Scotto's Wall Scrawls

Lappie is now 2000. Hooray! much better than "WinMe". all of his drivers are working... I just have to get big brain twiddled so that Lappie can share big brain's internet, files and printing. The Laptop didn't like the 2000 drivers too much... fortunately I had a crack team of netsurfers downloading video, modem, and assorted other OS pieces for me. :)

I should have Big brain home and back online tomorrow night.... I'm guessing that maybe 30 minutes more of work will complete the little remainder.

Thinking about my sweetheart, and hoping that she's having the most pleasant of dreams. I'm going to join her in snoozetown shortly.

Goodnight, dear journal.

"Nought may endure but Mutability."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley

Step one for the new website. I'm going to make a point of putting a few minutes every day, until it's all done.

I want to twiddle the colors some, and put a small banner graphic across the top.. something the width of both columns.

I'm going to try for something minimalist, though... my last major revision was "I got a kitten" and changing it to accomodate LJ code.

Found out today that my accumulated sick time doesn't accumulate. my 99.9123 hours left has been nullified, and I lost 3 days of my vacation time as a result. what it boils down to is that they stole over two weeks of paid time off from me, in case I have to do any hospital time. Also, they’ve told me that I have to use my vacation time before next June, because it no longer accumulates too, it resets.

I'm going to see if they can give me my 240 hours of vacation partially in pay, then... because there's no way that I’ll just throw money away... or, if they like, I'll just take a week off every month for the next six months. Somehow, I don't think that they'll let that happen. Same thing happened to Kev, and he's got more time built up than I do!

After all is said and done, from now on I'll get three personal days, three weeks vacation, and three sick days a year. Since I'm salaried, they don't count any day that I'm in for at least four hours off of my time.... so I foresee a lot of 2-6 workdays in my future, too. ; P

I bet my dad would've made one of these for me as a kid.

Dang. Scientists in Australia are testing a new jet (called a scramjet) that may allow air travel at eight times the speed of sound. That would theoretically allow you travel around the world in about 5 hours.

Coming soon: New hackable kids toys. Can you imagine hacking the Instant Messaging stream and making the toys swear? Or saying things like "There's a monster in your closet. I saw it. I'm your pal." Oh, I can see so many cool and evil uses for those.

You thought telemarketers are annoying? How about commuter-quizzers? - Motorists on a busy interstate were flagged down at random to participate in a marketing survey about attitudes on a proposed high-speed railway to be built along the highway. Needless to say many of those "selected" were rather off-put by the tactics of the marketing company, and quite a few expressed their doubts about the legality of the operation.

Misc keywords that linked to my site, lately-

• Dogpile belushi a lot of donuts little chocolate donuts


• AltaVista baloo


• Google leopard print desktop wallpaper


• Google mexican spanish dictonary software


• Google thermasilk commercials


• Yahoo private posted sex thumbnails


• Yahoo menses period pics


• Yahoo guy surfing peg leg picture


• Google comic books were stored in a cedar chest


• Yahoo pics of mares in estrus


• Google juego de la oca -television -tv


• Google scottobear (hey! neat!)


• Google scottobear newt (yay!)


• Google sasquatch call sound bfro video


• Google smoking monkeys vending machines

I've got nice pot of earl gray tea.

I'm going to hit the sack fairly early tonight... catch up with my battery charging. I'm going to read a little bit before bed, though. I hope that tonight I get a full line of snooze in.

Nighty night, dear journal.

[Poll #7988]

"Come out... come out... where-ever you are. To meet the young la-ady who fell from a star" Glenda was such a cool witch. Seemed like she was out of it the whole time, but then again, she did ride around in a bubble.

Dave might be giving me his old Mac this weekend... which would be very cool for doing development even more cross-platform. Now, I'm thinking about what the Network name on the Hive might be. (Current Network elements are Queen (big Brain), Worker (Lappie), and Drone (Palm).) So far, Pupa was offered, and I like that... but I figure I have until it gets strapped into the network (oh boy! AppleTalk! I haven't dealt with that in about 2 years...we'll see how hard or easy it is to add it to the hive at all. I'd like to share the dsl net connection and files) . I'm excited... I had a line on a free mac before, but the bottom fell out of that deal. This machine is the last one before the IMAC candy-colored ones came out... it's beige. :)

You know, one day, I'll have a lovely library in my home, with overstuffed chairs, wireless net connections, tasty scents of sandalwood and such, high bookcases reaching to the ceiling, and plenty of well read, loved books on the shelves. Meanwhile, I'll have to be happy with boxes in my closet. Maybe this weekend I'll get some shelves, and make more of my texts simpler to access.

Public Function Encrypt(ByVal Plain As String, Text As TextBox) 'DUH!' Dim Letter As String For i = 1 To Len(Plain) Letter = Mid$(Plain, i, 1) Mid$(Plain, i, 1) = Chr(Asc(Letter) + 1) Next i Text = Plain End Function Public Function Decrypt(ByVal Encrypted As String, Text As TextBox) 'DUH!' Dim Letter As String For i = 1 To Len(Encrypted) Letter = Mid$(Encrypted, i, 1) Mid$(Encrypted, i, 1) = Chr(Asc(Letter) - 1) Next i Text = Encrypted End Function simple substitution cipher. maybe better than the lodd idea?

Just installed starry night - backyard., and it's fricking *amazing*. a total hoot.

has a 15 day trial period, and I think most people that are willing to sit through a 15 meg download (on dial-up- busy server, to my laptop it took about an hour, on dsl, it'd probably shoot down in 10 minutes or less) it's a ton of fun. Even more so on the laptop, because you can take it outside and do stuff, compare to the real stars. more fun than just astronomy, though is the "view from any point" stuff...I like flying back out into space, and looking at satellites orbiting earth, and such. It's peaceful, listening to soft music, imagining ones self in a out in vacuum.

Cool... I had no idea that the U.S. can selectively disable civilian GPS signals in specific areas (thereby preventing things like our enemies from using our satellites to move their troops). Makes sense.