Tokyo Bowl delivered my supper last night … Veggie rolls and some seaweed salad. Healthy and yummy. Pretty much my fave lunch these days. I have been craving it since Friday night, and was willing to blow a little fun money on myself.

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Wondering where Dennis, my new landlord has been. It’s well past the top of the month, and I’d like to give him my rent (hard to do, since I don’t have an address or phone number for him yet.)

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Random Scotto Factoid – I don’t much care for martinis, but green olives stuffed with pimento are yummy.

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Chomp Chomp Safari! – a fun bejeweled-type puzzle game.

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Where Scotto has fun with image filters – a shot taken last night in the parking lot, and some manips.

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Somebody likes to party…

Last Name: EARL
First Name: HENRY

CaseNo / Offense / Booking Date / Release Date
***010104 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 1/1/2004
***123003 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/30/2003 12/31/2003
***122403 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/24/2003 12/29/2003
03M032759A ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/20/2003 12/24/2003
***121603 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/16/2003 12/20/2003
***121603 DIS CONDUCT 12/16/2003 12/20/2003
***121603 CRIM TRESP 3RD 12/16/2003 12/20/2003
***121003 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/10/2003 12/14/2003
***120803 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/8/2003 12/10/2003
03M032279A ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 12/4/2003 12/8/2003
***112703 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION 11/27/2003 12/1/2003

Nobody’s noticing a trend here? He looks like he needs some help…. worse than Mayberry’s Otis.

Interesting to look at his collection of mugshots. Was he passed out for #45?

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There are so many fabulous words over at the Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric that it’s hard to pick favorites, but here are some goodies:

Apophasis: Mentioning something by declaring that it shall not be mentioned. “I need not remind you to get your Christmas shopping done early.”

Cacography: Poor handwriting; also, incorrect spelling.

(I am Guilty of this.)

Dontopedalogy: An aptitude for putting one’s foot in one’s mouth.

Exergasia: Repeating a point by using different figures of speech to give the impression of saying something new.

(Guilty)

Exonym: A name by which one people or social group refers to another but which is not used by said group to refer to themselves.

Graphospasm: Writer’s cramp.

Illeism: The practice of referring to oneself in the third person.

(Guilty)

Litotes: Understatement by negating the opposite; a type of meiosis. “I was not disappointed with the news.”

Perpilocutionist: One who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge.

Tmesis: Inserting a word in the middle of another. “un-frickin’-believable.”

(via defective yeti)

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Updated version of the Semagic LJ client is out. (slightly old news – 12/16/03, but I just installed it. It fixes a few minor bugs, and just runs a bit better. )