TV shoot this morning. Should be interesting to see what sort of motley collection of transit-types they got to be there.

My guesses are that there will be one wheelchair, a black woman, and a Hispanic of whatever gender the person in the wheelchair *isn’t*. Unlikely to be represented, though there are plenty that ride the bus are Asian students and people on oxygen. I also suspect that they *won’t* have a representative methadone clinic-goer, a drunk, or a crazy derelict.

Am I being cynical? I don’t think so.

Streaming Beluga-cam! Thanks, Jennylee!

Yesterday continued my study in regional anthropology. I got to observe regional cultures effects when brought together quite a bit this weekend. Brazil, Spain, California, New York, Florida and more were all represented, doing displays of plumage and mating dances to an assortment of native music, with strategy and tactics going on in the background. Basically, I stopped off at the club to drop off a rockabilly mix CD, and ended up staying for some hours, because walkabout struck me as a big boring in comparison to sit-about. Got to gab with mzkitten, Steve, and new barkeep – Marissa. Marissa is absolutely gorgeous, has an excellent demeanor, and has never tasted Brie cheese before. I drank about 9 diet cokes. I saw Ivan, one of my old cab drivers back from when I was living in Pompano. He didn’t recognize me, and I didn’t chat him, as he was more interested in getting to a poker game.

I’ve got to get Danny to go with me sometime… I think it’s a far better watering-hole than our current place. I’m also looking quite forward to going out on Wednesday with her and the gals! uberbastard should get his butt down for the fun! C’mon, Uber!!

Before I even arrived at the community nexus, I got a sidebar of people-watching/interaction by calling a paramedic for a homeless man who was unable to walk, due to an extremely painful weeping infection on his right leg. I saw him at about noon-1ish, and he said that he had been stuck there by the bus stop since before sunrise. Who knows how long he would’ve sat there… he said that he saw a bunch of buses go by, but none stopped, and nobody could hear him calling out to them.

Sesame Street’s Letter of the Day. Features Cookie Monster scarfing cookies, as is appropriate, no matter wht the politically correct, non-fat version of PBS says.

I dreamt that I lived in a tree in the jungle, and that Newt slept on my head like a coonskin cap. There were monkeys on branches near ours, but none wore cats as hats. They did have sugarcane to chew on, though. I think that was because I was talking to blackhellkat about molasses earlier. speaking of bhk.. check out her lovely kitty, Pyewacket.

Ultimate Gamer!! GM says drop 2d10, aanndd… you roll 100% !

What, are you a first generation gamer? Did you own the brown box?! Whatever you do in your spare time, gaming seems to be your job. Either you looked up the answers or you’re the best of the best, the type that makes other gamers strive to know more. Just don’t let the knowledge overwhelm the newbies, it tends to push them from the hobby. We all bow before you. You are the living nat 20, congratulations. I’m going to flee the scene now 😉

I guessed on two of the vampire questions.

I’ve been hearing a lot about the Illuminati, lately. Do I think that there is one small cabal of powerful men that control everything? Nah. I do think that there are a number of small cabals of powerful men that control a lot, though. Are they being played by a greater power? I doubt it, but even if they are, if you filter it down to the common man, it doesn’t really make a difference.

One world government? I doubt it’ll ever happen.

Talking about the Illuminati isn’t dangerous. Heck, they’re the major bad guys on the Gargoyles Cartoon, and the Freemasons are and old boy’s club that does good works for burn victims.

Something funny.. when I was talking to Mzk about the Illuminati, the amount on the next drink bill was $23.

Make of that coincidence what you will. (click for info on 23 and secret societies) Synchronicity is catching.

I do really like the card game Illuminati (the regular version, not the trading card version), almost as much as I dig Fluxx.

I have the urge to call people “Little Cowpoke” today. I don’t know where that came from.

On-line celebrity diaries Thomas Dolby’s is terribly out of date.

The Online Moist Towelette Museum : Including this handy bit of “protein remover” (in the section marked “other“) I may make icons out of some of the less offensive ones.

Rerun, but I love it. I FEEL GREAT. MMMpphhh.

So, vimoh found me as a twin, yet

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Astronaut Jones: The Creature From Porpula

Moment of Lyric:

Rocket
I’m taking a rocket.
I’m packing my suitcase
Hey, look out, Moon!

Hey!

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Spent a good chunk of yesterday (after big duties were over) at the club.. it was a good time. Met Barkeep Susie, Barback Steve, hung out a bit with mzkitten, Meredith (?), and talked to a crazy drunk from Rhode Island who has been living in Ft. Laud for 30 years. When he asked mzk if she had a husband, she said yes, and that he was a dwarf. The drunk was eventually ejected, but not before some random gab took place. Poor Mzk stayed late, because of 8 possible night crew folk, one arrived an hour late, and the rest bailed or semi-bailed for the night. I left about 10pm, all tuckered out, just from hanging about. I’m sure Mzk slept well. I may be going with the crew there to ladies night at the poorhouse on Wednesday.

I brought a CD of Two Zombies Later for her, along with some other goodies. Got to love the Exotica Mailing list and creative commons. I hope she digs ’em. Want some groovy, free music? Check ’em out.

I’m actually looking forward to seeing Sahara. I wonder how completely unlike the book the movie will be.

I just got to redo all the passwords in a stack of old communities, due to an annoying security breach. Fortunately, I think I got them all before anything wacky was due to happen.

“Look on the wall behind you. Look at that little girl’s face. I know you’ve seen it. But you know what she’s never going to be able to see? She’s never going to be able to see the simple wonder of a leaf in her hand – because there’s not going to be any trees. You think about that.”

– Lowe, Silent Running

You can take a tip from Smokey
that there’s nothin’ like a tree.
’cause they’re good for kids to climb in
and they’re beautiful to see,
you just have to look around you
and you’ll find it’s not a joke,
to see what you’d be missin’
if they all went up in smoke.

…

If you’ve ever seen the forest
when a fire is running wild,
and you love the things within it
like a mother loves her child,
then you know why Smokey tells you
when he sees you passing through,
“Remember…please be careful….
its the least that you can do.”

1 year ago – CoH, religion update, nerd-o-meter, beheading, old pic of me and newt and cpap

2 years ago – Iraqometer, internal debate, reminding myself of people’s value.

3 years ago – Just learning Crystal reports, about animal crackers,(including history and combat rules) China’s First Emperor killed by a meteor ?, David Hasselhoff video, attacked by Newt, Discovery of the naked robot monkey, playing freedom force.

4 years ago – Food Plans

Well, my region may have had the best area to view the eclipse, the clouds blocked out any good chances of me seeing any such stuff. No worries, 2012 it is then. April Showers do bring May flowers, after all. I wasn’t the only one out of luck.

I think that I’m more than an ego-driven meat vehicle moving through space-time.

Burning a few CDs for a buddy while I’m on call… a little Sinatra, Bennett, lounge and rockabilly to start things off. Bless ISO hunt. Hopefully it’ll be good stuff.

Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable smooching. Hm. Weird. That seems wrong to me.

High-speed kitty-horseplay

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Pirates and Fonts!

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Elaborate 3-coffin ritual for Pope burial. Continue reading 7287 – Bonus Rituals for the infallible! →

Sakes… was on call last night, and a boatload of calls came in, mostly for the golf tourney and training info, but I also got 4-5 missing between 5-7 pm. I’m glad I don’t do it for weeks at a time anymore.

Big Kahuna and Rhode Island were sniping pretty hard today… I can understand BK… she is totally worn from her recent trip, but RI needs to learn how to back off once in a while and just chill out. ADP wasn’t at work today, another kid-thing. I’m amazed that she’s still got a gig there, considering how much of a ruckus she’s kicked up in the last year.

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Well I figured I’d record an audio thing again, just to see where it goes. Um, I don’t really like doing monologues very much, mainly because I don’t have anybody to bounce things off of. I have no sounding board… all I can do is listen to the sound of my own voice… and while I like the sound of my own voice, ah, usually, anyway, I prefer to get ideas… little seeds, little germs of stuff from people around me. I’ve found that I’ve been very fortunate in knowing some people that just are really on the top of their game and they don’t even realize how smart they are; and I can extrapolate from what they’re thinking or from what they’re saying some other form of idea. It’s really a lot more fun that way.. I had a great time doing that back when I hung out with Ray and Kathleen (GrayPumpkin and Katt) and, to a lesser extent almost, y’know, every one of my buddies. I don’t know really where I’m at right now, because I don’t have anybody that I hang out with regularly that speaks English. Newton, of course is very affectionate and he’s… I’m very fond of him, but his ah, linguistic skills leave something to be desired – especially when I want to talk about something really more in-depth than just “Whaddaya doin’ dere, buddy? What’s goin’ on?” [in falsetto goof-talk] That’s, y’know, That’s about the extent of it. He’s a little kid… he’s a baby-head. And.. y’know, what can I say?

On reflection, I’m not 100% on the bean there. I do go out now and then, see things, and gab with folks. There’s Danny on occasion, and I’ve got stuff coming up with tarpo, constance1010 and mzkitten in the near future, too. I should get back to Jeff and B, see what’s new and unusual in their neck of the woods. The hippies seem to always be too busy to do anything anymore. I think I’ve found a new watering hole to visit, too. I just miss the days of a a regular weekly get-together with the same people.

Now that computers are everywhere, is the art of cutting out the perfect ransom note from assorted newspapers totally lost?

The emotional final scene from Seven. Performed by stuffed animals.

25 sesame street memories. Man, this brought me right back. NEAR! far!

Moment of Lyric

Rain
Will wash away my sorrow
Clouds
Make me see the light
Wind
Carries me away
To the place
I want to be

I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain.

The most recent episode of Lost didn’t do anything for me. I didn’t feel the drama of life and death, or see any real character development… It was the first one that left me with no vibe at all.

Google Map sightseeing (via satellite view) (also, what people on the ground see when you run google maps.)

1 year ago – Religious notes, Super Mommy and Evil robo-lights, Manatee Escaped Tracking , Nevada, and stupid CS,

2 years ago – Rachel, dreads, easter

3 years ago – Rick comments about QaF, Happy to come home, yahoo dilemma, elephants, sleeping in airports, singing Eugene, virtual om

4 years ago – back talk, Dan’s spring break, got a grove gig!, beautiful world

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Hmm, Looks like I’ll be doing a TV sound bite spot for Broward county Transit.

Thank you so very much for participating in BCT’s photo shoot as a ‘testimonial’ support of public transportation and as a dedicated bus rider.

To recap, you will be providing a ‘sound bite’ to be used in the 30 second commercial promoting our Air & Sea Show shuttle bus service and generic bus service.

Please arrive: Monday, April 11th – 10 am

Central Bus Terminal, Broward Blvd. & S.E. 1st Ave., downtown Fort Lauderdale, Bus Bay “D”

Plan for at least 1 hour.

P.S. The spots will be aired on CBS 4 and UPN33 Pre-Show McDonald’s 2005 Air & Sea Show on April 23, 7:30 – 8 pm; 9 – 11 pm, and on April 24, 12:30 – 1 pm, and 9 – 10 pm.

I’ll send you the exact schedule afterwards so that you don’t miss it.

Apparently they wanted to get a wide distribution of ethnicities. I’m filling the “White Hippie Guy” role.

If you were a policeman, and all things otherwise are equal, would you want a Star or a Shield for a badge?

Frickin’ power-surges happening last night crapped out my chats. Sorry about that.

Jasmine…she smelled like red bull and stale cigarettes. She blew me a kiss when I left. Good times. Nice to have a moment of noir.

Visited mzkitten at her work again yesterday. She’s been struggling with a lot, but puts on a solid game face. I admire her strength.

Cripes… The Dibneys and now Blue Beetle. Who’s next, Ambush Bug? Somehow, I can’t see BB as the new Spectre.

I’ve seen Dr. Who episode 2, now, and I really, really don’t want the guy playing the current doctor to leave. Note to self, offer to fire off CDs to GrayPumpkin, christin, et al. Fun episode, self-contained again, though it sandwiches in right after the first one leaves off. (Nice addition of aliens, and unfortunately-placed over-sized fans. (also, The previews for episode 3 looks like fun, too.)

Good News for non-torrenting folks. Dr Who episodes are Due for release individually on May 16, 2005, along with first and third episodes, and in a boxed set in the autumn of 2005.

Kang is an awesome name to image search on. Look at what you get!

Something that seems to keep cropping up. When you apologize, please don’t modify it with “but”.

Like… “I’m sorry I set your head on fire, but I was cold.”

That just kills the whole thing.

You also need to tell the aggrieved party that (a) you recognize that what you did was wrong; (b) you feel bad about whatever wretched thing you did; and (c) you will genuinely do your best not to repeat said wretched behavior in the future.

Seriously, if your apology does not include all of these elements, it will not come across as sincere. It is not sufficient to simply say you’re sorry but neglect to change your behavior. Changing the harmful behavior that led to the need for the apology is the most crucial element here; if you exclude it, you may as well not issue the apology in the first place.

Moment of Lyric:

Twinkle little star… in Bulgarian. see link below

April Fool Making Fiends, Now with subtitles. (For those that don’t know Bulgarian)

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Broken people are everywhere. It’s like the castoffs pile of a windup toy factory. Some are missing a foot or a need a touch-up paint job, but most have damage in the the clockwork. I saw a sick man shaking a hedge angrily and waving a handkerchief-wrapped hand covered in blood. I saw three 17-20ish year old boys yelling obscenities and rude comments to everyone who walked by. On the bus, there was a man who smelled as if he chose to sauna out the whiskey in his system rather than ever bathe, his hair a single thick, matted dreadlock, caked with whatever it is that makes dreadlocks work. He was dressed in several layers of soiled, heavy clothing… possibly because that was all he had in the world.

1 year ago – 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4

2 years ago – Met with Meter Made, don’t confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter

3 years ago – walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian’s, bk veggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT

4 years ago – Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I wonder how that “FBI Investigation” turned out.

Bro called me about 10 minutes ago. His latest drama is the tale he told me of fall in off of the bus. The way he tells it, he ran to get on, the driver didn’t see him, and closed the doors in his leg, cutting it open and pushing him to the ground. He says that he’s banged up, and that by the time he’d gotten to the hospital “they couldn’t put stitches in, because it had already healed some”… which sounds like bologna to me. I asked if he had filed a report, and he told me that he was going to file a delayed police report on Monday, but he has spoken with a lawyer and BCT.

This makes me think that it’s a minor injury at best and that he’s trying to blow it out of proportion so he can look to make some easy money. I reminded him that all BCT buses have cameras now, so they should be able to get a video tape of what exactly happened.

His voice was screwed up, and he sounded disoriented. Odds are good that it was self-induced, and not from any tumble.

If I counted off how many times this kid has been in accidents and wanted to sue somebody, I’d have to move on to another person after using all of my own fingers, toes, ears and anything else that might poke out and be used to tally.

I wish that identification of a problem meant that you had a solution. Not always the case.