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Broward PSA

All Broward County Public Schools will remain CLOSED Tuesday, September 7, 2004 as restoration efforts from Hurricane Frances continue. Students, teachers and other school-based instructional staff should NOT report to the schools. Principals and Assistant Principals should report to their respective schools.

District offices and facilities WILL reopen tomorrow. All full-time District employees, including administrative and supervisory, clerical, maintenance and facility service employees should report to their normal work locations. All food service employees should report to their respective work locations as well.

The decision was made to keep the schools and offices closed for another day because of the power outages that persist at several dozen District schools, along with potential hazards to children presented by downed power lines, busy intersections where traffic signals are not operating due to power outages and storm debris that may prompt children to walk in the street to school and bus stops. There is also a concern with the ongoing restoration efforts involving the use of chainsaws and heavy vehicles to cut up and haul away downed trees and branches, as well as the major operation by Florida Power & Light Company to restore electricity to the area.

An additional issue involves scattered sewage and water disruptions throughout the county as the result of power outages. Pumping stations and sewage treatment facilities have been impacted, causing some sewage backups, sporadic water service and boil water orders.

Students, parents and District employees should monitor the District’s Web site at browardschools.com, call the District’s Rumor Control Hotline at 754-321-0321 or monitor local media for updated information regarding the status of the schools.

More Information on District's Status

/PSA



scottodoodle - Regular Scotto-Entry -

Ah, how nice to sleep in my own bed. It's been a long few days. Thank goodness I didn't go to a shelter... I would have gone totally insane. I'm very thankful. The funny thing about hurricane Frances was how many "experts" came out of the woodwork.. like they all have a direct line to Thor/Zeus/Mamma Nature. I wonder how the homeless folks did, under bridges or other semi-public cover? Bro did ok, as did the Mother.

Ivan 5-day Tracking - Ack. D&J may have a houseguest again. I'm not officially worried yet.

Yum... fresh oranges. Nice breakfast, and for some reason, I rarely get 'em. Tasty, and good to eat in the middle of the night as a snacky-snack.

Off to work after a quick phone call...Let's see how things go. Power was off at the company building earlier, so I may go to an off-site location (probably Big Kahuna's house) to continue. I *think* RI is off this week.

I love the fourth piccie of Newt. He's got a little Santa beard! (he caught a light-monster in his jaws.)



Freeware replacements for commonly warez'ed programs

I use openoffice and it's excellent. I'm going to make a point of sniffing around phpEDIT and SharpDevelop

If you're not in the mood for useful utilities, there's these nifty games. (many are decent clones of $$ games) I've dug FreeCiv for a while now... good to fall back on when between other games. There's a palm version in the works too! (hasn't been updated since June '04. ouch!)

As always, check for spyware!

America's Army looks really nifty... I'm pulling that down tonight.



A few storm-related doodles


Caught in the middle of Frances.


My noggin was throbbing for about two of the days... I suspect it was the pressure change, and my general cabin fever-ness.
My barely legible script reads "hurricane hurts my brain"


Newt happy to be back at HQ!
I don't know where my arms are.



Hangaroo Hangman with a mouthy kangaroo - (thanks enigma!)



10 handy CSS tricks



Archives -

1 year ago - Harvest moon, auto-cashiers, acim two-level split, lynching, cluster move, gender genie, newt-bounce,

2 years ago - Sleestaks and Oatmeal, Sculpey and Fimo, Bewitched, cave photo, bad prefixes, dog snoods

3 years ago - lj drama regarding cheaters,lovely long chat where blackie burped, the scents of rose, lavender, gardenia, violette, and muguet (burts bees), Skeletor, Back in 1997, there was an exorcism performed on Mother Teresa, saints.

4 years ago - Suzy goes to jail, actors, cravings, dwbh

Later Journal-gator!

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Back at home base - Power was still out when I arrived, so Dan and I went to publix to get some dry goods and water for me to wait it out here. We had some serendipitous encounters with another shopper... Dan (the big goof) kept prodding me to get her number.

Obligatory tiny quicktime movie of gale-force winds.(~700k) Warning, loudy-loud wind-whoosh.

Power is been back on now, though spotty. Cell phones are still kind of weird in this area, too.

I'm now shaved, showered and re-goatee'd. I'm regretting the office tomorrow.. a lot of work ahead. But, it'll make the day go by that much more swiftly. I figure the majority of the morning will be putting machines back where they belong, and getting the network back to aces.

Newt's so happy to be home, he's practically dancing. I'm delighted to have my own bed again, too, though it wasn't really a hardship staying with D&J. They were very helpful and gracious... I appreciate being able to stay there. Janet's cooking is a lot better than I remembered. The scones were especially good.

Ivan is due next weekend. Some frickin' supervillian is testing his weather machine, I just know it.

Who knows what stuff I missed on the blogs I read...I imagine I'll get caught up eventually.



Um.. Paris Hilton's publishing her "memoirs?" It's a pity that there's even a possible market for that. Site Meter



Snopes link for anyone else that mentions that whole "757 or missile?" pentagon crash thing. Read it top to bottom... it answers every question posted with logical and well-researched answers. I guess it's rearing up again, because the anniversary is drawing near.

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Still no power at my place tonight, so I spend one more here at Danny's. (Beats going black to a dark, hot shoebox.) There's still a wind advisory and a flood watch, but the worst of Frances is over. Wind and water still whistles and batters the outside.

We all went for a midday wet-walk to the gas station, and around the lake to assess damage, and breathe some open air. It's messy here, with a number of blown over fences and snapped trees, but the houses look ok and everything seems mostly intact.

Cell phones are still kaput here, and the land line is spotty.

The Winn-Dixie was open, and people were in and out... not crowded, but had a lot of movement. I think that we're going to get some Chinese Takeout for supper tonight.

The Gamajin movies were a huge success.. Everybody liked 'em, and power only blinked a little bit while watching them.

I wonder how the TV news is able to have so many reporters on the coast... they must be placed just far enough apart up and down the line so that they can't see one another's show-lights.

I've got about 150% the hits in the first three days of September over the entire month of August, thanks to the hurricane, I'm guessing. (averaging 1813 hits an hour??)

Dear Hurricane Ivan:

Leave me the hell alone. I want to spend next week at my own damn home. Please just shoot North, and harmlessly spin some fishies.

Thanks.
Best Frances Photo so far:



I missed the JLU episode I was really wanting to see.. the one with the Question. I'll have to seek out a torrent of it when I make it back to base.

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Well, I was hoping to go for a walk this morning... get out of the containment field that is the house. No luck.. the wind outside is at a very strong level, and the rain is coming down in sheets.

Dan's working on grading, and Jan's watching TV evangelists, so I figure I'll feed my own obsessive action by working on the journal a little bit this morn. I prefer to read Real Live Preacher to watching any carnival barker on the tube.

Jan's making cranberry scones for breakfast this morning...they smell really good.

Though the hurricane is moving exceedingly slow, I have high hopes that I'll be home tonight, or at worst tomorrow morning. I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and having the apartment to myself (and Newtself). Though it's a two-bedroom house, three people tend to bump into one another a lot.

I have a half-gallon of ice cream in the freezer at home...I wonder if power stayed on long enough to keep it ice-creamy.

Latest reports are that there are 2 million people without power, and Frances is now downgraded to Category 1.

archived article )



I'm not going to go much more into stormblogging... plenty of other sources out there for that. There really isn't much to say except for "my goodness, it sure is windy and rainy today".

Ants have found their way into the house, but Janet's vacuuming them up. We don't want to worry about pesticides at this point in the game.

11am status )

more updates here

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Reading in Dan's room while he grades lab reports. The poor guy spends more time grading than the student takes to do the report, I suspect. He's putting together grading templates now, to make the job easier.

It's quiet right now, the only sounds being those of Dan typing, Janet
working on a pattern, and Newt bebopping around the house, in search of
that hidden cricket.

Dan talks to himself a bit while grading. I'm going to watch myself over the next few days, to see if I gab solo as often as these guys... I suspect that most of my internal monologues stay inside.

some hurricane piccies:

Dan walking by the lake, pre-storm - we visited the ducks, which looked
rather like a crossbred crew of lovely mallard and ugly muskie.

it was pretty dark inside the house with all the aluminum shutters up - the only natural light available was via the front door.

newt seemed to like the new terrains available to explore, lots of
surfaces, nooks and crannies to sniff out. He doesn't seem to like hanging out with Dan or Janet much... I suspect that they're a confusing "new furniture" to him.

I haven't shaved since Wednesday, so scruffy is the fashion statement this week.

sent via palmtop

6 images )
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Dan snores, and it makes me laugh. He's about 1/3 Doug sound level.

The 2nd movie - Return of Gaimajin was even better than the first. good hurricane karma, I got them by helping with Charley.

Newt's being naughty... hissing at Janet a lot. (A bit at Dan, too. I don't think he's happy sharing space with them.) If I pick Newt up, he quiets down and purrs like a fiend... I'm an anchor of familiarity in this place.

Danny pointed something out to me on the way to his place yesterday... how do new and used car lots empty out so fast? Where do they put 'em? I theorized that there's some hidden underground parking or more likely that they're accordianed in the back. I got a call from Wilt, and he told me that no wood is going on my windows.. just tape. Ugh... I'm glad I was smart and packed up all my important tech and took it with me.

I'm glad I left on Thursday, because I hear that the roads are now mobbed with folks trying to get the heck out of there.

Dan's house is super-prone to little power-flickers at this point I'm glad I had a candle in the bathroom while I took my morning shower.. I'm glad that I've got a surge bar and that lappie is on battery power.

Wind's kicking up pretty good, now... I'll have some nifty movies to upload from the palm after the storm.

Another J factoid - She's never, ever stopped talking when I've been within earshot. Talks back to the TV, and steps on other people talking, too. I wonder if she ever has a quiet time? I think that maybe her own voice is a comfort to herself? I suspect it's a nervous habit, to take her mind off of other things.

Mighty windy and wet at this point. Lots of boil water orders, though not in my region quite yet.

Waffles for late breakfast today - clearing out the freezer in case of a long term power out.


All in all, Still safe and sound. Still mostly have power, a/c and light.

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I can't rightly call this a vacation, considering that I'm still taking call.

three so far today... I was a little difficult to train D&J to shut the pie-holes while I'm making a call, but it seems to be working out ok, now.

We took a little walk around the neighborhood... it looks like the brunt of the storm is going to pass to the north, now.

I'd forgotten how J speaks in monologues, disguised as dialogues. I think she could have the exact conversation with or without a partner.

Shutters are up throughout the neighborhood, clouds are rolling by quickly, some comfy breeze, but no rain.

It's a little tricky training Newt to stay off of the counters here.. I don't want him wandering around where food is prepared.

scottobear: (1 - time goes by)

At Dan's, and it's going better than expected. My panic was misplaced.

Tonight, we watched gaimajin, and had quorn nuggets for supper, with new potatoes and brussels sprouts. I abstained from the sprouts... they remind me of my formative years as a podling.

Newt's digging the plants (no pun intended) and is enjoying all of the new places to nose around and check out. Minimal missing person calls tonight, and I'm only on call until tomorrow at 5pm.

Tomorrow, I'm introducing Danny to invader zim.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DCL! thanks again for the CDs!

I haven't used this laptop for quite a span... the windows update and anti-virus both took forever on dialup.

Hitting the sack soon. See you later, Dear journal.

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backdated.


I decided briefly that I wasn't comfortable with the C's around Newt. I think that Jan or even Danny might get careless, and do something that would cause Newt to somehow get hurt out of the house... I'm being irrational. I came close to having a panic attack just thinking of poor Newt, out in a hurricane. It sort of saddens me to be this distrustful of Dan and his wife, but they just don't know better, and are prone to carelessness. I don't think that I should stay, here, but if I go to Danny's place, I'm going to have to lay down some ground rules. Maybe I'll stay with Newt in the guest bathroom the whole time. [update: Of course ,I ended up going to Dan and Janet's, and everything turned out fine)


pretend-sushi made with twinkies and dried fruit... I think I'm more partial to the kebabs.



Looking for more potential hurricane cams? Check this old entry for lots o' links. note that some links may be broken, but the Sun-Sentinel's has always been pretty reliable.



I tried out the evil genius demo... pretty cute, but I'm not sure how much repeat game play it holds. Being a Bond-style villain is fun... and the music is groovy. Sort of a sim-city version of Evil base management.

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I'm going to stay with Danny and Janet's place if things continue to be bad. Poor Danny's allergic to Newt, but he's willing to sacrifice for me and the little orange guy. Newtie-boy will be banned from the bedrooms, is all. I'm sure he'll be more than happy to spend time in the living room with me. I'll bring some Heroclix with me to play to while away the time in a more analog style.

Janet's rather allergic to me, too, in a different sense. Our beliefs and ideals are fairly different, but she has been nothing but very gracious to me in times of need. I'm thankful for that.

My mother is going to be fine where she is, and if bro needs a place to stay, he can go be with her and Wilt.

To be on the safe side, I'll be unpacking my PC later tonight, so I'll be on and off-line as things happen. Danny's only got dial-up, so I won't have my DSL perma-connect that I do here. I'm tempted to lave my pc covered in plastic, and have the cam pointed inside for a Hurricane-view. I figure I'll point it at the windows without wood on 'em to scan for alien invaders or flying coconuts.

Speaking of the cam, here's the Newt pic of the day:



Current Cam pic - (will change over time)

What do you see?


Currently, you should be able to see my front door, South and East Windows, and bike. I'll be taking the headlight with me as my personal flashlight when I go. You may also catch me running back and forth to the oven in order to retrieve lunchtime veggie taquitos.

Wilt's coming by with a lovely bit of 5 x 6 wood to protect my most vulnerable window... the others should be fairly safe, and wood is very rare right now, as could be expected. My landlord claims there's none to be found... I think that there probably could've been some if he was better prepared. I'm also happy to uproot the broad wooden fence outside, and use it as a side-barricade if need be.



current meme - (nicked from [livejournal.com profile] bubbles3563)

Leave a comment with your name if you want to know what I really think of you, and I'll reply and tell you. No lies, all honesty. [I think most people already have a good idea of how I feel about 'em, but I'm happy to reinforce / surprise them.]

Post it in your journal after I do yours so I can see the reverse. (it may take a while, as checking email might get spotty.)

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Ok, Office is disassembled, network secure, and everything is safe there.

Now to research what to do for myself.

Hurricane Frances Information Hotline 954-831-4000

Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman announced at a media conference today at 8:00 a.m. the following action Broward County residents and visitors should take in preparation for Hurricane Frances.

• In anticipation of a hurricane warning later today and an in an abundance of caution, a mandatory evacuation has been ordered effective 2:00 p.m. today for the Barrier Islands and all mobile homes. Residents are strongly urged to evacuate. Voluntary evacuations can take place at any time.

• A recommended evacuation has been ordered for those areas east of US1 and for those residents who live on tidal bodies of water. [that's me. I'm looking into pet-friendly hotels now.]

• Red Cross shelters will open at 2:00 p.m. today. Buses will begin running to assist with the evacuation at approximately 1:45 p.m. along A-1-A.

• Those persons who need to evacuate should first attempt to stay with friends or relatives outside the evacuation zone. The Red Cross Shelters will be available for those that need a safe refuge.

• Shelter guidelines:

- Shelters are a place of refuge only
- No pets are permitted in shelters – a list of pet friendly hotels is posted on the web site
- No smoking is permitted
- Items to bring: medication, battery-operated radio, special diet foods, baby food, personal items, pillows and blankets
- Shelter location information is available on the Broward County web site www.broward.org or by calling the Hurricane Hotline at 954-831-4000

• The Broward County special needs shelters will also open at 2:00 p.m. today. These shelters are for people who have special health care needs and require assistance. Residents in need have pre-registered and will be notified by telephone this morning to schedule transportation.

• There are approximately 17,000 visitors to Broward County staying in hotels in the evacuation area. Hotels in western Broward County are at capacity. Our Red Cross shelters are available as refuge for our visitors.

• Travelers should call the airlines before arriving at the airport to ensure that their flights are still scheduled.

• Port Everglades closed at 8:00 a.m. this morning to all vessel traffic including cargo and cruise ships.

• Homeless persons in Broward County should seek shelter at any of the Red Cross shelters or at the four shelters designated specifically to assist homeless persons. The shelters are:

Broward Outreach Center, 2056 Scott St., Hollywood, 954-926-7417
Salvation Army Lodge, 1445 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-524-6991
Central Homeless Assistance Center, 920 N.W. 7th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-779-3990
North Homeless Assistance Center, 1700 Blount Rd., Pompano Beach 954-979-6365

• All Broward County offices are closed today, as well as all public schools.Site Meter

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Hurricane update -

going into work early to make sure everything is backed up, easily tarped over and stowed for the long weekend. The gang at work, while needy, is very good about pulling together and getting stuff lined up.

tracking map )



Let's just hope it keeps on going North. The storm is plenty wide enough to get us all wet and blown. Heck, The thing is taller and wider than the whole state. I don't want floods or evac.

Handy-dandy sun-sentinel hurricane tracking map

I'm hoping it leaves Broward the heck alone. I don't want to relocate. I'm ready to, if I have to, but I'd really rather not. Especially for some storm named "Frances". Reminds me of the guy in the movie Stripes. "Call me Psycho!"

The supermarket was crazy yesterday, people snatching up water as fast as the pallets were laid out.

The gals at work were very giving and expressed the desire to help me get stuff for the coming storm, but I was already prepared. It was a lot of nice gestures.

Evacuation orders were posted for 300,000 residents in coastal areas of Palm Beach County, and 192,500 were told to leave mobile homes and low-lying areas of Brevard and Martin counties. The evacuation orders were set to take effect Thursday afternoon.

Frances was about 700 miles southeast of Florida on Wednesday afternoon, heading northwest on a course that would take it to the central portion of Florida's eastern coast. Residents of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina watched the forecast closely in case Frances took a sharper turn to the north.

All I know is that I have water, some cash, a carrier for Newt and my palmtop.... I can travel light. I talked to the landlord about plywooding the apartment windows tomorrow or Friday morning. I remember how dark it got in my old place with all the shutters drawn, like being sealed in a mine. I rather liked it for the short time it was there, though I expect I'd have gotten a little punchy if I was sealed in for a week.

At this point, it really is still far too early to say *where* it might go. No worries.



Speaking of the mobbed market... whimsy was kind enough to hook me up with the screenie from CoH's test server... everyone and their cape was there.

most heroes I've seen in one place, since the invasion. )



Researchers at the University of Zurich have shown that revenge is, well, sweet. Their experiment, described in Scientific American, was based on a game where one player was given the opportunity to punish another player for financially screwing him. PET scans revealed that when a player contemplated revenge, his striatum, a "reward center" in the brain, became energized.

This sort of causal relationship may explain why people are willing to discipline a stranger even when there is no immediate gain in it for them. "Emotions play a proactive as well as reactive role," remarks Brian Knutson of Stanford University who penned an accompanying commentary (to a paper about the study in the journal Science). He notes that "passionate" forces may need to be included in economic models because, as this research shows, “people show systematic deviations from rationality."
I wonder how long before someone uses this as a defense in court? "I couldn't help it, that behavior is hard-wired into my system!"



Got a decent reply from playNC re: my unsent comics -

followup letter )

Not bad. They got back to me within 12 hours.



If I was a wise-ass or melodramatic, I'd write something here about we'll all survive after this apocalypse, do a couple of riffs on The Road Warrior, Six-string Samurai, or A Boy and his Dog (though I'd not rename Newt to Blood.)

Or maybe Mutants of 2051 AD...

"Fleshy-headed mutant! Are you friendly?"
- Space Cadet R.M. McKenzie

"Now way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!"
- The Fleshy-Headed Mutant
If I lose power or post-ability, I'll still be keeping a journal and a photographic record of anything that happens, to be uploaded and backdated... as long as I'm not eaten by cannibal zombie-ghouls or shot by gorillas on horseback, mistaking me for one of the sad, mute nomads in the fields.



It's the Google Superhero Costume Parade!



Anacondas? Baby Geniuses 2? Didn't the first ones tank? Why Sequels?

And a better question, is Why is the bad guy from Anaconda (Jon Voight) the bad guy in Baby Geniuses 2? Does that Mean Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloys be the Bad guys in Anacondas? (I'd rather see then return to Roger Rabbit.) I'm guessing all of the babies sin that movie are twins, like Mary Kate and Ashley? Is that still a rule in Hollywood?

Whatever happened to Angela Anaconda?



A moment of Voodoo - Syncretism:

Syncretism may occur wherever two different cultures come into contact. It is an attempt to reconcile and mix together several different religious beliefs. Voodoo is one such attempt, combining Christian and African beliefs with a small dose of native American animism. It is far from the only one. Most religions in the ancient world never claimed to be the “only” or the “true” way (Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the three notable exceptions), and thinkers and mystics often tried to mix and match elements of religions to get the best of all possible worlds.

Even the rise of Christianity did not stop syncretism. Faced with the might of Christianity (which at first was backed by the Roman Empire), many pagans adopted it as their religion — but added a few pieces of their own for good measure. Many pre-Christian altars and shrines became churches. The cult of the saints that is part and parcel of Catholicism was the perfect vehicle of syncretism: many of the old gods were thinly disguised as saints, with their attributes (and mystical powers) remaining unchanged. “Saint Bridget” of Ireland, for example, used to be the fire goddess Brigit, until she was syncretized into the Christian canon as the saint of fire.

The same thing happened to the religions African slaves brought to America. They saw the Catholic priests praying to a complex “pantheon” of saints, each representing different attributes or elements — in a way, not very different from their beliefs. While the Europeans punished any slave who clung to the old ways, they accepted acts of devotion to Christian symbols. African sorcerer-priests decided that there was power in these saints; the statues that the Christians prayed to seemed no different from their own idols. Christian prayers became powerful spells, cast under the unsuspecting eyes of colonial slave masters.



Random Scotto/Dan factoid: When I told Danny that my beliefs are basically Agnostic (a person who believes that, at my present level of knowledge, that I cannot know whether or not a God exists - I can get feelings one way or the other, but really have no proof on the matter), he thought I said Gnostic (A person whose world view embraces Gnosticism, the thought and practice of various cults of late pre-Christian and early Christian centuries distinguished by the conviction that matter is evil and that emancipation comes through gnosis [passing down of knowledge, perhaps secret knowledge].), and ran with it for quite a while, until he confronted me with something that he thought was conflict with my belief. Two pretty different stances, all told.

Now, I do believe that there is great power in knowledge, and that the flesh undriven by the mind is by necessity basically a selfish thing.

It would probably please and frighten me a great deal to *know* definitively that a deity exists. This may sound like it conflicts with faith, but I feel that faith is the substance of things hoped for... you can be an agnostic and still have faith. Faith is a tether between you and your belief... stronger than hope. Belief and knowledge don't always go hand in hand.



Until later, dear journal! I'll be back before the storm hits.Site Meter

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I don't know why, but I got the urge to make a cartoon out of Newt talking.
(no doubt he's making fun of how pointless many of my entries are.)




I'm really looking forward to The Incredibles.

Good team. A stretchy, a brick, a speedster, invisi-forcefields, ice... looks like what little I've seen is well-written, too.



Dear M. Night Shyamalan,

It seems you can't make a good movie without Bruce Willis. Call him back for the next flick you make. I loved 6th sense, and Unbreakable.

Signs and The Village, while having good bits in the middle at times, had poo endings.

Your Viewer in FL,
Scotto



Turn Gmail storage into a mountable file system

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux file system which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland file system infrastructure to help provide the file system, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favorite Unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).


Cool.



Woo! I got my check from Google Adsense! Good deal, I wasn't totally ripped off, after all. A lot of little financial windfalls lately!



Mike from Satan's Laundromat photographs Critical Mass bicycle riders getting arrested Friday night and finds himself arrested and in jail overnight.
"they suddenly decided to start making arrests without warning, penning people in and arresting entire blocks' worth of people, including hapless tourists and people getting off work who just happened to be in the area watching. And they couldn't have been bothered to clean the diesel sludge off the floor of the holding pens where they made us sleep? Someone will pay."
I hope *somebody* catches hell for that.



I'm glad to see that Cap'n Pete in Disney's Three Musketeers cartoon has gone back to having a peg leg. Of course, the novel itself is public domain and available online. (you can always download and print it out if you prefer text on dead trees.)

It's also the origin of GrayPumpkin & Katt's little cow-kitty's name. D'Art! (The first Kitty I was ever really social with.)



Hmm... Hurricane Frances travel projection looks like it's headed this way, around midday Saturday. A lot can happen over the course of a week, but I'd wager it'll hit the states *somewhere*.

Current Plot )Site Meter



Ear still hurty. Brah. Grah. Roogah. I think this is the first earache I've ever had... it's certainly the first I can remember. (I've had blockages before, but no pain.)



Fla. child-protection agency chief quits

Good riddance to bad rubbish. )

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