Just Curious… and testing the LJ poll.

Tman pointed this link out… the video is horrifying to me… holy cow!

T U C S O N, Ariz., March 26 — A pitch by Randy Johnson hit and killed a dove flying in front of home plate.

Looks like another meeting today, maybe, so perhaps there’ll be some fresh doodles later on.

Listening to the big boss tell us about all the big company plans, after the mass layoff in Tampa

What I daydream about a lot… napping with my sweetie (and our kitties) Note the fine (*snicker) detail .Newtie sleeping over my head, book on my side of the bed, computer on hers, a vaguely frog-shaped lamp. Now you see why I prefer to work with words!…. I’ve a better one, that’s animated… once I find how to do teal paint ani’s to anigif, I’ll post it.

Latest mix CD made for listening to after hours at work…

Pepper (The Butthole Surfers)
Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing (Chris Isaak)
The Passenger (Michael Hutchence)
$10 Bill (Cop Shoot Cop)
15 Minutes of Fame (Sheep on Drugs)
Subbacultcha (The Pixies)
Hombre Secreto (The Plugz)
One Night in Bangkok (Murray Head)
There is a Light (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)
Let’s Have a War (Fear)
Coattails of a Dead Man (Primus & Tom Waits)
Pablo Picasso (Burning Secretions)
Stripped (Depeche Mode)
Kick My Ass (Garbage)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
Lonesome Valley (The Fairfield Four)
Repo Man (Iggy Pop)
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)

Puts me in a mood. 🙂

This is odd. I received the following out of the blue: (please note that I don’t advertise as being a numerologist…)

— Azghar Hussain wrote:
> Scott von Berg
>
>
> Dear Scott,
>
> Got your e-mail add from the Internet. I am looking for a
> powerful
> numerologist. I hope you can help me in this regard.
>
> I am looking for the next 3-digit number for the attached
> sheet. the results
> in the attached sheet are the results for the past 10
> years. It is lottery
> which fetches a lot of money.
>
> Hope to receive your early reply on the above subject.
> The cost requried,
> will be borne upon perfect results.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
>
>
> AZGHAR HUSSAIN
>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/vnd.ms-excel name=thai.xls

The attached file has no macros (so no viruses) and is completely blank. I even looked for any text written in white. Alas, no hidden numbers that I could find.

So, I decided to answer with the following:

Dear Azghar,

Scotto

I chose 790 because that’s the name of the robot on Lexx. I don’t feel bad; I figure he’ll have just as much luck with those numbers as any “legitimate” numerologist.

So, how often do people write strangers out of the blue and request numbers? Perhaps this is one method a Plutomancer can use to obtain obscure information. Just write to a random address and wait for the answer to return….

Church’s book burning gets attention

PITTSBURGH, March 28 — The Rev. George Bender says he never thought a little book burning would get so much publicity. But reporters have not stopped calling his tiny Harvest Assembly of God Church in rural western Pennsylvania since word got out that church members held a ceremonial burning of “ungodly” videotapes, music CDs and books, including some of Harry Potter’s fantasy tales.

you know, I have mixed feelings about this… it’s not like they’re destroying the original work, and I imagine they paid for the stuff, so they’re free to do what they like. the symbolism there is queasy, though… like burning a flag, or a cross, or any other representation of meaning… something just feels wrong, but I suppose it’s the intolerance behind it.

I wonder if the folks who get riled when the flag is burned will get as mad about an old Journey album, or harry potter…

I don’t think I mind, on reflection… they’re not banning the stuff, just expressing distaste in a rather loud fashion. I’d probably feel differently if they were burning one of a kind items, instead of mass produced ones… although, I have to wonder how they dealt with the burning CD’s, if it’s environmentally sound. They’re not banning stuff, just expressing themselves in a way I find distasteful.

As far as keeping it from children, well, I’m all for letting parents dictate what the kids read, as long as society as a whole doesn’t deem it damaging to the kids. Keeping stuff from adults however… that’s a no-no.

What I would love most of all, more than freshly baked raisin bread prepared each morning and served to me on a bedside table with real butter from well-loved hill-dwelling tinkling-bell cows, is more time with her.

I love her so much. 🙂

My Blue Heaven

Day is ending
Birds are wending
Back to their shelter of
Each little nest they love

Nightshade’s falling
Lovebirds calling
What makes the world go round
Nothing but love

When Whippoorwills call
And evening is night
I hurry to my blue heaven
I turn to the right
A little white light
Will lead you to my blue heaven

You’ll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That’s nestled where the roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We’re happy in my blue heaven

You’ll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That’s nestled where the roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We’re happy in my blue heaven

We’re happy in my blue heaven

jennylee pointed the babelizer out to me… very cool. I could play with it for hours. multiple translations and back.. .see what really happens when something “loses in translation”. 🙂

Thanks, Kiddo!

I like chocolate chip cookies becomes – (when run through about 20 trannings…)

It is influenced with the chocolate of Biskuite of the integrated
circuit.

And a John Denver song to the girl I love…

Some more for now…

Random scribs…

Scottobear in his meetings… the first of a maybe-series

When I’m in a meeting at work, I always have my visor handy to take notes, and appear dutiful…

Here’s a couple of images I’ve drawn during the course of meetings in the past.

(if the links work, and I’m happy, I may post more… 2-color files, so they shouldn’t choke you too much.)

latraviata showed me ….the bot I like it… a lot.

in fact… a lot fo the stuff at the plagiarist is neat… netsong is very interesting to me!

been listening for a while now… it’s oddly soothing, and a little scary at the same time…

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows CD, to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: ‘Do not worry, it is unharmed.’
After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: ‘Take a close look at it.’ To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

‘I cannot understand the fiery letters,’ I said.
‘No,’ he said ‘but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says: