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8345 – My brain feels the size and disposition of 5th century Mongolia.

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Sleep brings colors to my mind that mean nothing to the human eye.

Minor confession – When I log into multi-player shooters, If I wish to be the antagonist of the other players, I have an ID known as “Chapeau Noir”, and I type messages in a pseudo-French accent.

“AW-haw haw! Zee worm has turn-ed, has it not, monsieur?” Otherwise, If I’m playing but not looking to antagonize anti-frenchies, I’m just plain ol’ Scotto or Scottobear.

Woke up from sleep, and had a weird feeling that I was isolated…and that there was a hurricane coming. I was feeling a bit more panic that I do when a Hurricane is *really* coming. It passed a short time after I started the shower… very little trepidation now, though if I didn’t have the doc’s appointment later in the day, I probably would’ve called in sick to work. Since the office is right up the street, I’ll see how I do this morning. Still having some hot flashes, but no stuffy nose/cough or whatnot sort of symptoms.

I wonder if it’s a side effect of reading – Sketches of a catastrophe – Miami Herald’s Hurricane info.

  • Your best bet: Plan for the worst
  • When will we see the next Andrew? Data can confuse
  • Electricity and other utilities
  • Storm surge
  • Wind damage
  • Inland flooding

    • My biggest concern is a lack of clean water and electricity for *months* should a bad one hit. I can stock up on food, and I feel that my building is pretty sturdy.

    Battle of the Beasts seems quite poignant, but maybe that’s the fever talking. (hosted by sa – may be some not-so-friendly to work links)

    1 year ago – Mother’s Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics – graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler’s ghost

    2 years ago – Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic

    3 years ago – PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)

    4 years ago – Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI

    5 years ago – weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd pollGeotarget

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    8311 – four-twenty, duuuuude!

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    Met with the momster after work yesterday, and reviewed some options regarding the grandmomster. Her brother has power of attorney, but it looks like he’s cleaning her out while grandmuh-mah slowly fades from reality on double doses of sedatives and Alzheimer’s’s. minimal highlights for future ref: mom 25%, di 25%, doug 50%, after sig’s college is paid. Speaking of little sig, bigger sig’s bought a building in Colorado and will be doing some more real estate shortly. There are a lot of sibling infighting on mom’s side of the family. Dad’s side just dies early from accidents.

    Getting hotter out.. and the dragonflies (and damselflies) are *everywhere*. I remember when I was very young, I thought that they were poisonous and that they stung like scorpions. A few varieties out there, but mostly the brown ones with the striped wings, and the blue-bottle-glass looking damsels.

    insomnia makes a few good points about lj’s new ad-level membership.

    that and the following promise made in ’04 —

    Stay advertisement free

    It may be because it’s one of our biggest pet peeves, or it may be because they don’t
    garner a lot of money, but nonetheless, we promise to never offer advertising space in our
    service or on our pages.

    A bunch of great sesame street clips, including Robert DeNiro imagines he’s Elmo! Also vaguely disturbing – Grover’s Health Minute – Teeth

    Had a nice time playing “greedy greedy”, a dice game with the gang in SL. Sort of a hybrid of yahtzee and cosmic wimpout.

    Political Philosophy quiz

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    8291 – And… it’s a Friday.

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    Devo – Live on “Fridays” Girl U Want & Gates of Steel

    Hey, so it’s Friday! It’s been a long week, even with Tuesday off. I’m looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.

    Made myself a new icon, testing lj’s auto resize images. looks ok. I’ll wear it for a bit.

    Lost was the best one in a while last Wednesday. Some decent acting, and set pieces.

    Designed a mega-trampoline for 2nd Life, and it seemed to go over well with the 3 Sirens crowd. Launch and sound works well, but you still land with a heck of a thump. version 2.5 will be a bit more gentle. Timmy Turtle’s pursuit mode is more realistic, too. (if you outrun him, and another person is closer, he’ll home in on them.)

    Viruses “trained” to build tiny batteries

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    8182 – Gimme a noun, I’ll bend it.

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    Happy V-Day!

    Tell someone you love how you feel today!

    Do it again tomorrow. Make it a habit.

    I haven’t held a sand dollar for nearly three years. When I was a kid living on Marathon key, we used to pick up sun-bleached ones by the bucketful. I remember painting them and giving them as valentines to some of the folks in the area where we lived… at the time, I had no idea that it was the dessicated skeleton of a five-jawed sea creature related to the sea urchin. That makes me think that they’re even more cool now. I never thought about it, but they’d make a pretty neat sort of decorative scale mail if sewn together.

    I’ve been using BANG! as my interjection (mp3) of choice lately, thanks in part to GP’s meddling and Kat’s haircut commentary.

    Miami Cloud Art 2.10.2006

    temperatures have begun to stabilize and any further falls between now and 800 am will be small. most of the immediate coastal locations will remain in the lower 40s with the suburbs generally
    in the upper 30s. – I pity the northern states, if it’s this cold here.

    Bro told me his house was robbed, then the story changed to some guy taking all the money for some job he ran, then changed to is girlfriend taking it. Whatever. Upside, he *does* sound a lot sharper.. I’m likely to believe him when he say’s he’s not using.

    I got my b’day prezzie from phillykat- cartoon factoids! it’s even nifitier than I’d suspected, and more from sedef and oneeyed – g0dland & 7 soldiers

    The most groovy comic-booky birthday ever this year! Thank you!

    Moment of Lyric – mp3 – via

    If you go away, on this summer day
    Then you might as well take the sun away
    All the birds that flew in the summer sky
    When our love was new and our hearts were high
    When the day was young and the night was long
    And the moon stood still for the night birds’ song
    If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

    But if you stay, I’ll make you a day
    Like no day has been or will be again
    We’ll sail the sun, we’ll ride on the rain
    We’ll talk to the trees and worship the wind
    Then if you go, I’ll understand
    Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand
    If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

    If you go away, as I know you will
    You must tell the world to stop turning ’til
    You return again, if you ever do
    For what good is love without loving you
    Can I tell you now as you turn to go
    I’ll be dying slowly till the next hello
    If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

    But if you stay I’ll make you a night
    Like no night has been or will be again
    I’ll sail on your smile, I’ll ride on your touch
    I’ll talk to your eyes that I love so much
    But if you go I won’t cry
    Though the good is gone from the word goodbye
    If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

    If you go away as I know you must
    There’ll be nothing left in the world to trust
    Just an empty room full of empty space
    Like the empty look I see on your face
    I’d have been the shadow of your dog
    If I thought you might have kept me by your side
    If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

    1 year ago – dream, wartuning, slacker, torrent tv, gm-ginger kitties, questions meme, christo, newt stalking pic, zefrank’s st. val history, whims-cute card, work peeve

    2 years ago – V-day, hippie visit results, Nefertiti documentary mostly drama – not much document, cheese doodle sculpture, anonymous reviewer bug amazon

    3 years ago – got the nordis gig, palm pics

    4 years ago – rerun V-day poetry, JB figures out about SA & Me, wandering pics

    5 years ago – How Do I Love Thee?, I resemble Dan Conner, Men cause the mutations, tea room & old TV, TMBG lyricGeotarget

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    8181 – Looks like it’ll get chilly tomorrow, too!

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    It surprises me that I’ve never heard play on words regarding elocution / electrocution regarding Prez GWB.

    Swollen uvula this morning… I suspect I’m going to have to use the CPAP again. I was really hoping that I moved past the need to use it.

    And now, the negative side of that adjective meme.

    The Nohari Window is a challenging inversion of the Johari Window, using antonyms of the original words. By describing your failings from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of perceived and unrecognized weaknesses can be explored.

    There’s a lot of opportunity for hurt feeling here, I suspect.

    Missed the much preferred, original, positive one? For my positive one – Click here.

    Current Music is compliments of Planet Xtabay and saved in a file called Bongomania 2 zip file, good until about March 12, 2006
    I found it searching for Xavier Cugat – Cuba Libre – Also has Peter Gunn played on bongos by the legendary Jack Costanzo. I think Call of the Jungle – Preston Epps is the best track on the album.

    Cute girl and her son are moving to another condo… I finally got to see what she looks like when not doing laundry. She’s plenty pretty already in just sweats, a t-shirt and hair in a ponytail, sans makeup. It’s very odd to see her withher hair done, in an outfit for going outon the town… still nice looking but it’s a different vibe. I may be lazy, but I think Ilike the sweats and t-shirt cutie more than the “little black dress” hottie look. Either way, she’s out of this building by mid march, moving to a place nearby, so I won’t be chit-chatting with her at the laundry area while one of us waits for the other to unload and fold.

    I haven’t seen a hint or a whisper of girl scout cookies yet this year. Where have all the thin mints gone?

    T-shirt followup – Benefit of being the jolly green giant – a girlfriend can wear one of my shirts as a long nightgown. (or a 1980’s dress, if they have a wide belt.)

    Just for laughs, I tried merging the two pictures I used in yesterday’s entry with autostitch. It did a pretty great job without any fiddling at all.

    Yarn man vs cowboy gorilla

    I can’t see where anything had to be fudged, even though the images were of two different scales. Golly! That Crazy Gizmo really works!

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    8165 – Monday, here again. 5 day week ahead.

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    Kind of funny, Hav chit-chatted with Kev about the FP, and mentioned Die Hard to him before I even had a chance to do so. Hopefully we can get together more often, now that I’m a bit more north.

    Woo. Chilly out this morning! 40s Fahrenheit. No wonder Newt was under the covers with me!

    Best Buy wall numbers explained.

    Totally Absurd Inventions – Featuring Real, USA Patented Inventions – Updated Weekly

    I rather dig the flying turtle safety suit.

    Today, I get to explain to everyone again that I didn’t watch the Super Bowl.

    Moment of Lyric: mp3

    I’m not content to be with you in the daytime
    Girl I want to be with you all of the time
    The only time I feel alright is by your side
    Girl I want to be with you all of the time
    All day and all of the night
    All day and all of the night
    All day and all of the night

    …

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    8164 – Last day of the long weekend, taking it slow.

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    The birthday FP with Kev and Tomi was fun – we watched Die Hard, an episode of Lost (they’re just getting into it – it was the Kate bank-robber one), Wedding Crashers (which was better than I thought it’d be), and played some xbox: “From Russia With Love” and “Lego Star Wars” – both of which were a great load of fun, and nifty interpretations of the source material. The Bond game had especially good sound and sets, and Lego probably would have the most repeat gameplay, if I had any talent at all for the pod racing pat of the game. The pizza was good, I’d not had the Papa Johns Square pie before, and it was pretty yummo.

    Got Gun as a b’day prezzie, and I look forward to playing it once big brain returns.

    Bailey-pooch won “cutest in menagerie” – Kev’s got a lot of critters staying at his house right now – three dogs, four cats, two fish, his sister, her husband, their three daughters and one son, plus Tomi. Moneypenny, the runt mainecoon (2 years old and all of seven lbs) was a close second.

    bailey-pooch
    Bailey with the airplane ears. They naturally stick out like that at rest,
    but can go to full attention if need be. She’s a little snuggle bug.

    It’ll probably be the last time for Tomi in the USA, probably – his sis and her hubby are moving to New Zealand. Just an excuse for me to go to Finland then!I now have buddies in Iceland, Norway and Finland to visit now. Maybe I should invest in a few items of cold-weather gear.

    Train ride pictures

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    8107 –

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    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.

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    8093 – bike-about and the Hoff quiz

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    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

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    7942 –

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    GeotargetHm… Lj hasn’t been sending me replies since they moved the server. The Lj-mooks are blaming yahoo and gmail, but I suspect the issue is on the lj-side like it was the last couple of times over the years.

    Weather is supposed to drop down to the 50s tonight.Ol’ Newtie boy will likely duck under the covers and play at looking like a nun in a wimple rather than a poofed-out chilly-cat. Lucky for him that I’m a human space-heater. Waves of warm-scottoness keep him toasty, but he may complain a bit when I get out of bed before he is ready.

    Got Liz trained in how to do sex pred alerts, but I’ll be surprised if I see her last into 2006 at the org. Weird vibe at work yesterday, and folks were a bit skittish. VS wasn’t looking that happy, despite the fact that she had the most successful fund raiser for the org *ever* on Friday night.

    I dreamt that both of my feet were broken and that they had to be amputated. Let’s not be prophetic on this one, ok? I really don’t want any useful or fun pieces of me cut off, if it can be helped.

    7942 livejournal entries. Yeesh.
    I won’t bother doing comments:Posted: 46,708 – Received: 43,779

    Just repeat the above image 6ish times for each.

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    7939 – Sunday, Sunday…

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    GeotargetWell, moving yesterday just didn’t work out. U haul broke down, late meeting, and Dan wasn’t feeling well. We rescheduled for Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving.

    Today I’m going with Dan, his wife and his parents to his school’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace… I’m really looking forward to it, as I get along very well with his parents. I was going to hit the Miami Book Fair, but the rain is making that a bad idea.

    Looks like Gamma’s going to cut sofla some slack! It’ll still be a rainmaker, I think.
    gamma-111905

    Old Picture of Newt with a predator face on.

    Cute-Newt hunter face, 11 seconds later.

    A google image search on Scottobear returns 960-ish images… the vast majority of which are of Newtie.

    uberbastard was rolling through town, but the timing wasn’t right for a get together…he was cool to give me a call and toss me a friendly wave, however. Maybe a strongbow at the poorhouse is in order next time!

    I still have to call Wendy up and see what’s happening with the dinner party thing in the near future.

    Monkeys in the national gallery. (search on any ol’ thing you like!) (NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public
    Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

    PLH, Dear journal!