The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents. Continue reading 8027 – thanks, firpo!!
gover smash puny human
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Then and Now Amusement park pics
Bob, bob, bobbin’!
Cheered myself up with this moment of lyric – MP3
Walking down the street
with some evil in my eye
and some thoughts in my head
that were making me feel high
on my head was a hoodie
in my ears was some bass
was walking by my dog
when I saw that sexy face
come towards me
with a little cheeky smile
if she was a phone
I’d pick her up and dial
the fire brigade
or zero zero zero
she stopped me in my tracks
and I said ‘mmm hchello hchello…’
Shy street penguin
Originally uploaded by alexandra666.
Awww… Cute Graffiti! 😀
Looks like there’s a new guy on the scene “Emnity”. Toro, Blackie, and Dose have all been in the area for a while.
eryx reminded me (indirectly) of another great crazy-long word, weezle & the dBfly inspired me to record the instructional mp3.
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an unofficial name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug east of Webster, Massachusetts. The Nipmucks and other tribes gave it a variety of similar names. Most people call it Webster Lake, because they can’t pronounce the Nipmuck name, but others, including many residents of Webster, take pride in reeling off the Nipmuck version.
It’s pronounced like this:
Char-gogg-a-gogg-man-chaugg-a-gogg-chau-bun-a-gun-ga-maugg (mp3 of me saying it slowly.)
Slip it into conversation!
Newt is *six* years old today! He’s still a little babyhead to me. Here’s to my favorite red-fuzzed libran quadruped. Video of Newt a few days ago
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Here are some baby pictures… it still seems like it was only yesterday.
Newton pic! 2 3 4 5
See also, Newt lays the smack down on Tarpo
I think he’ll get the same gift as last year.. a big cardboard box filled with paper wads and milk rings.
Happy Ramadan!
Blackmail Boxes. -I wonder how much trouble he could get into for defacing government property?
I’ve had the Beatles (sort of a medley alternating) stuck in my head all morning. CCR is a good blotter, but it’s still playing in the background.
Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down.
Clouds of myst’ry pourin’ confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin’ to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.
I went down Virginia, seekin’ shelter from the storm.
Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.
Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain.
Heard the singers playin’, how we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, tryin’ to keep warm.
Still the rain kept pourin’, fallin’ on my ears.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain.
1 year ago – American date, zoomquilt, prowlies at the river, tiny plaid ninjas, pompano condo, WiT gender mislead, 3 things, penis tragedy, Newt 5
2 years ago – Newt pics (4!), Avengers adult-themed?, 400-million year old spider genitals, factoids, laundry, displacer beast, rick sanchez, tiger attack, tree octopus, DC atlas, Marvel directory, identity theft of a sex pred, under water vehicle, jack johnson, mouse taxidermy
3 years ago – cpap broke, newt 3, chattie colors, dumbass Falwell, Harper Lee, condiments, blonds not fading out, Chirac witchcraft, verisign sucks
4 years ago – Newt 2, epicene, robot meme, religion, disney poop, Lilly passes away, pet quiz, motto quiz, age of kings, perl and quilting
5 years ago – newt 1, pee-bags, cats guarding the dead, autistic taters, hunters get flooded, movies and walkies
big bunny
Originally uploaded by scottobear.
Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain
An enormous pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years.
A 200ft pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years /Europics
The 200-foot-long toy rabbit lies on the side of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region.
Viennese art group Gelatin designed the giant soft toy and say it was “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool”.
Group member Wolfgang Gantner said: “It’s supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can’t help but smile.”
And Gelatin members say the bunny is not just for walking around – they are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly.
The giant rabbit is expected to remain on the mountain side until 2025.
Long Bets, interesting way to look into the future. Predictions
One Featured Prediction – “By 2025 at least 50% of all U.S. citizens residing within the United States will have some form of technology embedded in their bodies for the purpose of tracking and identification.” 22 years is a long time… and sakes, I hope not. I don’t mind carrying global tracking ID (Cell phone, wireless palmtop, security key fob) but no, don’t implant anything, thanks. I feel funny about Newt being chipped, but he can’t say who he is if he gets lost.
Random good thing about 
ctober & Halloween – Black Lights.
To get you in the mood for the season – darkvictoria “The Darker Side of the Victorian Era”
See also – Victorian Halloween.com
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a Dutch anatomist and a pioneer in techniques of preserving organs and tissue. In addition to his scientific contributions, he made artistic arrangements of his material. He had his own museum of curiosities, and among the displays were a number of dioramas assembled from body parts and starring melodramatic fetal skeletons. A few of these were captured in meticulous detail “drawn from life” by the engraver Cornelius Huyberts. These engravings were inserted as foldouts in various early 18th century editions of Ruysch’s works.
A second arena of creativity for Ruysch was creating natural history assemblages to decorate the tops of jars of preserved animal specimens. None of these assemblages or the dioramas are known to have survived to the present day. However, Ruysch had a third medium, which was the preservation of decorated babies in jars. The story of these works and haunting photographs by Rosamond Purcell are found in “Finders, Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History”
For further information, see the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Dream Anatomy exhibit
Type my mom is cool and nice into the Google Translator and translate it from English to Spanish. Now translate the result back to English again. via
1 year ago – Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing
2 years ago – scary dreams, palm drawings, I’m 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond,
3 years ago – Sweetie gives me her egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala
4 years ago – doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein
Happy Birthday, sweetalyssm !!
Have a wonderful day today, and I hope that your birthdays only get better and better each year. You’re due at least a hundred more.
*Big honking huggos and kisses* for each year, and one for good luck… and a pinch to grow an inch. 😉
8^)
ok… I’ve got a new A/C unit. Let’s hope that it has a repair duty cycle a little more reasonable than once a month. Spent some lovely time this afternoon with my sweetie, gabbin’ about vampires, alligators, the O’Hairs, school religion, murder…and more. I love that head she’s got on her shoulders… (and the rest of her is equally adored.)
Hmm.. internet at work is down, if I left at three (next available transport) I could be there at four thirty…, if I foobar, five. Is it worth the trip in? I’ll have to shave… right now my jaw whiskers are long enough to be considered a beard, though my goatee is much more full.
I’ll call and see if they need me at all. I dropped
While I wait for a callback, I’m going to relax.
p.s. you can download audio books with peer-to-peer sharing too… it’s not just first run movies and music! I’m grabbing the audio to Ann Rice’s Memnoch, the Devil and a few others.
These people will mummify your cat or dog in true Egyptian style, with wraps, herbs, and oils, then encase the body in a custom bronze shell suitable for internment in your crypt. They also do humans. It’s rather expensive.
Cool illusion. Load it in an art program if you disbelieve.
Off to work! later on, dear journal.
Two years ago today.- The Laundromat encounter.
A year ago – The account of the Fisher king
Surfing elfwood… there is such a great range of talent there… from the “Who gave that monkey a colored stick” to “Holy moley, that’s fantastic!” Moderator’s choice can sometimes help to find the niftier images, unless you prefer to graze the gazillion piccies there one at a time. This guy has done a great job with sculpey. I was looking for 3-d art this time, and discovered that sculpey works as a keyword! fimo’s next.
I like this girl’s stuff, too. I’ve got to get some of that glow in the dark sculpey.
Leftovers tonight… oh, tofu, thou art mighty.
Sculpey, sculpey, sculpey. say it with me. it’s a fun word. Polymers rock.
Oh, my ears and whiskers… ERASER CLAY! You can make erasers!
Isidore has strengthened to become a Category 3 storm, with maximum winds of 115 mph. Therefore, it’s now classified as a “major” hurricane. Intensification should continue…. the most recent NHC guidance actually brings max winds to 145 mph in 72 hours.
Right now, the storm is pretty much halfway between the western tip of Cuba and the eastern tip of the Yucatan, drifting westward. That motion should continue over the next 48 hours, meaning it’ll be a close call for the northern Yucatan Peninsula. After that, it looks as if the storm should begin to take a more northwesterly track. Most of the models have the storm moving northward in the long-term in response to a short wave trough now approaching the Pacific Northwest…we’ll have to see how that plays out, as it’ll probably determine whether or not Isidore ever threatens the Gulf Coast.
No rain here… blue skies, few clouds. Florida’s out of the woods, and I’m wondering how good the surfing on the gulf coast is going to be… my brother and Dave are heading out there tomorrow AM to take advantage of the swells.
Speaking of glue… this project looks really nifty.. marble-magnets.
Good gosh…is anything nicer than laying back and snuggling with a loved one? Newt’s a little cuddle-bug. Later dear journal… Huggo-time.
Sculpey and Fimo are rockin’. Fimo’s especially cool, because it comes in colors, including transparent, stone, day glow, and night glow.
You can do anything with this stuff…I need to pick up some more… I only got a little bit from Jake. I’ll have to add it to my Pearl-run. Transparent has some real possibilities, as does the super flex.
Helpful hint… if you want to bake it on a plastic figure…use a glass mug to boil it in water in the microwave for about two minutes or so…. that way the plastic doesn’t melt like in the oven…it does get soft, though. Also, acrylic paint is great! Warm water is all you need to clean up.
Playing with clay and paints…very refreshing. I bet if I had some Popsicle sticks, some of this would be simpler.
