Scotto's Wall Scrawls

Oh, at last. Updated the EEE with a book reader, an art program and new drivers, not to mention useful utilities for work, like openoffice and adobe. - should be a really solid palmtop replacement, and then some. Big thing will be doodling - we'll see how that works with the trackpad, or a little external mouse.

There was a fire 2 doors down tonight - It seems that someone didn't clean thier chimney, and it caught fire. (If feel guilty a bit for thinking DRYER FIRE at first.) Nobody was hurt, but there was a lot of smoke.

Random pictures from tonight. BHK, Pye watching the firetruck, my upper desk, and our windows need to be cleaned after all the kitty nose touches and snow time. Clicking should embiggen and open in a new window.

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1 year ago - 70 out, buses leaky, Mexico dindin, Danny Prezzies, Helen Killer, Czolgosz!

2 years ago - a ton of walkabout pics, fossil hunting during a Snowy day on the bay, microsoft and openID, kitties

3 years ago - "Chilly" - in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong

4 years ago - Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice

5 years ago - Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

6 years ago - Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

7 years ago - MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

8 years ago - At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!

Pictures from today - Robots, fire, symmetrical homes, bay life.

clicks embiggen. Fire is a video. Of Fire. in a ring. where we made s'mores.

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Here is my labor day in reverse

off to bed early

opted not to labor too hard on lj entry

made smores in the fire ring

Mexico for dinner

Played some portal - finished bonus levels.

napped and lazed

2 mile walk, including the bay and a robot backyard

woke up early

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According to identity management firm Cyber-Ark's annual 'Trust, Security & Passwords' survey, a whopping 88% of IT administrators would steal CEO passwords, customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A plans and the company's list of privileged passwords if they were suddenly laid off. The survey also found that one third of IT staff admitted to snooping around the network, looking at highly confidential information, such as salary details and people's personal emails.

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1 year ago - went to rennfest (bullet points and pics), pictures of pye and newt kitty

2 years ago - the tick / pajama police, Zoom, car projections

3 years ago - Got fresh paid links, July 2002 Lumbee Entry (Active just 2 days ago!), Palm doodles, head photos and newt, foamy, Mind controlling death parasites, help Katrina critter

4 years ago - dream cartoon linker, The Forgotten, sample email from a stranger,Mountain Dew: Pitch Black, First Grade, Reiger resigning as chief of DCF, Stream of thought alphabet

5 years ago - Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, Red Haired Barbarians, Aunt Jemima, $100K fart, esteem meme, dynamite magazine, Newt pic, flex points, cookie puss, annoying or not, bro stuff, blogshares, earthquakes, toontown, Frankie bugs me

6 years ago - heroclix, art fair, jellybath, skyscrapers (here's Maryland), Ambient Findability, web hits, bike in the meter room

7 years ago - adultery, lj, rollercoaster

8 years ago - playing with html, long day at work, September b'days, Sacrifice to the Horned Goat, pesky work poop, coffee, bearded sadness, road trip, headache

Brush Fire Near Homes & Monkey Cages (video at the link)



(CBS4 News) SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE Firefighters are working to douse the flames of yet another South Florida brush fire.

This time, the flames are burning in Southwest Miami-Dade, near 163rd Avenue and SW 184th Street.

The fire is burning dangerously close to homes, vehicles and what appears to be some sort of facility with cages of monkeys.

The smoke is blowing over the monkey’s cages as crews rush to put out the fire before it spreads even larger.

Most of the fire appears to be smoldering and there are plenty of hot spots.

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Mathematical analyses of humpback whale songs reveal complex grammatical rules!

Although the researchers say these songs don’t meet the linguistic rigor necessary for a true language, this is the first evidence that animals other than humans use a hierarchical structure of communication. Whales have also been found to sing in dialects.

During mating season, which lasts six months, all humpback males sing the same song to woo the ladies. Over time, the group’s song becomes progressively more complex, although researchers don’t know quite why.

Presumably, as one whale finds mating success by tinkering with the song style, the rest of the guys imitate it to better their chances, said study co-author Ryuji Suzuki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellow.

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