scottobear | Entries tagged with programming

NOAA, DOT, IRS, SAA

So many acronyms full of potential around me these days!

Here's a hidden program in Windows Xp, it is a very useful graphics tool for designing your own fonts, logos and icons.

To start the program go to Run in the Start Menu then type eudcedit and click OK.

It will then open the program, and you just select a hexadecimal code for your first character from the grid to start then click OK and you are now ready to begin designing. Using the set of drawing tools on the left you can do your own design. When you have finished you can save your character, either in a particular font, or all fonts. via

I just downloaded Night of the Living Dead down to my PSP. you can d/l it or watch it directly on archive.org or google video. It's one of my all-time fave scary movies.

Happiness is Roddy MacDowell with silly string on most recent Columbo. I honestly don't know if I prefer him in protagonist or antagonist roles. It did really put the focus on the dangers of smoking and "modern answering machines", if nothing else. It seems that Columbo went from drinking bourbon on the job in '68 to passing on booze entirely in '72. I wonder if the Mrs. turned him around?

1 year ago - bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae

2 years ago - MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski's - Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme.

3 years ago - IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.

4 years ago - mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren't loved, sculpey, eraser clay

5 years ago - Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan

6 years ago - The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway Group

Listen to this article

Current Mood: giggly
Current Location: 33441
Current Music: Thank heaven for leetle girls (Maurice C. in my head)

Modded my homepage a bit last night - added random flickr pics to my gallery page, tweaked the geocoding to reflect my new location, and removed 4 dead links from my front page. (they decided to cancel the $10 per link, so it's all yahoo, now.) A few other little edits snuck in here and there, tacked on revised colors and a few other touch-ups. I think a major overhaul will happen in the next month or so. A new background image and perhaps some revised frames.

Danny claimed that the earth is still cooling from it's creation, but I called shenanigans on him...so I had to look it up.

How is magma made?

The short answer: There is a lot of heat within the earth, and this heat is produced by radioactive decay of naturally-occurring radioactive elements within the earth. It is the same process that allows a nuclear reactor to generate heat, but in the earth, the radioactive material is much less concentrated. However, because the earth is so much bigger than a nuclear power plant it can produce a lot of heat.

So... my question followed... are all live volcanoes radioactive? It seems not.

Things standard lava won't melt : Stainless steel,concrete, already-cooled lava. The temperature of flowing basalt is usually around 1170 degrees C or less. Anything that you find that has a melting point above that will be able to withstand melting.

No time to transcribe, but here's today's mp3

Most recent venture brothers was a bit of a let down, but I suppose they can have one weak one per season. every other one has been pretty dang good thus far. The "dime store doctor doom" just wasn't up to snuff.

1 year ago - forgotten nightmares, laughing puppets, sickies, gov rss feeds, paycheck to paycheck, audio hidden, i loves me some waffles, music, otr, 25 food hacks, smarts,

2 years ago - no dwarf dice, swap shop instead, I live in a pulp universe, walkabout pictures, froggies, gorillas in comics, email post - image host

3 years ago - ACIM invites me back, new sound card, "don't go there" is gone, DSA, keywords, gil gerard ages, commanding my minions, publix cancels home delivery

4 years ago - run tel dat, newt playing, gaming, cow teeth, trivia cookies!

5 years ago - ichnology, phantom blot, no-so-evil news

6 years ago - Newtcam, replicating interests

Current Mood: enthusiastic
Current Music: Soul Coughing - Wooly Imbibe

Hack or Break Into a Windows Xp Computer Without Changing Password

If I didn't like tabletop RPG gaming for the social aspect, I think I'd have gone in for use of school supplies, at least at first. I don't think I'd have stuck around for nearly as long, however.

All kinds of fun can be had with pen lights and long exposures. (the whole site has neat entries)

Yes.com has a nice real-time visualization of what's being played on the radio around the country (U.S. only.) You can drill down and check out the recently played items of many stations around you as well.

I'm really enjoying Weird Maryland... thanks, bhk! :D Even if I don't get to hunt bigfoot or the anti-santa when I'm up that way, knowledge is power! I wouldn't mind visiting Poe's Crypt, if there's time.

1 year ago - New Orleans Lisas, moonbase mars, flash earth, ed wood directs, devo, blue beetle & lithium, bush 5 years and no "nos", spidey-enema, SCOAI, word colors

2 years ago - missed oneeyed, bro scams mom, no donkey basketball, t-mobile good gesture, scale model of city, lenny kravitz warning, cemetery strollurge, Bermuda Triangle, Saturn's 33 moons, flash game tutorial

3 years ago - Newt vs measuring cup, astronaut jones, free router stuff

4 years ago - Saturday mornings, heroclix, band names, toad turmoil, recorder, fun gab

5 years ago - page pondering

6 years ago - bakery-dog, factoids-lieoids

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Dancin' on the ceiling (in my head)

Just about a week before launch.. I really hope that work doesn't need to call me while I'm out of state. I have to remember to let Fatima know that I need to reschedule her cleaning.

Fined For Using Someone Else's WiFi

Got a Wu update from Danny - Doug sounds like he's taking to fatherhood well and is still has a focus on music. It's hard to believe that his daughter is already 10 months old! Speaking of a gamer's babies - (not Doug's)

I wonder what his THAC0 is?

For me to test on a sample machine later. Password bypass

The Secret Life of Walter Kitty - Illos for the coming book.

1 year ago - german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming

2 years ago - Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats

3 years ago - Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi "VD" Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo

4 years ago - day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee

5 years ago - pet/work poll, epenthesis

6 years ago - ebooks, hungry

Current Mood: Fully Rested & Barrel Chested

ECN 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

Monday's morning meeting DRAGGED. A lot was said, but I fear that little was communicated.

mass transit trip planner for south florida. handy as all get out.

After a nice gab about "something to do with your hands, rather than smoking" resulted in finding these toys.

Stretchy Ape, filled with rubber beads! Water Snake! Ye Olde Popping Martian!

Moment of Lyric -

Waiting at the station,
waiting for the right moves,
waiting in the basement,
waiting for the right cues,
waiting in a daydream,
waiting in the slipstream

waiting...
waiting in the right bars,
waiting in the right shoes,
waiting in a fast car,
waiting in the airports,

waiting for my airmiles,
waiting in slow motion,
coming through the turnstiles.

And if you ever change your mind,
you know I'm hard to find,
and if you ever need someone...

I'll still be waiting...
Waiting with the orphans, waiting for the bee stings, they tell me that success brings,
waiting in the half light, waiting for your whole life,
waiting for an ideal...a low deal...a no deal, to play your stereotype.
And if you ever find the time,
you know I'm not far behind,
And if you ever need someone...

I'll still be waiting...
just waiting for a friend.
I say it's all right,
It's all right my friend...just waiting.

*Legal* BitTorrent Download for Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2

This is not a crack, this is not a hack, this is not software piracy -it's unofficial mirroring with official validation. You can get a Windows Vista Beta 2 product key for free through Microsoft, as the OS won't install without one.

See also, Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista

My Scotto-thermostat is broken... the house temperature reads the same, but my body seems to heat up about 10-11pm, right before bedtime, like the more tired I am, the warmer I get... especially noticeable as core temperature of my torso and the soles of my feet.

Free Comic book of 60's TV heroes! Herculoids! Mighty Mightor! David & Goliath!, Birdman!, er... Moby Dick, too.

Sorry about the lack of content this morning, dear journal... have a man and possum.

1 year ago - Lovies for ldy and sedef, tunnel vision, hukilau, danny, bro, speed racer for geico, cvs ood by the lb, dr who, impact font, pink floyd reuniting

2 years ago - Newt Treats, police, sleepies, DIY-WiFi, Horrid teacher name, loud car alarm, RI, Harry Lime

3 years ago - Cartoon Pope blesses ldy, white/brown eggs, fibber island lyrics

4 years ago - Intruders, Out for Thai & sushi, Rent-bump.

5 years ago - perorate, Poi Dog Pondering, Thinking of using share point for journaling, smart tags, considering a piercing / blood donation,Wolbachia / Kamikaze Sperm, evil news

6 years ago - April refusing to go to the doc, bronchitis, half-light, new pals

Current Music: Devlins - Waiting (Tom Lord-Alge Remix)

Thanks in no small part to the monkey chow diaries, I think I've got a good idea on making an effort to eat better, and to help make the world a better place.

My current solution - I'm going to pay matching funds to a foundation for anytime I eat non-grocery items (and I won't be spending much more - cutting purchase of said items in half - so I'll be spending abou tthe same amount). Anything from a vending machine or a restaurant, I'll be earmarking an equal amount of cash for a charity for feeding (or better, teaching to self-feed) someone else who is hungry.

Here is a list of 263 charities that provide food. Though, I might prefer to support organizations that catalyze sustainable changes, like Engineers Without Borders. (The old feed a man a fish versus teach him to fish thing).

If anyone can recommend a good, reputable charity (where money goes to the cause, not executive payroll) that teaches recovery of land / self-sustainable health to people, please let me know.

I'm going to turn my homepage's yahoo ads and the paypal charity tip jar to focus on that aspect of helping others, at least until the First of July (I may extend it past that point, too, if I don't come up with another idea that at least as useful) so, if anyone visiting Newtcam or any other page that has a yahoo ad clicks on it, they can help without spending anything.

Other Projects are Hurricane recovery, Race for Life Cancer Research, and Wigs for Kids - Not to mention the following clickable helpers:

A few sites for positive change - None of them cost a penny but can help to do good works.

The hunger site - free food to the hungry
Breast cancer site - Help to fund free mammograms
Child Health site - Help save young lives for free
Rainforest Site - help to preserve our rainforests
Animal rescue site - Feed an animal in need.

It frequently seems that people want what they cannot have. That's not a problem, until it turns out that the *only* reason they want it is because they can't have it. Very silly, especially when they don't want it anymore once they have it.

Well, Duh, I say to myself. Just be glad that isn't one of my failings... I've got enough on my own.

( a bunch o' quizzies )

Moment of Lyric - mp3
(I found the song ages ago, but the poor guy got /.'ed)

Code Monkey get up, get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob

Rob say Code Monkey very diligent
But his output stink
His code not functional or elegant
What do Code Monkey think?

Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write goddamn login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud

Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
Big, warm, fuzzy, secret heart
Code Monkey like you
Code Monkey like you

Code Monkey hang around at front desk
Tell you sweater look nice
Code Monkey offer buy you soda
Bring you cup, bring you ice

You say no thank you for the soda, 'cause
Soda make you fat
Anyway you busy with the telephone
No time for chat

Code Monkey have long walk back to cubicle
He sit down pretend to work
Code Monkey not thinking so straight
Code Monkey not feeling so great

Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
Big, warm, fuzzy, secret heart
Code Monkey like you
Code Monkey like you... a lot

Code Monkey have every reason
To get out this place
Code Monkey just keep on working
See a soft pretty face

Much rather wake up eat a coffee cake
Take bath, take nap
This job fulfilling in creative way
Such a load of crap

Code Monkey think some day he have everything, even pretty girl like you
Code Monkey just waiting for now
Code Monkey say someday, somehow...

Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew
Code Monkey very simple man
Big, warm, fuzzy, secret heart
Code Monkey like you
Code Monkey like you

The fine folks over at Creative Commons have just released a legal guide for podcasters. It seems to cover just about anything you need to know if you're podcasting - how to navigate the very complex world of copyright and create podcasts that are not illegal (if you like that sort of thing).

Sympathy for The Devil - many covers

1 year ago - On Call, Rainy, mouse ni the house, drop foot, audio books, santana, house info

2 years ago - full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias

3 years ago - D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rentalwarnings - things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there -quest

4 years ago - MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia's angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what's better

5 years ago - evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku,got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist'ssexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll

6 years ago - Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it's over with April

Current Mood: recumbent
Current Music: Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey

Dug through my big box of "ancient, but working" equipment, and found another motherboard that fit into Circle (The Linux Newtcam Server). it didn't want to play nice at first, but after flashing the bios, it works with the HD now. Newtcam is up and running again.

Current Image -

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: 26.307511 -80.099752 (Newtcam Server)
Current Music: ancient HD and fans spinning

Saw Ray I. out in the parking lot at work yesterday. He seems to be doing well, looks healthy and has been married 4 years now. It seems he' splaying D&D online regularly.

Is it wrong of me to be in support of Robbie Rotten on Lazytown?

I want to be a lazy scout. (At Least today.)

Moment of Lyric - mp3

I really like the song mostly just for the yeah yeahs and the riffs, but here' the lyrics, anyhow.

If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we'd really do...

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It's a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you'd really do

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta - a small application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it's ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista.

see also:

Let's say you change the password very often on your Windows XP admi naccount from your home computer and you suddenly realize you don't remember the password. What do you do? No, you don't reinstall WindowsXP and you don't format your hard-disk. You download Offline NT password & Registry editor,create a bootable floppy or CD, boot from the floppy / CD and start the utility. You can reset the password of any user that has a local account on your system.

This tip works for NT operating system: Windows NT4, 2000, XP and 2003.

Another play Hollywood movie trailer, called 10 Things I Hate About Commandments. -- a comedy 3,000 years in the making.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs

Maybe visiting with

mental_circles and other nifty folk to celebrate her b'day by having Mexican food and good cheer.

Possibly going to Fairchild today to smell a stinky, but lovely tuber. Not sure if I want to drop $20 to smell rotting meat, but how often does one get to see something like that? This year's bloom is currently at 7'1" / 100lbs.

1 year ago - Star Wars With Kev & Bheesham, Apophenia, vega, posting distro, newt and Orangeade pic

2 years ago - friendly gator banished, bro moving, spymac, ephemerist, oddtodd's gig

3 years ago - monkey-shakespeare, 5-things meme, military waste, ad shield

4 years ago - good walkies, missv goodies (need to reupload pic of newt in his cloth), piggy database

5 years ago - fun tv, lambaste, 9-to-5, Hawaiian love, tv part poll, astley issues, cool orange cats, clutch, gun quote

Current Music: the flaming lips - the yeah yeah yeah song

I keep getting hit by the aim bot that starts out with "i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?", usually aim user chewableputty.

An explanation of how the bot works is here.

Check out the google search - it seems to be happening to quite a few people.

The greathatsby bot scans LJ users for AIM screen names then sends two people the same message and relays their replies to each other so each person thinks the other person IMed them out of the blue.

Sort of a new version of the 3-way calling prank. I've gotten pings (even when invisible to aim) maybe once a week for the last 6 weeks. a nifty part of the trick is that it auto translates your im name to the bot name when you're in chat, too. so if you identify yourself as "I'm biglug23" it'll say to the other side "I'm chewableputty".

a way around it is to break it up with spaces or some other character - b'i'g'l'u'g'2'3'

other bot names -

chewableputty
thegreathatsby
bananahoedown
studbeefpile66
studleyqbeefpile
dirkfunk3000
dirkfunk5000
funkyplumber238
hatfact0ry
ofhatsandmen
scrubtron
iamscrubtron
scrubtronwashere
scrubtronics
octosausage
goatblaster16
greathatsby64
bananahootenanny

Current Location: 33441-5482

I just updated the geocode location on my journal... it's a lot simpler to do now.

Now I just have to reapply it to Newtcam and my homepage proper.

Maybe if I get bored enough, I'll write a greasemonkey script and submit it to LJ to sort of automate it... but I know they're not too crazy about stuff messing with the console.

There's also a current location field now for updating via the web, but it seems to be unrelated. (Though that one will make carrying my gps around kind of neat for walkabout posts in the future, or location-encoding photos taken)

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: 26.100264, -80.137914
Current Music: Monkey vs robot - in my head

Walkabout was fun, but uneventful. I wore a ball cap this time, and it's a good thing... my arms are a lot darker than when I left. I put in just under 10 miles of footwork yesterday, and slept quite well as a result.

Visited another different Thai place nearby for lunch... man, the food was awesome. Bamboo shoot salad served with lime juice, chiles, mint leaves, rice powder and cabbage. Yum woon sen - clear bean thread noodles with browned tofu, chile paste, onions, mushrooms, lemon grass and mint. Tom kah soup - a spicy coconut soy milk concoction with lemon grass, lime leaves and other spices. It was all totally vegan, too! Not one hint of critter in there.

I think that once I confirm my techs are switched over, I'll do some more walkies as well, and hit that Dali exhibit... maybe take myself out for sushi (or as bhk likes to call it, @). [edit - whoops! the museum is closed on Sunday]

DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone

*very* handy little resource... simplifies MS Access or SQL for the average web app nicely.

Speaking of which, I put OpenOffice on my new pc, and had forgotten how keen it is, compared to MS Office. Open Source, all the features, none of the bloat. Win-win. It's a total MS Office replacement, now that BASE is in there.

"Yeah..even now she sulks like Achilles in his tent. Achilles?...It's the Iliad?...It's Homer?... Read a book!"

Had a moment of feeling a bit like Handy there yesterday. People get very touchy when opinions differ.... The other side got pretty wound up to the point of hostility and hyper-defensiveness over something amazingly trivial, (a difference of opinion - I feel that Micheal Crichton is an anti-science hack writer, who ends stories with explosions rather than more satisfactory conclusions -- She thought "he is awesome".) and it really could only be settled by having a detente called. I have to make a point of just walking away at the first sign of pointlessness. I can agree to disagree, especially with someone I don't have to see every day. I'm glad that nonsense is over now.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch:		9
Quality Time:		9
Words of Affirmation:		6
Acts of Service:		5
Receiving Gifts:		1

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

Moment of Lyric - mp3

There's a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins

( ... )

1 year ago - net down, simile, super-poots, a little about myself, dmw

2 years ago - newt pic, alton brown ok, cliches, The author of California's anti-gay marriage law? His son just got married. To a guy.

3 years ago -spam, barbed wire, slow walk, stinky bus, spring break starting

4 years ago - news articles from 1902, poem tag linked to me, Scott name confusion, cool databases

5 years ago - Big Bird Song, cell phone jamming / scanning modes, a good day, "feet and blisters, web"

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Kate Bush - A Coral Room

Newtcam is active on the porch!

I have been waiting for songbird since I first heard of iTunes. Super-duper reworking of the idea and allows open source.

May be going out with Vicki and the gang to Opa tonight to celebrate her Birthday (it was yesterday) and her new gig at the riverside. Flaming cheese, table dancers and smashed crockery!

Oh and as a public service announcement, the famous resturant across from Quiet Waters Park, Samurai Sal's, has closed down. Who would have thought that a sushi/italian restaurant wouldn't fly? I'm shocked. You'll all have to go elsewhere for your sushi and pizza cravings.

Micro Retro A-Go-Go

Newish games journal Re:Retro reveals that "the world's smallest website," Guimp, has put up more of its adorable tiny clones of vintage arcade games, now including Pong, Pac Man, Asteroids(my personal fave), and Space Invaders.

Each game is boiled down to an 18-pixel square screen, replete with minimal-pixel graphics and clunky sound effects. It's a concentrated dose of nostalgia as well as a design experiment gone horribly well.

via JB -

FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!

On February 28, 2006 from 7 AM to 2 PM IHOPs across the country will celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) by offering our guests a free short stack of pancakes*. This is going to be our biggest one day celebration in our history.

National Pancake Day has a rich history that stretches back centuries and has always been a time of celebration. National Pancake Day always falls on Fat Tuesday and this year it will be a celebration at IHOP.

So gather your friends, family and neighbors and come to your local IHOP and enjoy a short stack of pancakes on us. All we ask is that you consider making a donation to a great charity like First Book or other local, worthy cause. Where else would you celebrate national pancake Day than IHOP? See you there.

* Limit one free short stack per guest. Valid for dine-in only, no to go orders. Not valid with any other offer, special, coupon,or discount. Valid at participating restaurants only, while supplies last.

Why I'd never make it as an Asian Cartoon Character. No goatee!

1 year ago - Bro & HI, website income to AmeriCares, I miss CJ (I still do), Danny gets Debate, mirror newt pics, still talking to mel, #3 for kp/rs shenanigans, Newt Love, Danny sick (and he is again this year), sedef & crew adorable, MmmmMMMmonkey, masked grader,

2 years ago - shopping for condos, zombie night club

3 years ago - memes, dreams, Streets of San Fran, computer sculptures, Pith, Good quote of the day, interviewing, hot shower

4 years ago - up early on a Sunday, Finished reading FAFCwGM, nice weather, tulpa plot

5 years ago - kid tv-memories, valentines

Current Mood: HARMONY MONKEY!

Called CompUSA last night around 4pm, and the voice mail is full. do they not ever check it?

Called the manager, Jackie, and said a tech would call me back once finished with a customer. I requested an eta, and she said "a half hour, tops.

I called back 2 hours later after no call came in. I spoke to Steve, who said that he'll call and find out the problem, and for me to call him at noon tomorrow if I haven't heard back from him yet. Let's see what the excuse is this time.

As assumed, no Danny today, so plan B - walkabout. Treat myself to good times. Chinese Buffet for lunch, maybe CJ's for dinner. Work out. Wander someplace I've never been before. I think I'm going to pass on the spa, unless I stumble across it in my journeys.

FP will take place tomorrow with Kev and Tomi, maybe Brad?

Kind of Neato - you can track your logins to LJ.

Brokeback to the Future (youtube video) Proof that you can put subtext anywhere.

How to mess with coke machines - google video more info here or full documentation here

1 year ago - b'day recap, apple mice, food, Polish reader, referrer spam, Mel mush, endless meme, choco taco/cool dog, zombie spammers,

2 years ago - bday loot, Danny lick pic

3 years ago - os quiz, littler big sis writes me a birfday song, palm-cam pics, suction crab

4 years ago - nice day after, Newt-stalks, S & D = B & C, haiku ,picture links

5 years ago - SPOOT, correspondence old school, vagg, go ask Alice and afraid to ask

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: beautiful skin - frontline.

CompUSA had nobody available to take my call today, apparently all of the technicians of management level were "at a meeting in Miami" and were not available. They will supposedly be available today. Just passed the 10 week anniversary of getting the power back on at my old apartment, and discovering Big Brain's disability on Tuesday... another week and a half, and it will be an entire quarter year (season, whatnot) since bringing it in.

CompUSA is now equal to Comcast's Broward county service level,which is to say, a hair's breadth from nil.

The compound (not to be confused with a two-stage) rescue-line rocket is a very cool piece of old west [circa 1865] tech. A tethered rocket you could shoot accurately at a ship that was sinking about a mile away and use to reel folks or even the boat to safety is pretty dang awesome, and something I knew nothing about until yesterday. Good day for a trivia upgrade. (They also had combat rockets that could either act as a nasty missile on it's own, too, but not nearly as spiffy as the rescue.) Additionally, angled fins around the thrust putsa spin on the rocket, stabilizing it, and improving accuracy.

They managed to ignite the workshop, and the explosion melted two cameras, the protective shielding and set a hovercraft on fire.

Good quote about patience. "This is one of the dangers, when nothing happens. When nothing happens for a while, everyone is like: 'Well, let's get closer. Let's get closer. Let's get closer.' BOOM! And everyone's dead."

Other recently confirmed side issue - "Bulletproof water" and how poorly the high-powered rifles did. The full metal jacket bullets for the high-powered rifles came apart upon hitting the water and the .50 caliber rifle was only able to penetrate about 3 ft of water.

The first thing that I thought of was "Dang, when I was playing Zero, he didn't have nearly enough Armor!" Zero was a misfit GURPS superhero that was basically intelligent, cohesive water that could skin himself with an animated ice shell to manipulate things. I still have my gaming notes for him and a bunch of other stuff on my bookshelf. Graypumpkin was the GM, and Kat played "Spring", a sort of loony blend of Tigger, the Creeper, and Mysterio.

Still getting a lot of links from that Spidey clip, including a journal from the Netherlands.

Handy Syndication Links - ( RSS buttons )

Handy list - Loads 'o useful Freeware.

1 year ago - fly doodle, GP praise, "cut" slang, B's lyrics, Day off the dead, ringo starr superhero, lifespan/season meme, flammable cables, bro issues

2 years ago - dream, bearded babies, touch graph

3 years ago - pirate stuff, Morikami, geourl, cool safeway prank, search keywords

4 years ago - missv's Bday!, To dos, day trips m&ms, Baby dexter-doggie!!, Newt in laundry

5 years ago - First shoo smiley - Ü, bounced Greg, Yahoo eats up egroups, love letter

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: mythbusters - confederate rocket

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Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers [via]

Current Mood: bouncy

RS 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

Current Mood: sleepy

Tossed a couple of yahoo ads (like my old google ones) on my homepage and journal location at my website. I've already earned a whopping $.73! They cut a check every $100, so it'll probably be a good few months before I see any funds at this rate. I'm hoping all the spider-sites will click through and bring me some funds.

Have to call up and check on big brain again. I'm beginning to suspect that they're keeping it for all the fun stuff on the HD's.

1 year ago - mel's new place, zombie survival, what's a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post, newt pic, mel tells me she loves me.

2 years ago - JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart

3 years ago - Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

4 years ago - I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

5 years ago - Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: me just going doot-da-doot-da-doot as I brush my teeth.

Didn't hang with anyone last night, just flew solo. No calls from Wendy, Liz or the hippies... walkabout was fun, regardless. Chicken Little was cute, but not worth a matinée... more of a Netflix rental.

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