Sick right after lunch today - stomach cramps, vomiting and a bit of shakes afterward. I wish the bathroom at work was less centrally located.. I felt like I was broadcasting my problems to the whole office. Ah well... no helping that.

Watched season opener for Eureka last night and the start of Death at a Funeral. (spoilers on page - don't read, unless you care to know.) Both were pretty standard fare for the genre, but entertaining nonetheless. Product placement in Eureka - interesting... I was surprised that we watched it last night -was rather expecting it to be a "see the whole season prerecorded after it's ended" sort of thing. As for the movie, it's always nice to see Peter Dinklage.

BHK made salad and queso for me, and had some left over chik-fil-a strips in hers... it smelled wonderful, and mine was delicious.

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The Book of Secrets, Back Home Again

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I Used To Believe is a wonderful site where people share things they used to believe as a child. The vast menagerie of monsters that children create (most of which apparently live in the toilet) is simply amazing to me, and that section of the site is a favorite.

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1 year ago - extra-random rough draft entry, health update, food, shirt, trip, unerasable robot pic, helicopters, hate / bait?,

2 years ago - pom, apples and limeade, GP ahooga, close to the edit, burrito/screech butt, god lj, more ernesto a-comin'!

3 years ago - katrina track, toyota safe vs falling knives, brothers grimm, eco footprint, The Outbursts of Everett True , caffeinated death quiz, cat toy, superheroes and goats, office has no juice

4 years ago - on call all weekend, cej packet returned, super hero movies, charities, spectral analysis

5 years ago - begging for freebies, cases, frankie, wifi, paper toys

6 years ago - comic book ads, genetic ID card, lifegems, happy tree friends, Bheesh got a vette, free fonts, and Pynchon paper dolls

7 years ago - sci-fi dorkness (pity enterprise is so bad), red headed wildcat, bacchanalia, ultima Thule, stinky cab driver, lj "post limit hububb"

8 years ago - zoo day, de-compartmentalized some pals, Brown, turtle

Work continues to grind along.. .it's "in the thick of it" stuff, but I'm glad it's finally getting to a point where I can see positive closure points to the project ahead. Later, I'll get to implement the human contact side of things, which will be interesting. I get along well with others very well, especially for a tech-type guy.

Dinner of an awesome spicy bean soup and open-face veggie meatloaf sammiches! BHK makes the most wonderful food, both health-wise and comfort-wise.

We watched Dan In Real Life, which was pretty good... not nearly the stinker I'd heard it was. Nice to see Steve Carell outside of his normal slapstick / idiot character.

That's about it, dear journal - running on vapors, and will be off to bedski soon - leaving early for work tomorrow. G'night!

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1 year ago - sunset cranes outside of value city, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales resigns, lunar eclipse

2 years ago - butternose, travel pictures, bhk at bayfest, Lake Placid / Magnificent 7, stained glass crab, urban decay, flying, Ernesto coming,

3 years ago - cats in sinks, sf author journals, free refills for dumpster divers, nerd/dork/geek, candy, A Beheading for Homeland Security, work update

4 years ago - on call, cases, make your own bat phone, lj-brain melt, 50 questions

5 years ago - mongorians, kama sutra, making fiends, mars attacks cards, Arnie has strong opinions on gay marriage, toe-hang, palm from work, work misc,bro, paper models, theme fonts, palm cam, ny blackout pics

6 years ago - Fuzzy Newt, Dan-chops, slackers, heroclix modding / props, mankind enslaved poll, Dan & I duke it out with clix, 100 glowing zombies

7 years ago - Newt is like a baby Bob, Treehouse, mycathatesyou.com, pirates

8 years ago - quiz, crushy, scrabbling, sleep study, kring posts randomly in my lj

Work is getting back to paces - looks like we'll have a few very solid weeks of care to deal with up ahead. I'll take my replacement day off at that point.

Not too many people to socialize with out here, and when they are available I'm pretty busy. After this primary project has been done, I can get back to visitors and whatnot.

BHK made tasty sausage (tofurky italian sausage for me) and veggies on whole wheat spaghetti with garlic bread. Yummitty yum yum! More tomorrow for lunch, and that's fine by me!

Middleman tonight was fun - I don't blame the aliens at all for minding our intrusion, and it was nifty seeing inside Ida's noggin.

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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record

By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

That's probably okay with Barack Obama: Biden likely got the nod because of his foreign policy knowledge. The Delaware politician is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee who voted for the war in Iraq, and is reasonably well-known nationally after his presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008.

read more here

or just for general skeleton closet stuff - http://www.realchange.org/biden.htm which mentions his plagiarism and less than stellar academic merits.

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1 year ago - simpsons movie, bhk cake pic, hot out!, atw man missing tv pic, tina party & loot, danny back to school

2 years ago - back from an all too brief visit, nose buttering, bunny suicides, events of the day, liberty city psp homebrew hack, jojo the cannibal kid, maple cookies, folks, met Adam / Future In-laws

3 years ago - power out phone post, hurricane katrina aftermath pictures (and Newt), Bro out, Techs unavailable

4 years ago - BK heads north, random visit to a 2001 entry, behavior variances, quiet-please

5 years ago - sleep schedule, zombie game (poor thing aborted), monkey helpers, first lost child.

6 years ago - Deer Hunter, Apache, Equality/freedom Poll, Emerson, flying saucer, heroclix 200 point armies, McD hot dogs, wpoison

7 years ago - that piercing woman , lj vibe change, many links (not all work anymore)

8 years ago - Godzilla, quizzes, </b>leftyrok added me (Thanks, photoc!, IMT threatens to move all operations north to Tampa, dean martin

Beautiful day out this morning - we went for a nice 8am constitutional to check out the bay fest pre-opening. Lots of seagulls on the beach waiting in advance for folks dropping bits of funnel cake and corn dog, no doubt!

It got pretty hot by the time we got back - I left in a fairly creaky condition, but was ok, but tired once we arrived home. BHK and I lounged for an hour or two, and then I got a message that boiled down to my going into work on Monday. Too many issues with the project - can't in good conscience take the day off, under the circumstances. I think that I was more disappointed about not getting BHK's birthday off to treat her more than she.

After wrestling with that for a bit, we headed back to bay fest for some junk food, people-watching and a bit more exercise. While at the Bayfest I saw Kathy Bauer! I worked with her at Calvert county a little over a year ago, and she recognized me immediately. That crew was the kindest and most fun group of people I've ever worked with... a shame that it just wasn't affordable to work there. We didn't stay long, but got a couple of veggie egg rolls and some limeade and orangeade which really hit the spot. Between the 'fest and home, we took another A/c break at Coffee, Tea and Whimsey and ended up purchasing a bottle of wine for the evening's birthday celebration, some awesome horseradish/garlic dip, some goofy rubber monster key-toppers, and a keen Buddha eye-glasses holder for BHK's nightstand. Pictures of those... and the 'fest to follow.

More resting and just goofing around until six came... bhk and I were watching primeval and just soaking up some snooze-vibes with the kitties. I waited for BHK to hit deeper sleep, and went to sneak off to do some wrapping, but it wasn't stealthy enough - but she relented to nap while I wrapped.

We went to the in-laws for dinner - BHK got her desired Chik-fil-a strips and nuggets, and Chris made her a cake, too. She managed not to be buttered, but Larry psyched her out a few times. Aside from the tasty dinner (I had eggplant, zucchini, and the best corn on the cob of the summer), a little room was saved for the cake.. it was a reduced sugar yellow with chocolate icing... pretty yummy!

Loot BHK got was - card 1 from me - made her cry, but they were happy tears, cards from her grandparents on Larry's side - in-laws gave her a cat encyclopedia, a ruby and diamond heart necklace w/matching earring-studs, and $100 toward a sewing machine.... very, very generous and appreciated!

The cake - pre-ignition. Don't worry - BHK will be butter-nosed, yet, dear journal!

Day ended with us lounging at the in-laws living room - Hallmark channel vs the Rock.

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Over at Gamasutra, Steve Fulton has published a massive 23,000-word history of Atari from 1978 to 1981, encompassing '... some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroids) and the development and release of its first home computing platforms.' Best quote in there for Slashdot readers, perhaps: 'Atari had contracted with a young programmer named Bill Gates to modify a BASIC compiler that he had for another system to be used on the 800. After that project stalled for over a year Al was called upon to replace him with another developer. So ... Al is the only person I know ever to have fired Bill Gates.

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1 year ago - sql programming, chicken doodle, Calypso and coconut shrimp, chittering

2 years ago - won psp, happiness, It's hot in Topeka, mental jasmine

3 years ago - </b></a>graypumpkin lj-ing, google desktop, gutter sniping the net, Whiums and sammy-talk, music meme mark II, paper toys, medicines to fight the sickies, carrot top bulks up, bill shatner, billy batson

4 years ago - more travel pix, Coconut Curry Tofu, coulrophagy, scream stolen, updated on JTD, pic of my workplace

5 years ago - broken photoshop friday, wanting to put a transmitter on bro, tidemarker, comic art, yawns, women in spacesuits

6 years ago - moonlight movies, a li'l grumpy

7 years ago - vertiginous, steganography, word association poll

8 years ago - smelly BK, political mailings cost the same

Hell of a long day at work, but BHK and I started to make her Birthday weekend roll with dinner out at Saigon Palace for dinner. We'd never been there before, so it was a bit of an adventure... Our traveler's luck served us well this time:

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The place was pretty empty for a Friday night... food was delicious and our servers very attentive and friendly. I'll happily go back there again and again - lots of veggie goodies to try, and the Pho will be super come colder months ahead. (I got the bird's nest, bhk got the lemon tofu. I think she won, but mine was mighty tasty, too!)

Hopefully this puts us on a solid roll toward Birthday goodness!

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Ray Bradbury is 88! Happy birthday, one time great writer, now crotchety old guy! Dandelion Wine is still my one of my all-time faves. Thanks for that... I wouldn't have a lime-vanilla ice, otherwise.

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In an online survey, 42 percent of Internet users admitted to logging into other people's email and social networking accounts without their knowledge. The poll doesn't ask if passwords were found, granted, or stolen — which would make for further interesting results. The write-up summarizing the results defines the respondents as part of an "educated tech-readership" and questions the ethics of logging onto someone else's account, and whether those differ depending on the person and relationship."

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1 year ago - local pictures of a local house coming down and Larry on his riding mower, stuffed peppers, Mrs. Pollifax - Spy, Quotes, Tired

2 years ago - tweaking web page, radioactive volcanoes?, wooley imbibe, venture bros, voice post burgers

3 years ago - forgotten nightmares, laughing puppets, sickies, gov rss feeds, paycheck to paycheck, audio hidden, i loves me some waffles, music, otr, 25 food hacks, smarts

4 years ago - no dwarf dice, swap shop instead, I live in a pulp universe, walkabout pictures, froggies, gorillas in comics, email post - image host

5 years ago - ACIM invites me back, new sound card, "don't go there" is gone, DSA, keywords, gil gerard ages, commanding my minions, publix cancels home delivery

6 years ago - run tel dat, newt playing, gaming, cow teeth, trivia cookies!

7 years ago - ichnology, phantom blot, no-so-evil news

8 years ago - Newtcam, replicating interests

Tasty dinner of stir-fried veggies on more naan bread, vegetarian meatloaf (mostly garden eggplant) topped with sauce saved from our selby pickup! Super good, and uber-filling.

Dessert was a treat of choco-chip cookies!

BHK's birthday weekend starts tomorrow, though her birthday is on Monday - I took the day off for us to play! ... I think we'll have a grand time!

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Pictures from Last weekend. Larry's Birthday, tigger talking, and us all walking on the boardwalk. As ever, clicken to embiggen.

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Me with my standard popeye sun-reduction look, Tigger gabbing some more, and a BHK odd-shot

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Tigger talking, moon over the bay
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Pirate ship playhouse at the bay, bhk, me, and Chesapeake beach
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Laryy & Chris, Moonrise, Larry and Tigger
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Adam!

This last one isn't by us, but by another local named "this and that" on flickr... you can see what a difference better resolution and composition can make!

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Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don't have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways.

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I had no idea that "the shocker" (description may be NSFW) had a name at all.. I always knew it as er..., um...  "dos en el color de rosa, uno en el hedor". (Pardon the terrible translation.) I'm more of a fan of the Moutza as a rude gesture.

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1 year ago - saw a bird of prey, heavy work week, icehouse game java, Luke / tacos / in-laws, sleepy, chessboard serial killer

2 years ago - enthused, quizzies, cydonia vid, grab old comics

3 years ago - jenjen, rocko, more hee-haw, work-dream, indoor remote control flier, a little sick, cool song parts, religion facts

4 years ago - bro fade, there lives again, walkabout, spell of hoggoth

5 years ago - personality profile for work, seasonal pages, hippos and rhinos, lifesavers changes flavors, Pam Confirmation, guest map, vamp game, chat

6 years ago - grove scandal, togas, tulip head, haiku

7 years ago - Harvard classics, imprecation, Child's Christmas in Wales, Love, great moment from Oz, Spoon

8 years ago - Put April on a bus for home, Gaming group with Josh Marquart and the Hunters, can you picture that

Wednesday Night - Veggie Protein-spheres (rather than meatballs) in sauce, homemade pickles, naan bread - made for a tasty sammich with sweet potato fries on the side. BHK and I were pretty dang sleepy, so we sort of crashed on the couch after supper. I got back up, but BHK was down for the count. I wrote a bit here, and now we're off to the sack. Until later, dear journal!

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Roger Ebert is not a fan of 3-D movies.

Ask yourself this question: Have you ever watched a 2-D movie and wished it were in 3-D? Remember that boulder rolling behind Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark?" Better in 3-D? No, it would have been worse. Would have been a tragedy. The 3-D process is like a zombie, a vampire, or a 17-year cicada: seemingly dead, but crawling out alive after a lapse of years. We need a wooden stake.

Oh... BHK is going to disagree there!

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Latest meme making the rounds - Alphabetty spaghetti

Attached or Single - Well attached, indeed!

Best Friend - BHK

Cake or Pie - Man, don't make me choose! Do brownies count as cake? Probably cake.

Day of Choice -Weekend days are best - Saturday. Or should I go all clever and say payday or birthday?

Essential Item - PDA - it's full of books and my doodlepad!

Favorite Color - Rust/orange and forest green

Gummy Bears or Worms - bears. Or better yet, gummy chicken feet or army men!

Hometown - Boston, MA... or Fort Lauderdale, FL depending on time spent there

Favorite Indulgence - Relaxing all weekend with BHK

January or July - January... but If I had to pick any month, I'd go with October.

Kids - are cute and fun, mostly... and are also a lot of work and a huge responsibility, too.

Life isn’t complete without - Love. (My first thought was Death. Sad but true.)

Marriage Date - 10/25/06!

Number of Brothers and Sisters - One Brother, no sisters.

Oranges or Apples - Oranges in juice, apples in pies. If forced, I'd have to pick oranges, just because I find the rind fascinating and fragrant.

Phobias - Not really phobia, but I'm extra redoubled careful about the kitties getting loose.

Quotes - It's a long one from Bill Hicks -

You've been fantastic and I hope you enjoyed it. There is a point, is there a point to all of this? Let's find a point. Is there a point to my act? I would say there is.

I have to.

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..."

And we... kill those people.

Ha ha

"Shut him up."

"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

Reasons to Smile - Lots of 'em... Family, friends, a clever psaage in a book, soap bubbles, winning a video game, smelling baking bread or fesh cut grass, thinknig of something new or in a different way.... too many to list.

Season of Choice - Autumn, especially with color changes, cool weather and harvest time.

Tag Seven Peeps - no can do, buckaroo. Just let me know if you run with it, whoever does take it.

Unknown Fact About Me - Hard, with a decade of journals online... I'd say that most folks don't know that I was a very quiet kid in high school - more stand-back than joining the crowd, save for a very small group of friends.

Vegetable - I do like the broccoli, but corn is mighty.

Worst Habit - I'm a bit of a clutter-bug, and often fail to pick up after myself. I'm trying to be better about it, though.

X-ray or Ultrasound - MRI.. but of those two, Ultrasound.

Your Favorite Food - Variable. I'm craving sushi right now, but I really like Thai / Italian / Mexican dishes across the board. BHK is an awesome [edited to add:[ COOK! COOK, I SAY! CHEF, EVEN!]

Zodiac Sign - Aquarius... or for those of a more eastern bent - Earth Monkey

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1 year ago - Found money, nice day voicepost, hp lovecraft's 117th bday, free audio books, great love stories, Autumn training day, ren-fest coming along with bhk's b-day

2 years ago - mr jones, fort lauderdale happenings / movies, walkabout basics, the shield, nose buttering in comments.

3 years ago - dinner out, hee haw, chitty chatting, Kong SE, gun-related homicide in the workplace, monkey and duck picture, weatherbonk

4 years ago - ADP hammers another nail in her on-call casket, supes & robot doubles, past Halloween costumes, drunkie-bear, Todd Fatta, RIP

5 years ago - virus PSA, Zombie Sim rework, the current gig, candy poll, monty python toys, 2-headed baby, magic egg, witches, sentinel cam, work observations (turned out correct), Pam pings me, good/evil evaluation

6 years ago - megaliths, interviewing, super manatee, giant grasshoppers, weathercams, miss cleo in trouble, landlord- no fans, Finn issue

7 years ago - writing - invisible, words of the day, tattoo & misocainea, MS kills NS plugins, griegstein

8 years ago - empty

Another *busybusy* day at work, but eased when I got home - BHK made supper of the remainder of the sloppy joe mix became taco salad fodder, with a side of veggie taquitos. Good stuff... BHK and I watched the Vampire Ventriloquist's Dummy episode of Middleman - the show continues to shine. Venture brother's first half was pretty spiffy, too.

Other things that brought cheer - seeing these kitty pictures in the archive... both were taken at the same time - both kitties sucking up as much sunlight as they could hold. Newt was totally whited out, and pye looks very comfy on the purple couch.

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Metro's official stance on begging on the trains and buses -

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The nice folks at NPR have done us all a favor and taken some used Kinoki foot pads to be tested to see if they'd drawn anything out of a guinea pig reporter's body. Guess what? They didn't.

Reporter Sarah Varney bought some Kinoki foot pads and wore them to bed. She also subjected her husband to the (alleged) detox treatment. In the morning, they both awoke to the stinky brown mess that the advertisement had promised. Not convinced that the brown stuff had actually come from their bodies, our hero took the foot pads to a lab and had them analyzed and compared with unused pads.

"Compared to the blank that's almost identical," said the scientists. "It looks like three of the same sample, basically."

A doctor from UC Berkeley confirms the scam diagnoses. Your body already eliminates "metabolic waste" and "toxins" through, um, other means...

"For many hundreds of thousands of years we've been successfully eliminating them through the usual means, which is urine and feces, and there has been no demonstrated need to accelerate that."

So what is all that gunk in the pad? We're not really sure, but it shows up if you hold the pad over a pot of boiling water. Who knew distilled water had "metabolic waste"?

Japanese Foot Pad Is Latest Health Fad [NPR]

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1 year ago - coolpix dies, 365, icehouse games comp, car wars card game, misc gaming, Illusionist

2 years ago - gateway theater pic, steam shovels, zap guns, dr octagon

3 years ago - bro out, pay links, looking back meme, friday 5, monkeys in gov't

4 years ago - Scotto as the prisoner, TV/Game idea, nazi weddings, adsense poof, steven tyler is a salt vampire, lj permanence, sick at work, poo humor, skin dry

5 years ago - </b></a>menstrualhut cloned, vampire game, pam visits, eagles vs giant gerbils, under nyc

6 years ago - A/C issues, Everyone Guilty of Enron, cake, Hurricane Andrew, bus stop photos, keywords

7 years ago - I photoshop my dream, coloringbook, fecund

8 years ago - time of darkness

Yesterday's Anniversary supper went well - Today after my shots, BHK and I pretty much hung out around the house and chilled out. I installed the new ram into my system, and it chugs nicely thus far.

Once it got cool enough outside, we went for a long walk - from out house down to the bay, along the boardwalk... and then we stumbled over the in-law's BMG... so we gave 'em a ring to ask where they were. There was a classic car show at the "Worstlawn" Inn. Thankfully, the in-laws have the same opinion of the place as BHK and I do... so we went to Thursday's for dinner up the road. We parted company - BHK and I walked back to our place and the in-laws tooled off home.

A few pictures from the day - They can't capture how stunning a pink moon over the blue bay can be.

[I'll insert flickr pics here- after they're uploaded, and link back from a future entry.]

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Some very interesting research out of the University of Washington that employs a method of using high quality photographs to enhance a video taken of the same subject. The project page gives a good overview of what they are doing and the video on the page gives some really nice examples of how their technology works. Hopefully someone can take the technology and run with it, but one thing's for sure: this could make amateur video-making look even better than it does now." And if adding mustaches would improve your opinion of the people in videos, check out the unwrap-mosaics technique from Microsoft Research.

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1 year ago - went to ER / pic

2 years ago - 1 week until I go north to BHK, fine for misuse of wifi , Doug and Gamer babies, password bypass, secret life of walter kitty, why the middle east isn't really about terrorism

3 years ago - german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming

4 years ago - Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats

5 years ago - Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi "VD" Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo

6 years ago - day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee

7 years ago - pet/work poll, epenthesis

8 years ago - ebooks, hungry

Power out at the house tonight, so we're off to Mama Lucia's for dinner! Looks like strong rains and downed trees knocked out all of North Beach and Chesapeake beach! [edit - power came back up at 2am - accorting to the computer, it went down at 5:25pm)

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CNBC reports that Netflix' shipping systems have been at least partially broken since Tuesday. They managed to ship nothing on Tuesday, half of what they were supposed to on Wednesday, and nothing today. What's the deal? Apparently the outage affects 1/3 of their customers (including good ol' Scotto and BHK), to whom Netflix is trying to figure out the best way to refund some cash. They're still not sure what the root of the problems are, so in essence, they have no idea how to fix it. Be prepared for a few more days of outages, unless it turns out that it's a super easy fix that's much harder to diagnose than to repair.

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Terrible cakes - Cake wrecks. or get it on lj - </a></b></a>cake_wrecks

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Random Scotto Factoid -

I'm an avid reader but some very simple words are sometimes mental stumbling blocks.

Examples:

Singer. Someone who sings... but my brain always reads it as someone who singes. As in: What is that singer superficially burning today? I guess I'm not altogether wrong.

Also Bewilder is not equal to "Be Wilder"... but that's how I hear it when I read it. conversely, I read Wilder as "Will-der". I have no idea how I mixed tohse up as a kid.

I know the old gags about manslaughter / "Mans Laughter" and Therapist / "The Rapist", but my mind never really ripped those words in the wrong way.

Walk is a word that just looks wrong to me... as does talk and balk. Ls and Ks just don't jibe to me.

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The VGT Omnivore’s Challenge.

I haven't always been a vegetarian.

I have eaten the following (in bold):

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
( Read more... )

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1 year ago - taking foster kits to new home, winscp, TM dating MO (for a few weeks), tech issues, vintage game manuals

2 years ago - vacation day, graffiti pics, skateboarders, fountain geocache, sugar sand park,

3 years ago - goth girl, walken '08, dane cook re: superman shirts, silly tiger, scotto is, strikeout meme, newt pic at my old apt,

4 years ago - palm doodle, storm disastrous, necco wafers, hurricane journal-guy

5 years ago - wwcalc, Mexican casserole, newt sniffing, sewer travels, blackouts

6 years ago - cool comics, broken links, memories from 1981, hump-day

7 years ago - good feelings, abusive employee/employer relations, wonder tomato condiment poll, evil news, taught chmod

8 years ago - sleep study follow-up, peace

I officially know more about Rsync than I ever thought I would. It's a mighty handy tool.

Long story short -

Currently doing a master <-> master -> offisite slave config.

Also set up a sql-based login system for both the primary and backup servers for ftp - annoying, as the backup's mysql config is just different enough to give a man fits. in the data directory rather than usr.

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Beefy mac & cheese (made with veggie-meat, of course) with the remains of the rattatouile and green beans made for good eats while BHK and I watched the Kevin Sorbo episode of Middleman. The show keeps getting better and more entertianing... I wonder how long it'll last? I hope it'll keep steam going for another season.

I want to start watching Dexter - BHK is about a season ahead of me. Time to put episodes on the PSP for the commute to work.

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via BHK -

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1 year ago - amazon groceries, Crecy, potatoes from the garden, Rove out

2 years ago - pics from britta's birthday and walkabout, ocean movies

3 years ago - strawberry shortcake, silas stingy, bus ride video, video watching, about me meme, errors at work

4 years ago - np tech fizzed out, disney rides, bro gets 2 years probation, CoH, hurricane Charley, RvsB-internet, Horny Toad

5 years ago - Gelatinous Cube, Chimera / Mosaics, Schwarzenegger, I work with fools blog, David Carlson, wonder woman, cockroaches/dominoes, AAA vs speed traps, director, google calc, teen titans theme cracked

6 years ago - cheaters, fartlek, Gamera, Nation of Victims, Nimoy sings about Bilbo

7 years ago - random journal reading, suasion, hobson, pancake bunny, misc news, super powers/poll

8 years ago - went for sleep study

Had the in-laws over for hot dogs and maybe the last good corn of the summer. Larry and Chris came over - Larry did corn while I worked the grill. BHK made a tasty chocolate-cheesecake mousse pie for dessert! good stuffs.

Thankfully, my tooth isn't being as bothersome as it was last week - the trip to Dr. Wolf seems ot have done the temporary trick - I go in for a temp crown the top of september, and two weeks after that, I get a permanent one.

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Freecreditreport.com is NOT actually free, nor is it related to Annualcreditreport.com, the free credit report that you are entitled to under federal law. So why are people still being tricked into signing up for a credit monitoring service in order to get something that they are entitled to under federal-freaking-law? Because the credit bureaus are linking them to the website and most consumers don't believe that a major credit bureau would try to trick them. Always read the fine print! more here

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always print your gas pump receipt as proof of purchase.

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1 year ago - monkey em pic, belgian waffles, fossil hunting, we discover r and p(BHK, DO NOT LOOK), meteor shower

2 years ago - giraffe graffiti, giganta, danny talks to doug, I talk to GP, green wifi, Bob Ross feeds a Squirrel, starshine

3 years ago - Lesbian movie scenes, student aid, the goon & pie, lisas go to TX, Harry Potter, everything can change, wirehog

4 years ago - Bro's sentencing, EN makes a good impression (other guy fizzed out), Daredevil question, Koko wants a dentist, Tropical Storm

5 years ago - muttonhead, rain, flash, dan at school, voodoo 4, lychee yum, walking stick self defense, ati multi monitor life, noisy neighbors

6 years ago - spiders on drugs, Uzumaki, me and newt's custom HC dials, goodies for Kev's sis, bear teeth, a moment of Zen

7 years ago - utility kilt, uncle bill, intrepid

8 years ago - first online radio(broken), food out with Danny, made the "decaf espresso=kissing your sister" joke, Hollow man

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.

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Elephant painters!

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A million decapitated Darth Vader heads, artistically decorated.

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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 - geophagy

Middleman, Monk and a combo of ratatouille, noodles and tofu patties for supper. Both BHK and were bushed tonight. Where has all of our energy gone?!

I feel for Morgan Freeman, re: his car accident.... and surprised I haven't heard and "driving miss daisy" jokes yet.

Pye napping on cam - stretching out his big ol' fluffy paw!

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Bread... made up to look like far too realistic body parts. Don't look if you're at all squeamish.

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Ohh.. I thought my video card shipped, but really - "Status: Electronic Shipping Info Received

So... I can expect it later this week or next. RAM is going out tomorrow.