Went to Mel’s new place last night, she’ll be moving in there tomorrow, even though her lease doesn’t begin until the 15th. it’s a huge joint… very impressive. I’d love to own a home like that, not rent it. It’s going to be expensive to cool in the summer. Lots of room for the birds, maybe even have a flight out back.

How to Survive a Zombie Epidemic

This movie was created initially for a challenge posed by freeculture.org. It uses clips from the film “Night of the living Dead”, and “Amid the Dead”. Both of these films were acquired from archive.org. This film is an amusing instructional video on how to survive a zombie epidemic. The majority of the footage is taken from the other films mentioned, but the witty voice-over narrative is what makes this video a must see. Who knows, the information in this film may just save your life…

sidebar, awesome that you can search by theme, and the keywords are – Zombie; Instructional; Comedy

Life as Lyrics, lyrics as life.

The Traveling Wilburys, Handle with Care

Been beat up and battered ’round
Been sent up, and I’ve been shot down
You’re the best thing that I’ve ever found
Handle me with care

Best Jeopardy Clip I’ve seen! (thanks Sam!)

random Scotto factoid: the last day I went without posting at least one journal entry was august 20, 2000.

1 year ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart,

2 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.

3 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.

4 years ago -Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.

Yesterday, I started to see Christmas with the Kranks with Mel, but the projector broke…(I think we got lucky there.. it was sort of weak, but had some funny bits.. not worth restarting by any means. I think Tim Allen is better suited to the Santa Clause Movies.) so we went to Coral Square mall, and I reminisced about going there in the golden years of gaming with GrayPumpkin, Katt and the rest of the RPG crew.

Then we picked up a spot of din-din and hung out for a bit. It’s really nice having an excursion, hang-out and conversation partner. We’ve been in talks about going to the gym together, too.

I think I’m overdue on updating my 125 things.

changes to – 15, 32, 35, 56, 98, amongst others.

On my internal “monkey vs robot” the monkey is winning lately. By a landslide. He’d got bananas and bazookas. Robot’s just a wind up toy.

Nice photo of Saturday’s Sunset in Ft. Laud by Mike3k.

Metro FreeFi: Serving up free wireless hotspots to Metro Areas and beyond (Here’s the list in Fort Laud, so far. I added Joe Picasso’s.)

Happy zombies spin around…
Happy zombies hit the ground …
Happy zombies eat some flesh …
Mostly folks from Bangladesh!

Random Mel factoid: She’s a “screen toucher”, in that when she points to things on the monitor, she leaves a teeny-tiny semi-circular finger print behind.

Random Scotto factoid: Not Too crazy about little finger circles on my monitor, but too polite to chastise her. I clean the screen when she preens in the latrine. hooray for rhymes!

Fire leaves Minnesota town coated in butter Continue reading 7053 – Where we’re going… we don’t need roads. →

Yesterday, I started to see Christmas with the Kranks with Mel, but the projector broke…(I think we got lucky there.. it was sort of weak, but had some funny bits.. not worth restarting by any means. I think Tim Allen is better suited to the Santa Clause Movies.) so we went to Coral Square mall, and I reminisced about going there in the golden years of gaming with GrayPumpkin, Katt and the rest of the RPG crew.

Then we picked up a spot of din-din and hung out for a bit. It’s really nice having an excursion, hang-out and conversation partner. We’ve been in talks about going to the gym together, too.

I think I’m overdue on updating my 125 things.

changes to – 15, 32, 35, 56, 98, amongst others.

On my internal “monkey vs robot” the monkey is winning lately. By a landslide. He’d got bananas and bazookas. Robot’s just a wind up toy.

Nice photo of Saturday’s Sunset in Ft. Laud by Mike3k.

Metro FreeFi: Serving up free wireless hotspots to Metro Areas and beyond (Here’s the list in Fort Laud, so far. I added Joe Picasso’s.)

Happy zombies spin around…
Happy zombies hit the ground …
Happy zombies eat some flesh …
Mostly folks from Bangladesh!

Random Mel factoid: She’s a “screen toucher”, in that when she points to things on the monitor, she leaves a teeny-tiny semi-circular finger print behind.

Random Scotto factoid: Not Too crazy about little finger circles on my monitor, but too polite to chastise her. I clean the screen when she preens in the latrine. hooray for rhymes!

Fire leaves Minnesota town coated in butter Continue reading 7053 – Where we're going… we don't need roads. →

If I had a twin brother, I don’t know if I’d be the good one or the evil one.

I think I’d be the good one…Or maybe that’s just what I want *you* to think, dear journal.

Maybe I am as “bad” as Liver-eatin’ Johnson. Any Crow warriors around had better be careful, just in case.

There’s something very frightening about a knife attack, more so than a fist, gun or a bomb. The intimacy of the action along with the type of wound delivered is the most scary to me. I think I’d rather have a bone broken or a bad burn than be stabbed for the same amount of damage… if you can even quantify that in real life terms.

Man, even in a goatee, my mojo is indeed mighty. Better than a wrench on Yvonne MacGruder. I prefer having a shaved throat and cheeks, too.

Who Named It? a database of medical conditions, etc. which carry a person’s name.

Random Scotto factoid: I haven’t set foot inside a K-mart for maybe two or more years. (I suspect the last time I was there was June 9th, 2002).

Florida Handy dandy – Miami-Dade E-Maps: the county has put up a new page of maps and data. There’s also a new address for Broward’s Maps and Stats page.

Cosmo’s 10 hot new sex positions.

Um… new? Somehow, I bet there was some adventurous soul out there well before the 14th century doing most, if not all of these. Still, it never hurts to review the material, eh?

The dang Pentagon “wasn’t a 757 on 9/11” strike rumor is going around my friends list again.

I tend to lean with the snopes assessment.

Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran Continue reading 7050 – not just an excellent printer →

Bed.

LJ.

Chitty Chatty on Yahoo a smidge.

Laundry.

Mel goes to rehearsal.

Pizza.

Surfing for Tigers and MacCaws and fun.

Danny Called.

MadTV.

Quiznos.

Check out Mel’s new place.

Newt gets a little fiesty.

Newt Wrassling.

Mel Arrives.

Surfed.

Finished getting Max Headroom.

Hot Shower.

Bro called.

Switched techs.

Alarm Woke me.

Is asking just “polite demanding” or something else?

Mel’s cousin bonked her head yesterday, and got knocked out… four years old. I hope to hear the little munchkin woke up and is mending well today. We’re going to get together for lunch today, after I finish fixing Caroline’s computer. Man, that’s been an ongoing chore…. a four or five year old laptop with power-supply issues.

Charo is an awesome guitarist. I had no idea that she was married to Xavier Cugat!

Diary of one of the survivors of the Donner Party.

I thought Rodger Bumpass and Dick Butkus had terrible, mockable names… but Dick Trickle? You can’t tell me that he wasn’t destroyed in school for having that name, dear journal.

Bless Comfort Stand.
Various Artists – Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka

My current browser share –

via my netstats

67% MSIE 6
3% MSIE 5
8% Firefox 1
10% Mozilla 1
4% Netscape 4
1% Opera 7
1% Safari 1

via blogex

AOL Browser 0.32%
Opera 1.94%
Netscape 3.24%
Internet Explorer 45.63%
Mozilla 48.87%

Some Abstinence Programs Mislead Teens, Report Says

Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person’s genitals “can result in pregnancy,” a congressional staff analysis has found.

Those and other assertions are examples of the “false, misleading, or distorted information” in the programs’ teaching materials, said the analysis, released yesterday, which reviewed the curricula of more than a dozen projects aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Continue reading 7047 – “Since when has news been entertainment? …Since it was invented?” →

Is asking just “polite demanding” or something else?

Mel’s cousin bonked her head yesterday, and got knocked out… four years old. I hope to hear the little munchkin woke up and is mending well today. We’re going to get together for lunch today, after I finish fixing Caroline’s computer. Man, that’s been an ongoing chore…. a four or five year old laptop with power-supply issues.

Charo is an awesome guitarist. I had no idea that she was married to Xavier Cugat!

Diary of one of the survivors of the Donner Party.

I thought Rodger Bumpass and Dick Butkus had terrible, mockable names… but Dick Trickle? You can’t tell me that he wasn’t destroyed in school for having that name, dear journal.

Bless Comfort Stand.
Various Artists – Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka

My current browser share –

via my netstats

67% MSIE 6
3% MSIE 5
8% Firefox 1
10% Mozilla 1
4% Netscape 4
1% Opera 7
1% Safari 1

via blogex

AOL Browser 0.32%
Opera 1.94%
Netscape 3.24%
Internet Explorer 45.63%
Mozilla 48.87%

Some Abstinence Programs Mislead Teens, Report Says

Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person’s genitals “can result in pregnancy,” a congressional staff analysis has found.

Those and other assertions are examples of the “false, misleading, or distorted information” in the programs’ teaching materials, said the analysis, released yesterday, which reviewed the curricula of more than a dozen projects aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Continue reading 7047 – "Since when has news been entertainment? …Since it was invented?" →

A quick and easy way to add your land line or cell phone to the do not call list for telemarketing.

The number listed below is for the national Do Not Call List.

Call this number from your cell phone, and follow the instructions.

(888) 382-1222

You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

You can also go online to https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

A monkey sits in offers and sips a can of coke in Lopburi, Thailand, Sunday Nov,28, 2004 during Monkey festival. The festival has been hosted since 1989 by a local businessman who believes the monkeys were behind his family’s good fortune. A total of 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of fruits were offered to the monkeys roaming the area. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

more pictures of monkeys at the feast!

The last episode of Lost was 42 minutes and 1 second out of a traditional hour. So… that’s 17 minutes and 59 seconds of commercials…and people wonder why I download episodes wholesale.

Eye contact is a good thing. There’s a powerful strength there.

I got a lovely holiday card from meredith and heath, thank you! (I’ve kissed little Newt’s noggin as requested.) 😀

It’s nice to have the whole house clean. It makes the whole place’s vibe feel a lot more fresh.

A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper may be fired in connection with a Blount County case in which a dead man was cited for traffic violations. Continue reading 7043 – fa-la-la-la-la, la-la- um… line? →

VS asked me today at lunch why I was so dead set against the diamond industry. (Her uncle is a jeweller.)

I told her a bit about blood diamonds (not for the especially squeamish)

http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/BloodDiamonds.html

and she came back to me with “well, I’m not that deep… I do know that I want a diamond engagement ring.”

I was pretty stunned… Her attitude was “sure, people suffer, but I want my rock”.

Sakes… if you must have one, you can certainly do a little research and work around it.

Continue reading 7042 – blood diamonds →

Police sketch face maker thingum – http://flashface.ctapt.de/