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8600 – And, it’s Monday again.
Favorite line from Employee of the Month – “You’re like the drummer from REO speedwagon! Nobody knows who you are!”
8598 – Saturday. Mostly pictures and video.
Getting together with Danny today. Mid-morning, we’ll get a bite to eat, and then goof off. Maybe play some pirates, or Axis and Allies Minis. I slept hard last night – from 11pm to just about 7am, with little a solid sea of black in between.. I don’t recall tossing, turning or dreaming at all.
Weird Advert-looking version of me for 365 days.
How I envision I’d look on an old newsprint ad for…
oh, I don’t know. Lithium? Monkey Diapers?
I think I prefer the Sleepy-time picture of Newton and me, instead.
8573 – RPS continued
Interesting answers to yesterday’s poll.
There are many different variations of Rock, Paper, Scissors which range from simple changes in the names of the objects to increasing the number of players or objects. While interesting, most rule variations suffer from one problem or another, making them less interesting games.Versions of this game are also observed in many different cultures. It is usually known by direct translations of “Rock, Paper, Scissors”although some cultures have slightly different names or even entirely different elements representing the different objects. For example in Japan there is a variation which uses a tiger, a chief and the chief’smother as the three elements (the tiger beating the chief’s mother, the chief beating the tiger and the chief’s mother beating the chief). In Indonesia another version is played with the elements as an elephant, a man and an ant (the elephant crushing the man, the man crushing the ant and ant humorously defeating the elephant by crawling into the animal’sear and making it go insane).[1] The Chinese, not counting Taiwanese, and Koreans use Cloth along with Rock and Scissors, while the Japanese have adopted Paper. Minor variation is also observed in the standard game play.
iTunes RSS Server is a web server software to read your iTunes Music Library.xml and publish the playlists (including Smart Playlists) as RSS 2.0 Podcast feed. It handles MP3 and AAC files as well as server media files upon byte-range requests.
It allows neat stuff like “listening to your iTunes@home from PSP remotely”.
I wonder how many people would know what an anvil looks like, if there were no warner brothers cartoons?
Cherry, Green Apple and Tangerine flavored candy corn are a crime against humanity. Well, maybe not… but they are just gross to think about.
For bhk – arnold selling yosh.
This is the first 20 minutes of Bill Clinton’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. In this clip, Wallace asks Clinton why he didn’t do more to capture or kill Osama bin Laden while he was in office. Clinton clearly feels like he has been set up and doesn’t hold back in telling Wallace just how he feels.
I’d forgotten what it’s like to see a president hold his own, and give a proper verbal slap down to someone.
1 year ago – museum walkabout pics, lj TorT,
2 years ago – hurricane jeanne, scotto doppler, pookies, miss cleo, Aztec soul
3 years ago – big ear dog, spam fraud, gyromancy, I help cej with programming
4 years ago – mush, work drama, leopard man, pd supers
5 years ago – av, wookie, allergy lj poll, hoboes are hated, cej poopy, philo poll- plato’s my guy, lj meme tracker (currently down)
6 years ago – CEJ, frag speak, jen”s poochie, work lapse
8572 – They’re coming for you, Barbara.
NOAA, DOT, IRS, SAA
So many acronyms full of potential around me these days!
Here’s a hidden program in Windows Xp, it is a very useful graphics tool for designing your own fonts, logos and icons.
To start the program go to Run in the Start Menu then type eudcedit and click OK.
It will then open the program, and you just select a hexadecimal code for your first character from the grid to start then click OK and you are now ready to begin designing. Using the set of drawing tools on the left you can do your own design. When you have finished you can save your character, either in a particular font, or all fonts. via
I just downloaded Night of the Living Dead down to my PSP. you can d/l it or watch it directly on archive.org or google video. It’s one of my all-time fave scary movies.
Happiness is Roddy MacDowell with silly string on most recent Columbo. I honestly don’t know if I prefer him in protagonist or antagonist roles. It did really put the focus on the dangers of smoking and “modern answering machines”, if nothing else. It seems that Columbo went from drinking bourbon on the job in ’68 to passing on booze entirely in ’72. I wonder if the Mrs. turned him around?
1 year ago – bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae
2 years ago – MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski’s – Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme.
3 years ago – IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.
4 years ago – mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren’t loved, sculpey, eraser clay
5 years ago – Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan
6 years ago – The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway Group
8515 – a quickie
Hack or Break Into a Windows Xp Computer Without Changing Password
If I didn’t like tabletop RPG gaming for the social aspect, I think I’d have gone in for use of school supplies, at least at first. I don’t think I’d have stuck around for nearly as long, however.
All kinds of fun can be had with pen lights and long exposures. (the whole site has neat entries)
Yes.com has a nice real-time visualization of what’s being played on the radio around the country (U.S. only.) You can drill down and check out the recently played items of many stations around you as well.
I’m really enjoying Weird Maryland… thanks, bhk! 😀 Even if I don’t get to hunt bigfoot or the anti-santa when I’m up that way, knowledge is power! I wouldn’t mind visiting Poe’s Crypt, if there’s time.
1 year ago – New Orleans Lisas, moonbase mars, flash earth, ed wood directs, devo, blue beetle & lithium, bush 5 years and no “nos”, spidey-enema, SCOAI, word colors
2 years ago – missed oneeyed, bro scams mom, no donkey basketball, t-mobile good gesture, scale model of city, lenny kravitz warning, cemetery strollurge, Bermuda Triangle, Saturn’s 33 moons, flash game tutorial
3 years ago – Newt vs measuring cup, astronaut jones, free router stuff
4 years ago – Saturday mornings, heroclix, band names, toad turmoil, recorder, fun gab
5 years ago – page pondering
6 years ago – bakery-dog, factoids-lieoids
8513 – midweek, or the first day of my workweek
Just about a week before launch.. I really hope that work doesn’t need to call me while I’m out of state. I have to remember to let Fatima know that I need to reschedule her cleaning.
Fined For Using Someone Else’s WiFi
Got a Wu update from Danny – Doug sounds like he’s taking to fatherhood well and is still has a focus on music. It’s hard to believe that his daughter is already 10 months old! Speaking of a gamer’s babies – (not Doug’s)
I wonder what his THAC0 is?
For me to test on a sample machine later. Password bypass
The Secret Life of Walter Kitty – Illos for the coming book.
1 year ago – german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming
2 years ago – Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats
3 years ago – Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi “VD” Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo
4 years ago – day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee
5 years ago – pet/work poll, epenthesis
6 years ago – ebooks, hungry
8410 – Ah, good. Friday, is it? Right.
ECN hooked me up with a side-gig for a website for her boss. That might make for a nice couple of hundred bucks in the next week or two – probably for about 2 or 3 days worth of work over the weekends in my downtime. I can cope with that. I’ve had quite a dry spell in that department since the grove shut down.
Looking forward to doing a little writing this weekend, too. I’m long out of practice, and I’m due to get back on the wagon again. I’ve been fooling with a new mystery-type idea, so I’ll see how well I can work that up into a few thousand words, give or take.
Set up Newtcam on Big Brain…That should eliminate all the random hang-ups lappie-cam was causing. If all goes well, I may experiment with streaming video again soon. As it is, I’m testing out an “autozoom” feature of the newest version of Where’s James webcam… we’ll see how it looks.
Newt investigates the new location of the cam. He should’ve been snoozing with me at that time!
Sleestak Noises, and some really keen Sleestak custom figures. I want one!
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1 year ago – Sleepy, lj tags, couscous w/Danny, high voltage, questions,
2 years ago – audio blog test, bluetooth virus, Sue Dibney Croaks, Dreams of the old gang, Bloomsday, When the zombies take over, how long until the electricity fails?
3 years ago – paranoid dream (may’ve come true by now.), silly RP in There, sleepy newt pic, Abbie the Cat Blog
4 years ago – Navajo Talkers, Barbie collectors, I learn about this apartment, palm doodles
5 years ago – IMT becomes FMM, paying by the word, slaver, funeral-cast.com, photo poll
6 years ago – Taco bell folding & Whitesnake
8405 – Happy B’day, Littler Big Sis! *huggos* to LDY
Monday’s morning meeting DRAGGED. A lot was said, but I fear that little was communicated.
mass transit trip planner for south florida. handy as all get out.
After a nice gab about “something to do with your hands, rather than smoking” resulted in finding these toys.
Stretchy Ape, filled with rubber beads! Water Snake! Ye Olde Popping Martian!
Moment of Lyric –
Waiting at the station,
waiting for the right moves,
waiting in the basement,
waiting for the right cues,
waiting in a daydream,
waiting in the slipstream
waiting…
waiting in the right bars,
waiting in the right shoes,
waiting in a fast car,
waiting in the airports,
waiting for my airmiles,
waiting in slow motion,
coming through the turnstiles.
And if you ever change your mind,
you know I’m hard to find,
and if you ever need someone…
I’ll still be waiting…
Waiting with the orphans, waiting for the bee stings, they tell me that success brings,
waiting in the half light, waiting for your whole life,
waiting for an ideal…a low deal…a no deal, to play your stereotype.
And if you ever find the time,
you know I’m not far behind,
And if you ever need someone…
I’ll still be waiting…
just waiting for a friend.
I say it’s all right,
It’s all right my friend…just waiting.
*Legal* BitTorrent Download for Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2
This is not a crack, this is not a hack, this is not software piracy -it’s unofficial mirroring with official validation. You can get a Windows Vista Beta 2 product key for free through Microsoft, as the OS won’t install without one.
See also, Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista
My Scotto-thermostat is broken… the house temperature reads the same, but my body seems to heat up about 10-11pm, right before bedtime, like the more tired I am, the warmer I get… especially noticeable as core temperature of my torso and the soles of my feet.
Sorry about the lack of content this morning, dear journal… have a man and possum.
1 year ago – Lovies for ldy and sedef, tunnel vision, hukilau, danny, bro, speed racer for geico, cvs ood by the lb, dr who, impact font, pink floyd reuniting
2 years ago – Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime
3 years ago – Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics
4 years ago – Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.
5 years ago – perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation,Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news
6 years ago – April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals 
8403 – EN on call! yay!
Thanks in no small part to the monkey chow diaries, I think I’ve got a good idea on making an effort to eat better, and to help make the world a better place.
My current solution – I’m going to pay matching funds to a foundation for anytime I eat non-grocery items (and I won’t be spending much more – cutting purchase of said items in half – so I’ll be spending abou tthe same amount). Anything from a vending machine or a restaurant, I’ll be earmarking an equal amount of cash for a charity for feeding (or better, teaching to self-feed) someone else who is hungry.
Here is a list of 263 charities that provide food. Though, I might prefer to support organizations that catalyze sustainable changes, like Engineers Without Borders. (The old feed a man a fish versus teach him to fish thing).
If anyone can recommend a good, reputable charity (where money goes to the cause, not executive payroll) that teaches recovery of land / self-sustainable health to people, please let me know.
I’m going to turn my homepage’s yahoo ads and the paypal charity tip jar to focus on that aspect of helping others, at least until the First of July (I may extend it past that point, too, if I don’t come up with another idea that at least as useful) so, if anyone visiting Newtcam or any other page that has a yahoo ad clicks on it, they can help without spending anything.
Other Projects are Hurricane recovery, Race for Life Cancer Research, and Wigs for Kids – Not to mention the following clickable helpers:
A few sites for positive change – None of them cost a penny but can help to do good works.
The hunger site – free food to the hungry
Breast cancer site – Help to fund free mammograms
Child Health site – Help save young lives for free
Rainforest Site – help to preserve our rainforests
Animal rescue site – Feed an animal in need.
It frequently seems that people want what they cannot have. That’s not a problem, until it turns out that the *only* reason they want it is because they can’t have it. Very silly, especially when they don’t want it anymore once they have it.
Well, Duh, I say to myself. Just be glad that isn’t one of my failings… I’ve got enough on my own.
8364 – Cleaning the apt time!
Saw Ray I. out in the parking lot at work yesterday. He seems to be doing well, looks healthy and has been married 4 years now. It seems he’ splaying D&D online regularly.
Is it wrong of me to be in support of Robbie Rotten on Lazytown?
I want to be a lazy scout. (At Least today.)
Moment of Lyric – mp3
I really like the song mostly just for the yeah yeahs and the riffs, but here’ the lyrics, anyhow.
If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we’d really do…
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you’d really do
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta – a small application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it’s ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista.
see also:
Let’s say you change the password very often on your Windows XP admi naccount from your home computer and you suddenly realize you don’t remember the password. What do you do? No, you don’t reinstall WindowsXP and you don’t format your hard-disk. You download Offline NT password & Registry editor,create a bootable floppy or CD, boot from the floppy / CD and start the utility. You can reset the password of any user that has a local account on your system.
This tip works for NT operating system: Windows NT4, 2000, XP and 2003.
Another play Hollywood movie trailer, called 10 Things I Hate About Commandments. — a comedy 3,000 years in the making.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs
Maybe visiting with mental_circles and other nifty folk to celebrate her b’day by having Mexican food and good cheer.
Possibly going to Fairchild today to smell a stinky, but lovely tuber. Not sure if I want to drop $20 to smell rotting meat, but how often does one get to see something like that? This year’s bloom is currently at 7’1″ / 100lbs.
1 year ago – Star Wars With Kev & Bheesham, Apophenia, vega, posting distro, newt and Orangeade pic
2 years ago – friendly gator banished, bro moving, spymac, ephemerist, oddtodd’s gig
3 years ago – monkey-shakespeare, 5-things meme, military waste, ad shield
4 years ago – good walkies, missv goodies (need to reupload pic of newt in his cloth), piggy database
5 years ago – fun tv, lambaste, 9-to-5, Hawaiian love, tv part poll, astley issues, cool orange cats, clutch, gun quote
8331 – silly aim prank bots – “I say, old bean, have you seen my hat?”
I keep getting hit by the aim bot that starts out with “i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?”, usually aim user chewableputty.
An explanation of how the bot works is here.
Check out the google search – it seems to be happening to quite a few people.
The greathatsby bot scans LJ users for AIM screen names then sends two people the same message and relays their replies to each other so each person thinks the other person IMed them out of the blue.
Sort of a new version of the 3-way calling prank. I’ve gotten pings (even when invisible to aim) maybe once a week for the last 6 weeks. a nifty part of the trick is that it auto translates your im name to the bot name when you’re in chat, too. so if you identify yourself as “I’m biglug23” it’ll say to the other side “I’m chewableputty”.
a way around it is to break it up with spaces or some other character – b’i’g’l’u’g’2’3′
other bot names –
chewableputty
thegreathatsby
bananahoedown
studbeefpile66
studleyqbeefpile
dirkfunk3000
dirkfunk5000
funkyplumber238
hatfact0ry
ofhatsandmen
scrubtron
iamscrubtron
scrubtronwashere
scrubtronics
octosausage
goatblaster16
greathatsby64
bananahootenanny
8240 – On justice and on friendship, there is no price, but there are established credit limits.
Walkabout was fun, but uneventful. I wore a ball cap this time, and it’s a good thing… my arms are a lot darker than when I left. I put in just under 10 miles of footwork yesterday, and slept quite well as a result.
Visited another different Thai place nearby for lunch… man, the food was awesome. Bamboo shoot salad served with lime juice, chiles, mint leaves, rice powder and cabbage. Yum woon sen – clear bean thread noodles with browned tofu, chile paste, onions, mushrooms, lemon grass and mint. Tom kah soup – a spicy coconut soy milk concoction with lemon grass, lime leaves and other spices. It was all totally vegan, too! Not one hint of critter in there.
I think that once I confirm my techs are switched over, I’ll do some more walkies as well, and hit that Dali exhibit… maybe take myself out for sushi (or as bhk likes to call it, @). [edit – whoops! the museum is closed on Sunday]
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone
*very* handy little resource… simplifies MS Access or SQL for the average web app nicely.
Speaking of which, I put OpenOffice on my new pc, and had forgotten how keen it is, compared to MS Office. Open Source, all the features, none of the bloat. Win-win. It’s a total MS Office replacement, now that BASE is in there.
“Yeah..even now she sulks like Achilles in his tent. Achilles?…It’s the Iliad?…It’s Homer?… Read a book!”
Had a moment of feeling a bit like Handy there yesterday. People get very touchy when opinions differ…. The other side got pretty wound up to the point of hostility and hyper-defensiveness over something amazingly trivial, (a difference of opinion – I feel that Micheal Crichton is an anti-science hack writer, who ends stories with explosions rather than more satisfactory conclusions — She thought “he is awesome”.) and it really could only be settled by having a detente called. I have to make a point of just walking away at the first sign of pointlessness. I can agree to disagree, especially with someone I don’t have to see every day. I’m glad that nonsense is over now.
The Five Love Languages
My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.
Complete set of results
| Physical Touch: | 9 | |
| Quality Time: | 9 | |
| Words of Affirmation: | 6 | |
| Acts of Service: | 5 | |
| Receiving Gifts: | 1 |
Information
Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.
Moment of Lyric – mp3
There’s a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins
8178 – Broadcasting to the public for the first time since my move
8173 – Friday!!
I have been waiting for songbird since I first heard of iTunes. Super-duper reworking of the idea and allows open source.
May be going out with Vicki and the gang to Opa tonight to celebrate her Birthday (it was yesterday) and her new gig at the riverside. Flaming cheese, table dancers and smashed crockery!
Oh and as a public service announcement, the famous resturant across from Quiet Waters Park, Samurai Sal’s, has closed down. Who would have thought that a sushi/italian restaurant wouldn’t fly? I’m shocked. You’ll all have to go elsewhere for your sushi and pizza cravings.
Newish games journal Re:Retro reveals that “the world’s smallest website,” Guimp, has put up more of its adorable tiny clones of vintage arcade games, now including Pong, Pac Man, Asteroids(my personal fave), and Space Invaders.
Each game is boiled down to an 18-pixel square screen, replete with minimal-pixel graphics and clunky sound effects. It’s a concentrated dose of nostalgia as well as a design experiment gone horribly well.
via JB –
FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!
On February 28, 2006 from 7 AM to 2 PM IHOPs across the country will celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) by offering our guests a free short stack of pancakes*. This is going to be our biggest one day celebration in our history.
National Pancake Day has a rich history that stretches back centuries and has always been a time of celebration. National Pancake Day always falls on Fat Tuesday and this year it will be a celebration at IHOP.
So gather your friends, family and neighbors and come to your local IHOP and enjoy a short stack of pancakes on us. All we ask is that you consider making a donation to a great charity like First Book or other local, worthy cause. Where else would you celebrate national pancake Day than IHOP? See you there.
* Limit one free short stack per guest. Valid for dine-in only, no to go orders. Not valid with any other offer, special, coupon,or discount. Valid at participating restaurants only, while supplies last.
Why I’d never make it as an Asian Cartoon Character. No goatee!
1 year ago – Bro & HI, website income to AmeriCares, I miss CJ (I still do), Danny gets Debate, mirror newt pics, still talking to mel, #3 for kp/rs shenanigans, Newt Love, Danny sick (and he is again this year), sedef & crew adorable, MmmmMMMmonkey, masked grader,
2 years ago – shopping for condos, zombie night club
3 years ago – memes, dreams, Streets of San Fran, computer sculptures, Pith, Good quote of the day, interviewing, hot shower
4 years ago – up early on a Sunday, Finished reading FAFCwGM, nice weather, tulpa plot
5 years ago – kid tv-memories, valentines