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9064 – tues

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Getting cooler already… 44 today as opposed to 74 yesterday. Let’s hope this isn’t an even slope into the weekend!

Best bumper sticker seen this weekend – “What would Scooby Do?”

Veggie stir fry with red rice tonight… yummy. broccoli, snap beans, snow peas, and carrots…. nom nom nom.

BHK and I were watching the Chocolate Challenge last night, where one of the contestants goofed up the Statue Of Liberty in Chocolate… fubared the arm, headdress and the tablets were missing (But did pretty well, considering the height of stress that seemed to be going on) – had me thinking of a Cloverfield moment. Apparently this image happens more often than I thought. (found via fark) I knew Planet of the Apes, of course, A.I., and Escape from New York… but look at ’em all. I totally forgota about the way-cool Thundarr the Barbarian one, and the Scene from Superman II.

Noel Kern’s Flickr has some amazing long-open shutter pics. Same with ihveissues.

The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale highly unlikely. “Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold,” one tells DANGER ROOM.

There’s going to be a total lunar eclipse Wednesday evening, (February 20th), which should turn the moon deep red as Earth’s shadow passes over it. Maximum eclipse will be at 10:26 PM EST and 7:26 PST. Besides North and South America, the eclipse will be from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21). The next Lunar Eclipse is due December 2010.

Fidel Castro has formally stepped down as the president of Cuba, ending one of the longest tenures in the world as a head of state. Castro, 81, has been suffering from a long illness associated with a colon infection, and gave temporary power to his brother, Raúl Castro, 76, in 2006. Whether his resignation actually sparks changes in Cuba’s system of government remains to be seen, and many experts appear to be skeptical as to whether Fidel will actually accept a less active role in governing the country. Still, the end of Castro’s reign over Cuba marks a significant day in world history. President Bush has called for the release of Cuba’s political prisoners.

1 year ago – Amy visit ends, truncated thought, Mexican and Chinese food, weak internet

2 years ago – super corkscrew, new video card, pin up girls,

3 years ago – missed my condo, thin man, wall pictures, blue ice, geocache fountain, joker utility belt

4 years ago – CoH preorder, getting a TENS

5 years ago – sleepy and rock-headed

6 years ago – nice dreams, String Cheese Incident, Feng Tzu-Chen, FMM poop, cool swiss mecha-island

7 years ago – placentophagy, haiku, poop on TampaGeotarget

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9060 – fri

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BHK got me a bag of creme de menthe Hershey’s kisses. A large quantity of them currently reside in my Jonas Green Skull and Crossbones mug.

(Green was a troublemaker. He hated the Stamp Act, which among other things directly taxed his newspaper. Refusing to pay, he halted publication of his paper with the protest headline “The Maryland Gazette Expiring: In Uncertain Hopes of a Resurrection to life again.”

In the bottom right corner, he placed a skull and crossbones where the tax stamp should have been.)

They may be my favorite flavor of Hershey’s kiss yet. Green foil is an added bonus.

Date night tonight with BHK – we went to DuClaw, and she had a spinach salad, while I ate a pile of bread, cheese and potato-related items.

Toe The Line (Not Tow the line ) – That’s ok… I got Piss and Vinegar wrong… I confused it with the incorrect Pith and Vinegar.

I’ve just upgraded to ATi Catalyst suite version 8.1 and now a small white square a few pixels across in the upper left hand corner of the screen – I thought it was stuck pixels at first, but later discovered that it goes away when I remove the Catalyst icon from the system tray.

I’ll be interested to see if 8.2 remedies the issue. EDIT: maybe– A white dot no longer appears on the windows desktop when launching the Catalyst Control Center. However, this issue may still be experienced under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31715

No big whoop – it was a pretty easy item to track down.

meme time!

1. What is the geekiest part of your music collection?
Hm.. silly mashups of Gwen Stefani / Queen, or any all of They Might Be Giants.

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9058 – weds

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I need to call Val and wish her a good b’day… also the mom-in-law’s birthday. We went to Mama Lucia’s, and then back to headquarters for cake and gifts. She got Becoming Jane, the Jane Austen Book Club, a box of girl scout trefoils, and a load of mushy cards.

Power went out this morning, but was back on by 6ish. Lots of high winds and cold… another ice storm on the way late tonight? The roads weren’t as bad tonight as yesterday.

Crime scene template… I covet it, and want to get one for BHK. I was amused by the inclusion of nun-chucks.

Cool history of the moment – The Cadaver Synod – Pope Stephen VI, consecrated in 896, ordered the rotting corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, be exhumed and put on trial for various crimes against the church. Poor bastard was nine-months dead when they dug him up. Stephen dressed the ripe stiff in papal robes, propped it up in a chair, and proceeded to scream unintelligibly at it for several hours in front of a rapt audience. Afterwards, Formosus was declared guilty and his body was dragged through the streets of Rome, then thrown into the river Tiber. Not surprisingly, the morbid spectacle turned public opinion against Stephen. Rumors spread that the dead pontiff had washed up on the banks of the Tiber and was performing miracles. Stephen VI was eventually deposed and strangled to death in prison.

– Coilhouse was kind enough to remind me.

The only game idea better than velociraptor safari (you’re a velociraptor tooling around in a jeep, trying to run over raptors with a ball and chain hanging from the back of the vehicle) is jetpack brontosaurus. (Self explanatory.)

I heard the state of Virginia referred to as “Vajayjay” on the bus tonight, talking about weathe rand not getting to vote in time. That’s just got to stop, or my brain will explode. Oh, the pain. The pain!

Speaking of voting, I want to remind myself in the future of something. I’m not happy with *any* of our current candidates. Hillary is the most evil, but that doesn’t mean that I’m Obama‘s big fanboy. He’s just not as bad as she is. McCain is the least evil on the republican side, I feel… not that it’s hard to be the least evil in that batch.

I’m glad that the polls in Maryland stayed open an extra 90 minutes to allow for everyone stuck in the wet traffic yesterday.

The creepiest person you’ve gamed with. There’s a reason I’m picky about gamer pals. The story of Jack. Not for the squeamish. I can honestly say that to the best of my knowledge, they’ve all gotten up to use the restroom.

Thread stats here for more etc. I’ve mentioned some folks I’ve encountered over the years.

1 year ago – local wildlife pic, ice storm coming, feeling better

2 years ago – chilly?, swollen uvula, nohari, bongos, GND moving (she’s since married… as have I!), cookies?, auto stitched comic spread, super squid

3 years ago – ren-fest thoughts, bro-religion scam thoughts, lair, pretzel prefs, grocery store, lj-buddy collage, valentines zod, moris tepper, elektra barbie, unix cheatsheet, lj user a sexual predator

4 years ago – Ft13th, urban beasts, photo memes, workers screwing up, Joel Veitch (Elephants, Yeah!), Mage knight with Dave

5 years ago – bro mooching, gas prices , newt’s Problem solving, Nice email, scabby palm pics, space giants, Walter adopted

6 years ago – Alton Brown, Melting pot month, ornj on the mend, talky newt, sleepy day, condiment museum

7 years ago – lost empires, pipe-smoking monkey sings Sanford and sonGeotarget

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9057 – tues

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Just realized that I never got a call from my bro on my birthday. I haven’t heard from him at all since his phone was reconnected. I hope he’s doing ok… I imagine that he is.

Watched Hellboy: Sword of Souls over dinner of corn dogs and tater tots! nom nom nom. The movie was just ok…. I like good ol’ Hellboy and Co, but it seemed too rushed and way too much time on the pyrokinetic’s whining about “blah blah it’ll overtake me blah”. If they’d just kept it a bit lighter, I’d have liked it more… the scenes where he’s fighting an assortment of bad guys got sort of old, too… not sure what I’d have done to make it better.

We had just a teensy snootch of snow today. It was nice to see some falling flakes… they soon turned to light freezing rain. Not as lovely, but nice, too.

The Postal Service says a first-class stamp will cost 42 cents as of May 12. [AP via USA]

Hm, I was wondering how long it’d take for Leslie Nielson to appear in a superhero movie spoof. March 2008, it seems.

Movies I want to see (off the top of my head… I’m sure I’m forgetting some):

No Country for Old Men
Cloverfield
Sweeney Todd (is it still in theaters?)
Darjeeling Limited (Is it out on DVD yet?)
Spiderwick Chronicles
Indy 4
Jumper
Diary of the Dead
10,000 BC

RIP, Steve Gerber. Thanks for Howard the Duck, and Thundarr the Barbarian. Steve’s weblog.

Long overdue pictures of Cake and Cats. As always, clicken to embiggen.

since getting the Kitty DVD for Christmas, Pyewacket has been a regular couch potato, watching the tube with us, even if it doesn’t show chirping birds, fish, or rodent-type objects. Newton is a fan of the DVD, because that means his little brother is occupied while big brother can nap in peace upstairs, or use the litter box without having a little furry frined knocking on the door, asking if he can come out and play.

Watching the specialty cat video – fish portion – Taken while the tree and presents were still out… I’ve been very bad about unloading the camera.

pye likes his birdie dvd

Pye was also attentive watching the Super bowl. He rooted for the Patriots. They lost. It’s ok.

pye liked the superbowl..pye liked the superbowl. 2

He also likes to view psych upside down while having his tummy rubbed. Who wouldn’t?
pye streeeetching.

as part of the equal-ish time for orange kitties act of 1999 –

Newton Shamelessly diving into the dryer to be warm. We have to be ever vigilant not to put him on a fluff cycle.

newt seeking warm towels.newt looking for warmth

My army man birthday cake. Delicious, and gory.

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1 year ago – vallies, no 24 with the lads, a little sick, tv watching, acim update from TD

2 year ago – vegan lunch box, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, American horror, ren-fest, crayons, movies, Neutral Good, colored t’s, cowboy gorilla, Val’s B’day, newtcam pix,

3 years ago – stretchy dream, journalist fired, cosmic muffin, star wars meme, C&H cartoon fave, baby tosser, don simpson’s journal (since deleted?)

4 years ago – goodies from mimi, time out and about, comment time limit, kill the ducky

5 years ago – vallies, stinky outdoors, Drama deck poll

6 years ago – popular colors, nice walkies, cooked palm, Aunt Val’s B’day, blessing reminder, I’m put off by nin (child abuse)

7 years ago – vagg, Aesop, Happy, Sleepy, good people in my lifeGeotarget

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9056 – mon

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Big wins of the day – I had a leftover birthday macaroon tupperware-sealed in my desk in the office! Nice treat for mid-afternoon.. still moist and delicious. Added bonus, going out for Monday night half-price falafel night after work with BHK and the in-laws – with special guest Adam!

Adam seems to be adjusting to living in an apartment near campus quite nicely… better place than I had in school, for sure… private bedroom with a private bathroom. I think he’s adapting to a land full of college age girls very happily.

We picked up 8 new dress shirts and a pair of sweat pants at Value City for under $60. I still don’t know how BHK’s shopper-sense works, but I’m glad she uses it for the powers of good, rather than evil.

Got an hour or so of TF2 in before bed… tried to play with Helen and Mattie, but their server was maxed at 32…. I’m discovering that I like playing the medic and the scout.

I can’t believe that I never knew that there is (soon to be “was” come 2009) Library of Congress police force.

The Library of Congress police force were formed in 1950 as an unarmed force that was designated to control entry and exit procedures for the library and its tunnels that connect the buildings to the rest of the Capitol complex. As of 1987, the LOC police have carried guns.

Note to self – Legit, free downloads of ancient games I never got around to playing when they cost money. Maybe my rickety old laptop will run ’em comfortably? Wild metal!

also, favorite freebie little game of the nanosecond – Shift. Clever little thing. I dig it – once I find a way to port it to the palmtop, woe is my value on my commute home!

Wow… quite a turnout re: Anonymous vs Scientology. interesting pictures. shots from the DC protest.

Supporters of Anonymous, the loosely organized group of internet activists who have attacked the Church of Scientology recently with videos and server hacks, appeared outside D.C.’s Founding Church of Scientology center on Sunday. The protest was part of a planned “global day of action” with the stated purpose of setting off a government investigation into how Scientology got tax-exempt status.

The Feb. 10 protests, which took place in dozens of cities, were initially announced last month after a video attributed to Anonymous coincided with an online effort that managed to temporarily knock out servers belonging to the Church of Scientology. The date was chosen for the protest because Feb. 10 was the birthday of Lisa McPherson, who died of a pulmonary embolism in 1995 under the care of a branch of the Church of Scientology. (via DCist)

1 year ago – value city – shopping march, johari, snugs

2 years ago – no opa, first maid service, bus pic / entry, mechanical dreams, ft laud baggage with human head, NotLD w/bunnies, johari, newtcam

3 years ago – planning the week, the room, misc thing quiz, einstein the parrot, e-journalists fired

4 years ago – sleepy day, first taste of Arnold Palmer in a can, Kerry looks like Herman Munster, C words

5 years ago – interview gear, bus palm- post, feelings, dodge rampage, Stop. Hammer time.

6 years ago – anti-erection law, newt counts coup, last day of year of the horse, finn poop, smit

7 years ago – AOK playing, lj-poetry, meanie dream, pork fat in chocolateGeotarget

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9053 – friday

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Whoosh and bleh… I’m bushed!

Chinese food at in-laws, and watched Jane Austen Book Club… surprisingly good. BHK said it was better than the book.

Chris’s B’day is on the 13th… a trip to the tea room is out, since high tea was cancelled, due to lack of interest. ah well. We’ll find something else nice.

Going to try to set up a yahoo live streaming cam for newt and pye, here – http://live.yahoo.com/scottobear

we’ll see how it goes. The old default one may be better for me.

Yahoo Live! is a live video streaming site that lets users broadcast to a wide audience on the web. The video performance was quite impressive when we browsed for channels to watch (make sure that you’re looking at a user that has a decent upload speed).

There are other online video broadcasting applications like Veodia or Mogulus but the sheer video performance of Yahoo Live is much better than both. Note that Mogulus as a lot more features to create your own TV channel.

Mogulus test – http://www.mogulus.com/newtcam – I like that I can leave a clip running when it’s not live.

Pirates Vikings Knights II HL2 mod is out and looking sharp.. but where is my Monkey, Robot, Zombie game?

( Video overview ) – I do like the Pirate Captain’s Parrot Attack.

“Cornell University researchers have succeeded in implanting electronic circuit probes into tobacco hornworms as early pupae. The hornworms pass through the chrysalis stage to mature into long-lived moths whose muscles can be controlled with the implanted electronics.”

Aieee! Zombie Cyborg Bugs! Can Deathlok be far behind?

Ah, the ol’ attractive nuisance issue –

Ars Technica has an interesting article about how you could be fined $1000 if minors use your unprotected WiFi access to browse for adult material. That’s a bill that is discussed in Utah.

“If you live in Orem and your next-door neighbor’s kid uses your open WAP to look at pictures of naked women, you could find yourself on the hook for a $1,000 fine. Yarro thinks that’s fine, telling the Tribune that people “should be responsible for their barking dogs and their Internet access.”

Attractive nuisances are a strange thing.. I understand the theory, but where is the line drawn? A teenager breaks into your back porch and drowns in your pool… and you get sued by the parents sort of thing. I guess the phrase “went to reasonable lengths to prevent” will get used a lot.

1 year ago – picnic in the loft, local interests, interview meme, rpg class quiz

2 years ago – 1-year breakup, newt monkey, flavor crave poll, haiku, 3-d painted rooms, pigs in space, phone-post fog walking, guilt meme

3 years ago – jb gives me filth for my birthday, cable out, bad juju, taco ninja viagp, superman jerk, river walkabout pics, Mel and I are done.

4 years ago – Residence / Faire / ‘Zilla / Shapes , Memory Fragment, Z-squad, Money

5 years ago – playing with palm-modem, dream of hot applesauce vendor & snuggling up at a basketball game.

6 years ago – bro hit on his bike by a cop, bibles in hotels, walkies, FMM lost use of the Net during working hours, Talk about Chupa / small hands,tiffany in playboy.

7 years ago – 100 monkeys debunked, FMM sold Tampa, fending off the end of a flu (history repeats itself, I guess!), Suzy’s crappy computerGeotarget

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9052 – Thursday

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Gung Hei Ft Choi! Happy Year of the Rat! (From a loving Earth Monkey)

BHK  made a fantastic ravioli dinner in cream sauce with peas and broccoli… nom nom nom

Nice video on the difference between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama: from Lessig on choosing candidates – well put. (via wickenden’s twitter ) Transcript here. (Unrelated, but cool, he put me onto the sandy reminder service, too)

Chest issues are clearing up nicely after visiting the doc, also queried about a few other items pending on the health checklist.

Confirming times for David’s visit at the end of the month. I think that we’ll have fun hanging out – He’s got some pals to visit in DC, too.

Say.. when’d they add terrain to google maps? I just noticed the button, looking at what drive he migh thave to do.

Read the graphic novel Superman/Batman : Absolute Power. It did nothing for me.

Synopsis: Three time travelers eliminate members of the Justice League, except for young Superman and Batman, whom they raise as their own children. Batman and Superman are raised to be dictators of the world, eliminating all opposition and killing people who would otherwise be their friends. During a fight with the Freedom Fighters the timeline is thrown into chaos, and the two men travel through alternate time lines. Darkseid makes a deal with them in one reality to send them back through time to stop the super-villains who raised them from altering history. Superman and Batman restore history, but the murders they committed haunt them.

Nah. Not for me. Even with Hex showing up and the Legion… it still didn’t inspire, impress, or provoke any thought. Picked it up on impulse at the library while waiting on my prescription. I hope the Marvel Westerns book is more to my liking.

To whom it may concern – If you play CounterStrike, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life: Death match or other online type fps games, I’m scottobear on Steam. Add me to your buddy list, and I’ll happily play a game with you sometime. I’d rather play with folks I know, or at least Internet-know than total strangers… more fun to put a personality to the people I’m shooting alongside or at.

Of course, if you don’t like me, add me anyway, and you can either shoot me in the face in game, for maximum catharsis. No legal ramifications for killing a little avatar!

This is my kind of protest. Not violent, just a guy in a polar bear suit in a little paddle boat. Of course, sans permit, he was arrested… but not before getting a basic point across.

1 year ago – SNZ / Firecracker Jazz, critters in our yard

2 years ago – compusa sucks, Sun Ra and The Blues Project Do Batman and Robin (MP3s),

3 years ago – piccies, superbowl, flying daggers, robert did it, cemetery pics, immersive gaming, newt smooch, mel and I break up

4 years ago – spam poll, Gabby newt while I’m sick (I seem to frequently catch colds the week after my birthday.), screening journal spam, Batman’s Moon Patrol(most links dead now), true & fake smiles

5 years ago – Wooden ships and iron men (online!), tiny things made large, snapple factoids, LXG movie, craving falafel, b-day note from bro, palm-campics monkey cam!

6 years ago – she has a crush on me, when furries go bad, total net lock down at work

7 years ago – Pirates!, create your own cereal mix (now gone), pondering my future lj, old school yahoo, kruss goes poof, boot to the headGeotarget

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9051 – Wednesday.

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Downright Balmy today – 70 degrees! Last year it was snowing.

I have to say that I agree with District Diaries… *many* buses (Especially the C7 and R2, in my experience) are just not very weather tight.

Got my ducks in a row at the doctor today… some cough syrup type stuff, an antibiotic to fight infection due to the irritation, and apparently I can get my pneumonia vaccine (renews every 5-10 years) after I’ve mended up a smidgen.

Dinner at Mexico… BHK got steak flautas, and I got a burrito loco, full of all the veggies BHK isn’t crazy about. (Mushrooms, onions, green peppers)

Got home and watched nat’l geographic special on mountains and one on tidal life…. Snow Leopards / Rams and Surfing snails / Jellyfish!

Gifts from Danny – sort of an acid-washed / tie dye t-shirt with mama gator & piggy back baby gators, a frog pin made in USA from Austrian crystal, and some tasty Tassimo chai tea. Thanks!

Latest comic book sighting – Helen Killer. – “In 1901, twenty-one year old college student Helen Keller, with the aid of a fantastical device invented by her friend and mentor Alexander Graham Bell, regains her sight and hearing as well as near super-human strength and agility. Helen is enlisted by the Secret Service to protect President William McKinley, who has been targeted for assassination by anarchists.”

Well, it’s about time a super-powered ex deaf-mute took on Czolgosz! Coll-gosh is the new Mix-yez-pittle-ick, no doubt!

1 year ago – a ton of walkabout pics, fossil hunting during a Snowy day on the bay, microsoft and openID, kitties

2 years ago – “Chilly” – in the 40s.ha. Today it was less than half that, before wind chill!, best buy wall numbers, absurd inventions, Superbowl. Scientology SP, Black/white vs right/wrong

3 years ago – Beetlejuice thoughts, evergreen boneyard photo-walk, domestic cats stay at adolescent mentality, interactive autopsy, girls sued for being nice

4 years ago – Super-loved ones, 2-headed baby surgery, fox wedding weather, meat eaters, scale, ruins

5 years ago – Nice thoughts, torture, LCD, note to Newt, Latrave b-day card, Class action suit.. I got my $12 check, eventually, Chandlerisms

6 years ago – MP pay delay, tron, #10 tight, naughty work thoughts, Scripts, system lockdowns and short tempers

7 years ago – At Last, first find hero machine (now in my toybox), bug, Dani and Rhonda hook me up!Geotarget

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9050 – Tuesday

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It’s Fat Tuesday!

It’s Super Tuesday !

It’s PANCAKE DAY !

Sakes.. it all seems so early this year. I don’t have the chops to eat pancakes tonight… still feeling a bit under the weather – but I don’t do lent either, so it’s all good. some mini-bagels and wheat chex with blueberries is just what I needed.

JC told me about a pneumonia shot… I’d never heard of such a thing. I’m going in to see my doctor today about getting one… apparently, JC had some bronchial issues about 8 years ago, and this cleared it up to the point where she’s never needed anything again.

I’m for that… I’m hitting the doc’s tomorrow in Dunkirk and having a look.

Watched The Last Mimzy tonight… it was ok, but no amazing great shakes happening there. Sort of a shiny, happy 12 Monkeys for hippies and kids, but not really. It’s not a bad movie overall… I think that in the right setting, and with the right people it’d be a cute way to burn 90 minutes. As it stood, it was average. Nothing amazing, nothing terrible.

Pye liked watching it with us – Newt snoozed upstairs.

I haven’t had a hot dog cut like an octopus in a while… it’s overdue. Maybe with some cherry pez and an episode of the Tick, for that matter.

A slice of life from North Beach, by way of BHK – I’ve been waiting for some mail order stuff for a while, and Danny’s present hadn’t arrived yet.

Just went to the post office and got the mail—there was NO package slip in the box. I was waiting for your shoes and t-shirts so I thought I’d go ask just be sure and LO and BEHOLD we had 3 packages! Danny’s came on Saturday Afternoon. BUT there was a bit of controversy–2 things.

The postmaster SWORE she put a note in our box but I KNOW we didn’t get one—as I was leaving the blond post lady told me that sometimes the other post lady forgets to put slips in—-GLAD I asked!

ALSO there was a giant brown stain where something wet had leaked on your shoes box—luckily upon further inspection it didn’t make it into the inner box but without me asking the postmaster volunteered—-“Oh sorry Luther’s deer blood got on your package.”

I SWEAR I almost BARFED in the post office. I was like WHAT? And the postmaster explained that some dude who lives in North Beach and his son like to send meat back and forth to each other.

Last week the father got in a bit of deer meat packed in dry ice and it leaked If it hadn’t been our box and I didn’t have to unwrap a bloody box I would’ve laughed at the following conversation the two post-ladies had after they told me what was on my box.

One: “Is it legal to send meat through the mail?” (UM shouldn’t she KNOW?)
Two: “Of course it is–Luther sent his son some fish back last week remember?” (GAG!!!!)
One: “Well at least your box wasn’t as bad as Mrs. So-and So’s Southern Living Magazine. I felt bad for her the whole thing was SOAKED in deer blood. I doubt she was able to read a page.” (BAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!)

It’s not Hooterville here, I swear! Sometimes, it strikes home how different things are now than in Fort Lauderdale… and how much I prefer being on the Bay to living in SoFL.

Yikes.
Photo: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Peruvian anti-riot police officers participate in a military parade to celebrate Peru’s Independence Day in Lima.

Yikes. Remind me not to riot in Lima. Heck, I’m not feeling up to rioting anytime soon.

What the heck kind of name is Ghostface Killah? An awesome one, thanks. Better than any of his other aliases, I think.

1 year ago – slow day with family

2 years ago – manatee mailbox, fp with Kev and Tomi, Bailey-pooch, GUN, train ride pics, bhk vaio trouble

3 years ago – bro probation, Shoo’s B’day! (Happy Happy Again today!), flying solo, keywords, Zogg, florida research tools, baby cheetah

4 years ago – stop motion, scrabble experiment, palm doodles, feelin’ ill

5 years ago – 80s dream, oddtodd, crackle bars, warm, face-picker kid

6 years ago – Shoo’s Birfday!, Missed the bus, fruit2O, razor dream, bull sperm thieves, bellyaching, Tsar Piccies, TV news, meatloaf quiz, wacky linkies, tron

7 years ago – License plates, Bob Marley Movement, Vallies roll inGeotarget

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9049 – monday the 4th

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Back to work, back to work. Hacked my lung like a fool at work today – that’ll teach me to not bring the ol’ inhaler along. It was pretty bad mid to end-day… I’m surprised nobody came around to put me out of my misery with a shovel or something.

The ride home on the subway wasn’t too bad… did a lot of people take today off, to recover form the Superbowl?

Speaking of which – It looked like Jordin Sparks was lip-syncing at the Superbowl yesterday, but it could just be a delay between the audio and video but it had a prerecorded feel – she wasn’t selling it… I wonder why more people haven’t commented on that, and the weird stock-footage air show? Tom Petty did a good job, and everything lined up audio and video-wise. I wasn’t crazy about fake fans rushing his stage… he really is turning into an old mountaineer, facially.

Dinner was eggplant lasagna… BHK made a tasty meal, despite being all sick… We’re tucking into bed shortly to rest up.

The birthday cake is even better left over… sort of like a hostess cupcake with the white whipped icing as filling.

Random Thought… What is the difference between a black diamond and a lump of everyday carbon?

A sad reflection on the health of the Chesapeake Bay – 2007 Blue Crab Harvest One of Worst in Md. History – Southern Maryland Headline News
– via BHK

1 year ago – planning the garden w/pix, DRYER FIRE, pomonkey, updated bio, newt and pye touching in the loft pix (this is still one of my faves )

2 years ago – childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

3 years ago – smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

4 years ago – 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

5 years ago – dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

6 years ago – Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

7 years ago – Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femmeGeotarget

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9048 – sun

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Well, the Patriots lost, but I really don’t follow football. Too bad about them not having a perfect run, though.

Had tasty taco salads for belated birthday dinner tonight… quite yummy! BHK and I are mending up nicely – spent a goodly chunk of the day resting and watching America’s Cutest Puppy and then Puppy Bowl IV – I did enjoy the Kitty “halftime show”. Apparently, I’m a giant softie. Pye was equally fascinated to watch the real super bowl, (took some photos – to follow), so I don’t feel too bad.

Birthday cake was even better than it looked – dark chocolate with white frosting. Nom.

Presents –

From BHK (in addition to yesterday’s loot, wonderful dinner and cake)

From the in-laws –

all amazingly good stuff.

I was surprised that I didn’t hear from Danny or the Bro this weekend… I imagine that they’re caught up in other things, and will contact me this weekend.

Email-wise, I heard from Ldy, Sedef, Oneeyed and co…. I was hoping to skype, but must’ve been away from the computer / napped – because I missed it.

1 year ago – party recap, loot, letter meme

2 years ago – more compusa customer “service”, walkabout, lj login track, brokeback to the future, coke machines

3 years ago – b’day recap, apple mice, food, Polish reader, referrer spam, Mel mush, endless meme, choco taco/cool dog, zombie spammers,

4 years ago – bday loot, Danny lick pic

5 years ago – os quiz, littler big sis writes me a birfday song, palm-cam pics, suction crab

6 years ago – nice day after, Newt-stalks, S & D = B & C, haiku ,picture links

7 years ago – SPOOT, correspondence old school, vagg, go ask Alice and afraid to askGeotarget

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9048 – sat

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Happy Birthday to me… 39 years old today! Also, Happy Groundhog’s Day. Saw my shadow this morning – More snow, I guess! 

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older
And now you're older still

Time
Is marching on
And time
Is still marching on

This day will soon be at an end and now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
This day will soon be at an end and now it's even sooner
And now it's sooner still

You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older
And now you're older still

First Present was a box of chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons from BHK by way of the cakery yummo.

Still sickly, so I spent the bulk of today in bed, resting after getting back from my allergy shots. BHK is bouncing back much more rapidly than I am. Big day out will be next weekend, most likely. Heading to Baltimore’s National Aquarium and maybe the B&O railroad museum, if Larry comes along.

Dinner of tasty veggie meatball subs and baked potato – nom nom nom

Birthday cake is dark chocolate, with white icing… and gummi green army men fighting to the top! Pictures to follow as available.

Presents from Kev-o: Godzilla Cartoon – Vol 1, Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales, and Family Guy: Blue Harvest goodie sets.

From Mom& Wilton – $50 Barnes and Noble Gift card.

I get to cut the cake and open my other presents tomorrow! Superbowl Sunday… I’m in a pool, but I really don’t follow football, even if my home team of the Patriots are playing.

BHK buttered my nose sneakily on a sneak behind this morning, after a failed attempt to get my beak while I was showering.

It’s Robb’s birthday today, too… I hope he’s having a dandy one as well! Happy Un-birthday to everyone else!

Oh, come on.. the voice of Bart Simpson is a Scientology supporter, too?

Ugh and yuck. Recent donation list.

  • Nancy Cartwright (Bart and Rufus the Naked Mole Rat), 50, Patron Laureate Award: $10 million.
  • Kirstie Alley, 57, Diamond Meritorious Award: $5 million.
  • John Travolta, 53, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million.
  • Kelly Preston, 45, Gold Meritorious Award: $1 million.
  • Priscilla Presley, 62, Patron Award: $50,000.

I’m still trying to figure out how Kirstie Alley can afford a $5 mil donation.

I wonder if there will come a time where I boycott all movies because money is going to that organization. Dang Scientology.

Diet Chocolate Cherry Dr. Pepper…. My Closest approximation? It tastes like you’re drinking a chocolate tootsie pop. Not really Chocolaty… oddly synthetic. Cherry Vanilla wins far and above over this, but it’s an interesting variation. Still better than that “Berries and Creme” variant, that I’m not missing at all. Jone’s Chocolate Fudge soda is better, but not much.

1 year ago – I’m 38, Feb 2 across the board, birthday cards / images received, no shadow, nose butter,

2 years ago – I’m 37, dance monkeys dance, afterlife quiz, kind wishes, 40 faces, ID, Danny Sick

3 years ago – I’m 36, no shadow, cleaned Mel’s system, under the bed, birthday type pics

4 years ago – I’m 35, Birthday factoids, walkies

5 years ago – I’m 34, the Museum F Art, Tinkle-pig, Newt, and other palm-cam pics, Groundhogs seek sex, not shadows

6 years ago – I’m 33, saw my shadow, blah day, daredevil, nice end of day

7 years ago – I’m 32, many holidays, nice ecards, saw my shadow, got my moonmama penguin pic

8 years ago – I’m 31Geotarget

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9042 – monday

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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

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9041 – sun – return of the nutshells

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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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9037 – thursday

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Here’s the full description of what’s up with my back, according to the MRI –

Findings: There is decreased signal density emanating from the disks between the L3 and S1 levels. There are posterior protrusions of the disks between these levels. The vertebrae are normally aligned. The conus is normal.

There are no areas of abnormal contrast within the canal.

Conclusion:

1: L5-S1 level: There is an extruded left sided posterior disk herniation at the L5-S1 level. The disk protrudes 6mm posteriorly. This causes compression at the proximal aspect of the left S1 nerve root. There are also moderate left sided facet hypertrophic changes. This causes mild narrowing of the left neural foramen.

2: L3-L4 level: There is a small left sided posterior disk herniation at the L3-L4 level. This causes a mild flattening of the left anterior thecal sac contour.

Basic breakdown – knee extension (L3), ankle dorsiflexion (L4), long toe extension (L5), and ankle plantar flexion (S1) are issues, in addition to pain/numbness.

More info on Lumbar and Sacral vertebrae.

Chinese food at the in-laws, and 3:10 to Yuma – Not a bad way to spend Thursday night. I Zzzzed off at the end, will have to catch up tonight or tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion.

Remarked with Chris that I’ve not seen many migratory birds this year, but then again, I’ve been working longer hours! More daylight to look during the weekend.

Mo’ Snow today, but nothing stuck. Bah!

Not many folks in wheelchairs in my vicinity, but there are a *lot* of people with white canes / red tips walking around. I wonder if there’s a local lighthouse for the blind nearby, or if DC just has good support for them? It’s rather odd not seeing anyone on wheels… perhaps the metro has a specialized service for them.

Not to be melodramatic or anything, but I’m trying to remember a time when no part of my body was in pain… that sounds so teenager-emo. I guess my physical situation has been “if it’s not one thing, it’s another” for as long as I can remember. I suspect that it’s the status quo for most folks over 30.

Interesting reveal about the Clinton Campaign via insomnia. I’ll be wanting to see how that plays out, if it is true. Most of the source comes from here. Which also mentions counter-behavior by the Obama campaign.

Ugh.. I alternately hate and love it when light is shined on mud… I like to watch the worms writhe.

1 year ago – verizon dsl poop, snow coming, adam swims

2 year ago – eternal double happiness, robot over monkey, today, king of carrot flowers, breakfast cake must be a circle, mind altering virus, toothy bunny, flying dogs, jodie foster sings in french

3 years ago – Purple vibes for sick Mel, convert avi/dvd, pricelessware, wind doodle,watch me shine, Tropical Island Resort:Berlin, Bunny Suicide (now here), Razor Blade Soap, senior in high school meme,

4 years ago – made the Linus icon, professional victim, Cap’n gone, Robert E. Howard 98, clock, van helsing, US army rebuilding schools, Murgatroyd

5 years ago – random knockers, Hippos on an abandoned ranch

6 years ago – Fever, Clothes color survey, Naughty Newtie in the kitchen, a dead photo link, Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program, House Resolution 3598

7 years ago – love, 3-d thesaurus, Fun compliment, Robert at work is officially fired for being a dangerous loony, pokename generator, Woodstock by CSN, dead net-radio linkiesGeotarget