Scotto's Wall Scrawls

It seems that my curse on the most foul CompUSA is coming to fruition at last. (The whole fiasco with Compusa can be followed in the Compusa tag I have there... Started Nov. 10, 2005 - Ended March 20, 2006...over four months of limping along on lappie while big brain tried to get fixed... and that's with a Full service contract!)

CompUSA has been sold to an affiliate of restructuring firm Gordon Bros., and will close all of its retail stores.

Downside is that I have a full service contract that lasts until March of 2008... I guess that's only a few months away, anyhow. Next time, I'm building my own, or getting from a retailer I'm more happy with.

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Recent doodles -

at the doctor's office - bhk reads while I get my snooze on.

watching flyboys... not a terrible movie. Not terribly accurate, either.

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Had to do some catch up work today.... BHK made baked ziti and veggies for supper with Cathy and Dave. After chow time, we played a little wii sports... Dave slaughtered me at boxing... it was like beating up a little kid. We did better at Lego star wars and Rampage.

Once we tired of digital gaming, we trotted out the analog stuff.

Apples to Apples - I won one round, and BHK won the second handily. I forget who won the third game... either BHK or Cathy.

Hey, That's My fish - I won first round by well over a dozen, BHK won the second... by one fish!

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1 year ago - got the xmas tree with the inlaws w/pix

2 years ago - tmbg, bro in tampa, tolld a new motherboard, music, musical mice, windows live local

3 years ago - gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things

4 years ago - Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks

5 years ago - desert dreams, "no hands" kitty, palm doodles, nice cards

6 years ago - menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll

7 years ago - hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping

New brain came! Everything looks pretty marvy, except that they forgot to send the external 160 gig drive. Calling them today to find out about that. Frankenbox can go back to rest... but I may leave him alive to act as a newtcam server.

Second life was smooth as silk, and not a reboot in sight, save for system updates.

Having a fresh system is nice... boots up super-quick,and loads of room to maneuver.

Comp usa is also still lagging about getting the backup of my system back to me. I may just torrent the lost / rome, etc shows over again.

Cordless keyboard and mouse are keen, but I fear power outage when I least expect it.

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Sunburn, part two has begun. Operation snakeskin.

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Man faces jail time for selling crack

A City of Poughkeepsie man faces a stint in jail for dealing crack in the city last year.

Landocalrissan Butler, 25, of Winnikee Avenue, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in Dutchess County Court to attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. Butler told Judge Thomas J. Dolan he had five small bags of crack in his pocket Dec. 22 when police arrested him on Morgan Avenue. He said he intended to sell the drugs.

In exchange for his plea, Butler was promised a sentence of six months in jail and five years on probation. He will also be required to forfeit a cell phone and $432 police said he obtained through illegal drug sales.

Butler remains jailed pending his sentencing, scheduled for April 4.

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Moment of Lyric (mp3)

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And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it's all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin' on a star

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1 year ago - banana man, dindin with mom, hollow men, voted, did a good deed, renewed domain until 3/11/2008

2 years ago - cool snail mail, Best commentary on "the Passion", star trek on ice, Spalding Gray found, lj spam, SOP

3 years ago - Laundry w/bro, flaming justice, birds with arms, hulk dance

4 years ago - Who are you quiz, seven wonders, breakfast for dinner, Bfast poll

5 years ago - declaration of love, celeb pet names, payday, tmbg, yeti-scotto

Authorization Replacement for big brain's replacement came down from high command- have to finalize on friday, but it looks like I'm getting an upgrade.

I'd have been satisfied with a $500 graphics card, but if they would rather give me a $3000 computer due to red tape, that's fine

Of course, if they give me a cash option, I'll build my own elsewhere.

Big Brain stats -

•     Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Processor with 800MHz Bus and Intel i875P Board
•     2GB Registered PC3200 DDR Memory
•     2x120GB (240GB) Seagate 7200.7 Serial ATA Hard Drives in RAID0 Array
•     HP 4x DVD+R and Samsung 48x CD-RW Combo Optical Drives
•     Sound Blaster Audigy 2
•     NVIDIA GeForceFX 5950 Ultra Video Card with 256MB Memory
•     Intel 1Gbps Ehternet with CSA and v.92 56Kbps Modem
•     Six USB 2.0 and Four FireWire Ports
•     Windows XP Pro Operating System

New Brain Stats -

• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional (same) - I may need to downgrade to XP media for the TV card.
  
•  Intel(R) Pentium(R) D 940 (3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB)  - (same)
  
•  2GB DDR2-667MHz SDRAM (2x1024) - improvement
  
• 500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive - improvement
  
• LightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti dr - improvement
  
• 16X max. DVD-ROM - about the same as a cd-writer.
  
• 256MB DDR ATI Radeon X 1600XT, TV-Out and DVI - improvement
  
• HP vs19c 19in Flat Panel, Speakers Incl - ADDED!
  
• Sound Blaster Audigy 4, 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio  - improvement
  
•  9-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB 2.0, 1394,S-video - about the same
  
•  HP Wireless Keyboard, Wireless Optical Mouse -added
  
• 3.5 in. 1.44MB usb Floppy Drive  - added
  
• hp photosmart 2575 all-in-one - added
  
• 160GB usb Personal Media Drive - added
  
• Single NTSC TV Tuner with PVR, FM Tuner, Remote - added
  
• 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN PCI Card - improvement

Possibly a digital camera as part of the package?

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menstrualhut is 5 years old Still a solid community.. I'm impressed that it's been mostly drama free and so courteous/helpful. I look forward to seeing it continue to flourish in the future!

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Didn't get together with Danny yesterday, maybe today?

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Moment of Lyric - (youtube video)

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Very superstitious, nothin’ more to say,
Very superstitious, the devil’s on his way,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past

When you believe in things that you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no

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Full boosh episode of nanageddon on youtube

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1 year ago - M & Anchorman, overtown website

2 years ago - Hating on Monday Meetings, Good Links for odd sound, I start giving away Itunes codes, bro screws up

3 years ago - Thinking about getting a hearse, dream edits, Streets of San Fransisco, Jim Rockford Answering Machine Archive

4 years ago - Went to ER over my back, Travel & Newt pictures, confluence

5 years ago - stomp furby, Pete & pete, got interviewed by The New Digital Reporter, How I define good/evil, the menstrualhut is born.