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9829 – Friday

Hard to believe it’s only been 3 years since I was first planning to visit BHK on her birthday. Funny to me how little I can think of life prior to being married to her, and having our crew of four under the roof.

I’m in the office now, taknig a brief break from gig-searching to catch myself up on LJ. Larry is setting up BHK’s Best Birthday Present Ever ™- a widening of the closet door in our bedroom. For the record, I also proposed to BHK on her birthday, 3 years ago in two weeks. Heck, she’d have wanted closet spasce, even if single.

33333333333333333333333333333333  – Newton’s left foot on the number pad says hello. Pye is sleeping on the purple chair to my left, and Netwon has leapt to the couch on my right (newtcam couch) and will be in sleepytown soon.


Here’s a breakdown of my music via Media Go

music layout

According to my SenseMe playlist – the fastest/happiest song is a three way tie –

  • Get a Job – The English Beat
  • The Famous Polka – They Might Be Giants
  • B-52s Cosmic Thing.

Slowest Saddest songs are also a 3-way tie –

  • Matt Lauer can suck it – Michael Gaicchino (Land of the Lost Soundtrack)
  • Running to the Rain – Peter Gabriel
  • Ballero – War

I seem to have mostly happy, mid-speed songs in my library.


I am really interested in a few new looney labs releases – Aquarius 2.0 and Chrononauts: The Gore Years expansion

(Chrononauts 1.4 The Gore Years: Like Aquarius, Chrononauts is also about to get upgraded to the new uniform box. But although it will feature a couple of new cards and a new rulesheet, the new edition of Chrononauts won’t be very different from the original. For this reason, and since it’s the fourth printing, they’ve decided to call it version 1.4. However, since a lot has happened since 1999 and Chrononauts is really showing its age, theyere also creating an expansion product that brings the TimeLine into the 21st Century. This packet of 11 cards will feature 5 new Timeline cards (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2008) along with 3 new Patches and 3 new characters who need to change recent events in order to get home. (Of course, it’s called the Gore Years because that’s what the last 8 years are known as to certain time travelers.). Release date: October 23th.

(Martian Fluxx, too, but not as much as the other two)

Additionally – I’d like to try Apophis sometime as a game. Looks neat, and I have all the pieces already to play!


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1 year ago – temp filling, need crown, knife wilding robot doodle, pedegg, german boardgames usually lack dice, Bengies, Mayor’s Drug raid – he’s innocent, cops shot his dogs, bro at 44 points, faces of evil project

2 years ago – dc to nyc bus, pg county car chase update, chocolate gum, ex debt, louise fadeout, ljopoly, cruel 2 b kind assassination game

3 years ago – finished pride & pred / monkey politics, Newt pic, kid rolling ajoint on the bus, solar powered sun bricks, firkin, 8500, flying model plane in miami, flight plans to maryland

4 years ago – deepest sender, jumping pictures, walkabout autostitch, mangrove tunnels

5 years ago – tmbg thoughts, sugar water vid, space issues, Rick James dead, Burpin’ at Newt, Magical Trevor, cocktail demons, nifty charts, Newt Videos, CoH Pix

6 years ago – Zombies, Army Men, mean cannibal pudding, time travel spam, vampire game, celeb phone calls, cej chat, bro request

7 years ago – Earth and Beyond Playtest, Kev & Bailey, fat parrots, french fry girl palm doodle

8 years ago – harried, inculpate, plane lands just down the road on andrews as a makeshift runway and kits my regular bus, wondering about lj’s image server (still not ready!), happy thoughts, magic can of soda

9 years ago – grumping, Space cowboys shows old man butts Geotarget

9392- Saturday –

Went to Aardvark and picked up Mosquito, Humans!!, and Toledo (BHK got comics – Archies 60’s and Archies 70s, to go with her 80’s book… and NYX.)

Mike kindly threw in a Zombie Fluxx flamethrower expansion pack… and we got a 1,2,5! card, too! I was surprised that we hadn’t gotten that promo in the mail from the Looney Labs directly yet.. I’m glad Aardvark is looking out for us! May hang out with Mike & Tara sometime – brought ’em veggies from the garden – pickle salad recipes.

Went to the other Mexico restaurant… *that’s* where the chef went! Food was great, and the decor was really sweet, too. It’s usually a 7-8 at the other place, it was maybe a 8-9 at this location – a little hard to find from the road… there’s another Mexican restaurant coming up on the corner – I fear that might mean trouble for Mexico’s Lusby site.

While we were there, we spotted a neat kit-tricycle vehicle – see photos below. click to embiggen.

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We got home, and crashed out.. both BHK and I have been really fatigued lately… summer heat? I’m sure I left something out – I’ll leave it to BHK to remind me.

Until Later, Dear journal.



Elephant painters!



A million decapitated Darth Vader heads, artistically decorated.



1 year ago – stinky on the bus doodle, meteors, metro bomb?, dresden canceled, SLorpedo, doodles, game design, newton leap pic

2 years ago – looking forward to Autumn, man who knew too much, pumpkins, que sera sera, florida health inspection resource

3 years ago – teacher memories, bro, shogun warriors (including great mazinga), 1970s Spanish Adult Movie Posters, Pic of Danny and I as heroclix fight an oncoming zombie and lobster-man menace.

4 years ago – Alabama, chatty-newt, spiky moods, war ellies, world audit, hijabs, olympic torrents, fake beheading.

5 years ago – vampire monkey dream, programming, puzzle pirates, nicotini, quizzes and kama sutra safe sex, blunt truth, mehndi designs

6 years ago – istockphoto, emergency day at work early-arrive (I wonder what’d happen if Sappho and Kev were out at the same time, now?), escape from alcatraz w/bro, misc meter quizzes, looking for cave/sea piccies

7 years ago – scud, agon, evil news, Wally out of the loop (he’s still awaiting trial for some of his crimes), Thai din din, colon contents, just finding out about bubba-Ho tep

8 years ago – geophagyGeotarget Geotarget

9268 – Sunday –

Bagel, cream cheese, strawberries and pineapple for breakfast – BHK and I slowly worked our way into the morning today.

In-laws came over to do some gardening with BHK- all of it clothed, thanks. Tilled the area, replanted our “volunteers”, potatoes, zucchini, cabbage and carrots that came back after last year’s planting. I’m really looking forward to seeing what sprouts first!

I was feeling pretty out of it today – rested from 1pm to 5, and off to bed now at 10. I hope I’ve got my brains back together for tomorrow… I imagine that I will.



Better link for Oshi – I could easily turn it into a 2house game… perhaps call it Martian Push or even code it for online play, if copyright issues didn’t exist.



I know I’ve linked here before but I really want a secret door from these guys. Perhaps in a dresser leading to the crawlspace under the stairs?

Microsoft’s not only delaying Windows XP SP3 temporarily, but they’re also pulling off Windows Vista SP1—which has already been pushed out to automatic software update—because of potential incompatibilities. Most of us don’t need to worry about it since this is just an issue with MS’s SQL Servers that affect Microsoft Dynamics Retail management systems. Unless you’re running a SQL database at home to track the chore distribution for your family, you can go ahead and manually fetch the update and install it yourself.



1 year ago – 2 fun days coming up, super sleepy, ace of cakes, blood donation, cath engaged (now married!), first journey to Aardvark, car heartbeat sensor useless vs undead, sliders pic

2 years ago – pizza hut pondering, inc. PamM, Brent Ashland, and Steve Jacoby, carrageenan, southerner, wayward son, pictures of golden morning, sniffy newt

3 years ago – enzyte, fishbone, newton at kittenwar, bro lesson, interview meme

4 years ago – crazy-face pic, rainy-day pictures, jb finds me a local house on ebay (only 3.8 Mil!)

5 years ago – Mayah talk, D&C 2 months into another kidlet, icepacks, thinking about 5/5

6 years ago – Kazaa lite, passing osbournes along, gamelan music

7 years ago – mushy, ullage, purple cow, backdating implementedGeotarget




Writer’s Block: If at first you don’t succeed… entry 9210

Chess. I love games, gaming, and just hanging out over a board with pieces on them… I’m quite good at checkers, pente, risk, miniatures wargaming (like car wars, Angriff!, OGRE or see icon of Danny playing Pirates), assorted icehouse and bar games, but…I simply stink at good ol’ classic chess.

I’m generally better at tactics than strategy, but I just can’t get an opening set of moves that is acceptable at all. I’m not sure why my skill with that particular game is so low – I suspect a mental block or some working of my brain just doesn’t visualize the pieces as well.Geotarget

9194 – friday

Dinner with Cathy & Dave tonight… say goodbye to any saved points when I have a slice of birthday cake. (sans army men). We played a bit of apples ot apples afterward, with Larry winning the first round, I won the second.


Added image to “The Good Life” for photo Friday – me and Newt Snoozing. (#127 )


50 things I’ve done meme continues with item 34. I…

34.’helped to plan, plant and harvest a family garden for the first time last spring. I really thought a 10 x 12 foot patch wouldn’t produce more than a little vanity salad food, but we got a huge crop, especially of peppers, zucchini and cucumbers. My faves were the potatoes and zucchini.. oven baked goodness. BHK turned my lifelong disdain for zucchini into love with her baked veggies in soy flour, and covered in tomato sauce. Yum. Potatoes, I’ve always had a fondness for.


I guess I’m coming late to this info, but per springheel jack – “RIP Basic (ad-free) Accounts. Your current ‘basic’ accounts are supposedly grandfathered (until they decide otherwise), but no new ones can be created. Communities too.”


The 8th Icehouse Game Design Competition is underway, and any previously unpublished game that uses Looney Labs’ Icehouse pyramids can be submitted. The deadline for entry is June 20th. Whether or not you enter, you can participate in the judging process. Details at the link above.


Current day’s eats:

Breakfast –

two breakfast granola bars

snack –

unsweetened applesauce / pretzel sticks
diet coke

lunch –

veggie pocket pie
veggies and rice

dinner –

3 slices of medium cheese and veggie pizza
Birthday cake and ice cream!


1 year ago – kitty feeding, the host, no cable modem yet.

2 years ago – sleepy, newt playing and chitty chatting, palm doodle, wifi hotsync, safety ape, sex offenders, mulligrubs

3 years ago – hello tomorrow, Robots movie, found art pictures, alligator sounds/swamp witch, silly putty, pi day, IR webcam hack, free fonts, tallyhall, ashes scattered, polar bears, open records, memory meme

4 years ago – subpages broken, Shazam!, Dead Like Me, CS sucks as a tech, vamp game

5 years ago – walkabout pics, lovieness, got unreal server hopping

6 years ago – mush, Roman tub, dreams of owning a pet grooming store, insurance woes, and palm doodles

7 years ago – Happy b’day kundalinidreams (no longer ljing), Dkmfkmkglklkgbkvbkbv,looking for a job as demagogue…(I’ll still take it, if anyone’s wanting), happy unbirthday to me, uck!, edit this page (now dead),sop, a timeline of Scotto history,veggie lo mein, muppet trivia, and Rolf singing you and I and GeorgeGeotarget

9074 – Thursday

Chinese food tonight! Yum, and Hooray!

BHK and David went to the thrift store today – brought home some treasures :

She got me a comic book of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham‘s first appearance in Marvel Tales (Tails). I actually dug Steve Mellor’s art in Goose Rider and the cover even more than the main story.

A black embroidered shirt, and a yellow sweatshirt, both in excellent condition.

Also picked up a pretty broad assortment of books – to be cataloged later.

Also, squid shake.

Cancel that.

After Din-din, we jammed a bit – David on acoustic guitar, Larry on mandolin, and me on the bass. It was fun, but I was full of food and very sleepy, so we cut it pretty short.


The DORmino concept uses an oversized mousepad to soak up the bleedout warmth of a laptop, which embedded electronics convert and transmit to power a wireless mouse. No need to recharge, no dead batteries to pollute the environment.

I need something like that to charge my electronics, based on the warmth I throw off… If I can knock out a baby or a small animal with my temperature, surely the therms could keep my blackberry and digicam juiced up for when I want to use em! How handy would that be for other stuff… a trickle charger in the sofa to keep the remote powered!

I’m just saying.


Looks like the one over-enthusiastic and socially frustrated gamer-type on the icehouse mail list is taking an indefinite leave of absence. I wonder what it’ll be like with a better signal-to-noise ratio ? Half the reason I lost interest in pyramid games and participation on the list was due to that guy… maybe the group will get back into friendly design mode rather than debates about wiki formatting and award shows.


Note to self – make a ghost statue.


Pretty keen – Microwave glucose sensor.

For diabetics, the daily routine of pricking their finger to check blood-sugar levels can be an annoying and inconvenient task. But now, a Baylor University researcher has developed an electromagnetic sensor that could provide diabetics a noninvasive alternative to reading their blood glucose levels, and new research shows the sensor works and is effective.


Today’s search engine hits of my journal – someone really wants to see bunnies melt!

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chocolate haas
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armored polar bear
melting chocolate pictures
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calvert county and motorcycle shop train
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compliments for a lady
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weather on February 28, 2008, washington
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“pomonkey indians”
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two such as you with such a master speed
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crabs for christmas mp3
“dicecapades”
armored bear
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grotto in maryland pictures
lj scotto
melting bunnys
octopus+mr.potato head+video
chocolate rabbit melt video
potato head birthday cake
prank bots
xenobiology pictures
bird dung good luck
aardvark videos calvert county
joe carnival shoes
pictures of chocolate melt

and on my website as a whole –

hero machine
melons
freaky
heromachine
mothra
newtcam
freaky pictures
boners
shrieker
listerine
scotto
death note oekaki
humility
jetpacks
scottobear.com/toybox/hmach10/heromachine.html
yoruichi
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cracks.me ataxx
disco gif
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1 year ago – email responses still slow, thrift store near andrews, county called for an interview, how I will die

2 years ago – shout run, booze song, ms ipod packaging, 60’s wonder woman tv show, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos, googler hacks, bible promotes cooking with poop, ADS weapon

3 years ago – sleepy, bye-bye feb, bok sanctuary, renfaeries, almost saw PM, lightning bolt!, oscars, klaxon, WWII tech, leaper, writing on the run, gorilla nip lawsuit, john irving, NA birds, george wendt decapitated, Hally razzie, FUD-o-pedia, kerby fanmail

4 years ago – Superhero dreams, chant poll

Leap Year, 2004 – art, buttons, beach erosion, dreams, and bro update

5 years ago – Dexter-doggie, filtered legal question, Stressy-day

6 years ago – Clucky-newt, Zorkbot, water-cooled notebooks, Dooce fired over her journal, 3d html, wcag in haiku

7 years ago – news links, monkey robbers, gallery of huge beings, Vehicle mounted active denial system, Invictus, OzymandiasGeotarget

9068 – Tuesday

Got my last filling (and the broken filling repaired) last night – On our way home, The ATW man had shed his Spidey Costume, and is now preparing for winter! BHK thought he was killing a turkey, but it turns out that he’s just chopping some wood.

Full size is the best way to catch any detail. I rather like the amorphous white blob the light makes… I pretend it’s The Man’s alien friend, blinky.

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Since he didn’t numb me very effectively, the anesthetic wore off in under 20 minutes. I was able to enjoy a little stuffed crust pie… and a few quepapas (tasty glorified tater tots) for a lead-in.


I’m about done with Penguin Soccer… it just doesn’t stand up to 4-player, and 2-playerwise… I think that the novelty has worn off. Even with a few tweaks, it just needs more work. I’m leaning more towards Binary Homeworlds and Martian Chess as far as icehouse / pyramid games of choice stand out. A few games of Zamboni Wars might bump that into the running, too.

Game design on Pumpkin has come to a standstill… I need to pick up the pen and get back on working the crimps out of a few sticky elements. (Not to Mention Giants and Dwarfs / Brier Patch )

For a lot of Playable games (and more than a few not-so-playable ones) , icehouse.org is still pretty handy. I’m not doing the competition this winter, as I prefer to try and design a good game first, and then worry about what pieces are needed – rather than the other way around. Heck, you can play Martian chess with pennies, nickels and quarters if you wanted to.

Homeworlds seems a lot simpler to play in person than on superdupergames, but it is nice having the hard-coded rules keeping track of what can and can’t be done.


BHK made a tasty cake for the gang’s thanksgiving at work… orange cake with a cranberry drizzle on top. Yummy… vaguely reminded me of fruit loops.


Newton and Pyewacket are getting to be quite the little chums… perhaps it’s due to the colder weather, but they’re downright affectionate with one another these days. Newt lovingly headbutted Pye the other night – that’s something totally unanticipated.


Kindle looks nifty, but $400 is way too much to spend. I’d probably totally snag it for $200, so maybe next year. I’ll be very interested to see where the next version of the technology goes… but it’d be worth it for just free rss reading and wikipedia on the fly, along with whatever books I put on there myself. Throw in some basic PDA functionality, and you’ve got me, but good. EV-DO could work wonders, too. It reads prc files, so all of my palm ebooks would be just fine, too.


Two interesting links, especially for around thanksgiving – Sent to me by BHK Both give food to the needy by asking for a story from you or just improving your vocabulary.

Click here: Tell Story | Spread The Sharing
Click here: FreeRice


1 year ago – more sanibel pictures and talking a bit about the trip

2 years ago – arsenic & old lace, book fair, gamma passes, newt pics, missed uber, NYPL Digital Gallery, broward #1 for AIDS

Pictures – junk shop pictures – lots of crazy statuary / monkey / eagle / chandeliers

3 years ago – torrenting, Brisco’s Pete, theme music, dictionareoke, flash games, cosplayers, mel

4 years ago – bro responsored by viper, GP stuff, palm art

5 years ago – accexpo, gossamer and gollum (later Jinx and Felix), Christmas specials

6 years ago – Cranberry Sauce, walkies, haiku, wacky news

7 years ago – Bob Marley, Roy likes to destroy, danigolden asks if she can add me to her friends list. (I say sure!)Geotarget Geotarget

9003 wed

transcribed and backdated for catch up.

Holy cow – Last night was nuts. Fever dreams of being compressed and spread out over a latticework of red and purple circles – I felt like I was a wad of pizza dough, being roasted and smashed… stretched and smeared while being roasted from inside. Combine suffocation with the feeling of having your joints twisted.

It sucked. Sure, not so bad now that it’s passed, but heck… that may’ve been the worst fever/fever dream I’ve ever had.

BHK and the boys have been sweethearts and help immensely.

Caught up with out Tivo’ed Kitchen Nightmares – both British and USA versions. Also bagged some Eureka, the new House, too. There are benefits of being so wrecked that you can’t read a book or surf the web properly, after all!

I’m still of the opinion that UK’s Ramsey is far different than the USA one, but the American gross-out factor is winning me over a bit. Cripes… I don’t know why they don’t just shut a place down entirely if they get caught serving food that could kill a person.

Turning Points is dangerously similar to my concept for Pumpkin… I may need to revise my maze-y aspect to the game. Worse yet, it may be a better game! Pumpkin may go into a fundamental rethink at this point.


1 year ago – I want to be Dr. Killenger, late night bro call, pancakes,

2 years ago – bro, bullfighting – with milk, peas, newt pic, king tut

3 years ago – elbo room with fembots, publicity, metaVNC, Nushu dies, retro, 939,000people are without power, Asian Soul, electoral votes, Anne Ricelambastes on amazon / gaiman’s reply

4 years ago – Tree, Dr. Who, work, man eating plants, fairy tales, tarot, schizophrenia

5 years ago – cat/dog mummies, color illusion, headache, palm doodles

6 years ago – battle of New Orleans, enemies, grumbly, Cathi & me at the beach

7 years ago – pv entries Geotarget

9002 – tues

I’m feeling a little sick today – sore joints, sore throat, only on the right-hand side. Getting chills – I rarely get cold. (edit – I’m full blown destroyed. by the time I got home, I could barely walk or function. Severe fever, muscle aches. went to bed on arrival, and burned up all night)


Surprised that nobody commented on the video. I may start putting more in there, depending on what happens where.
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Also forgot to post the giant sponge bob in the hay maze. He’s about 25 feet tall.


BHK spotted Cranium Triple Triumph at target – I wonder how hard it’d be to convert to icehouse? (Rules here) Maybe a variant, at least, using stacking and mono-colors.

She also brought home lots of fun loot for Halloween. Orange/mango candy corn, Dwight Schrute fridge magnets, and a cool back-lit pirate silhouette!


Yesterday was national punctuation day… flying blind let me know a bit late… I was fortunate to slip in an interrobang, but didn’t get to use some great marks that are non-standard, but highly useful –

asterism ( )
index/fist ( )
therefore sign ( )
lozenge ( )
interrobang ( )
irony mark ( ؟ )
reference mark ( )
sarcasm mark


The quiz that’s making the rounds… it looks like all the numbers are intact… or at least they’re in sequence. I wonder how many there were from the beginning?
Continue reading 9002 – tues

9001 – Monday

Hm… Archie McPhee has some nifty zombie toys. I wonder how they’d look on my desk at work? I wonder what other folks would think?

Tigger gaining weight – put her on diet kitty food… I wonder if she thinks that she needs to stock up, in case of being on her own again? She’s not as svelte as she used to be. I think Newt and Pye need to visit her, and give her a running around the house partner or two.

I was creaky this weekend, but am feeling better this evening. A severe case of stumble-thumbosis overcame me this weekend, possibly due to poor sleep on Saturday? Well rested today, and things seem much more in control.

We opened up the pickles ! While a trifle mushy, they aren’t nearly as over-spicy as I’d feared. I wonder how Miz Pix is doing, speaking of pickles?

Final counts on the 2007 summer Icehouse game competition are in – Pylon , Subdivision and Zamboni Wars won the challenge. I’m surprised that Penguin Soccer didn’t do better. All the victors have valid games, but PS just had a fun theme and a reasonable set of rules, especially the 2-player option. I think that it seemed a little skewed, given that they didn’t penalise missing entries.

More pictures of yesterday’s shenanigans – A Corn Cop, Bunnies, and a pumpkin patch.

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And an eye-eating monster.

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1 year ago – Zombies, Acronyms, RSP, eudcedit, Roddy w/silly string,

2 years ago – bro rehab issues, fun in 2nd life, riverwalk, 404 fun, spidey song, pinwheels / world peace day pics, reggae

3 years ago – MM issues, water, C-Mon & Kypski’s – Shittybum, Ookla, picture meme. 4 years ago – IHOP with Kev & Bheesh, Rose, Zombie Pinups, Space Art in Kids books, Title caps.

5 years ago – mental fog, Finn & Chupa aren’t loved, sculpey, eraser clay

6 years ago – Fussing sans A/C, Word association poll, KFC Japan

7 years ago – The Laundry event, Newt, Cherry Coke, Quit the Everway Group Geotarget

8999 – Sat

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made a volcano board tile for some of the test games I’ve been working on, while bhk made a franken-mug – I goofed, and did black lines between the squares… I suspect that it’d have looked better if I’d left ’em on white. Ah well, live and learn. Only $7 to make a 6″ square tile.. I imagine that I’ll be making more in the near future. BHK has been there before, has made several mugs of assorted green-tints.

Pictures shown of BHK’s mug and my tile are pre-firing – they’ll be much more vibrant and glossy once put to the flame.

Also shown – cool Halloween bowl that we wish to replicate, only more “Day of The Dead-ish”, and the boys lurking on newtcam.

1 year ago – script experiment, ze statement, usb charger, boogie man, goodie basket, pictures of newt, crane-bird, building, quizzes

2 years ago – meemee beedee, Rita, austin weather feed, Autumn Begins, 2nd life Gor, newt profile pic, Lost torrenting, work hubbub

3 years ago – equinox, nice walk, the soul, cdc on hurricane Charley, ghost closes school, FF, Hero Machine 2.0, 444, SOP-cej

4 years ago – Rude blackout, follow-up on Ohio explosion, bro in a different sort of lockup, Moon-power, human-decay research facility

5 years ago – Long walkies, Fred Ward, Mintyass, Heads up about the FLIFF.

6 years ago – Autumn, Handy stuff Poll, Nastrology, Dale & I tell folks to beat it, Chupacabra, Comfy & Minty, Halloween poll

7 years ago – ABC’s of TV, Net Lies, Deciding about both game groups, fun movies Geotarget

8997 – Thurs

Overslept – quick post while BHK gets ready. I feel bad – I wasn’t ready when my ride came to get me to the train.

Yummy, simple meals lately. Stir-fry broccoli w/tofu and carrot over brown rice day before yesterday and garden burgers with fried potatoes last night. Good stick to your ribs type stuff.

Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares – USA is a bit different than the UK version. I anticipate a physical fight in one of these, given our continent’s “Wild West” proclivities. You just can’t bawl some people out like he does.

Good synopsis here.


Game ideas developing in my head – Giants and Dwarfs, Pumpkin, and Rabbit, Fox, Bear (Brier Patch) – all are in the most germ-like beginnings.

Giants and Dwarfs is an “ants vs elephant” or Ogre “Big tank(s) vs many infantry” type theme.

Pumpkin is a multi-player maze game through a pumpkin patch. Possibly Team oriented, or every man for himself. (or both.) I like the idea of using eeore’s chessboard wedges for each player. Complexity seems to go up per increment/player.

RFB is a variation on King’s Table. (Hunter vs hunted) – Added theme of a Brier patch, and Uncle Remus.


Fun Quiz… I’m especially partial to the program that assembles the blueprint parts together!

Your home is a

Gamer’s Hideout

Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There’s a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven’t had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images of Mario and Link. Your study includes unread copies of various gamer magazines, each purchased for the free demo CDs.

Your home also includes a roost for griffons. You’ve never actually seen a griffon, but you keep the roost ready anyway. Your guests enjoy your collection of every console and associated game ever made. Except the Intellivision — those controllers drive them NUTS. Outside is the moat that protects your home from goblin invaders and extended family.

Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Find YOUR Dream Home!

We do have a moat, actually – and our pantry is similar.


1 year ago – Hump-day, shh-pirates,

2 years ago – rita – schools closed, buses don’t run, caramel creams, hamster ball gun, cork soakers, political test, poopdeck, hurricane news, browardnoaa, beauty products made from executed chinese prisoners, lj interests meme, big bunny

3 years ago – sema photo, Prisoner / Columbo, Brazil / slavery, mirrors, sneaky work pic

4 years ago – Button Men, Cully, on the bridge, jeb, weight loss, scampi, ready for ‘ween

5 years ago – mst, ipod, hubzilla, cancer research, newton screen saver, cool paper models, riker vs riaa, palm doodle

6 years ago – annus mirabilis, phoons, nice weather, burger king, WHAT IS GRIMACE poll

7 years ago – UAS, Hodey-ohten-doten-day, 7 deadly sins, other employees burnout at acim, registered sex offender counts Geotarget

8995 tues

Discussions last night include a few oddball words and definitions.

Macerated (person meant lacerated, I think)
bob’s your uncle (Person used “your aunt’s your uncle”)
how’s your father (Person outright disbelieved the slang usage, and I was surprised to find out it was more than just a “rub”)

BHK likes Siouxie and the Banshees, and mocks Devo. I like ’em both, but I reverse the charges just to be contrary.

We opted out of Yo-yo girl cop… didn’t hold us for 30 min, not worth continuing. Instead, we went with Ramsey’s Kitchen nightmares.


Forgot to mention yesterday that La Fiesta is dropping in our estimation (save for the yummy mole’) and Mexico restaurant is becoming a clear winner.

Maggie Moo’s Caramel ice cream mixes well with the chocolate fudge.

I eat chips and salsa poorly with a numbed upper lip.


Capitol City Carnival… Maybe I’ll see if BHK and I can swing by. I do like me some Fishbone.


ATW man has returned! apparently, Aliens had abducted him.

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Like I was telling Kat – I smell a rat… and I suspect a pod-person duplicate!
He doesn’t have the teeth the old one had, nor the bondo-like skin.


on-demand, social manufacturing; design, share, and buy laser-cut products from a variety of materials

Lots of gameboard ideas going on, especially volcano. I’m thinking about variants of color, size and shape could be a lot of fun. A custom volcano board with a green top and frosted clear bottom would be great fun for under-lighting, and perfect for me.. especially if I can build the whole thing to spec.

Also thinking about custom etching designs on the surface… there’s a lot of potential here.

Vector drawing is key – I should ask Sammy how he’s progressing in that arena. Heck, I should just say hi to him, anyhow! Maybe Cyn would have an interest in this, too. She’s got some keen illustration skills. (Though my crude palm doodles might look sort of nifty etched on stuff, too.)
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Speaking of laser cut stuff, I love this guy’s custom skateboards.


1 year ago – seminole casino, georgia aquarium, whale shark, ludwig ii, simple spectrometer

2 years ago – calvin-faced kid, GROW, hung out w/ Dan, icons, net vibes, power dresser, newt pics, he-man’s cover of what’s up

3 years ago – 50 first dates, Ghost in the shell 2, King Kong, ape man

4 years ago – on call wakeup, misc work, talk like a pirate day coming up, MOND – (Modified Newtonian Dynamics)

5 years ago – Isidore, nearby hobby store, swapped a bunch of old MtG for MK, speed of light broken, Carpe Vultus, freeflow work and slack, palm doodles, riaa/piracy hits work

6 years ago – carby dindin, veggie shepherds pie recipe in comments, boonga boonga, p-funk lj, NIMDA PSA, who would buy that?, FART KNOCKER, mush

7 years ago – fool on the hill, meemee makes a googly eyed icon for me, Monday slowpoke, stun-yell, I opt out of papahood, movies with hippies Geotarget

8994 – mon

Relaxing nighttime plans for BHK and me the coming week or so ahead:

Yo-yo Girl Cop, The Number 23, and a few rousing games of Penguin Soccer, Martian Chess and Zamboni Wars over popcorn should set us right. Tucking into bed early so we can be up for tomorrow’s Bluegrass Festival.

BHK has been excelling at boardgames lately, especially territory types like Othello(Reversi), Ponte del Diavolo , Just 4 Fun and as always, Pente(we both seem to prefer the 2 or 3-capture variant Keryo-Pente). I still am partial to Hexxagon, Hey-That’s my Fish, and Carcassone H&G (She also is superb at those) – I’m really beginning to dig War of the Roses, which I wouldn’t mind tweaking a bit into an Icehouse/treehouse game.

Speaking of games… Talisman is back? I wonder if they fixed some of the unbalancing aspects, or if they’re remaining true to the original.


Virtually no homeless issues in North Beach… mainly because there’s no support system here… however, I’ve noticed that there are many, many tent cities under the bridges in DC, especially near to the subway track zones. I had my first experience with a guy coming onto the subway, and doing the “may I have your attention, would someone please give me 25 cents so I can get a bus at the next stop?” – I hadn’t seen that since riding the bus in Broward / Dade.


Trip to the doc implies some work to be done. Dentally, I need a mouthful of fillings. Elsewhere, I need to work on my weight, my allergies, my back and leg.

All things in time – Got a few fillings yesterday I need to do 2 or 3 more visits. the bridge and cracked tooth will be dealt with in January.


Random find. A solar-powered bible. Perfect for the Christian Castaway, I guess!


Oh, come on… now the smeller is blamed rather than the smelly? Stinky is in the nose of the sniffer? I’ll leave out the almost obligatory sci-fi / gaming convention comment.

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8986- sun

They set up the hay-bale spider at the pumpkin patch!!

Slept in until about 10, and then we toddled off to the Renfaire. Highlights of the day were Johnny Fox, Hack & Slash, Swami Yohmahmi, Horsemen, Bear-baiting and Witch Trial, and time at the Kadon games building again. BHK and I swapped off on taking pictures with the new camera – viewable here.

Green CanopyRenFest treesAs You Like It by Wm. ShakespeareS6300066Orc in a Cumberbund

Orc with a MohawkFOOD COURT!Kicking up some dust!Bright Colors Shiny Metal

S6300122S6300121Nail from Swami's noseSwami lies on broken glass with a man standing on him!

Swami Yomahmi Nails a nail into his head.Swami Yo walks on Glass with a piggybackerWitch trial!!Swami Yomahmi walks on GlassPink Cottage of Jewels

The ol' whipping the cigarette out of the mouth trick.Green man on the treeKing Henry and his entourageKing and GamesmistressWhip Trick with Unsuspecting Audience Victim

Henry's guys..colorful packHack and Slash as Charlie's AngelsKing Henry the 8th charms the ladies.Underwear TrickTense Moment before he lies on Bed of Nails

Ladder Climbing with Underwear around his anklesSlide Down the HillProud of his Scale MailPeeking SunNut Boy and Pretzel Dude Aggravate Sweet Nut Gal

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BHK got pulled into participation on two shows, as well – As Hack’s Mom in the Cruel and Unusual Show, and face-spike examiner (she got to keep the spike – eww) at the Swami’s. Also obtained was a Swami Yo sticker.

We looked at quite a few boardgames, but none grabbed us hard enough for an immediate purchase. I was a little disappointed in Y, (it seemed a bit limited) but Star may have some longer-term potential – maybe a bit too much like go, though. I’d say that my favorite of the wooden games so far is still Quintillions– I’m tempted to make my own set as well as purchase the original from the source. The Kadon people have some nifty plastic art/ game boards… I wouldn’t mind commissioning a custom 8×8 volcano-type one with a frosted transparent bottom for playing sleestak/pylon icehouse games.

Food Sampled at the Fair by BHK and/or me –

Mac & Cheese on a stick.
BBQ Turkey on a bun (BHK only)
Deep-fried Oreos (I wonder how many days-worth of calories *that* was?)
Broccoli Cheese Soup in a bread bowl
[edit: Chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick!]
A ton of water / diet pepsi

Went right from the Rennfest to the in-laws for supper… like we could eat anything after all of that stuff… still, I managed a plate, sans seconds.

snagged from all over-

1. Whats something thats heavily weighing on your mind?
Solidification of current programming tasks overseas. taking time, doing it right.

2. Whats one thing you’ve learned from a good friendship gone bad?
Communication is key.

3. Whats one thing you’ve learned lately from love?
There’s a time to lead, and a time to follow… mostly though, it’s a time to walk side by side.

4. Is there anyone special in your life in general at the moment?
Dern tootin’!

5. Whats a happy time you’ve had in the past week?
I’ve had quite a few! Review the last 7 days in the journal for more info. Overall, I just love being with BHK.

6. Is there anything in your past that you’d like to try again?
I don’t want one of those weird time-travel paradox things to break my current existance, which is pretty dang keen. a simulation viewer, sure, I wouldn’t mind seeing a few revisions on key events in school, socialization, and so on.

7. Who do/did you like to spend your nights with?
BHK, Newt, Pye.

8. Are you an emotional person?
I certainly can be.

9. Are you self conscious?
I can be shy at times, or concerned about “bull in a china shop” syndrome.

10. Do you think of others before yourself?
Generally so, but I have lapses.

11. What’s something that can always make you feel better?
BHK hugs, Newt Headbutts, Pye flurfies.

THERE IS NO NUMBER 12. Why do people remove questions?!?!

13. Where do you see yourself this time next year?
Pretty much the same, only more stable financially and physically.

14. Do you tend to make relationships complicated?
I try to simplify them.

15. Who do you feel the most comfortable around?
BHK

16. Is there something that you’re waiting for?
I tend to take things as they come – But I’m looking forward to October.

17. One thing you’re not looking forward to?
Getting my fillings next week. I am looking forward to *after* getting them, though.

18. How do you feel about change?
It can be good, it can be bad. Take ’em both and there you have… the facts of life.

19. What are you most looking forward to?
The rest of my life.

20. What are your plans for your next birthday?
That’s in February… I don’t know just yet, but I imagine it’ll involve family, cake and a buttered nose.

21. Do you even care about your birthday?
Not really… I like the social gathering, cake and presents, though!!

22. Do you think anyone in general out there loves you?
I feel certain that it’s so.

23. When do you think the world will end?
My world, humanity as a whole, or planet earth? I think that Earth will be a round a long time, Man, not as long. Me, not as long as that. I suspect that the end of mankind will be the result of either a terrible disease or accident beyond our control. I fear no zombies, aliens or plastics.

24. Whats the most expensive piece of clothing you own?
One of my business suits, I think. A single piece? A jacket, I guess. Not too expensive.

25. Why do you drive the car you have right now?
Our car was a gift to BHK for graduation Law school… and/or a wedding present, depending on who you ask/time of day.

26. Do you still talk to the person you LAST kissed?
Well, yes.

27. Have you ever seen your best friend cry?
Yes.

28. What kind of vitamins did you take as a kid?
Variable – we didn’t take ’em regularly, but Flintstones, and generic kids stuff from the GNC.

There is no 29, either.

30. Did you get any compliments today?
Yes, BHK was very complimentary to me all day today.

31. Are you friends with your neighbors?
We’re friendly, but not friends. Most are nice folks, I’d like to get to know ’em better.

32. What were you just thinking about?
How to develop a lightbox board for multiple game use – fun to play in the dark!

33 disappeared, too!

34. When was the last time you drove more than 15 minutes?
Drove? A long time. Rode? The In-laws from the renfest

35. Have you ever had a crush your on your sister’s/brother’s friend?
Nah, too broad a age difference.

36. What’s your favorite smell?
Tough call. I like baking bread, pine (natural, not synthetic), BHK and Newt. Pye when he’s been in the sun.

37. Have you ever been on a roller coaster?
Yes, many… but not for ages.

38. Do you care what others think about you?
As a whole, not really. Some others are more important than other others.

39 went away as well

40. What do you do all the time in a car?
play punchbuggy with BHK

41. Do you trust people easily?
Not really. I like people easily, though.

Dude, no 42 either

43. Do you think you’ll be married in 10 months?
I hope so, since I am now!

44. What do you look forward to in the next 3 months?
Christmastime, cool weather.

45. Who was the last person you called?
Larry

46. What happened at 10:00 am today?
A shower.

47. What’s your ring tone?
The loudest, most annoying ring in the deault set. (I almost always set it to vibe only, however)

48. Do you have any pets?
Newton (cat), Pyewacket (cat), and any assorted outdoor nature we can feed.

49. What were you doing at 9 pm last night?
Playing Fluxx with the Annapolis Chapter of GCoM.

50. Are your parents married/divorced/separated?
Divorced. Mother remarried over a decade ago.

1 year ago – october plans for in-laws meetup, geotagged photos, comedy show, go game

2 years ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies

3 years ago -future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady

4 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day atwork, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2

5 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.

6 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things

7 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everway Geotarget