No Mel on Christmas Eve, but I get her for Christmas.

Jonna came by yesterday with her littlest. Amazing what seven months will do!

Still no word from GP & Katt… I think that they’re up in Port St Lucie right now.

LD at work went to see Cher in concert this weekend, and complained about the B-52’s… she referred to them as a rap group. In all honesty, I’d rather hear “Rock Lobster” than “If I could Turn back time”

After the poll yesterday, the feedback I got back was quite diverse. A sampling of the first five

Ten Things President Bush Doesn’t Want You To Know About Scalia and Thomas

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=274629

Continue reading 7084 – yikes. More than just 4 more years.. Supreme court is for life. →

Through the wind, the chill and the rain…. and the storm and the flood. I’m approaching.

Set up Mel’s Prezzies a couple of days early in the studio… a pair of monitor speakers, sound card and a set of new ‘phones. She’ll still get stocking stuffers on the 25th. Bummer of the week is that I have to be on call all day on Thursday and Sunday. Feh. Upside, Mel will be along for the ride on Sunday, anyhow.

Jill’s doing pretty well as a web-help… I can really appreciate that she picks up stuff fast, and is a self-starter. She sort of fubared the front page without making a backup (after she was told several times to back up everything before making changes) but it was able to be fixed quickly, and I think she learned the lesson.

ADP let me down *again* last night, failing to launch jobs in a timely manner again. I wrote everything down on paper this time, and she still failed to do her job. I got everything launched in a reasonable way, but it’s a real shame that she can’t follow simple instructions that every other tech can do.

Ask me on this post and…

1. I will tell you what song reminds me of you.
2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise.
3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you.
4. I will tell you what colors I associate with you.

Then steal this for your journal and make someone else’s day as well.

Leaving a City Crushed
Tokyo Braces for the Unthinkable: No Godzilla Continue reading 7083 – No mo’ Zilla?!? He’ll be back. →

Through the wind, the chill and the rain…. and the storm and the flood. I’m approaching.

Set up Mel’s Prezzies a couple of days early in the studio… a pair of monitor speakers, sound card and a set of new ‘phones. She’ll still get stocking stuffers on the 25th. Bummer of the week is that I have to be on call all day on Thursday and Sunday. Feh. Upside, Mel will be along for the ride on Sunday, anyhow.

Jill’s doing pretty well as a web-help… I can really appreciate that she picks up stuff fast, and is a self-starter. She sort of fubared the front page without making a backup (after she was told several times to back up everything before making changes) but it was able to be fixed quickly, and I think she learned the lesson.

ADP let me down *again* last night, failing to launch jobs in a timely manner again. I wrote everything down on paper this time, and she still failed to do her job. I got everything launched in a reasonable way, but it’s a real shame that she can’t follow simple instructions that every other tech can do.

Ask me on this post and…

1. I will tell you what song reminds me of you.
2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise.
3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you.
4. I will tell you what colors I associate with you.

Then steal this for your journal and make someone else’s day as well.

Leaving a City Crushed
Tokyo Braces for the Unthinkable: No Godzilla Continue reading 7083 – No mo' Zilla?!? He'll be back. →

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announce the arrest of Laurence Jay Scott, Sr., 53, of 8690 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, Fla. Scott is charged with Computer Pornography and Transmission of Material Harmful to A Minor by Electronic Device or Equipment. FDLE and ICE agents arrested Scott at his home on December 20, 2004.

The investigation began in January 2004, when an undercover Albuquerque New Mexico Police Department (ANMPD) officer posing as a 12-year old girl began conversations through Yahoo Instant Messenger with a man named “Larry” from Florida. Using investigative techniques, information revealed that the man the undercover officer was chatting with was believed to be Laurence Jay Scott, Sr. The undercover officer, still posing as a 12 year-old female, also received a telephone call allegedly from Scott in which they talked about sex. In May, a FDLE special agent from the Florida Computer Crime Center using the information from the ANMPD made contact with Scott online. The FDLE special agent was posing as a 14-year-old girl from Tallahassee. During the conversation, Scott allegedly talked about sex and sent a video of sexual nature to the agent using his Webcam. A search warrant was conducted on Scott’s residence by FDLE and ICE special agents in July and several pieces of equipment were taken as evidence.

Scott was booked into the Lee County Jail under a $25,000 bond.

The Florida Computer Crime Center was created by FDLE in October 1998 in response to the increase in the number of criminal investigations that were involving computers. In today’s criminal activity we find two separate worlds of computer crime: first, the traditional world of crime that is now using computers in order to facilitate or help with the crime (child pornography, fraud, banking scams, drugs, and child exploitation). The second involves a whole new realm of crime that law enforcement has never been confronted with, such as hacking, denial of service attacks, virus replication, and network intrusions.

For more information on ways families can protect their children from Internet dangers log onto FDLE’s Florida Computer Crime Center at http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/Fc3/.

Happy Winter!

One Month since I first met Mel, yesterday. We went holiday shopping and I sneakily got her holiday prezzies. I think that one of her presents for me is a rather momentous one. We gibbered back and forth in pseudo Prussian, and pretended to be German royalty.(after she found out what my last name was all about, She’s been calling me Count, and I’ve been calling her Contessa).

We laughed over Mexican food at Carlos & Pepes, and then we watched “the Swan”… morbidly fascinating study in cosmetic reconstruction.

BK Holiday song

South Florida “scared of Santa” gallery

nifty tour of an abandoned hospital

SETE, France (AFP) – Armed with a high-pressure hose and a bucket of octopi, hundreds of protestors in this Mediterranean town pelted a McDonalds restaurant due to open this week with the slimy seafood. Continue reading 7081 – I want an octopus cannon. →

Mel knows where I’m ticklish, what my tolerance levels are, and also that I can lift her off of the ground with one hand. We met with the Mom, and it went well enough, I think. After Cocoa and cookies, we went back home to lounge and watch that “desperate housewives” show. Not a bad night, all in all.

There are at least 200 people (those unique IP addys that grabbed the madvillain movie) who read my journal through ipodder. I wish I knew who syndicated me there, so I could thank ’em. I wonder if much is coming via the blogdex to my site, too? If Tinklepig gets the same sort of response, I’ll know it’s automated, rather than manual grabs.

If you rearrange the letters in “SANTAS WORKSHOP” you get:

OK SNORT WHAP ASS
SWOOP STANK RASH
HOW SO, SPANK TSAR?
KHAN SWAPS ROOTS
WARPATH KNOSSOS
SHARK SPAWNS TOO
KORAN WASPS SHOT

and my Favorite –

SATAN SHOWS PORK

Just thought I’d let you know.

John Dee’s Crystal Ball Stolen Continue reading 7079 – without me, its just aweso →

Yesterday, Dan and I headed out first thing to hit a nearby Japanese animation convention…

Our trip to Miami… note tinkle pig in the lower left hand corner.

But, unfortunately, Otaku-con was a bust. Every time we go to a convention, we expect organization, and get chaos. A case could be made for getting a refund, with the video rooms being down for hours and hours, and none of the panels active. We left early, and just chitty-chatted, and had some pizza. Before we left, I had a good laugh after seeing this sort of sheet set.. I was most impressed by the DDR kids, and the LAN-party room.

As stated earlier, more cute girls, more hygiene than gaming cons, (which is like saying more than a tent city south of the border) and more openly pervy stuff. Randomness – Dan Likes Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter, but has never seen Raising Arizona. I think I may have to get it for him for Christmas / his B’day.

The Boat Parade was yesterday… a high-traffic affair, though when they’re lit up, the boats can be quite lovely. Mel came over after Dan headed home and we skipped the parade, instead flopped around the apartment and jibba-jabba’d. Stalker was picked up by the cops last night… I hope they leave him in jail until trial.

Senor Sombra (Mr Shadow)

New Odd Todd Holiday Message GOOD THINGS!

Tideland… the newest Terry Gilliam film.

Foamy’s Got a Christmas rant, too.

Today, I take call for a couple of hours from 2-4, Take Mel to see a movie, (Oceans 12, or Lemony.) visit with the mom, and then back to my place to hang out.

Thank you for the cards, tempestmir, resilience, and mintygirl!

Clerk Beans Would-Be Robber With Can Of Ravioli Continue reading 7077 – Sunday, Already? →

update later

4.75 hours after scheduled movie start time , 6 staffers on the job

Looks like there won’t be much movietime!

A panel of experts can’t fix a projector that isn’t there.

well… it seems that anime fans are the same as gamers, except that they bathe, and are more perverse.

There is enough salt in the ocean to cover the continents 500 feet deep.

hooray for amino acids!

I haven’t heard about any major standouts on the “hot new Christmas toy” this year… what is this year’s “Tickle me Elmo” ?

similarities aside, differences abound

The Year in Review meme

There is enough salt in the ocean to cover the continents 500 feet deep.

hooray for amino acids!

I haven’t heard about any major standouts on the “hot new Christmas toy” this year… what is this year’s “Tickle me Elmo” ?

similarities aside, differences abound

The Year in Review meme