7190 - Lobsters growl when they hold star wars figures.

[scottobear]

A river with a fear of heights... that's almost interesting.

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I almost went to the ren-fest yesterday, but then I remembered it's expensive, and is mostly bleh, save for the mud show and renfaeries, which rock. Instead, I just sort of shuffled around and burned the soles of my sneakers walking.

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I'm thinking of applying something like this or this to my new journal/website layout.

ganked from here.

I make my letter "o" in a clockwise circle, and my "e" starting with the center stroke, not the outside. I wonder if it's because I'm left-handed?

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Hm, No Gray's Anatomy, but I got Soylent Green instead. Chuck Heston makes a good post-apocalypse leading man... this combined with Omega Man and Planet of the Apes proves it. Plus, in SG, he gets to smack Chuck Connors around like a rag doll (including a kick to the beans that lifted the Rifleman right off of the floor.) I can easily see New York or Miami suffering from that level of overcrowding in 20 years, certainly in the 50 from the time that SG was filmed. I also forgot: DICK VAN PATTEN IN CHARGE OF SUICIDE BOOTHS!

p.s. Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream is one of the best flavors at the best ice cream store in Miami, The Frieze. I'm overdue to head back there... the last time I had it was August 12, 2001.

How do I know? My journal is the only thing that comes up on a google search for Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream. Same goes for Yahoo.

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More random glass tiles

Teepee tile



angel tile crying blood

I suspect the same guy that made the Robert did it tiles I saw a week or two ago. unlike the crossing sign button level of the others, these were at ground level.

I also caught a snap of this girl on the bus... I was reading a book on the palmtop, and I turned on the camera to snap a sneaky-shot. It turned out I was being observed, too. If I'd had my wits more about me, I'd have struck up a conversation. She looks like a red-headed version of my ex, April.

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If you search for miserable failure in washington dc, on google maps, the closest match is George Bush.

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danigolden did something cool on Friday. Keywords are: Scott Baio, Ham Steak, Jelly. Trespassing.

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Puppet DJ. via wurzel

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Moment of Lyric:

But blood makes noise
It's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise
And I can't really hear you
In the thickening of fear

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$3.2B USS Jimmy Carter Enters Fleet

GROTON, Conn. (AP) - The USS Jimmy Carter entered the Navy's fleet Saturday as the most heavily armed submarine ever built, and as the last of the Seawolf class of attack subs that the Pentagon ordered during the Cold War's final years.

The $3.2 billion Jimmy Carter was commissioned Saturday, the first named after a living ex-president. Carter, himself a former submariner during his time in the Navy, was on hand for the ceremony signaling the end of an era in submarining.

The 453-foot, 12,000-ton submarine has a 50-torpedo payload and eight torpedo tubes. And, according to intelligence experts, it can tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them.

It can reach speeds of more than 45 knots and carry Tomahawk cruise missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes, and it is engineered to be quieter than the other Seawolves, making it better for surveillance.

John Pike, a military analyst with globalsecurity.org, said the ceremony closes the book on the big-submarine era.

"It was part of our strategy on how we were going to win World War III. It was a significant component in our response to the evil empire,'' he said.

In eastern Connecticut, a region steeped in submarine history and the home to the Electric Boat shipyard, which built and launched the Seawolves, some fear the Pentagon will close the submarine base as it looks to shrink the submarine fleet and buy smaller, cheaper subs.

"It's hard to find a civilian that doesn't have some connection to the sub force,'' said Bud Fay, who owns a diner, car wash and laundry not far from the base gates in Groton.

To ensure that the last Seawolf was not obsolete before it hit the water, the Pentagon delayed production to install a 100-foot hull extension that military analysts say equips the Jimmy Carter to replace the USS Parche, one of the fleet's premier spy subs.

The Parche was decommissioned in October. The Jimmy Carter will be based out Kitsap, Wash., the Parche's former home.

Navy's Commission Page of the USS Jimmy Carter - Weird to me to see such a peaceful man's name attached to a warship of such aggressive design.

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1 year ago - Danny takes his club to the Ren-fest, 5-year-old marries a puppy, evil eye, palm entry-bus, looking back to my earliest memories

2 years ago - Spending a lot, cute newt, hot showers, green onion cornbread

3 years ago - Lewis-y, Muppetty, limericks, a cute pair of boobies, speedy bus, ninja cow eludes police

4 years ago - valentines, online books, recommitted to walkies, Belief, Myth and Folklore

Comments

[rejectomorph]

I'm right handed, and make my "o" with a counter-clockwise circle, but I, too, start my "e" with the center stroke. I just tried making an "o" with my left hand, and the clockwise motion does feel more natural with that hand. Oddly, it feels right making the "e" the same way with either hand. I have a nephew who is left handed. I'll have to ask him how he makes these letters. It's something to which I've never before given any thought.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

good to know I'm not the only E-weirdo... I think there's an economy of stroke there, in that you can do it all in one move.

[danigolden.livejournal.com]

I'm right handed and I make my "o" counter-clockwise. My "e"s are more like backwards 3s than es. I hear it's a "Greek E" but I don't know.

Also, Scott Baio's driveway = hamtastic.

[danigolden.livejournal.com]

Oh but if I do my e like an e, it starts with the center.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Then you, too, are one of the chosen ones.

[myid8myego.livejournal.com]

I don't get it- how else does one make an o or an e? I'm right handed, and I definitely do the start-at-center, anticlockwise thing.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/scottobear/pic/0009eh8x/g5

see the drawn "e" in the word name.

[myid8myego.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh.
Weird :-)

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

"and my "e" starting with the center stroke, not the outside"


The e in the photos starts in the center, though..so you do yours the same way they do, right? I'm confuzzled. :0)

I do both my e's and o's like they show in the photo...my words are always a mix of cursive and printed letters, within each word, though.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The "e" they write starts off like a "C" and then gets bifurcated afterwards.. I start with a straight line, then circle arourd.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do it the way you do, too. When I saw it the first time, I thought they were starting with the center line. Who knows what I was taught as a kid, but I can't wrap my fuzz brain around making a c first and then the slash. :o

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

it seems like a poor economy of movement to me!

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

I just looked at it again. You're right - it does show them starting with the outside loop first, and the center one second. How bizarre, it bugs me when I try do it it that way. I always start with the center!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you and I are of like minds...and i do "mixed media" print/cursive, too. :D

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Every once in awhile, I see someone right-handed, who holds their hand in the same postition to write that left-handers do. That's kinda neat. My best friend in grade school was left handed, and she always had pen mark rub-offs on the side of her hand because of the way lefties held their writing utensils. I guess adult lefties can keep that from happening easier?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Well, lefties still smudge, because the hand rolls over the wiritten text, but usually grownups learn to not rest the paw on paper. :)

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Haha... yeah, my girlie friend Davina had hands that were a mess when we were kids. I'm just a mess with a pen and get it all over my fingers, and worse on my sleeves. Man, that makes me grumpy when I ruin a blouse permanently with ink.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

just have to remember to roll 'em up to your elbows, first!

fortunately, I wear short sleeves 99% of the time. :)

[silentyrs.livejournal.com]

hehe, to add to the conversation I'm also a lefty and I make my e's and o's exactly the same way as you :) I also do the mixed media cursive/print handwriting :) Go us.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to see a pattern here!

[uberbastard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the ceramic tiles I think are the work of Steve Stich, the same guy who does the blue bikes and stuff. He's been responsible for alot of the guerrila art we've been seeing in and around Ft Laud for years. He gave me a glass pane painting once and I seem to recall the style was similar to this.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

good to know... I was wondering if it was a different gut with the "robert" connection.