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9048 – sun

Well, the Patriots lost, but I really don’t follow football. Too bad about them not having a perfect run, though.

Had tasty taco salads for belated birthday dinner tonight… quite yummy! BHK and I are mending up nicely – spent a goodly chunk of the day resting and watching America’s Cutest Puppy and then Puppy Bowl IV – I did enjoy the Kitty “halftime show”. Apparently, I’m a giant softie. Pye was equally fascinated to watch the real super bowl, (took some photos – to follow), so I don’t feel too bad.

Birthday cake was even better than it looked – dark chocolate with white frosting. Nom.

Presents –

From BHK (in addition to yesterday’s loot, wonderful dinner and cake)

From the in-laws –

all amazingly good stuff.

I was surprised that I didn’t hear from Danny or the Bro this weekend… I imagine that they’re caught up in other things, and will contact me this weekend.

Email-wise, I heard from Ldy, Sedef, Oneeyed and co…. I was hoping to skype, but must’ve been away from the computer / napped – because I missed it.


1 year ago – party recap, loot, letter meme

2 years ago – more compusa customer “service”, walkabout, lj login track, brokeback to the future, coke machines

3 years ago – b’day recap, apple mice, food, Polish reader, referrer spam, Mel mush, endless meme, choco taco/cool dog, zombie spammers,

4 years ago – bday loot, Danny lick pic

5 years ago – os quiz, littler big sis writes me a birfday song, palm-cam pics, suction crab

6 years ago – nice day after, Newt-stalks, S & D = B & C, haiku ,picture links

7 years ago – SPOOT, correspondence old school, vagg, go ask Alice and afraid to askGeotarget

9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

Today was all about rest… rallied strength, watched feasting on asphalt (Alton Brown’s tattoo looks… rather unplanned, to put it as kindly as I might) and an episode or two of monk, had BHK’s  home made pizza bread and pseudo chicken strips atop a yummy, crunchy salad.

Finished off the first Harry Dresden book, and began the second.

talked to danny at 930 am about terry pratchett’s alzheimers. He’s pretty down about it.

slept a lot

tried hello kitty counterstrike. it’s cute. I love “rat levels”, where you’re the size of a classic gi-joe.


Illustrator Cedric Hohnstadt has a good suggestion for artists looking to simulate graphite pencil in Photoshop. Check out his article for a link to some great (free!) pencil brushes. Read the post here


1 year ago – new commode, marine museum on solomon’s pix, fresnel, tinkle pig in the love cube, danny gets a hula girl

2 years ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call

3 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret

4 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles

5 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas

6 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?

7 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel california Geotarget

9031 – fri

Nutshelling.

Mario Party 8.

Swift cleanup – mostly BHK’s doing. She’s a member of the reverse-hurricane school of speed-tidiness.

Watched psych and held my poor, sore jaw.

Straightened the office a bit, mostly clearing my desk, dealing with paperwork and holding my jaw.

Picked up Bugah in the early evening (~7:30ish)

Went to Bert’s diner w/in-laws – Milkshake was soothing and delicious.

Got Bugah back to our place, and played video games until the wee hours. Preferred titles were Guitar Hero 3 and Transformers (brought with him), but we also got some other bits in here and there.


1 year ago – voice post – newton’s first snow

2 years ago – homeless thoughts, bb vid card broken, newt buries my dinner, jimi, auto-dl tv shows,

3 years ago – mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides

4 years ago – popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap’n strong

5 years ago – tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry

6 years ago – Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn

7 years ago – Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal) Geotarget

9030 – thurs

AM- MRI done… got films, but no record on CD/DVD… I’ll have to scan ’em before I bring them to the doc.

midday – Snow! big, fat flakes. Almost to stormy to go to my mouth appointment.. but not quite. He almost shut down, but things eased up enough. We were running a little early, so we got a pizza hut pit stop… more games of hangman, tater tots and stuffed crust pizza… no choking this time, but we were regaled about our server’s critter collection at home. 2 dogs, 4 cats, birds, fish, and more living outdoors. (and a couple of kiddies, too!) She had a few dental horror stories to get me warmed up for my meeting with the drill and bone saw.

PM – work on my mouth… pain was significant, but not nearly as much as the front work. I’m not going to work tomorrow – doc advised against it. I have another late night appointment on the 28th, but that one should be a walk in the park, comparatively.

Got home, and was OK, save for a swollen mouth and the inability to talk. ATW man still in the same post-christmas hunch position.

Watched some more remainders from the phych-a-thon on the tivo from new year’s day. BHK was very helpful and supportive across the board… I’m lucky to have her in my life!

1 year ago – pic @ papermoon cafe with Alice and BHK

2 years ago – thick head, bro has coin, iguana / scream like a girl / game show, florida homeless beating, sand game, now with stick men, i am god toon, walking ghost

3 years ago – mel day, dick tracy’s alien connection, translations, site search

4 years ago – MM in an arranged wedding, global pals, cow brain burger, celebration(FL) sold, cool supermarket photos

5 years ago – bavarian, Ana at gallery, they wait below, Sappho compliments me, cat piccies, scintillate, firefly

6 years ago – Trimaris, school dream, little suck-a-thumb, James Earl Jones gets called James Earl Ray (Whoops!), Immigrant song, band name poll, Sasha and Misha move away, some silly linkies.

7 years ago – Analog never did print it, Bilbo’s Guide to life, textbooks responsible for stupid teens. Geotarget

9028 – tues

Beware the ides of January! Oh, how it snowed today! It went for a brief period, stopped, and then came back, all crazy-like.

I heard that it wasn’t going to stick, but it was pretty white out there for a little bit. If it had done its drop after dark, I’d wager there’d have been less sublimation.


Veggie Meatloaf for dinner tonight… nom nom nom.

I’m glad that BHK doesn’t mind my meat-free ways! Larry opted for a fried chicken tv dinner, but Chris was game. I have enough to bring a goodly does for lunch tomorrow, too – with plenty of mixed veggies and peas on the side.


Detour guide to 1970’s TV detectives. This is a pretty good sampling of tv during my formative years.

Random Scotto factoid – For some reason, as a kid, I got Baretta and Columbo mixed up. I got it worked out pretty early, but there was a time that I thought it was the same show.


We took are time eating and talking… after supper, we’re watching a little psych before bed. Stay warm and sleep tight, dear journal.


VIENNA, Austria – A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday.

An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.

The shelter where Matthew has lived for 25 years is going bankrupt, threatening to leave him homeless. Donors have offered to help support him, but under Austrian law, only a person can receive personal gifts.

The Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories sought to have him declared a person and petitioned to be appointed Matthew’s trustee.

But the high court upheld a September ruling by a judge in the town of Wiener Neustadt rejecting the petition, the group said Tuesday.

The rights group said it would take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Matthew and another chimp at the shelter, Rosi, were captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments. Customs officers intercepted the shipment and turned the chimps over to the shelter.

Organizers said they may set up a foundation to collect donations for Matthew, whose life expectancy in captivity is about 60 years.

But they argue that only personhood will ensure that he isn’t sold outside Austria.


1 year ago – moved into the brown house

2 years ago – nudge (I like it now), my latest superpower, electrocution dream, soloing, caribs, pandas make more sense, stardust probe returns,

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

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

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

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

7 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 Geotarget

9024 – friday

Baby Polar bear homepage! When does he get his armor, and star in a crappy movie? (I set google to auto-translate from german) He was born on Just about 4 weeks ago.

Aww.. I love him. Maybe BHK will let me have one, if we get a duck and a llama.


Variant route to work this morning – left a little late, got off at fort trotten, and took r2 in… got to work by 8:15, well before my preferred deadline of 8:30.

Came home, had subway subs and watched The Ex, and the finaled of Spidey 3. Spidey wasn’t as bad as  I’d heard, the third time around.. the Ex was pretty formula, and didn’t do a lot for me, but it was nice getting together with family and hanging out.


Friday 5 via eryx_uk –

1. Where do you like to walk?

Anywhere! I like people-watching, architecture and nature-watching.. I prefer a reasonably hazard-free surface in a comfy climate. The woods, cityscape and boardwalk are all great.

2. What does your hair look like?

Currently cut short, brown, with bits of red, gray, black and blonde tossed in for good measure. Thinning some on top, more gray being tossed in daily – plentiful enough on arms, legs and etc.

3. What are you jealous of?

I’m not a very jealous person these days.

4. What kind of promises do you make?

The kind I plan on keeping… I rarely promise anything.

5. What makes you stare?

When my mind drifts, I tend to lock onto a location in space and stare at it… I’m prone to gaze deeply at anything that would attract a magpie or a monkey. Shiny stuff, moving trees in the wind, an unusual color amongst the grays.


Sinister TV-b-gone mischief at the CES by gizmodo.

Mean, in some instances (Motorola), but cool to see a whole video wall go off.


1 year ago – newt and pye pics / video, off to marion

2 years ago – hijinks, top 10 questions, hieroglyphic names, system still out for repair, doodling

3 years ago – turtle thought, dinero, illumination, tv torrents, vampire hunting with a stand up bass, metasearch, mucho folks fired for keeping online journals, iraqi abuse cheerleaders, server location, flying_blind introduces me to the term blague which is a perfect alternate to blog.

4 years ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout

5 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies

6 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby

7 years ago – looking to the future, all the words Geotarget

9120 – Monday

Called in sick to work – made a trip to the dentist to deal with that cracked tooth.

Before my root canal, we stopped for stuffed crust pie at pizza hut – bhk and I didn’t figure I’d be in the mood to eat after having my choppers done… fate was not on my side.

Unfortunately, I ordered a quepapa appetizer – one of those little tater tot things got caught in my throat, and seared the back of my esophagus. Our server tried to administer the Heimlich maneuver by grabbing me around my neck… so while I was busy trying to expel the spud that had grafted itself to my windpipe, I got to fight off a caring, yet misguided attempt at stopping me from choking by strangulation.

Hit the dentist, and he had a lot of trouble.. abscess. I got a perscription for penecillin (I didn’t know that they still did that, rather than all the alternates these days…) and filled it a tthe local walgreens. BHK – not one to be outdone by my accident prone-ness, got her finger caught in a shiatzu machine there.. nothing broken, just a nasty pinch.

Bah, says we… she was fine, and we zipped past the ATW man (see below) on the way home.

got home, played a little HL2, and am now watching psych with BHK.


atw man took his tree down, and is just sort of taking in the stars tonight.
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1 year ago – laundry with newt pics, bros grimm, dream away, major spam hits in anony comments due to the word “panty”

2 years ago – RS suspicious, fdle meeting, sleepy, cheap electric, laser pointer in fog, fabiform, windows update, yahoo ads

3 years ago – pics of Danny and I playing pirates at twistyland, sickly mel, hippo and tortoise are pals, how infectious are dead bodies

4 years ago – Goodies, bad phone, long meeting

5 years ago – waiting for doc, HMOs suck, Autopsy, memories

6 years ago – freesco, horked my arm, make smudges, culture bound syndromes, stinky, live in the present, salt sticks

7 years ago – vagg, movies, napster

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9119 – Sunday

Discombobulated and out of sorts today. Maybe I’m coming down with something? All BHK and I (mostly just me) did today was sleep and slug about.

Caught up with Alien in America… still have to polish off a few more tivo shows getting caught up due to writers strike and previously mentioned sluggishness.

Capsule TV reviews:

Alien in America – Good stuff, and got better at the end. I’m really surprised that something that has the potential to be a one-trick pony turned out as pleasant as this. I hope that they can stay on top of it, but still fear it’ll lose steam.

Bionic Woman – Just isn’t ringing my bell. Another case of “Buffy / Firefly” for me, maybe. I just can’t get too enthused about it. Keeping it on the Tivo for when we have a rainy day and I’m willing to give the show another chance. Hasn’t hit my “3 strikes” rule yet.

Chuck – (seen 2 eps including pilot) Failed so far where Alien in America has succeeded. I think it could improve once it gets some momentum.

Reaper (seen 2 eps, including pilot) – I like this more than BHK, but it also suffers from Chuck syndrome so far, but I think it could get better, too.

Journeyman (seen pilot) – so far, so good. I suspect this’ll be then next one to be gobbled up, viewing-wise. Sadly, I think it has been cancelled.

I’m not sure where my energy went. I suspect it’s post holiday fatigue.

Babysat Tigger again… she’s a little love rag… doesn’t seem to miss the in-laws much, as long as she’s fed and petted now and again… not like clingy newt at all.


1 year ago – newt and pye pix, saw night at the museum

2 years ago – 2 week delay on big brain, skipper chuck, cool for Florida, movie meme

3 years ago – Bonded bro, lj 6a, comment spam from south of the border

4 years ago – enjoying 2-monitors, PT working

5 years ago – bad day, the ice cube defense, SOP, sexual predator data

6 years ago – Telefutura, game show network, newt shenanigans, my first recorded post on the Usenet, meemee deleted, wonka

7 years ago – Pix quit, Victorian love, spongebob, angry beavers, sweetalyssm’s art, Chinese zodiac, Cold Mountain (Everyone I’ve talked to about it has loved the book, but hated the ending.), peanut butter and nanner sammiches, mother gooseGeotarget

9114 – New Year’s Day

Something I post at the top of every new year, and I appreciate the words more with every additional trip around the sun.

 

Love is
is not rude,
it is not self seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices in truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.

-1 Corinthians 13:5&6

417 entries in 2007. (618 in ’06, 975 in ’05, 716 in ’04)

Last night, we watched the new Hairspray… not as good as the original… no cockroaches? In attendance for veggie dogs and fries were the in-laws, BHK and a brief cameo of Adam, between his chauffeuring duties.

Today, I fixed up Chris’s laptop, while we all watched the magnificent 7 and she gave it to me after I moved all of her data over to a newer device… I’m writing this entry on a dell latitude d505. Not cutting edge, but lightweight and able to surf with. It needs a memory bump from 256 meg, though.

Now, BHK and I are lounging in the loft, watching back episodes of Chuck, Reaper, Simpsons and Aliens in America.


1 year ago – HNY, newt and pye pics, 618 entries, sucky movies

2 years ago – HNY, modis, counts, PD movies, new day in sofla

3 years ago – Transformer guy, paleoclimatology, Tony Danza Has a TV show, Sri Lanka refuses aid because they are military, element, music, monkey entry links, unpopular baby names, pet names, Scotty’s Stores sinking, B-to-the-E, 1-2-3-go vs 1-2-go-on-3 poll

4 years ago – ninja turtles, FFXI w/Sammy & D, film finding, Newt age progression, missing kid

5 years ago – law of 5s, ageless project, wishes that didn’t come true, edbook’s llamas, sofla ice age, rain, slow day, Danny stubborn, finished Barnum / started agony & ecstasy, Newt pic

6 years ago – TZ marathon, people requesting money for reading their journal, country specific euros, 2nd instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6 and Happy Newt Year!

7 years ago – Resolutions, some dead news links, good links to marbles, bejeweled,alchemy, etc, 1st instance of 1 Corinthians 13:5&6, reflections onold games, Norman bates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a new writing styleGeotarget

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9091 – Monday

It started with a foggy Monday morning. (sakes, that’s even weaker than “It was a dark and stormy night.”) Sleepy start, but a little nap on the train into work gave me a little jump start. Warmer lately… upper 40s, with very little wind.

Work progressed evenly, though there is plenty to do. The holiday cookie competition was launched in the break room – 4 entries this year. A white chocolate / cranberry drop, pecan bar with milk chocolate, an oatmeal-type square, and a rum ball sort of cookie…. I’m torn, because they’re all good stuff. I think that I’ll end up voting for #2 or #3… another sampling tomorrow will help me to decide. 😉

Lunch was leftover ziti and veggies from last night’s din-din… it was yummy – garlic is a wonderful thing.

Heading home was a bit pokey, due to a delay on the green line… a person was hit by a train at Fort Meade, home of the NSA. My imagination makes me wonder if it’s a spy or dark ops guy running away from the men in black. Some mastermind making off with the keyword list from ECHELON, no doubt. We have a couple of those radomes in North Beach/Chesapeake Beach, come to think of it.

Why yes, I did run a little program on the above for wiki-links. That’s sort of distracting… I doubt that I’ll do that as regularly again. I’m a little goggle-eyed just looking at all of the possible snap link-bubbles there.

Got home, and snacked on Cheese crackers while watching Gossip Girl with BHK. I’m not sure when the episode was made, but it sure has a writer’s strike feel to it… Dixie from Brisco County has aged a lot better than Bruce Campbell. Then again, he’s ten years older than her. Speaking of which… I really dug Burn Notice – Fresher to me than House… presses all the right buttons for me.

After a snack, we finally got to see Transformers, despite all the warnings against it. I tend to agree, that it was really cornball and kind of dumb, but it had a couple of fun bits. I wouldn’t have walked out of the theater, but I might have complained about paying $10 to see it. Good for a no-brainer netflix night. Not worth seeing more than once. Speaking of flicks, I’m looking forward to seeing Machine Girl (note, blood-spray violence in the trailer – flying guillotine, drill bra, machine gun arm, and tempura / sushi trauma.)

BHK brought home two more game rentals… tried out one, Geometry Wars. Fun, but tough… very retro feel due to the vector graphics and asteroids / omega race vibe. Not a lot to it, but the controls are pretty nifty, and multi-player has some real bite to it.

Overall, we had a relaxing night – still no lights on the tree, but that’s where we were last year, too. Tomorrow, I think that there’s a strong possibility of putting a few more items up… our little outdoor teak tree has some all-weather lights on, and it looks terribly cute. Photos are going to have to follow soon.

As it is, I’m up too late! A quick link, and I’m off to bedski.


via flying_blind – (also responsible for pointing me to this keen transit site back a bit ago)

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. It’s goatloads of old Edison cylinder recordings, some downloadable, plus a selection of them can be streamed while your browse. And yes, they have “Yes We Have No Bananas”, as recorded in 1923 by the Green Bros. Novelty Band. What more could one ask of any website?”


1 year ago – Tony vs Paul (still pretty dang awesome), newtcam, Annapolis cam, Xmas tree up, but undecorated.

2 years ago – complex life, sex roles, Narnia, big brain repair issues

3 years ago – Newt stretch, Mels’ place, grumpy workers, lost good, many random Scotto factoids, best chitty-chitty bang bang line

4 years ago – movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI not nice, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.

5 years ago – Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in Bigfoot, prezzies

6 years ago – autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES

7 years ago – nifty links, Fidel Castro’s John Lennon statue, and life’s perfectly swell, KMFDM Geotarget

9086 – Snow!

It’s a-snowin’ today! Not sure why images are currently unavailable, but clickthroughs should work fine.

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It started about 6am, and continued throughout the day.

View from the office, about midday
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View at the ground view of the circle, around dusk.

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Pretty nifty stuff… flickr now has a halfway decent photo editor built in! The freebies are all I really want, so it’s golden. (I suspect that I’ll use color fixing and cropping the most.)


Writer’s Strike has finally hit us in the recorder… looks like all of our shows are in repeats already. I guess Netflix will start earning its keep for a while!

I’ll be missing House and The Office the most – I suspect BHK is feeling it most from Ugly Betty.


BHK picked up Big Brain Academy and Elebits from the rental place… I really dig BBA… Elebits, not so much. I’m glad that we get a chance to “try before you buy” on the Wii, as Elebits might’ve gotten snapped up due to the very cutesy aspect of the game.

I suspect that BBA will be purchased sometime soon… I like the little brain-stretching minigames.

So far my strengths and weaknesses are:

  • Identify (Visual-themed questions) – ok
  • Memorize (Memory-themed questions) – worst
  • Analyze (Reason-based questions) – ok
  • Compute (Math-themed questions) – ok
  • Visualize (Logic-themed questions) best

Which seems to follow with my other games of a similar ilk for the psp.


1 year ago – weezies grapefruit, newt window-licker pix, Bush & family unplanning
pictures taken – sleepy people and christmas lights, newt licks.

2 years ago – santa meme, nibbly, cathy strip funny for once, crazy, agnostic human – religious characters, newt hunter, crabby jacks cheap beer

3 years ago – Mel tells me she’s a born-again after we get a bit serious (Funny how that turned out, considering), chicken-neck newt piccie, no gloves for taco bell, dead bodies tell stories, 9/11 missile rumor passed around again, South Florida maps and stats, K-mart (I still haven’t been in one), who named that disease?, workin’ the mojo, Liver Eatin’ Johnson

4 years ago – spinach, d20. new landlord, nail clippings, cannibals

5 years ago – more finny-drama, yurt, mini-painting, mouse genome, snacks

6 years ago – Turbid, McNoggin Memories, levitated .net, and the pond poem.

7 years ago – HB vs McNoggin, lovey reasons, supergun, holiday confessionGeotarget

9080 – Sunday

Spent the day pretty much on my back or in a chair, semi-stupefied by painkillers. I seem to do better when I’m moving around a little bit… after 8 hours in bed, getting up first thing in the morning can be quite difficult, at best. After making my way to the shower, I loosened up considerably.

Watched some TV and played some Wii… that’s about all. We started to watch The Number 23, but we sacked it 35 minutes in. No point in wasting any more time… the thing just couldn’t take off for us. That’s pretty sad – I’ve always liked the 23 enigma. The narrative and the acting didn’t go with my aching back and sleepy head.

BHK kept an eye on me for most of the day, but went off with her folks to decorate the blue house, for the holidays – they got rained out before making it back to our HQ. Looks like our lights may be going up next weekend.

There’s a real chance of snow next week! I hope it’s the good kind… no trouble with traffic, just pretty.

My eyes have been forming tears quite a bit lately. I wonder if there’s something in the air, or if it’s just an unconscious reaction to the pain?

Minor grinchiness… Please stop trotting out Easter stuff during the Christmas Season. I don’t need to see the symbol of Crucifixion next to a little baby in a manger. How about celebrating one miracle at a time, eh? Come back with that crown of thorns stuff in March or April. Maybe that’s just my quirk… I know that I don’t mind the secular stuff, like Santa in the Manger. Santa on the cross is pretty dang tacky.


1 year ago – Xmas parade
pictures taken – many pictures from the Christmas parade 2 3 4 5 see also bhk’s batch

2 years ago – dave and cathi, birthdays, quizzes

3 years ago – hartz bad for animals, dealing with stalkers, 85, scotto-factoid, dreams, communication, VS asks me about diamonds and shocks me with a response

4 years ago – Old palm doodles, Roy Disney quits, Haley born, Dead Bugs

5 years ago – annie cat, clash of the titans, palm doodles, ebooks

6 years ago – Yuanwu, submitting stories, laundry, Spartacus, cuban tree frog

7 years agoScotto’s, bleh, bleh recovery, Dune quote, body-mod poll Geotarget

9059 – mon

Several women on the metro look like ninja / secret agents today. Black turtleneck sweaters and slacks, longish hair pulled back into a bun, small briefcase or carry-bag, and occasionally even a pair of Clark Kent style Spex.

How many La Femme Niktas / Diana Prince / Spy Girls are out there in “secret agent garb”?


Even though I don’t eat it, I am still composed mostly of meat. Apparently Gordon Ramsay feels that vegetarians have no palate. I’d like to see some documentation on that. I’d think that most have a very sensitive palate, save for other flavor blockers like booze and smoking.


Dinner out tonight with in-laws, east cafe. They’re pretty good… sauces are a bit sweeter, but I think that I like the way the tofu is prepared more than Panda’s. After, Larry came by and fixed the commodes – no longer running past the flow line. We got a Call from Jimmy – Amanda bought him a PS3 – he’ll be coming over sometime this weekend to play the simpsons game with us, and to see the Wii. I can’t believe he hasn’t been over since august!


We’re hitting the sack early, so a brief one today, dear journal!


1 year ago – grab a bagel and go!, swap shop, flushed away

2 years ago – poorhouse w/liz, monkey beer, gg mood theme,newt pics

3 years ago – bro issues, newtie love, lost, getting it,link sponsor

4 years ago – TG poll, paid links began, GP recovers, Twistyland

5 years ago – better living through chemistry, Jude Law a bad papa, French comics, wolfsonian

6 years ago – Evil news, EL Dildo Bandito!, went out with Dave & Cathi

7 years ago – Rush, Bee-manGeotarget Geotarget

9052 – thurs

I’ve been thinking about the polar bear swim on new year’s day already… I suspect strongly that I’ll do it again. I really need to schedule some workout time… I’ve been just flopping onto couch when I get home… stretching and strength-building is a real must. Perhaps a specific time to do so would work for the best…. 8pm, probably. After supper, but well before bedski. Not tonight though – took Chris out with us to Mexico for supper. Churro-yum!


Temperature this morning was right at freezing… the dew on the grass was frozen, and gave a very satisfying crunch when trod upon. I like the look of flora with a white icy highlight.


Aqua-Dots Recall in Australia and North America. That’s not good.. we just got those for Em a month ago!


Contrails in the sky this morning were so plentiful, I feared it was a missile attack for a split second. There must’ve been two or three dozen crisscrossed white streaks in the sky.. it seemed unreal.


The TV grid — which shows will have episodes until when, because of the writers’ strike.

The networks had estimated that a backlog of finished scripts and completed episodes would keep many series on the air until early 2008. But with numerous show runners refusing to supervise non writing services on their programs — duties that include overseeing casting, editing and directing — production has stopped on several leading series and new episodes of a number of shows will vanish around Thanksgiving. See Also


talky guy on bus – singer lady on the same bus… too noisy.


Anagrams for Scottobear include:

Reboot Cats
Rotates Cob
Boot Caster
Boat Escort
Sat October
Best or Taco

Worst? A Tie between -“Eats Cob Rot” or “To Be Scrota”. (I think the latter is the absolute worst)

My favorite Anagram for BHK’s name (her first and married last) “Lovable Snoring” while Blackhellkat is “Backtalk Hell”


Comment editing in LJ... that’s probably one of the more useful items to roll down the pike in a long time.


1 year ago – joe vs the volcano, doodles

2 years ago – doodle, not much to say, instant karma, sonic weapon vs pirates

3 years ago – man hit loses shoe, love stapler, quantum leap movie, golden age, et joke, comm blackout, super face distortion, funerals online

4 years ago – ocalfeeds, Fending off Mooch, fixit, skinny cow, cell phone rules,enlightenment doodle, Dan brews the weasel for the sci-fi club, Floridaicon, back picture, mascot / transit poll, volusia

5 years ago – ghost hunts, yo-yo crab smack, fun links, paypal card, finished bellydancer

6 years ago – Dave Hlubek tattoos, bats, poll about evil, they fight crime!, lj_nifty

7 years ago – someone duplicates all 1029 of my interests, Suess, Toora-loora-loora Geotarget

9050 – Wednesday

I discovered Public domain torrents. Good place to go if you want legal stuff to snag from the internet. See Also Emol.


Hm, this is interesting to me. A fairly elaborate flickr stats pageView my DNA at bighugelabs.com


Quiche and Soup for supper tonight… tasty tasty tasty. Samantha Who was weaker tonight than usual, but is a neat concept.

The latest episode of The Office is probably one of the best ones this season. I want to be in a “Finer Things” club with BHK, but I fear I would suffer the same pitfalls.


I have Flight of the Conchords’ “It’s Business Time” in my head, sung with the Lyrics of “It’s Christmas Time” – At least it’s not what poor BHK has stuck in hers… “Crabs for Christmas

Her Lyric in question –

Santa said, Put that man down this instant!
Now, my boy, want you want’s not that odd.
But there’s no crabs till May,
So hop in my sleigh,
And we’ll fly to New England and I’ll get you scrod.
No, not scrod!!!!!!!

NO, NAWWWWT SCRAWWWWWD!!!!

I guess you had to be there, dear journal.


Q&A doing the rounds –

1. What would hurt more: seeing your best friend make out with your ex, or finding out that your ex never liked you? Seeing as I’m married to my best friend, the former would be pretty traumatic.

2. What was your last alcoholic drink? Hard Cider on Halloween!

3. Where do you live? Southern Maryland

4. Where do you go to school? I work right near DC

5. How many friends do you have? A goodly sized crew. Were I to load them on a longship, we could row across the sea.

6. Did you speak to your mother today? no, but I got an email.

7. What color reminds you of your school? Blue – usually reminds me of FAU

8. Star wars or star trek? Trek

9. At this very moment what should you be doing? Heading to bed.

10. Who has your heart? BHK

11. How many months until your birthday? A little under 3 months… Feb 2 is coming quick!

So, items 20-30 were lost in a fire, or something? Why even number these things?

31. Where is your sister right now? No sisters, but Bro is in a correctional facility for the next 3 weeks.

32. Last place you kissed someone? I was on the side porch, kissing bhk on the lips.

33. Last person who called you? Insurance broker to clear up some hospital issues.

The fire has spread to dissolve two more!

36. What are you listening to? A little ELO – Time

37. What color is your hair? Sandy with more and more silver every day.

38. What color are your eyes? Blue

39. What is the last movie you watched? American Haunting (not haunting at hill house) on TV.. sort of weak.

40. Are you mentally disabled? All of those other questions gone, and this one they keep? No.

41. Who is bothering you right now? Nobody at the moment.

42. What makes you happy? BHK, Newton and Pye.

43. When’s the last time you told someone you loved them? Tonight, BHK.

44. What bothers you? Carelessness. Willful Ignorance. Pain without purpose.

46. When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings? Letter from bro a few days ago.

47. Where’s your favorite place in the world? Snuggled up with BHK, Pye and Newt.

48. Are you happy? Yup!

49. Do you miss someone? Sure do.

50. Have you ever liked a cheerleader/football player? Crushed on a cheerleader or two in high school… Nothing serious / Nobody Professionally


Eat more chocolate and help the environment.

LONDON (Reuters) – Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a new process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel — meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.

A truck, fuelled by the biofuel, will set out from Poole on the English south coast to Mali in West Africa later this month on a charity mission.

“The chocolate waste used to be used in landfill. But now we can make it travel as biofuel,” said organiser Andy Pag who will be one of the two drivers on the trip.

North western English firm Ecotec has taken waste from the chocolate manufacturing process, turned it into bio-ethanol and mixed it with vegetable oil to produce biodiesel.

Some biofuels have come under fire for either diverting much-needed food crops or leading to massive deforestation as land is cleared to grow crops specially for biofuel production.

“This is to show that you can have environmentally-friendly biofuels and that you don’t have to convert normal diesel engines to use it,” Pag told Reuters.

The BioTruck will depart on November 26 and is expected to take about three weeks to drive the 4,500 miles to Timbuktu where it will off-load a small biofuel production unit with the local MFC charity.

But vehicles using the novel product will not exude the sweet smell of success. “No! I’m afraid the exhaust doesn’t smell of chocolate,” said Pag.

 

 


I have a feeling that I could get BHK to play Warhammer if these were her troops.
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Whee!



1 year ago
– day shift, vote, yummy dinner, reg mail, pix, hugin vs autostitch

2 years ago – thc is sandman, caramel corn, web switch, mooch protection, UF bugs, pinkerton on TG, robot poll, sensualism, jetpack doodle, monster island

3 years ago – renfaire, newt butt pic, incredibles great, 46 freeware, super dictionary, end of a world notes

4 years ago – Enty, Gum, Staples out!, Big Newt Face, palm doodle, haiku, book fair, stick a finger in your ear for cell phone

5 years ago – Haunted ft. Lauderdale, Suzy at LOA, Doggies at IMT

6 years ago – Evil News, SS-cam, Sparticus, Poem Poll, Pay-surf poll, Read this

7 years ago – Lorax, I voted, factoids (that may be false!) Geotarget