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6749 – It's easy to knuckle-walk while holding a screwdriver.

Apparently I have a “repair aura” this morning.

I “fixed” the fax machine with my presence… I merely walked by, giving it a look and it clicked on, dutifully sending pages to assorted points around the world…perhaps it was afraid of getting some of what the router in the other room got once I was through with it. Don’t make me get all “Office Space / Bolton” on your booty, Mr. Fax.

Elusively skulking from workstation to workstation, the Scotto-yeti wanders into the underbrush of into the server-room, to be sure all is well in his electrical glade and plasti-formed work grotto.

The other nearby fauna are often nearby, and show little to no fear of wandering into our quiet ursine anthropoid’s foraging zone. Amongst them are any number of beasties, ranging from the pleasanty quiet and unassuming V-mouse to the loud, peevish clucking of a Rhode Island hen, scratching at the the gound and generally making a mess. Fortunately the buttergnome and the pebble-kicking wombat are occupied elsewhere lately. I wonder what it’d take to bring a little red monkee into the grotto?

Growf. Gronk-onk. Glad I get out of here early today.

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.

6737 – more misc

Webalizer is a lot sharper than the old stats package I used to nibble on.

It’s sort of a disappointment to me that more people seek out the melon-girl on the gallery page than newtcam, but that’s to be expected of net- pervies. Maybe I should put an evil clickthrough on that picture…or at least one that will get me a nickel each time someone looks at it.


I’m really tempted to pick this laser keyboard up, just for the uber-nerd “Science!” factor. The rechargeable batter lasts 3 to 4 hours which seems fair.


Waxy’s hosting Heat Vision and Jack. well worth the download. Get it while his bandwidth lasts! Well worth the 280ish megs.


Random memories:

When I was a kid, I had a few favorite junk foods that I couldn’t get enough of. My brother and I beat our parents home by about three hours or so, and we were always keen on a little bite to eat right after school. We were fairly well-off, but that might’ve been a result of how frugal my folks were with the grocery bill.

Steak-umms. (usually prepared with american cheese (bleah), and A-1 sauce on a hamburger bun)

Mac & cheese (with peas.) (Our house always got whatever the el cheapo 3 for $1 grocery-store brand was, with the day-glow orange powder of plague.) Always had butter, but more often than not, there was no milk in the house. I acclimated to bad mac & cheese pretty earl in life, which made being broke in college that much more acceptable.


A visitor looks at Rasputin’s penis displayed at the first Russian museum of erotica in St. Petersburg.

6735 pictures and travels and talkies.

The Gmail hype is officially over.. sniffing on ebay returns no bid higher than a buck for a single unnamed address.


A fight I *don’t* want to see. Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush in ’08. for the love of Pete… don’t let it happen.


Went to the Aventura Mall with Danny last night… it was that or the Seminole Casino, and roaming a new mall sounded more interesting. (I’d still like to venture over to the Hard Rock over Seminole way, sometime)

I had a nice late dinner of cucumber salad and sizzling tofu, with a cocktail made from an assortment of rums, and juices of pineapple and mango.

I want to come back sometime soon, if only to take pictures of some of the great courtyard sculptures.. after sundown, I only had my palm, and no flash made it far too dark. There’s one of two kids riding an alligator that really caught my fancy.

a few pictures from the trip

6732 – And you, poor creatures… who conjured you out of the clay?

Thanks, leftyrok for introducing me to Elin! Very Spiffy music.


Wachovia Tower Webcam… about time there was a solid, pannable, zoomable, Miami-cam from that height. 🙂 I’m looking forward to the Four Seasons Cam, too.


The Dead Case – flash game

As a ghost you must uncover the secrets of your past.
Scare children in order to gain power and find a way to escape your purgatory town.

The FAQ provides a walkthrough of sorts, with hints to get you through the game, if needed.


The BBC is broadcasting an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Mort. Pretty good interpretation, so far.


Be warned, lest you end as I, dear journal.Site Meter


1 year ago – GP writes me after however many years, reader influx, bro behaving, insensitive online transgender Columbina gets snotty with D, lovey-newt.

2 years ago – a very well thought-out email about getting a journal code for japaneseblossom, 100 questions, Newt-acrobatics, beanbag sofas, rate kittens.

3 years ago -mephitic, sweetie-yodeling, quiet mood, sponge bob, bad science, sexy factoids

4 years ago – Nothing.. not updating regularly yet.

6725 No Anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger.

Summertime! Happy Solstice, dear journal.


FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONSATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your “inner child” has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.

I *still* do a lot of these, especially the “kaboom” and “Waskilly Wabbit” thing now and then.


Bah, no funds for any adsense clickthroughs lately. My average is down to about $0.15 a day. I suspect that the banners will be removed at the end of this month.Site Meter

It also looks like my doodleboard hasn’t really taken off as a drawing space, either. Well, it’s an easy pseudo palm-doodle program that saves me the effort of uploading to the website, if nothing else.



Rejected Psycho-Scotto Icon.
*too scary* I was thinking of replacing my color-cycle zombie, but nah.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/16296458/3397
Added Newt eskimo-kiss/headbutt
(Because you can’t have enough newt-icons)


CDC information on extreme heat.


A bike that gives free wireless Internet!

Magicbike is a mobile WiFi hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. By turning a common bicycle into a wireless hotspot, Magicbike explores new delivery and use strategies for wireless networks and modern-day urbanites. Wireless bicycles disappear into the urban fabric and bring Internet to yet unserved spaces and communities. Mixing public art with techno-activism.


I’m glad it never gets cold enough in Florida to need Earbags.


Did they make banana pudding pops, or is that just a product of a fevered memory?


Out of the fog, into the smog. until later, dear journal.

6725 No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger.

Summertime! Happy Solstice, dear journal.


FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONSATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your “inner child” has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.

I *still* do a lot of these, especially the “kaboom” and “Waskilly Wabbit” thing now and then.


Bah, no funds for any adsense clickthroughs lately. My average is down to about $0.15 a day. I suspect that the banners will be removed at the end of this month.Site Meter

It also looks like my doodleboard hasn’t really taken off as a drawing space, either. Well, it’s an easy pseudo palm-doodle program that saves me the effort of uploading to the website, if nothing else.



Rejected Psycho-Scotto Icon.
*too scary* I was thinking of replacing my color-cycle zombie, but nah.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/16296458/3397
Added Newt eskimo-kiss/headbutt
(Because you can’t have enough newt-icons)


CDC information on extreme heat.


A bike that gives free wireless Internet!

Magicbike is a mobile WiFi hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. By turning a common bicycle into a wireless hotspot, Magicbike explores new delivery and use strategies for wireless networks and modern-day urbanites. Wireless bicycles disappear into the urban fabric and bring Internet to yet unserved spaces and communities. Mixing public art with techno-activism.


I’m glad it never gets cold enough in Florida to need Earbags.


Did they make banana pudding pops, or is that just a product of a fevered memory?


Out of the fog, into the smog. until later, dear journal.

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-

6667 Make way for ducklings

Dang… big ol’ rainstorm last night! Looks like it’s going to be big and wet the rest of the week.


Lots of piccies this entry. Took a few with my palm, hated them, and went back with my regular one to compare contrast.


I think it’s adorable that ducklings will orbit mama duck… venture foo to explore, but as soon as anything unusual happens, they run like a unit back to mama.

Some ducky-pictures, and a couple of others:

6411 Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, and so on.

Never-ending sto horyyyyyy…aha-haaa aha-haaa aha-haaaaa…

How hard is it to get that dang song out of my head? Even the Love Boat Theme won’t evict it.


Random Entry factoid – This entry is comprised of 3459 Scotto-typed symbols.


Aesop’s Fables – Our online collection of Aesop’s Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.


The Fontifier -Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer.
It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use
in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.


Amazing article about Wal-Mart’s monopoly power


Easy Favicon.ico generator (upload an image, they turn it into an icon)


Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad


Bugmenot, open accounts for popular websites (nytimes.com is the most popular)


One-eyed goat draws stares from amazed locals Continue reading 6411 Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, and so on.

6396 mild geekery

Ok, I set up an address with no-ip.com to check on my dynamic address form me automatically, so my streaming Newtcam will stay up, even if I reboot, and the digits change.

Nice thing about Windows 2000/XP pro… they have the full-strength IIS included. Go to Control Panel, Add/remove programs, Windows components and you’ll see an IIS check box. (XP home won’t let you run ASP, by the way) Maybe I’ll just start hosting images from my hard drive, now? Hard to say, but if I’ll have something online 24/7, why not? While you’re there, highlight IIS and click Details. You can then check SMTP service, and you have CDONTS email!

My Speed touch USB was replaced for a Westell Dual connect.. all seems ok, except that it’s basically a LAN rather than a dial-up connection.. the web cam stream is not happy with the settings, but regular stills seems to be doing ok. They were going to charge me for a replacement modem, but I burned the tech a copy of vice city, and free it is. Hooray for free enterprise!


Artist draws under influence of LSD -You can see the effects of a controlled experiment with someone drawing after being administered LSD-25 from the beginning to the end of his trip.


A picture of my messy office. 72k, 640 x 480