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The Dan-man and I went out to an all-you-dare-eat buffet for Sushi/Thai/Chinese, and it was actually quite good. Afterward, we swung by Crabby Jacks to solve his caffeine needs and Miranda got a pretty awesome tip ($5 after a bill for $0.69 - the coffee was free and I had a draft) - after we hung out a bit and chitty-chatted. I told him a bit about my beliefs regarding meeting someone for a lifelong commitment at this point (I suspect odds of meeting someone that I have chemistry with, a minimum of emotional baggage, and a mutual appreciation of one another to be very, very, very slim.) Explained to him why Magda wasn't a viable option, though she and I did have a nice time together. I honestly don't know if there are any wedding bells in my future, but If I were a betting man, I know that I'd opt for "not likely." I know good couples are out there... Dave & Cathi / GrayPumpkin & Katt are two of the best examples of two pairings as well-suited for one another for life that I can think of.

In the last decade, I've had the following serious relationships:

Lees - 6 months
Eryn - 3 months
April - 4 months
Rachel - 6 months
CEJ - 2ish years, Almost 3 if you count on and off time
D - A bit over a year
Mel - 3 months
Magda - 5 months (9 minus the months where she was in Columbia)

Come to think of it, I don't have any trouble getting dates... it's the longevity that needs work. Breakups are fairly even, an assortment of reasons, from a lack of trust to a lack of interest.

Hair-wise, we've got a Blond x2, Brown x3, Black x2, and a Redhead
Tattoo-wise - 6 had ink.. some got it while I was with 'em.
Politics/Attitudes - Leftx2, Modx4, Rightx2
Readers - 4 yes, 4 no
eye color - Brown - 5 Hazel -1 Blue - 2
all were fairly chesty

I've been proposed to on two different occasions, and I honestly thought I'd end up with CEJ for life... she was the last one that gave me those sorts of feelings.

Looking back, I do pretty well, for a serial monogamist with no vehicle of his own.

Dan got me a few very nice gifts for Christmas.... No Software this year. A used book on dinosaurs, a new copy of Pratchett's Last Hero, a t-shirt and a zip-up shirt (both too small, unfortunately), a carrying case for a digital camera/palmtop, and some jalepeno peanuts. We tried out the Peking House restauant, but it had a bad vibe, so we went to the one we're more fond of dining at.

Moment of Lyric - mp3 / flash video (Here's his LJ, by the way -

trapezzoid)

( ... )

This is boring... Yes, I'm falling,
but it's taking quite a while.
My destination is impending.
Might as well go out in style.
I put my arms out to the skies,
whistle a tune and close my eyes,
trying to briefly realize perpetual motion.
( ... )

Big Hole Simulator

Uses the Google Maps API to tell you where you'd end up if you started digging a hole through the Earth at a certain geographic point. (thanks, qdot!)

1 year ago - Started using my paypal to go to charity, carnivore pigeons, Video-time with Mel, newt pics, prosperity gospel

2 years ago - outing review, saw Val & Rhonnie, google specific search, Bollywhat, missing the big mob poll answerers

3 years ago - linky linky, one word, communications breakdown begins, nifty flying guy, Belgians link to me, Dave's clutch breaks, cold mountain movie being mad

4 years ago - rumors, comparing haunted house stories, smudge sticks (note to self, get more stuff to make more), defleshing (another news article gone...inspires me to put all my news articles behind lj-cuts for future ref) and naptime (naptime pix overwritten by other archive images)

5 years ago - dead phone, feeling love grow, Viet beer at the mall, lj & IM trouble

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Lemon Demon - I've got some falling to do.

Nice relaxing day with Danny. Went to CJ's for Lunch, hit target to do a little holiday shopping, roamed the neighborhood a bit on foot.

It seems that Dan thinks that I have a higher IQ than he does.. he sells himself a little short, I think, or maybe he's selling me long. He confided in me that a lot of his goofiness is premeditated, although mine is generally off the cuff. Kristy the bartender much more "crushworthy" than Miranda the waitress. Miranda was nice, but seemed to be running on very low fuel cells... in need of a few red bulls.

I told Danny about OGRE, and he was fairly enthused. Maybe I'll pick up a copy just to keep in the games closet. I wish I still had the version for the Atari ST... I'd love to run that on my caSTaway emulator on the palmtop. Maybe a disk image of it is somewhere around. What brought it to mind is the local Zion Lutheran church looks just a bit like a Mark V. (Minus the bristling weapons, giant tractor-treads and malevolent AI, of course.)

update, an Atari st disk image of ogre can be found at #202 here, and a windows emulator here SainT I just spent about 2 hours playing Ogre, and some other classics.very spiffy emulator, even plays a sound file of the old floppy drive noise, if you want. boy, I really stink at Ogre these days... practice makes perfect! Chessmaster 2000 and the Temple of Apshai Trilogy (image 141) really brought me back to 1986, junior year in high school, wasting time in my room when I should've been doing homework.

It's sort of funny to think that I was playing these video games before a few of my friends were even born. Ah, the generation gap. (Temple was released in 1980... I remember playing it on a few different systems, the first being an Atari 800)

Fracas is a great word.

I haven't felt much desire to hang with Magda this week. Not sure why. I know my time is limited, but the drive isn't there. Not sure if it's a loss of interest, or some subconscious way of protecting my feelings.

Best of Jefferson Airplane (full album download)

Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: Don't You want somebody to love - Jefferson Airplane

Magda surprised me with a phone call yesterday morning.After a quick visit to Target to pick up some equipment, I met with her and we had a spot of dinner, coffee and conversation. Her computer died while in Colombia, thus loss of contact, no phone number or email, but when she got back into town, my info was in the apartment she has here. Newt and I got some nice hugs and kisses! Quite a treat on an otherwise fairly poopy Tuesday.

She's only in town for three weeks this time, before returning home for the holidays... and then she'll be back for a bit in January.

Newt's a little attention hog... he ran right up to her and gave swabby-feet and headbutts.

She brought me some awesome Colombian coffee, right from jaun valdez himself.

Moment of Lyric: mp3

Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey!
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey

RS is helping with work... showing some management finesse. I heard the big boss talking about "giving up and firing everyone"... she has been looking quite a bit more tired than usual this last week or so. If I got fired, my only concern would be that unemployment would take care of funds until I found a fresh gig. I won't worry about missing kids as I've discovered that our org isn't a unique and beautiful snowflake, and that there are others who would pick up the torch if our ship sank. Er, to mix too many metaphors.

I suspect that 2/3 (or more) of the PR section of our group will have found new jobs before my Birthday (Feb 02), but the office is interviewing hard for an administrative assistant. What we really need is someone to answer the phones and do the scut-work filing and such.

RI is in a bit of a cranky-funk, too. I've heard rumor that she's going ot cut her hours back a bit from 40 to a significant fraction less.

Current Mood: caffienated
Current Music: supergrass - coffee in the pot

written on the bus & riverwalk
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
saw Sasha yesterday for a little dinner and catcup conversation. I let her know about Magda's return on November 25th, and the new condo -- she told me about Gil, Sonya and Steve quitting the club... not to mention Susie and M getting the boot. Chris was promoted to manager on Sunday / Mondays, plus Melissa and Longhair still bartend and serve respectively. I could quite easily fall back into being the club's Sunday "Norm!", now that the bald IKON boneheads have bailed on the place. Tougher to get there from Deerfield, but worth it, I think.

Bro came by to pick up his guitar and amp... I told him to pick up the rest of his stuff before 12/1, because I'd be moving. He just told me to leave it at the Momster's. I told him he'd have to work that out himself, and we argued a bit. I think a month's notice to find a place for his stuff after being storage over and above 2 years is more than reasonable.

Note, he only calls when he wants something, and then it's practically hourly voicemails.

I don't think that I'll pass my mailing address on to him, just let him know I'm in Deerfield.

Saw Chicken Little (any excuse for a/c instead of the muggy apt... semi-blah, but had quite a few fun moments. Not as good as Wallace & Gromit, but fared better than Robots. (Plus, Joan Cusack voice, who I adore.)

crescent moon is out with a single bright star right now... cool breezes and sunset reminds me why I dig Florida.

sent via palmtop

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: live reggae band playing "my girl"

Greasemap is a "user script" for Greasemonkey, which is a plugin framework for Firefox. It augments any web page you visit by searching the page for geocodeable addresses or other geotags. If it finds any, it automatically shows all such locations on a Google Map which is injected into the page you are viewing, within an iframe from Vinq.com. (thanks to chris::wired for the tidbit!)

Works great with my journal page.

Ducktales song in another language sounds more like anti-circumcision propaganda and other lechery. ( http://uncutohh.ytmnd.com/ )

embedded audio works best in msie (mp3 to play with the pic, if embedded sound doesn't work)

Added "Briefcase full of Blues" to my mp3 player. The late 1970s going on 1985. Hard to believe there's a 25th anniversary dvd of the movie coming out this month.

( Original Rubber Biscuit Lyrics by The Chips. )

Also found - Price Is Right Failure noise

Apricot Scarves, Coffee Clouds, Horse races, Eclipses in Nova Scotia, underworld spies and marital infidelity... What the devil was Carly Simon talking about, anyhow? Warren Beatty seems unlikely.

My Favorite version of the tune, sung by The Odd Couple - Mp3 - (via) Also, I agree with Felix. Saratoga / Nova Scotia is a pretty weak rhyme.

He wasn't wearing a heavy jacket. He used his card to get into the station. He didn't vault the barrier. And now police say there are no CCTV pictures to reveal the truth. So why did plainclothes officers shoot young Jean Charles de Menezes seven times in the head, thinking he posed a terror threat? Full article - Death in Stockwell: the unanswered questions.

BeaucoupKev has a lovely collection of Stange Adventures covers in his most recent post. Cavemen vs. Fighter Jets! Apes! Giant Tigers!

I thought for sure that Susie would be fired for not showing up to work yesterday, but she still had a gig after the staff meeting on Sunday. Kayla's not happy about having to give up bartending hours, but looks like that's what's going to happen.

I got a lot of nice hugs from folks yesterday.

1 year ago - AvP movie. bus schedules switch, walkabout pics, Punta Gorda - Yikes

2 years ago - last skeletor and gang, insect macro photos, apartments made from text, hello kitty warhammer, human/rabbit chimera, scotto is a fuzzy monkey, frankie knocks, wondering about crusaders planting vinyards, drunken sailor quiz, complete sherlock holmes, some detective work, purse contents, fun with google calc,

3 years ago - both machines upgraded and cleaned up, fun linkies, MRE talks about writing his junk, signage systems

4 years ago - eye dialect, latitudinarian, weird dream poll, set up alternates to LJ, Newt comes to work, cool news, freaky dream, ckirk's secret is out.

5 years ago - loony, first hints suzy using, foodies

Current Mood: Knit and dance and bake a cake, oh!
Current Music: You're So Vain - Klugman & Randall

Magda's Birthday!

More allergy shots today. I have to call the primary and get more referrals for next time.

3 years ago, Danny and I discovered heroclix, and I posted the zombie picture yesterday just out of randomness.

I dreamt that I killed my older sister by accident.

To the best of my knowledge, I've never had an older sister.

She fell down the stairs because she tripped on a stack of books that I'd left at the top.

I don't think I've ever lived in a multi-story home with a staircase like that. It sort of reminded me of Pam's Mom's place... I still vividly remember sleeping over there before our road trip to Disney. Right down to the dinotopia calendar. I always liked her mom... Paul, I was not to crazy about.

I have very fond memories of watching Doctor Doctor with her on the phone, and the both of us laughing our fool heads off. Really a shame that friendship fell apart.

The steps in the dream were covered with bright yellow and lime green shag carpet.

If somebody offered you half a million dollars to pack your lunch, would you take it? (note the comments section, too)

How to View the Perseid Meteor Showers

If, around August 12th, you go outside between midnight and dawn and look up for a minute or so, you'll most likely spot a meteor streaking through the sky. The August Perseid meteors were the first that astronomers associated with a particular comet. In the mid 1860s, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed that Perseids followed the appearance of the Swift-Tuttle Comet.

Billy Harvey's website has a fun interface.... I don't normally dig arbitrary use of flash, but this works well.

To tell if you have bad breath:

1. Lick your wrist
2. Wait ten seconds for it to dry
3. Sniff your wrist

Disclaimer: Doesn't work if your wrists normally smell bad, or if your breath smells very strongly of wrist.

The personalized google homepage is really what a portal is all about... especially since you can add feeds to it now. (plus, google has a way of making feeds based off of new searches, too) It'd be my primary web-feed reader, if I didn't already syndicate on LJ.

1 year ago - construction, fay wray RIP, dan's school blocks lj,alcohol, SP character, aerial photos, UK Prozac pee taints water supply, LC's scrapbook, CoH tempting battle cries, flower meme,

2 years ago - Puzzle Pirates (with a cutie mermaid), Arabia-cam with Mom and Daughter (I met oneeyed and sedef as a result of sweet's poochie's booty-ticks.), vamp-game, Kings of Africa, lovely chat with my sweetheart (only viewable by her and me)

3 years ago - man killed for playing the banjo, Trek happening a dud, but we discover heroclix, (already thinking customs), rorschach poll

4 years ago - 3 things poll, deracinate, cormorant, broken newt pic, 25 things to keep in mind, ja da, rate your risk (links now broken)

5 years ago - spent out, color quiz, looking forward to going to breakfast, Rowlf sings, Beaker sings

Current Music: http://sugarinthegourd.com/

Went with Danny to Waxy's Pub, and the top of Pier 66's Hyatt. Hyatt is far to expensive for what you get, but the view is fantastic.

( more pictures here )

Singing fountain got working again... I was pleasantly surprised that the water seamed up as well as it did.

Magda's settling in well down South, and Dan's teasing me a bit about it... no big thing, but I look forward to the cooler months.

Going to the doc on Friday, to retest for allergies, and the Derm on next Wednesday. 'Tis the season. Atarax works great, but turns me into a big ol' sleepyhead.

To celebrate the first Moon landing today (July 20th, 1969) Google have added some NASA moon imagery to the Google Maps interface and created Google Moon. Make sure you zoom right in for a hint at what the moon is really made of .

Moment of Lyric:

You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
you to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god,
he's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
his red right hand.

I'm about due my next link-paycheck. I'm wondering if I should do an even $5 per for four different charities, or if $20 a month is better for a single charity. Currently, it is be divided across Asha for Education, an extremely efficient spending org (98% to programs); usually focuses on education and long-term socioeconomic change, but continuing to respond to the tsunami disaster and AmeriCares, another efficient (99% to programs) nonprofit specialized in international disasters.

Want to help?

Click to make a donation.

Or, if you like, go right to the links above.

What charities do folks out on my reader list support? I am, admittedly, a lazy charity kind of guy. I donate blood which is no effort and drop funds from paid links directly to charities of choice. Is UNICEF still a good gig? How did that "One" deal turn out? That seemed mighty vague.

What's Digg? Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.'

Mmm.. Link-dump-a-liscious!

I love this picture of Hurricane Emily taken from the ISS.

ICE Announces Two-Year Results Of Operation Predator

Special Operation Leads To 250 Arrests In Florida ( Read more... )

Did

fishstories go on hiatus? I'm about ready to do some writing again, now that things have settled a bit.

Google maps now has scale on the image.

1 year ago - I Robot, working with wimmin, Operation Valkyrie, moon landing.

2 years ago - bro, monkey mummy, teen titans, moon landing hoaxes, animal sounds as ring tones, hunting for bambi, newtcam, consumer reports condoms, awesome earth image, pancakes

3 years ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg

4 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll

5 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake

Current Mood: I've got plans.
Current Music: Nick Cave - Red Right Hand

MP has journeyed South.

I just got paid.

Laundry Sunday.

Kev tomorrow, with Pizza.

Bro in court on Monday. He's at a friend's house, has a roof over his head.

I'm probably going to hit the sack hard when I return from work, and get more of a charge back again.

RS is trying out for The Apprentice at the Pembroke Lakes Mall this morning. It'd be cool to see her make it. (I can't abide much reality TV, and Don Trump, even less so.)

Moment of Lyric: (mp3)

Look into his eyes!
They are the eyes of a man obsessed by sex.
Eyes that mock our sacred institutions.
"Bedroom eyes" they called them in a bygone day.
They're the eyes of a man whose lust knows no bounds.
Who lives but for corrupting others to a life of carnal pleasures and lewd designs.'

via - Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka - Porn Music For The Masses Volume 1

1 year ago - construction webbing, fonts, celebs, web cam fights crime

2 years ago - braced, zombie pumpkin fights, insanity script, insurance stupidity

3 years ago - dream about Ray at the paint store, little people, domed 3d displays, great ape project, 28 things quiz, sue the teacher trend, mental comfort

4 years ago - cool mini or not, vatic, cool things about moving, smoothies, misc news, age poll, counter testing, chocolate bees, Victorian Sex Cry Generator, what's for supper, coloring book concept germ

5 years ago - Newtcam's own page posted.

Current Mood: frisky, sleepy, mopey, lovey
Current Music: Martinibomb - The Love God

Bro update, he was on an IV, because he was dehydrated, and pretty sick.. but he checked himself out of the hospital rather than stick around and enjoy the bed and food. He sounds ok, and his cell phone is working, if faint.

MP spoils Newton terribly, carrying him whenever she can, and calling him baby all the time. He loves it.
She leaves for points South today at 5pm. Argh. I'm glad for communications technology.

We half-watched Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry, snuggled, and ate popcorn.

Best thing I've gotten from Netflix so far, I think.

Rubber Johnny. - freaky. Probably not safe for work. Probably not safe for the squeamish.

I got a fresh spinner of DVDs and CDs, so I can burn off the tv eps that are long overdue for Vimoh and GrayPumpkin. This weekend, it'll happen. Sunday, most likely. Getting together with Kev for a video and pizza.

Tweaked the embedded journal on my homepage to allow people who're logged in to LJ to see friend's only posts on that site, too. Not sure why.. If people read my site via lj, it's probably on their friend's page. Considerably different format than my regular lj design. Not sure which I prefer.

Wireless camera found in a *$ Ladies room.

From the patch notes to the latest version of World of Warcraft: "Pets will now enter passive/follow mode when their masters mount." - via Lore

1 year ago - Hot palm doodle, recent comments, KoL, optical almonds, bandages and carcasses, enjoying Zim!

2 years ago - Bastille Day, Lilo/The Ring Connection, Bro work, Vampire game, Java Aquarius, modem goes poop, Linda tells CEJ her secret, black and white cookies, mush, toy swarm, work comp-mri info

3 years ago - Newt's Tarot Reading, worked out Dan-route, How close are you to a nuclear waste hauling route?, wackies, big little books

4 years ago - juxtaposition , news, audio mystery, assorted video tapes.

5 years ago - imood, zircon added, hours change

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror

Wonderful time with Magda last night. My last time with her tomorrow night, (Until Late October / Early November, now. Then she'll be in town for a month, then gone for Christmas and back again in January-February)

Not much to update, because I spent most of my time with her and the Newtie-berry. A fine time was had by all.

Yummy dinner was fettuccine Alfredo which Newton was very interested in, until the fresh black pepper was added.

Newt wasn't jealous of MP at all.

No word from Bro since Friday. I wish he'd check in.

Back from the chrono-lift. The only differences I see so far is that Mickey Mouse has four digits on each hand instead of five and my currency now has pictures of statesmen on it, rather than plant life. Oddly enough, now the bills are all green instead of the rainbow of shades before. I never understood why hemp was on the ten-cent piece *and* the five dollar bill, anyhow.

Moment of Lyric:

So I turn to you and I say,
Thank goodness for the Good Souls that make life better,
So I turn to you and I say,
If it wasn't for the Good Souls, life would not matter.

I like waffles... and pancakes...and French toast.

Passed around, but worth continuing - Zombies attack SCA event. More funny to me is that they hit McDonald's afterwards.

Something I learned via a random comment on my crab picture. -

Not to be picky but crabs have eight legs, not counting the claws. You could even argue that the mouth parts are modified legs. Insects, like ants and beetles, have six legs. Crabs are crustaceans and they may have any number of legs and are not limited to eight as far as I know.

Thanks, sandrino!

Another autostitch test - a bus in motion, multiple light sources, and jagged jerky movement, background moving.

It did pretty good job, all told, except for a little fubar on the right. BCT route 20 in fort Lauderdale, 7pm 7/11/05

1 year ago - KoL, Bollywood, Patriot Act, Felix the Cat

2 years ago - sleep troubles, Andromeda Strain, 4-legged man , system crash - modem drivers (Service pack 4 for win2k caused Norton trouble) , Stalin vs Hitler comic, newtcam pic, discovered title-tags, strickland a/c die-lemma

3 years ago - more swell chatties, Roanoke (including odd reply from Boughman), Dreams of Lake Conoy with zombie mist, sweet possum sugar, mother goose.

4 years ago - Evil news, riposte, dream of the jungle, If I were... meme, time, sleepy, Dumbass Tenochtitlan Saucermen,[ awesomely long and fun 143 chitty chat-my eyes only], aura colors, personality disorder test, Louvre

5 years ago- Bad things with April

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Starsailor - Good Souls

Time with Magda was too brief this weekend.. she leaves for Colombia on Friday. I want to give her a little traveling present, but I'm not sure what to get her. Maybe some stationary?

I suspect that I'll be writing a lot more project-stuff once I'm back in hobbit-hole mode.

Dan liked the FF movie, though I suspect it's mostly because he never read the comic as a kid. That's a good sign I think, but from the sound of things, Doctor Doom was pretty much totally redone from the ground up.

Graypumpkin also saw it, and he seems to mirror my suspicions best "Good for a TV Movie-level flick".

The general consensus is that it's not as bad as the turd burger that was Daredevil, but not up to the standards of Spidey or the new Batman.

Moment of Lyric:

You want to move the world,
Start with your body.
Yo, come on you gotta start with something.
If you wanna move your mind,
Just move your body.

Supernatural Crime - the bastard offspring of a long, illicit love affair with four-color comic books, black and white B-Movies, cliffhanger serials, newspaper adventure strips, pulp fiction and old-time radio.

Free 7.11 ounce slurpee at 7-11 stores today (it is 7/11 after all!)! Yum!

The Angels with Attitude beauty contest does not penalize children for "things that are a normal part of being a child" such as bruises, missing teeth, and giant doll's eyes completely devoid of human emotion.

The Horror. The Horror. via

I find this more frightening than any zombie movie.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. - Oscar Wilde

Interesting to discover that insanity is a legal term, not a psychiatric one.

I want a small bottle on a string to wear on my neck. Put something interesting and rare in it.

Re-tagging my old entries (one entry at a time, each time I touch my archives) is fast. just click-click-click from a drop-down, and hit update. good deal. I'm still only doing it for the days I hit with the archive.

Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols - These pages show the names of the individuals who first used various common mathematical symbols, and the dates the symbols first appeared.

It's so easy to think that math has just been around forever, and to forget that somebody had to come up with the stuff.. even just the plus and minus sign didn't show up until the 13th century.

via

qdot and A Neighborhood of Infinity

Some Fark hot linked to an image on my site, and I got about 6500 extra hits yesterday. I did the htaccess switcheroo... I wonder how they like having a this rather than a buxom girlie in the forum? I was thinking of doing something "not safe for work" but opted out, because that'd probably generate more hits. a little teddy bear is more of a hit in that region, I think.

I've already had to kill myspace, xanga, and a few sidebar messageboards for far too many snatched images.

I also noticed that Pagenation sniffed out all of my flickr geotagged images and put them on a world map, too. Not as sharp an interface as geobloggers (and can be jagged-loading) but it's a different sort of design. I could see it improving greatly over time.

Map of Fort Lauderdale (Florida)

I didn't realize that Melissa Gilbert was *still* president of the Screen Actors Guild. I didn't know she could do that and be vice president of the AFL-CIO at the same time. I don't know why I keep thinking she's a lot older than 41. I shouldn't be saying "she still looks great" considering she's just in the "she looks great" category. Bruce Boxleitner hasn't aged as well, but they are a handsome couple.

I've found her sister (Sarah Gilbert) to be a cutie, too. (Sakes.. IMDB is a font of info... I didn't know Sarah was gay, or a mom.... her partner gave birth via a sperm donor, or in a new wb show "twins" that will be canceled in 5 episodes or less)

I really don't like the word "partner". I tend to go with girlfriend or wife.. but, one seems a little on the lightweight side, and the other isn't really accurate. Partner to me smacks of a business agreement, or a little too "Wild West" rather than a more deep interpersonal relationship.

[edit: how did I forget about just the word "Love"? I can't use the word lover with a straight face, but "her love" is nice. Best of the lot, I think.]

1 year ago - Newt says Mao, travel pondering, manatee, Dan alters color scheme, good eats

2 years ago - Zwan, I snuff griefer #5, movies, elvis tooth, bad baby names, net radio, flipped off by the universe

3 years ago - reflecting on old work, log issues, Newt attack, recalling palm animations

4 years ago - fetial, solecism, pockets poll, purse poll, evil news, pie poll, tuck-ins

5 years ago - words, bro moving to town

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Move Your Body - Eiffel 65

Not nearly enough time with MP yesterday. Had supper with Danny ad Subway, and we gabbed a bit. He brought me a present of The Bard's Tale, which was a pleasant surprise. I haven't installed it yet, but it looks like fun. I forgot to get my Tiki Cup.

I told MP that I thought about her snuggled close when I went to sleep at night. She replied playfully "you don't think about me during the day?" and gave me a triple-threat smooch. (both cheeks, and then on the kisser.) She's flattered when I wear the cologne she got me. She also told me that she didn't want me to suffer while she's gone.. I'll be pretty cool, I think, as long as she heads back to the states in Sept like she plans. I'll be fairly peeved if that doesn't come to pass.

Bro talked to me, and he told me that he hadn't seen me put on my rage-face on like I did when that whole almost-fight happened en route to the bus station. I haven't had to manhandle my bro in ages, and I think he was surprised when I kind of pulled him out of the way and intervened between him and the other guy.

There's a part of me that *really* wanted to commit violence on the BS-guy. Pounding the devil out of him, and taking a few hits would've been cleansing. That sort of behavior is wholly inappropriate, but the caveman inside would've been happy for a few minutes.

I wouldn't mind a sparring partner or a good long session smacking the heavy bag.

Forehead Inflation. - via temporary saline injection - Maybe not for the squeamish.

I've got the Nairobi Trio playing Solfeggio in my head over and over. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

I miss the Ernie Kovacs show.

What the heck... over 800 hits yesterday on the easter manatee entry? What's causing folks to go back to the end of march back to tag it? it's not direct picture links.. it's the entry itself. different locations, assorted browsers... and it's not from google or yahoo search. no referral links.

Tropical Storms Cindy and Dennis may be on the way? Seedling hurricanes.

I'm not too worried about Cindy....

But Dennis is a distinct possibility. Would I be selfish to hope I could hole up from the storm with MP for the weekend?

Moment of Lyric: (link)

( ... )

Avalanches is above, business continues below
Did I ever tell you the story about
Cowboys! bit , bit bitches and the Indians and, fron, frontier psychiatrist
I... I felt strangely hypnotized
I was in another world, a world of 20,000 girls
And milk! rectangles, to an optometrist, the man with the golden eyeball
And tighten your buttocks, pour juice on your chin
I promise my girlfriend I'd... the violin, violin, violin ...

( ... )

I opened up my big buckets of Heroclix and Mageknight figures... wow. The plastic in there smells like a thousand new shower curtains.

1 year ago - creepy Vizcaya pictures, cake man, Lego zombies, edible panties with twizzlers, Helped Danny set up website, JLU

2 years ago - harry potter quiz, history returns

3 years ago - bad sleeps, odd dreams, bedframe replaced, stats, LJ scam, villain supply, reading Earth, getting used to bro as neighbor, Scotto factoid poll

4 years ago - tirade, suberic, slinky/cult, evil news

5 years ago - got a nice letter from Christin, Emo Philips

Current Mood: Chex-mix
Current Music: Frontier Psychiatrist - Avalanches

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.

Evil Dead: Regeneration - looks good.

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?

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

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

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.

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. "

Moment of Lyric:

( ... )

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

( ... )

( Question & Answer time )

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

Current Mood: bonk!
Current Music: They Might Be Giants - Hovering Sombrero

Happy Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Day!

MP has a habit of giving me an extra smooch to pass on to Newt when we say farewell. It's a good thing.

( usa quiz )

Tied my flickr pictures into geobloggers. Now, I'll be tagging my images with a location code, so walkabouts become a bit more visual.

I'm going to test it out with

, and

geoblogscotto2, which will alert me (or anyone, else, I guess) when new piccies appear in my neck of the woods....or just toss this link into your rss reader) .

Link to Newtcam region, via geobloggers

Download google earth here.

You know, that Lapjuicer really reminds me of some crazy blood-sacrifice thing that the Aztecs might have if they were still in power. The whole body impaled / "fluid going through a channel" thing, I guess.

Found an interesting skeptic that counters the "Mucoid Plaque" quackery (contains a photo not for the squeamish) that I've been seeing pushed on infomercials for bowel cleansing at the wee hours.

Pretty interesting scam... Sell people a product that creates a condition, then claim that the product is curing the condition, without any proof that the condition was there before taking the product. (Mucus only becomes "plaque" *after* using his product.)

I know of a few folks that are going to be as disappointed as when I pointed out to them that ear candles were a hoax. Funny that the article starts by comparing it to the colonic irrigation fad of the 80s... sort of traveled in a circle.

1 year ago - Vizcaya day trip- pictures, Jeffrey Jones - sex offender, Thundarr

2 years ago - chit chat, family, cpap, Declaration of Independence, fart, classic obstacles, America essay, kazaa lite,

3 years ago- waking up, local news, prior day's ER visit, food quiz, fireworks color chemistry, fun tidbits, UA2 credit, you weigh less on a hard surface

4 years ago - Newt-ish picture from Joel, penury, Santa wondering, track list of the concert I went to in '99

5 years ago - burning numb, blame missile, clean

Yesterday was headache-y, but ok. Mp, Newt and I just sort of flopped around and slept off and on. There's something to be said about curling up in a little knot and just sleeping the day away inside while the rain pounds outdoors.

Lapjuicer - "The Lapjuicer is intended to be used by a lap-dancer in a club. The performer uses their body with the object, in order to extract fruit juices that can be drunk by one or more spectators."

Good Grief. Who comes up with these things?!? probably not safe for work.

Gerald McBoing Boing tells the story of a small boy who when he first tries to talk can only utter sound effects like 'Boing! Boing! His parents are shocked and call in a doctor who says he has no cure for the noises.

Great classic cartoon.. I had the storybook when I was but a tiny little Scotto.

See Also: The Tell Tale Heart - Read by James Mason

Land of the Dead - Loot & Shoot game

Thor rolls a joint.

Yet a third "oops I did it again" - Louis Armstrong (website with download)

I still prefer this classic version. (mp3)

Moment of Lyric: (mp3)

( ... )

I tapped her on the shoulder
And said do you have a beau?
She looked at me and smiled
And said she did not know
Punk rock girl give me a chance
Punk rock girl let's go slamdance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl

( ... )

Manybooks - Thousands of free books, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, or zTXT eBooks for Palm, Pocket PC, Zaurus or Rocketbook.

He grabbed girl's arm -- now he's a sex offender

( Read more... )

1 year ago - morbid stuff, the worms, marlon brando

2 years ago - hack comics, vampire game, tree types,

3 years ago - booboo foot, left behind books, where's george, Newtcam was on

4 years ago - 2 Years in the Forbidden city, timorous, choleric, evil news, spider poll, nuclear war, folks delete, Something Wicked This Way Comes, nekkid poll, love note writing

5 years ago - April takes her time moving out.

Current Mood: I would like some key lime cookies.
Current Music: the deadmilkmen - punk rock girl

On the road home from work, I got a call from bro... he wanted me to go with him to pay his fine at the courthouse. We met at the library, and we walked to the courthouse from there.... arrived at 4:35, and the payment area closed at 4:30. A helpful information desk person told me I could pay it online, or go to a nearby DMV location, that was open until 6. Seeing as we were a long march from any DMV, we hoofed it back to the library, and I paid it online. I printed up a receipt, and he was good to go. I was a little peeved that we didn't just go online at the library and do it, but it gave me a chance to gab with bro, and stretch my legs a bit. He's talking about maybe going to Belize to live. I think he'd survive fairly well there, and I can guess why he'd like to leave the USA for a span... plus, English is the official language over there, so he'd manage. It's funny... Danny did missionary work teaching in Guatemala ages ago, too.

Last night was the 2-year birthday party for the club.. it was a huge cattle call of people looking for free booze and food. We had a nice time, but as it was standing room only for a good part of the night, we high-tailed it up the road, once we said hi to the crew, got some dinner and cake.

Magda played Newtie, and they got along very well. Newt was a bit shy, and didn't attack.. he got cuddly with her after a few minutes of lovies (Like father like son, I guess). I think he figured out she's the scent I've been bringing home.

Random Magda Factoid - In Columbia, there are some butterflies that are *HUGE*, black-wings things that scare the devil out of her.. she likes the little, colorful ones just fine, but if they're as big as two hands together, all black, with long bug legs and wings that get in your face when you go to a storage room, no go. Here's a picture (of the bug, not Magda being scared).

I still think Palmetto bugs are the ookiest of insects. Like regular cockroaches, except they're dinosaur-huge, and can fly. I've heard them referred to as the only bug that requires license plates.

That may be from the time in the mid-80s when I was sleeping over at Brent's house after working on a long session of gaming on his Apple ][...I woke up in the middle of the night, because I heard a clicking... didn't know what it was. I looked around the room (still lit up, everyone was just strewn around, zonked out) and saw Brent, laying on his stomach... his back was peeling from a sunburn. Sitting on his left shoulder blade was a roach, gnawing on some of the peeled up skin.

So, Yeah, that was about as ookie an encounter with a Bug I've ever had. I think the fact that it was just sort of sitting there, pulling flaps of crispy friend-skin with his front legs, and making those clicky noises was about all my freshly awakened brain could handle. Unthinking, I took a magazine, rolled it up, and smacked him hard.

Brent was not too crazy about being awakened at 4am by me slapping his burn with a magazine, either.

I missed the roach, too... he scuttled off, but was integrated with the wall shortly thereafter. I suspect Brent wouldn't have believed me if there wasn't a body to be found, so that's just as well.

I searched my journal for "brent" and "roach" and even "sunburn"... I'm surprised I haven't mentioned it before now.

rosin_dubh pointed me to eNature, a guide to regional critters. (you can put a dud email address in when it asks for one)

Sample sub-article is a Manatee Link for Kellie.

When you're smashing megalomaniac villains hellbent on world domination, the theft of Fort Knox's gold reserves, or interrupting the morning newspaper delivery, you naturally don't want to get your hands soiled or injured while fighting for truth, justice and the (insert name of your country here) way. That's why so many denizens of the comics wear gloves - which, for superheroines, often means opera gloves.

via beaucoupkev

I guess there's a fetish for everyone.

Ok, I'm caught up for now... off to do my blood donation (I missed my earlier appointment this week due to hubbub.) Until later, dear journal.

1 year ago - spidey 2 was keen, samoflange, table test, republican confession, Angry Ghost Rips Worker's Arm Off

2 years ago - Netmeeting, riblets, GP/Austin, cej-chat

3 years ago - wonderful dreams, learning the neighborhood, notes never followed up on.

4 years ago - saw Ornj off on her trip, bro's got a win 95 box, monkey fishing a fib, due amici sub, leaves of grass, database link access to web, Kneel before zod!

5 years ago - nuthin'.

Current Mood: grateful

Relived, but not fully unwound.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

Moment of Lyric:

( ... )

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

( ... )

( 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.

I uploaded a few archival piccies to my flickr account. Newt, mostly, but a few other surprises, too.

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... )

Possible new icon?

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

Current Mood: ZOMBIE DOGS?!
Current Music: Wilco - Hummingbird

Occupied myself physically, emotionally and mentally. A combination of elements helped me to unwind and distract enough to bleed off a bit of pressure.

Batman Begins certainly the best of the Batman Movies. They did a great job on Gotham, Jim Gordon *looked* like Jim Gordon, and bhk is right... Christian Bale's teeth put in a superb performance.

Opinions & Spoilers: Rachel was way out of line, letting an emotionally vulnerable Bruce off in front of Falcone's place with a gun in his hand. I think that the 'Ghul funded the financial depression of Gotham's bit was unneeded and contrived, and I didn't much like that Batman left Ghul to crash. Scarecrow was excellent, and the actor did a great job with the role. I'm thinknig that using the joker right away for a sequel might be a bad idea, though. Another scary guy that uses psychoactive chemicals to kill his prey might be too similar... and Crispin Glover might have too similar a look even if he is who I'd want to play the Joker. I think they did a great job packing in a lot of bat-lore, and generated a few nice bits, too. the blue-flower toxin (basic eye-focus version, not the scary hallucinations) is not too far off from what I've experienced under the use of mushrooms, either. Why wasn't the kid tripping, by the way? The smart-fabric cape was a nice touch.

Random movie trailer question... You can open the doors to the General Lee?

Walked right by the free moonlight movie to see Batman. It was a nice night... warm, but with a breeze off the intracoastal. Cheeburger Cheeburger on Las Olas Closed, so we went to Ugly Tuna Saloona.

Aside from keeping my eyes and brain occupied with a movie, I also got distracted by assorted legal intoxicants - smoochess, chocolate ice cream, merengue (not meringue?), music, a little rum, a little caffeine, and some secondhand tobacco smoke. We may do a replay with Land of the Dead today. Maybe Bewitched, Mr & Mrs Smith or Longest Yard, too. MP gets dibs on this one. I wouldn't mind Madagascar, either.

I've balanced my keel by keeping the hope that bro is on the run, and not out of the game.

Beverly Domain

Shifty Shafer
Good afternoon, Mr. Clampett, I'm here to inform you that I'm purchasing your home.

Jed Clampett
Well, it's mighty nice o' you to offer, but the house ain't for sale.

Shifty Shafer
No, you don't understand sir, it's eminent domain.

Jed Clampett
Pleased to make your acquaintance Mr. Domain, but like I say, the house ain't for sale. But thanks for stoppin' by anyhow. Read more...

CJR's online guide to what major media companies own

Tickle-a-girl Simulator.

Bumper sticker seen yesterday - "When you die you'll meet Father God, not Mother Earth."

Um... What if you get buried, like most folks in this area do? Odds are good that I'll at least hit the ground when I die, no matter what happens after that. Maybe it's some sort of rapture reference? A slam against pagans? Against environmentalists? Maybe I'm just a little slow today, but I don't get the message. If I don't get the message, I'm not getting saved. Bad Acolyte. No Biscuit. No Wafer.

Testing a shoutcast auto-build -

Played Recently:
6:56 am - Randy Sandke - Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
7:00 am - Enoch Light - I'll See You Again
7:03 am - Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh - Put On a Happy Face
7:06 am - Jerry Vale - Artist Drop

Currently Playing:
7:06 am - Cab Calloway - A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird

Coming Up:
7:09 am - Bob Wilber - Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer
7:12 am - This Life is Mine - OTR Theme
7:13 am - Dakota Station - I Can't Get Started
7:17 am - Buddy Morrow - Breakfast At Charlies

1 year ago - webalizer, laser keyboard, heat vision & jack, steak-umms, rasputin's penis, bro issues, bandwidth

2 years ago - tired, mark twain burial, harrison ford finger-pointy, hot dogs, ditko, sodomy, sleepy

3 years ago - walkies, 1800autopsy, poddish feelings, Captain Kirk’s chair auctioned, peg legs, signed lease.

4 years ago - Noticing Newt's getting to be so big (remember, I have a size 15 foot), got an email from Robin Tunkel, Evil News, horrible dream, Santie "quits" FMM, top 100 banned/challenged books of 1990-2000, why read poll, my free pc didn't work out

5 years ago - Ockdiggity, poop troop

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Cab Calloway - A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird

Got some sleep yesterday and last night, but I'm still fatigued. No news is good news as far as I can tell right now.

Happy Birthday, Alex Toth! He is responsible for my enjoyment of many comics and cartoons over the years. His artwork is certainly the best part of Super Friends, Space Ghost, and Thundarr the Barbarian. He still does art and online columns! Not bad for 77 years old.

( journal entry length thingum (only for public entries) )

Added Stumbleupon to my browser, per

wickenden's suggestion! It's a pretty neat idea... no adware or spyware.

StumbleUpon lets you review any page on the web. Rating a page "I like it" automatically shares it with like-minded people. Rating pages also improves your stumbles - as you review your favorite sites (such as bookmarks and daily visits) StumbleUpon learns what you like and starts to show you more interesting pages.

I was surprised that my journal already had a review, from Dec 9, 1:09pm, 2004

It also helped me to locate this syndicated comics page. (seeing as most of the lj-syndicated feeds seem to die every 2 months or so)

Here's my stumble page - if anyone else reading this adds it, let me know so I can see your advised sites!

How to cast silver bullets.

Pictures from my Trip to BSO midday on Thursday. I changed the setting to 480 x 320, that's the same resoluition of the clie. Pretty weird.. my first computer had a desktiop res of 640 x 480.

Assisted Living... complete with barbed wire. Keeping people out, or keeping people in?

Lobby of the BSO - Pompano District. Protecting the cops is a large plexiglass shield.. you can talk through a circular grill or hanging phone. not seen is how filthy and run-down most of the place was. This guy ran a moving company, and apparently one of this employees sold a truck he owned without his permission.

On the corner, an abandoned pair of shoes, some breath-freshener gum, and a lot of leaves. I wonder if it's part of a homeless guy's cache that got swept up.

"I'm a peasant," he said. "At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything." - Mike Tyson

Data Munging with Sprog / Perl scripting from a GUI, knowing Perl not required. Pretty cool. Makes life very easy.

Not sure I'm up to seeing Magda today. I'm going to do what I can, put on my game face, and see if the outside will help to transform the inside. It's happened before.

Jimmy Corgan is going to reform Smashing Pumpkins.

Whims reminded me of the word dork.. I haven't used it aloud in an age... I think it sounds like the deep-thud of someone being hit with a hollow rubber tube. *DORK*

1 year ago - Ubermensch Baby, walk the drunk, hulk returns to blogville, talked with sedef, tiki beach doodle

2 years ago - sernya, Zod is Jor-El, plushie supers

3 years ago - random adds, new place, sleeping late with cat, riaa shaman defeats bad magic box, Francesco skips out, no cable.

4 years ago - oblation, wonderful world, chopping block

5 years ago - threads

Current Mood: drained

Well, no new Dr. Who until the Christmas special, now. The season finale was pretty solid, all told, if a bit "Star Trekky" in the resolution. (Not in the "fixed everything in the last 5 minutes sense" but folks will know what I mean when they see it.)

Spoilers:

Scotto opinions Rose becoming some all-powerful time-being by sharing the soul of the TARDIS, fixing everything and leaving the bad wolf footprints behind. The new regeneration of the Doctor looks quite youthful.. I'll be interested in seeing how well he does following the last one's excellent performance.

Via the CBBC News-, “Just days before the current run of the sci-fi show is due to end, its makers have revealed that there are at least two more series to come. ... In addition to two more series, there will also be Christmas specials for 2005 and 2006, the show’s makers said. That means Dr Who fans have a total of 28 more episodes to look forward to when the current series ends. Billie Piper will continue playing Rose until at least the end of series two. ... The show’s main writer, Russell T Davies, said: ‘What was most pleasing is that people have been watching this series as a family. I think a children’s show should have a full range of emotions including grief and comedy.’ A few hints have also been dropped as what viewers can expect from the new episodes: The new doctor will have a new outfit, we’ll be seeing more of Rose’s boyfriend and her mum, and scary aliens called the Cybermen will be making a return."

Scraped my beard back to a goatee, for the time being. It should help me in my quest for some side-contract gigs, believe it or not. I've found folks more willing to enlist the aid of a smooth-cheeked/furry-chin over the "wild man from Borneo" look. I think I look a lot better with some facial hair than without it, so the goat is the way to go.

MP should be in town on Thursday! Maybe I can drag Danny along, if I'm not feeling too selfish.

Why is it that I like old school TV shows with magical cuties (like Bewitched {as long as it's not a "magical ailment episode, however much I like Dr. Bombay.} or I Dream of Jeannie) but New ones, like Buffy just leave me cold... even with *multiple cuties*? It's not about them being "empowered"... I enjoyed the first few seasons of Xena just fine. I take it back, Charmed is growing on me. I think my issue with Buffy is that I've seen *every* badly written one, and none of the good ones. If every time I turned on original Trek, and got Spock's Brain, I'd probably think it was poo, too.

I'm a bad science fiction fan. I Like Original Series Star Trek, and and DS9 that doesn't involve the planet under the station... but all other Trek has been rather bad, too. Maybe it's when a show panders to a specific audience, rather than a general group is when I lose interest? I'm a bad RPG pen and paper gamer, too... I remember my favorite games not being like what I think the majority of gamers were into. I'm not into Monty-haul or munchkinism... but neither was I into all-story, no combat games, either. I liked an excuse to get together, socialize, eat some snacks, and do a combination of role play with actual resolutions, and a little bit of combat war gaming thrown in on the side.

Things that I wasn't too crazy about was accounting for every tent-stake or each inch of rope.... or more than one session of "foraging for food" or "staking out the enemy". A half-session is great for setting the mood... five episodes in a row is a nightmare.

Actually, I take back the combat thing... I'd have been happy if it only happened once every four or five game sessions. I speak in the past tense, because it's been an age since I've actually had a sit down at a table and played. I suspect I'm not up to a stint at a gaming table for more than four hours these days... flopping on a mushy couch could be good, but I wonder if my sleep-instinct would overrule my gaming instinct in a comfortable environ with large gaps between any opportunity to act?

Ok, that was a lot of nerdish. I think what I'm feeling lately is a lack of touch with that side of me. I still like science fiction/fantasy... only, it's more mainstream these days. I hate to say it, but I liked the Incredibles more than the Lord of the Rings film. I like Discworld and the Hitchhiker's Guide a lot more than Snow Crash or anything by Anne Rice.

I wonder what's caused me to go to the more intelligently written humorous and light pieces rather than the more drawn out and sometimes downright padded stuff. Things that are in a colorful world with interesting characters, headed for a resolution in the same book rather than a dodecology. Even Zelazny's Amber series, while fun, caused me to run out of steam at book eight of ten. The vast majority of the Discworld books are self-contained, but if you read the lot of 'em, you can enjoy a bigger, richer picture. I've already read Tolkien's stuff, so I'll probably never have to read any Tolkien "homage/clones".

More Scotto tastes / opinions:

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser was a good time, but Elric isn't really my thing.

Most Robert E. Howard good, most H.P. Lovecraft, a snooze (with notable exceptions on each side.)

Phil Farmer's Riverworld Great, the rest, poop.

Speaker for the Dead - good, any book in that same series after #2, horrid.

Almost all of Asimov's stuff is too dry.

Almost All of Bradbury's stuff is smiley fantasy disguised as sci-fi, and that's ok, in medium doses. His best work is short stories adding up to a common book.

Mercedes Lackey, Ursula Le Guin, CJ Cherryh, Anne Mccaffrey - Have one good story to tell, and repeat it over and over with names and locations changed.

Harlan Ellison - I like him in small doses. Can be a bitter pill, but works wonders with what he's got. Short stories are the ticket, to alternate with Bradbury... sunshine and thunderstorms.

Stephen King - Good when his writing is tight, and isn't allowed to flob all over the place. The Gunslinger series started off great, and fell apart. Still a great universe to write stories in, if you sidestep the "add people from our earth" element. I dug the The Shining and The Stand quite a bit, and some of his recurring themes like Flagg are swell.

Clive Barker... not so great. A few nifty ideas around which a padded story is written, and it feels bloated, or stilted.

Larry Niven's Gil of ARM stuff is pretty sharp. Ringworld series... ugh. Lucifer's Hammer, good. I never know what I'm going to get with him, but I'll usually risk it.

Phillip K Dick, early stuff, Excellent, later stuff when he got whackadoo, not at all.

Neil Gaiman is Jim dandy, as is Terry Pratchett. Not as good when they write together, but still decent.

Community Series, like Thieves' World, Wild Cards, Man-Kzin Wars, etc. Amazingly hit or miss.. but I usually like them, just for the sake of seeing multiple writing styles and perspectives on a bottled universe. I wouldn't mind doing a shared universe writing project with GrayPumpkin, Mootpoint, and all the other writers I hang with online and off.

The Wizard of Oz books are a popcorn pleasure.

Mark Twain can do no wrong. (most of his stuff is satire, with only a little fantasy in there)

HG Wells and Jules Verne works for me, too, but that might just be young-Scotto nostalgia creeping in.

Edgar Rice Burroughs can be hit or miss... Tarzan and John Carter.

Doc Savage is more fun than The Shadow... but both fall into formula writing at times.

Tim Powers is a good example of cross-genre stuff that works.

I dug the Screwtape Letters, but Narnia never clicked for me.

Stanslaw Lem is weirdly appealing to me, as is Kurt Vonnegut.

As a kid, I liked Marvel Comics more than DC. Spidey is mighty Kid-friendly, but I really liked the team books... Fantastic Four and Avengers were always a hoot. Superman/ Batman Family were fun, but I just liked Marvel better. As I got older, I got into Silver Age DC, too.

I wonder how much my tastes will change over the coming years? They haven't much since college (I was bigger into HPL and Nuts & Bolt's Sci-fi back then...)

I'm still a book 'ho. If someone puts a tome in my hands, Odds are really good that I'll read it all the way through.. unless the first 100 pages causes me to quit on it... but those are rare.

In other news, I prefer Early 70s football-head Tony the Tiger to the extreme-sports post-2003 Tony. Check out his evolution.

I am very susceptible to advertising, it seems. I could go for some fresh flakes for breakfast.

Funny term of the morning... "poop-chute".

I haven't heard that in ages. That rates up there with Fart-knocker.

Quick Scan of the LJ indicates the last time I typed it out was on 6/22/02, in a silly chat with sweetalyssm, when a fellow lj-pal was talking about gut-issues. so, it's been just about three years later.

Moment of Lyric: (Listen here, 2nd from the end)

Dil Ye Bechain Ve, Raste Pe Nain Ve
Dil Ye Bechain Ve, Raste Pe Nain Ve
Jindri Behaal Hai, Sur Hai Na Taal Hai
Aa Ja Saanvaria Aa Aa Aa Aa
Taal Se Taal Mila, Ho, Taal Se Taal Mila

( ... )

Martial Arts move "Monkey Steals the Peach" (via), From the "Ninja Mind Control" handbook by Ashida Kim

Burned replacement CDs for Belle, still looking for good belly dance music for Julie, and I still have to pick up some blank dvds for vimoh and my own archived TV.

moonmama passed away. She's one of the people I would peek in on every now and again, was an artist, a member of the

coloringbook community, and made me one of my first homemade birthday cards on LJ, years ago. She is survived by her husband, and two lovely children. She was 30 years old, and will be missed.

Coincidentally, this post on my blurty-journal (a backup for when LJ goes poop) now has 63 screened Spam-comments. The contents are widely varied, from Texas hold-em, to mortgage loans, to weight loss pills and Viagra. The First spam-hit on that entry was january 4, 2005 (the entry itself is from 2003), and the most recent one was last night at 3am. I'm not sure what keyword or combination is making that entry act as a honey pot, but they're welcome to keep dumping there... no search engine or person other than myself will ever see them. ( Read more... )

I just put my user name into google for a vanity search. It's a unique name.. I don't know of anyone else who uses it. The return was "about 10,600 for scottobear"

Yikes. Of course a lot of it is redundant. a link to each of my journal entries, via the calender page and monthly entries probably doubles it up in the search index.

Upside of my reviewing my logs, is that I'm lined to by a new blogger account - wilde_thought. Happy to have you along for the ride! I'm guessing they found me via the Hulk's Blog, or Beaucoup Kevin.

Re: the Archives - I'm going to attempt to tag each historical day I've hit with tags on the entries. That should make it easier in the long run to track 'em

1 year ago -

atlfanghost (turns out the creator go his own website, too), ft laud guerrilla art, CoH, Mr Chan's Chinatown Almond Cookies (still the only hit), recent search terms

2 years ago - Island boy quits (he returns about a month or so later), Orrin hatch pirate, power spike, rainy day

3 years ago - apt hunting, tiling my current apt, NexGen Money, planning Breakfast, remembering jsw vs freakshow

4 years ago - ogee, waxing mushy, sambo white in some ads, either-or poll, house of leaves

5 years ago - blank

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Current Music: Alka Yagnik & Udit Narayan - Taal Se Taal

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Entries tagged with mp

8083 - Tuesday... back to work. Bleh!

7978 - I rewind about 19 years after emulation.

7970 - humpday! bye bye november!

written on the bus & riverwalk 7898

7643 - Monday. Dag-nabbit. Noisy post.

7628 -

7574 - More stitches and pictures.

7563 - Friday, Payday.

7561 - I don't know if I want rewind or fast forward. Or Pause.

7554 - I'd prefer to stay home today.

7550 - Zebbin-lebbin!

7533 - Midweek already! hooray 4-day weeks!

7529 - Today is a Tuesday, Feels like a Monday.

7526 - HAPPY 4th of JULY!

7525 - Sun-de-dun-dun-day

7517 - Friday, but I'm not at work. no Sir.

7504 - Tuesday, wish it was Thursday.

7490 - Recap of yesterday, and some linkadoos.

7486 -

7464 - Don't go stealing my peach!