9045 – Thursday

Feeling better, but not at 100% Maybe 60%…. Better than the 15% yesterday. – went back to work, mainly because I had far too many meetings I couldn’t afford to miss. Accursed Bronchial tubes!

Physically achy from the coughing, but otherwise doing ok. Got a nosebleed right before my 10am teleconference… that was a hoot.

Later tonight, after dinner, I got to replicate my hulk icon from yesterday… so… there we are. *Blarf*

Heading to bed at 9:30 tonight good rest will mend me up. Poor BHK is coming down with it, too.


This afternoon, I thought to myself … “Wow… Aimee Mann sounds a bit like the chick from ‘Til Tuesday“… then I found out that she *IS* the chick from ‘Til Tuesday.

Duh.


“This week a sub-$100,000 rocket belt was unveiled and will be on sale this summer, but that’s the sad thing: it’s still not a real jet pack. Here’s a fascinating inside look at the human-flight industry, full of law-suit scandals, technical difficulties, fuel-economy woes and endless delays. The good news? It all points to the next generation of rocketeer research, with real applications for medical rescue and military technology actually coming on the horizon. From the article: ‘With a little patience, and a little funding, we could actually have the pleasure of grumbling over regulatory issues we never dreamed possible. Like being limited to specific kinds of air strips, because the jet strapped to your back is classified by the FAA as an ultralight. Or being required to wear a ballistic parachute, because Amarena’s Thunderjet design could reach altitudes as high as 10,000 feet (and, for the record, speeds of up to 160 mph, provided someone can solve wind-resistance issues).'” – via /.


Favorite joke of the moment –

The Secretary of Defense is giving President Bush his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”

“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”


1 year ago – swim meet, sci-fi writer meme, dead valentiner link, misc sentence finish meme,

2 years ago – G0DLAND, Tchuby Tchuba, Bangles, Angel Eyes Newt, Unicorns LA, Bullfight Just Desserts, Ham the chimp / space monkeys

3 years ago – Newt and I relaxing pics, Scotto playlist, Lazytown, bro issues, how they did singin’ in the rain remix

4 years ago – DVD burning, RenFairies, Prez-match, pop-up books, first touch of firefly (I still think Zoe is an overused name)

5 years ago – New moon, new year coming, Charles Dickens joke, skull sales, Job at FMM ends, Bday prezzies

6 years ago – Fiscal responsibility, Ghetto voices, online “privacy”, Marine Park is a bad and disreputable online store, newt lovies

7 years ago – being mushy, schedule issues, The Invisible Men, flax seedGeotarget

9044 – Wednesday

9044 – Wednesday

9043 – Tuesday.

9043 – Tuesday.

9044 – Wednesday

sick.

just coughing, and not really moving much, aside from rolling in and out of bed to the purple chair. shower helped, but I’m whipped. Contrary to icon, no vomiting.

Ate some of BHK’s super homemade soup for heat and some ice cream for cool in the war-torn throat… but primarily a lot of fluids. Newt held a longtime vigil at the bed, and only left for a snack when Pye came up to cover for him. He was back moments later. I think he likes it when I’m acting as a bed-warmer all day.


1 year ago – dinner with TM, Billy the Kid, cannabis vs obesity, American Idol

2 years ago – giant snail, indigo children (i get a bit snarky), newt chilling out pic, “Don’t think of yourself as an ugly person, just a beautiful monkey.”, death cult of the female wrestler,

3 years ago – Mel out of hospital, AVG good, Mona booboo, gene kelly vw ad, oddball personal names list, beach place cam

4 years ago – Key west, Antarctica dollars, new matter, noting some filter styles for the heck of it.

5 years ago – cool dream, birthday poll, Phrases I use/have passed on, got a jornada (it retired early)

6 years ago – gold star, lego horror, haiku, tattoo poll, Random phone message memory, happy things

7 years ago – fat albert, SOP, Friends list fluke, mocha, QotDGeotarget

9043 – Tuesday.

Yesterday, I played the demo version of Bioshock for the PC while BHK read her book after dinner. Very cool designs and vibe… my only complaint is how some of the splicers look – and that’s a really small complaint. Beats watching the state of the Union Address.

Downright scary game with a pretty keen storyline and set of game-play traits. I’ll probably pick it up after polishing off the Orange box.

In other news, somebody developed a free Apples to Apples online game ! That could be a lot of fun…. I’ll have to invite all my A2A pals to a session. I like that you can contribute new cards. [edit – join me in game 92 – password is the name of a particular orange cat!]


Cough is worse today, went home an hour and a half early. If it keeps up, I’m probably not going to make it in tomorrow.


Best freeware discovery of the day –

Flickr Downloader enables you to download series of photos from Flickr. You can download photos by Flickr username, tags or group name, and also limit the download by image dimensions. The program can optionally create a Flash slideshow from the downloaded images that can be published on your personal website or set as screensaver. No HTML or Flash experience is needed to create the slideshow.


Earliest Back appointment was on Feb 27… Ah well. Maybe I can work out some other situation for my allergy shots, anyhow… or use the alternate doc.


William H Macy is in Re-animator 4 (House of Re-animator) ? Wha? I’m just glad that Jeffery Combs is still getting steady work from the pseudo-Lovecraft franchise.


Say hello to sweetened Cheetos[via Fark]

I suspect that they’d be pretty tasty to my palate. I do not want them instead of birthday cake.


1 year ago – Kat and GP get Ollie and Bella!, Kierkegaard, High speed net a no sir, BHK adjusts her name

2 years ago – james lipton papazao, cny, hobophobe, ice skating monkeys, housecleaning, compusa corporate & big brain, zombie astronaut, religion of comic book characters

3 years ago – slow Friday of work and Mel, frozen water spray, man urinates his way out of an avalanche

4 years ago – Dinner with old crew, song poems

5 years ago – Russ wedding, bro visit, Cane toad loot, Tom showers us with gifts, got a prezzie for Kev

6 years agoDevil-newt, party hat smilies, photos of pompano travels, King retiring?

7 years ago – Font-fiddling, burpin’, VAGG launched, bored with a slow reading listGeotarget

9042 – monday

9042 – monday

9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

9040 – sat

9040 – sat

9042 – 9038

9042 – 9038

9042 – 9038

9042 – 9038

9042 – monday

BHK made tasty pizza for the in-laws and me tonight… mine had eggplant and garlic with ricotta, and the other was true pepperoni. good stuff.

Presenting a doodle for the coloring book done on the palm while on the subway, then fiddled with GIMP once back home. I was thinking about making him more beveled looking, but rather dig the 2D vs 3D vibe going there. I’d like to see the coloring book community revitalized again.

peradouro drops pictures in there now and then, but aside from that, it’s pretty quiet. Same for the Oekaki board in the scottobear toybox.

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There were many meetings at work today… I think the bulk of them were solidly productive.


In Health news –

Started coughing this morning, and it continues into the night.

Rescheduled dentist, and am waiting to hear scheduling for the back guy. Trying to get an appointment for presiden’t day if I can, but if not, maybe on one side of the weekend or another for maximum comfort.

I still need to schedule allergist remeet. Maybe I can do a doctor hat trick!


The Hulkout list – all the reasons Banner turned into the hulk during the course of the tv series.

Personal faves, (Thankfully, none have ever happened to me):

8. Being mauled by a bear

34. Handcuffed to a woman who is falling over the cliff

36. Somehow running into a bear trap

56. Somehow getting himself into a belfry and then realizing that a bell is there, just as it strikes the hour

78. Being thrown under a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade float by a mean guy in a gorilla suit who gives David a few kicks for good measure

95. Falling out of a plane without a parachute, then being given a parachute (which causes the person who pushed him to be told “That guy has nine lives”, to which the mean person responds by pulling out a rifle and saying “Yeah, but I got ten rounds”), and then having the straps to his parachute shot off when he is still 30 feet above an empty house so that he falls through the roof and hurts himself

106. Being fed poisoned sushi

112. While paralyzed for the episode, somehow getting caught in the middle of a barroom brawl, and while trying to quietly wheel himself out of the room, being hit by a flying body and knocked down the stairs (what David is even doing in such a situation goes unexplained)


“‘The LEGO brick turned 50 at exactly 1:58pm today. This cool timeline shows these fifty years of building frenzy by happy kids and kids-at-heart, all the milestones from the Legoland themed sets to Technic and Mindstorms NXT, as well as all kind of weird curiosities about the most famous stud-and-tube couple system in the world.'” – Via Slashdot.


1 year ago – pancakes, men in black, plumbing, chinese food, Janet in Bangladesh, B’day coming

2 years ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick

3 years ago – caregiving mel, applelard announces birth, renoir song, photo of scotto landmarks, newt pic I love, Bosch toys

4 years ago – David Palmer of Jethro Tull converts to Dee Palmer, dabadaba, blob solution

5 years ago – Jell-O death masks, LJ layouts, random photos, Elagabulus

6 years ago – Took a day off With Danny (some non-gothic graveyard pictures), PattonBomb Talk, Giant photo of Newt in Evil Overlord Mode, bad spoonerismhumor. First photo of Tinkle pig

7 years ago – Virus hoaxes, Rooting for the Ravens. Little dancing manGeotarget

9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

Today was all about rest… rallied strength, watched feasting on asphalt (Alton Brown’s tattoo looks… rather unplanned, to put it as kindly as I might) and an episode or two of monk, had BHK’s  home made pizza bread and pseudo chicken strips atop a yummy, crunchy salad.

Finished off the first Harry Dresden book, and began the second.

talked to danny at 930 am about terry pratchett’s alzheimers. He’s pretty down about it.

slept a lot

tried hello kitty counterstrike. it’s cute. I love “rat levels”, where you’re the size of a classic gi-joe.


Illustrator Cedric Hohnstadt has a good suggestion for artists looking to simulate graphite pencil in Photoshop. Check out his article for a link to some great (free!) pencil brushes. Read the post here


1 year ago – new commode, marine museum on solomon’s pix, fresnel, tinkle pig in the love cube, danny gets a hula girl

2 years ago – Celebrated Vicki’s last day, spectral analysis, history lesson, book meme, on call

3 years ago – rte 55 pic, newt and scotto wake up, song title meme, post secret

4 years ago – baby dragon, cheesecake trip, QM2, fever doodles

5 years ago – bebop cola poll, boney church, sql slammer, evil ideas

6 years ago – week plans, bob ross posse, freaky gator-in-a-dress, mr mole, biography tax loophole?

7 years ago – journal look update, evil news, hotel california Geotarget

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