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8537 - Lizards
Sep. 2nd, 2006 08:57 amview from the porch... about 10 iguanas going for a walk together along the pond.
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Pretty spiffy Zim and Kane Action this weekend. Il Postino was surprisingly good, too. (Saturday was spent watching Carnivale and writing. Drastic revisions to the detective story...I suspect I may be over-editing.
Cleansing chalk is better when it doesn't have bacon in it. Space-time object replacement device is ready, too.
I didn't venture any further than 25 steps from the HQ all weekend, and that's really just fine by me. Only objectives left for today and depositing checks from doing tech support and click-through. As the top of August approaches, I'm wondering if it'll get donated to heifer.org, or if there's another good "help teach a man to fish" sort of orgs out there.
Moment of Lyric - vox location
King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man
One day a boy, too young to know the danger;
Made a friend of this giant fearsome stranger!
And the life they live on their island home became a legend, the legend of . . .
King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man
Throughout the land you've heard about this wonder
Listen closely and you will hear his thunder
This mighty ape can be a friend of men
So says the legend The legend of
King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man
Lordy-lordy, another Monday. Note to self, bring personal forcefield generator, hip-waders, and something to temporarily deafen and keep me looking awake. Oh yeah, and synch up some new books to the pda. I'm thankful for good thoughts that're going to buoy me through the day.
mass of Mars = 6.4191 × 1023 kilograms
mass of the Moon = 7.36 × 1022 kilograms
mass of the Moon / mass of Mars = 0.114657818
Way off... why did I think that they were similar in size?
There's talk of removing the local iguanas, because they're spooking the ancients and are possibly carriers of disease.
I doubt that everything happens for a reason. (Or at least that there's one "master plan".)
1 year ago - visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank's sing-along, AIM email, bananaman
2 years ago - zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test
3 years ago - celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk's diary
4 years ago - palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!
5 years ago - important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot
6 years ago - junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinky
8410 - Ah, good. Friday, is it? Right.
Jun. 16th, 2006 06:06 amECN hooked me up with a side-gig for a website for her boss. That might make for a nice couple of hundred bucks in the next week or two - probably for about 2 or 3 days worth of work over the weekends in my downtime. I can cope with that. I've had quite a dry spell in that department since the grove shut down.
Looking forward to doing a little writing this weekend, too. I'm long out of practice, and I'm due to get back on the wagon again. I've been fooling with a new mystery-type idea, so I'll see how well I can work that up into a few thousand words, give or take.
Set up Newtcam on Big Brain...That should eliminate all the random hang-ups lappie-cam was causing. If all goes well, I may experiment with streaming video again soon. As it is, I'm testing out an "autozoom" feature of the newest version of Where's James webcam... we'll see how it looks.
Newt investigates the new location of the cam. He should've been snoozing with me at that time!
Sleestak Noises, and some really keen Sleestak custom figures. I want one!
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1 year ago - Sleepy, lj tags, couscous w/Danny, high voltage, questions,
2 years ago - audio blog test, bluetooth virus, Sue Dibney Croaks, Dreams of the old gang, Bloomsday, When the zombies take over, how long until the electricity fails?
3 years ago - paranoid dream (may've come true by now.), silly RP in There, sleepy newt pic, Abbie the Cat Blog
4 years ago - Navajo Talkers, Barbie collectors, I learn about this apartment, palm doodles
5 years ago - IMT becomes FMM, paying by the word, slaver, funeral-cast.com, photo poll
6 years ago - Taco bell folding & Whitesnake
8385 - Friday. Hoping for a good weekend.
Jun. 2nd, 2006 06:00 amMeeting with mom was interesting. We discussed bro and the new project she has with Wilton. Apparently, in her will, if she and Wilton go together, I am to be executor of the estate. That's a lot of responsibility... bro's share will go into a trust... he can use it for education, rehab or appropriate health expenses, but never will a dollar touch his hands, for fear that he'll spend badly.
M&W's company will be doing some work up in Sterling, VA (about 15 minutes from Dulles airport, or 40 min from DC) during the months of August through October, so I have a free crash spot should I want to visit points north during that time. Sally and Bill are up there, too... I can't believe that she's 61, and he's 50, now. Have twenty-five years really passed that swiftly? I still remember Sally and Mom working at the salon, and my going to see Star Wars in the same plaza. Now, their kids are in the late 20s, too. I'd love to visit the old house, hit the smithsonian Air & Space museum, and visit some LJ-type folk.
I am officially one year cable-tv free. (though I cheat and snag a couple of shows via bittorrent.) Take that, comcast!
Moment of Lyric - mp3
O Fortuna,
velut Luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem;
egestatem,
potestatem,
dissolvit ut glaciem.
( ... )
noaa predicts very active 2006 north atlantic hurricane season
The outlook calls for a very active 2006 season, with 13-16 named storms, 8-10 hurricanes, and 4-6 major hurricanes. This prediction indicates a continuation of above-normal activity that began in 1995. However, they do not currently expect a repeat of last year’s record season.
Want to buy a castle? Lots to choose from
"In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is an video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing. Senator Pastore starts out very abrasive and by the time Mr. Rogers is done talking, Senator Pastore's inner child has heard Mr. Rogers and agreed with him. Enjoy."
Hooray For Mr. Rogers! - youtube video
1 year ago - June 3 is Free doughnut day, fog of war, one word movie (still fun!), blood, mp, I read to newt, bro telemarketing, book review, sloth defeats gluttony, killed comcast!, poor at philosophy, solar powered recharge backpack, deepest sender works, newt pic
2 years ago - pikachu combat icon, Weather, transit of Venus, GP call, Cult TV, tree, journal remix
3 years ago -First use of Thing as Blackbeard, Character Studio, My first hint of Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, bro gets a new phone after a bike crash, photo-Friday "transportation"
4 years ago - Apartment Shopping, world's smallest website, markers defeat cdprotection, sum of all fears, coming home fumigation, smile creators
5 years ago - SWAT Team visits my apartment, prompting me to move. (No-nose flips out, cam pictures, too)
6 years ago - Newt recovers from Fritz's Parasite, and I discover Imood.com
8371 - Up and at 'em, Atom Ant!
May. 25th, 2006 06:00 amHappy Birthday, Apollo!
Ask a ninja! ... including - Ask A Ninja: Special Delivery 4 "Net Neutrality"
I got a lovely card and hand-colored Orange Monkey hanging suncatcher in the mail from Mandy! Very nice, indeed. I'm liking where this thing is headed.
I miss my Atom Ant T-shirt. I wonder where it went? I don't have nearly as many purple or maroon shirts as I used to own.
I wonder if Atom Ant had Champions "Growth" as a power to increase his strength and constitution? At times on the cartoon he seemed to be the size of a hamster. Pretty big for an Ant!
Moment of Lyric - mp3 - via
Up from the depths
Thirty stories high
Breathing fire
His head in the sky
Godzilla!
Godzilla!
Godzilla!
And Godzuki....
That's the tune that contributed to my leg scar.
Upcoming outdoor events in Huizenga Plaza:
MAROONE MOONLIGHT MOVIES presents ROUTE 66 On, Saturday, May 27, The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival will present a free outdoor screening of three hour long episodes of the original ROUTE 66 television series, complete with the original commercials. The afternoon begins at 4pm with an oldies concert, dance contest and classic Corvette Show.
Right by my old stomping grounds, next to the singing fountain on Los Olas and Andrews near the Museum 'f Art.
Found a nifty picture of the fountain, with a cheesy sax player in front of it.
1 year ago - bro stuff, lazy vibe, xanga murder, 3-d x-rays, sex offenders sans Viagra, church basement
2 years ago - messing with hello for pictures, blogspot for galleries, walkabout pics, How I feel about LJ politics, talked to a shoe-shine hobo, the pit, evil spirits. Got my wish for Doom Patrol on Teen Titans!
3 years ago - newtcam, lunch w/danny Teacher of the year!), Thracian Temple found, search test
4 years ago - talking with my bro about doing work as extras, played ps2, saw a raccoon, lj poetry (I miss that link.) , Apollo's Birthday (Speaking of scrying), laundry day
5 years ago - doppelganger, Civet in perfume, Happy-Lucky Chinese Restaurant Game, Sea Monkey Update, project Gutenberg (read Two years in the forbidden city), crap about font usage, pee-banners, caption?
6 years ago - Outings solution, Newt a little sick
8353 - Mamma's Day!
May. 14th, 2006 06:00 amHappy Mother's Day to all you mothers!
Well, Momster and Wilt are pretty sick and out of commission, so that frees up my Sunday brunch schedule. Walkies it is! I'm not going to dine out this morning, because I know it's pretty much a universal restaurant crowd sort of holiday. It just means I can go to a non-mommy-type place with relative ease today... maybe a movie?
Had a lovely long phone talk yesterday, to make more vacation plans, but we ended up simply chitty-chatting... that was quite nice, too.
An Alien Saucer is hovering overhead. A cone of coherent lime green light erupts from the bottom center of the craft, and strikes a man walking down the street.
He vanishes with a flash, and a popping sound of air rushing to fill the void where he once was.
[Poll #728552]
Poll inspired by this video. (quicktime, via)
Moment of Lyric - mp3
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Oh no, they say he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!
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2 years ago - Stan/Satan, Wifi in office (has since moved), first new palm pics, coming moonlight movies, Stay Tuned, Rawwr, Downtown ft laud treasures.
3 years ago - Update Virus Defs, Rainmaker, Frankie Mooch Phone booth, there stuff and quests
4 years ago - Termite inspection, apt shopping - tenants rights, web page fiddling, fonts, Tman, Name a Terrier
5 years ago - ossify, evil news, tumor talk, veggie poll
Wild weather last night... funnel clouds and waterspouts not too far from my ride home on the bus.. temperatures dropped to lovely coolness, too. Some sweet thunderstorms to lull me to sleep. Hopefully that'll keep the fire weather at a minimum.
Had some lovely chitty-chatty last night... IM niceness and Danny on the phone, too.
So now the alligators are going door to door. When Lori Pachelli heard someone knocking at the door of her home in a gated community in this southwest Florida community earlier this week, she looked out to see an unwelcome visitor on her front stoop: an 8-foot alligator. ( Read more... )
Moment of lyric (thanks, BHK! - mp3)
You go to my head
And you linger on and refrain
And I find it spinning round in my brain
Like a bubble in a glass of champagne
You go to my head
Like a sip of sparkling Burgundy Blue
And I find the very mention of you
Like a kicker in a Julip or two
CHORUS:
Oh the thrill of the thought
That you might give a thought
To my plea--Cast a spell over me
Still I said to myself: Get a hold of yourself
Can't you see it can never be
You go to my head
With a smile that makes my temperature rise
Like a summer with a thousand July's
You intoxicate my soul with your eyes
Though I'm certain that this heart of mine
Hasn't a ghost of a chance in this crazy romance
You go to my head, you go to my head
You go to my head
Friday, at last! Sakes, I thought it would never come. Now to just get the weekend to stick around a bit!
Got my copy of Black and White 2 from Dave, and have downloaded patches 1.1 and 1.2 for it... I suspect it'll make for some fun playing in the near future.
Getting all kinds of surprisingly good sounds about v for vendetta... I'll probably check it out this weekend... I went from dreading it to looking forward. a grand thing.
1 year ago - readablog, banksy, laughing boy audio, pictures, birth chart,
2 years ago - condo falls through, lj being bad, GIMP, AIM games, chimp mask, first remarked on how the Roanoke/Lumbee entry is still active, origin poll, Calliope fest
3 years ago - cool chemical reactions, pronunciation query, gael returns , a pic of newt.
4 years ago - Happy chats, urban ruins links, some website renewal ideas, old icons.
5 years ago - Baron Munchausen, computer needs fixifying, Coconut song, Oscar Picks, Crayola Crayon color time line
8116 - Work, again? BOB SAGAT!
Jan. 16th, 2006 06:00 am
I didn't do much of anything this weekend. I didn't put on shoes. I didn't leave the third floor. I did clean house, laundry, etc.
Watched the heck out of the Kong DVDs... all the special edition stuff... Harryhausen's test footage and the documentary on "the making of" was pretty dang impressive, and Harryhausen's commentary was good on the movie disc, too. A lot of it was interpolated, due to the movie being over 70 years old.. just about everyone remotely involved in the project are long deceased. It worked out quite nicely, however, since the material hasn't changed in that span,either.
Mr. T doing a happy little dance. (don't sniff the rest of the site unless you're not at work and have a strong stomach.)
In fact, I'll just snag the animated gif from the shockwave,and post it here, instead.
Found it searching for -
Remember kids... believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs.
1 year ago - Rainy lazy mel-day, bonnet house, literati with resilience, fictional substances, fooling around with image searches
2 years ago - Cycloptic Goat, Fontifier, Aesop, etc
3 years ago - Newt Pic, Manatees, Harry potter, palm wait at doc, sanctity of life
4 years ago - cool invention poll, thoughts about human rights progressing, magic spell over Taiwan, books read, How to take a punch, and my first notification that I was being published in UA2.
5 years ago - Custard the Dragon, Beautiful and Not-so-beautiful Words, Botticelli reminding me of mah sweetie, Michelanglo on Censorship, and a few dead links.
6 years ago - Newt was Neutered!
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shoo! My birthday present got here early, but I was good and didn't unwrap the gift paper unless she said I could.
And she did. I got the 2-disc Special Edition of King Kong (1933)! Yay!
Much love to all the family Shoo in Shoo-ville! Newt also likes the box quite a lot, too. He's currently sitting inside, gnawing on a cardboard flap.
Took a lovely late night swim in the pool at about 2am. The water was warmer than the air, which is always nice. I had a brief moment of iguana-fear, which quickly passed after I gave a quick sweep of the area. Very soothing to float on my back, staring at the moon and just thinking and feeling my toes and fingertips wrinkle up a little. Water is still the closest thing to hitting a reduced gravity environment for me... quite peaceful and I could feel a lot of physical tension flow away from my back, legs and shoulders. I was shivering a bit, despite the warm water, and I don't know what that was...maybe the body unkinking? I may make a habit of nighttime soaks more often.
Hey, look at all the batgirls!
A gazillion of 'em!
Some new designs, some just different styles on the old stuff... pretty nifty lj meme. Some amazingly amateurish, others frighteningly professional.
Take me off the shelf and put me in a plastic bag, because I'm sold!
VS and KTM both submitted resignations this week.. that's pretty much the entire community relations department. They'll both be gone before my birthday. I hate to sound greedy, but I really hope this won't affect my making a long weekend out of Feb 2-5 next month. I wonder how long RR has left before he high-tails it, too?
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Scottobear!
- It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun's surface to Scottobear.
- The opposite sides of Scottobear always add up to seven!
- White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, because it doesn't contain Scottobear!
- Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with Scottobear.
- Medieval knights put the skin of Scottobear on their sword handles to improve the grip!
- If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill Scottobear.
- A bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and Scottobear!
- Ideally, Scottobear should be stored on his side at a temperature of 55 degrees.
- In the Spanish edition of Cluedo, Scottobear is the victim.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be Scottobear.
Moment of Lyric:
My, my the clock in the sky is pounding away
There's so much to say
A face, a voice, an overdub has no choice
And it cannot rejoice
Wanting to be, to hear and to see
Crying to the sky
But the porpoise is laughing good-bye, good-bye
good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Clicks, clacks
Riding the backs of giraffes for laughs is alright for a while
The ego sings of castles and kings and things
That go with a life of style
Wanting to feel, to know what is real
Living is a lie
But the porpoise is waiting good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
1 year ago - Spidey a teacher's aide, palm doodles, bus pictures, bizarro ipod
2 years ago - Media player classic, Chinese connection, old gaming notes (with diagrams), Florida laws, high school meme, monkeys!, work hubbub
3 years ago - evil quiz, printable gizmos, supergun, enviro-boots
4 years ago - visited hippies, cool clock, warm, groceries, kevin smith quiz, silly linkies, ramble about x-ray-eyes, SOP, etc
5 years ago - fun quotes, romance test, victorian flower symbolism, bill hicks
It'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.
Another Chilly Weekend coming! ( Read more... )
1 year ago - Lost, romainan pop inspires .htaccess, supercar, anonymous statement meme, age act meme
2 years ago - That Stretchy Guy & That Clay Guy.
3 years ago - cops, prezzies, kidthinks
4 years ago - space commies and monkeys, dream, haiku, mothman, tarot
5 years ago - SOS, folk fest, annoyed with collapsing tabs, brian howdy, super friends drinking game
7925 - woah-ho-ho-hoooo
Nov. 15th, 2005 07:13 am
Woo... the King Kong marketing machine is in full swing... it's going to be a Giant Gorilla Christmas!
I rather dig the Beijing Olympic Mascots.
Currently a bit pissed at work. only Carl Douglas and Giant Apes can cheer me up.
Moment of Lyric: mp3
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing
(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
7906 - This and That
Nov. 7th, 2005 07:18 am
Hey! Looks like Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman in Spiderman 3!
( Good choice! )
found via instantloser - a great sounding caramel corn recipe. ( Read more... )
Removed the Halloween season from my homepage and journal... another month or so, it'll get the yuletide treatment.
Closed off my audio directory for a few weeks... was getting dangerously close to my bandwidth limit, and I still have 21 days to go this month. A lot of Jon Brion - Monday and Sparkplug Minuet Fans out there. If someone really wants something, I'll toss it up to a temporary storage area like yousendit.
I'm looking quite forward to having access to a swimming pool... the urge for a non-briny soak has been pretty high these last few warm days.
Current music is from P:ano's new album Ghost Pirates Without Heads - via popsheep
Pay 'em a visit and snag the mp3, it's worth a sniff.
University of Florida book of insect records
Thanksgiving: The Movie - Jay Pinkerton's Finest work so far. Clever, marketable, and very offensive.
Attitude is Everything.
[Poll #606982]
knitted digestive system
Can you tell I was at home on call yesterday, dear journal?
Have an mp3 with lyrics to meet my current mood:
( ... )
I was walkin' to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams
When I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension
And soon I was abducted by some aliens from space
Who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
And they took some polaroids
And said I was a darn good sport
And as a way of saying thank you
They offered to transport me back to
Any point in history that I would care to go
And so I had them send me back to last Thursday night
So I could pay my phone bill on time
Just then the floating disembodied head of
Colonel Sanders started yelling
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so
Important doesn't matter
( ... )
I realized yesterday that I'm a bit of a sensualist. I love getting input from all of my senses.... I'd quite miss any of them, even scent and taste. I love holding Newton, and feeling him snuggle softly against me. I love catching a slight trace of perfume in the air, especially after a lovely woman walks past. Hearing a child laugh (or any honest, happy laughter) is a wonderful thing. Music. The taste of a grilled cheese sammich on a cool day...or a cold beer after doing yardwork. Breath on back of my neck before having it kissed. A meaty punch into the heavy bag. A drop of sweat running down your spine once you start really getting warmed up. Foot rubs, or the contented sigh you hear when you give a good foot rub to someone else. Rain on the window,with thunder in the background. Hydrogen peroxide bubbling on a cut. Newt barking/trilling. People-watching for shapes, colors and patterns of movement. Urban decay's textures, easy to feel or see. Bugs' multifaceted rainbow eyes. It's all really good stuff.
I've wanted a personal jetpack for the longest time. I blame the ol' James Bond and Johnny Quest movies/show.
Whoosh! Even if it could just do enough to super leap across a traffic intersection -- that'd be fine.
These are a cool middle ground.
Whoosh! Even if it could just do enough to super leap across a traffic intersection -- that'd be fine.
These are a cool middle ground.
I'm tempted to pick up the Monster Island series of games, even though I know odds are good that I'll never sit down and play it with anyone. (Unless I visit
graypumpkin in Texas, someday, and even then, we'd probably play Champions or Zombies!.) I think all gamers have a slight compulsion to collect genre stuff, anyhow. There's a 2 for 1 going for a measly $10 right now... maybe I'll gift it to myself as an excuse not to eat takeout for two days.
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7863 - The Great Old Pumpkin
Oct. 28th, 2005 03:06 pm
Peanuts meets Lovecraft:
As you are no doubt aware, I am the issue of solid Dutch stock—the prosperous Van Pelt family of St. Paul. Mine was a comfortable and happy childhood, and I spent much of it in the devoted service of the Great Old Pumpkin. For him, I cultivated an annual pumpkin patch—mostly Autumn Gold and Big Max, as I thought he would find the Atlantic Giants tacky. I also evangelized him in the community, relating the tale of how, every year on Hallowmas Eve, the day when the spiritual most strongly encroaches on the substantial, this mightiest of gourds would rise to revel across the world with the most sincere of his adorers. My neighbors were understandably skeptical; after all, not once had this superbeing ever chosen to grace my pumpkin patch or any other place in our town. I vowed that I would coax him into my backyard, and I set out in the manner of a learned man to discover how I might do this.Read the full text here, or download an MP3 reading (with background music) here.
(no subject)
Oct. 20th, 2003 05:21 pmWonderful Heavy Rains at 1:30 this morning. Sort of a Shame I knew it was happening, but it did get me to sleep, finally. A pity I had to be back up at 6ish.
I get home, and Bro stopped by my house and left a note on the door...I hope I get a chance to talk to him before he is too far removed for me to do so. I'm concerned about him, and his timing could've been better.
The Fundraiser this weekend did poorly… only drew about 60% of what they were shooting for cash-wise, but that was still a decent haul, considering only 12% of the turnout showed up.
Forensic Art
American Social Hygiene Posters
roman uvula forceps - "A pair of forceps with a scissor action that were used to crush human tissue in the removal of the uvula (tissue at the back of the throat) and hemorrhoids."
human spontaneous involuntary invisibility - "Then there is the case of Melanie in Ventura, California, who became invisible while sitting on her own living room sofa and staring at the wall, lost in her own thoughts. Her husband was walking around the house looking for her but could not see her sitting there, only several feet away from where he was walking. This lasted for approximately ten minutes, then she was suddenly visible again."
anatomic pathology case of the month - "In January 1995, the Department of Pathology began highlighting a new case every month, to be called the Case of the Month. Normally, these are cases of greater than normal clinical interest, cases with unusual symptoms and/or microscopic and gross characteristics, or cases involving rare diseases or conditions."
Custom monopoly *I* can enjoy - Giant Monster Monopoly... and it's free!
Cool b3ta gif of the day- ( A little big, so behind the cut )
I get home, and Bro stopped by my house and left a note on the door...I hope I get a chance to talk to him before he is too far removed for me to do so. I'm concerned about him, and his timing could've been better.
The Fundraiser this weekend did poorly… only drew about 60% of what they were shooting for cash-wise, but that was still a decent haul, considering only 12% of the turnout showed up.
Forensic Art
American Social Hygiene Posters
roman uvula forceps - "A pair of forceps with a scissor action that were used to crush human tissue in the removal of the uvula (tissue at the back of the throat) and hemorrhoids."
human spontaneous involuntary invisibility - "Then there is the case of Melanie in Ventura, California, who became invisible while sitting on her own living room sofa and staring at the wall, lost in her own thoughts. Her husband was walking around the house looking for her but could not see her sitting there, only several feet away from where he was walking. This lasted for approximately ten minutes, then she was suddenly visible again."
anatomic pathology case of the month - "In January 1995, the Department of Pathology began highlighting a new case every month, to be called the Case of the Month. Normally, these are cases of greater than normal clinical interest, cases with unusual symptoms and/or microscopic and gross characteristics, or cases involving rare diseases or conditions."
Custom monopoly *I* can enjoy - Giant Monster Monopoly... and it's free!
Cool b3ta gif of the day- ( A little big, so behind the cut )
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Oct. 23rd, 2002 10:52 amtwo years ago ... painted desert dreams with my love / fun with virtual lite-brite
a year ago... crabwise, popinjay, colloidal silver, jim verillo in court, days of the dead, and remembering the painted desert again.
Paper airplane simulator is fun for a few tosses. My best distance is 102.3682 feet
Didn't go for the morning cycle today... just wasn't into it. I preferred to walk around my apartment building and the blocks surrounding. I want to get a more intimate knowledge of my region.
More free movies in my vicinity Young Frankenstein, Rocky Horror, Men in Black and Back to the Future... the weather's getting nice, too. Python wasn't bad, not too muggy... but the nights are much more pleasant now.
I look at the LJ logo of a pencil, and wonder if a broken record wouldn't be a better one.
Hee... Dave picked this thing up to take on my big guns...I like the shoulder-turreted dwarves. The detail is *excellent*... I wonder how they get such good work on such an inexpensive product... like MacFarlane's toys. I'll be interested in seeing how well it stands up to cannon-fire.
Looks like ye olde Newtie webcamme is about kaput. He put in a good term of service... a few solid years. I'll pick up a fresh one the next time I hit the office depot...they're so cheap these days! It's so old that Windows 2000 doesn't have a support driver for it... sort of been fudging with a home-brew one I found online after the system was reformatted. I'd still like to grab a Lego cam to work with the rest of the mindstorm stuff.
In a similar vein, here's an article about camera zapping with a laser pointer... neat! Temporary, too.
( Newer Giant Rubber Monster Movies I plan on burning to VCD, over time. )
It's funny... thinking of the painted desert, two years ago... it's like it happened yesterday. I've got a warm feeling inside.. I like that.
Special Bonus Photo - Newton Starring in Jacob's Ladder!
a year ago... crabwise, popinjay, colloidal silver, jim verillo in court, days of the dead, and remembering the painted desert again.
Paper airplane simulator is fun for a few tosses. My best distance is 102.3682 feet
Didn't go for the morning cycle today... just wasn't into it. I preferred to walk around my apartment building and the blocks surrounding. I want to get a more intimate knowledge of my region.
More free movies in my vicinity Young Frankenstein, Rocky Horror, Men in Black and Back to the Future... the weather's getting nice, too. Python wasn't bad, not too muggy... but the nights are much more pleasant now.
I look at the LJ logo of a pencil, and wonder if a broken record wouldn't be a better one.
Hee... Dave picked this thing up to take on my big guns...I like the shoulder-turreted dwarves. The detail is *excellent*... I wonder how they get such good work on such an inexpensive product... like MacFarlane's toys. I'll be interested in seeing how well it stands up to cannon-fire.
Looks like ye olde Newtie webcamme is about kaput. He put in a good term of service... a few solid years. I'll pick up a fresh one the next time I hit the office depot...they're so cheap these days! It's so old that Windows 2000 doesn't have a support driver for it... sort of been fudging with a home-brew one I found online after the system was reformatted. I'd still like to grab a Lego cam to work with the rest of the mindstorm stuff.
In a similar vein, here's an article about camera zapping with a laser pointer... neat! Temporary, too.
( Newer Giant Rubber Monster Movies I plan on burning to VCD, over time. )
It's funny... thinking of the painted desert, two years ago... it's like it happened yesterday. I've got a warm feeling inside.. I like that.
Special Bonus Photo - Newton Starring in Jacob's Ladder!
Didn't make it to Norton today, mind/body fried from the last week's exhausting schedule. Skipped everway too. I did, however get the first supers game with the Hunters in, and that was quite fun. 1930's setting, Characters are - Hawkman clone, Prof Tick-Tock (makes clockwork doodads for assorted needs), Lucky Lil (occultist/probability manipulation), H. Wu (magic Sword, chi blast anti-tong), Noodles the Clown (cursed comedian with magic pants. Really.), and Piston (Cyborg [1930's style- think robocop powered by pneumatics]). seems to be an occult theme running through it, at least this session.
Went to see (you guessed it!) Godzilla 2k with my little brother this evening, (Now that I've seen it more than 3 times, I can see where I would've edited it more, especially at the beginning, for tighter time.) after that, we went out to dinner at big pink, the tasty food source right next door. Yummy Hummus opener, and veggie-burger meal. Bro ate a carno-burger, and we gabbed for a while.
walked along los Olas, talked about stuff, and we looked at the boats and mocked the goofy rich people & drank orange slurpees. His apartment is small, and nicely Spartan, but no worse than my own shoebox. :)
Newton has been quite a good little guy these last couple of weeks, I think he's preferring the bachelor life. (Nobody else in the apt to take my attention from him, I think)
Went to see (you guessed it!) Godzilla 2k with my little brother this evening, (Now that I've seen it more than 3 times, I can see where I would've edited it more, especially at the beginning, for tighter time.) after that, we went out to dinner at big pink, the tasty food source right next door. Yummy Hummus opener, and veggie-burger meal. Bro ate a carno-burger, and we gabbed for a while.
walked along los Olas, talked about stuff, and we looked at the boats and mocked the goofy rich people & drank orange slurpees. His apartment is small, and nicely Spartan, but no worse than my own shoebox. :)
Newton has been quite a good little guy these last couple of weeks, I think he's preferring the bachelor life. (Nobody else in the apt to take my attention from him, I think)
Godzilla!!!
Aug. 26th, 2000 12:58 amOriginally published at The Scotto Grotto. You can comment here or there.
so i just got done watching Godzilla 2000, it pretty much rocked. I saw it with Robb, it was fun. aside from the peanut gallery that would not shut up, I had a good time…
Foodstuffs eaten today –
Cheese pizza, water, big ol’ coke, Hershey bar pie
Godzilla!!!
Aug. 26th, 2000 12:58 amso i just got done watching Godzilla 2000, it pretty much rocked. I saw it with Robb, it was fun. aside from the peanut gallery that would not shut up, I had a good time...
Foodstuffs eaten today -
Cheese pizza, water, big ol' coke, Hershey bar pie
Foodstuffs eaten today -
Cheese pizza, water, big ol' coke, Hershey bar pie
Good morning good morning!
Aug. 25th, 2000 01:57 pmOriginally published at The Scotto Grotto. You can comment here or there.
Mmmm… it’s payday at the old Scottobear camp, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m hoping to bug out of this joint early if I can, maybe go see Godzilla or some silly action movie with Robby, and have a nice weekend of Everway, seeing my Brother & Dave, and relaxing with the kitty.
*does a little dance* (The Cha-cha, if you must know.)
Good morning good morning!
Aug. 25th, 2000 01:57 pmMmmm... it's payday at the old Scottobear camp, and it couldn't have come at a better time. I'm hoping to bug out of this joint early if I can, maybe go see Godzilla or some silly action movie with Robby, and have a nice weekend of Everway, seeing my Brother & Dave, and relaxing with the kitty.
*does a little dance* (The Cha-cha, if you must know.)
*does a little dance* (The Cha-cha, if you must know.)
