walkies on sunday
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walkabout deerfield today.
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
8004 – walkies on sunday
8005 – walkies on sunday
7998 – Just another Manic Mondayyyyy…
Went on a long walkabout yesterday… down Hillsboro to the beach, and then around to the Deerfield mall out on Powerline to see the Narnia movie and get $3.99 all you can eat buffet pizza at Cici’s. Shared a table with a Jamacian lady on “holiday” in the states – I put holiday in quotes, because she was working her vaykay in a child care center. I dug Narnia… the Christian allegory was there, but it wasn’t so heavy handed as to annoy any but folks that got offended at Tron or E.T. for the same stuff are going to bark louder over this.
That said, I quite enjoyed Narnia. The kids chosen to play were well-picked, and Edmund would make an excellent “Kid Miracleman” should someone decide to kick Alan Moore in the ribs and squeeze out the rights to make a movie. I quite enjoyed the CGI, which was smooth and believable despite what I’d heard earlier. I wonder how people that are unfamiliar with the books will do with the talking animals and other remarkable characters in the movie? Some might say it makes for a younger audience, but there are some grim parts that a little kid might not fare so well with, especially in regards to Aslan. (it is bloodless, but still strong content) I might’ve picked another person than Tilda Swinton to play the White Witch in the film, despite the fact that she did a fine job, I kept seeing the Borg Queen (even though Alice Krige is a totally different actress). The movie is as loyal to the story as I remember it (hasn’t been read for years… possibly/probably a decade or more.)
If I had a kid, I’d certainly take ’em to see it over any Harry Potter flick. I may look for the Narnia stuff as Audiobooks.. I suspect that it’ll transfer to listening-stuff better than Lord of the Rings.
Walkabout stats – 12.2 miles, burned 3034 calories. Good thing, considering that I scarfed down a pile o’pizza at Cici’s. I’m glad there isn’t one closer to work, or I’d be in diet danger.
Nose is a little sunburned from being out and about all day. Adds to the “Santa Look”.
Hm. That brings up a question.
I’d heard yesterday that 61% of folks in the USA wear corrective lenses. Can that be true? More than not?
7997 – palindromic number
Talked with Val yesterday… Rhonnie (22) is dating her paramedic instructor (38). Kind of gross, but I don’t know the whole story. I’m just glad that she’s happy and having a good time. Russ is doing well, looking for places to do his residency. Grew a beard so that he wouldn’t look so “doogie houser”. $15,000 just in flights around the USA looking for a place to set up his gig. He’s going to have to be a doctor to pay off all of the debt he’s accrued, it seems.
Kreuger gets out of jail this weekend, but the sex offender thing is going to follow him until he gets cleared. I honestly wonder if he’s innocent.
Police called me up, looking for my bro to act as state’s witness… I was right about my guess regarding my brother’s “accident”. He was badly beaten up by someone that didn’t like his smart mouth. I contacted the office in charge of the case, (who left a subpoena at my old address) and passed along my bro’s phone information. I suspect this might be why he’s moving north, too… it’s probably just not safe for him to be in this neck of the woods anymore. Maybe a severe beating is what it took to get him the hell out of Dodge. I hope he can keep his stuff together.
Never did get to hit the movies yesterday.. just went grocery shopping with RS and her kidlet. Man, I thought my bill was bad.. try feeding a family of four with two hungry, healthy growing kids! Narnia might happen today, if the stars are right.
Jellyfish fun facts:
- The most poisonous jellyfish is the Australian sea wasp, or box jellyfish, with enough venom to kill 60 people. Wearing tights is an effective defense
- The largest jellyfish ever found was a lion’s mane, with a bell 2m (7ft) across, and tentacles extending more than 35m
- The notorious Portuguese man o’war is not a jellyfish at all but a collection of different organisms including stinging tentacles
- Jellyfish have both male and female characteristics. A group releases sperm and eggs which mix in the water
- A collection of jellyfish is known as a smack
1 year ago – working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5
2 years ago – Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.
3 years ago – holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words
4 years ago – evil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions
5 years ago – stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incident
7996 – Free day! Free play!
Good news, bad news re: big brain.
Good news, the Motherboard came in, the IDE controller works, and all of my data is recoverable.
Bad news, (sort of) – the fan on my video card went, so they’re ordering a new one… I should have it by Wednesday.
I should be on 2nd life (If Herm’s around) and be playing Farcry (If she’s not) by Friday. DSL should be back by the 15th.
7995- Mapping is better and better…
Windows Live Local escalates the maps arms race (the birds-eye view is insane; the entire world looks like SimCity)
7994 – Silent Serenade
NewScientist: Mice are rarely the source of romantic inspiration, but it now appears that male mice may serenade potential mates with melodies approaching the complexity of bird song. Mouse songs are sung at ultrasonic frequencies, which is why no one has noticed their complexity before, nor indeed been moved to celebrate the tunes in romantic poetry.
Tim Holy and Zhongsheng Guo, of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, US, recorded the vocalisations made by male mice in the presence of female pheromones. They then digitally modified them to drop the pitch by several octaves into the range of human hearing. You can listen to a male mouse producing a snatch of song, here, and a more determined croon, here.
If I had a decent cellphone, It’d make a sweet ringtone!
7993 – Singing “Newt’s pink nose” to “blood makes noise”
Bro called from New Port Richey. Apparently he’s going to live up in Tampa now…That’s a good number of hours away, if he’s actually going there. I’m pretty much all for it. He’ll be away from his “buddies”, or if he’s not, they’ll be away from my domain. He says that he’ll be down once a month to get medicine from his doc, but that sounds like bull.
I’m very happy that it’s Friday. I need a break from this week.
Rearranged the yahoo ads on my site, put them in newtcam and other inner areas, removed ’em from the front page which was too cluttered already.
New replacement motherboard is in, I may be back on SL by Tuesday!
Hey, some Tori Amos
from Little Earthquakes
Girl
Silent All These Years
Happy Phantom
Tear In Your Hand
Little Earthquakes
from Under the Pink
Pretty Good Year
God
Bells For Her
Baker Baker
Cornflake Girl
Cloud On My Tongue
from Boys For Pele
Father Lucifer
Professional Widow
Marianne
from phillykat, even though she stole my purse twice
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.
They Might be Giants – Where do they make balloons? (lyrics and such here)
suzanne vega – Blood Makes Noise
neutral milk hotel – king of carrot flowers
peter gabriel – shock the monkey
the peanuts – mothra’s theme
queen – another one bites the dust
seal – make someone happy
I tag anyone who wants to share!
1 year ago – gorilla wake, dcf snag, favorite things
2 years ago – Yuletide toe-warmer poll, creepy news, Cute Newt Pic, Medicare, clucks
3 years ago – desert dreams, “no hands” kitty, palm doodles, nice cards
4 years ago – menstruation/bear attack, Bear armor, tic tac poll
5 years ago – hungrybaby/mcnoggin, Hello Kitty Smelting furnace, Asplundh letter, why web journals suck, meat hats, comic book wrapping
7992 – hmm… I’ve had better memes. and better years!
Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2005 (not including memes of course). Post the first line of it in your journal, and that’s your “Year In Review”. year in review
Protected: 7991- Renee surprises me!
7990 – yet another foggy morning
yet another foggy morning
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
taken about 6:30am, pretty soupy outside, but thinning quickly.
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7989 – yet another foggy morning
yet another foggy morning
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
taken about 6:30am, pretty soupy outside, but thinning quickly.
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7988 – yet another foggy morning
yet another foggy morning
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
taken about 6:30am, pretty soupy outside, but thinning quickly.
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7987 – humpday!
Tossed a couple of yahoo ads (like my old google ones) on my homepage and journal location at my website. I’ve already earned a whopping $.73! They cut a check every $100, so it’ll probably be a good few months before I see any funds at this rate. I’m hoping all the spider-sites will click through and bring me some funds.
Have to call up and check on big brain again. I’m beginning to suspect that they’re keeping it for all the fun stuff on the HD’s.
1 year ago – mel’s new place, zombie survival, what’s a hoe, 8/20/2000 last day without a post, newt pic, mel tells me she loves me.
2 years ago – JL, cllo, newt food, Jupiter and Thetis, COH sayings, poo chart
3 years ago – Got cookie bars, CDC/Promedmail (Zoonoses), Bigfoot links.
4 years ago – I got spooked by a phantom voice, prep for bear vs. man-armor, Mexican vanilla, KPMG sucks.
5 years ago – Globetrotters (Afro of holding), Myths of pearl harbor, Sigmund and the sea monster, chaos postcards, two sweet anonymous quotes.