Monthly Archives: June 2003

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Wow. Remember asking for a better vibe? It arrived. 🙂

A day of wonders and good cheer.

I can’t even remotely say how happy I am about the day’s events.

Talked to three cool people today; Danny at lunch, Ray after, and my sweetie after that. So nice!

Lunch with Danny was groovy… we had Thai (I had red curry tofu) , and a long rambling talk about assorted things…. my journal, his church, his 8-hour Saturday class, FAU’s horrible record-keeping and baurocratic system, my brother, gaming, There… and lots more. Gave Danny a stamp to put on his good student’s papers…”Double Happiness”

Double Happiness

Ack, photos didn’t come out from today very well. We went past a number of art galleries on Las Olas… some amazing sculptures in the windows there… sadly, the female forms made of chain and coins didn’t come out an auction house with tons of ivory had this cool dragon boat in the window… all hand carved. I don’t even want to know how much that much old ivory is costing.

boat

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Goofing around and made a new Icon… We’ll see how long I keep it. I had a lot of trouble resting last night. I couldn’t think straight and was generally anxious. I wish that I had been able to focus rather than just sit and stress. Ah well, today is a new day, and hopefully a better vibe will come.

Talked to Danny last night, and he didn’t get me the Playboy, so I called the magazine up today, and they cancelled the subscription. Apparently it was an unpaid one and they don’t keep phone numbers on file, so if the person made a mistake in writing out the address they’re out of luck. I wonder if it was some sort of prank? If so, a free issue of playboy is a pretty good one! Apparently, they were going to bill the person here.

The Thorns is a new group comprised of Pete Droge, Shawn Mullins, and Matthew Sweet. They’re making music with a focus on vocal harmony that brings back memories of Crosby, Stills, and Nash (some say The Beach Boys, but I don’t feel the “surf vibe”.) Give their song No Blue Sky a listen – it’s one of my current favorites. (the lyrics) You can read this article if you want to know more about the band.

For folks that are too lazy to make hot dogs octopi-style on your own. I first learned about Octodogs in the Tick comic. Be sure and read “So How does it work?” $16.95? (or $23 with S&H) Simpler to cut the bottom twice, and poke eyes with a toothpick.

A wonderful Retrocrush look at King Kong, and his 60th birthday.

I still can’t believe how much trouble it is finding a DVD version. I’d love to get that as a present for myself. (or put it on my wish list.) Something in copyright allows for UK, but not USA?

Random Scotto factoid – I’ve never had a black eye, but have probably received a couple dozen bloody noses. (it’s never been broken)

Great King Kong site

The Illustrated Catalog of ACME products. Compiler, I salute you!

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 is out, and it fixes a ton of bugs Imagine that.

Danny just called, and we’re going to have an impromptu lunch together. …Until later, dear journal.

Newtie helps with my insomnia.

a year ago – settling in, south beach remote cam, Newt-lassie comparisons, power puff/marley

two years ago – Rookie Bodine, good thoughts, crash test dummy plot seeds, redolent, the power of cheese, Ornj goes camping

three years ago– shotgun

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I still feel free use the term “fairer sex”, because as a whole, I do find women to be more pleasing to the eye than men. If politically correct monkeys don’t like it, they can lump it. On looking up fair maid, I think definition two is rather comical. I may yet use that in the future.

I’m looking forward to this… Apparently it’s running trailer son Finding Nemo (when you can get there in a timely manner). The Incredibles – Pixar. Oh, you can bet I’m looking forward to it. Pixar supers! I notice that the music is like a slower version of OHMSS.

Also, Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to Marvel Comics’ most famous black superhero, Luke Cage. Ben Ramsey (THE BIG HIT) will write the adaptation of the long-running character. Luke Cage is a former gang member from Harlem that is framed by his best friend and sent to federal prison on drug charges. While in prison, Cage volunteers for a medical experiment that ultimately gives him super strength and bulletproof skin. Using the new powers, Cage escapes and becomes Luke Cage: Hero for Hire. Avi Arad will produce for Marvel Studios. I wonder who could play him well? As long as it’s not Will Smith, I’m cool. What about Iron Fist? Luke Wilson would be horrid, yet well cast, I think.

Sweet Christmas!

There’s a weakness in my heart for zombie movies…I hope 28 days later is good. I’ve heard some positive things already.

Scottobear’s Weekly Fotolog Stats/Reminder

* Your Fotolog has been viewed 88 times.
* You uploaded 5 photos in the past week.
(They’ve been viewed 93 times in the past week.)

Spreading a meme from who knows where

COMFORT TV OR COMFORT BOOKS?

Comfort books, unless I’m too tired to even read, but unable to get to sleep. (Which happens a lot when I’m in need of comfort.) Cartoon Network, Discovery, and History Channel work wonders.

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR FAVORITE SHIRT?

My current favorite shirt is a black white and red Tie-dyed “Pirates of the Caribbean” shirt I got from Disney world back in 2000. It’s comfy, has hippy and pirate context, and reminds me of a lovely little vacation.

DO YOU WRITE? IF SO, WHAT DO YOU OVERUSE?

I write, and probably rely too much on detail of the area rather than cutting to the point of the story. Too much scenery. (It’s the first thing I start trimming.)

BAND YOU HATE MOST?

Any that’s playing too loud outside my bedroom window. I really like all sorts of music.

PUNK IN DRUBLIC?

Nah, I don’t even drink all that much in private.

DUDE, I CAN’T *BELIEVE* PEOPLE…
Worry so much about the opinions of strangers with no apparent knowledge about what they’re talking about. I’m concerned with opinions of folks that matter to me, and professionals in the field…not Joe Blow off the street. (Even most professionals don’t matter to me, either, honestly.) The opinion of someone I know and respect however is very valuable.

FIRST BOOK I REMEMBER READING ALL BY MYSELF.
I can’t recall much of my very young childhood, but an issue of Spidey Super Stories (a kids comic cross-promoted on The Electric Company television show.) Sometime in the early 70s. Easy Reader was in it, and Spidey was fighting the Lizard, while Spidey teamed up with Easy Reader to fight the Vanisher. (Edit) In fact, after a little googling, I just found a picture. April 1975 issue (so I was about 6 years old), picked up at the grocery store. I’m sure there were books before that, but that one stands out in my mind because I bought it with my own money and made a point of reading it on my own. There was a teenage-girl named “Thumper” who likes to dress like Napoleon Bonaparte and uses a boxing glove she hides in her vest to whack people in the back of their head when they’re not looking. Her origin? “When the Thumper didn’t get a Yellow Pony for her birthday… she got very angry and turned to crime. Dressed as the great French Hero Napoleon, the Thumper looks for someone to Thump.” It was something very close to along those lines.

Hmm. You know, I hear that’s the exact same origin Mysterio originally had. Except replace the line about ‘someone to Thump’ with ‘someone to try desperately to frighten with rubber bats’.

I’ve come to a conclusion. Morgan Freeman must reprise his role as Easy Reader in the next Spidey movie.

I need to go to a comic book store and pick up a copy of this just to have again. Three Villains, Lizard, Thumper, and Vanisher. Pretty good for a kid’s comic. 35¢ well spent.

the comic in question

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Deadly Peripheral

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Check out the deadliest computer peripheral to hit the market since the Microsoft Natural Keyboard:

VLe electronic handgun

Metal Storm’s new VLe electronic handgun.

That’s right, no moving parts, all electronic. Metal Storm makes all kinds of all-electronic weapon goodies that they’re trying to peddle to the U.S. government, including a 36-barrel minigun that fires at a rate of over a million rounds a minute. That’s a lot. Here’s the article at CNN. archived article

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Weird… somebody subscribed me to Playboy magazine. (Well, my address, the name on the bag it comes in was “Elad Rozman”. Elad… Dale?

I wonder if the numbers got mixed up on the address box. I’ll have to ask Danny if he subscribed me as a weird sort of present or something. If it’s not a secret goodie, I’ll call up the magazine offices on Monday, and let ’em know that I didn’t order it.

Meanwhile, free playboy. (Following links may contain nudity)

Carnie Wilson Nude… wearing a corset to cover up her gastric bypass scars, I’m guessing. Her face has an odd characteristic to it…seems long or something. It looks like she got a doctor to help trim the sag that must’ve been bound to happen after losing that much weight that fast. She looks ok.. I hope her health is better as a result of the operation.

Some airbrushed Girls from Survivor, I thought the way it worked was you were in playboy first, and then ended up on a crappy TV show? For what it’s worth the ladies are appealing, and even though I don’t normally gravitate to blondes, she has a nice look. I could not gather through a perusal of the article which name went with which girl, so that seems to be an oversight.

a very bland, generic centerfold. She’s a very typical airbrushed girl.

When did Playboy start with “sexy letters”? I though that was a penthouse/more hardcore thing.

A nifty article about crime scenes, and a lot of very standard Playboy panel cartoons, another article unread as yet about undercover cops, cool electronics, Interview with Tobey Maguire. Could be good, The Blameless society is especially nifty, about pointing fingers.

Not a bad mag for $5.99 on the street.

My registration @ do not call came back tome about 36 hours later. that’s a slow turnaround for an automated system. This registration will be effective until 6/29/2008.

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“My Angles Are Many/My Sides Are Not Few”. -Dodecahedron

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Well, the new Ren & Stimpy was suckadelic. Adult Swim takes that prize home from now on, or until someone who I respect tells me that the new R&S is actually good again.

Face watches Battlestar Pass him by.

Battlestar Galactica is back. and… Starbuck is a girl? And no Egyptian helmets? I’m not sure how I feel about that! I’ve got to find a picture of a new cylon. The old ones were one my fave villain designs.

www.livejounral.com is evil! don’t go there! One little typo, and you get pooped on!

Strom Thurmond Dies at 100 archived

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Supreme Court wisely rules that you can’t legislate morality and that privacy between consenting adults is a-ok as the Texas sodomy law (that applies to homosexuals only) is struck down. Ruling invalidates other remaining sodomy laws on the books.

Well! Florida will now legally allow noncoital sex! Strictly, onanism counts, but that common usage was dropped not too long after St. Peter Damain coined the term in the 11th century. I know that oral does as well as the more commonly recognized anal. (I’ve heard it used to describe bestiality, though I doubt that’s legal.) I’m not gay, but those laws applied to me too, given that I’m happy to have nerve endings.

See more legalese, here

Beta version 2.0 of the Google toolbar is out, including blogging tools, an auto-form filler, and a pop up stopper.

My daily photo log has been added to my bio page…I’m not sure for how long. If I use it 3 or 4 more times I’ll start contributing the registration fee to it.

Scroogle community apparently didn’t read my bio page when it added me along with about 700 other uses. A minor pain in the ass. I’ve unsubscribed myself, and sent a little text message to the listed phone. The down side is that I might’ve enjoyed reading it if I hadn’t been spam-added. To his credit, he IMed me back right away and apologized, and was nice enough about it. He claimed to have added my page because he liked the design, but that’s most likely a load of crap. if he’d taken any interest and read the first thing that comes up on my bio page, he’d have known proper procedure.

I’m getting more Harry potter Spam in my email filter now, and fewer Mortgage or Penis enlargement.

New meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning for the XML import upgrade and Tradeshow database. It’ll be good to get Mark, Tom and myself all on the same page… I imagine that they’ll come up with some options and usability features that I’ve not thought of including so far. The xml is really, at its heart just a set of user macros that automates the existing procedure, and takes care of some of the more common errors.

New Ren & Stimpy Episodes on TNN tonight at 10:pm, then some annoying sounding other cartoons, and Then, more ren & stimpy at 11:30. Tricky going against Family guy, and adult swim on the cartoon network. Weirdly, it seems that by looking at it, all TNN has right now is Real TV from 9am to 6:30 pm, then some misc junk, then ren & stimpy. They need to buff out the roster some. I wonder why it’s going under its third incarnation. The “star trek and duke boys” channel didn’t work out? I know Nickelodeon owns it, too… maybe slap a few more cartoons in there?

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I call the cat Tiny, because he’s my Newt.

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I slept really poorly last night, despite hitting the sack early. (or is it because?) I’m feeling very “heavy in the face”… puffy, I guess? I was quite groggy for about 10 minutes after getting up, and really didn’t get wakeful until after my shower.

Harrison Ford finger-pointy gallery.

A parody on the ending of every 80s movie ever made. 6 min.

via ben peek-
funeral procession

it looks like there is a ghostly procession of mourners, forever showing their devotion. (Mark Twain in the box)

“CASTRILLO DE MURCIA, Spain – A man dressed as the devil leaped over babies lying on mattresses on Sunday as the small Spanish town of Castrillo de Murcia held its traditional Corpus Christi celebrations.

While many people across Spain celebrate the Catholic festival with processions and mystery plays, this northern Spanish town has for centuries chosen to protect its young from evil spirits with this unusual ritual.

Dressed in a red and yellow costume, the man representing the devil was pursued around the town by a Catholic priest — leaping over the babies in his flight while the anxious parents stood nearby.

In all, he vaulted over around 20 mattresses each holding four or five babies.

It is believed that the devil, known as El Colacho, draws all the evil from the children and leaves them cleansed. Parents bring their children from all across the northern region of Burgos to participate in the ritual.”

Sausage Sculpture

They show close ups of the sausage people at the site. The Hot Dog shark reminds me of Turbo and Drunko, twin brother robots who fight alongside the bikini eating bees.

via seebelow – Steve Ditko’s Objectivist Comic Books

And like a real life Howard Roark from Rand’s The Fountainhead; who chose to work in a quarry rather than compromise his vision, Ditko simply walked away from Marvel.

So, um, does that mean Stan Lee is Peter Keating?

a year ago – walkies, 1800autopsy, poddish feelings, Captain Kirk’s chair auctioned, peg legs, signed lease.

two 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,

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I just got to play super-database wunderkind for work, so I think that my street cred is up another few notches again. They had two totally demolished excel files, and I was able to write a quick bit of SQL that put the thing together again, resized fields and prepped the data for import into the xml system. Hooray for MySQL! I can’t recommend it enough to anyone who does any sort of database programming. Did I mention that it’s FREE under the GNU General Public License (GPL)?

Oh, I’d say that’s the best ever. Now, if you want tech support, and can’t be bothered to read the documentation (which is very complete and easy to follow) they’re happy to charge you for that, and for certification.

Doug’s getting into No One Lives forever… Dan got it for me a birthday or three ago, and I still have to say it’s my favorite fps/spy game in a long time.

I joined fotolog, after seeing nomi‘s online. You can upload one image of up to 2 Megs a day. I took a quick snap of Dan & Myself (as Mage knight) fighting zombies on a bridge. I’m a little disappointed that it auto resized it… but I like the effect. More like a bad TV image than a woodcut now. If anyone else adds the log, let me know, so I can see your stuff!

I don’t think it’s good to remotely link the images to here, look like they kill the bandwidth.

New guy delivering groceries… he was about 45 min late. Nice fellow though, and I didn’t mind.. not like I was waiting to go to a concert or something.

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It’s such a pleasant surprise to see a rational, human response to the screw-up yesterday. I’m really glad that it was received as well as it was.

Just noticed a cool name subscribed to my journal… Sernya. (it’s a pair of golden fish, Symbolizing resurrection of eternal life, rebirth etc. The pair signifies the ability to swim with ease without obstruction in the ocean of this world. They may also be taken to symbolize the eye of perception as fish can see through muddy water. The fish couple suggests mutual aid and indispensability between male and female material life.) I wonder who they are, and if I know them?

I hear Hagrid is sort of a second-string character in the latest HP. That’s sort of a bummer, he’s my fave. I wonder if having such a huge franchise is allowing her to write stuff that’s an 870 page children’s book. Sounds like an editor is needed.

Groceries coming by between 1:10-2:10, Dan’s Coming by today sometime midday…after he registers at FAU. Hooray for key lime pie and Danny!

I don’t watch Smallville, but I hear that they got Terence Stamp (General Zod) to Play Jor-El recently. How keen is that to a Fanboy?

Gravity Defied with ‘Spider-Man’ Gloves –

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Tomorrow morning is the net meeting with the big boys at the office re: the booth management system. I think they’ll be pleased with the result, though I have some work left to polish it up and make it shine.

[edit] Well, crap. I was synchronizing it to the main server (I thought) and it turns out that I’ve downloaded a much older version over my new one. It looks like I’ve lost like a week or two’s worth of work, though it should be much faster to reconstruct rather than redesign. I sent an email off to Mark, and I hope he understands. Crap. That’ll teach me not to save with version numbers, and not to make extra backups elsewhere on my system.

Bro and I got a postcard from Mom in Sweden today, and I need to get that to the bro for his collection. He’s been very good about calling and checking in with me lately, so I know he’s got work and a place to stay.

Earlier, Ray reminded me of my first big superhero character, Trism. Abducted by aliens at Grover’s mill, he was experimented on as a way for humans to develop “true movement” or teleportation. Mental blank, returned in the 90’s (unaged) with only the haziest memories of the event. Got to play the “1940’s sensibility, 60 years later” He wasn’t a racist or ignorant though. He was the “Good old days” sort… sanitized like a cartoon character could be.

I can’t seem to remember many of Pam’s characters… she cycled through them fairly rapidly, if memory serves… testing out different disads and etc. I vaguely remember a shadow controller and a mute (I don’t think that they were one in the same, but it’s possible.). There seems to be an echo of witty banter in the back of my mind, but it’s a haze. The other, more regular characters are stronger in my mind… Like Magneta’s multiple personalities, (some stored on a chip… I do remember liking the one on the chip rather than the vigilante’s actual mind), the giant powerhouse with his bomb on the roof,

Kyoko was nifty… the proto-ghost. She could make parts of her body desolid, and just do martial arts with solid hands and feet. (That didn’t work well when caught in an area effect blast, mind you.) Leroy, the one-handed Danny Glover sidekick was something, as was the New-age store proprietor Mandy, who was quickly glommed onto as a romantic interest.

After doing a quick search on my journal for Trism, I pulled up an entry from about a year back, regarding the Colinas and my fandom of same, as well as the rest of that gang. I fairly gushed about them a year ago. I’m glad I’m getting a chance to be friends again.

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Pleasantly surprised yesterday! I heard from Ray out of the blue. Strange, in that Danny and I were just talking about Man of Iron & the rest the other day. I’ve already written him back, and look forward to rekindling the friendship that was once there. We’ve both agreed to let whatever happened be water under the bridge. It was a nice event, and I hope the goodwill continues. I was quite happy to hear that Dart is still kicking and Kooky as ever. Dart’s part of the reason I was willing to Foster Newt.

Superhero special on History Channel tonight was good, but like most history channel fare, there are too many commercials. A very complete overview. Hooray for Jim Steranko! Will Eisner looks very good for his age, surprisingly so. I wonder if his interview was done a few years back?

Dan asked for Ray’s email address, too. With Ray’s permission I’ll give it. Perhaps they can get back in communication, too. It’d be nice to see folks all back together. I gave Dan’s addy to Ray… I hope I remembered the proper spelling.

Rick is moving North, as his Wife has a new gig with universal. He’s got a comic out, and is in the works for big promotions coming soon.

I got a citation on Blogpulse? pretty neat… I wonder how they found me. I’ll have to research it more.

Pondering Raleigh NC in about a year. And a vacation trip to Orlando in the nearer future. Both make me smile.

my vampire rank just hit count at 2504 pints.

It’s funny to me that Danny got a gift certificate form Xanadu hair design. He’s gotten a manicure, a pedicure and a facial so far, and sounds like he really enjoyed it. 🙂

I also heard back from Gali which is so nice… my first there-buddy. (Out for months with Computer and life issues).

One year ago – Scotto is…..(google), Francesco issues, Bed Sizes, Rate my kitten

Two years ago – evil news, game poll, fight poll… (One of my fave theoreticals), weather, crayon poll, a little mush, What’s in the kitchen?, shaving poll. (I must’ve just discovered the poll feature)

Three years ago – nothing