trying to email-post image to lj
Kevin Matchstick from the mage comic
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[edit: woo, it works! Color me photobloggin’ without the little script I wrote!]
Monthly Archives: August 2004
6837 Saturday’s walkabout and etc.
Well, I made it to the cemetery, but the office is in the midst of moving the system over to computer, so I didn’t get to drink my Arnold palmer six feet above the carcass of a famous TV dwarf. I was told to call back in a week or two, when the system is fully on-line.
I hopped back on the 40 bus, went to the Swap Shop, bought a pile of tasty veggies at the grocer-realm out front, and caught the 2pm show of the circus. I’m pleased that they don’t have that many animal acts… 99% human acts, save for the elephants. I don’t know why the caution sign mentioned horses, tigers, lions or loud explosions. Also, isn’t that caution sign considered notice?
Note almost invisible scary zombie kid at the bottom, peering at me.
Some other pictures from my trip – This entry is about signage
6837 Saturday's walkabout and etc.
Well, I made it to the cemetery, but the office is in the midst of moving the system over to computer, so I didn’t get to drink my Arnold palmer six feet above the carcass of a famous TV dwarf. I was told to call back in a week or two, when the system is fully on-line.
I hopped back on the 40 bus, went to the Swap Shop, bought a pile of tasty veggies at the grocer-realm out front, and caught the 2pm show of the circus. I’m pleased that they don’t have that many animal acts… 99% human acts, save for the elephants. I don’t know why the caution sign mentioned horses, tigers, lions or loud explosions. Also, isn’t that caution sign considered notice?
Note almost invisible scary zombie kid at the bottom, peering at me.
Some other pictures from my trip – This entry is about signage
6836 – In that big rock candy mountain…
Haven’t heard much from bro lately. I assume that he’s up to trouble with his band of no-goods. (or was that Noodles Romanoff?) I’m not currently stressing about it.
It seems that There isn’t as dead as I thought it might be. Another major update is coming shortly, and the world still seems to have a lot of activity. I’ve gone from living in a house there to being a squatter, just setting up wherever I decide to relogin. I haven’t spent a therebuck since the top of this year, if that. I don’t foresee needing any for the rest of my life in There.
It was H.P. Lovecraft‘s Birthday yesterday… still haven’t decided where to go on walkabout. Maybe I’ll do the cemetery thing after all. Supposedly haunted by Rocky Marciano, too.
FOREST LAWN Memorial Gardens Central
499 NW 27 Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33311
(954) 581-9033
If anyone cares to join me, I’ll be bringing a thermos of lemonade, a bit of pound cake, and A mix of White Zombie (it is not heresy… and I will not recant.), They Might Be Giants, and 60’s TV show themes as mp3s on the palm.
For the Record: I’m sort of in Kevin Matchstick / Silent Bob mode, sans baseball bat and overcoat.
red/white and black stripe-dyed T-shirt, long black cargo shorts, white socks, black sneakers. Hair down, 24-hour stubble on cheeks and jaw.
Blog of a guy walking form Nebraska to the East Coast. He prefers to do that rather than look for work.
Personally, I think he’s got some serious dysfunction issues, but it’s interesting to see progress. current post Looks like a lot of folks are considering him a vagrant.. people feeding him, and cops giving him a ride to jurisdictional lines. He certainly is homeless and a transient.
Speaking of which, It’s time for me to go a hikin’… until later, dear journal.
Cloak of levitation optional.
Protected: 6835 – Deputy killed while serving warrant
6834 – Robot doubles, drunken bears and Halloween costumes.
More than a little peeved that my tech on call last night (ADP) lacked the skill or interest in calling tech support over a computer issue last night. If she’s not careful, her hours will drop to one night a week, or less. For whatever reason, she lacks the ability to follow procedures written down for her.
Creepy thing about Kal-El . Robot Doubles
6833- Don’t bother to burn an X in my head, I’m already dead.
Called in sick today- I’m totally wiped out.
If they need anything urgent, I can launch it remotely… the rest of my time is going to be spent in or around bed.
Some evil Aztec sorcerer is messing with my digestive tract, and is drying out my skin. Or maybe it’s a side effect of Disney World’s weather control device used to relocate Charley.
I wonder if it’s true that prehistoric burial involved putting a corpse in the ground so that it could be reborn, like a plant, or if it was just a method of cleanup… having bodies just laying around can’t be terribly sanitary.
6833- Don't bother to burn an X in my head, I'm already dead.
Called in sick today- I’m totally wiped out.
If they need anything urgent, I can launch it remotely… the rest of my time is going to be spent in or around bed.
Some evil Aztec sorcerer is messing with my digestive tract, and is drying out my skin. Or maybe it’s a side effect of Disney World’s weather control device used to relocate Charley.
I wonder if it’s true that prehistoric burial involved putting a corpse in the ground so that it could be reborn, like a plant, or if it was just a method of cleanup… having bodies just laying around can’t be terribly sanitary.
6832 – By hook or by crook…
I’m not a number… but even if I were, wouldn’t that still make me unique?
The idea of a Gilligan’s Island / Prisoner crossover makes me laugh and cry at the same time. Zombies in the village would be a hoot, too. Small population, closed system.
I’d love to vacation in the village, but being stuck there has very little appeal to me. I get a little stir crazy when I know that I have to stay in to be on call. I do carry equivalents of an employment card, a card of identity, a health and welfare care and a credit card already.
Somehow, I suspect that if I were ever to be taken to a place like that, it’d be because the masters think I knows something they want, but actually doesn’t.
I don’t think that music makes a quiet mind.
Calling someone number 2 tickles a scatological element of my funny bone. (same for Number one, for that matter. Sorry, Riker.)
About that Stormtrooper wedding… on thinking about it.. isn’t that maybe a little too close to a sci-fi version of a Nazi-themed wedding?
Speaking of Nazi weddings, that brings to mind Wagners “Wedding March – Lohengrin” He was someone elevated quite a bit by Hitler and gang. Even though Wagner died well before Hitler ever rose to power, he was by most reports an anti-Semite, an adulterer, and a world class jerk even without those first two categories being filled. Fortunately, I tend not to think an artist’s moral credentials should be considered too much when evaluating their work… otherwise, I’d probably hate most music made in my lifetime, let alone art through history.
Adsense dropped me, without paying. I smell a rat. They owed me over $150, and claim I violated terms of service. It looks like someone was hammering my site with a bot, though the hammer was coming out of AOL, I’m still out of luck. So, I guess that means if someone you don’t like has adsense on their page, you can stop them from getting paid by hammering them, repeatedly. I wonder how long before some script kiddies take advantage of that piece of knowledge?
Ah well, I still get $40 a month for my static ads on my home page. That pays for hosting, online CoH, and $15 worth of fun money a month to drop on whatever.
Instead of pitching a fit, I threw two new games in the toybox. connect four and curveball. (curveball gets tricky about level 8)
I’m in the mood to walk on tall, thin grass in bare feet.
I’ve been wondering lately about how impermanent a mark this journal is, at least online. In fifty years, will there still be a livejournal? If I print it out and save it in book form, the cross-referenced links become pointless, although most links die quickly on the web anyway. Even remotely-hosted images vanish as time goes by. the dynamic aspect of comments goes away with printing, too. Even though a lot of the fun links would be sacrificed, I think I will print out and store my journal, just for the heck of it. I wonder how many sheets of paper this beast would take up? I have been maintaining it since the turn of the century, after all. I’d burn it to a CD, but that seems so transitory, too… most computers don’t have floppy-drives included anymore, will there be CD drives even a decade from now? Maybe just burn it to CD and keep it on the inside front cover as a memento of time long past, before whatever wacky storage formats drive the poor discs into landfills.
I don’t think it’s vain of me to want to leave my journal behind for other people to read… maybe it’s because I’m nosy, and like to read other journals myself, but I think that there are some goodies inside that someone might want to see later on, even if that someone is me. I like reading my old entries and being reminded of things in my life. I know I’ll want to see pictures of Newt as a baby, dealings with whatever drama, saved conversations with mi Ornj, crude palm doodles, and whatever was nifty to me at the time.
Now leaving the Northern Perimeter.
Be Seeing you, Dear journal.
Archives –
1 year ago – I’m a geisha, Newt!, groovy music, interviewed at current gig, WWtracking, Burgertum
2 years ago – Mac virus, got a play set, 25mm floorplans, Egyptian law, stickman down stairs, reparations
3 years ago – 51 things learned from playing champions (27 changed?), concinnity. Stuckey’s pecan log rolls, pac-man fevah
4 years ago – bakery dog, 10 truths, 10 lies
6831 – Training toughness
It’s been difficult to keep EN on target with his training. He likes to talk, and is easily sidetracked… If I don’t keep him reigned-in, we go off-topic completely for too long. I have a lot of trouble keeping him on track for any extended period, and Rhode Island sits across the hall listening, getting passive-aggressive about the whole thing, giving both of us the cold shoulder when we left. That doesn’t do anything to improve matters. [yehdtjiom < --Newt on keyboard] The only reason I’m having him come in at all before putting him on call is so I can observe him during a live session.
Either way, tomorrow when he comes in, it’s strictly work, no sidebars, just to keep everyone happy and healthy.
Interesting LJ feature still being tested – Recent comments, works for your lj account, and any communities you maintain. That’ll help a *lot* with the menstrualhut.
It seems that the last comment in the live_journalia community was 34 weeks ago! (and the one before that was well over a year past.)
Holy Moley! Thank you Oneeyed and Granny for the *very, very* generous gift! Wow! I’ll let you know how I used it as soon as I figure out what to do! I suspect The Complete Daimajin (Daimajin/Wrath of Daimajin/Return of Daimajin) will be on my list… it’s been tempting me since I found it was available on DVD as well as The Plastic Man Archives, Vol. 1. Wonderful, very “Scotto” splurge items I’ve been licking my chops at for more than a brief while.
*Big Ol’ Hugs*
6829 – snippets and bites
Well, no dice getting together with the oneeyed and the gang… one of their number wanted to return home once the power was on, so it’ll have to be next time. Maybe I’ll take a day-trip north to see the Edison / Ford Estates and lunch their neck of the woods! I’m glad they made it home ok, and that there was very little personal damage waiting for them.
Bro scammed the Mother out of about $150, claiming it was court costs. Lawyer said there were none, and Bro claims there wasn’t any receipt. Liar. That dumbass burned that bridge, now, too.
I convinced the PR department to not do Donkey Basketball as a fund raiser. Plenty of other fun ways to bring people together and donate money… no need to bring any animal cruelty or PETA picketers to the table.
Apparently T-Mobile was giving away free service all hurricane weekend. Good for you guys! You deserve some praise for that!
I fell asleep far too early last night, something like seven or so… I think I was fatigued from all of the stress over the missing Alabama boy. We were really scrambling the whole time I was at the office
I woke up at about 2:30am, got a drink of water and puttered for about an hour before trying to go back to bed. I really am a night person at heart… That was one of the nice things about IMT – the 4pm to midnight schedule.
how to make a scale model of a city
*really* nice tutorial on how to write tile-based games in flash. via
I’m in the mood for some really good Tandoori Indian food lately… something better than . This bears some research. I’ll have to sniff out my local sources and see what they prefer.
I’ve got to focus more on more than just these little bits and pieces… the journal’s been scattered lately, and I could stand more writing practice. flying_blind‘s recent excellent entry reminded me of this.
Dear Lenny Kravitz – Don’t help the gap. You don’t want to be in there with SJP.
My entry about the Lumbee Indians is still getting activity, over two years after the first casting about for information about Roanoke. Until that research arc, I thought that the colonists had been massacred.
I still have the itch to do a cemetery stroll and look up Miguelito Loveless.
It’s true, I live inside the spread of one of the corners of the Bermuda Triangle. (Usually, the points are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami, but they’ve been known to vary.) I wonder what major areas of supernatural repute are near folks on my friend’s list? Transylvanians? Amity? I know there’s a “stonehenger” or two.
Saturn has 33 verified moons, now. Continue reading 6829 – snippets and bites
6828 – Alabama
We’re in Tuskaloosa, Alabama for 10 minutes, and already I have a case.
Missing 8-year old boy… left for school, and wasn’t on the bus when it arrived.
I hope he just missed the ride, or is playing hooky. I do know that there’s a sexual predator with a history of pedophilia two and a half miles from where the boy was last seen.
sexual predator info-
http://www.dps.state.al.us/public/abi/system/so/details.asp?id=3525
missing kid is a black male, 4′, 75lbs, brown eyes, black hair, wearing a red, gray, black top, black shorts w/white stripe, b/w shoes, black blu pack. been missing since 8:50am Central.
The org’s already placed nearly 20,000 calls looking for him.
[edit – Kid returned home safely, he took the bus to the wrong special ed school. Happy ending all around. ]
6827 – I don’t smoke cigarettes.
Big Kahuna’s in Alabama all this week, opening the state to local law enforcement.
I may be going out to a late lunch with oneeyed and crew after work.I wonder where a good place to dine might be? Some Options
I woke up *voracious*… I could devour a pile of waffles right now.
Philip K. Dick – How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
divide by zero’s free fonts – I really dig geodesic, levity and two turtle doves
Last night’s fortune cookie.
| “You have unusual equipment for success, use it properly.” Daily Numbers 5 0 8 Lotto Six #’s 39 45 36 37 18 27 |
What, no Chinese Lesson? I’ll resist making any rude “in bed” cookie comment suffix this go ’round.
Found another subset of NOAA’s site, this time it’s South Florida Specific.
Recently re-discovered the lightning strike site, too – Strikes within the last 3 seconds will appear as a yellow bolt. Older strikes will appear as mostly red and blue dots. The smaller the dots, the older the strike. Red and blue indicates cloud-to-ground strokes. Lavender and purple indicates cloud-to-cloud strokes. The display typically reflects a total of the last 20 minutes activity for any given period.
FEMA has now declared 25 counties in Florida as disaster areas. That’s good news for those victims further inland. Aid will be more readily available for the rebuilding efforts.
Storms rolled through central Florida this afternoon – 2000+ lightening strikes recorded in an hour with more than 3” of rain in spots. According to local news additional rain will coming in off of the gulf in the Punta Gorda & North Port areas now.
They are expecting to put a figure to the fatalities in Lee County sometime tomorrow. One optimistic thing is that many people in the hardest hit areas had left for the summer, so it is possible the number will be lower than expected.
The Bradenton Herald is a very good source for information.
The Red Cross is still requesting monetary contributions and that information can be found HERE. They are still the quickest way to get water, food, shelter and comfort to the victims.
As a petty / karmic redemption side note, I hope that this disaster milks every penny out of the evil, evil, evil Liberty Mutual company.
Photos of Disney World preparations, and post-storm Hurricane Charley. (I’m surprised they didn’t just cover the park with a big plastic dome topped with mouse ears.) Interesting to see all the hanging signs tethered in place. (The last thing anyone needs is to be impaled by a flying bit of Jungle Cruise sign.) He’s got other nifty shots, too… like the construction of Expedition Everest.
I’d like to have this as a Disclaimer all around my property. (for web-cam usage)
It strikes me as funny that people don’t think of Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Egypt as Oriental. It’s not called the Middle East for nothing, y’know. I wonder if Arabs were *ever* referred to as “Orientals” in the old days, before that term was made politically incorrect? I still Figure myself to be an “Occidental“.. “The Orient” is a much niftier term than “Eastern Lands.”
Interesting portraiture by Mary Ellen Mark. Circus Folk in India, including a Hippo Trainer and little people in monkey suits.
Going over LJ’s stats.
It looks like the male population is dwindling, at less than a third of the total gender specified userbase.
Where I fall out of 4,179,761 accounts
I have –
- Updated in the last 24 hours (like 268,799 others)
- Permanent account – something like 0.0003% of the users here (one of 1618)
- Most popular county – USA (2,035,801)
- 2nd most popular State – Florida (191,899)
- Of the very few 35 year olds (7379) (and the numbers dwindle each year!)
6827 – I don't smoke cigarettes.
Big Kahuna’s in Alabama all this week, opening the state to local law enforcement.
I may be going out to a late lunch with oneeyed and crew after work.I wonder where a good place to dine might be? Some Options
I woke up *voracious*… I could devour a pile of waffles right now.
Philip K. Dick – How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
divide by zero’s free fonts – I really dig geodesic, levity and two turtle doves
Last night’s fortune cookie.
| “You have unusual equipment for success, use it properly.” Daily Numbers 5 0 8 Lotto Six #’s 39 45 36 37 18 27 |
What, no Chinese Lesson? I’ll resist making any rude “in bed” cookie comment suffix this go ’round.
Found another subset of NOAA’s site, this time it’s South Florida Specific.
Recently re-discovered the lightning strike site, too – Strikes within the last 3 seconds will appear as a yellow bolt. Older strikes will appear as mostly red and blue dots. The smaller the dots, the older the strike. Red and blue indicates cloud-to-ground strokes. Lavender and purple indicates cloud-to-cloud strokes. The display typically reflects a total of the last 20 minutes activity for any given period.
FEMA has now declared 25 counties in Florida as disaster areas. That’s good news for those victims further inland. Aid will be more readily available for the rebuilding efforts.
Storms rolled through central Florida this afternoon – 2000+ lightening strikes recorded in an hour with more than 3” of rain in spots. According to local news additional rain will coming in off of the gulf in the Punta Gorda & North Port areas now.
They are expecting to put a figure to the fatalities in Lee County sometime tomorrow. One optimistic thing is that many people in the hardest hit areas had left for the summer, so it is possible the number will be lower than expected.
The Bradenton Herald is a very good source for information.
The Red Cross is still requesting monetary contributions and that information can be found HERE. They are still the quickest way to get water, food, shelter and comfort to the victims.
As a petty / karmic redemption side note, I hope that this disaster milks every penny out of the evil, evil, evil Liberty Mutual company.
Photos of Disney World preparations, and post-storm Hurricane Charley. (I’m surprised they didn’t just cover the park with a big plastic dome topped with mouse ears.) Interesting to see all the hanging signs tethered in place. (The last thing anyone needs is to be impaled by a flying bit of Jungle Cruise sign.) He’s got other nifty shots, too… like the construction of Expedition Everest.
I’d like to have this as a Disclaimer all around my property. (for web-cam usage)
It strikes me as funny that people don’t think of Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Egypt as Oriental. It’s not called the Middle East for nothing, y’know. I wonder if Arabs were *ever* referred to as “Orientals” in the old days, before that term was made politically incorrect? I still Figure myself to be an “Occidental“.. “The Orient” is a much niftier term than “Eastern Lands.”
Interesting portraiture by Mary Ellen Mark. Circus Folk in India, including a Hippo Trainer and little people in monkey suits.
Going over LJ’s stats.
It looks like the male population is dwindling, at less than a third of the total gender specified userbase.
Where I fall out of 4,179,761 accounts
I have –
- Updated in the last 24 hours (like 268,799 others)
- Permanent account – something like 0.0003% of the users here (one of 1618)
- Most popular county – USA (2,035,801)
- 2nd most popular State – Florida (191,899)
- Of the very few 35 year olds (7379) (and the numbers dwindle each year!)
6826 – yikes – punta gorda details
I’m amazed at the level of damage in Punta Gorda… very reminiscent of the hurricane Andrew situation before. The thing that gets me is that very few people really took it seriously until it was too late… I think that’s thanks in now small part to TV news blowing *every* weather event totally out of proportion.
A million people without power, and two million people were asked to evacuate. I wonder how much damage will be caused by looting, and how many people are going to get gunshot wounds as a result of walking around in the wrong part of town, now that the weather has passed by.