BHK is continuing to make great gastronomic strides with her "meatball" and bean soup. The veggie meatballs got a little crumbly, but they still added excellent texture and flavor to the spicy bean brew. Had more of the salad from yesterday as well, and it was a tasty counterpoint of cold crunchy to the hot and spicy.

Watched the first half of Rataouille (hey! got the spelling in one!) over our supper, and it looks very cute thus far.

Rainy outside... tornado warnings for Calvert and Prince Georges Counties.

Lunch today will be more fajitas and salad - tasty and very healthy.

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CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police.

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Per the always aware flying_blind - "I was surprised to see not only how many Betty Boop cartoons there are in the Internet Archive, but how much other stuff the Film Chest cartoon collection contains. 66 cartoons! That's like eight hours worth!"

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The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container.

The art piece was called “Victimless Leather,” and according to The Art Newspaper:

The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened . . . Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.

Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…That thing was never alive before it was grown.“

Link via seedmagazine.com, original story here.

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1 year ago - Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves - also lasagna, not shown.

2 years ago - allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie

3 years ago - little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factiods/excuses, sweater fashion, work form

4 years ago - MD, Nat'l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare

5 years ago - owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down

6 years ago - cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that's all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost

7 years ago - </b></a>menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)

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

Spent most of the day shuttling around, getting things in order, both at work and off-site. BHK and I made it home about 7:30, after supper at Ledo's at about 6. - I ended up famished right around 9pm.. .I guess the small veggie calzone didn't want to stick with me.... especially since I pretty much had been sans food all day.

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Thank you, cardboard graffiti artist, for making tuesday extra fun!

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The thought was to go to the movies after my midday stuff, but neither BHK nor myself were really up to it - sort of fragged out and just wanted to get home.

Movies:

Despite all the reviews to the contrary, I suspect that I'll like Hancock more than Iron Man. More than either of those, I want to see Wall-E.

Indy 4 I don't have high hopes for, but I'm certainly going to see it if possible. I just want it to be better than National Treasure 2.

We still have netflix copies of Cloverfield and No Country for Old Men - Maybe next weekend for those.

Guys like this, *and* the people he sat in front of are two reasons I don't like going to movies on opening night. If you don't like what's going on, either tell the manager, or leave. Those kids had witnesses and there are cameras in most theaters... his behavior was good at least for an assault charge, maybe battery too. (I'll leave that to my wife's legal knowledge.) Add to that that he's far from a minor, and they were... way to lead by example.

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Jailbreak 0.4 is out.. looking pretty sharp! I'll get to it after I finish the Orange Box and Bioshock. (got 'em both for xmas, but I'm having too much fun doing other stuff to goof single player on the 'pooter these days!

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1 year ago - 5/6/7, walkabout greenery pics, Aardvark awesome, monsters menace america, moes & alan, freaky radio-spheres

2 years ago - ze sings, free comics, air show pics, compliment... sort of.

3 years ago - no bro, pervy on lj arrested, phillykat back!, local public service net-casts, users deleting, rainy 5/5, woman jailed for faking her death

4 years ago - RIP Rod Roddy, Black magic death, 4F, a friend suffers

5 years ago - poser5, South Florida vodou, python, song lyric

6 years ago - good smells, bro-doc, great books and classics, monsters, I wrote thepuppyfrog poem, long ol' survey from a while ago (the same one I did the other day), e-prime mentioned

7 years ago - movies, newt's middle name, Architect. hot air, lcd drops, writing exercise, quotes, newt-happies(tmi?)

Gentle evening last night - watched 27 dresses with BHK and Chris over supper - gigantic bean salad, with left over zucchini and Thai curry soup. Delicious.

The movie wasn't bad as far as chick flicks go... The most curious thing to me was that there were no minorities, elderly or babies in the film of note. With the exception of the Girl's dad, everyone was a white 20-something...and I think of New York being pretty diverse.

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I'm going to go from full beard back down to goatee... it's getting warmer now. Monday will be a fresh week!

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Not sure if I like the new icon... I may look a bit too serious here. I wonder how much the tone of my journal has changed?

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Has technology made us ruder? Put your stupid phone down for one second and read this to see.

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I likely have at *least* twice the mass of most other bodies.

The formula for force: force = mass x acceleration
The formula for momentum: momentum = mass x velocity
The formula for impulse: average force x time

I suspect that I have only about 1/2 the acceleration though, so it likely balances out, force-wise.

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1 year ago - freeciv / freecol, lj posts turned to audio posts, annmarie garden

2 years ago - 8333, palm diet, catagoriz, meanface, bro drama, stupid math tricks, tales to astonish

3 years ago - Cyberman cameo, all caps, bush mashup, best way to fight a vampire, Spanish frog, near-noggin hit, bus-cam pics, pulp book covers, zombie raccoon pic, geek/travel, interview meme

4 years ago - nuptials, 5/5, bad dream, vanishment poll, quizzes

5 years ago - highlander badgers, 20q, misc news stories, Newton at Rate my kitten, CJ issues

6 years ago - lovey day, PBJ time, remote rats, plant caregiving

7 years ago - misc news, sleep station with newt, TCUP

Back is feeling much better today. Not great, but only a low-level ache and tightness at the moment. The pills best used before bed as they make me sleepy and thus not suitable for work or any sharp thought-based activity during the day.

Still haven't heard from brother since he was released from jail. I imagine that no news is good news.... I think I'll call him tonight, though.

Yesterday afternoon while I was taking care of some issues, BHK ran to the nursery and picked up some veggies for us - Flowers : Ranunculus (look mostly like the Heart of Gold ), Some Red Cat Tails, a dozen ears of corn, and a big bag of zucchini. Local food for supper the next few days!

Also after work, BHK and I went to see The Forbidden Kingdom. I'd say that we both liked it - the settings and fight choreography were lovely, but I would really have loved to see what they'd have done in the 80's, when they were both at physical prime. It was also a bit too... American, I guess. The bookends of "bullies chase kid with no 'fu", to "kid, now trained, defeats bullies" weakened the picture a bit. Overall, I was more than pleased, but it wasn't as fantastic as I'd have hoped. Not in the same league as othe rcurrent wire fu flicks, but seeing Li and Chan together was pretty nifty... Plus, The Monkey King!

After the movie's popcorn, we were ready for some serious supper time, and headed to Red Robin... we were seated between an old man who had a fragrance of tomato soup in a baby diaper and an adorable down's syndrome baby.

That was ok, save for the distracting scent... but after waiting for about 10 minutes without seeing a server, I took it as a sign of possible things to come, and we left.

We made a beeline for Cheeburger² and were seated immediately... placed our order, and chitty-chatted. The Trivial Pursuit cards at the table were ones we'd already done before, but that's the risk we take by going there so often. Our server was seemingly inexperienced at her job... a little while after we placed our order, she came back to tell us that they were all out of veggie burgers. Apparently, neither BHK or I were slotted for the meal we were looking for tonight. We got ready to go, and the girl pleaded with us to stay - free milkshakes were offered. (Reasonable, since they were already made, waiting for our non-present main course to come to us.) We said that it was ok, but she begged us to stick around while she got her boss to make things right. Bogdan was there, acting as manager... we really can't say no to him. He's been our burger buddy since I first moved here, and BHK has known him longer than that. He gave us some other options, which worked out fine. I got a grilled portobello sammich and BHK did a cow-burger, both had the same toppings and treatment we wanted on the veggie-burgers.

The shakes were tasty, though not as thick, since they had time to melt while we waited... I got a chocolate mint (not as good as chocolate cherry), and BHK had a standard ol' fashioned chocolate malt.

We made it home at about 9ish, BHK checked her email while I played a little TF2 (polishing my Heavy and Demoman skills) and Counterstrike.

Naughty Newt wouldn't let BHK's water alone... first he stuck his face close to it, and sneezed into the surface.... insuring that BHK wouldn't be drinking any. With that, he lapped the contents until he wasn't comfortable sticking his face inside the cup... so he put a paw in and pulled it over to drink from the puddle. BHK didn't know that he's fond of that little procedure. I guess she knows now. We went to bed shortly thereafter... reading turned swiftly to sleep.

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Best thing about Gordon Ramsay is his insult factor. calling someone a doughnut, a pelican and a donkey.

I'm surely going to call someone a "silly pelican" sometime soon.

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This morning, I remember a dream of disease outbreak - lots of panic - BHK and I were separated, don't know where the cats went.

I was put on a bus to Schenectady (why Schenectady?), with one small carry-on bag. I was forbidden to bring any money, books, cell phone / electronics or shoes, with the understanding that I'd be subject to robbery and worse if I did so. I don't remember what I did pack.. clothes and toiletries of some sort. I specifically recall bringing a roll of toilet paper and some pens and pencils. There was considerable fear and panic on the bus, but it wasn't overcrowded. I had my own seat, and behind me was the skinny guy from The Big Bang Theory.

The skinny guy and I talked for a bit... more like he spoke and I tossed in a comment here and there in support of what he was saying. I don't recall the exact nature of the conversation but there were certainly aspects of survival involved - something about safe water and how to make a solar oven was part of it. I was thirsty, and did not pack any water - there was a screeching or whooshing of air in my ears as we drove to our destination. Actor guy moved from the chair behind to sit next to me as there were two other fellows on his bench, pushing and shoving each other aggressively.

After our talk, skinny guy showed me that he was wearing an earring shaped like two horseshoes that were open, but closed enough that the second didn't fall from the first. the beads were black. He took it out and stuck it in my ear, piercing it when he did... and put in another one back in his own ear... the only difference was that his now had gray beads instead. He said that it was protection for the area ahead, and also gave me a compass and a powerful magnet (that didn't affect the compass, somehow) as a way to thank me because I wasn't annoying. The men behind us had been listening wanted thier own, but he refused. "Sorry - you were annoying me. Anyway, I don't have any more." and then was killed - I couldn't help him because I was back on the bus again, and he was in the parking lot, left far behind, shrieking as the two men tore him to pieces. I guess one of the men got the earring he had.

We stopped in Montana (must've been the long way, since we were going to NY from MD), where men in gas masks and carrying clipboards came on and took us outside one by one. We were lined up, and then everyone n the bus was killed except for me - deemed contagious, I suppose.

I was given food and water, and then told to walk from there. A broad expanse of grassy hills and green trees were ahead of me, with no path to be seen... but I walked, a deep sense of sadness hitting me with every step. I noted that the land was stunning, but empty without BHK and the boys with me... I began to wonder if I'd ever see them again- if somehow I'd been tricked and that this was a way of putting me in isolation.

I pulled a walking stick from a nearby branch and hit each tree, hoping to knock unseen fruit and to let nearby wildlife know I was coming... for whatever reason, I thought there were mountain lions in the woods.

Then I woke up to the alarm clock playing BHK's IPOD, and I was snuggled in with her, the boys on the bed as well. So that's a happy ending, anyhow.

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1 year ago - garden work / computer work, one word meme, shorpy

2 year ago - rough day, socialist apes

3 years ago - droopy dan, mlm scam, petroglyphs, wifi via airship, science fiction, local graffiti pics, newt on kittenbreak and kittenwar

4 years ago - Team Laser Explosion Secret Fan club, Eels, ADP sassmouth, php nuke is el-sucko

5 years ago - Travel plans, work, finn's karma, Saw Murray

6 years ago - May Day Coming, Snuggles Newt, Super power, Chupa Blabs

7 years ago- web poll, dj poll, bit o' fiction, My pet Skeleton, naughty news - lots of breasts, a bunghole, creed and a mime, mum.org letter for </b></a>menstrualhut

Rainy day and a Monday, but I'm not letting it get me down. Newt, Pye and BHK always bring me right up again!

BHK made tasty split pea soup and cornbread for supper - and then I won a game of Balloon Cup afterward while we watched Next (not a bad flick, goofy action flick, but fun.) Turning in early, now.

Assorted pics taken today or found lately:

Newt leaps!
Whee!

Daily WTF - swimming melon monster man


More WTF - Proper use of googly eyes


Reminds me a bit of the ol' Mighty-o's commercial with captain sarcastic. (alternate )

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Someone scraped the contents of Darren Di Lieto’s website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100. Publishers have faked their details, resellers refuse to pull the book.

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1 year ago - vitamin coke discovered, flyball pix with amy, woodbine, many accents, steve jacoby finds me

2 years ago - ironing, BB & True romance, wigsforkids, newt prance pic, ljmap, friday 5

3 years ago - Kj, elephant calling, bleeding, classic newt pic, ugly animals, louis armstrong sings whoops, I did it again, kosher gorillas, commercial airs, lj percentage seems off

4 years ago - Whale art, "Sasquatch and the Bologna Caper", gmail, dream, RI guff

5 years ago - in the lj top 40, quizzes, 374 spam hits in 3 minutes, lj-goodies

6 years ago - LSH, wesley willis, search hits, Bea Arthur vs Velociraptors, Fave interjections, name popularity, I know a lot of amputees, fred rogers,soap carving

7 years ago - Chores, lunch meetings, shoplifter poll, doll with pully-string, back workout

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

After work yesterday, we intended to visit to Larry's School and watch The Scarlet Pimpernel. No such luck- timing was against us, so we just grabbed some Mama Lucia's pasta, and went home.

I've had very restless sleep lately, maybe getting only 2 or 3 good hours in a night. I'm hoping to play a little catch-up this weekend, and get my body back into a reasonable schedule.

Hard to say for sure, because it is dang nice outside lately.

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BHK trotted out Hacienda today, and we played the analog (rather than online ) version.. she beat me soundly (by >40 points!), but now I have a better grip on the rules. She'll continue to beat me, no doubt, but it'll be more of a challenge for her.

Still waiting to spring Wishes Were Fishes... maybe tomorrow!

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So... what ever happened to the Doom Patrol Movie, anyway? The TBA was set for 2008 . Hm. Says 2009 here. (They bought the rights in 2006.)

Ah Well, it'd be hard for me to see Cliff Steele and Negative Man (plus whatever other combo they dream up) in a live-action setting. Too surreal, maybe.

I'm still all for it, in almost any permutation, as long as it has Robotman, and Monsieur Mallah & The Brain. (Of course, I'd prefer Grant Morrison's Team of Crazy Jane, Rebis, Robotman, The Chief (Not the Head) and with backup of Dorothy Spinner, Joshua Clay and Danny the Street, if possible.) Please leave all of the Rachel Pollack aping of Morrison's run out, especially how she snuffed out Cliff and Jane's relationship.

Sure, while I'm at it, hire me as an extra for a million dollars a day, plus craft service.

Side Note - it was rather neat to see a Larry Trainor cameo in Justice League: New Frontier.

Doom Patrol and GP's more oddball games were some of my favorites - Z-squad, FOCUS and the like (Even HHH, for its brief existence) added a touch of the sinister and surreal to otherwise fairly boring fare. Funny how back in the day I'd have enjoyed identifying with Cliff or Josh, or even RPing an analogue - Rebis would be something too alien or powerful to be anything but a GM device, I think.. unless you were playing a very low powered one, and just let the ref take control every here and again. (Of which I'm also not too partial - I prefer to play my own characters.)
Best times were with miniMAX, but Zero, Run-around Sue and Le Grenouille were not too bad for a one or "two shot" quickie. I hear that they're doing a Brave & the Bold cartoon - teaming Batman up with an assortment of "Hero of the week" types - Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Aquaman, and whoever else they can toss in there. Funny about no mention of Superman. I really like the look of the art - silver-agey - kid friendly but still cool. Maybe they'll work in elongated man or the Martian Manhunter, for a nice light hearted but solid detective episode. Looks like Batman will be in every episode, so it's unlikely I'll ge t acool Hawkman / Atom story, but who knows where it'll go if successful? I really dug the Justice League and the transition it took to JLU - maybe lightning can strike twice.

Those were some of my most enjoyable games, GP running while Kat and I played - solid "Buddy Movie" dynamic, with plenty of time to get characterization and limelight in for everyone, every episode. Green Lantern & Dr. Mid-nite (I always wanted to see her Doc Mid-nite get together with Robin - perfect wholesome super-couple, miniMAX & Ghost, Trism & Kyoko (with sidekicks). I miss those games, sometimes - it was good, clean fun - you didn't have to beat something up every session, and it wasn't a bunch of fan wank, either.

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1 year ago - rainy day, auto-deploy lj, tk experiments fail, small town feel

2 years ago - Newt in Zefrank's video, yoink doodle, met with gp and kat, cool gifitis, squishie photos, kev at gimo, mady at chem lab, ab fired

3 years ago - new semagic, video shoot pics, RI calls me mouthy, neon sign, carrot flowers, robot guards

4 years ago - wanting a long weekend, GP mentions a detente, CoH, Butterflies of NA

5 years ago - Power out silence, ut2k3, there.com fun.

6 years ago - angry kid, baha men, freedom force, sniffing around for the girlie, Kidalicious gets a new Baby!

7 years ago - identifying with Sam the Sheepdog, people in your neighborhood poll, livejournal observation, chupacabra sightings up

Ah, the end of another week... I'm looking forward to a gentle weekend, this go 'round. Sleepy This morning.

Recent doodles -

Me in the office, post saying Shazam! Regarding Uncle Dudley/Uncle Marvel. During the classic era, an old man named Dudley (who was clearly modeled after W. C. Fields) claimed that he was not only a relative of the Marvels but also a Marvel himself, although neither was true. The Marvels took a liking to him and decided to humor him, and "Uncle" Dudley became Uncle Marvel, the Marvel Family's manager. He'd make his "transformation" along with one or more of the others, but not by magic; rather, by quickly removing his break-away garments (under the cover of lightning that the real Marvel(s) called down) to reveal his homemade Marvel costume underneath. He explained his lack of super-powers by claiming he suffered from "shazambago". In modern continuity, Dudley H. Dudley is simply a janitor at Billy's school who finds himself involved in Marvel Family adventures, although in one story he was temporarily given Shazam powers to help round up the escaped Seven Deadly Enemies of Man.

Oh, my Shazambago!

Green monkey-alien in a bubble. He's wearing his bubble summoning-belt, of course. He's been climbing a lot, note his filthy hands and feet. I wouldn't go so far as to call him a damn, dirty ape, however. I was thinking a little bit of Rescue on Fractalus recently, thus the cheesy lines and markings. The hammerhead alien Jaggi had great pop-up spook value in his day. Soft hearted for Planet of the Apes, Martian Manhunter, and Bubble-force fields all unwrapped into that, I guess.



Dealing with "customer service" regarding bugs, bug fixes, and time lines. I seemed to get only one word answers, with no detail as to where, when or how items would be fixed. I ultimately got it worked out, via my own trouble tree and specific questions, but it was like pulling teeth... on a rampaging hippo. I'm just glad that it's now mostly functioning.

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Dreamt of our bathroom being tiled with Hershey bars, and grouted with marshmallow. Hershey bars aren't my absolute fave... why not milky ways, or mars bars? I guess the flat rectangle looks more like tile to my sleeping mind. Last night after work Chris, BHK and I went to Maerten's, to check out the sale preview. Chris bought a ton of nice stuff... BHK got a cute pair of sterling bumblebee earrings and a little silver bean / bead on a box chain. Honestly, I like what BHK got more, though Chris's items were pretty, too. Post sale, we hit Thai Inter for some yummy feed. It was a bit of a hike to return home late afterwards, but I think it was worth it - the gals had fun.

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I can't say as I've ever referred to anything as "a real corker." I'd think that I might've, but probably not. I prefer "it's a hoot!" or the like.

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Pleased that we did get the 2007 homestead exemption after all, but looks like 2008 is a no-go. at least we have time to save up a wee bit before 4/15/2009.

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Something to make BHK happy -

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The Wall Street Journal says that a video production company that earned 90% of its revenue from taping Walmart's internal meetings over the past 30 years has lost the Walmart account—but retained the rights to the video library.

Now the videos are available to anyone who wants to see them —for a price. Lawyers, reporters, activists and journalists are lining up at the production company's tiny new office, cash in hand.

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1 year ago - a day in the life animated doodle, bhk's lasagna, feeling draggy, busy at work

2 year ago - mp3, gp & kat missed, b5 / dr who, blue tarps, cloud pic

3 years ago - tv-shoot, whale cam, regional anthropology, sesame street, dream Bhk & Pye, Gamer quiz, illuminati, little cowpoke, celeb diaries, i feel great, moist towelettes, astronaut jones, 9 years for spammer, bush toy

4years ago - easter, peeps, image collages, pelicans, spidey-2

5 years ago - first 4 children in the vampire game, got my offer from JKG

6 years ago - Programmer / Engineer gag, lovely private entries, including Blackstone's Reading.

7 years ago - pork taco brain worm, Power-puff Scotto, grove meeting, An open letter to browser sniffers, agog

Slept in a bit this morning... vacation day!!




Our neighbor's wife passed away the first of December, last year... BHK just found out about it midweek. We've invited him over for dinner next week (we initially were going to do it Wednesday, but he begged off), and are bringing him some tidbits here and there. I can't imagine losing someone that close and having to go it alone.

Last night after work, BHK and I went to Red Robin to eat while we decided on which movie to see... we were torn between two critically paned stinkers - 10,000 BC and Superhero Movie. We consumed tasty items, while watching a girl in a robin suit greet the kiddies... businss was booming for a thursday night... and continued to the Borders where we meandered andshopped a bit. Picked up a new Zagat's guid to DC and Baltimore, and a collapsable tote for BHK... fit sin a teensy keychain pouch. I teased her a little unmercifully about it, but she took it in stride. Visted the Kayak / Outdoor store and came close to getting another pair of crocs or two... army green shoes with day-glo orange straps, but sadly, they didn't have my mammoth foot size in stock. BHK passed on keanes, too.

Eventually, we settled on superhero movie... bought the tickets, and changed our minds. So, we saw 10,000 BC. It didn't stink too badly, and was entertaining in its way.

Guest Doodles supplied by BHK: (when she sees me messing with the palmtop, she always wants a turn.) Seems she always accuses me of gassiness, but this time it was true.

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Nifty Links also from BHK - Cool Robots! (I'm partial to Kemore 3.)

and these two were right next to one another on her news page - Irony?

McCain Says Many Americans Are Too Cynical 3rd-Graders Plotted to Attack Teacher, Cops Say

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Picture meme -

a. Go to www.photobucket.com (don't sign in)

b. Type in your answer to the question in particular (see questions below) in the "search" box

c. Use only the first page

d. Copy the image code & paste for the answer

(I've added a width modifier of 320 pix, just for my own viewing ease.)

1. What's your first name?
Scotto

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1 year ago - victim of the 80s / transformers, time flies, movies. (still haven't seen blades of glory.), local blooms pic

2 years ago - wearing purple, dan break, bug inspectors, doc, firewall,

3 years ago - apology-but, making fiends in bulgarian, free photos, broken people, TSiC

4 years ago - 22 questions, DST, Ft. Laud Mellowed, 4-4-4

5 years ago - Met with Meter Made, don't confuse courtesy with subservience, pics for the day, Speedy off CN, Sample McDougald house letter

6 years ago - walkies, dream, taking stuff poll, Moment of Waponi, Killian's, bkveggie (the old one), long music ramble, production meeting at IMT

7 years ago - Slander-drama / resolution (Honestly, I think that part of the issue started from here.) I still wonder how that "FBI Investigation" turned out