Monthly Archives: September 2004
6895 – Equinox Is Here.
Good morning, and welcome to Autumn, at last! Traditionally a time for change, Autumn has always signaled the beginning of a renewal of life to me.
Though I live in a land where seasons are divided by how moist things are; a place where you can find seas of both brine and concrete, my heart resides elsewhere. Wide open spaces, with tame deer that like to nibble on rosebushes and enjoy a nice salt lick. Trees colored with every warm hue possible… golds, oranges and deep rust-reds. Someday I’ll be there, content in a room lit by purest moonlight, the sounds of acorns tapping the roof, randomly.
Here’s hoping that everyone enjoys the coming season, the changing of colors, Hallowe’en, new scents and the cooling, snuggly times ahead.
The last night of summer was a nearly perfect one for a walk. The 7-11 had the Diet Pepsi Slushie machine working just right, and the air was balmy, but not hot. It could be my mind playing tricks, but Autumn is on its way, for honest and true. I sat by the new river for a few, and looked into the water, just thinking… it amazes me that there are so many quiet, natural places in the city. Things laid out in strips and pieces.. it didn’t feel landscaped at all, but very natural. I think that I prefer to visit the river over the ocean, for whatever reason, despite the sea’s wonderful breezes. The river is more serene, relaxed.
Today’s Moment of Voodoo: The Soul.
In the Voudoun religion of Haiti, one’s existence is made up of five parts: n’ame, the spirit of the flesh; z’etoile, the star of destiny; corps cadavre, the mortal flesh; gros bon ange, a general life force that is recycled and not unique to each person, and ti bon ange (or petit bon ange), one’s personal essence and the source of one’s aura. Only the gros bon ange and ti bon ange are seen as being part of the soul, but all five parts are regarded as important in both life and death, so the distinction is somewhat blurred. The corps cadavre can be made into a zombi (zombie), while the ti bon ange can be captured to create a kind of spectral undead called a zombi astral (spirit zombie).
The CDC reports on who died of what during Hurricane Charley. A total of 31 deaths of which 17 “involved blunt trauma caused by injuries from falling trees, flying debris, and destroyed physical structures” and one drowning.
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6894 – please vote, and don’t eat corpses with wasabe.
Fellow Americans, if you haven’t yet registered to vote, or need to re-register due to a change of address or legal name, please go here:
Online form. Takes all of two minutes, if that. Seriously.
Print it, sign it, slap a stamp on it (and maybe a piece of tape) and you’re good to go. You don’t even need an envelope.
Do it right now, if you can. Many states have early October deadlines to register. That’s just two weeks away.
If you’re not sure whether or not you’re registered, you’re probably not. Register again.
I don’t care whether we’re voting for the same guy or not.
Just register and vote, k?
It ain’t a right, it’s a responsibility.
Thanks.
Also, For people without printers: 7-11 stores are carrying piles of voter registration forms.
American citizens overseas who need to request absentee ballots can get information on how to do that (including the standard federal form to request them) at http://www.fvap.gov/ – that site will point you to state election sites for voters in the US.
Shaft in Africa soundtrack. THE Brother Man in the Motherland! I only hope the Luke Cage Soundtrack will have as much funk.
Coolgov – “The basic premise is this: the U.S. government provides lots of neat resources, more and more of which can be found on the internet. Basically, we’re just going to try and find the coolest stuff there is and post it here. ” check out the picture of ivan taken from the ISS!
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6894 – please vote, and don't eat corpses with wasabe.
Fellow Americans, if you haven’t yet registered to vote, or need to re-register due to a change of address or legal name, please go here:
Online form. Takes all of two minutes, if that. Seriously.
Print it, sign it, slap a stamp on it (and maybe a piece of tape) and you’re good to go. You don’t even need an envelope.
Do it right now, if you can. Many states have early October deadlines to register. That’s just two weeks away.
If you’re not sure whether or not you’re registered, you’re probably not. Register again.
I don’t care whether we’re voting for the same guy or not.
Just register and vote, k?
It ain’t a right, it’s a responsibility.
Thanks.
Also, For people without printers: 7-11 stores are carrying piles of voter registration forms.
American citizens overseas who need to request absentee ballots can get information on how to do that (including the standard federal form to request them) at http://www.fvap.gov/ – that site will point you to state election sites for voters in the US.
Shaft in Africa soundtrack. THE Brother Man in the Motherland! I only hope the Luke Cage Soundtrack will have as much funk.
Coolgov – “The basic premise is this: the U.S. government provides lots of neat resources, more and more of which can be found on the internet. Basically, we’re just going to try and find the coolest stuff there is and post it here. ” check out the picture of ivan taken from the ISS!
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Protected: 6893 – Sneak-shot test
6892 – TV & slavery…
Hmm.. the new semagic client includes photo builder support. not quite out of beta yet.
Random Scotto Factoid – I love old Detective shows, especially The Rockford Files and Columbo. I’m also a fan of the Prisoner TV series.
Patrick McGoohan has been in more than a couple of Columbo episodes. What’s more, he wrote, produced and directed a bunch, too. He was excellent in all of them. He almost always plays the same sort of person he was in the Prisoner / Danger Man series… too clever to a fault, but since he was the villain of every episode, of course, he got what was coming to him. I’m really happy that it’s being released on DVD, and even more delighted that episodes pop up on cable so often that owning the set is not required to watch it once or twice a week regularly.
All of the McGoohan Eps – (Some are TV movies, made after the series proper stopped.)
- Murder with Too Many Notes (2000)
- Ashes to Ashes (1998)
- Agenda for Murder (1990)
- Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)
- Identity Crisis (1975)
- By Dawn’s Early Light (1974)
Funny, I think he’s the most frequent villain actor on the show. I like the fact that Columbo has a basset, too.
Random Peter Falk factoid – His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three, because of cancer. Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”
New discworld book at the end of this month – Going Postal. I figure it’ll be in paperback inside of six months.
When you talk to a mirror, you’re not always talking to yourself.
Brazil abolished slavery in 1888. Earlier this year, however, the government acknowledged to the United Nations that at least 25,000 Brazilians work under ”conditions analogous to slavery.” The top anti-slavery official in Brasilia, the capital, puts the number of modern slaves at 50,000.
6892 – TV & slavery…
Hmm.. the new semagic client includes photo builder support. not quite out of beta yet.
Random Scotto Factoid – I love old Detective shows, especially The Rockford Files and Columbo. I’m also a fan of the Prisoner TV series.
Patrick McGoohan has been in more than a couple of Columbo episodes. What’s more, he wrote, produced and directed a bunch, too. He was excellent in all of them. He almost always plays the same sort of person he was in the Prisoner / Danger Man series… too clever to a fault, but since he was the villain of every episode, of course, he got what was coming to him. I’m really happy that it’s being released on DVD, and even more delighted that episodes pop up on cable so often that owning the set is not required to watch it once or twice a week regularly.
All of the McGoohan Eps – (Some are TV movies, made after the series proper stopped.)
- Murder with Too Many Notes (2000)
- Ashes to Ashes (1998)
- Agenda for Murder (1990)
- Last Salute to the Commodore (1976)
- Identity Crisis (1975)
- By Dawn’s Early Light (1974)
Funny, I think he’s the most frequent villain actor on the show. I like the fact that Columbo has a basset, too.
Random Peter Falk factoid – His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three, because of cancer. Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”
New discworld book at the end of this month – Going Postal. I figure it’ll be in paperback inside of six months.
When you talk to a mirror, you’re not always talking to yourself.
Brazil abolished slavery in 1888. Earlier this year, however, the government acknowledged to the United Nations that at least 25,000 Brazilians work under ”conditions analogous to slavery.” The top anti-slavery official in Brasilia, the capital, puts the number of modern slaves at 50,000.
6891 – Piccies from yesterday
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Riverwalk Entrance On the way to the theater yesterday. |
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Construction cone Reworking the whole sidewalk on Las Olas’s Tavern row |
6890 – Avast, me hearties!
The only accessory you need for Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19. The site’s creator, Grant Henninger, says: “Let me present t’ you t’ iPatch! It really has no purpose, but it was a fun site t’ build. Hope people get a good harty-har-har out o’ it.”
Well, Re: Ghost in the Shell… I liked the Basset. both styles of animation were good, but the CGI and cel-stuff didn’t mesh well.. rather distracting, actually. Sammy really dug it, so I imagine it’s just a question of personal tastes. 
Danny and I had a nice time at riverwalk, had lunch at einsteins, a beer at the ugly toona saloona, and talked about this that and the other as we walked around… they’re relaying the brickwork on Tavern row. I wonder if doing that on a Saturday is the worst possible time for business?
With all the hurricanes and tropical storms lately, I’m surprised more people aren’t trying to find that dang butterfly.
6889 – Written for me? (Speaking of Kong)
I think I’m sophisticated
‘Cos I’m living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody’s multiplying
Till they’re walking round like flies man
So I’m no better than the animals sitting in their cages
in the zoo man
‘Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an ape man
I think I’m so educated and I’m so civilized
‘Cos I’m a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man
I’m an ape man I’m a King Kong man I’m ape ape man
I’m an ape man
‘Cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an ape man
In man’s evolution he has created the cities and
the motor traffic rumble, but give me half a chance
and I’d be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
‘Cos the only time that I feel at ease
Is swinging up and down in a coconut tree
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man
I’m an ape, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man
I look out my window, but I can’t see the sky
‘Cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man
Come and love me, be my ape man girl
And we will be so happy in my ape man world
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man
I’ll be your Tarzan, you’ll be my Jane
I’ll keep you warm and you’ll keep me sane
and we’ll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man
I’m an ape man, I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man
I’m an ape man.
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an ape man.
6888 – Saturday, off call!
Downloaded and watched 50 first dates.. very typical sandler movie, cute and silly. Nice night.. not many missings to interfere.
Off to lunch and then Ghost in the Shell 2 this afternoon.. Sammy said it was great, so I’ll follow that lead. (I don’t know how fond I am of the acronym “GitS”.
I like the term “tuber” for potatoes. I don’t like it for people floating down a river.
“time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
-hector berlioz
Kong is King – You can watch as Peter Jackson builds the new King Kong movie. (Video production diary on the right) Weird that Andy Serkis (Gollum) will be providing motion capture and facial expressions for the computer generated King Kong. (He was ruled ineligible for a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2003 Academy Awards because his character Gollum in Lord of the Rings onscreen was computer generated.)
6887 – florida road this morning
test post via found network
sent via palmtop
6886 – nature
Direct Hit by Ivan Could Sink New Orleans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/vulnerable_new_orleans
NEW ORLEANS – The worst-case scenario for New Orleans — a direct strike by a full-strength Hurricane Ivan — could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say.
6885 – The first eater is like the latter eater?
I was right, seasons do bring change. I can see color returning to the world, and I hope for more warmth, though the sun is retreating from the earth. I have a heart full of hope, reds, browns and ornj.
Proverb in the Kaonde Language:
Baja bantu bajila, pakuba baja nwena, baseka.
Those who eat people, cry; those who eat a crocodile, laugh.
Explanation: We rejoice when our enemies are killed, but we cry when our friends are killed.
Lesotho/South Africa
Mpa-tsehla ha e bolaee.
Translation: A full belly does not kill.
Explanation: Food without clothing is better than clothing without food.Mo-ja-pele o ts’oana le mo-ja-morao.
Translation: The first eater is like the latter eater.
Explanation: Waiting time is the time that pays best.‘Mele oa motho e mong ke chaba se hole.
Translation: Somebody else’s body is a far-away nation.
Explanation: What is experienced by one cannot be experienced by others.
Sadly Jumped the shark – Penn & Teller, George Carlin, Harlan Ellison. The pissed-off and snarky revealer of truth bit has worn thin, and made you guys look petty and mean.
City of Heroes First update is *sharp*. Well-timed, too. I like Eastgate, and the newly revised martial arts.
Am I weird for finding this robotoic pet blanket cute, rather than creepy?
“Nicholas Stedman’s Blanket is a robotic sculpture in the form of a blanket that crawls around a space, finds people there and crawl over to and on top of them, “like a pet.” ”
1 year ago – regmon, 1911 pedia, giant squid eco, worst jobs in science (I get this quoted in scientific american!), micrographica, bodiless dancer, newtie pix, wwi gallery,
2 years ago – minipainting, break-in dream, palm monster pix, many, many newtie pix
3 years ago – nose art, monchichi, yahoo and bad linkies, wonderful chat with mi Moonflower.
4 years ago – vote rant, notepad, rocking faces on my magic couch.
6884 – Earache follow- up
| Doctor’s Office I didn’t have to wait at all. ear is looking good… antibiotics did the job, thank goodness. |
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| tree on the way out happy tree! |
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| Eckerds / CVS longer wait. I’m glad I called it in as I walked there. |
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| in the room it feels very 70’s science lab. spider plant, wacky yellow-green walls. should I trust a doctor with dying plants in his office? |
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