6693 Memorial Day

Taking a shard of time to remember, honor and thank all the good people who came before. I don’t mean honoring war, but those that died in those conflicts and wars. I’m sort of extending the idea to all those that helped make the world a better place, or fought in the war of life, too. I’m very thankful that I’m of a generation that didn’t have to fight a war for freedom, owed largely in part by the generation immediately before…for that I’m thankful.

Regarding a moment of remembrance – http://www.remember.gov/

Take a Moment to Remember those Americans who gave their lives in service to their country

This Memorial Day, please pause with Americans at home and abroad to honor the men and women who died so that we might enjoy the gift of freedom. Let us never forget their sacrifice.

At 3:00 p.m., simply stop what you are doing and think for one minute about those who died for your freedom. If you are driving, turn on your vehicle’s headlights.

As you participate in the National Moment of Remembrance, you are helping reclaim Memorial Day for the noble purpose for which it was established:to honor those who died in service to our Nation. Join with the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance in honoring those who have died and their families. It is a minute of reflection that everyone can spare.

One Minute
Memorial Day
Monday, May 31, 2004
3:00 p.m. (local time)


Come Together – Beatles video (3-D Shockwave) pretty dang keen. Some nice touches, like Paul being barefoot, and clickable karaoke mode. (Melon Dezign are the same folks that did I Feel Fine )


HELL by JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN Some people do scary things with miniatures. (probably not work safe) Interesting that Hell was probably destroyed by fire.


THX1138 director’s cut is being released on DVD.


New mouse species found in the Philippines

Surprising find may be new genus Continue reading 6693 Memorial Day

6692 – For the werewolf have pity, not fear, an’ not hate.

Cam pics.


Just a nifty shot.. the cam’s motion sensor grabbed the night-scene right after turning it back on to answer a late call. The lamp is on, but the cam hasn’t caught up with the room’s full illumination yet. I know the cam isn’t faster than the speed of light.


An example of how fast Newt’s reflexes are.. note the time at the bottom doesn’t increment.. he just whips that right-hook out and bats like a flash. That’ll teach me to try to beep his nose while he’s in stalker-mode. My pointer finger is one of his favorite toys.

6692 – For the werewolf have pity, not fear, an' not hate.

Cam pics.


Just a nifty shot.. the cam’s motion sensor grabbed the night-scene right after turning it back on to answer a late call. The lamp is on, but the cam hasn’t caught up with the room’s full illumination yet. I know the cam isn’t faster than the speed of light.


An example of how fast Newt’s reflexes are.. note the time at the bottom doesn’t increment.. he just whips that right-hook out and bats like a flash. That’ll teach me to try to beep his nose while he’s in stalker-mode. My pointer finger is one of his favorite toys.

6689 Home again… that was quick.

Wow… DAfT was pretty weak. nice effects, but bad acting and writing. A pity.. there was some real potential there. I’d say to rent the Poseidon Adventure rather than going to see it. (Pretty nice page, too.) It’s pretty sad when Dennis Quaid can’t save a movie. He just walked through.

Dan & I were reduced to passing notes back and forth on my palmtop, and giggling like we were in high school. We wrote in red on a black background so we didn’t suffer from any pupil-shift.

Dan’s Starting commentary –

I feel no emotion for this movie. The writing is poor, etc. Now, I am only interested in the special effects.

Other comments were – Warning, spoilers.

6688 Bzzz Bzz

I think I’d like to try my hand at beekeeping.


Nice thoughts of a song I haven’t heard in ages –

Sleep my dear for the red bee hums the silent twilights fall
Aoibheal from the gray rock comes to wrap the world in thrall
A lyan van o my child my joy my love and heart’s desire
The crickets sing you lullabys beside the dying fire
Dusk is drawn and the green man’s horn
Is wreathed in rings of fog
Sheevra sails his boat till morn
Upon the starry bog
A lyan van o the paley moon
Has ringed her cusp in dew
And weeps to hear the sad sweet song
I sing my love to you
Sleep my dear for the red bee hums the silent twilights fall
Aoibheal from the gray rock comes to wrap the world in thrall
A lyan van o my child my joy my love and heart’s desire
The crickets sing you lullabys beside the dying fire


Aww, what a nice compliment from my littlerbigsis ldy… I wonder if it’ll become a meme? Dangerous, considering the naughty-word factor.


Behold! My journal has been taken over by a preteenl!

Ok, I got it back again.


Going out to lunch with Dan and his SF club for sushi in the afternoon. I’ll get a glimpse at his students and put faces to some of the names he’s mentioned. After, (if there’s time / he’s not tutoring) we might go check out The Day After Tomorrow… or Troy, if DAfT isn’t timed to start at a good time.

I’ve had a little cough recently… I hope that I’m not coming down with the flu-bug that my brother had last week.


New Stuff in CoH! (thanks, Whims!)


Ok, off to get ready for my day. I’ll catch you later, dear journal.

6686 – Payday, Friday, longish weekend ahead.

I’m delighted that the new(beta) Yahoo Messenger has integrated launch cast. Makes getting my playlists much simpler. Also, the New Yahoo toolbar for MSIE removes spyware.


Lately, I’m quite glad I don’t have tourette’s… lots of random comments that’d have gotten me in trouble today leapt to the front of my brain. (I took a bunch of digital piccies for the web site… we’ll be selling items with our logo on them.) VS is an excellent model, ADP & LH were overly vain. Right on the tip of my mind were all sorts of rude and inappropriate comments. I’d rather bark or quack out of control than yell something intelligible but hurtful.


Know your Emperors!

Know your Popes!

Know your Livestock! – See Other. Hooray for Yaks!


Cool Comic strip portion recently seen

6685 – stuff

Got a nice surprise in a long, friendly, supportive phone call yesterday from someone I haven’t heard a lot from in a long time, and it really made my night. Lots of good socializing, excellent legal advice about a few things, and just general good gab. Thanks.


MIT’s OpenCourseWare – Thanks for the tip, ldy-sis!



Possibly a new Newtcam icon, made from action shots yesterday


Caught pre-leap to the monitor top – motion-blurred


Leaping off into the great void again


He’s so casual about it, just steps off into space.


aw, just a canned reply from Athenos…They only referenced my booty-kissin’ signature line at the end.

Thanks for visiting our Web site to tell us how pleased you are with our
product.

We’re proud of our reputation for excellence and work hard to maintain it.
We’re continually exploring new food developments and are very optimistic
about the future of food production. Our pledge is to continue to
successfully build on our past achievements far into the future.

We hope you’ll continue to enjoy our product. Please add our site to your
bookmarks, and visit us again soon!

>Ref: 8069695N
>
>——————————————————————
>sysop@scottobear.com
>
>Thank you, oh thank you, you wonderful, wonderful hummus-making people.


Name meme –

6684 -some FL drug stats via fdle

2003 Report by Florida Medical Examiners Commission on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons

Today, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission’s Report on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons. The report contains information compiled from autopsies performed by medical examiners across the state in 2003. During that period there were approximately 170,000 deaths. According to the report, 6,767 individuals examined had drugs in the system. Continue reading 6684 -some FL drug stats via fdle

6681 and so on.

Hey, happy Tuesday, dear journal.

Talked with wickenden briefly last night and experimented with hello‘s picture share/chat/host program some. Very nifty, indeed and quite easy to use. I may use my blogspot account as a backup gallery now. I dig the revision of “powered by blogger” button to the newer “I power blogger”, by the way.


In my email this morning –

We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased Battlestar Galactica – The Complete Epic Series (Limited Edition Cylon Head Packaging) also enjoy The A-Team – Season One on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that The A-Team – Season One will be released on June 8, 2004 on DVD.

How would they enjoy it, if it hasn’t been released yet? Oh, you Dirk Benedict Fanciers!

I wonder how long it’ll be before they release a “A-Team : Next Gen” TV series… maybe with Bea Arthur as Hannibal and one of the Blonds from She-Spies as “Face” (Or would they call her something else?)


a couple of random piccies.

6679 Monday… let’s see what it brings me.

After work today, I’m going to go out and about. Not sure where, not sure how, but I’ll see something groovy as a result. Then I’ll come home and hug ol’ Newt. I brushed his teeth yesterday, and he just sat and took it like a champ. I’ll have to bring him home a fun new toy… maybe a big honkin’ cardboard box to sharpen his teeth on.


I’m a total entertainment / multimedia / sensory I/O cyborg. I have a Cell-phone, wifi pda (with mp3 player, doodling proggie and web browser), digicam, GPS, Laptop (wifi and has a DVD player…), and a TENS unit. Hooray for rechargeable batteries! I won’t even go into the Solar-powered rechargeable stuff. Oh,ok, I will. am/fm/sw radio, charges in the sun, and also runs on wind-up power. same goes for an awesome little waterproof LED flashlight.

Currently, the fave gizmo is the pda, as it’s on hand at all times, and is very useful. I only carry the cell phone and pda all of the time. Digicam about 20% of the time, the rest are usually on planned excursions, if they ever leave the house at all.


I’m glad I have Red-Furred Libras to make me smile and bring joy to my heart. I wish I could take Newt on more walkabouts, but a leash just makes him turn into a mooshy orange cat-shaped beanbag. The harness just de-bones him.


Become a MASTER of LLAP-Goch.
… the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage!


Oh, forgot to mention. I quite liked that there was a character named “Mongo” in Shrek 2.


Arms. I could mess with this for ages. (But then, I’m easily entertained.) Other cool stuff in an open directory. Pushy also gives me some perverse pleasure.


If I don’t find a condo in the next month, I think I’ll relocate to another place as a rental in the meantime. It’s practically summer, and the rates will be quite low.


I got a call yesterday and it said that one of the children was being treated medically for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder“… I didn’t know that could be treated with drugs. Do the drugs make someone more obedient, and pliable? I wonder how that would work in an army or other sort of conditioned behavior environment, like prison.

I also suspect that this is something that will be over-labeled and tried fro use on regular kids that are just being bratty, rather than ones with actual mental disorders.


Fire Cracker Labels


Some almost surreal photos of an abandoned man-made island and other places. The lack of people and the ruined buildings give a nearly post-apocalyptic feel.

“Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called “Gunkanjima” that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, the chance discovery of coal drastically changed the fate of this reef. As reclamation began, people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Before long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Eventually, the mines faced an end, and in 1974 the world’s once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its people disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God.”


Informationi
scotto is a restricted area. Authorized personnel only

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com

Other Memes

6679 Monday… let's see what it brings me.

After work today, I’m going to go out and about. Not sure where, not sure how, but I’ll see something groovy as a result. Then I’ll come home and hug ol’ Newt. I brushed his teeth yesterday, and he just sat and took it like a champ. I’ll have to bring him home a fun new toy… maybe a big honkin’ cardboard box to sharpen his teeth on.


I’m a total entertainment / multimedia / sensory I/O cyborg. I have a Cell-phone, wifi pda (with mp3 player, doodling proggie and web browser), digicam, GPS, Laptop (wifi and has a DVD player…), and a TENS unit. Hooray for rechargeable batteries! I won’t even go into the Solar-powered rechargeable stuff. Oh,ok, I will. am/fm/sw radio, charges in the sun, and also runs on wind-up power. same goes for an awesome little waterproof LED flashlight.

Currently, the fave gizmo is the pda, as it’s on hand at all times, and is very useful. I only carry the cell phone and pda all of the time. Digicam about 20% of the time, the rest are usually on planned excursions, if they ever leave the house at all.


I’m glad I have Red-Furred Libras to make me smile and bring joy to my heart. I wish I could take Newt on more walkabouts, but a leash just makes him turn into a mooshy orange cat-shaped beanbag. The harness just de-bones him.


Become a MASTER of LLAP-Goch.
… the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage!


Oh, forgot to mention. I quite liked that there was a character named “Mongo” in Shrek 2.


Arms. I could mess with this for ages. (But then, I’m easily entertained.) Other cool stuff in an open directory. Pushy also gives me some perverse pleasure.


If I don’t find a condo in the next month, I think I’ll relocate to another place as a rental in the meantime. It’s practically summer, and the rates will be quite low.


I got a call yesterday and it said that one of the children was being treated medically for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder“… I didn’t know that could be treated with drugs. Do the drugs make someone more obedient, and pliable? I wonder how that would work in an army or other sort of conditioned behavior environment, like prison.

I also suspect that this is something that will be over-labeled and tried fro use on regular kids that are just being bratty, rather than ones with actual mental disorders.


Fire Cracker Labels


Some almost surreal photos of an abandoned man-made island and other places. The lack of people and the ruined buildings give a nearly post-apocalyptic feel.

“Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called “Gunkanjima” that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, the chance discovery of coal drastically changed the fate of this reef. As reclamation began, people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Before long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Eventually, the mines faced an end, and in 1974 the world’s once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its people disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God.”


Informationi
scotto is a restricted area. Authorized personnel only

Username:

From Go-Quiz.com

Other Memes