Bonked my head on a branch outside, earlier. A mild bump formed, but nothing terrible.
My machine’s being downright pesky… giving it a healthy defrag and diagnostic… hopefully that’ll fix what’s wrong. Lost the HD for a bit.
it’s still pretty chunky, but it’s still limping along reasonably well…just a stick and stop sort of thing.
Who wants to be the leather guy for halloween! *snort*
if you have a aim name… (or more than one…) you’ve got 20 megs of hosty-data available to you. it’s at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/ [update, a year later – netscape no longer hosts remotely to LJ)
Example from my biglug account
(fixed after netscape opted to not remote host here)
I still think the browser is stinky and behind the times…. but this is a nice offering from aol. I prefer it to the landfill of CD’s they send me.
Even if you had the old version, download the new ad-aware. The update caught 14 new components on my system, even though I just formatted it about a month ago.
Brilliant Digital is a “sleeper” program that “detonates” weeks after being installed. And uninstalling KaZaa doesn’t uninstall Brilliant Digital’s programs. E-vile.
in more fun news –
a cute lead in to the new tron movie “Tron 2.0, the killer App”
plus, the heat’s not so bad. Just “being outside” level.
Yup, the A/C compressor died. Nobody to fix it today, the landlord says he’ll call first thing tomorrow morning and let me know what time he’s coming over. I pressed for what time first thing was, and he said 8:30. I’ll be calling him at 9am sharp if I don’t hear from him, and if he can’t make it any sooner than 11am, I’m going to end up missing work. if he can’t get to it at a reasonable hour tomorrow, I’m going to tell him that I’ll go to Sears, buy another wall unit, and deduct it from rent. In that case, the upside is energy efficiency and that my utility bill will drop.
from msn groups-
Hello Scott,
Thank you for writing to MSN Groups regarding your photos.
We offer our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this have caused you. We
have not yet reproduced the problem and it may take several days for us to
gather additional information.Thank you for your patience while we work to identify and resolve this problem.
Sincerely,
Abram
MSN Groups Customer Support
Not a bad form letter. hopefully it means that someone’s on it.
Off to do laundry… until later, dear journal.
Looks like the internet at work is still down. I wonder how that’s affecting production and what we’re doing to get files transferred.
I wonder if exchange server is dead, too? No email is pretty bad. I think that I’ll trot in my laptop, just in case. Off to the job. Later, dear journal.
I was so tired at work today… it was feeling like someone took a straw, stuck it into my vitality tank, and was siphoning it. I’m all groovy here, though. I think I may’ve gotten up too early this morn (6am). I didn’t have any food until 3pm, either. rethink that strategy tomorrow.
Brought home some cardboard boxes for Newtie to play with… he’s contentedly chomping on his crinkle-bug inside one now. The sounds of a happy cat in a make-shift habitrail. It’s a multi-story tube, with a hole in each one that he can fit through… though when he exits via the top, it gets kicked sideways.
It’s nice, being able to please him that easily… it makes me feel good, knowing that he’s so content and chipper.
Found a three-column template today that’s css, works on Netscape 4.x, and doesn’t use frames. Score! In English, that means I don’t have to deal with multiple pages of the same crappy design for each browser I’m supporting. Good news.
Time now for tofu in peanut sauce with mixed veggies.. over white rice. Home made. That’s right. yum!
Overextended myself on walkies last night… a little sore in my left flank. Had a long soak this morning… a little pre-emptive strike to fend off any potential yucko later.
Newt’s Sphynxing to my left.
Had tasty, soft, warm brownies last night. Yumma. Sliced nanner in oatmeal for breakfast.
Have Tremors on in the background… first TV on in a while. They’re going to show #2, and #3, afterward… I didn’t even know that there *was* a number three in the series. Plus, Fred Ward is one of my favorite dog-faced actors. Cast a Deadly Spell, Remo Williams. What’s not to like?
The first one is perfect for what it is… a classic, 50s style B-horror flick with an unseen monster, made in the 90s. #2 sort of blew it by showing the creatures so much… made them above grounders.
I’m so glad that I have a bathtub now…. a loooong hot soak while reading does wonders for the disposition.
I’ve got the urge to walk on the sidewalk inside the aforementioned Kinney tunnel, to take pictures. I wonder how heavy the exhaust is?
I can feel autumn’s arrival. My hair and nails grow more quickly now. The air is beginning thin; I sense that there may be a little crispness in the coming month or so. I can feel more creativity welling up… I think in the summer I was only at about 1/4 full. I’ve got to stop writing in the notebook, and get back to full-bore production on the laptop or desktop. I think I am going with my revised layout for the home page… I just have to make the .css it’s own file now (rather than embedded), and convert the pages over. Then I can change fonts, colors and shapes for everything all at once. Sticking to CSS1 though. Hopefully it won’t suck too badly on NS.
Behold! Sphincterine, a product promising to make you feel — and, presumably, taste — fresh “down there”. Naturally, you may purchase it on the web at mintyass.com. Everybody’s talking about it! I don’t know who showed the link to me first. It’s not a joke…it’s real.
Tomorrow, either before, or more likely, after work… I must get three birthday presents. Brother… perhaps I’ll give him $$…that’s his preferred gift. Kev, the thing video game, and some blank dvds to burn… Newt? A big cardboard box, full of paperwads and milk rings. 🙂
100 words high school graduates should know. I confess that I didn’t know antebellum, evanescent, and quotidian… but I do now! Of the others, I’m very fond of the words bellicose, chicanery, churlish and ziggurat. 97% is pretty good, I guess. I really *should’ve* known antebellum, though.
Join the collective unconscious, and help to develop an alphabet! Observe… the letter S.
Synchronicities.. my Best Male friends outside of work all have names that begin with ‘D’. Dave, Dan, Derek. The three persons I love most are all Librans. (Sweetheart, Newt, Brother)
I live in apartment #3…this is the third numbered apartment I’ve lived in. The first was #1, the second was #2.
Ack… bounceout for the palm.… I thought palm bejeweled was evil. See also runes and asteria… not to mention the version of newton’s nightmare that I revised for the palm. (no relation to this one) and atum.
Random Scotto factoids – I have *never* lost a sock in the line of laundry duty. When I worked at the bookstore, and vacuumed up in the morning, I could get the entire morning crew to sing with me. Two or three girls (or falsetto boys) would do ewww…. ahhh-awh ah-ahh, while one guy would do the baseline. Usually Adrian, if he was in. “doom-doom doom”
Meanwhile, I would run the vacuum over the carpet, and sing: (the kids would chime in at the Underdog Chorus… italicized.)
There’s no need to fear! Underdog is here!
when criminals in this world appear
and break the laws that they should fear
and frighten all who see or hear
the cry goes up both far and near
for Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!when in this world the headlines read
of those whose hearts are filled with greed
who rob and steal from those who need
to right this wrong with blinding speed
goes Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!
It would make my whole day.
Just installed Debian on Big Brain to go along with Windows 2000…. it runs very cleanly, and will allow for more web-tests. I don’t have a static address to attach scottobear.com to, but I’ll be able to run a little gnu mailman and manage to fool around with the tech side of it when the urge hits me. I’ve had too many irons in the fire lately, and that’s going to change… I’ve got it worked out now, and I won’t feel guilty about not having perfected the thirty-hour day.
since I’m still getting into the swing of things, I’m only using packages considered stable, rather than testing or unstable.
What prompted this? Cleaning up my closet and finding a few of my Machine Man comics. (I suspect that he runs on GNU)
I’m just going to read, snuggle with the kitty, and meditate. Not sleep.
Oh, forgot to mention… last night I was tech support Scotto… three different people chatted with me for the sole purpose of LJ aide… I never hear from them otherwise. Sort of rude, but I assisted them anyhow..and they were thankful for the help.
From rgladiator… a lovely way to urinate on spammers.
wpoison – a nifty little cgi program to kick spammers in the nards. if you don’t know, or can’t use cgi, they welcome you to link to theirs.
I made it inside the house *just* in time to avoid the storm. Yay! It’s coming down pretty nicely now… it was sprinkling earlier, but the ride home was dry. A good test of the bike’s splashguards. There are a zillion tiny frogs jumping around near the alyssum on the east side of my place. I thought that they were bugs at first… literally the size of large ladybugs.
Random Scotto opinion / factoid:
I liked Murphy Brown, before all the politics showed up, then it mostly sucked…. as opposed to the Ellen show, which was mostly stinky throughout the few episodes that I’d seen.
Oh, coolio…This radio-controlled flying-saucer incorporates a programmable LCD on which you can add your own scrolling message, i.e., “I paid $99 for a radio-controlled flying saucer!”
On the way home, past Mickey-D’s… I noticed that they’re selling hot dogs, now? How long has that been going on? I imagine it’d have done well, if they started in July 4. I see that the Cuban food that they tried is no longer there. Bleh…
Public schools officially opened today… wow, does the traffic pick up at that point. Who’d have thought that a yellow bus or nine would make such a difference? Of course, I live within four blocks of an elementary school.
Well, looks like Scotto forgot to hit post! Nigh nigh, dear journal!
next set of heroclix teams, 200 pt game ideas
Watched The Deer Hunter last night, probably for the first time in about 15 years or so. I’d forgotten how long it was, but it all works, no really extraneous scenes… good character evolution. Something different about it is that there’s very little of the 60’s social structure and politics to worry about… the men go off to war because they’re giving back to the country that’s given them the life they have. A very interesting perspective on descendants of Russian immigrants, too. I know that a lot of folks think that the movie is racist versus the Vietnamese, but the perspective is an understandable one.
Does Christopher Walken *always* play a guy that’s insane, or going insane? I think so. He did look very young in the movie… twenty-some odd years have taken a toll on him.
A rough movie, not for the squeamish or easily upset or outraged.
The open source Apache webserver gained another 5.9% market share last month while Microsoft’s IIS webserver lost 6.5% over the same period, as Netcraft’s latest survey on webserver market share shows.
Apache as of this writing runs 63.5% of all websites on the Internet(66.6% of ‘active’ sites) while IIS runs about 25.4% of sites(or 24.6% of ‘active’ sites). I’m glad that open source is doing well *somewhere*.
No rain this morning… I wonder where it went? I hope that there’ll be a return this evening, after I’ve gotten back home.
I’m in the mood to watch some Pete and Pete…maybe Nick’ll bring that and the Milkman shorts back sometime soon?
To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
— Emerson
The days are getting visibly shorter lately…The sun has officially set by 8pm, and it makes reading more difficult.
Work wants me to make them a website. I don’t think I want to make one for them… I’m not sure… I guess I’ll do my best, give them something that looks like the company’s brochure, and hope for the best… it’ll be a change of duty… but somehow, I don’t want to go into doing a lot of web page design for the company…or, if I do, I want to be paid accordingly for more responsibility and a broader spectrum of skills put to use. I doubt that’ll happen. (Especially since my design sense is spartan. I’m much better at programming and keeping interfaces simple, rather than the many bells and whistles that clients might want for a website.) That’s one of those things that has very little definition, and I fear “Too many chefs” syndrome… Building a website for these guys is going to be an exercise in micromanagement and nit-pickery. When I write a program for the company, I know that there’ll be set resolution sizes, no unusual ways of loading the program (like a non-standard browser / Netscape / opera, etc) and no diphthongs asking for “Hey, have something that chases the mouse with the company logo on it!” I must make a point of keeping an open mind… it could be fun. No more negativity, Scotto… deal with it as it comes.
I like the new Tori single. (Big shock there.)
You know blogging has become passé when a soap opera creates blogs “written” by two of its characters.
Watched a little 700 club this morning. He’s got some severe logic issues, as well as a lot of internal hate. I went online to find a transcript of today’s show, to reference …it’s not available yet. When my spiders bring it back, I’ll have more to say. Long story short, the guy’s a racist and has a lot of intolerance. Something about “Judge Not” is ringing in my ears.
Payday. I hope It gets off to a kinder roll soon.