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6818 – Bro update, and etcetera

Bro’s scheduled for 1:30 on Thursday. I imagine that unless something comes up that he’ll get two years probation. if he stays out of trouble, I imagine that would even be cut down a bit. The last few times I’ve spoken with him, he seemed to be fairly clear of mind and in good spirits.


Pierced new guy seems to be ok… has a quirky sense of humor, and seems to get it when I crack a joke about the Knights Templar. Unpunctured one seems less likely to make it as a tech. He reminds me a lot of bad-luck Schleprock.


So many changes on the company website… it boggles the mind how big it has grown. Hundreds and hundreds of pages… something for all 50 states, news reports, bios, etc. A real learning curve, but it’s definitely worth it. I wish that I could devote more time to the site, but so many other elements sneak up on me…. maybe when more new folks are trained, and I get the telephony server happy.


Why didn’t Daredevil ever have a seeing-eye dog super-sidekick?


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6816 Morning, already?

Dang… Where do these Mondays keep coming from?Site Meter

I foresee more of the same sort of Monday shenanigans. Terribly long morning meeting, and then spend the rest of the day playing catch-up.

The opening crew is headed to Alabama for training next week, so it’ll be much lighter in that respect, next go-round.

Newt’s been in gabby-chatter mode quite a lot lately.I’m happy to give him all the attention he might like and probably more, though he like to be doted on for the most part.


It feels like my emotional gravity is out of whack. Parts of me are light, others dense, and drawn to the center of my being. Some sort of personal vibe version of solar flares.


Wikipedia article on War Elephants


30th anniversary of Nixon Resigning. I can think of a few presidents, both republican and democrat that probably should’ve stepped down in like fashion, since. People guilty of known criminal activity both prior and during office… and probably since then.


World Audit: ranks countries. Shows the U.S. as 9th in freedom, 12th in democracy. Interesting how Finland, the most democratic and thirdmost free on the page is also considered the most corrupt. How it’s measured.


Quick reference – Why do Muslim women cover their heads?

For Future Reference, Male Hijab info, too. Interesting that bit about yellow / orange clothing. No red, unless it’s combined with another color.


According to Newsday, live video from the Olympics will be viewable online. However, ‘the footage will be highly restricted to protect lucrative broadcast contracts, which are sold by territory – $793 million paid by NBC alone. Web sites must employ technology to block viewers from outside their home countries, so U.S. Web surfers won’t benefit from the BBC’s live coverage. They’ll have to settle for highlights posted after NBC broadcasts, which are already largely tape-delayed.’

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See instead – Pirating the Olympics via Time to warm up my Torrentstorm software… if only to check out Archery and Judo.


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6814 – ramble

Just ran a case from Davie, and am now too awake to sleep, but too sleepy to do anything productive. I’ll type here until I’m ready to flop back into bed.

Recent events, thoughts –

Apparently, I’m the designated health care surrogate for my brother, should it turn out that he’s unable to take care of himself due to mental illness, or whatever. Not sure how I feel about that. I don’t foresee it being a problem, really, but I’d have preferred to be asked first, not just notified in passing after the fact.

The thing about keeping a journal online is that I can’t safely post publicly about how I feel about *everything*. If it steps on someone else’s toes, or might be found by someone who shouldn’t see it, or if it’s just none of anyone’s business but my own, I’ll post things privately, my eyes only. Only on very rare of occasions do I post friend’s only stuff (at least these days). I’m pretty much an open book except about things that might hurt someone else’s privacy or my employment.

Things have happened in my family in recent times that try to chip away at my “gentle giant” sense of self. I come back to myself every now and then, and do a bit of a case study. I think I’m still a friendly, nice guy who is pretty approachable if you’re not afraid of giant hippie-looking types.

I have some fundamental flaws that probably will never be repaired. I’m a messy housekeeper. I procrastinate with a lot of things. I have a low tolerance for grossly incompetent people in any service industry. I hate to teach the same person the same thing more than twice. I think that most people are basically nasty, selfish children barely underneath a veneer of slightly more polite behavior and laws enforced by society.

Some good things about me. I do think that everyone is entitled to a little kindness. I feel that some people are able to grow past that selfish child aspect into a kind and giving person. (a lot of people are in the in-between stages.) I think that I set a good example for kids and grownups who are still looking to learn how to behave. I can love unconditionally. I’m more helpful than I am unhelpful. I don’t procrastinate on the important stuff. (Newt’s always well fed, and given lots of love, for example.) I have a job where I don’t have to eat my soul to feed my belly.

Neutral stuff : I’m a social creature, but can function well in a solitary lifestyle. I like to read. I’ve had people tell me that they’re envious of how grounded I am… that I’ve got things together, no matter what happens. Well, I vent regularly, and try not to lose hope. To screech, and flail and grit my teeth… that’s not my style. That’s not to say I’ve never been panicked… but I’ve usually found that it was a result of a false sense of urgency, or misunderstanding, plus panic rarely helps matters in cases where it might be created.


Is it wrong that since the Toronto Star opened up free, searchable archives of 1945 and put them online, that my first beeline was for the comics pages? Popeye, Little Orphan Annie & Invisible Scarlet O’Neil. Pretty spiffy!


Jack Black is *not* currently going to be in a Green Lantern movie. via


Fun with Google searches -Too lazy to search peer to peer? See what’s being hosted and was spidered! via Of course, don’t come crying to me if something breaks your machine or gets you arrested.

METHOD 1

put this string in google search:

  • “parent directory ” /appz/ -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
  • “parent directory ” DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
  • “parent directory “Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
  • “parent directory ” Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
  • “parent directory ” MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
  • “parent directory ” Name of Singer or album -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

Notice only the word after the parent directory varies – change it to what you want and you will get a lot of stuff.

METHOD 2

put this string in google search:

  • ?intitle:index.of? mp3

You only need add the name of the song/artist/singer.

Example: ?intitle:index.of? mp3 jackson

METHOD 3

put this string in google search:

  • inurl:microsoft filetype:iso

You can vary the string; ex. microsoft to adobe, iso to zip


When I vanity search Icerocket, it uses a thumbnail of my homepage form about 4 years ago. I also found my old photobucket account still has pictures in it.


Deep Sea Images – Some pretty nifty stock stuff of wrecks and undersea life. (including manatees, for Kell.) You can also search by keyword… helps when sniffing for locations. Lots happening in Pompano, for example. Manta Rays!


The Phone Safe is a work-through phone-sheath that you wear on your forearm. Worn with a jacket, it can also act as a concealment device.


Evil Keylogging gizmo. – (plugs between keyboard and computer, small as a quarter.) To access the recorded data, you simply type your password in a text editor and the Key Katcher comes to life. A menu is displayed with options to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device.


The Chipmunk Song (slowed down) v


Justice League did a good job on “For The Man Who Has Everything“… I’d like to see them do “Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?” too. The Teen titans had a guest star from two doors over from Bat-Mite and Mxyzptlk’s dimension… too many japanimation nods, not enough story. More fun ideas can be had at the Superman Online Comics site.

In the house above the world, the over-people sit.

There is a man with wings like a bird.

There is a man whose eyes can see through the planet,
and whose fists can wring diamonds from its anthracite.

There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues.

In the house above the world, the over-people sit.

And watch.

-Alan Moore

6809 – Shiggity shiggity shway.

Hm… malam seems to have given away his lj account. I imagine someone approached him for the username, since he hasn’t updated well before he left sportsline and moved to Seattle. His old domain is empty, too.


If there’s a bustle in your hedge row… don’t be alarmed now. It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run; there’s still time to change the road you’re on.


Wes Clark’s Avocado Memories – Growing up in Burbank, California in the Sixties and Seventies.

I wish I had a record of my life growing up like this. I’m a sucker for nostalgia, especially of about the same time frame.


Back to the Future DeLoreans, with Kubrick Doc Brown & Marty

Related – Fuel Cell that Converts carbs to Electricity (Mr Fusion?) – viaSite Meter


Work has been so hectic lately… so many things to do, so few hours in the day. I’m doing my best not to work overtime, but I had a creative dream this morning broken by the thought that I have to do monthly statistics, now that it’s August…. That put me in a grump. I don’t need work stepping on creativity during non-work hours.

All I remember from the dream was that I was at the doctor, and was having some sort of procedure done to my sinuses. Some sort of underwater pressure on my head, drowning me “for my own good, to clear things out.” I guess I was too far gone for a neti pot and some antibiotics.

6805 – pieholes and crutches

Well, I broke a c-note on my adsense account… we’ll see how quickly google decides to send me my check. (they have until the end of September to do it, because I rolled right on the first of august… they get 30 days from the end of any month ending with >$100.

A German company offered me another $20 to put a “sponsoren” link on my main page, too It’s small and unobtrusive… and links to text, no graphics, no pop ups and no porn. So far, my ad-links are paying about $90-100 a month on average, all told. I’m amazed… this is almost as good as what designers in there were making about six months ago. I don’t know how long it’ll last, but I’ll happily take the money until they decide to stop paying me.

I notice that all of my adsense links are for public service items today… a result of the hundred dollar hump?


With comics like these, I can’t help but vote redemopublicratican. Godzilla has my vote all over Morgan Freeman. warning, some potty-mouthage.


Elitist Meme

6802 – August? Where did last month run off to?

I’ve got to remember to drop my monthly monies in the mail to the landlord. Bro’s court date is either tomorrow, or Wednesday, I forget which. I’m sure I’ll be reminded by end of day.

I can’t believe that I’ve been at my current gig for almost a year now. Serious time compression / dilation on that side of things.

Cripes… speaking of which, I have my Monday meeting today.. there goes another few hours into the john, unless I can give my update, and bug out.

I’m rather groggy… yesterday’s rainstorm put me in some sort of precipitation and cat-snuggle coma for a longer span of time that I needed to sleep. I fell into a deep slumber surrounded by the sounds of water hitting windows and roof, much rolling thunder, and Newt-purrs.


I’m really glad that the pro-wrestling trend has again retreated back into the seedy, tacky corner it came from. Now, I can cope with the wacky stuff like Luchadores and Midget Wresting (or best of all, a joining of the two), but the mainstream WWF/WWE/WWwhatever was just boring and invasive. I haven’t felt this good about something not bombarding my media since Clive Barker faded from view.


Ok, this is probably a rental, but I’d love to see a movie with thunderbirds-type puppets doing satire on the big screen, too. Team America – World Police


Fun Facts about the 5 senses


Spiffy Scarecrow game… Makes me long for Halloween.


Can’t play a particular DiVX movie? This codec pack might help (Klite is just codecs, mega is codecs plus a quicktime alternative and a realplayer alternative) it’s kept fairly up to date, so it’s worth checking back the next time a DiVX doesn’t work in the future, too.Site Meter


Current KoL stats

6787 Mango / Spyware / Pi Approximation / Look out.

Dang. It’s obviously mango season again. They’re hanging fat on any tree that hasn’t been harvested yet. I imagine every office in the city has someone bringing in grocery bags full of ’em, pulled of before they can be allowed to rot on the ground…They have been known to make the local birds and other small animals drunk when the fruit is consumed after fermenting in the sun for a few days.

That puts me in the mood for a tropical fruit salad… maybe some mango/banana/lime/coconut.

I won’t go into what a raging mango is. Them that know, know.


New Tech seems ok, so far. Intelligent, but I worry that along with that comes a fundamental laziness. He reminds me a bit of my old buddy ramscan, in that he’s quiet and laid back, but once you open him up, he seems nice, and likely lot deeper than you might see on the surface.


My good deed of the day – (figured I’d share, after helping 3 people pull if off systems yesterday.)

Instructions on how to remove Mysearch, aka Mywebsearch, My Search Bar, My Way Speedbar:
To uninstall Mysearch first close all open browser windows. Then click ‘Start’ menu, then select ‘Control Panel’ and open the ‘Add/Remove Programs’ option. Find “My Search Bar” in the list of programs, and click ‘Change/Remove’ and follow the prompts to remove them. Other components to look for and remove are:

My Way Speedbar (Smiley Central or other FWP as applicable)
My Way Speedbar (AOL and Yahoo Messengers) (beta users only)
My Way Speedbar (Outlook, Outlook Express, and IncrediMail)
Search Assistant – My Way
My Web Search (Smiley Central or FWP product as applicable)

This procedure should completely remove Mysearch. If you have any problems or to be certain all its components have been removed, scan your system with an adware removal utility.


Sure, March 14th is Pi day… but today is Pi approximation day, (22/7 if you record it euro-style.)

1 year ago – Ghosts, Pirates of the Caribbean, Church Factoid, Idi Amin

2 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity

3 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies, sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy

4 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ


current mood: I want to get out of work, and just relax at the movies, already.

current music: Common People – William Shatner with Joe Jackson (Pulp Cover) (via)

common people lyrics

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Made plans set in sand (if not stone) to go see I, Robot with Dan on Thursday… I’m going to go in, with Asimov-free bias. I just want a fun sci-fi / action movie with robots. I think Will Smith can pull that off. If I want Asimov-tight story, I’ll watch Bicentennial Man.


It surprises me how aggressive women can be to other women, watching a dynamic where the people are primarily female gives an interesting vantage. Cliques, backstabbing, and political friendships pop up much more quickly from what I’ve seen. I’ve observed this once prior, when I worked at the library, ages ago.


60 years ago today, Operation Valkyrie was attempted. (An assassination plot against Hitler via a time bomb.) I wonder how things would’ve turned out if it had succeeded?

It’s also the 35th anniversary of the moon landing… I also wonder how things might’ve turned out if that failed?

6784 – cliche dueling

My counter to “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” is “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”.

One of my techs needs to watch their step and mouth… too much flapping lip and attitude.

Got something to say? Fair enough. Make yourself heard in a proper venue and suggestion area! If the idea’s a thought to be a good one and presented well, it’ll probably get implemented.

If it’s *not* considered to be a good idea, and you’re given perfectly valid reasons why… shut yer piehole, and be done with it. Please don’t piss and moan about it, and don’t keep resubmitting the idea once it’s been shot down multiple times.Site Meter

6773 KoL, Webcam thwarts crime, and so on.

Lots of local construction, but I never hear the hammers or workers.
Things just sort of grow here.


Nice Freebie Gothic / horror fonts – also links to classic Eerie Comics. (I actually had the issue with “Swamp Monsters” in it. Warning, may not be safe for the squeamish.


I now work with one of the Florida Marlins, a retired Miami Dolphin, and Kenny Rogers’ brother. Somehow, if we all walked into a bar, there would have to be some kind of wacky punchline at the end.

I have to ask how Kenny feels about the drunken, mentally deficient, kitten-eating MadTV representation of him.(see also, KR’s Jackass – big file, let it buffer a bit)


Woo-hoo! my littler-big-sis hooked me up with a Seal-tooth,a familiar-building method to make use of it, and a lovely-large load of meat for use in KoL. Funzies! Thanks, ldy!


Kentucky Woman Watching Web Cam Helps Nab Florida Burglars

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You can get a skewed perspective on human behavior working at the gig that I do. A sampling of policemen (both good and bad), a few menopausal co-workers, folks with dementia, sexual predators, troubled kids, messed up families and the like could make a lot of people jump to the assumption that everyone on the planet is somehow off-balance, and not only by a little bit.

My mindset is to look at it like I’m a fireman… sure, I see a lot of houses on fire, but people don’t call when there *isn’t* a fire…. it’d be a fool who thinks all buildings are burning, everywhere.

I’m glad that there are co-workers and cops that are solid and on top of their game to reinforce this belief. (Not to mention swell folks outside the industry.)

I still would gladly see proved child molesters tossed onto a penal work-island for life. There’s no reprogramming them without falling into the “cruel and unusual” category of brainwashing/torture that I know of, so the next best thing is to isolate them, until a cure is found… in my opinion. I don’t think that a well-run penal colony is cruel or unusual for “unreformable” criminals. Make whatever counseling is deemed appropriate available, but also make them work for their keep.


Infectious Disease trading cards, from the CDC. collect ’em all! Who needs baseball players when you can play flip or put Ecoli or rabies in your bicycle spokes?

thanks for the link, gael!


My Current HoL stats

6762 – music, people watching, and pizza.. a decent night.

Went out to pizza with Danny, and had a nice long session of talking and people-watching. there’s a lot on his mind lately, and I hope that the pressures ease up. I think he’s going to have to come to some major decisions regarding work, and soon.

ADP let me down in a big way last night…couldn’t remember after three reminders and having written it down. I don’t know what to do about her. Everyone’s entitled to mistakes, but hers are consistent. If she can’t be relied upon to do it, I’ll launch sexual predator calls myself, if need be. I’m glad I thought to call and ask if the job was launched, or they’d not have gone out at all, rather than late.


nice paid perq. If you’re logged in as a paid user, you “cut in line” of other web requests that Lj’s received but has not yet generated a response.

Speaking of servers, My lj has moved again.
scottobear is on Madcow, subcluster 3.
coloringbook is on Chef, subcluster 7.
live_journalia is on Cartman, subcluster 7.
menstrualhut is on Santa, subcluster 3.

Where in LJ are you?


Making Fiends #10! Chompy Bats Like Ice Cream!


Current music’s lyrics

6753 – The day out was lovely, though hot and steamy.

HAPPY 4th of JULY! I know I’m glad to be as free as I am.

So, Vizcaya it was. I walked the house (sadly, no photography inside was allowed) Outside, however, is another story entirely… so, I took a lot of pictures. )though, not all the pictures below are mine) There was *so* much statuary, and such extensive Mediterranean gardens that I could’ve stayed there all day… but the beating of the sun got to me after walking around in it from late morning to about 3pm, even with the cool breeze off of the water, and the gigantic fruit smoothie I was gunning down at a record pace.

Something nifty was that there was either a photo-shoot for a bridal magazine going on, or three different wives-to-be were all being captured on film in different parts of the outside, too. At times, it seemed as if I couldn’t take a picture without snagging a gal in a white dress and gloves someplace in the shot. (and I took a few deliberate shots, too… it’s to the gal’s merit how composed they were in the aforementioned super-sun beams. There was also a “Red White & Blue” celebration planned for the evening, with some rasta-guys working the soundboard. Unfortunately, I wasn’t up to staying there to the 9pm launch time.

I took so many photos that it’ll take me a while to sort the wheat from the chaff. I’ll toss in a few each entry as I go through ’em. Explanations of each are beneath the picture in question.

The Journey Begins