http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/s/v/svonberg/newt/bw.jpg
Know what I’m pondering?
Why Newt is cuter in my boxer shorts than I am.
see below.
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/s/v/svonberg/newt/aw.jpg
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/s/v/svonberg/newt/aw3.jpg
Heck, I think he’s a good stand-in for Bob… don’t you? there must be something about nice goate’ed guys with orange cats getting the beautiful girls, eh? 🙂
fixer upper update, from here – http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=9601466&nc=115
The more controversial thing is that we’re probably going to limit the number of posts/day and comments/post for free users. We have to decide between the lesser of the evils — limits or having a site that always appears to suck.[1]
I already mentioned this in paidmembers, but one db slave is now doing nothing but paid user traffic, and it’s totally caught up… there should be no lagging if you’re logged in.
[1] Update: Relax, everybody … we’re not “cutting off” free users. Stop freaking out … we understand why LJ is a successful community (we made it, afterall) and we’re not going to do anything to bastardize it. Any “limits” we impose will be reasonable… we always collect stats before imposing limits such that 90% or so of people remain unaffected. The limits we’re talking about here are temporary ones, to ease the free db servers until the new ones arrive on the 1st
my driver on the way home was smoking a stinky stogie before I got in.
I now must wash, to get the pooy smell out.
I’ll elaborate later. ick.
[I’m back]
yuck.
that was foul… 10 minutes in there and the reeking stench of a dollar cigar was permeating every fiber of my clothing my hair and skin.
I’m glad I didn’t bring Newtie to work. Cigar stinky-kitty. ugh.
Upon getting home, I hung my fouled gear up to dry, and promptly hopped in ye olde shower…man. what a relief it is to be free of that. I just went near the clothes I’m airing out before putting in the bin, and they reek….
I am so glad that my sweetie isn’t a smoker… aside from being a nasty habit and unhealthful…. it ruins the breathing space of others, too.
Anyhow, I’m warm, dry, nice smelling, and have a happy kitty purring next to me now…all is well with the world.
bacchanalia bak-uh-NAIL-yuh, noun:
1. (plural, capitalized) The ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry.
2. A riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity; a revel.
Bacchanalia comes from Latin, from Bacchus, god of wine, from Greek Bakkhos. The adjective form is bacchanalian. One who celebrates the Bacchanalia, or indulges in drunken revels, is a bacchanal BAK-uh-nuhl; bak-uh-NAL, which is also another term for a drunken or riotous celebration.
ultima Thule UL-tuh-muh THOO-lee noun (NOT JUST THOOL)
1. The northernmost part of the world believed habitable by the ancients.
2. A distant or remote goal or place.
Latin ultima, farthest, Thule, name of a place.
What a weird story — a girl goes missing a month ago, after being assaulted and then being temporarily hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, and now she turns up and calls home. The nice part of the story is how people have rallied to help the family out and bring the girl home.
http://www.geocities.com/st_uss_enterprise/episodes.html – via Joel ‘Hello Taxi’
Here are the stories of the first four episodes of Enterprise.
pictures are elsewhere on the same site….I like the lo-tech tonka toy designs.
Some things of note – The sickbay doesn’t have those silly workout blocks over it, and I wonder about Porthos, Archer’s canine companion. So.. um.. what is that doctor? Looks likt that little elfy guy from voyager.
I especially like the middle top pic, very old school, and neat.
dork mode… deactivate.
hey! I said deactivate!
Now!
hm.
oh yeah, I want to see all the new superhero shows, .too
mutant x(featuring heroes with density control, telempathy (emotion sense/control), electricity blaster, animal gal(sounds like another pesky cat-girl…see dark angel.), and a smartie leader… or how I like to refer to them – vision (or stone boy & phantom girl’s love child), saturn girl, lightinging lad, chameleon, and brainiac 5) , live action tick and smallville too.
dorkus malorkus.
bring back the lone gunmen!
ok. it’s out of my system.
MORE RED DWARF!
ok. done, really. Just letting you know that this is the first time I’ve wanted to watch more than one new tv show, in a loong time. (Since descovering cable. Or ABC’s cartoon line up of dynomutt, clue club, and jabberjaw… was grape ape that same year, too? I was maybe 7 at the time.)
all done
nite night.
sweet dreams.
I’m reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol. I must have read it hundreds of times when I was a kid. It was a favorite tome. It’s odd to read those lines now as an adult and remember them in their muchness. It’s like going from big to small and back again. It’s all about as curious as it can be.
Check out also this page, with links to Oz, Tarzan, Tom Sawyer, and other fantastic texts.
see also – http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/rgs/rgs-home.html (more on-line books, including banned books on-line, and other specialties)
Free, baby. http://gutenberg.org
More than you or I could ever hope to read. 🙂
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=9557029&nc=3
info on what’s been up, and lj general information about what’s being done. … all very informative. I wonder how many free days Brad’s given to paid memeber total, now? 🙂
paid folks, click on the link, inthere, and you’ll get 10 days added to your paid time.
*plus*
turned off new account creation yesterday to stop growth while they worked on things. that should hlep a lot.
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/s/v/svonberg/
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/~svonberg
hmm… even http://personal.bellsouth.net/~svonberg works.
remote relocators for 10 megs more of free space… maybe I’ll relocate the newtcam there, and have it go streaming.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010823/sc/mdf37948.html
bovine miniature… a bull sculpture the size of a red blood cell… how cool!
my cow army of spies is getting more resourceful.
also- keeping with livestock (and the cute little pancake bunny – and a note in english describing what he’s up to .)
The World Carrot Museum goes a long way toward explaining the GFP Bunny Project. The glowing green bunny must have found out what the Carrot Museum already knows: carrots make excellent lasers.
Date created: 2000-05-19 19:47:56
Date updated: 2001-08-26 15:31:30, now
Journal entries: 2,605
Comments: Posted: 16,240 – Received: 16,154 (not bad, about even… I’ve been really not posting in other people’s journals recently, just because of the inability to do so)
user #3397 – we now get about 2100 new users every *day*
LJ has a different feel now… I wonder if it’s the difference between a small village and a big city. I can remember wayyy back when it was new to me, and I was just looking for a place to link to my web page, and keep an ongoing journal of my thoughts online. (
I’d love for the gp search engine and picture host to come online soon, preferably after they get the machinery to work properly again. all the weirdness is floating out at http://www.scottobear.com/lj/ right now, unindexed, just hovering. it’s begun to add up, over the year+ of entries… and I really don’t put as many pictures in as some folks do.
Paid members errors!? Why!? Even though there is a dedicated web server and a dedicated database server for paid members, it is just a dedicated slave server. Both sides have to still share the master database. The devs have been hacking away all night and all day to move code from hitting the master DB to the slaves. They’re mostly done, but this message will probably pop up anyway.
Remember:Reload less, it will work more often.