Free pop tart day at cal tort ! BHK, Chris and I all went for supper, but none of us got the golden ticket entitling us to a year's worth of free burritos - but we did get a happy 2nd place - they mis-made a bean burrito and a chicken quesadilla, and gave 'em to us gratis on the way out.

Went on walkabout, and they repainted the trolley stop sign -(see today's photo) new hours on there. I didn't get to ride last year, but I plan to take a 25¢ ride at least once or twice this season.

1 year ago - I like quiet, toothpick and earwax spoon artifact, avoid nyc subway lifts, canine transmissible venereal tumor, "she is wound like an angry watch"

2 years ago - BHK and I hit solomon's island, new video games, pictures of cats and family, trekkies, fake monkey entry from bhk, memes, bradbury, bionic woman series coming

3 years ago - cleaning up, ray ig, robby rotten, vista, windows registry, 10 things/commandments, mc birthday, stinky tuber at fairchild

4 years ago - Star Wars With Kev & Bheesham, Apophenia, vega, posting distro, newt and Orangeade pic

5 years ago - friendly gator banished, bro moving, spymac, ephemerist, oddtodd's gig

6 years ago - monkey-shakespeare, 5-things meme, military waste, ad shield

7 years ago - good walkies, missv goodies (need to reupload pic of newt in his cloth), piggy database

8 years ago - fun tv, lambaste, 9-to-5, Hawaiian love, tv part poll, astley issues, cool orange cats, clutch, gun quote

trolley stop goes live this weekend until laborday

Franklin (the outdoor cat who lives near my office) followed me a bit this morning to work, I stopped to give him some love - he's a sweetheart. I made sure to wash my hands very carefully - don't want to allergy myself too much, or possibly bring back feline leukemia to the boys at home. I should start bringing Franklin a little treat or something.


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http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottobear/archives/date-posted/2009/03/19/

If I'm not careful, BHK is going to make me adopt him and bring him home. Plenty of little hellcats at the house already, but I'm a soft touch.

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Though I am of no particular religious faith of my own, I don't mind when others express belief... to a degree. Riding the green line into work this morning, a wall-eyed lady was shrieking out hosannas and praise the lords intermixed with some tuneless chant-like singing. she had headphones on, but I suspect that they were just props so she could ramble loudly.

I've seen this from assorted people, numerous times - usually on the bus, but the train here and the tri-rail back in Fort Lauderdale.  Why are folks permitted to holler at the top of their lungs while I'm confined to the same space as they are? I think that the train is better for just making a lot of noise without repercussions, because it's less likely that it'll stop and eject the person.


I've been "witnessed" to at least 4 times, maybe more while on the bus. I've noticed that the best thing to do is just be quiet and let it pass, because the folks doing it are generally more than a little unhinged already - I don't want someone flipping out too much.. it seems like they run out of gas after about 15 minutes (which seems like an hour) and then start again maybe 5 minutes after that.

There needs to be some sort of code of ethics - if I'm trapped with a person that is at the minimum causing sound pollution that I don't want, or at maximum is a foamy-mouthed looney, I get upset. I was fantasizing about picking up a tranquilizer dart gun somewhere for the bulk of the noise.

See also about 11 months ago
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In a similar vein, I don't mind being trapped on a bus with folks talking a little loudly on the phone if it's a language I don't know... if it's English, it bugs me, but if it's something very exotic (something Asian or African - not too uncommon in DC area) I don't mind nearly so much. German, French, Creole and Spanish is fairly annoying too, for some reason. (if I'm in a movie theater, however, it's easy for me to leave and get an attendant.)

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The ride home on the train was easier on my ears.

Called Comcast about some service - if they slack on me too much, I think we'll just cut that internet cord, and go to hughes-net or some other provider.

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Tasty buffalo "chicken" salad for dinner tonight - and I had the rare beer - (Michelob Lime/cactus - good, light fare).

BHK and I are giving up on Castle, I think - 2 episodes, and neither had the grabbing power. Going to give Better Off Ted another chance, but I suspect the quirkyness is already too stiff for real fun, and it'll get switched off, too.

Our netflix came in, in time for the weekend - Hancock and Run, Fat Boy, Run . My hopes aren't too high - If I'm entertained, that'll do the trick.

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1 year ago - coloring eggs, haiku, atari, victorian chewie, Dro who an insane lsd junkie, obama race speech

2 years ago - newt and pye on cam, first day at county, Ze:The Show is over, squid vs yellow submarine,

3 years ago - condo area pic with duck, i don't like cricket

4 years ago - Lunsford, Atlantis, car crash test, voice post

5 years ago - club 977, Wine & Food, itunes, lj spam, Fri-5, nearby donations,First hint of New Dr Who, Newt big-head pic, color associations

6 years ago - heat, bad job recruiter, UT

7 years ago - city relic quiz, got into an argument with Astley, work nonsense, happy ending

8 years ago - awake but paralyzed for surgery, com ideas, animal eyes

I really like the Prince George's Plaza Metro station, even if it is in a fairly rough neck of the woods.



The whole place is just a neat design... lots of concrete, textures and angles hidden everywhere. I have half a mind to design a Counterstrike level for it. (Like I have that kind of time - Too many other things occupying my life to spend 30 hours building a level that will never get any play.

A pity it wasn't one of the locations used in Fallout 3.

After work today, it was off to get our overdue weekly luxury of soda pop and two $1 scratch off tickets - results were the standard "we didn't win anything, let's drown our sorrows in a diet cherry dr pepper"

So.. What did I give up for lent? Just a bit of sloth, I think. I'm going to shoot for more vigorous walkies and getting back on my regular exercise regimen.

BHK made some tasty noodles w/ peas, broccoli and "meatballs" in a cream sauce. Good hearty stuff - Enough to take some with me to work tomorrow for lunch!

1 year ago - lots of asian elements, Prisoner Inn, steam games, chinese and tuscan sweatshops make prada, recently eaten silly named food, cat lovers and haters through history

2 years ago - we build a snowman (with pics), birds, lots of snow, king kong, pasta

3 years ago - sad endings for sea cows, compusa fruitful, movie server, out with danny, newtcam action pics, tortoise herd

4 years ago - ten things meme, cute newt pic, liberated games

5 years ago - Bro drama, free music

6 years ago - fates, evil idea, doc trip, sorghum

7 years ago - mail, fonts, Celtic Religion - Knowledge base

8 years ago - Haiku, thoughts, flatus, dream fragment

Happy Fat Tuesday!

In-laws came over and we all had pancakes for Dinner tonight - along with some deviled / boiled eggs, it made for a tasty end of the day.

Larry and I tried spotting the green comet Lulin tonight, but to no avail - the neighbor's house blocked out that part of the horizon. Maybe sometime this weekend, we can head out to the boardwalk and try to spot a section that isn't too lit up.

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Word of the Day - EVOE! (from the Conception of Dionysus)

"Zeus stretched out on Semele's bed in the form of a bull with human limbs. Then he was a panther. Then a young man with vine shoots in his curls. Finally he settled into that most perfect of shapes: the serpent. Zeus prolonged their union like some story without end, a rehearsal of the life of the god about to be generated. The snake slithered over Semele's trembling body and gently licked her neck. Then, gripping her bust in one of his coils, wrapping her breasts in a scaly sash, he sprinkled her not with poison but with liquid honey. The snake was pressing his mouth against Semele's mouth, a dribble of nectar trickling down onto her lips intoxicated her, and all the while vine leaves were sprouting up on the bed and there was a sound of drums beating in the darkness. The earth laughed. Dionysus was conceived just as Zeus shouted the name with which for centuries he was to be evoked: 'Evoe!'"

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That's all I've got. Until later, dear journal.




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1 year ago - Trip to the eastern shore, cannonball house, GW sweatshirt, hot sauce, walkabout pictures - geodesic dome, radio tower, old church, stitching pictures weirdly, general tanuki's, my first Natty Boh, Cthulhu at Gitmo, The Prestige

2 years ago - lj notifications broken, model train expo, George Takei on Tim Hardaway

3 years ago - newt herd pic, sleep, quiz-meme, lost a kid before we were even called

4 years ago - Sleepy, Paris Hacked, Gorilla Cover Gallery, adding insult to injury pic, mel out of comm for a week

5 years ago - Newt-beliefs, Police pay an unkind visit (DRAMA!)

6 years ago - fairy tales, country bears, lj poop, palm doodle, A Reading Rainbow of Prophesies, misc news

7 years ago - Tulpa-thoughts, L&B have the baby

8 years ago - one of my favorite bear piccies, hoogerbrugge, Haiku arena is founded, rough translations

update:

Now getting on the train:

8:01 AM - Discovered the hard way that the commuter bus doesn’t take checks - thankfully the fast stop up the road has an ATM so I can pay in cash, and yoo hoo to sooth my nerves. The driver was kind enough to give me a free ride today so I am still 10 rides on the ol’ ticket. Not bad for $38.25 (normally $4.25 a lift)1 year ago - val's b-day, cadaver synod, jetpack brontosaurus, creepy gamers

2 years ago - local wildlife pic, ice storm coming, feeling better

3 years ago - chilly?, swollen uvula, nohari, bongos, GND moving (she's since married... as have I!), cookies?, auto stitched comic spread, super squid

4 years ago - ren-fest thoughts, bro-religion scam thoughts, lair, pretzel prefs, grocery store, lj-buddy collage, valentines zod, moris tepper, elektra barbie, unix cheatsheet, lj user a sexual predator

5 years ago - Ft13th, urban beasts, photo memes, workers screwing up, Joel Veitch (Elephants, Yeah!), Mage knight with Dave

6 years ago - bro mooching, gas prices , newt's Problem solving, Nice email, scabby palm pics, space giants, Walter adopted

7 years ago - Alton Brown, Melting pot month, ornj on the mend, talky newt, sleepy day, condiment museum

8 years ago - lost empires, pipe-smoking monkey sings Sanford and son

friday morning on the green line. one of the older, dirtier trains. i'm at abot mt vernon square, and the whole cabin is scented like cupcakes - a pleasant change from the expected "herd of goat" fragrance usually found on the older carpeted cars.

Slow, lazy day today. We slept extra late, napped while watching Pick of Destiny, went to Aardvark's, said hi to Shaun, Margaret, and Mike, picked up a few video tapes for 4 bits apiece, I had a bit of a blackout/tunnel vision event that I'm chalking up to low blood sugar for now (recovered after swigging a coke) , and then headed off to Mexico for a bite of supper.

When we got home, we snuggled up again like happy little bugs in a rug and watched the inauguration concert on the boob tube.

Misc doodle done - groundhog, BHK's backache, metro bus, dandilion, me teaching the boys to dance, zombie snowman and so on.





1 year ago - nutshell of a day, Bugah visit

2 years ago - voice post - newton's first snow

3 years ago - homeless thoughts, bb vid card broken, newt buries my dinner, jimi, auto-dl tv shows,

4 years ago - mushroms and eggplant, barefoot craving, acronym cursing, Panama city teens, prozac suicides

5 years ago - popeye is 75, duckburg, powerskip, santa cluster maint, hybrids, beach-dweller picture that will make you shriek, brain sammiches, cam pics, cap'n strong

6 years ago - tan me hide, kartoo, SOP, coloring book entry

7 years ago - Accessory animals. Enron & GWB/pretzel, watching Lone Gunmen, Newt came to work, skate porn

8 years ago - Hot outside! Metallica sues Victoria’s Secret, the weather the cuckoo likes, my first LJ flame attack (and my rebuttal)

9557 - Monday

North Beach's High and Low today - 26° F | 14° F

Nearby Easton is 9°F, with a windchill of -7° F.. the Snakehead fish there are going to be under a layer of ice, I think.



That's about as chilly as it has gotten this season... well, that's not saying much - winter started.. what, Yesterday?

40% chance of precipitation... maybe even a white Christmas! I'll take those odds.

BHK and I have been amused by a recent episode of Mr. Meaty - it's on the Tivo until it gets lame. Jesse Lumberpond! Sissy Death!... and See also


Making fiends is cute, and I hope Amy Winfrey is swimmingly successful with it. I really liked the web cartoons - I wonder how many changes she had to accept to get it on nickelodeon?

Additionally - A PURPLE SQUIRREL ! - via BHK

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Starting today, you can purchase a commemorative Barack Obama inauguration SmarTrip card. The special cards, which cost $10 and come with no value preloaded onto them (or pay $20 upfront and get $10 in value on the card) can be purchased online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative cards featuring Obama's face are not to be confused with the special $10 one-day Inauguration paper farecards, which also feature Obama's face. Those paper cards offer unlimited rides on Metro all day on Jan. 20, and are also available online or at Metro sales offices. The commemorative SmarTrip cards work just like regular SmarTrips, and do not offer any special fare discount or unlimited rides. (via DCist)

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PSA- Dealnews has a list of 90 stores that you can still order from and have it arrive it time to make it under the tree before the 25th.

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Current Music:




1 year ago - brief entry - mom and wilton arrive, tacarro, mama lucia's

2 years ago - eryx card!

3 years ago - newton is stealth-master, kev visit planned, mighty boosh, tundra, AHOl finds sticker, astrology misc, fork evolution

1 year ago - Mel's prezzies, Jill good / ADP sucks (both are long gone), tell me meme, No Godzilla, Bush / Scalia / Thomas

2 years ago - RotK w/Dan, 51 successes, gabbed with sedef, Atom feeds

3 years ago - cravings, adoration, sinanju

4 years ago - stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there's a whip, there's a way

5 years ago - cards, filters added

Had an off-site meeting the bulk of the day today - informative, and interesting, but I think I'll opt for the webinar version unless there is going to be any "networking" to be done.

Pleasantly surprised to see Shaun M on the bus ride home - we discussed going to get a Christmas tree tomorrow.

BHK made more pigs in blankets, and we all just sort of are crashing out now.

I'm looking forward to the new tannenbaum, as long as we can find a place to put it in our house.. now that we have the new couch, it's hard to make room for something of that size.



holiday lights that seem to have the least to do with any known holiday. A little yellow fish in love with a yellow submarine.

I wish them both the best of luck.

1 year ago - heard about ex's foreclosure, folderol, Aflac, good thoughts about BHK, WMBT- wombat radio, Santa Clause w/in-laws

2 years ago - christin reviews eragon, my Xmas stocking, got a train to put under the tree. (Larry gave me some track extension this year!)
pictures taken - more xmas tree

3 years ago - pizza and narnia, santa poll, lenses, feliz navidad, cousin billy, clydee card, walkies pix

4 years ago - damned don't dance, Mel's Gramma, shopping, vote switch software, Hardee's Monster thickburger, UFO theme popular, Gigantor

5 years ago - sleepyhead , mugger caught on lj audio, Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Animals, misc

6 years ago - Newt with his feet up, Froogle gets rolling, VB memos, given serious sam by msk

7 years ago - Linus Recounts the reason for Christmas, segway thoughts

8 years ago - Hell week day 2, the psychic, longfellow

Throwback from our shopping for a new holiday ornament or two.



We didn't get HO, but it got an honorable mention. No HOs for us!!

Got pretty darn chilly after work today, waiting for the bus - bad day for it to be late. Discovered that my rain jacket is water "resistant" not water "repellant!" When the bus finally came, my skin was bright red as I defrosted... cold enough that it hurt a bit. 

We drove through about 2 feet of water on the way home... but that was worth it, because Cathy & Dave sent us  homemade cookies for Xmas! (and something wrapped in gold paper for under the tree)

Nom nom nom.

1 year ago- present clues, Austen-fest, kraut, dogs and potato pancakes, Fido, lit the tree

2 years ago - tree trimming pix, spam, note to write

3 years ago - val & rhonnie news, kreuger, bro issue, rs shopping, jellyfish

4 years ago - working with cubase / fruityloops, pork chop assault, manatee window kiss, mel 5

5 years ago - Ghost Bugs, Missing Chairs, News Stories about cats and physics.

6 years ago - holiday oranges, Joe Ostezewski, letter-words

7 years ago - vil news, bear suit update, walkies, visions

8 years ago - stinky week start, a pair of email fallacies, rhonnie has her incident

long day today, but soon I'll be in my sanctuary, with bhk, newt and pye to bring me comfort and good cheer. my head is filled with bits and bobs of loose ends that need tidying up... but each frayed string is being woven back into the greater tapestry of the projects involved. it seems that the silly, niggling things expend the most energy... that and pure entropy are the tricky time suckers, while the guts of deep thought seem to fit easily. go figure.

Uploaded by scottobear on 28 Oct 08, 6.02PM EDT.

I was leaning against this signpost this time yesterday, reading my book. Today it is knocked over and torn in two. I suppose now that it wasn't a very safe place to stand and wait for the bus.

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

Veggie-protein meatloaf, green beans from the garden and a simple salad made for a great dinner tonight, compliments of BHK.

Middleman was excellent, again. I wonder how long it'll take them to run out of steam? Alien dictators and Boy Bands. So far, so good!

That's about it for me today... Have some cool links du jour from around the web, dear journal!

Om Nom Nom Nom. - pictures badly photoshopped in paint to look like monsters eating things. Ah, simple pleasures.

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1 year ago - karma, John Lovitz pummels Andy Dick, car moving nearly squishes BHK and Amy, new shoes, Hp movie, bhk's 4th grade yearbook and kid goodies, matt's summer mix

2 years ago - movies, writing, housebound, heifer.org, king kong song, monday meeting, planetary mass comparisons, I doubt fate/design, lego jesus, oh don piano!

3 years ago - visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank's sing-along, AIM email, bananaman

4 years ago - zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test

5 years ago - celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk's diary

6 years ago - palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!

7 years ago - important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot

8 years ago - junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinky

Okra has come in with the first zucchini - vile, slimy okra. We'll see if BHK can win me over to this veggie, like she did with Zucchini.

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John R Cambron (who lives in North Beach!) has an excellent track map showing the layout of all switches, yards and platforms in the Metrorail system. Now, he's expanded that map based on the Metro 2030 vision to create a potential 2030 track layout. - via

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In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.

With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.

The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem “The Hunting of the Snark”: “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”

more here at the NY times

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So, how many human rights advocates are going to boycott all of the sponsors of the 2008 Summer olympics in Beijing ?

Numerous human rights violations have taken place in China because of the Olympics, according to an Amnesty International report. In 2006, Beijing implemented a detention without trial scheme called "Re-education Through Labor" which targets people who have committed minor offenses and are forced to work long hours and can be detained for 4 years. Concerns over the games also include the potential for boycotts from pro-Tibetan organizations such as Students for a Free Tibet as well as from organizations such as Amnesty International upset with China's involvement in the crisis in Darfur.

Biggest tricks for me to avoid would be be -



Items of little to no difficulty -

The first estimate on cutting down the dangerous trees in our yard is right at $5000. $3100 for removing the two trees near the house (with the one near the power lines costing the most) and 1800 for the ones near our elderly neighbor's house. The tree guy said the one directly behind the house looks like its dying.

Second had the $3100 reduced to $2200 - we'll see what the guys tomorrow think. Still waiting to see what's to be done re: the Element's windscreen.

Had in-laws over for veggie meatloaf, salad and stir-fry veggies - all were delicious. (Larry had hot dogs - still doesn't want to try non-meat stuff ... not like hot dogs are all that higher in critter content!)

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This Thursday the 19th is, according to WMATA, “Dump the Pump Day.” Residents are supposed to take advantage of metro in order to see how much money they will save on commuting costs for a day. They are also sponsoring a related contest to guess the daily ridership on Thursday - you could win a $100 SmartTrip card.

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Thanks to an anonymous whistle-blower, a Walgreens pill-flipping scheme has been blown wide open, according to CBS. "Pill-flipping" refers the practice of pharmacies that purposefully switch Medicaid patients to more expensive versions of certain drugs for the sole reason of collecting more money from the government. Naturally, when this happens, taxpayers pick up the bill. Athough, Walgreen's officially denies any wrongdoing they have agreed to pay the government more than $35 million.

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Open-Source Tower Defense is a Half-Life 2 Mod. You can choose from 4 upgradeable towers to see how long you can last protecting your castle against never ending waves of bugs. It's a project of OneEyed that is now opensource for everybody to use.

Contains:
- Game Files
- Source Code
- Map Hammer .vmf file of the map.

Checkout the moddb website for more info over here.

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1 year ago - 70 questions with bhk and scotto

2 years ago - cleaning day, flying rays, quizzes

3 years ago - Thai/sushi instead of Moroccan, retro illos, heat, tiresome week, groovy quote, shinto, Child sacrifices in London, hobo sign decoder sheet

4 years ago - audioblogger/pic remote links a no-no, bro being bad, domain shuffle (newt has an email now!), local language map

5 years ago - sleepy newt-pic, black spot, signmaker, Scott spellings, Man of iron-isms (game notes from 1995), talked with Doug Wu

6 years ago - Doug and Cathy, animal babies, Gaming. (wow... must be something about this week for reflection), Barbie, SQL for rgladiator, a kiss goodnight, forgotten silver balls.

7 years ago - Reminder that tomorrow is Kev's Sister's B'day, 7 things meme (I wonderhow many of those have changed?), missile silo home, how to be a superhero, superpower origin poll, enchiladas of doom

8 years ago - not a thing, but I know rough waters are ahead

I still feel pretty-lousy, but went in to work - too much needs to be hands-on today - meetings, etc.

My shoulder muscles and ribs / stomach are all especially tender from the coughing. I'm being extra lazy with my entries until I feel more up to speed.

BHK made pizza tonight... I had two slices of green pepper and cheese. First real food eaten since Sunday. It was delicous, but I couldn't consume more than that... or any pie for fear of retribution.

I can't imagine a homemade blueberry pie lasting a week in my house. I must've been terribly sick, indeed.

Cut and paste links ahoy!

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Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have gone to the dogs, so why can't Cheeta the chimp get some love? The animal actor, whose credits include the 1967 comedy "Dr. Doolittle" and the "Tarzan" movies, is trying for the seventh time to get a sidewalk star and become the first monkey to get the honor. His handlers have launched an online petition to get supporters to urge the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to give him a star in 2009.

The 76-year-old chimp, who the Guinness World Records has called the oldest living, non-human primate, is retired and lives in Palm Springs. Cheeta also has a MySpace page. (see also - http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GoCheeta/ )

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John McCain wants to kill folks on dialysis.

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This video - A Washington DC news crew goes down to Union Station to interview someone from Amtrak about people who have been stopped from taking pictures even though there's no policy against it. As the Amtrak spokesperson is explaining that there is no policy against photography, a guard comes up and tries to stop them from filming, saying it is against the rules.

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1 year ago - justice frozen in carbonite pic (taken at the courthouse where I was married... and across the street from where I worked)

2 years ago - chatting with tomi & tina, redd foxx fairly suxx, many mp3s, cat trees bear, the hoff sings, weather

3 years ago - sleepies, bro on upswing, free lunch, tropical storm Arlene, ice cream truck music, newt, bus stop and pics, Coprology, hurricane, I spy

4 years ago - hungry-boy, Shambhala, lawn chair boat, Alan Yu vs. the invisible shrinking psi-agents.

5 years ago - good ol' days, There-stuff, mummy locator

6 years ago - wonder twins movie optioned, Baiso, Rose Red, Bunko Shenanigans

7 years ago - Uddercream, Eugene Mirman, evil news, lit-quiz, chachi and opium

8 years ago - bubble, simple

Thank you to all the people that worked so hard to make my life as free as it is.

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pictures - ATW man salutes our fallen heroes, and I complain about the heat. (Not nearly as hot as it was in other locales, so I hear!)

Slept well on the new bed - I wasn't feeling so hot earlier, but a nap helped my back and headache quite a bit. Still a little nauseated, but not too terrible.

We had the in-laws over again and made more franks and beans for dinner, and this time, the bonfire and s'mores were a reality. Added bonus was blowing bubbles.

Opted out of the new town trolley to Pete Green's - The route is cute, and could be a lot of fun - two bits to ride can't be beat. I wouldn't mind just taking it for a little day-tour out and about where BHK and I can relax and take in the scenery. I suspect that the trolley's primary use will be for drinkers getting home safe... I'm all for it if it keeps the drunkies from behind the wheel.

I want to pick up a bike - the in-laws cycled up the beach for breakfast this morning, and I thought it sounded like a fun way to ge tout of the house for a bit.

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I still haven't decided what new e-books to put on the PDA - maybe I'll take a breather and stick to pulp-books for a bit.

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1 year ago - info about 20714, shaved ice man and diabetes, bake sale!, things going smoothly, satori quote

2 years ago - 2nd life upgrade, mm pickup issues, 26 letters about me a-d, wilma buiding, poo-poo ice, c-64 emu, super chicken, robot caveman

3 years ago - slack, WEP cracking in 10 min, forget me not panties, sithy meme, wiktrivia, Nosferatu download, writing assignment, how to fake fingerprints, sat maps make me think of people as ants

4 years ago - put motion detection on newtcam, last done meme, life on venus, AFMBE - Zombie Smackdown, FL Drugs, hummus

5 years ago - Memorial Day, freaky wind, There, superhero factoid, castrati, Skeletor and Gang, Chipotle, Joan Cusack crush

6 years ago - Gargoyle, </a></b></a>menstrualhut troll, comparison poll, memory from DC (my evil twin), yeti @ home, monster's inc good

7 years ago - monad of John Dee, Morikami, Shrek good, Pearl Harbor bad, lj-death hoax, icky stuff, good stuff, o Mousewheel event, flash ponderings

8 years ago - subject lines, Hunter thinks that my first icon looks like I'm in the phantom zone, age difference, I have done all but the car on that list, 125 things about me