Random Thought - My niece (via Momster's younger sis Diane & ) Inger is 17.... I can remember when she was born, and wore the candle headdress at age 4! How the heck did 13 years skip on by that fast?

We watched the most thinly-veiled possible telephone ad / infomercial on the tube last night.. Picture This. Poor Kevin Pollak. Ah well, I was happy just to relax on the couch and veg for a little while. Note - It is not a "hilarious coming of age teen comedy."

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Today's Harvest - Okra and three kinds of eggplant!

recent listens -

Bjork - odd duck and Grinspoon - gone tomorrow

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Mamihlapinatapai:considered the hardest word to translate.

It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other".

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at the suggestion of MGK - I've added Zero Effect to my netflix.

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1 year ago - college park - drove by looney labs, got chrononauts, nasty smoothie king, collector's crypt, liberty books

2 years ago - rip webmonkey, skipping dragon*con, personal growth post recap, newt on porch pic

3 years ago - mp, kev, $, Rs, the love god mp3, update info about me, tag cloud, allergy

4 years ago - construction webbing, fonts, celebs, web cam fights crime

5 years ago - braced, zombie pumpkin fights, insanity script, insurance stupidity

6 years ago - dream about graypumpkin at the paint store, little people, domed 3d displays,great ape project, 28 things quiz, sue the teacher trend, mental comfort

7 years ago - cool mini or not, vatic, cool things about moving, smoothies, misc news, age poll, counter testing, chocolate bees, Victorian Sex Cry Generator, what's for supper, coloring book concept germ

8 years ago - Newtcam's own page posted

Alan, JC, Denise, Tina, Matt, Chris, Larry - visited briefly by Adam, Joey, Jimmy, Amanda and Adam's School roommate next year (Mike? - No, Matt!) whose name I forget.

Special Guest was Chae-pooch! 10 year old chihuahua, looks like a little doll, but is feisty!



Fireworks were excellent - not as crowded as we expected.

Lunch at Tina's was good, despite the lateness - we can be a collective of procrastination... fortunately it is a known variable.

BHK has learned about expelling anal ducts in dogs... her desire for a puppy isn't as great as it was.. but that only redoubles the want for ducks, llamas and more kitties.

A good time was had by all.

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1 year ago - bhk calls me scooter libby, half day at work, speed warning, sickly fox (kitty, you don't look so good), titan arum

2 years ago - rainy warm, preparing for short hair, cigarette bums, breakfast and superman, bhk fossils, talking heads, walkabout, elephant footcare

3 years ago - Sleepy, lapjuicer, gerald mcboing boing, land of the dead, thor's doobie, oops by louis armstrong, manybooks, sex offender,

4 years ago - morbid stuff, the worms, marlon brando

5 years ago - hack comics, vampire game, tree types

6 years ago - booboo foot, left behind books, where's george, Newtcam was on

7 years ago - 2 Years in the Forbidden city, timorous, choleric, evil news, spiderpoll, nuclear war, folks delete, Something Wicked This Way Comes,nekkid poll, love note writing

8 years ago - April takes her time moving out

Spent the bulk of the day moving in our new couch, shelves and end tables - our house is looking more like a home and less like a dorm every day.

Mom contacted me re: my bro - it comes as no surprise (somewhat like agent "!".) - got to add another link to the mugshot page.

(Agent ! - 

Known otherwise only as "Malcolm," a homeless man who dressed in a garish outfit decorated with exclamation marks (possibly referencing his predecessor, the Quiz) drawn back to reveal his chest is actually a gilded cage containing a miniature jet with bird-like feet. Despite his odd appearance, he "comes as no surprise," which allows him and anyone around him to be unnoticed or any attacks made by them to be seemingly out of nowhere. He mentions his desire to find the element of surprise, which may mean that his powers of "stealth" are not what he wants; Malcolm finds the element at last when dying during the final battle between the Brotherhood and the government.)

Once we got home, we settled in and watched the cats enjoying all the new surfaces to explore. Newt seems to like the couch and the low end tables, Pye likes the bookcases, and more "cubbyhole" sort of spots. There'll be more rearranging before the dust has settled, though.

We watched the first half of Astronaut Farmer while eating celebratory Chinese food - food was good, the movie was less than engaging for me.

Worn out, we're heading to bed early tonight.

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Miami Beach cops have busted a rolling whorehouse that operated from a $250,000 bus and offered riders who paid a $40 cover charge lap dances and assorted sex acts.

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via defective yeti, and I agree -

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1 year ago - zucchini and peppers from the garden pic, first paycheck from new gig, nifty phones, earth without people, breaking plastic back down into oil and gas, 50s to 20s advice, quizzes, newt b/w pic, Newsom plans

2 years ago - writing, linda ronstadt, a/c clothes powered by usb, march of the swivelheads, statues, plans for 4th, where does the line start, flake out.

3 years ago - misc bits, deadwood, photos from kites, images from cat brains, 43things, one word, adp cheats on her hubby via company email, bro drama, bedtime newt pics, grammy drama

4 years ago - green flash, CoH, serial killlers, art books, piratey

5 years ago - electronic handgun, gun quiz, rambles, movies, newt pic

6 years ago - faith farm, new place, troll

7 years ago - genuflect, foot binding, broken bow, lj goodies, robot pondering, apartment

8 years ago - on meeting an icon

Ah... Shots and then free as a bird.

Ice cream at Solomon's cone island - I got a soft serve mix chocolate and vanilla w/ chocolate jimmies (erm, sprinkles), and BHK got a small vanilla soft serve cone, dipped in a cherry shell. both were yummy.

Checked out bikes... it's going to be simpler to buy one than ship mine up from Florida, I think.

Hit Aardvark and picked up a few goodies - that place is habit-forming. We headed home to play our newly aquired treats.

got Hive - pieces bigger than expected (BHK won one, I won one)
got Kahuna - We've been playing this on Yucata.de for ages, and discovered there was a comfy form-factor - (BHK won)
got Katan Dice - missing pad, already sent for replacement. We'll play it next week.

Also picked up Archie in the 80's for BHK, and the umbrella academy trade for myself.

played If Wishes were Fishes finally - cute game, maybe a little clunky, but could be better once learned or with more players. (I won)

Arkham Horror is a lot more complex out of the box - we weren't looking to play a 2-4 hour game, so we saved that for another night. The other games could be picked up in 5 minutes played in 20 or so. Kahuna maybe twice that.

Next games for us to play from the game pile are canasta caliente, rook, killer bunnies, gloom, marriage material, and grave robbers from outer space

Went to Selby Sub Shoppe with in-laws - I got a veggie sub w/ seasoned fries, bhk got a chicken parm w/ smiley face potatoes, Larry a burger with crinkle cut fries, Chris a garlic white pizza.

Things seen on Thursday - a toy blimp at nice & fleasy antiques

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BHK also saw some cute stuff at the library, including a mosquito wearing an I pod.

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and a cootie catcher.

She's caught cooties! I knew it!

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Sporepedia is already publicly accessible. This is the online field guide to all the creatures people have created with Spore, and the source from which the game will eventually populate the planets you play in with AI-controlled versions of the races people have made.

The incredible thing about Sporepedia is that those thumbnail images you see are the creature files. Drag that image right from your browser to the game window, and it loads that creature in all its scampering glory. The creature’s DNA is actually coded into the metadata of a 25 kilobyte PNG image. (via James )

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City of Shadows, long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia by Alexey Titarenko.

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1 year ago - digitized comic library, better off not saving?, starbase scottobear, interactive paper

2 years ago - dr who, good lyric stuff, aim cleanup, magic ringtone audible

3 years ago - 32 questions, dead fridge, cartoons, schedules, journal liability guide,

4 years ago - OTR, Black Eye guy, showers good, legion, corps more wealthy thangov'ts, DPD, purple turtle post-its, how to make, I get groovy sandals

5 years ago - Coco's, "If I were" meme, Danny and I get together, Bro goes to ER over hand, playstation supercomputer.

6 years ago - Newtie love, Masai Cow donation

7 years ago - lovely chats full of (LODD , evil news, eye patches, little red munkee

8 years ago - Ben Franklin, Fight Club DVD cap

Todays entry, via wordle -



Getting quite a bit better - still have a rattle in my chest and more coughing but the muscle aches and weakness is mostly gone. I'd say I'm currently firing on five out of eight cylinders.

A/c is now fully charged again - the repairman said that we'd be really baking without any refrigerant by Friday night. I'm glad BHK was there to explain what had been going on to him.

Tried calling my brother today - his voicemail is full. I haven't heard from him since he was last bailed out. His hearing for the latest is in a week - I see in the public records that something was dismissed based on "Lack of Prosecution". Not sure if it's the same item, though. I need to research Thomas A Reynolds, it seems. Looks like his thing is real estate - probably an eviction notice long since passed.

BHK made ratatouille for dinner tonight, and the stars aligned for the movie to be playing on TV while we ate. Larry stuck with some pasta and sauce... BHK gave him some bake and eat tempura shrimp, too... He doesn't know what he missed... zucchini, eggplant, tomato sauce, some olive oil in there... it was really good stuff.

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Horror vacui:

Horror vacui is the filling of the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines and anything else the artist might envision. It may be considered the opposite of minimalism.

I love that I can still learn new words and phrases every day.

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via dnw - Scientists discover how optical illusions work. All of them.

The short version: It takes a tenth of a second for images to get from your retina to the processing centres of your brain. People have known this for decades, but we still see things in real time.

The new theory says that what we're seeing isn't what's there, it's what our brain projects will be there in a tenth of a second - our brain is processing predicatively, showing us it's best guess for the future. And that's why optical illusions can fool it, by confusing it into predicting a future that then doesn't happen.

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1 year ago - many pictures from the garden, my dapper hat, evil jesus fish, thaumaturgic border protection,

2 years ago - monkey chow diaries, idea on how to make the world a better place - implemented tip jar for feeding the hungry, people want what they can't have, many quizzies,code monkey, podcaster legal guide, sympathy for the devil covers

3 years ago - On Call, Rainy, mouse ni the house, drop foot, audio books, santana, house info

4 years ago - full call weekend, 3-bean salad, adsense, monkey-money, exchange, canceled comics, Saw Ray Iglesias

5 years ago - D issues, simcamera, RIP TG, poem, North Korean Cannibals, rental warnings - things seen, minimizing pain, evil intersection, there -quest

6 years ago - MS Linux? Got my new office chair, fun day out with Dan, Tia's angry Email, anatomically correct teddy, what's better

7 years ago - evil news, computer problems, love boat theme for Sweetalyssm, haiku,got lovely post cards, Ornj & I speculate on a fellow journalist's sexuality, not so evil news, body hot, breakfast cereal poll

8 years ago - Privacy, web cam ftp issues, just figuring out it's over with April

Had a lovely time shopping for Alan's b'day present wrapping after my standard morning's shots. Got a haircut (contrary to photo, I don't plan on gelling it into a faux-hawk regularly), Lunched at Ledo's, but I think the stop off at *$ for a little coffee drink took gave BHK a bit of sourbelly, so we headed home, napped and listened to the gumball-sized hail fall unexpectedly from the sky. (There were also tornado warnings, but no sign of that.)

The weather eased while we waited for the in-laws to get ready for the party... we were aiming for a launch time of about 5pm, and we left circa 6:40. Fortunately, we took Chris's eternal case of time dilation into account, so we got there only about 10 minutes late.

Alan's party was nice - quite a diverse group of people there, drunks and non-drunks - I finally got to meet JC and Mamacita, but Mamacita didn't bring her Chihuahua with - maybe next time. I'd say the little house had about 50 people in it at prime time - they hired a doorman, bartender, and a few waiters - but it was a truly casual and pleasant outing... not a lot of seating, but standing wasn't bad, thanks to my epidural earlier in the week.

He didn't open his goodies - his true b'day is Sunday... I imagine he'll like the blooming tea.

Tina and Matt were there - looks like Matt's losing some weight - Good for him!

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Interesting stuff. -(to me, anyhow) Built-in command line windows security tools.

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RIP - Bill Elder.

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for a quick minute of fun - played in browser. -Robokill.

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1 year ago - mortgage, topology, newtcam2, condo issues, firefly and mosquitoes are out, linkdump

2 years ago - may ends, dr octagon, mad now unfunny in color, key west flare vigilante, fragged with bro, blood / allergy sticks, me as jeanbunny, mm flakes back

3 years ago - depth perception, bald oscars, intel drm chips, santana, nice monday, mp3 mashups (new locations here), pros and cons, Lost is Zork (even moreso with the green monitor), connections to people, fish heads, chipmunk stripes

4 years ago - Memorial day, hell in miniature, new mouse, zombie, quiet day, little house

5 years ago - comment screening, monty burns, ch-57, silly newt, matrix reloaded explanation

6 years ago - Prezzies and rain, springer, peanut butter soda, tempestmir introduces Newt to Newt. LRsetup program crashes out, sleeping Friday five

7 years ago - pervicacious, time changes, Mikey passes away, walkies, Hubris and Gnosis, heh yuh dun?, evil news

8 years ago - polytron, country music

Pyewacket says, "Soon.. it will be my turn in the sun. Soon."

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More pictures taken recently - Newton and Pye playing, fighting, pixellated, hancock standee found object to color a pedestrian punching devices and me on the bus. Also, a snake in our yard, and birds I gave popcorn. Clicks embiggen, as always.

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BHK turned me on to PMOG - The Passively Multiplayer Online Game. My profile is here...if you play, let me know! Will it be the next KoL ? Only time will tell!

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Slow-motion videos of people getting punched in the face (background on the clips, shot at 1000 frames per second) [via]

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1 year ago - voice post - testing the auto-transcribe, work, strangers with candy

2 years ago - birthday party </b></a>mental_circles, with pictures

3 years ago - creepy star wars moment, S.T.A., world view, making fiends #18

4 years ago - gmail trades, archive the dead, fruit pies, pirate, bro broke another straw

5 years ago - gamer purity, my buffy blasphemy, newt-grumpy/nosy, p/t, SOP

6 years ago - rainy, ashcroft snooping, what's better, catgrass growing crazy, more pictures to repair, SOP, Lao-tze

7 years ago - bibelot, albedo, TV crushes, Dark Sun, Post to the net/privacy rant, enneagram, SOP, evil news, 'hear, hear'

8 years ago - nuffin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dreamt last night that we were touring a pair of Monasteries - Tibetan style, Buddhist things. Apparently, I wasn't too interested in the firs tone, and had to rush to the second before the bell rang - doors would lock and wild dogs tore apart anyone not inside one of the two feuding temples when the bells summoned them.

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.

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ok these are awesome: http://www.instantrimshot.com/ and http://www.sadtrombone.com/

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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.

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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

BHK made a fantastic and healthy supper of bean/spinach salad and spicy stir-fry tofu "beef" and broccoli. Delicious and nicely filling.

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?

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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!

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I'm still on the phrase "STEAMED CATFISH IN BANANA LEAVES!"

Sorry.

More info on ITALIAN SPIDER-MAN.

Not Sorry.

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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)

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 implemented

Went to Supper at Mama Lucias with BHK and the in-laws... food was good and it was nice to sit around the table and make small talk. BHK and I split gnocci with marinara and eggplant parm.

No ghosts seen or dealt with last night, despite Walpurgisnacht.

New month - Things to do today - pay mortgage, check doctor's appointments and meds, and finish making out my will. (no particular reason, dear journal, just that it's out of date.)

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Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart

One step closer to crawling hands and unstoppable robot zombies, I say. About time.

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Nerdy thought of the moment.


Self-comparison to Owlbear: Scottobear

Frequency: Unique
No. appearing: 1
Armor Class: 8 (7)
Move: 6" (bad back/leg- if repaired, 12")
Hit Dice: 2
% in lair:50%
Treasure type: K, W in lair
(if you know how to use a credit card or a checkbook)
No of Attacks: 1
Damage/Attack: By weapon type (usually 2-8, I think)
Special Attacks: Hug
Special Defenses:nil
Magic Resistance:Standard
Intelligence:Very
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Size: L (6'6" tall, Broad)
Psionic Ability:Nil
Attack/Defense Modes:Nil

This intelligent, but docile creature will flee an attack if possible, but if cornered or if his home or family are threatened, will fight fiercely. His habitat is a cottage near the bay, with his mate and two cats. His hide is worth between 500 to 2000 gold pieces if sold to the right collector.

Both of us have hugs as special attacks.

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She's just bein' Miley is stuck in my head... thanks, BHK!

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I want to go with BHK to DC's month long multi-media event, ARTOMATIC. (www.artomatic.org ). At last count, over 1000 artists are participating, and it's totally free to attend - it looks fantastic. (Plus, Britishink will be there, doing tattoos, so we can give Cyn her b'day prezzie!)

Britishink will be be recreating a working Victorian Tattoo Parlour, complete with a display of the history of tattooing, machines, art, and tattoo related photography. If you want to be part of the art, they can accommodate you and tattoo you there. (Cyn's portfolio is here and more stuff here - take a gander, she does keen stuff - our wedding present from her was a drawn (not inked on us) love knot that was gorgeous.)

Capitol Plaza I
1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit

ARTOMATIC opens on Friday, May 9th. Days and hours are:
Wednesday: 5pm-10pm
Thursday: 5pm-10pm
Friday: Noon - 2am (yes, you read that correctly)
Saturday: Noon - 2am
Sunday: Noon - 10pm
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
The last day is June 15th

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Cute overload has tempted me too far. Must go see the baby elephant in baltimore.

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Wikipedia has more to say about May Day than I might, this year. North Beach has a Maypole by the bay... I wonder when it'll be danced beneath?

I think it's neat that most maypoles are made of maple. I have no idea of the origin of the word maple, but somehow I doubt it's due to the holiday.

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Random factoid - "Mayday" is the internationally recognized voice radio signal for ships and people in serious trouble at sea. Made official in 1948, it is an anglicizing of the French m'aidez, "help me".

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1 year ago - May day thoughts, newt and pye sharing, my zombie eyes, chimney cleaners, Walpurgisnacht

2 years ago - charmed and dr who, bob ross, 20% , houses and kitties, tummy ache, lennon quote, i like monkeys, may day

3 years ago - family factoids, mail forwarding booboo, skipped air show, costcocremation urns, Classic Cheesy Comics, Minneapolis Beggars Guild?,Burrito Weapon

4 years ago - rough night on call, may day, Spanish channel family feud answers,budget assist, air and sea, Dan's students put up a site, Newt-parrot,mum issue, memories, cam pics

5 years ago - There, mayday, top40 drop, ortho, on Workmans comp

6 years ago - free scoop, invaders, stuff meme

7 years ago - buck rogers, geography and climate, nightclub, trundle, lj-cut ponder, misc evil news, organ donor poll, wild party

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.

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Recent photos -

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ATW man is just sitting on the roof.. waiting for the owner to come up with a new plan, I guess... Mother's Day is coming... maybe we'll get to see his mama!

Also shown, our dancing robots, captured in the wee hours of the morning. I think that the designers gave the girl a lot more personality, but I think that they're both very cute.

 Oh, I forgot one - speaking of robots - the Wall-E bench.

there's a heart on the seat - Wall-E + Eve

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A google search for scottobear homebrew gives about 86 results. So, BHK - I do use the term homebrew every here and there! neener neener. Funny thing is that BHK did a search independent of mine, and got a more valid result of about 31. She just thinks it's a funny word for me to use.

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A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.

It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.

The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers' shops.

"Orang hutan" means "forest man" in one of Indonesia's many languages and our long-armed cousins do indeed show a remarkable ability to mimic our behaviour.

This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.

Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals' fishing lines.

The image is part of a series taken for a new book, The Thinkers Of The Jungle, which also includes the first photograph of an orangutan swimming.

Thinkers Of The Jungle, by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal, is published by Ullmann Publishing on May 5.

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1 year ago - TM sullen, gardening, ohio offer, heroes, rpg supers, free software

2 years ago - plazes, car accident, mustache finger tattoos, bibliochaise, rush arrested, barking kitty, orbit cam, Guten Drudennacht! Time for der Hexen-Orgie!, greathatsby

3 years ago - Hitchhiker's, Dr. Who, Dont Cry Kitty, torrents, ebay victory, front pages, walkies pix, key/class quiz

4 years ago - Drudennacht (Walpurgisnacht), email dopes, gmail auction, gamedevelopers, Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun, Chickens like to eat scorpions, T2 espanol question

5 years ago - Where the hell meme, boobah, timetable entry, tripped and went to the hospital on my back, slow trip home

6 years ago - a day in the life doodle, Osbournes, Chupa/tia fight, Star Map (Awesome! I forgot about this!), give bro some DVD-fu, broken pic links I have to fix

7 years ago - music confession, bug farts, fiction, wrote a encryption toy for CEJ and me to chit chat, underwear poll, AL Amarjan Slang, McCafe, lederhosen,SOP - "you forgot the gravy"

Addendum - Fab brew was closed - no muffin or coffee (why close for inventory on a *Sunday*???) - instead we got lunch in Deale. From there we brought the in-laws lemon cake and pie (chirs prefers cake, larry, the latter)... a brief stop off turned into a 4 hour pause of enjoying movies, petting Tigger and eating Chinese food. Not too shabby!

tigger hangin' out with us at the rents - just chilling out today.

BHK made stuffed cabbage last night... it was super yummo. I was a bit cranky and creaky watching Enchanted with her and the In-laws... the movie had a couple of cute bits in it, but was pretty cut-and-paste throughout. No real surprises, short of the animal bits, which I liked the most. City-animal summoning was keen... Flies were more disconcerting than roaches, I think.

Today BHK is meeting me at work for a little lunch picnic on the lawn downstairs... It's supposed to be mid-70s and sunny!

Thank you, anonymous commenter for the pancakes video.

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Best quote heard recently - "Trust in God, but tie your camel to the post." (I've heard it before, but not in conversation.)

On religion- recently got a link to a church furniture store via Newtcam. Slogan - Do you know the difference between a good pew and a bad pew?

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Scientists say the Earth gives off a low, constant hum. The origin of the hum is a mystery, but it drives Mars freaking nuts.

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big free abandonware downloads collection

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1 year ago - comcast vs my surfing, sewage eruption in north beach, tons o' work, dual-gendered deer, amy meetup, modok, the cage, pics of pye and squirrel, evil condo guy arrested

2 years ago - yellow + blue = no green?, pancakes, newt pix, easter bunny fight, farm hustle

3 years ago - mzk, dr who, nbc6 video feed

4 years ago - Khaan!, walkabout statue pictures, CoH, tv turnoff week, Jenjen

5 years ago - Passover, Good Friday, House of 1000 corpses, hair registry idea, past life poll

6 years ago - Pig book, Argentine ants, textarc, haiku, exploding private-parts,slug-eating plant, vibration energy, freedom force, Disney rides becoming movies

7 years ago - cartoons, weeping cherry, newt pic, web hits, Tom Green & PMS ruined my night