EN’s net is still out, so I took the opportunity to toss Oona on again. Much slower evening than Friday, but I still stayed at HQ, in case something weird came up.

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My First house. (well, the house I went from birth to 2nd/3rd grade),Age 11ish,Age 15ish.

My current address is 1501.1 miles (Approximate Travel Time: 23 hours 5 mins) from the first place I was raised. (According to Yahoo maps.. for some reason, map directions are broken on Google right now.)

I did a search on Scottobear on google. it returns “about 45,800” back. yikes. I’m 99.99% sure the name is unique on the net.

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via http://metaatem.net/words/scottobear (change the word at the end to suit you.) Easy way to make a ransom note!

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Watched the Krypto Cartoon that introduced Streaky. (The Canine Space Patrol wasn’t bad, either… renamed “Dog Star Patrol”. I haven’t seen Ace, the Bat-hound, yet. Apparently, Krypto will team up with Ace to chase after the Joker’s Hyenas. ) All in all, it seems to be a good kid’s show.

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Got a nice hello email from Tomi.. pretty nifty that he still reads my journal!

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I get about 15 human-placed anonymous lj-spams a day. I’m really not sure what they think that they’ll accomplish.. no other human will see it but me, and I just delete ’em right from being screened. no spider will pick ’em up.

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Testing speech recognition with sound clips.

this is not very good, but so far all told it seems to work.

It still needs some training – My saying Newton –

Need to / new time / new Tom / to one/ noontime

I wonder if someday all of my posts will be audio, automatically transcribed to text automatically?

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I really like this picture of a clown and her tea party.

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News follow up

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A self-described husband and father of two children is in jail after police say he lured a 14-year-old boy over the Internet for sex.

Bobby Minnis, 42, was arrested after police say he lured a boy to his home in Fort Lauderdale and had sex with him 10 times over the course of several days.

Images: (my hairy mitts in first pic, and face in 11th)

The news startled residents in the area along Northeast 156th Street.

“It makes you think twice because appearances can be deceiving,” resident Juan Rios said. “You hear something like this and it sends a chill down your spine.”

“I can’t believe this guy is in the neighborhood,” Louis Stella said. “Someone like that should be put away.”

Police said Minnis’ relationship with the teen began on the Internet one year ago. According to the police report, Minnis brought the 14-year-old to his home last week and had sex with him.

In bond court over the weekend, Minnis suggested that he was innocent. He told the judge that his wife and two children rely on him for income and asked that his $100,000 bond be reduced, but the judge refused.

NBC 6 went to Minnis’ home Sunday to talk to his family, who would not comment. Later, a woman came from inside the home and told NBC 6’s Sharon Lawson, “No one in the family had any idea about any of this.”

You can’t put a face to those who would harm children, says Scott von Berg, a child advocate for the organization A Child Is Missing.

“There’s really no cookie cutter that you could say, ‘Look at that guy, you know, he’s one,'” von Berg said.

Von Berg also said computer technology and the Internet enables pedophiles to easily locate and lure young victims and parents should stay informed.

“If they’re online, if they have a computer in the house, have it some place visual where they can see what’s going on and stay on top of things,” he said.

Minnis has been charged with 10 counts of lewd or lascivious battery against a child between the ages of 12 and 15. He’s also charged with interference of custody.

Police said additional charges are pending.

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Mesa police want to add monkey to SWAT team

MESA, Ariz. – The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it’s looking to a monkey.

“Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it,” said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. “It would change the way we do business.”

Truelove is spearheading the department’s request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.

The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.

Since 1979, capuchin monkeys have been trained to be companions for people who are quadriplegics by performing daily tasks, such as serving food, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing hair.

Truelove hopes the same training could prepare a monkey for special-ops intelligence.

Weighing only 3 to 8 pounds with tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills, Truelove said it could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. Dressed in a Kevlar vest, video camera and two-way radio, the small monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go.

It has been a little over a year since Truelove filed a grant proposal with the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and he is still waiting for word.

If the grant goes through, Truelove plans on learning how to train the monkey himself and keeping the sociable monkey at home, just like a K-9 officer would. He projects that $85,000 in grant money would outfit the monkey with gear and pay for veterinarian care, food and habitat for three years.

MONKEY HATE CLEAN.

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Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using technology which experts believe will unlock the secrets of the ancient world.

Among treasures already discovered by a team from Oxford University are previously unseen writings by classical giants including Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod. Invisible under ordinary light, the faded ink comes clearly into view when placed under infra-red light, using techniques developed from satellite imaging.

The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago. The thousands of remaining documents, which will be analyzed over the next decade, are expected to include works by Ovid and Aeschylus, plus a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years.

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1 year ago – using lappie (broken big brain), teleconference prep

2 years ago – got all 30 eggs, there folks, palm pictures and more doodles, bro n upswing, SQ/EQ, brain chart

3 years ago – Vampires around the world and how to snuff ’em, mushiness, good, simple food.

4 years ago – mix CD, flying capybara quote, missing her