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follow up on earlier auction

Captain Kirk’s Chair closed at $265,000.00
Captain Pike’s, $7000

SOMEbody has a lot of disposable income.

In other news, The Newsroom diner has good breakfasts!

I sing Mm-bop poorly, but enjoy doing it, anyhow.

Wow.. thunder and lightning *big* time now… I got home just in time.

Yay! Launchcast is back… good ol’ yahoo bought it. Thanks for the heads up, sweetalyssm! A pity my old station isn’t there anymore… well, we can rebuild it.. make it stronger, faster, better than before. 🙂

I missed out on dinner with the mom and bro… but it’ll probably happen next week. meanwhile, *hungry*

via lgf, lj entry #4399

A wave of husband killings.

Iranian women are becoming increasingly sick of the male-dominated Islamic nightmare land in which they live. Divorce is not an option.

While Iranian men can divorce almost at will, a woman who wants a divorce must go through a legal battle that can take up to 20 years, said lawyer Sara Irani. Even then, she said, it might end with the woman failing to dissolve the marriage.

Women are basically property. Slaves, by any other name. What a sad waste. This is why Islamic societies are failing.

Under Iran’s Islamic laws, a man is allowed to keep four wives at one time, a right not granted to women.

Even if a husband is having an affair, he can claim to have undertaken a “sigheh,” or temporary marriage. It’s a contract allowed under Iranian law that allows a man and woman to be “married” for any length of time they choose. Critics call it a form of legalized prostitution.

Nor does a wife trapped in a violent marriage have much recourse against her husband.

“A woman has to bring four men witnesses confirming violence against her by her husband,” Irani said. “How is a woman in Iran expected to keep four men in her bedroom to witness her husband beating her?”

And this relentless oppression is resulting in an unprecedented wave of husband killings. Root causes, anyone?

“During 30 years of matrimonial life, Hedayat always beat me. He was a doubter and skeptical of everything and didn’t trust me. He had made the life hell for me,” Ferdows told authorities, who have identified her only by her first name.

Ferdows paid a man the equivalent of $3,750 to stab her husband to death three years ago, prosecutors said. The crime wasn’t exposed until this February, when police found her husband’s remains in an abandoned building. She had told people her husband abandoned her.

I'm a very good man, just not a very good wizard.

oh, freakin’ neato!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/scottobear/rss

paid users can now distribute themselves as an RSS feed.

how honking nifty is that?

also, the converse is true… I can link to deadjournal accounts! eesh… too big a list, mayhap. public only posts, too, because it won’t detect outside security. but now I can read slashdot and plastic from my lj… handeeeee!

here’s a breakdown of some of the uses – http://www.webreference.com/scripts/sidebar/

sweetalyssm‘s post about not having photographed lately (great manips, and a magnificent model…) reminded me that I’ve not done much with my art lately, either. I think I’m going to have to commit an hour a day to just producing some writing again… I got lazy, and fell a big chunk out of the habit. Maybe lunch hour, instead of reading.. not sure. Just programming and fooling around isn’t very productive.

Talked to the bro… he’s doing well except for him and the mother got into some sort of argument, but we may all three have dinner together tomorrow night after work. We’ll see how that takes off. I guess she brought some girl back with her from the last trip to brazil, and is letting her camp out on the couch until she can get on her feet.

Got him some ice cream and good conversation.. always a nice combo.

Is it me, or am I really seeing turquoise jewelry everywhere these days? And crochet string tops?

Also.. Amazon eez de debbil.

Books are hard enough to resist without all this other ease of use stuff! Get thee behind me, oh one-click!

That reminds me… don’t ask how…

I dreamt that my sweetheart’s cat kicked over my fridge to get at the goodies inside, and he was kind enough to share with Newt. We came home to find the appliance on its side, with the furry-boys lapping at the spilled milk within. They seemed quite proud.

Stream of thought

Of the songs I’ve heard the grim reaper sing, I like this one the best –

I’m a kitty cat
I wear a bowl of peanuts
for a hat!
If I eat them all,
I will get fat
blah blah blah, I’m a kitty cat!

my alyssum has already started peeking little baby leaves on the east side of the house! got to love this Florida weather!

Newt and I just played a quick round of bearskin rug vs. tigerskin rug. Newt won, the slacker.

I would like a slice of ice cream cake, or perhaps an ice cream sandwich. something cool, creamy and with chocolate bits… or some pocky.

I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that actively dislikes the Beatles. The only people I can imagine doing so are surly teens trying to sound anti-establishment or something.

My current discovery on internet radio – Pirates Choice – Orchestra Baobab Pretty spiffy stuff…if you like African/Cuban hybrid music sung in French. The stuff you’d have playing in the background of a spy novel set in South Miami. I dig it ok. Most of the tracks are available on Kazaa, or have a listen on the Amazon link there if you have real player.

I forgot to mention, I got a drink of Gatorade at the shell station across from the ‘mat, and they were selling little Lego race cars there for $1. Pretty nifty little toy, and a nice trinket of happiness to share with my striped roommate.

Do I have to return to work tomorrow? Did I really have 4 days off? Apparently the answer to both is “Yes, Scotto.”

I think “Scooter-pie” would be a cute nickname for me. I’ve been called “Scooter” before. speaking of which… truth in advertising!.

Note to self, call Newt’s doc tomorrow, and give change of address & phone, as well as my own.

the new 'mat

7/7/02 1:04 pm – palmtop

interesting place… fort lauderdale has more ‘beautiful people’ than pompano…more folks my age, too.

friendlies at the mat, and one or two oddballs, but no mean or scary-folk.

had a short chat with a local, and it was pleasant… nice to make a stranger smile, and I got a book reccomondation out of it. (a bio of the romanovs) I showed her piccies of my sweetie and other fun things to do on the palm, like ebooks… I should be a spokeman.

guys with shoulder-hair shouldn’t wear tank tops. nor should gals guys with shoulder-hair, for that matter.

I need to pick up ‘bed in a bag’ from wal-mart… I saw three designs that really suit me, and the price is right.

body count from my far left to far right-

1 biker couple, woman in lycra pants and top, guy with many tattoos, including web on elbow
1 pair dykes, a stereotypical bull and lipstick combo.
2 40-ish men (not together) staring at
1 cell phone chick, looked like she had major “upgrades” done to face and chest
1 sporty-guy (with shoulder-hair) chatting with
1 sporty-gal (no shoulder-hair)
1 smiling geek girl with possibly 8 loads to do (book reccomender)
3 late 20-ish guys (brothers?)
1 nuclear family (mother,father,son,daughter)
1 late 50s woman in capri pants
1 pod with a palmtop in a tie dye shirt and bermuda shorts

freaky forehead bone-looking sand dollar.it amazes me how many people thought that Newt and I have synched digestive cycles, and about the sand dollar thing.

there’s a chirpy bird outside that’s driving Newt to distraction.. he’s peering out the window as I type, trying to figure a way to get to it.

Random American history factoid – in 1585, the first English colonists arrived in Roanoke Island, Virginia. (Now North Carolina). by 1590, all of the settlers had disappeared. The word “CROATOAN” is found carved into a tree.

Talked with my sweetheart, and now we’re both off to do chores! Mmm.. she makes the day complete. 🙂 Got to call the bro, and see if he needs any laundry done, while I’m at it.

until later, dear journal!

Ah… this is what I was looking for.

There it is… SUBTERRANEAN ISLAND BASE WITH OPTIONAL VOLCANO UPGRADE. set that up about 15/20 miles off the coast, and I’ll be ready. Maybe the undersea city option instead?

Chewing on Earth by David Brin right now… a big, thick paperback, I’m about 30 pages into it. It was given to me to read about two years ago, and am just getting around to it. Not as engrossing as the Uplift books yet, more of an environmental theme, so far. I think that after I finish it, I’ll be technically refreshed enough to focus on a few of the programming projects that’ve been on the back burner.

Bro’s being a swell guy today…picked up ice cream for me at 7-11… he fly, I buy. It’s too bad that he’s allergic to Newtie. They both like one another, too. Ah well… they get to say hi every now and then…the bro just can’t stay inside for too long, and has to wash his hands after giving or getting Newtie loves.

Speaking of Newt… he’s found someplace in the house to hide my hair ties. Not by the food dish, by the litter box or in it (thank goodness… bleh!)… I haven’t discovered all the nooks and crannies here yet. I know he likes to sneak behind my books on the lower shelf (it’s deep).. hopefully he’s not putting them in a cache there…. Hard to get to .

misc tests

as of this writing

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and scottobear has 138 readers (That’s about 1/5 of the menstrualhut, or twice the coloringbook)… though about 10% or so are phantoms… linked to me, and then left LiveJournal for parts unknown.

for humility’s sake…

has 41884 members. (I believe that’s the most populated community on LJ)

In other news, Newton’s cuteness ratings went down, as did the number of votes… do older votes die off after a while?

sleeping late with a cat was retired, with a rating of 156.

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seven colors in a rainbow.

seven chakras in the sanskrit texts.

seven varieties of barbasol shaving cream, if you count the discontinued wintergreen gel.

do I have to draw you a picture?

Man.. everyone forgets the other five symbols of the zodiac, too.