I love this little guy peeling a grape. super cute little alligator clip manipulators skinning and sewing up a grape to demonstrate fine surgery.
gifs, for posterity –
I love this little guy peeling a grape. super cute little alligator clip manipulators skinning and sewing up a grape to demonstrate fine surgery.
gifs, for posterity –
Obstruction detected.
Composition: titanium alloy supplemented by photonic resonance barrier.
Probability of mission hindrance: zero percent.
And on days I’m not… well…
“Catastrophic… system… failure… Initiating core shutdown as per emergency initiative 2682209… I die, so that democracy may… live…” *boom*
I’d prefer to be somewhere in the middle, just happy, loving, kind and positive.
Maybe not *too* positive. Throw in a little MODOK for progression.
Perhaps not so much, though. Less of the K. Possibly closer to MODORD?
Current Reality Settings – Better than last Friday, but I’d like to get to 4-color, wacky, full.
Spectra-Analyzer (Monochrome / 4-Color / True-Color /Thermograph / X-Ray )
MPAA Rating (G / PG / R / NC-17)
Kill switch (Off / On / Wanton Murderous Rage)
Weirdness Tank (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Laugh-O-Matic (Serious / Satirical / Witty / Wacky / Insane)
Cliche Blender (Pulse / Blend / Puree / Oh, Ugh!)
Global Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Personal Soundtrack Volume (off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11!)
Batteries (Empty / Low / Half / High / Full)
Most important gauges seem to be aligned in a positive way right now… head, heart and gut all have a common goal of doing well and good for myself, my family and surroundings.
Danny sent me a solar powered robot frog, and a game – infernal contraption.
BHK is currently making some awesome-smelling supper – something involving tortilla wrappers, hot sauce, potatoes, zucchini, teriyaki sauce, and vegetarian meat called “veat”
Tomorrow – going to a job fair
1 year ago – vamps or werewolves, Father’s Day, pancakes, hot dogs, pictures of graffiti, weird road name, geese in bikinis, fireworks on newtcam
2 years ago – last day of county gig, hot brain, DC living costs, hero machine sponsored, neil and bugah coming for sleepover, danny visit upcoming, iana gig on monday
3 years ago – payday, mango fest, Phoenix uncomfy, Nonja the rude ape, elvis costello green shirt, chess piece poll,
4 years ago – David Sutherland RIP, trunk turtles, Easter walkies, chimp pics, paper toys, gCensus, Mothra Song, superhero TV themes, vet mixup, menstrual superstitions, 250 questions
5 years ago – Queequeg, Lizard (a knight anole) pictures, fixed calamity’s icon,Mycoprotein, Sammy doodle, sites for positive change, yahoo goes fromsix meg to 100meg (now at 1 gig vs gmail’s 2+gig)
6 years ago – Father’s Day, vampire game, wondering about a world free of psychoactive drugs
7 years ago – lovely long talk, South Park Scotto, Tea room, Replacement parts, star trek breast insignia
8 years ago – Predators of man, Apt seeking, Nothing sacred, sql/ado. pet quiz, pizza parlor, writing urge, Big Guy and rusty.
9 years ago – Nothing in particular
Pictures from today – Robots, fire, symmetrical homes, bay life.
clicks embiggen. Fire is a video. Of Fire. in a ring. where we made s’mores.
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Here is my labor day in reverse
off to bed early
opted not to labor too hard on lj entry
made smores in the fire ring
Mexico for dinner
Played some portal – finished bonus levels.
napped and lazed
2 mile walk, including the bay and a robot backyard
woke up early
Went the dentist – got a temp filling and I need a crown. Later at dinner, the temp filling fell out, but it’s aok for now.
Went to the Walgreens and I got BHK a pedegg – foot callous remover and orange zester, apparently. I think it’s a pretty surreal device, and is more surreal to me en espanol.
Watched latest Psych and Dragon’s Den… that’s about it!
As someone that’s been at swat team gunpoint more than once… (06/02/2001 when my landlord went loopy with his guns over his face cancer and 02/24/2004 once when my bro committed “grand theft boat”.) – I can honestly say that sometimes the police has good reason to hold someone under potential deadly force. I’m thankful that neither I nor Newton were shot
8/1 – Lughnasadh, the holy day of Lludd, Samhain, next! My next birthday is 6 months from now – and the last is six months in the past, give or take a few hours.
Dagwood night with the in-laws and BHK! Tooth was bugging me a bit, so I didn’t consume too much.
Watched more of Black Magic with Raymond burr and Orson Welles. Not a terribly excellent film. A lot of scenery chewing, and a good excues to cuddle on the couch.
Water on Mars: confirmed.
Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.
The lander itself added, on Twitter, “FTW!” (I imagine and hope that’s “for the win”, not the other one… “f*** the world”.)
Yeah, so I want a pet chair.
Sam Raimi plans to do a superhero series with Disney called The Transplants.
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More photos’ from yesterday’s tornado! – Chesapeake Beach Storm Damage – Photos – WRC | Washington
Folks here are really excited about it – After Hurricane Andrew, I’m glad it wasn’t as bad as it might’ve been. Big issue here was that it came out of nowhere, in a matter of moments – hurricanes you get a solid warning. THe roof that was blown off may finally allow for the smokey stink to fade from traders. 12 people were hospitalized, but no major injuries that I know of.
Chris and Larry lost some roof flashing, had a cracked window pane, and some broken tree limbs about the place, but thankfully nothing too devastating.
Most fascinating to me is the marble-sized hail that hit us on the way home… I really thought the truck’s windshield (already cracked, from an ancient wound) was going to shatter at one point.
It is a 3 minute animation video, based on the Day of the Dead.
Adam’s grandfather is in a bad way – he was sent to the hospital last weekend, was looking better on Tuesday, not as good yesterday. I hope he hangs in there, and mends up… at his age and level of health, I suspect he may be about done.
Was a bit sick this morning – nervous about the epidural , maybe… or low blood sugar. No food after 8am, minimal sips of water if needed. Still pretty sore afterward, but I should feel a lot bette rni the next few days.
BHK made Thai for me last night – make my last meal before the fast a good one. Green Curry veggies over rice, with a side of tofu in peanut sauce. The lady knows what I like to eat. After the epidural, we got Mexican – it was good, but I couldn’t finish my plate. Leftovers lasted until about 9pm.
Why the kitties like the windowsill – ... Clicks embiggen, as always.
Side note – Newt and Pyecam were down part of the day last monday – ftp server was broken, but it booted back up once I let the provider know.
Coverage at the BBC – This of course brings significant hope to amputees and other other people with physical disabilities.
(Note that this research has been going on for quite some time.)
And so, April comes to an end. Seeya next year, April! Wasn’t too bad of one this year, all told. Some stresses, some solutions… it seems to have come and gone fairly rapidly.
Was I just doing taxes 2 weeks ago? It seems like months. I’m still getting the occasional treat at http://drop.io/scottobear , feel free to drop something off, or pick something up. I removed the m4ps, but the mp3 music is still out there.
Had the in-laws over – BHk made pseudo-beef stroganoff, baked zucchini and corn on the cob – a fine dinner which caused me to consume with gusto… and too much.
Back was doing pretty well until I hit the sack – laying straight caused some medium discomfort. I think I’ll take my night meds a half hour before bed for maximum ease.
Oh, I forgot one – speaking of robots – the Wall-E bench.
there’s a heart on the seat – Wall-E + Eve
Garage sale across the down today after shots… Our first blush on the way to the doctor wasn’t that successful.. saw old clothes and lots of little bits of junk here and there. Quickie lunch at Mexico and then back to the town to shop.
Our hope was to find some good furniture – nothing amazing really stood out. BHK asked what I’d want to see at my ideal yard sale… my response was a mummified monkey head, some old heathkit robots maybe, and maybe a retired super-scientist’s collection of prototype death rays and forcefield belts.
What we did was pick up a few dvds, more than a couple of “chick lit” books, wall art, a teaching chess set, two toy robots and A ROBOT MONKEY !
We didn’t spend more than $20 total for the lot – The ‘bots were the bulk of the cost, at $4.50 each. Puzzles were a quarter, dvds a buck a pop, and books were a big bundle for $3.
Came home, chilled out and enjoyed BHK’s nom nom nommy thai cabbage soup.
Forgot to mention that yesterday also heralded the arrival of our blue robot boy to pair up with our pink robot hula girl. The girl is cuter, but they make a fine little dancing pair.
1 year ago – calvert coworkers, 6 months thoughts, palm doodles, mr mind, pollen
2 years ago – world history, folkvine, pocket charger, jw cordon
3 years ago – Egyptian origins, clown confession, big brown bear, trix returns to simplicity, hugs, fleet week, chitchat w myid8myego, kind entry, country bears movie, human gene in rice, funeral dance, FL gun law self defense, energy crisis, Cheney & Abadullah
4 years ago – Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia, Andy Griffith factoid, CS out, Cute Newt Pic
5 years ago – seafood fest, gift exchange
6 years ago – Foomy goes poof, nifty human tricks, Quick little story, full moon thoughts, Prof. Eben Norton Horsford.
7 years ago – bricolage, misc news, email tags, lj burp, uck, how to catch a polar bear, prezzies
Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness You’ve got to dig proper arrow placement.
50 things you’ve done meme continues at 43 – I…
43.’was a sergeant in the safety patrol in elementary school. The big trip to Washington DC was no big whoop to me back then, as I was living in Richmond or Alexandria, VA at the time. I’m back in that boat now that I’m living in Maryland… but I don’t have the cool reflective orange belt and shoulder sash with a badge anymore.. I had to turn it in at the end of the school year. My duties were to assist the crossing guard with kids in front of the school.. .holding the stop sign and making sure that everyone made it over OK. The guard was a soccer mom, and gave me my first taste of coffee that I liked. I think that she put 3x sugar and 3x cream in it. I got her a Santa coffee mug for Christmas that year, and she gave me some cupcakes with red and green sprinkles on ’em. I don’t remember her name, but she had a cool van… all earth tones of brown and tan… could probably tote 12 people comfortably. I can proudly say that there were no accidents on my watch, despite some nutty drivers.
I can easily see a well-placed weapon mount on that thing. My first thought was of those flying combine drones in HL2, taking your picture, and later attacking you with saw blades. See: Scanner / Manhack. The video link above is very cool… I’d be interested in seeing how long it would take to automate.
1 year ago – back mending, bhk cold fading, mission impossible squirrel video, blogger death threats, larry and tigger vet trip picture
2 years ago – V movie, political ramble / revolution, boca/popular comics, pictures from walkabout, newt playing fetch pics
3 years ago – Easter, Deadbolt, Danny recap, K, piccies, personality test, heard from everway gamers, kitties video, walking octopus, waterbus
4 years ago – Procrastination, Henchman, search warrants/LA, booger eaters, vacuum cleaners, Brian Blessed, heroclix, zombie pinups
5 years ago – jkg, TAG, souls, Bahá’í, soul & body, leaving FMM
6 years ago – dream, dented the door with my mitt, sleepy and grumpy, how I sleep w/newt, small hands=rude, army men, Dan Bfast, lab grown meat, dali museum, secret fun spot, 2 dead celebs
7 years ago – lj bump, baby newt pic, one ring, mush, thebot, palm art, John Denver
Forgot to note the Transformer we saw at Mexico last night-
Full size shows the Autobot logo, and stenciled “interceptor”
Somebody remind me to take the camera proper when I go out!
30.’ had surgery for my back a couple of times now – the first was over a decade ago when I was working for the library – the next was in October 2003 to deal with scar tissue built up from the first, and deal with other issues. Depending on what happens on wednesday, I may be getting another operation…. I’d like to hope that a simple shot of muscle relaxer will do, but I’m feeling that this is a serious issue, unfortunately.
2 years ago – bday via eryx, monkeys and kitties, compusa fails me, quizzes, morrisey vs van halen
3 years ago – apheresis skip, cocktail party, banana man snippet, netflix queue,Ultima 4 Virtue Quiz, system tweaking, ethiopian skellie, dr. who shipping, health and family review, Broward slots, SCI
4 years ago – food, gator bus ride, Voting, business cards, spammed again, MONKEY POPS!
5 years ago – prepared to pee in a cup for TAG, after Nordis tried to toss mysalad… Painted minis in the haunted tunnel… Rockford Scientist
6 years ago – bro came by apt, multi-journal quiz, fear vs love, Fire and Ice, Pliny the Younger
7 years ago – brad Mentions adding a photo server and chat to live journal…. speed hasn’t been a real priority on that dev. Meat-eating robots, top atrocities… and the return of a hero
I need a trim. Maybe a haircut this weekend, too? I feel more than a little shaggy.
I found out today that ol’ RobbChar got engaged! I’m really glad to hear he’s got a partner and a happy life! I may be going to the wedding, in a year’s time or so.
BHK made tasty Tacos / Taco salad… good eats! I’ve been spoiled this week food-wise!
That silly letter meme:Guidelines for propagation: Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the preceding…they have to be actual places, names, things… nothing you fabricate! You must use a name other than your own for the boy and/or girl name prompt(s).What is your name? ScottoFirst word you think of –
4 letter word: Stop
Vehicle: Sputnik
TV Show: Six Million Dollar Man
City: SPARTA!!!
Boy Name: Steve
Girl Name: Sandy
Drink: Sprite
Occupation: Special Olympian (I thought of this before Spy? and Super-hero??)
Something you wear: Socks
Celebrity: Suzanne Somers
Food: Spuds
Something found in a bathroom: Soap (My second answer, actually… translate last answer to English for my first thought)
Reason for Being Late: Sniper (Hey, I do live in DelMarVa now.)
Cartoon Character: Spongebob Squarepants
Something You Shout: Scheisse!
Abandoned laboratory of studying a human brain – Via Ectomo.
Three pictures from recent walkabout. Click to embiggen
Two homeless guys from the other day – The PG station on the green line is a pretty sad place. these two had enough resources to stagger on and shamble to a seat…. both were massively out of it, due to disabilities either ingrained or added with outside substances. Possibly both. The next sop, a policeman came aboard and lurked next to them for the bulk of the trip… as soon as he left, they began slap-fist fighting. Nothing serious, but I’m glad I got off at the following stop… it’s just sort of depressing to see folks like that.
Ham-A-Rama! – First sighting of Hickory Farms product…. and it’s called HAM-A-RAMA… contains “cheese food” called Chub, “Beef Stick”, and those little strawberry candies in addition to the aforementioned Ham (with water added).
Flyball – When we went to visit with Amy, I snagged a quick snap of the pooches running… there are some pretty speedy critters that like to play fetch! It was good to see her and her family, however briefly.
I hate it when Ty is right about stuff like this. I’m pretty sure I’d throw in with robot overlords, too. (Also, Zod in 2008 might work.)From his entry –
We’re already giving up our freedoms — our right to privacy, gone. Warrant-less arrest, gone. Right to have your vote counted is super-gone depending on the state you live in, right to stand trial, gone — we have torture. We already have all the downsides of a supposed robotic takeover, but we’re being cheated of the upside! I say, if this is the world we’re gonna live in anyway, at least let the robot overlords have their shot. World peace, technological utopia — and no crime! The robot overlords’ crime control is swift and merciless.
1 year ago – little hellcat via ltms, walkabout pics
2 years ago – linen suit, hospital-b’day, no hurricane wilma pay, king kong marketing, olympic mascots, carl douglas, bebop, bus lady pics
pictures taken – bus lady
3 years ago – sleepy, book fair, mcD toys, Mr’s 5 & 11, $ meme, mozilla, NH child sacrifice
4 years ago – GP mails me about glued things, National hits, vampire duck of death, reverse dictionary, top 10 scientific hoaxes.
5 years ago – Judge Newt-pic, average debt, boo-bees, elephant veggie burgers
6 years ago – Mongo, EOWM, frugivore, folivore
7 years ago – bare feet, clowns, in your eyes, DB swipes laptop from IMT