 | VoicePost  42K 0:13 | “Apparently my 9:30 meeting is in Brigadoon(?) or Xanedo(?) somewhere because I am standing for City and there's nobody in town. That is all.” Auto-Transcribed Voice Post |
| VoicePost 223K 1:10 | “Hey there Jojo, it's Todd O. I just noticed that regardless of whether I'm in now in Maryland Virginia, Washington DC, Florida every major metropolitan truck stop has had a Jehovah's Witness giving out literature and it's not in a real distribution style it's more they stand there they show you the magazine Watch Tower or don't know what the other one is they have Alake(?) Awake and you take one or you hold your hand out and they give you one and I'm wondering if that's a way of getting around soliciting. Since you know you kinda have to ask for it even though they're kinda standing there in the middle of traffic or either if they're not in the middle of traffic they're off to the side and there interesting. Like even by the new stand. Anyway I just noticed that there are a lot of em. Every major place I've been to. See you later Jojo.” Auto-Transcribed Voice Post |
The ground between the two buildings slid and shifted... I (much more nimbly than I might've in waking life) leaped from stepping stone to stepping stone, avoiding too-clear water that was running thickly, like syrup. Once on the second place's stairs, the dogs curled up and went to sleep.
The building itself was very nifty - all sorts of oddities inside, not unlike a Ripley's. One was closed off with a curtain - a skeletal mammoth with an elephant-sized, but human shaped skull - save for a single tusk/horn curling upwards from the tip of the chin area of the mandible. I went to take a picture of it, but a guard (I don't recall his garb - if he was a mall security type or a warrior-sort.. I just knew he worked there, wasn't just some guy) told me that it was forbidden. He then smiled at me, took a picture with his cell phone and was promptly gored by the skeleton. The tusk tore a rip in him from crotch to throat and where he opened up, rose petals fell until the body was just an empty skin.
A different member of the monestary showed up and apologized to me - I couldn't attend service, because the priest was shorter than me. However another fellow, taller than me would be available to walk me through services on Tuesday, at 8:30. I asked if he meant morning or night, and he laughed... "Don't you work? - it's at night.. it'll be 8:30 pm to 10pm, then there'll be snacks, bell ringing and wheel turning. Does your wife dance?"
I said that she did, though we really have never been.
I've never been to a Tibetan monastery... now, I suspect that I'll be a bit disappointed.
After telling her about it, BHK says that I'll never get hot dogs grilled with onions and green peppers for dinner again. I hope that's not the case.
ok these are awesome: http://www.instantrimshot.com/ and http://www.sadtrombone.com/
I just noticed that it's the anniversary of my father's death. It was ages ago... I miss him, now that I think about it, but I haven't really had him in my thoughts much in recent times. I wonder why... I wouldn't have realized if I hadn't seen the archives, at least not until I saw 5/15 on my calendar at work, I guess.
1 year ago - Father's Death Anniversary, Mom hears from Bro re: his sentencing, my challenges, happy to be "up north" and out of FL, people who have moved, more shaved ice (with pix)
2 years ago - bird flu / monkey pox, walkabout, podcasts, newtcam pics, jack lemmon, hoot, saucermen, exploding pants, bus ride poll, hail,
3 years ago - MP gift, pabst t, won rum, don lapre's vitamin, personality defect, walkabout pics, monkey at large/safety in numbers, vampire sugar fuel cell, florida medicine is stupid, I smell good
4 years ago - first palm doodle on new palm, wireless sync, pics from houstons (hypno-orb), Library of Alexandria Discovered, Bones Found In Bag At Florida Cemetery
5 years ago - palm doodles, dreams / reflections on the old crew, chicken hawk cards,mailbox mystery, lunar eclipse, first use of publix grocery deliveries,Teen Girl Squad #3
6 years ago - saw waking life, dream thoughts, prep for star wars expedition
7 years ago - evil news, tumor thoughts, astley gives me defective hardware, humors,hunger-poll, Tsarist Russia photos in color, Paid users get fasterservers, Florida Joke
- Location:20714
- Mood:
chex mix - Music:Tell her about it, in my head, billy joel
Except me. I had a pair of tan/brown pants, brown shoes, white shirt with a smattering of black, gray, and reddish brown stripes.
Half of me wondered if I got on the right vehicle; the other half wondered why I didn't get the memo.
I don't mind - I come home to a colorful crew with BHK at the helm.
It seems that Pye prefers Newtcam, and newt prefers to be on Pyecam. (Newt likes the little window ledge upstairs...Pye likes the bed upstairs. They both seem to duel over the office and living room windows.
DC is 5th in road rage. Ha... Miami is #1 ! Maybe that's why I don't so bent out of shape on the beltway. DC, see also re:FL. Me, I'm pleased as punch to be where I am.
Off to Arlington, VA (right near Ballston) for a NetForum Users Group meeting on Friday - pretty much all day long. I wonder if there's anything BHK and I would like to do in that environment, after the meeting is over? I figure I'll head home, unless we need to stop off at the Pentagon for something - which I doubt.
This weekend plans include (in varying degrees of probability, but all of them nifty):
Aardvark
Em's ballet recital
Artomatic
Those that aren't hit this weekend, will be hit in the future, to be sure.
The Comic Book Script Archive … interesting list of scripts from a ton of authors… From the Moore’s intro to the Killing Joke script: ‘I want you to feel as comfortable and unrestricted as possible during the several months of your bitterly brief mortal lifespan that you’ll spend working on this job, so just lay back and mellow out. Take your shoes and socks off. Fiddle around in between your toes. Nobody cares.’
How to find images on the internet, an extensive list of links and resources.
Semi-related - cool list of icons! I wonder how many I'll see in use over the next couple of months?
FontStruct is an awesomely simple online font creation tool. Just draw on a grid with simple Photoshop-like tools, save, and download a TrueType version of the fonts you've just created. Hmm.. If only I had a graphics tablet, I could make a font of my handwriting, as messy as that might be.
1 year ago - I consume Tiger's Blood shaved ice, am lauded for kind manner, see dried blood packaged for sale in the garden section, happy feet, jamesmichener's Chesapeake, create a painting
2 years ago - mama's day, alien saucer poll, godzilla, found communities
3 years ago - feeling better, writing, Danny in june, chocolate lucky charms, james randi, Rippy RIP - now Viggo, Thomas Szasz, Flickr goes Ajax, ex-boss nearly a million in tax debt, times tables, hairy feet, Belle & Sebastian mp3, v for vendetta bg, jesus vs greek gods
4 years ago - Stan/Satan, Wifi in office (has since moved), first new palm pics, coming moonlight movies, Stay Tuned, Rawwr, Downtown ft laud treasures.
5 years ago - Update Virus Defs, Rainmaker, Frankie Mooch Phone booth, there stuff and quests
6 years ago - Termite inspection, apt shopping - tenants rights, web page fiddling, fonts, Tman, Name a Terrier
7 years ago - ossify, evil news, tumor talk, veggie poll
- Location:20714
- Mood:
calm - Music:ELO / The Orchestra game show in my head
BHK made delicious pea soup! The perfect thing after a long day at work. Nomnommy. We supped over Ugly betty and the new TV Show King trivia game for the wii. I beat Abraham Lincoln, BHK and Bughah's Kitty Puddy (random computer players plucked from our Mii farm). I like it, but the wheel is a bit too random for me.
WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and others. Windows users (only) can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics. The application allows viewing from different wavelengths such as X-ray, visible light, and hydrogen-alpha radiation. Business Week has a review and some background on the project, which has been in development for years. Google Sky beat them to the punch but Business Week opines that WWT's interface is superior.
Albert Einstein's True Religious Beliefs Revealed
(he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism)
In the letter, he states: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
Pictures of our town flooding from yesterday and before.
highlights from the slideshow provided by North Beach - reproduced here, but not taken by me.
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I've upped the resolution on both... I'm also considering making one or both live streaming video.
Who said polar bears are carnivores? That must be some tasty watermelon, is all I'm saying. Some great photos.
Forgot to mention the ATW man -He and his monkey-faced pal were pregnant with baby bumps for mother's day. Clicks embiggen, as always.
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"Burn Notice" returns on July 10 - so is it a summer filler?
1 year ago - mother's day w/ family, gaia hypothesis, gavagan's, jd's party
2 years ago - fp with kev, rain, Pelosi kma, goofy armor, stairway to heaven backwards
3 years ago - work related, friday 13th, mood poll, zombie hunting, phone-sleeping, book meme, mp3, scientology vs fictionology
4 years ago - fam stuff, toe socks
5 years ago - recycling into fuel oil, kitty quiz, PT, Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator, potty poll, perfect toast
6 years ago - answer to oil dependency, iespell, memory of being a little kid w/ vampires, goofing around, dani postcard, 334, rain week
7 years ago - nonpareil, "hamburger helper, antibacterial", family hangout, old coversheet, daydream, dead guy in living room, watermelons, a basic truth, lj-smell poll, cleaning up oil using human hair (and you don't even need Superman to do it!)
- Location:20714
- Mood: full
- Music:newton purring in my face
Showered and shaved in the rainy dawn-dark this morning - fortunately, I had a company polo shirt to wear, since the iron doesn't work sans juice, either.
I wonder how the Old Order Amish feel when they hear that the "English" (non-Amish) are fretting about not having any electricity?
Worse than the lack of power was the severe flooding and high winds.
Statement as of 6:39 AM EDT on May 12, 2008
... Flood Watch remains in effect until 2 PM EDT this afternoon...
* expect moderate to heavy rain to continue through the early
morning hours. Rain will taper off from the southwest to
northeast in the afternoon. An additional one to two inches of
rain is possible.
* The heavy rain will cause streams and creeks to overflow their
banks. Also... urban areas prone to poor drainage will be
susceptible to flooding. As the water works its way into the
rivers... river flooding will be possible in the upper Potomac
and Shenandoah basins.
Now - power is back on at the house, and no more flood warning for Calvert County.
After work, went to the back doctor - much more fruitful response this time. getting my epidural, physical therapy and etc... hopefully a bit more productive than "no hope blah blah" from last one. I get my epi in about a week, a flexion exercise program, ultrasound, electrical stim, and massage.
Saw Aardvark's Tara in her other work duds at Panera... she cleans up well! BHK and she gabbed a bit - the 2nd store is now closed primarily due to crooked employees making off with merch. Upside, that's more time for them to be social.. maybe we'll hang with them sometime soon! The Lusby store rocks the party that much more, too.
Ah, Virginia. You never let me down with the custom plates.
No relation to the flooding post, prior.
Two books for me to investigate library-wise. We saw 'em at the bookstore last week, and I think they'll be better as temporary reads rather than permanent additions to our collection. I may change my mind after reading 'em.
Don't Throw It Out, and Monster 1959.
1 year ago - clematis and tigger pics, chris hijacks bhk, saturday car pics
2 years ago - poofy newt pic, plans for sept, new monkey species, score as beast
3 years ago - Bro drama, Kidz Bop doing "Since U Been Gone", Regressive Imagery Analysis, movie meme, chimp paintings on auction, Oscar Wilde on Journals, RID analysis
4 years ago - got a new pda, payphones vanishing, invisible landlord, bro house arrest
5 years ago - PT, PI snooping about tom, cream soda, bro caught with mike & other craziness
6 years ago - Mom's day Breakfast, dsl breaks, quality time with SA, poem
7 years ago - New Star trek series, freedom fighting fiction, DNA passes, hot shower and walkies. (glowfilter)
- Location:20714
- Mood: hopeful
- Music:red rain keeps faling down all over me... in my head
We took Chris out to breakfast at Whitman's (South County Cafe), and then wandered about the area - scoped out a local hardware store, and then hit the major garden supply place to load up on botanical-type loot. My take of the haul is a big blueberry bush, completely pre-loaded with full berries... they'll be blue in another 60 days or so. A peanut plant, just because. BHK got Okra, patchouli, lemon eucalyptus, creeping jenny, and... some other goodies that don't come immediately to mind.
It's raining like gangbusters now... setting my alarm via the cell phone, because I have my doubts that the evening will go by without a power loss.
Set up Pyecam to go along with Newtcam. About time he got equal treatment video-wise. Pyecam won't be 24/7 though, until we work out a pye-intensive, but safe place to put the laptop unattended for long periods.
1 year ago - guessing c gets the gig, suspecting my temp gig will dry up, hot chips, palm doodle, time dilation
2 years ago - 8m of water flood sim, 12 hours at air and sea, bunny-newt, brush fire sunset, dolphins use names,
3 years ago - bro on my list, sickies, quiz, why's it called a fly?, summer holidays
4 years ago - Bear Armor on ebay, smile, Man Fatally Bitten by Sexually Aroused Horse, random lj poems
5 years ago - first incident of Frankie the mooch, I win my 4th There-buggy, Newt Brings me a Lizard for Mom's Day, Condompillars, I join friendster (and never really do anything with it.)
6 years ago - saw Robb online, Saw Spidey with Jenjen, playing a lot of computer games, a tattoo that is lost, and I don't remember.
7 years ago - evil world news, nice evening at home
- Location:20714
- Mood: peaceful
- Music:wind and rain kicking up outside
Shots, and off to southern states to grab a couple of pepper plants - saw an adorable pair of kids. Little girl in riding pants and very friendly, and her little brother who reminded me of JD at 6 years old. We also picked up some thistle seed for the finches (so Pye and Newt have a little outside wildlife to watch)
After that a lovely church wine and craft show... We got a Christmas ornament with a pair of origami cranes (cherry blossom pattern paper) inside of a rounded cube.... and a lovely packet of bake sale goodies. Aggression cookies (oatmeal), molasses and chocolate chip.
Episcopal church had the following on the bulletin board:
The comedian Robin Williams is an Episcopalian, and he has created a funny "Top Ten" List of reasons to be an Episcopalian.
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female, God created them; male and female, we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color coded!
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry, none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
And the number one reason for being an Episcopalian:
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
I can dig that.
After the Church shindig, we Shakespeare on the Boardwalk - Much ado about nothing. TM's neighbor Kevin was in it, as was Guppy (twin beach players )
after a bit of local and classic culture, we headed home to catch up with The Office and My Name is Earl.
Added a syndicated feed of BHK's favorite meteorolgist - Kim Martucci - I should notify Kim that she's being syndicated here, just so she knows to check. It's not a full feed, just a clip and a link to the main site - which is *quite* active and colorful, if you follow my fonts. Her journal gave BHK a quickie girl-crush on Kim.
also via BHK -
Friday Five on a Saturday -
1. Who do you adore?
BHK, Newton and Pye
2. Who adores you?
BHK, Newton and Pye
3. What's in your pockets?
Wallet holding a red thread, trinkets, petty cash and ID, inhaler, keys
4. Who can you talk with for hours?
BHK, Danny, GP and Kat (haven't in a long time, though), Dave, Kev... most nice people with common interests, I guess!
5. What sounds great today?
Playtime with the family!
1 year ago - Elephant escape doodle, payday, Calvert County work info, dream fragments, books: both digital and paper, weather love, shaved ice / "dumb ol' cherry", railway museum trip
2 years ago - red mood doodle, super power desire as a lad, waiting room pic, newton and I on the porch pics, sand art
3 years ago - story stuck, food cravings, national ID, locla lj leads to illegal sex, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.
4 years ago - net out, bro bonds out, walkabout pics, sci-fi cliches, gabbed with sedef, bee vs wasp massacre.
5 years ago - Nature vs Pringles, Dan delivers Groceries, menstrualhut breaks 1000 users (now a bit more than twice that), Bush's Military Record
6 years ago - J-bee points me at CBS Mystery theater, Sat tracking, Newtie yawn icon source, Friday five
7 years ago - swollen uvula (side effect of no cpap, snoring beat me up), dumbass Astley late with his bargain basement hardware
- Location:20714
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:psych guys singing shout
Watched the first half of Rataouille (hey! got the spelling in one!) over our supper, and it looks very cute thus far.
Rainy outside... tornado warnings for Calvert and Prince Georges Counties.
Lunch today will be more fajitas and salad - tasty and very healthy.
CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police.
Per the always aware flying_blind - "I was surprised to see not only how many Betty Boop cartoons there are in the Internet Archive, but how much other stuff the Film Chest cartoon collection contains. 66 cartoons! That's like eight hours worth!"
The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container.
The art piece was called “Victimless Leather,” and according to The Art Newspaper:
The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened . . . Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.
Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…That thing was never alive before it was grown.“
Link via seedmagazine.com, original story here.
1 year ago - Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves - also lasagna, not shown.
2 years ago - allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie
3 years ago - little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factiods/excuses, sweater fashion, work form
4 years ago - MD, Nat'l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare
5 years ago - owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down
6 years ago - cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that's all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost
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menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)- Location:20714
- Mood: calm
- Music:assorted rain related songs in my head
Chris and Larry are heading out of town this weekend... and they're taking Tigger with 'em. No real Mother's Day things happening this weekend after all - maybe a nice day of painting some pottery, instead?
The latest and greatest version of VZ Navigator (4.0), which tosses in traffic avoidance for 75 cities, along with 3D view plus some other nifty stuff is live right now. (Includes Baltimore and Washington dc!)
I'm looking forward to seeing how solid it is!
I'm still on the phrase "STEAMED CATFISH IN BANANA LEAVES!"
Sorry.
More info on ITALIAN SPIDER-MAN.
Not Sorry.
I'm alternately happy and sad that LJ has finally disabled this stalker feature - Users will only view the number of entries they are allowed to read in calendar views. (Source)
Volcanoes spewing lightning? Wizard war, more like.
Speaking of same... I forget if I've mentioned it or not, but save for a little too much fanboy junk, I pretty much dig the Dresden files books... but I can't seem to get into Jim Butcher's Codex Alera "Horse and Swords" fantasy stuff.
1 year ago - saltine bandit, rockin' sleestaks
2 years ago - mongolia head, sleep, black hat, hurricane info, battle of the beasts
3 years ago - Mother's Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics - graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler's ghost
4 years ago - Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic
5 years ago - PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)
6 years ago - Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI
7 years ago - weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd poll
- Location:20714
- Mood:
awake - Music:BHK wondering about our weather woman.
My fave Classes are still the Engineer and the Scout, with medic going further back since folks are busy using him for all the unlockable stuff. Gold Rush is a great addition, too.
A new Portal map pack was just released from We Create Stuff. This map pack are actual Portal maps based off of the flash version of Portal, a 2D title that features 40 levels.
The pack places you in the role of a new test subject before the events of Portal. You can download the pack directly from this link, or visit the map pack page for a list of mirrors.
Substitute teacher does stage magic trick for middle school class, is fired for "practicing witchcraft"
Florida? Not Tennessee or Arkansas?
Hey!! Reboot is coming back? Possibly more info here, but who knows the rumor level.
The recipe - Steamed catfish in Banana Leaves sounds really tasty... but is even better as an expletive. Something Perry White might utter.
Proof that we've been working too hard, yet eating well - we're too tired for ice cream! We have 2 gallons in the fridge that have been untouched since at least Monday.
1 year ago - mortgage, lileks transfer, change, Altiris skills, Aardvark's Ice Cream, Adam's last HS sports, chat catch-up, good use of dead dibneys, dream, summer coming, kite flying pix
2 years ago - flickr issues, getting a trifle ill, security video feed, dawn of the dead, free streaming video, winamp tracks, star trek cribs
3 years ago - bro search, strongman stunts, blood, mark of beast=50 less, monsters inc, day in the life, fishstories born (long since made dormant), unique id, Chlamydia Outbreak Kills Penguins, tv cars, voice post
4 years ago - quorn, sunset, mean newt face, pet stroller, entertainment pondering, jail hubbub
5 years ago - There pirate quest (still no beards, but eye patches!), first PT, Being D's spokesmodel, orange cat fan club
6 years ago - Slept in, Star Wars Field trip, getting into php/MySQL, brush your cat's teeth, pix of me working on bro's computer, haiku, classic tv
7 years ago - embedding is verboten (back, now!), apartment desc, Mateo's Josie is born!, good stuff, all around
- Location:20714
- Mood: awake
- Music:italian spiderman theme