptation island, super-soldiers, link to 100 Scotto-things

8110 – Birthday Prezzie, Batgirls and stuff

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Thank you, dear Shoo! My birthday present got here early, but I was good and didn’t unwrap the gift paper unless she said I could.

And she did. I got the 2-disc Special Edition of King Kong (1933)! Yay!

Much love to all the family Shoo in Shoo-ville! Newt also likes the box quite a lot, too. He’s currently sitting inside, gnawing on a cardboard flap.


Took a lovely late night swim in the pool at about 2am. The water was warmer than the air, which is always nice. I had a brief moment of iguana-fear, which quickly passed after I gave a quick sweep of the area. Very soothing to float on my back, staring at the moon and just thinking and feeling my toes and fingertips wrinkle up a little. Water is still the closest thing to hitting a reduced gravity environment for me… quite peaceful and I could feel a lot of physical tension flow away from my back, legs and shoulders. I was shivering a bit, despite the warm water, and I don’t know what that was…maybe the body unkinking? I may make a habit of nighttime soaks more often.


Hey, look at all the batgirls!

A gazillion of ’em!

Some new designs, some just different styles on the old stuff… pretty nifty lj meme. Some amazingly amateurish, others frighteningly professional.

Take me off the shelf and put me in a plastic bag, because I’m sold!


VS and KTM both submitted resignations this week.. that’s pretty much the entire community relations department. They’ll both be gone before my birthday. I hate to sound greedy, but I really hope this won’t affect my making a long weekend out of Feb 2-5 next month. I wonder how long RR has left before he high-tails it, too?


Ten Top Trivia Tips about Scottobear!

  1. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to Scottobear.
  2. The opposite sides of Scottobear always add up to seven!
  3. White chocolate isn’t technically chocolate, because it doesn’t contain Scottobear!
  4. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with Scottobear.
  5. Medieval knights put the skin of Scottobear on their sword handles to improve the grip!
  6. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill Scottobear.
  7. A bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and Scottobear!
  8. Ideally, Scottobear should be stored on his side at a temperature of 55 degrees.
  9. In the Spanish edition of Cluedo, Scottobear is the victim.
  10. Only one person in two billion will live to be Scottobear.
I am interested in – do tell me about



Moment of Lyric:

My, my the clock in the sky is pounding away
There’s so much to say
A face, a voice, an overdub has no choice
And it cannot rejoice

Wanting to be, to hear and to see
Crying to the sky

But the porpoise is laughing good-bye, good-bye
good-bye, good-bye, good-bye

Clicks, clacks
Riding the backs of giraffes for laughs is alright for a while
The ego sings of castles and kings and things
That go with a life of style

Wanting to feel, to know what is real
Living is a lie

But the porpoise is waiting good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye


1 year ago – Spidey a teacher’s aide, palm doodles, bus pictures, bizarro ipod

2 years ago – Media player classic, Chinese connection, old gaming notes (with diagrams), Florida laws, high school meme, monkeys!, work hubbub

3 years ago – evil quiz, printable gizmos, supergun, enviro-boots

4 years ago – visited hippies, cool clock, warm, groceries, kevin smith quiz, silly linkies, ramble about x-ray-eyes, SOP, etc

5 years ago – fun quotes, romance test, victorian flower symbolism, bill hicks

8107 –

GeotargetIt’s a little flattering when folks use my icons as their own… Newtie Blah-blah is the latest one discovered in use by someone else. (Sadly, I’ve had to ask her to remove it, due to reasons of senitment and copyright.)


Grabbed the latest episode of Lost after getting high marks from a few people I trust… haven’t watched it yet, but have heard that it focuses on Eko, Charlie and the monster.

Also, Doctor Who will be airing on the Sci-fi channel starting in March. Funny how they changed their tune… I guess Battlestar Galactica’s success alone couldn’t float stinkburgers like Mansquito and the bulk of it’s original programming.


Ultraman Taro on Youtube! Bless Youtube for keeping me in giant rubber monsters.


Sam Raimi has announced his next project after Spidey 3…it’s The Wee Free Men. Crivens!!


Retrievr, a new service from Flickr, lets you search for images by drawing what you want the image to look like. I’ve been having too much fun.

Also, FlickrFling takes RSS feeds and dynamically assigns Flickr photos to them

the RSS Feed for my journal is – http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/data/rss change the scottobear to any other livejournalist to get theirs. I am way too fond of this little app, too.


Talked to the home office of CompUsa, and they’re going to fedex the part from Kentucky… Big brain should be ready for me by Tuesday night. Yeah, yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it. The boss also said that they’d toss in some gigs of memory in at cost, and install ’em for nothing.


Going to try to get Hippie Dave to get together with Comic Dave in Fort Lauderdale this weekend.


Another Chilly Weekend coming! Continue reading 8107 –

8106 – Fairly newt-intensive post.

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

8100 – Dang it, is it only Tuesday?

GeotargetIt’s illegal to annoy

A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here’s the relevant language.

“Whoever…utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet… without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person…who receives the communications…shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

Hmm… I wonder how enforceable this is, and how it’ll change the face of the internet? Telephone use? Talk Radio?


The answer to my ESP poll was Wavy Lines. I suspect there may’ve been some circle after image bleed over due to the moon-talk and icon. Very interesting… most people knew that I’d go with wavy lines. Fully 40% of people answering got it right, as well as 33% getting the circle vibe. Spiffy that folks know me that well, give a one in five chance to get it right.

Let’s try it again – I’m looking at an image, and focusing on it… which one is it?

ESPdeck


The problem with LJ:

We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.


Thanks Ilene for the two icons!

Superkitty red and superkitty blue!

Keywords: superkitty – red – via ilenebook – happy kitty

Keywords: superkitty – blue – via ilenebook – mad/sad kitty!


Yahoo acquired Webjay! Is Google and Y! and MS buying everything these days?


meme, a la eryx_uk

Here’s what you are supposed to do: Copy (not forward) this entire meme and paste it onto your journal. Change all of the answers so they apply to you.
Continue reading 8100 – Dang it, is it only Tuesday?

8096- We’re Ants! I Must SLEEP!


8096- Originally uploaded by scottobear.

Geotarget“We’re Ants!” guy is trying to sleep in the back, but is scrunching up his eyes so much and sitting so stiffly that it seems more like he’s avoiding horror than getting any rest. He appears to be wrapping himself pretty tightly.

Woman eating an egg and bacon sandwich, the meat is rubbery, she pulls on it, stretching until it breaks, snapping into her mouth. I get a distinct hyena/carrion vibe.

sent via palmtop

8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz

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