2 years ago - bro out of jail and in seemingly good condition, date night with BHK, movie reviews / possibilities,
3 years ago - pirate scotto pic
4 years ago - red lobster, class struggle, black friday, chubby checker

5 years ago - pirates, giraffes, incredibles, bro
6 years ago - Marvel Family, Countdown meme, garden pictures
7 years ago - Free audio books, hubcap monsters, discover empanadas nearby, GIMP
8 years ago - cloture, pocketlj, single card tarot spreads, meeting lj folks confirmed
9 years ago - air cools, Young Frankenstein poetry, sleepyhead, country bear jamboree
10 years ago - very basic Newt stats

3 years ago - frigate bird, fishing trip
pictures taken - fishing trip

6 years ago - Coffee, ghost towns, Grunt, growl & Tear, local cams, Zombie survival guide, Lego source, fun linkies, city stats, frankie wheedling, thai smiles

7 years ago - got a spine sucker after getting an epi, Freemasons, fezzes, slogans, first clues to undoing w/bro

8 years ago - meteors, taliban, mrblowup, broward county fair, Martian Manhunter Rehashed, sv tarot

9 years ago - Limb lopping, wonka, new ljstuff, hunter thompson, aok

• Pictures taken - Vizcaya and etc

• Get a Job - The English Beat


• The Famous Polka - They Might Be Giants


• B-52s Cosmic Thing.

• Matt Lauer can suck it - Michael Gaicchino (Land of the Lost Soundtrack)


• Running to the Rain - Peter Gabriel


• Ballero - War

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

LiveJournal may be inaccessible at the current time due to network issues. Our Operations staff is working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Don't panic.

6:06 pm GMT (Friday, August 7)

LiveJournal is up and working, although due to particularly heavy site traffic you may occasionally see a network timeout or slow loading times. Our Operations staff will continue to work to ensure the site remains available for you.

8:06 pm GMT (Friday, August 7)

Got my shots and refilled meds today - that and running errands absorbed most of the available daylight. Back is still tricking up, but I do better after stretching and a little bit of a walk.  Still pretty tough for me to pick up anything moderately heavy, and standing or sitting for a long period is difficult.

During my last walk, I picked up a couple of UNO decks to put in local geocache sites. I'm not very fond of the drive-by/ "cache and dash" mindset, but going to one a day is a nice way to see newplaces and old ones in a new light.

BHK made plans with Mandy to hit the thrift store tomorrow - BHK has a lot of luck finding loot - I expect to get a good shirt or two at least!

1 year ago - newton pork chop leg pix, cukes from the garden. resting and ratatouille.

2 years ago - picked up some icehouse pieces at aardvark, tv watching, no hits on amnesty day, kids today (super sweet 16)

3 years ago - Danny's last summer vacation day, pictures, hovering sombrero, many memes done in comments, hidden gp address in comments

4 years ago - cute mousie, taken, chatitn', elevator express, ks sex preds

5 years ago - riding the bus, mystery creature, tv music in my head, a great new euphemism, maps, dr who, avengers, creep

6 years ago - COPS, nifty interfaces, Creatures, TV, Clay-o-rama rules

7 years ago - Signs movie, cancerless cigs, hellboy movie, scary bunny, 2nd wishes,Oz scary, zombies land on beach, Anna Nicole show hurt to watch

8 years ago - Oz quiz, Dictionaraoke, Day planning

9 years ago - Florida panthers, everglades restoration efforts, lj adds interests

A new prototype charging system from the company is able to power itself on nothing more than ambient radio waves - the weak TV, radio and mobile phone signals that permanently surround us. The power harvested is small but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains, according to Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.

The difference with Nokia's prototype is that instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, Nokia claims it is able to scavenge relatively large amounts of power -- around a thousand times as much -- from signals coming from miles away. Individually the energy available in each of these signals is miniscule. But by harvesting radio waves across a wide range of frequencies it all adds up, said Rouvala.

The trick here is to ensure that these circuits use less power than is being received, said Rouvala. So far they have been able to harvest up to 5 milliwatts. Their short-term goal is to get in excess of 20 milliwatts, enough power to keep a phone in standby mode indefinitely without having to recharge it. But this would not be enough to actually use the phone to make or receive a call, he says. So ultimately the hope is to be able to get as much as 50 milliwatts which would be sufficient to slowly recharge the battery.

0502091712.jpg, originally uploaded by scottobear.

our first cauliflour of the new garden blooms!