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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian man who was believed dead caused panic when he returned, causing villagers to think he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reported Monday.

Children screamed "Ghost! Ghost!" and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi's brothers, who had shaved their heads to mourn his death in line with Hindu tradition, fled when he appeared, the paper reported.

Villagers and family members have ostracized him, forcing Raghuvanshi to file a complaint with local police. The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.

Raghuvanshi's troubles arose after he was jailed last year. In prison, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment from which he recovered but a distant relative told his family he had died.

Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'

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I'd love to see some non-partisan source verify that quote. I'd also like to see Captain America kick W's butt.

( Zombie Cap complains about W and the state of the nation personified. )

good-ish vibes about the Deerfield place.. they're checking me out financially and socially and criminally, and I think I've passed any tests they might have.

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Newt and I had a fun frolic for his b'day... nice, gentle evening, all told. A vid or two may be forthcoming, depending on how they turned out.

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( Autumn / D&D class quiz )

Also, a Terrasque? Whiskey Tango Hotel?

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Saw my first episode of the new Nightstalker. - Not my thing. I'm going to have to watch old episodes of the original series now to see if my fondness for it is nostalgic or actually based on good stuff. I agree with jwz...This new show is a badly-written X-files.

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Still processing this information:

Doug Wu called... he's a dad... Sired a child with illyana (a gay woman who initially dated Cathy Wu, but that didn't work out and Illlyana inherited Doug as a pal after his marriage to Cathy dissolved.)

It seems that Illyana wanted a kid and Doug is the biological father... the girl Kayla (sp?) will be raised in a household of four singles. She's seven days old at this point, and I hear that she's beautiful, and quite healthy. I think Doug'll be quite nurturing and give boundless love to his daughter.

I had no idea that Illyana was gay.. I somehow was under the impression that she was Doug's SO rather than POSSLQ... I suspect there's more of a family vibe there, all things considered, too.

Discovered some interesting things I didn't know... Doug's working as a caregiver for folks with cerebral palsy and the like, his household has no real internet access and they seem to frown on gaming (viewed as a colossal waste of otherwise useful energy) . It also seems that Doug is the primary breadwinner for the unit, with two of the members out of work

I talked to him for about an hour last night, and we caught up on things... we didn't know what sort of work the other was doing these days... oddly, I don't think we talked about comics once, even though he's pretty much the Ancient One to my Stephen Strange when it comes to TV/Comic book history and remembrances.

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Night of the Living dead - in the form of a podcast/radio drama mp3

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Moment of Lyric: mp3

Instrumental.

I'm beginning to dig Frigg. (Acoustic Nordic folk music with touches of American Appalachian and country & western music)

As soon as I get some more good mp3s, I'll share.

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Dolphins sing 'Batman' theme

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1 year ago - John Edwards looks rather like Jack Tripper. cocktail party, condo poop.

2 years ago - snail-men attack, visiting the doc, palm doodle, Wet memories, German festivals kept quiet, site down, Admin tools.

3 years ago - mickey one,*many* palm doodles, mush, cpap, newt pics, cupboard, dead phone dream, bookstore, mk army idea, bro debt,

4 years ago - Spider-man, fixing the A/C at my old place, hussites, season opener for prairie home companion, a day for love.

5 years ago - Plunging pirates off the empire state, small, and "warchilds death", a troll visits

Reviewed Deerfield condo, and I put in a submission for a background/credit check with the crew there... I could be moved in before Halloween, after all. Certainly before Thanksgiving, if the bank and condo commando crew are with me. Newt will remain with me, regardless.

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Batfatty's scanned an awesome gorilla comic.

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Mugato toy! - "In a marketing decision that may have been influenced by the success of the Planet of the Apes line, Mego clothed their Mugato figure. And not just in any clothes--bright, day-glow double-knit polyester duds. This choice is not only just plain chromatically insulting, but culturally anachronistic as well. The Neuralians are barely above the hunter-gatherer stage, still adorning themselves with animal hides. Taking this into consideration, I refuse to believe that the Mugato--beast-like and primitive--roams the hills of Neural in one of Huggy Bear's rejects."

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Moment of Lyric:

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Oh I am young but I have aged
Waited long to seize the day
All things said and plenty done
Oh I am young but I have a past
Traveled far to find the start
Yes I am scared and I've been burnt
But life is short

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( esoteric path / intentional tort quiz )

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1 year ago - bro bails, Orks, games removed from the system, walkies pictures, sky railroads, post apoc

2 years ago - Monkeys, Ukes make you brainy, Super-scotto, cracked 100 vamps, dervishes, cartoons, Stridulous.

3 years ago - mary gross, new PG album

4 years ago - robotech, poem, kegel, evil twin, horseman wallpaper, newtcam, enlightenment, Steve Irwin, adipocere, Mango

5 years ago - work drags, missing folks, time-variance/generation gap

Danny and I as heroclix fight an oncoming zombie and lobster-man menace.

How "an occurance at owl creek bridge" should've ended.

Ah, Monday. The weekend was too brief, as always. Bro goes to court this morning. We see if he spends the next year in jail or not.

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I spent much of yesterday walking on slight disconnect. It seemed almost like I was a little bit outside of my body, controlling it remotely. Minor numbness, sort of how I picture Boston Brand and his hosts.



I'm having too much fun fiddling with autostitch. I may make the largest version a wallpaper on one of the computers at work.



I also found a stickerart (graffiti) pool in flickr.

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Would people who imprison others called imprisoners? That's a clumsy term.

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The New Harry Potter Book (both text and audio book) were available for bittorrent download within 12 hours of its release. I can't search for nice legal public domain books without tripping over the dang thing. A wide assortment of formats, rtf, pdf, txt... you name it.

Also, 827 pages? somehow, I suspect the dire need of an editor still remains.


waxy_org spotted this thread.

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Looks like a zombie variant on the old vampire game. from the same guy that came up with the original plans for the Zombie Infection Simulator (This revision is the best I've seen of the ZIS. A lot more features than the one I put together.)

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I'm officially sick of the Bard's Tale. total play time, about 5 hours, give or take, in 1-2 hour bites. some cute moments, but meh. If I could save at any time, and not just at certain way points, I'd have liked it a lot more. Nothing makes me toss a game aside faster than "Whoops, you lost, go back and do the same 20 minute brainless series of combats again". After doing that thrice or so, I'm finished.

Maybe I'll come back to it after I've taken a FarCry break. Maybe not. Depends on what's on my plate. I'm only up for so much whack-a-mole, no matter how cute the in-jokes are.

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It's been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I don't know about that, but I have been seeing a lot of "flattery" lately. Not the basic stuff; passing around links and quizzes is a lot of what is fun, but replicating the format down to "Moment of lyric" and so on is sort of weird. I hope that they find their own voice soon.

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Speaking of the Moment of Lyric:

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Everyone's a building burning
with no one to put the fire out.
Standing at the window looking out,
waiting for time to burn us down.
Everyone's an ocean drowning
with no one really to show how.
They might get a little better air
if they turned themselves into a cloud.

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1 year ago - manatee trip pictures, Miami travel shots

2 years ago - Aol gives up on netscape, random poster form the past, I get fan mail from desert butterfly, reading list retreat,

3 years ago - princess sultanas circle, hug meme, joy machine, angry corn ghosts burn police cars, hydrogen fuel cars, got tested for diabetes (none here!), baseball bat poll, Bush & Women's rights, spooky patent office logo

4 years ago - evil news, arriviste, clochard & myopic, gilligan's lessons, contraception myths, Leisa's 2 months pregnant, zeppelins, tuckin thoughts

5 years ago - xanadu, sleep study prep, name meaning

Visited MP for a bit in the morning, and it was certainly the highlight of my day. We had breakfast and hung out a bit, and then she headed to her sister's place in Miami for a BBQ. She's staying in town until the 14th, and then will be in Colombia until Mid-September. I'll miss her quite a bit... thank goodness for email and telephony!

I stayed in Fort Lauderdale to visit with my brother. It took a while... he took the route 50 up, and was out of sorts... fell asleep on the bus, and hopped off in a semi-stupor. He met me at the Movie theater, and I bought us tickets to see Land of the Dead. He Sprung for nachos, and we settled in for some down and dirty zombie-action.

About 30 minutes into the film, he asked me if he was on a bike when we met... I replied no, and he got distressed... turns out he left it on the bus bike rack, and forgot it when he hopped off at 2pm. He stepped into the aisle to call Broward County Transit and report it missing, while I continued to watch the movie.

An hour later, I'm stepping out of the theater, wondering where my brother is. It turns out he was on hold, and fell asleep waiting for someone from lost and found to answer him because it was the 4th holiday.

So, he missed the movie. He didn't seem too upset about it. We walked back to the bus terminal, where we asked f the bike had been turned in yet.... the 5:30 bus was just rolling up, and lucky for him, bro's bike was riding on the front. Happy ending there, anyhow.

Oh, I nearly forgot, between the theater and the terminal, two homeless guys walking together tried to shake us down for a handout. Bro said "sorry, I've got nothing..." and one of the bums gave him a dirty look and said "bullshit". There was almost a fight, but avoided it because nobody wanted to get the police involved. I held bro back, and BS's friend restrained him. I thought for sure that I was either going to have to take some swings in myself.

Random Scotto factoid: I used carry a straight razor for self-defense. I don't now. I'm more worried about AIDS than I am of an attacker's fists. I've thought about walking with a cane again, in order to have some sort of club handy, but I'd rather have two hands free during my walks... same reason I'm not crazy about umbrellas. I fear carrying a gun.

Land of the Dead was good... and I actually sympathized a little for the zombies. A few pointless scenes, but I rather liked the Cameo by Simon Pegg, too. I especially liked Zombie Clown and Zombie Moses.

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Evil Dead: Regeneration - looks good.

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A 2,600-year-old corpse has been discovered in the moors of northern Germany. It's not the only one. Such finds are frequent, but have posed an increasingly large riddle: Why were so many of the bodies victims of violence and dismemberment?

Were ancient Germans fiendish torturers, or did these anthropologists watch too many horror flicks?

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Lil bit is too much of a cutie! I need Insulin!

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Pictures from yesterday's walkies, Post-MP, pre-Bro ... clicking sends to larger sizes.

These are the things in my neighborhood... ( want to see? )

If you'd like to visit them yourself, feel free... geoblogger map locations

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UJIKO search engine... pretty cute interface.

Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features.

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The journal of the man who has been arrested for allegedly having something to do with taking that Idaho brother and sister (they disappeared 3 days after his last journal entry. - thanks for the update, jb! (see also, his removed website, saved at archive.org) ( Read more... )

He went to prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year old boy at gun point...got out and was then charged with sexually assaulting another child in Minnesota. Now, the Idaho brother & sister issue.

from his 8/24/04 entry - "I am now 99.99 percent sure I will move to a different state as soon as I graduate and can find a job in a state where I'm not required to register. "

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Moment of Lyric:

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Time is flying like an arrow
And the clock hands go so fast they make the wind blow
And it makes the pages of the calender go flying out the window one by one
Til a hundred years are on the front lawn
And the old familiar things are mostly all gone
But the old sombrero just keep hovering on
Hovering sombrero hover on

Don't be burdened by regrets
Or make your failures an obsession
Or become embittered or possessed
By ruined hopes remember

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( Question & Answer time )

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1 year ago - more Vizcaya pics, vandal of Venice, veggie benefits, Lego Spidey, Estonian wife-carrying, small-world syndrome

2 years ago - Newt and fireworks, bacta tank, printing plate castle, giant monster games

3 years ago - 8-legged freaks, planting, many pictures that no longer link (curse you picture stage!), Harry potter fake book out, baby laff, octothorpe poll, 7

4 years ago - Growing impatient, beverage poll, evil news, cudgel

5 years ago - horrid stream of thought unformatted entry...I still eat much the same stuff, introspection

Relived, but not fully unwound.

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Magda and I will be spending much of the long weekend together (Thursday night - Monday at the airport, give or take.)

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Shooting Began in South Beach for "Miami Vice : The Movie"

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The skies opened up and the rain came down in heavy, thick drops again last night. I hope bro is on high ground. He's a solid camper, and I think he's got good cover.

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I notice that Lj post security is using openID already. very interesting... I'm still screening, but accepting entries from that source too, for the time being. I wonder how popular that'll be?

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Freaky falling puppet-body over spheres. you can pick the puppet up with the mouse, and toss it.

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Florida On Florida is a catalog of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts.

Man, the New River and Las Olas looked pretty different back in the day. A bit later, Las Olas in 1939.

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Moment of Lyric:

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His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything

So he slept on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars
He would lie awake and count them
And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone

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( I got tagged by myid8myego - Which 10 celebrities would you not kick out of bed? )

Now tag 5 people to do the same? Oh, anyone who wants to. No pressure.

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SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. ( Read more... )

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1 year ago - pick up the phone, explosion world, virtual frog dissection, viruses, giant clothes, roadsign, hulk coloring book, ebooks, puppy stops killers

2 years ago - plushie microbes, night flight, handguns, Scientology, newt pics, playboy

3 years ago - Newt smarts, moment of zen, moment of poop, political compass, dusty apt.

4 years ago - weird emma, peremptory, yum!, broken linkies, evil news, name poll, who do you love

5 years ago - breakup w/ April, Candle, submarine

Good morning, and welcome to Autumn, at last! Traditionally a time for change, Autumn has always signaled the beginning of a renewal of life to me.

Though I live in a land where seasons are divided by how moist things are; a place where you can find seas of both brine and concrete, my heart resides elsewhere. Wide open spaces, with tame deer that like to nibble on rosebushes and enjoy a nice salt lick. Trees colored with every warm hue possible... golds, oranges and deep rust-reds. Someday I'll be there, content in a room lit by purest moonlight, the sounds of acorns tapping the roof, randomly.

Here's hoping that everyone enjoys the coming season, the changing of colors, Hallowe'en, new scents and the cooling, snuggly times ahead.

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The last night of summer was a nearly perfect one for a walk. The 7-11 had the Diet Pepsi Slushie machine working just right, and the air was balmy, but not hot. It could be my mind playing tricks, but Autumn is on its way, for honest and true. I sat by the new river for a few, and looked into the water, just thinking... it amazes me that there are so many quiet, natural places in the city. Things laid out in strips and pieces.. it didn't feel landscaped at all, but very natural. I think that I prefer to visit the river over the ocean, for whatever reason, despite the sea's wonderful breezes. The river is more serene, relaxed.

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Today's Moment of Voodoo: The Soul.

In the Voudoun religion of Haiti, one's existence is made up of five parts: n'ame, the spirit of the flesh; z'etoile, the star of destiny; corps cadavre, the mortal flesh; gros bon ange, a general life force that is recycled and not unique to each person, and ti bon ange (or petit bon ange), one's personal essence and the source of one's aura. Only the gros bon ange and ti bon ange are seen as being part of the soul, but all five parts are regarded as important in both life and death, so the distinction is somewhat blurred. The corps cadavre can be made into a zombi (zombie), while the ti bon ange can be captured to create a kind of spectral undead called a zombi astral (spirit zombie).

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The CDC reports on who died of what during Hurricane Charley. A total of 31 deaths of which 17 "involved blunt trauma caused by injuries from falling trees, flying debris, and destroyed physical structures" and one drowning.

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What Are the Odds of a Ghost Closing Your School? ( Read more... )

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A peek at the New Fantastic Four... Hmm, the thing doesn't look quite "Rocky" there... I guess you could classify him as between rock and "sack of wet oatmeal", but I like the other three. (Except Johnny should be a blond, and look a bit younger than Sue.)They made Alicia Masters black for whatever reason, too... I'm still disappointed that they didn't make Billy Dee Williams play Two-Face in a later Batman movie, after doing the Harvey Dent bit in the first one. I don't seem to mind them varying the look of secondary characters as much as the primaries. (A blond wonder Woman, Read - Cathy Lee Crosby, is a big screw up, as far as I'm concerned.)

I suspect the Incredibles will blow the FF out of the water.

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Hero Machine 2.0 is out, for folks that want to make cartoon heroes.

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Random Scotto Journal Factoids. This Journal is exactly Four years, Four Months and Four days old today. The last day that I didn't post at least once in my journal was August 20, 2000. (about Four years and one month ago.) As of this writing, I've made 6895 posts (in 1587 days... so that's a little over 4.3 posts per day)... I was a lot more manic in my posts back at the beginning... now I just use horizontal rules to break up a longer post, rather than post a bunch or itty-bitties during the day.

I wonder what that says? A polite way might be that I'm good at commitment.

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1 year ago - Rude blackout, follow-up on Ohio explosion, bro in a different sort of lockup, Moon-power, human-decay research facility

2 years ago - Long walkies, Fred Ward, Mintyass, Heads up about the FLIFF.

3 years ago - Autumn, Handy stuff Poll, Nastrology, Dale & I tell folks to beat it, Chupacabra, Comfy & Minty, Halloween poll

4 years ago - ABC's of TV, Net Lies, Deciding about both game groups, fun movies