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Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding “DRYER FIRE” – it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed “Dryer lint safety brush”, and selling for $20.

I say, “bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen… if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?”

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I’d fear cruel irony, as we’re doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector… to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire… because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)

Pomonkey – best local Amerindian word / Town name ever. Aww.. Po’Monkey got no nanners! Possibly a place to get a gig re:security and etc, too.

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!

Garden plan –

Tina, the In-Laws, BHK and I have a garden planned for our back yard – planting begins in March for the first crop.
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It’ll be in our back yard… Larry’s going to bring in a few truckloads of topsoil and rototill by the end of this month… BHK and I will be working the section with broccoli, peas and parsley in March, and then continuing to pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, cilantro, sunflowers, green beans and garlic at the top of may.

Other crops tended by the gang will include potato, onion, carrot, radishes, a few varieties of tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and all sorts of others. I expect it’ll be a fun and educational experience… I haven’t grown anything on this scale before, but we’ve got a master gardener, an engineer and a farm boy on our side to help keep things a-rollin’.

Finally Added Pye and BHK to my bio page… sakes! Pokey puppy Scotto.

Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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1 year 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,

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

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

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

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

6 years ago – Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femmeGeotargetVisitor Map

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It took the better part of the day, but the commode is finished. Before starting, we had a big pancake breakfast, courtesy of BHK – Chris and BHK went shopping while Larry & I worked on the plumbing… timing was good… we finished about 15 minutes before they called to let us know that they were heading back, and we ended the day with Chinese food, and watching Men In Black.

Got a nice call from Danny, too – his wife is in Bangladesh, reviewing a clothing place’s quality control. I wonder what the quality of life is of the workers there.

Birthday is on Friday – Still not sure what, if anything will be happening for it. I suspect a quiet get-together with some family & friends… I’d like to see as much of the local gang make it if they can, but Friday night has got to be a tricky one, especially if it’s short notice. Given the current financial limits, I suspect the Wii will be a rain check item.

1 year ago – bro vs caller ID, picard vs chunk, countdown meme, flitwick,

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

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

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

5 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

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

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8703 – As missv is fond of saying – “Son, you’ve got a panty on your head”.

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Newt is buried up to his neck in laundry while I fold. I don’t blame him a bit.. warm and comfy on a drizzly rainy night!

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Watched Brothers Grimm (finally – I’ve been halfheartedly trying since it was in the theater!) and, despite the negative reviews… I like it.

Moment of Lyric –

Oh ry in eye ay – oh ry in eye ay
Oh ry in eye key ooh lay
Ka kay ooh lau ee – oh ry in eye
Say te lee ay vee show

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So, it’s PH day again, eh? I wonder how many people that were there are still left alive?

Had dinner out with Cyn, her pop, s0likear0se and bhk at a local watering hole, Westlawn… it’s on the boycott list again after missing its reprieve. lovely time with the crew, though… Newt was well-behaved. (as normal for folks that don’t actively seek his love… ignore him, and he’ll sneak up and snuggle.)

 
North Beach, MD map

Current weather forecast for North Beach, MD

Population (year 2000): 1,880. Estimated population in July 2005: 1,882 (+0.1% change)
Males: 886 (47.1%), Females: 994 (52.9%)

Calvert County

Zip code: 20714

Median resident age: 33.0 years
Median household income: $46,111 (year 2000)
Median house value: $116,000 (year 2000)

Races in North Beach:

  • White Non-Hispanic (87.8%)
  • Black (6.2%)
  • Hispanic (2.1%)
  • Two or more races (2.0%)
  • American Indian (1.6%)

Ancestries: German (22.5%), Irish (19.4%), English (14.9%), Italian (6.2%), United States (6.0%), French (4.0%).

compare to Deerfield

1 year ago -Saw Renee, sysadmin song, liz quit, year in review meme

2 years ago – Work blues, hey ya cb, marvel stamps, ufo theme

3 years ago – annoying words, possible friends list alteration, marshmallows &volcanoes, Rick James/Hulk, on call reduction, CS work-dolt, MM arrival, JL RIP.

4 years ago – mighty shopper, LA Story, keywords, rain

5 years ago – economics, WID gig, good gab, holiday cards

6 years ago – AOK, R d’E, RIP Klink, Golden goat

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Dined on the Weezle’s dad’s grapefruit for breakfast this morning (with a couple of tasty bagels), and they were jim-dandy, to say the least. Good stuff from Sanibel!

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Young Master Newton continues his silly habit of licking the condensation off of the windows of the living room. I think his purpose is twofold… tasty water, fresh from the pane, and clear view of outdoor squirrels!

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pictures from the licks this morning –

ah fink mah tug ith thuk.
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Um, what?

The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration’s crazy new HHS appointment.
By Amanda Schaffer
Originally Posted Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at 4:50 PM ET in Slate

On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation’s family-planning program got a new boss who doesn’t believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms “offer virtually no protection” against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. Continue reading 8670 – →

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8612 – 2 days to trip!

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Happy Birthday, graypumpkin!
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I didn’t get to hit ¡Viva Broward! yesterday… I ran out of time. Today, however is a new day… I think I’ll trundle down there for a midday bit of entertainment.

Got a mild interrogation from someone at the pool on the way back from grocery shopping yesterday. I was toting a double armload of groceries, heading to my place; when a guy at the pool area calls over to me.

Guy:”Hey, you!”
Me:”Hi! Can I help you?”
G:”Do you live here?”
M:”Yup!”
G:”Which unit?”
(*note* – at no time did he ask my name, or say anything in a non-interrogatory style. )
M:”323D… can I help you?”
G:”No, I just wanted to know.”
(*note* – Did he think I was a hoodlum of some sort? That I was going to use packages of peanut butter crackers, deodorant, light bulbs, and a half-dozen liters of Diet Doctor Pepper to do some crazy MacGuyver evil on the complex?)
M:”Oh. What unit do you live in?”
G:”304A”
M:”Nice place. Have a good one.”
And I walked away.
He didn’t reply.

Wacky.

I didn’t look shabby or anything… wearing a nice clean Hawaiian style golf shirt, short hair, clean shaved, maybe perspiring a bit, due to toting the barge.

I figure I can look him up in the condo directory later… I’ll get the lowdown from Jesus-bread lady and/or the Condo Superhero sometime today, I’m sure.

Via Jordon –

What would happen if everyone on Earth suddenly vanished without a trace? Although that’s totally impossible, of course, a new article speculates on how long it would take for all traces of today’s human civilization to be reclaimed by the earth’s natural processes.

eyeslikesugar has me wanting to play work time fun.

Moment of Lyric – mp3 (Via X-entertainment’s great halloween jukebox)

In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there’ll be hell to pay

People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity
I used to think the idea was obsolete
Until I heard the old man stamping his feet.

This is a place where eternally
Fire is applied to the body
Teeth are extruded and bones are ground
Then baked into cakes which are passed around.

Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement
Top skill and brain
But all the things you try to hide
Will be revealed on the other side.

Now the d and the a and the m
And the n and the a
And the t and the i-o-n
Lose your face, lose your name
Then get fitted for a suit of flame

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Beautifully done, if disturbing. via zefrank

1 year ago – rs promoted to “office manager”, existential supplies, on call, mcd’s veggie Indian fare, gp bday, sketchplanet, tightrope bear, weather rough, creepy doll pic, zodiac killer poll

2 years ago – GP b’day, more office bricolage, image searches, friendy-meme, crime-scene creepy crawlies

3 years ago – RSP poll, Gamma World Memories, How to shave a cat’s nose, FCC shenanigans

4 years ago – Sniper strikes again, weird news, Cool Rubik’s Cube, Bookworm (it’s on my palm, as I type), Nice thoughts, Painting minis, AW community gets uppity. it’s now deleted. Rote 560 with my bike in front, bathy-Newt

5 years ago – Colloidal silver, geek test, memories of my first adrenaline rush, Los Dias de los Muertos, pieces of eight

6 years ago – met agent orange, lite brite, 2am french toast run, painted desert dreamsGeotarget

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Pretty spiffy Zim and Kane Action this weekend. Il Postino was surprisingly good, too. (Saturday was spent watching Carnivale and writing. Drastic revisions to the detective story…I suspect I may be over-editing.

Cleansing chalk is better when it doesn’t have bacon in it. Space-time object replacement device is ready, too.

I didn’t venture any further than 25 steps from the HQ all weekend, and that’s really just fine by me. Only objectives left for today and depositing checks from doing tech support and click-through. As the top of August approaches, I’m wondering if it’ll get donated to heifer.org, or if there’s another good “help teach a man to fish” sort of orgs out there.

Moment of Lyric – vox location

King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man

One day a boy, too young to know the danger;
Made a friend of this giant fearsome stranger!
And the life they live on their island home became a legend, the legend of . . .

King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man

Throughout the land you’ve heard about this wonder
Listen closely and you will hear his thunder
This mighty ape can be a friend of men
So says the legend The legend of

King Kong you know the name of
King Kong you know the fame of
King Kong ten times as big as a man

Lordy-lordy, another Monday. Note to self, bring personal forcefield generator, hip-waders, and something to temporarily deafen and keep me looking awake. Oh yeah, and synch up some new books to the pda. I’m thankful for good thoughts that’re going to buoy me through the day.

mass of Mars = 6.4191 × 1023 kilograms
mass of the Moon = 7.36 × 1022 kilograms
mass of the Moon / mass of Mars = 0.114657818

Way off… why did I think that they were similar in size?

There’s talk of removing the local iguanas, because they’re spooking the ancients and are possibly carriers of disease.

I doubt that everything happens for a reason. (Or at least that there’s one “master plan”.)

1 year ago – visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank’s sing-along, AIM email, bananaman

2 years ago – zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test

3 years ago – celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk’s diary

4 years ago – palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!

5 years ago – important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot

6 years ago – junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinkyGeotarget

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8389 – Saturday. similar feeling as last weekend this time.

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Watched Iron Giant last night, for the first time in a few years. Still as excellent as I recalled. While it played on the TV, I unpacked a few of the boxes stowed by the bookcases that needed weeding out. Found a bunch of old Legion Comics which distracted me for a bit while I put ’em in order and put them at the bottom of the linen closet, for the lack of a better temperature-controlled location. Followed up with The Swarm. (An Irwin Allen Sci-fi stinko classic featuring Michael Caine shooting bees from his eyes.)

Cleaning Lady comes by today… after she’s done, I’ll probably go walkabout for a bit, if the weather’s right. I think a walk along the beach might be in order.

Cinnamon toast for breakfast! First time I’ve made it in years… it always reminds me of being a little kid.

Best Message board icon of the moment – 2 cats playing ping pong.

Some pics from yesterday –

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Cookie Monster Sticker Graffiti – Just kidding? On the rear exit of the Route 10.

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Bus stop – sunrise was like a fire boiling away clouds.. rain was happening a bit to the right.

Found a number of OTR podcasts… about 8-10 hours of classic stuff every week. Songbird is pretty handy there. Sort of disappointed in Penn Gilette’s show, so I’m almost all NPR, OTR, and Prairie Home Companion… oh, Stomp Tokyo and Marc Maron’s show. Sometimes I listen to them on the ride into/from work, while reading, and I sometimes blank out what I’m listening to.

Moment of mp3 – Cake – The Distance – It reminds me of the 90s.

1 year ago – Celine Dion as MJ, Tragic Darth, Boynton Tasering, great sunset, Firpo, MSK in NM w/UTI, look-around camera, sex-pred lj, chat w/sammy, tyrant in the house?, human trafficking, 20 questions meme

2 years ago – Dan visit and a caveman waitress, speaker scam, call me Q.

3 years ago – isketch, skeletor & gang, Scott-heroes, Wold Newton, I LIKE stuff, ugly Oz from MacFarlane toys

4 years ago – virus spam, moment of zen, gute fahrt, pet psychic, Crossing over guy,newtcam banner (Never did see it in rotation.), homepage design ideas

5 years ago – |337 translation guide, parse, fun turtle fact, ultrasonic cheesecharacteristics, Hello Kitty Douche, lj portal, long distance distress

6 years ago – nothin’Geotarget

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8337 – Only Thursday… or is it Thursday Already?

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I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?

That’s one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I’ve got about a decade’s worth of memories of High School world and times after… and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don’t have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev’s about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school… and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my “Computer Pals” (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It’s kind of funny… Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don’t know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes – for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we’ll talk again, but I’d put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can’t just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship… I don’t really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and “good old days” sort of stuff.

That’s the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends… if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem… ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about… but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting… Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.

Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.

Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo – about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.

Does impersonating W’s voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?

Moment of Lyric – MP3

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8317 – plop, plop, flappity flap flap.

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Another one to add to “reasons I wish I could copy images/sounds seen directly to paper with photo-realistic accuracy” list.

Sitting on the porch, daydreaming and idly stroking newton, I look at one of the palm trees trees by the lake. see a coconut drop, and for a split second notice that on top of the coconut, riding the 15 foot or so drop is a medium-small sized iguana… he leapt off before the brown, furry ball hit the water, and did a belly-flop of his own into the drink about a foot to the left of the fallen tree-fruit.

The twin splashes cause about a dozen ibis to launch up and out over the water.

I think I’m the only one who saw it… nobody down by the pool or walking around the lake from my vantage point, anyhow.. it was a visual treat, but all took place before I could even think of retrieving the camera from its pouch. Even Newt was oblivious, licking a pawGeotarget

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8162 – mmm zombie roaches!

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From The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation: (via flying_blind)

“Even though a goat ate my arm, thanks to the CGTF I’ve been able to stop hiding behind drugs and alcohol and face the world again. I’d recommend the CGTF to anyone!”

— Sean C., Centreville, VA

Sleepless in Seattle (stalker remix)

Evolution Schmevolution – Daily Show on Youtube

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8160 – too hot for tea, but I’ll take it anyway. It’s a nice day

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GeotargetWow, thanks everybody for all the warm birthday wishes! Also, thank you to Oneeyed and Sedef for the great gift! I’m not sure what I’m going to get with it yet!

Like Phil, I saw my shadow, so a bit more cool weather for me, I hope

I’m officially part of 40 faces now, too!

Had a nice day so far, slept in, played with Newt, rode the bike downtown and got my homestead, voter’s registration, and ID all straightened out for the new address. I think I’m pretty much done transferring stuff to the new place, now. The new Florida state ID cards are pretty, and apparently I straighten out to 6’6″ on the wall height chart.

Buckle up! – Video testing an unmanned Plane vs. Concrete safety wall. Wall wins.

Got this from acoolsecretary :

Yay, monkey!

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Also, very cool cards from Mom and Ldy, not to mention swell waves in other folk’s Journals and websites.

Danny’s getting sick, so probably no get-together tomorrow. Poor guy sounds more disappointed than I am that he’ll have to use his sick day actually being sick. My Plan B? Probably go to the spa and get a sports massage and try to get some jacuzzi-time in.