Monthly Archives: May 2003
Told Frankie next door in polite terms that my house isn’t a phone booth… he gave me some line about him thinking I wouldn’t mind some company occasionally. Um, I don’t consider coming over, using the phone and leaving a visit.
I told him it was ok once in a while, but from now on, keep it before 10pm, and not every day. Plus, no incoming calls, please.
We’ll see how it goes.
three quests coming up. Red pill hunt, a chase, and a regular scavenger hunt.
all for prizes!
I’ll have to let Josie know that pgm is going to be a team, once I talk to the rest of the pgm’ers.
UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DEFNITIONS
The Worm_Fizzer.A has been causing some folks problems lately, uses its own SMTP and also plays via Kazaa network.
UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DEFNITIONS
Now for fun stuff.
If I had a hammer…
Rain on the duckies because you are the Rainmaker. See also Friends, a nice reworking for the tortoise and the hare. It’s nice to see buddies working together. Sometimes turtle is on top, sometimes the bunny is.
Another fine bit of coolness from Orisinal
TV 7/19/2003 – The Cartoon Network will premiere a new animated series featuring a teenage Robin. In Teen Titans, based on the DC Comics series, Robin the Boy Wonder unites teen superheroes Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven as they join forces to defend the world against a new generation of supervillains, all the while dealing with the horrors of being a teenager.
Yay for Beast Boy…though I’m surprised they didn’t go with his other moniker, “Changeling”. Maybe that means the Doom Patrol Might make a guest appearance? I don’t know.. it’s in the far future… hard to say. Another picture
Talked a bit with Sappho at FMM… it sounds like she’s doing well, and life is much the same at work. Thursday the big boss comes in, so Dexter Thursdays are now Dexter Fridays, but everything else is as is.
This is pure, bottled genius. I’d love to create a LJ that’s written entirely by a program that goes to this site every 2-5 days, captures the output, and posts it as an entry.
Even more ambitious: Write another part of the program that generates and posts ambiguous, ELIZA-like responses to 1 out of every 10 or so user comments. How long before someone caught on, d’you think?
Redefining the Term “Blustery Day”… The next time you’re feeling hot & oh bothered, why not whip out a Winnie the Pooh vibrator?
There’s about a million honey jokes I could make right about now, but I’ll refrain.
Sing ho for the life of a bear!
In unrelated news, I’ve found the perfect setting on my toaster oven for toast. Perfect toast. Oh, how I’ve missed it!
Back From Physical Therapy.
My guy is ok, not as amazing as the last one I had, years ago. The workout is much the same, traction went surprisingly well, and getting into position for the TENS / Heat therapy was surprisingly difficult. I left feeling worse than when I entered, but I think it’s a pain of the “good” variety. I’ve got a worksheet of eight different routines to do twice a day… the bridge is the most problematic, but I think that strength will be built up pretty rapidly there.
All in all, it took about an hour and a half… I’ll be repeating the procedure on Thursday and Monday.
I have the xml automation about in place… a few bits of sample data to test for extra weirdness, and I think we’ll be ready to rock and roll.
Newt’s such a mamma’s boy… I leave the apartment for 2 hours, and he’s mister hello when I get back… I suspect part of it is the smells of the outside world, too.
There are 10 types of people – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
OK, so it might be right up there with cold fusion and other technological flimflams . . . but it might not.
In this Discover magazine article, scientists (and more importantly, businessmen) believe they can turn just about anything — waste from poultry processing plants, manure, plastic bottles, old computers, garbage, you name it — into fuel oil, and do it cheaply. Read the article and decide for yourself.
Update: The article discusses a full-scale plant in Carthage which was to be running by the end of April. A spokesman for the company now says “The Carthage plant will be fully operational later this spring, by end of June we hope.”
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Private investigator came around this morning asking about Tom out front… I was sleeping, but a card left in the doorjamb had a case number and the investigator. They asked about his red Mitsubishi eclipse, and I told them that Tom hasn’t been around since at least march, maybe earlier.
I imagine it’s just a repo job, but I remember that Tom came East from California…and that he supposedly went to Paris.
Diet Barq’s Cream Soda is much better than Diet A&W Cream Soda.
Vampire Clue – “The closest shop to here is Discount Potions, right by Horror and 77th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while.”
Physical Therapy tomorrow, Thursday, and Monday at 2pm.
Don’t forget!
Protected: following a lead from another buddy on LJ
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
To everyone who has acted as a caregiver and nurtured a living thing. Newt brought me a dead lizard. How did he know?
*Huggo*
Won a cool 60’s style blue and purple tie-dye buggy at the theme party last night… Top door prize. D got an orange butterfly top, and the other prizes were a men’s tie-dye, and I forget what else.
That makes 4 vehicles that I’ve won, (not counting the groovy pirate buggy that I was given).
Frankie, the new guy in my bro’s old apartment just came by to borrow the phone…I thought it would be a quick call, but it turned out to be like 7 calls over about 20 minutes.
I found out that he’s renting by the week, and he asks to borrow $20 form me, even though this is the 2nd time I’ve seen him. I’d gauge his age at 40, and he’s another scumbag of the same caliber of mike and mark. Needless to say he’s not getting any money form me. Then he asked for a beer. I told him that I have water, Cheerwine, Pink Lemonade, and diet cream soda… he wasn’t interested.
I’m going to keep my eyes open around here for the next 2 months. I don’t trust this guy.
Protected: political sidebar.
God Hates Pringles
The world’s precious supply of the beloved snack chip Pringles is threatened as a tornado recently damaged a Pringles factory in Tennessee. The earth’s Torengo supply is also at risk. Read the grisly details of the snack tragedy here. I suggest a moment of silence for the beloved reconstituted potato product. In a related story, I’m glad sholanda and her crew are healthy, if very inconvenienced by the weather.
Saturday, Dan-day, at least briefly. He’s doing me a favor by bringing me some groceries and letting me pay him back via check. It’s greatly appreciated… saves me a good deal of trouble, and he’s pretty busy this weekend.
Poked my nose in there and saw 
sis racing, so I went in there and promptly lost 3 races. 🙂 Good fun anyhow. A jerkie by the name of whatever was really annoying, but the power to teleport away is a wonderful thing to have.
vampire hint scroll shop “Scrollmania”, at Kyanite and 84th.