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8187 – When the lion roars and the wind blows, who knows what might happen?

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The new Lego Factory service “lets you create your very own Lego set. Lego Factory starts with a downloadable 3-D modeling program that lets you design your virtual toy using as many bricks as you want (then) order the kit for your creation, complete with assembly instruction booklet.”

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This is two kittens in a barrel, look at them in there, having a whale of a time. You see the one on the left? He’s called Phillip. Now when you look into Phillip’s eyes your anger will recede like an ocean…..

So, LS left – would prefer to do temp work than stay another day. I wonder how all of this hubbub is hitting our two newest members? I’d hate for them to lose morale the first week in.

Moment of Lyric (mp3 available here, via BcKev’s mother box)

It’s a long way down
We’re leaning over the side
Far beyond now
The days go dark in turn

We’re a long way out
We’re turning in uneven sun
Long after life
This world, still blue, still turns

1 year ago – Movies, backup tech training, miss mcdonald, themed fonts, stinky, fear of physics, captain’s blog

2 years ago – client crapped out, slow awakening, urge to box, comet collisions, Planet Osiris

3 years ago – early to bed, doctor thoughts, Politi-talk

4 years ago – Pym, argument about writing, haiku, I look like jupiter, pink for vboys, blue for girls, they have a word for it

5 years ago – more crazy haiku, profession of love, seeking a new gig, tough dreams, gooterGeotarget

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8130 – out with the work kids (and Tracy)

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GeotargetNo video card yesterday. Perhaps today is Big Brain’s Day. Perhaps today, the moon will crack in fourths, and the glowing pink gas inside will descend from above to turn us all into delicious edible ferns for when the dinosaurs come back.

Dear Compusa…

If you can’t make your mind up, We’ll never get started.
And I don’t wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
Say yes.
But if you don’t, dear, confess.
And please don’t tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

Out with the gang at Max’s at the Beach place. Pictures of Kaytee, Randy, Tracy and Vicki under the cut. Apparently, I’m the only person in South Florida without a hard E at the end of my Name… even our server’s name was Andy. Tracy’s new haircut was quite fetching, as was Kaytee’s. Liz couldn’t make it due to her flying out to be with her family due to Grandpa’s pancreas issues.

3 blonds and a bearded guy.

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8114 – Sunday Dawns and I’m already awake.

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GeotargetThe nudge feature is mostly pointless, I think. You could accomplish the the same thing handily with an e-mail or comment in their journal. I hope that they continue to implement other more groovy features. I do confess that it’s interesting to see when some of the more tardy people have last posted… I’m more likely to just drop someone that hasn’t posted in about three months. (unless they’re a very special circumstance)

I’ve found that I have another superpower: the ability to make RS have to go pee. If we get into a discussion about anything for more than a minute or three, she has to rush off to the potty, do her business and come back when done. This has been documented at least a dozen times, and she’s able to stay at her desk for hours on end.

Last night’s dream involved me being strapped to a table with electrodes bolted to my ankles. When they ran current through them, all of my skin began to peel like a bad sunburn and underneath the fresh skin was a dark, mossy green. Somehow I knew that the treatments were causing a strange growth of all my internal flora… whatever else touched the new skin (like a a scalpel) it burned and was turned quickly to vapor. I don’t recall any smells. They finally figured out that shark’s teeth could touch the new skin without burning up, so they incised and pulled out the rock that was making the bad plant-reaction in my body. I was healed, and buried the rock in the ground of an empty lot, hoping it would help jump start a fresh garden there.

It’s hard to chop down a tree with a saw made of shark’s teeth.

No Dice going out with Dave or Dave last night… Today it’s going to be more solo journeys, methinks.

Moment of Lyric:

Me and your sister
Went by the river
Your sister jump in the water
I jump in after
I’ll never forget,
Everything was set
But I didn’t get
She Tell me yes
She Tell me no
She tell me nonononono.

Just check out this website.

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This picture makes more sense than most management decisions I’ve seen in my entire working lifetime.

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

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

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

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

5 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

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8095 – Spidah-san

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GeotargetUgh… Monday already? Monday work meeting and then a dog & pony for FDLE at 10.

Holy cow… why did I not know until yesterday that there was a live action Toei Spider-man TV show in Japan (Circa 1978), where he apparently had a neato motorcycle, instant change suit wristband (a-la the flash’s ring), could talk to spiders, and had control over a giant robot? I guess it makes sense, since he was a gadgeteer, (building webshooters and spidey-tracker, anyhow)… In Japan, I think that if you can wire up a tesla coil, you can have a giant robot. Spidey’s Opening Title on youtube -and a short but entertaining clip from the show… I need someone to translate either the Japanese, or the Spanish Subtitles. Graypumpkin, maybe? The Toei version looks a lot more entertaining than the lame American live-action version.

Toei spidey team up with machine gun mariachi – the awesome
Toei spidey – ninder scenes – uses webbing as a noose.

More video clips here – just search youtube for Toei Spiderman

From the same guy that has me singing the dang Iron Man theme again. (the cool 1966 version, not the longhair rock star 1996 one.)

Hey, there’s an Ambush Bug for Heroclix! A shame I really stopped playing a year or two ago. That’s the first one that would have me actively seeking it out (now if they got a Morrison Doom Patrol collection out, I’d be stoked, too)

Moment of Lyric: (Mp3)
There was a boy who knew he could be anything that he wanted to.
Everybody told him he had a singular special destiny.
Everybody said he’d go far–everybody said he’d be a star.
They said he could be anything he wanted to be–then he turned into me.
Now it seems increasingly unlikely that I’m gonna grow up to be Luke Skywalker–not gonna be Indiana Jones.
And after all this time it’s probably not gonna turn out that I’m the super-powered heir to a world that isn’t there anymore.
But somebody told me I was special.
Somebody told me that I could be anything I wanted to be.
How could they have known the dreams I had were not the dreams they had for me?
They said I could be what I wanted–they had no idea what I wanted.
And I don’t mean to seem ungrateful for all their encouragement and praise.
I just meant to say that I don’t intend to stay and spend another wasted year, cause at the end I bet I’d still be sitting here wasting time and waiting.
I’m waiting for my Lady of the Lake to come and crown me king.
I’m waiting for my rocket to land so I can get my power ring.
I’m waiting for my radioactive meteorite to fall.
I’m waiting but I ain’t got no meteorite at all.
I’m waiting for my story to begin.
I’m waiting for my/ I’m not done.
Don’t count me out of it–my story isn’t over yet.
I’m not the son of some roman god but anyway I think I’m gonna be okay.
And looking back I find it seems I’ve always had unlikely dreams but I can’t let that stop me now, it’s time to grow up anyhow.
And I may not be Hercules but here’s my new philosophy: buh buh bah buh buh bah buh bah buh buh
end of song.

1 year ago – Mel’s fingernail falls off, we surf the web, 3.6 million nickels stolen, distance home meme, quarter bin craving, monkeys & crackers, happy feet

2 years ago – dynamic address assigning, Artist under the influence of LSD, My Messy Office

3 years ago – prisoner on the brain, Names, Antarctica, EO-letters

4 years ago – paper models, walkies, coming events, EO-mashnote

5 years ago – paranoia, recorder, odigo

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8091 – vortiginous entry

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GeotargetRS thinks that I have some big secret plans for the weekend, I think because I let her go on about her weekend plans and whatnot, and then we got to talking about something else. Nope, nothing special planned… just sleeping in and lingering around the neighborhood, doing more walkies if I can. No glamorous binges on booze and loose women, just a nice weekend out and about.

FDLE coming by the office on Monday morning, FBI Tuesday, and who knows what Wednesday will bring? Maybe big brain, ha-ha? I’m glad that HP has been as patient with me as possible.

I was so beat last night that I fell asleep at 8:30… woke up at 4ish am as a result. I suspect my weekend might be a little out of whack as a result. A bit too brisk out for a swim in the pool… maybe after the sun rises.

I find it amazing that my electric bill for the new one bedroom is less than my old studio… the old place must’ve not been very well weather sealed. $70 is almost a third less than what I paid last January. Also, automatic billpay is beautiful. I just get an email a week before it’s paid, so I can update my records, and hey, presto!

Laser pointer is nifty in the early morning fog… the line goes on for a huge distance.

Dopey dreams of work last night…I don’t much like it when the daily mundane starts stepping on areas that usually allow for people being changed into modular string bean / sabre-toothed tiger stereo components. Most of the drama that I was expecting to happen didn’t occur yesterday, so maybe that was why it was pressing on the brain. Next Friday will be considerably different, and I expect the company to have some drastic changes in one way or another by February.

May be getting together with Bro tomorrow, if plans stay on track. I think a beach walk is in order, or maybe a bike trip.

word of the day: fabiform – shaped like a bean

Speaking of words, I never seem to get a good opportunity to use the term “vortex”. (not to mention – vortical, vorticose, vorticular or vortiginous) Like kissing a woman’s hand, it’s either too much, or not enough.

Windows update now has an official security patch for the wmf vulnerability…update your system normally, and you’ll no longer need that patch posted earlier. To delete the old patch, go to the control panel, add/remove programs – It will be in the list of installed programs as “Windows WMFMetafile Vulnerability HotFix”. click on change/remove, and once it’s out, reboot. all done!

Those Yahoo ads are earning about $0.56 a day lately, down from an overall average of about $2.69 a day. (one insane day 12/15 that got nuts threw off the average.. $19.68) .. but most days haven’t broken a dollar. Upside, there has only been one day when *nothing* was earned since I started hosting them. That plus the $50 flat I get each month from my static front page linkies every month makes for a nice charity lump sum base.

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

2 years ago – Goodies, bad phone, long meeting

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

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

5 years ago – vagg, movies, napster

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8087 – Another success for us!

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GeotargetWell, as a direct result of my calls, Tabitha Lively was recovered safely in Orlando. Pretty keen.. that makes 132 recoveries in the last 46 months that are a direct result of my gig here.

The US Marshalls were very cool to work with, and FDLE was really on the ball, too (as usual). The Marshalls are up there with the FBI as far as professionalism.

I’ve already been interviewed by 3 news agencies regarding the story, and the big kahuna is loving the media attention she’s getting… Maybe this will keep her sourpuss attitude to a minumum the rest of this week. I’m just glad that I wore one of my nice new shirts to work… I’ll be interested in seeing how many errors the different agencies make in reporting… so far, I’ve never, ever seen an article get everything right with a story that I was aware of outside of the news agency.

Google News search for case info

Regular google info

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8084 – It’s not too hot for tea!

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GeotargetCrazy Rag-tag night on call yesterday. I don’t think I had a moment’s peace between 5:30 and 8.

It got to the point where I was in a bit of a manic panic…laughing like a hyena once a job was pushed through.

I can’t believe my birthday is in less than a month. Didn’t I just have one? I think I’m going to treat myself to a massage at the Vicki’s sister’s spa. I’m far from a metrosexual, but I’ve got nothing against a serious back rub.

Moment of Lyric (quicktime movie) (here’s the band’s website)

Too hot for tea but I’ll drink it anyway,
It’s a nice day.
Too late for him, but I’ll take him anyway,
It’s a nice day.
Happy to be Alive…
Some believe in God,
Some worship the Devil,
Some go to church,
Others pray to the moon,
On a nice day
On a nice day
I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what they say
On a nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…

Mother on a thorn tree
It’s older and gray
asking her little girl to come back and stay
Politicians on the radio and TV today
Talking ’bout how great it is in the USA
On a nice day
I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what they say
I don’t care what they say

On a nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
It doesn’t matter if you’re going mad
It doesn’t matter if this place is so, so, sad.

On a nice day
On a nice day
On a nice day
On a nice day
I don’t care what they say
On a nice day
I don’t care what they say
On a nice day
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
On a nice day…
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
What a niice day
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
On a nice dayyyyy
nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nah-nah-nee-nah-nah-nuhhh…
Ha!

I first heard of them on the Bewitched movie soundtrack, of all things. Lounge music you can dance to, pretty groovy stuff. I think her accent makes it that much better.

I still say nice as NOICE, unless I make an active effort not to.

Speaking of music videos that are noice – take a peek at Night of Fire (google video wins again!) Stuff like this reminds me to make a point of visiting Japan someday. Some sort of Asian spice girl clonettes with a tubby wrestler guy in a speedo, little red booties and golden cape singing europop cover tunes and breathing flame. What’s not to like?

1 year ago – Mel lunch, food cravings, b/w picture of Scotto, torture,

2 years ago – Henry Earl Likes to Party (he still does!), Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Tokyo bowl, playing with filters

3 years ago – Ticked at bro, want to try out for LSH

4 years ago – chilly, dream, Miss Cleo in trouble, digi cam shopping, Cinnamon Pecan Bread

5 years ago – super power desire, phoneless

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8062 – Fri-day-yay!

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Geotarget


I’ve said that more than a few times in my life.

I’ll refrain from pointing any fingers today, mostly because it seems like that no matter where I point, I’ll hit that situation regardless.

Computer’s video card is on backorder. What the heck. Expected a in a week or so. Cripes… at this rate, I’d just be happy to get my device back before my birthday at the top of February.

Took paperwork home with me last night, just so I could get it finished, because the office needs have been so hectic the past week or two that I can’t sit down for 90 minutes to crank out the proper thought required for the police interviews, data crunching, and etc without being bugged ever 15-20 minutes for something like “Scott, could you show me how to forward my email to someone again?” or “Burn me 20 CDs of that PowerPoint Presentation, would you?… oh, and could you customize ’em for the departments?”

Brainless, tedious stuff, but the vast majority of the folks there just don’t know how to do that sort of thing… and what’s more, they don’t want to learn how. So, I go from being an underpaid Net Admin / Webmaster / Police Liason / Child Advocate, and turn into a highly paid power user because every 4/5 people there is a technical uglato.

Listen to a brilliant version of Devo’s Mongoloid.
From WFMU’s On the Download.

My Wakeup music of the day – Hawaii Tattoo – The Waikikis (mp3) – thanks, Podsville!

Crunks ’05: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections – interesting. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

1 year ago – picture beliefs, cheese,

2 years ago – Dang Dick, Kindly Kahuna, and Scotto Stuff. Alliteration!

3 years ago – RFL pictures, PT Barnum, Malawi vampires, Morse code

4 years ago – Treebeard and Entwife, Met Denise & Sara @ Danny’s Party, Mai Kai, eclipse

5 years ago – Calcutta Chromosome, Got shoo as a pal, Amitav Ghosh, Saw D&D movie with Danny, and Andy running the yellow Pompano comic shack.

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8061 – I’m a dramateuge. I teuge it up drama style.

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GeotargetDr Who Christmas Special was pretty groovy, and I think that I like the new actor as the doc. (I was worried he’d be too much of a pretty boy. The preview for the next episode looks good, too.

Christmas at the ‘borgs in ’96. (Compare to the ‘borgs in ’05) Cathi hasn’t aged save for longer hair, Elizabeth is a young lady rather than a tot. I’ve lost weight and some of my beard, Dave’s Gained a little weight, and Who knows where Eryn, Brian, Brian, and Bev are… Leisa’s a mommy, as is Cathi. I still have that shirt, last worn on walkabout 2 weeks ago. It’s still in great shape… amazingly comfy and durable. Only a wee bit faded.

Thursday already! Old man 2005 is going to make way for Baby 2006’s stinky diaper very soon!

I called CompUSA yesterday, and requested a progress report on my system, including an ETA on the Graphics card that was due nearly two weeks ago. After being on hold for about 15 minutes, they said that they’d call me back shortly with the answer. They never did.

ADP came by the office yesterday, all sweetness and light. She wants her job back, because she hates her new one. I really don’t see *that* happening. She and RS are semi-buds these days, now that ADP is no longer a part of the company.

The Zip+4 33441-5482 contains only 9 addresses, one of which is mine. via the awesome melissadata – found while looking for my city’s demographics. (and crime stats, weather

No 2-dimensional reality slices here… 3-dimensional truth nuggets! You’d better watch it, or I’ll be all over you like a nun sandwich.

Moment of Lyric MP3

Instrumental – It’s a great way to get up and move in the morning.

1 year ago – earache, Newtie-head, GF comparisons, Earthquake/Tsunami, Anne-whashername, another monkey with a gun, Fader eg må be om unskyldning, changing Thomas Jefferson’s rules, big show, spell check issues,

2 years ago – Barney Miller in my cereal, FFXI

3 years ago – Harpo Marx, Secert agent. Really. Hungry, Brent Memories, weird auctions, jive turkey

4 years ago – how to diaper a monkey, newt meds, holiday prezzies, hoogerbrugge, midget village, shopping, eclipse.

5 years ago – noodles, sweetie showed me bejeweled, Dan stress, Jell-O flavors, snot production.

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7962 – quickie

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GeotargetAte dinner at RS’s house, met her boyfriend and kidlets. I got along well with them all, perhaps too well. I think RS got a little jealous of the fact that I could interact well with them when she’s had feelings of running away from all of it. She told me that I was not, under any circumstances, to become better friends with her bf than with her. I can understand her fear, but doubt that it’ll happen.

A lot of weirdness in the air at the office. I think most of it is from them trying to get RS to manage me, but none of them are giving her any solid direction, just criticism. I want to be helpful and do good at my gig, so asking me to do things shouldn’t be difficult, should it? Big Kahuna is slowing down… maybe her age is finally catching up with her?

Nice moment of chat with the weezle and she brightened my spirits considerably. Thanks!

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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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7924 –

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GeotargetI’d like a comfy linen/cotton blend suit, and a snappy gray fedora. Not sure where that urge for a summer suit in November came from.

I can’t watch TV shows that place in hospitals, at least not around the anniversary of my father’s death or his birthday. I had an extended crying jag last night when I remembered that his birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks. First time I’ve really cried for quite a while. Ultimately cleansing, but think I hurt my side a little bit as a result. Newt was a great comfort to me.

I miss my dad. I miss the way my brother was when he was 12. I think that I get along with my mother better these days than I ever had as a kid.

The office has decided not to pay salaried folks for time away from work due to Hurricane Wilma… I’m going to point them to Hurricane Wilma Disaster Unemployment Assistance. To determine eligibility for Wilma DUA (or standard unemployment benefits), start by contacting the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation (Florida unemployment office) or filing an unemployment claim through same by 11/28/2005. For information about other types of Hurricane Wilma disaster assistance, browse the FEMA and FDEM sites.

I’m safe… I worked every day save for 2, and those two days I gave training and tech walk-through to our rep in Texas. I think that everyone else save for ECN and myself will end up getting docked a little more than week’s pay. (I wonder if the Big Kahuna will cut herself, too?)

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