7271 – End of my work week!

Tony’s Collections– I dig the Keyrings Man, that’s a lot of knickknacks.


Sick Call Excuse Generator.

mine is totally accurate – Tomorrow is Mental Health Day! SO Right! Long weekend coming up! Not even an excuse, but a long-planned weekend.


Doodles drawn on the bus, and a picture of Newt’s most grumpy face.

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Ape-O-Naut! See: Famous Monkeys Through History for more info.

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Man on the bus reading the paper and talking to nobody in particular. “We’re all ants! Those Fatcats in Washington don’t care about us!”

I don’t think I’ve ever used the term “fatcats” in writing before.. or said it before today. I like it. Say it with me, won’t you, journal? Fatcats. Fatcats. Fatcats.

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Speaking of Fat Cats, this is Newt’s most withering gaze. Ok, he’s not really that fat.


Amazing how many people are seeding last night’s episode of lost (#19). It’s really the best time to grab it. over 7800 people seeding and more than 15,000 sharing pieces of it? No wonder it comes down the pipe so fast.


Moment of Lyric:

I miss your gentle voice
At lonely times like now
Saying it’ll be alright
I miss my friend
The one my heart and soul confided in
The one I felt the safest with
The one who knew just what to say
To make me laugh again
And let the light back in
I miss my friend


People at work are starting to forget that my cell phone isn’t for calling me on a whim. I have to answer it right away, because I’m the go-guy if the system breaks, or a tech has any issues. I don’t need to be called out of a shower to be asked about mundane work crap that can wait until office hours.


Best overheard phrase last night: “I bit me a vampire once. Tasted like corn.”


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7267 – Soledad is Spanish for 'lonesome'

Scottobear is feeling nostalgic…

The Inevitable reaction quickly sets in!

That Reaction? Lists, some with bullets.

Random GrayPumpkin memories:

  • Plotting a television show – “GG”. Mad Science. Adventure. Awesome dialogue and terrible cliches. It couldn’t be worse than Xena or Buffy.
  • “Countdown” threat prank.
  • talking about telling people that he used to be one of the most brilliant men in the world… until the “accident.”
  • speaking in gibberish at the McDonald’s Drive through
  • Calling Katt “Hon-hon”
  • Talking about a coming 4th Star Wars movie to the video guy

Random Katt memories:

  • Screaming at a guy to YIELD! next to her on the road
  • A button-up shirt with a necktie-design on it
  • Looking for that special sort of clay on a baseball field, and not finding it.
  • Coining the Term “Evil Druid Cloak”
  • “SAVE US, DOCTOR FATE!”
  • A-Team / Blues Brothers Fandom

Misc cool GP&K Combo Elements –

  • B-52s, esp “Housework”
  • Wendy-Niece
  • overnights
  • D’Art, Dice and Milk rings. at 3 AM
  • Mystery Cow
  • Char-hut / Bagel Mornings (The first time I had strawberry cream cheese)
  • The best 2-player & a GM games ever & general playing off of each other.

I like Danny more now that I’m not doing the RPG paper and pencil thing with him. That brought out our differences… GP and I both do really well just playing by the seat of our pants, and Dan’s a mega-planner. I loved Dan’s props, though. Paper Miniatures, especially. Little Black lizards. Paladin Station.

Doug – laughter overload, one of the least malicious people I know, knows everything related to the silver age

KW – Blare death flip out, Dragon: only in emergencies, dbase III

Elaine – Spilling a pile of pretzels and saying “the cat will get it”

Kelly – Eating Apples with a knife and being a potential date

Rick – Mattress on the floor and a drool-basset named Merge

Rik – TMBG concert, and changing tires in the rain, good wookie-voice

Tony – Silver Hammer. Big, shiny scaredy-hero running away when a goose said “boo”

Maybe I’ll follow up on some of those with stories.


The Old Negro Space Program The Shocking-But-False Story of America’s Blackstronauts


Random collection of Newt-angles.


Papercast weblog… my favorite version of this is Alex Toth’s page.


Moment of Lyric:

prepare yourself
for the time of reckoning is close at hand
and that hand will be heavy
and its aim will be true


HP Lovecraft meets Family Circus. I love it. Long live

“Fearing death as I did life, burdened with a nameless dread, yet unwilling to leave the scene evoking it, I awaited whatever consummating horror was shifting itself in the immense region beyond the walls of consciousness.”
— H.P. Lovecraft and R.H. Barlow, “The Night Ocean”

update – community deleted? I wonder why? Copyright issues, perhaps.


1 year ago – lemon fanta, diet pepsi slurpees, pet sweaters, bro stuff, awesome man, Galaxy Quest, mp3s, virus, apt/newt pics, chernobyl cyclist

2 years ago – There, light bulb pops, the rack, TAG approaches, heroX=mediocre

3 years ago – ice dreams, mock French, animal cams, keywords, yahoo plays bad, peep research, hut destroys a troll

4 years ago – Random Mail, music mix, palm BS picture, pantywaist poll, storms, blogger down

7265 – shooter's

3/27/05 1:10 pm stopped at shooter’s, having an iced tea and
artichoke/spinach dip. sun is strong, so I’m under the umbrella by the
pool. pretty waitress-Sam. supposedly there’s a live band and a bikini
contest at 3; not my usual scene, but I think I’ll stick around.

2:03 pm excellent food, good music. crowd is varied, folks with kids as well
as 20-somethings. no real spring breakers.

phenylalanine =

I need sunglasses, but I always lose ’em. A squinter’s life for me, I guess.

so many women with piercings / tattoos / breast augs… more yes than no.
welcome to ft. lauderdale.

2:33 pm “Mighty Quinn” starts up – good jam, ugly band. Shaved hair, cheap
sunglasses, superb guitarist, vocalist needs training… weakest link.

2:54 pm covers of mellencamp & sublime, loking for audience participation … bring back the jam!

3:11 pm hotel california… great, and then he sang. tears of blood for easter. not happy tears.

3:53 pm still no contest… vocalist so bad it’s not worth it, even with the babe-o factor. adios, shooters, hello elbo room!

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Sam, my Server. Rawr!

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Waitress Hive, Sam in Center. I got the cutest one! I win!

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Pouty-kid on the path back from shooters. He was mad about something, but got curious when I started fooling with the PDA.

7264 – anchors aweigh

3/27/05 10:15 am out on the waterbus, spending the morning cruising the river. pictures to follow, if opportunity arises.

12:14 pm Taking route A; doing famous houses, riverfront. fullest I’ve ever seen it. spring break

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Water Taxi, pre boarding – bilge running

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Before it became crowded

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Navy Boat! so odd to see military craft in civvy waters

7262 – Easter 2005

Hmm.. Since I won’t make it to ultra, maybe today I’ll snoop around for colored eggs. When I was little, my parents would help the Easter Bunny out by hiding little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs all over the house… we’d have a hunt all over the indoors, and put ’em in our baskets. Dad would pretend that he could smell ’em, and later, when I was old enough , I took the role of sniffer to assist my bro in the hunt. The baskets already had a couple of jellybeans and a yummy, (but hollow) chocolate bunny, too. I was shocked the first time a friend showed me that they had a Bunny made of *SOLID* chocolate. We dyed 3 eggs each, to make an even dozen… mine would always have at least one purple one with an orange Charlie Brown zig-zag, with dots in the valleys and the inverted Vs. Another would have some sort of face, usually sort of angry. The third… wildcard. Stripes usually were part of it.

Easter is where I learned to like hard-boiled eggs with lunch… and about the only time they were anywhere near the house, because I liked scrambled eggs even more.


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Flashback to here.


Biggest Easter Egg in the world


Getting into Deadbolt lately. I dig the “goth learns to play surf-rock” vibe.


Hung out with Danny yesterday… we went to a Venezuelan bakery, had a little breakfast of juice with bread stuffs, and walked the plaza a little bit afterward. We burned off the meal, and headed over to our favorite watering hole…. sat at a table and just hung out for about four hours, chitty-chatting and relaxing.


It was also nice to talk to K the other night. Just gabbing can be a good break.


piccies from yesterday, and bus ride

7260 – Chex mix

Going out and about with Danny today. I suspect it’ll be Pirates of the Spanish Main (as we did here)


Moskau, or why Germans can’t win a world war. (higher quality mpg)

I’m of German and Russian stock… This movie was made when I was 10 years old, and I think the guy in Blue is Dr. Evil’s lost cousin.


Moment of Lyric:

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I’ll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine


Balloon wizard
Random doodle drawn on the ride home… it started as a man holding onto balloons and flying, then a vase on a table…but then I got a wizard-y vibe.

Slugbaby snowsuits are scary.


The Jarvis Sow Bung System Model VC -for the cutting out of sow bungs. Man… how did that set of keywords find my site? *shudder* Warning, pretty icky.


Caffeine contents per serving
(12 ounce soda or iced tea, 7 ounce coffee or tea, 2 ounce espresso)


I love the scene in The Incredibles where the generi-guard gets his bell rung by a thrown coconut.


I’ve wanted to see this happen to Rick Sanchez for a long time. (Drunk driver who and left the scene of the crime deserves a tazering)


Famous homosexual quiz

7259 –

scottobear : is Duke Furryface.
The Squirrel Name Generator

newton : is General Crazy Whiskers .
The Squirrel Name Generator

both are totally accurate.


My Easter Bunny Name is: is Mortimer Cottontail.
Take Are You Worthy of Bunny-dom? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey‘s Name Generator Generator.

Newton’s Easter Bunny Name is: is Captain Snow Stretch-Hop-A-Long.
Take Are You Worthy of Bunny-dom? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey‘s Name Generator Generator.

Not so accurate.


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What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
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7257- doodles and links, doodles and links, all of my life is doodles and links.

I’ve been having a bit of trouble coming up with writing assignments this last week.


The source of the Doctor Who leak which saw the first episode of the new series splashed across the web has been sacked, the BBC reports.


Bush likes smooth-domed men. Look out, mootpoint!


Working today after all, because it’s a half-day, and none of my techs can start before 5. (EN *might*, but he’ll have to see what’s up at his other gig before confirming)


tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it’s URL and transforms the syntactic structure of the website into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. first each tree is initialized, than all html links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed.

I like the huge forest it made of my LJ… I was mesmerized watching it grow.


I got mentioned extensively as a reference regarding the org I’m with in a Michigan News Magazine Spinal Column.


Death
Drawn after Camera took his fatal bounce. Apparently I have no sense of scale or a smooth line when I’m on the bus.


They Might Be Giants : Blood-Mobile


1 year ago – playing with icons, palm doodles, magical flesh fearing saw, bro still in the pokey

2 years ago – throat tickle, possible gig, FMM stuff

3 years ago – yahoo kills pop3, Can Asians Think?, llamas!, spring break, Egyptian musk, cat-recognition flap, rice dreams

4 years ago – Green Eggs & Hamlet, moody, China, Sophomore Uses List Context; Cops Interrogate

7256- pictures, sounds and a couple of words, too.

I’m getting about quite a few hits a day from the readablog feed search engine. I’m wondering what search queries are bringing ’em in?


Banksy installing four pieces in New York’s most prestigious museums – The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Natural History.

Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with author name plaque and explanation.


Yesterday’s audio moment with the mentally ill – Laughing boy. What was my ride from home to the blood center like? Play that 14-second clip on repeat for about 25 minutes. I was bordering on mild lunacy myself by the time I got to my stop.

Photos from yesterday

7255 – email post

3/23/05 6:09 pm dad-gum it. I just dropped my camera and now it seems that it has joined the land of wind and ghosts. it looks like I’ll be relying exclusively on the palm’s poop-cam until I can validate a tech-present for myself.

it was a good little cam, but I suspect the cost of repair will be more than if I got a new one with better features. maybe private brokentoy will meet it in some kind of possession afterlife. hmm… maybe there is a bit of gravity flux around the house? sure… the gravity-pixies are mad; not that there are a couple of klutzes in close time/space proximity.

waiting for the bus to do blood; the sun is going down, but there isn’t much of a sunset on a gray day like today.

3/23/05 6:26 pm I hope that I make it to my 7pm appointment in time! bus just got here

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[edit – made it just in time!]