posts from 2009 / 02

1. Hey @vurtyou, let’s make some pho http://is.gd/ldv7 I assume the broth freezes OK? Need to hit an asian market for some of those ingredients

2. I’m going to see Witch tomorrow night at the Ottobar with @vurtyou. Tickets are probably still available http://is.gd/l9ox .\m/

3. Why I, lover of all things pub-crawl, won’t be going on any snuggie pub-crawls http://is.gd/l9m3 (shit, look at question i. shitshithshit)

4. I love finding out I was cargo-culting something out of ignorance. I am a walking, mumbling, fumbling knowledge gap.

5. ‘Greek to me’ geek equivalent? Line noise? perl? http://is.gd/kUht

6. Heading to Max’s for @CharmSec soonish & bringing a pile of spare 2009 Sourcefire calendars to give out, and a few 2009 ShmooCon schedules

7. Bob Edwards interviewed planet hunting astronomer Allan Boss(sp?) this morning on XMPR. Interesting planet forming theories!

8. CAPS LOCK is the appendix of the keyboard. When will yours burst?

9. I would love a terminal.app that used the Safari 4 beta tabs. While dreaming, it should bind ⌘-# shortcuts to tabs, not windows!!@#^%!#

10. Did mail.google go dark because of an attack? Sorbs.net listed their outbound mail servers as ‘currently sending spam’ last night.

11. The rear USB ports on HP Monitors are a rogue HP industrial designer’s cruel joke.

12. I must have corrupted omnioutliner.app: Opened econ notes, they auto-imported as a very large tree diagram in omnigraffle, head a’sploded

13. Does SimplepediA need a new name? Could it confuse simple.wikipedia.org users?

14. My ground-level condo is being carried away on the backs tiny ants.

15. Let’s appropriate a poster for CharmSec 10. I propose http://is.gd/kpsV More Not Working than Networking

16. NB: The previous track was Miles Davis’ 23 minute Bitches Brew, so there was definitely some tension before the Vangelis came on

17. Blasting the Esper Edition of Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack: @vurtyou just ran upstairs “CAN I HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS CREEPY!?”

18. I’m watching Return To Oz for the first time. Yikes, this is creepy.

19. Whoa! People still like U2? http://is.gd/ki7M

20. It’s a crime that the closest bar to the office has @Dogfishbeer 90 minute IPA on tap and is a 45 minute drive from home.

21. On writing procedures: removing all articles (a, the, some, etc) does not technical writing make.

22. Am I alone in thinking that continuous partial attention is a generation-gap issue and not a problem? http://is.gd/kfgA Am I just selfish?

23. Going dumpster diving for old lumber, wish us luck

24. Grabbing a burger at JD’s in Canton w/ @vurtyou and Kathryn and K’s friends

25. What are the legalities of pilfering some amazing O.D. aged 2 x 8 lumber, er trash, from a roll away dumpster in Canton?

26. Toying with extending simplepedia global support for major language editions; In russia, css tables joke–oh nevermind http://is.gd/k9cT

27. Please use a chain of custody form when sending a hard disk inter-office naked in manilla envelopes, so we know who to blame when it clicks

28. http://twitpic.com/1khgg - Looks like a philips head to me, off to see a man about a plug!

29. http://twitpic.com/1kh7v - I like changing flats in the rain! Yay!

30. Dreaming about brewing beer is surely a sign that I should continue not making time to do it right? I need to break in the basement.

31. Enjoying Asimov’s /It’s Been A Good Life/, but disagree w/ him that The Last Question is the best SF short story ever, it is merely the 2nd

32. capture - a script for analysts and incident handlers

    over 17 years ago Permalink#

33. “What happens when you die?” “I don’t know, google it” “It says you respawn at the last save point with no power-ups” http://is.gd/4Hd8

34. was a brand. kraftfoods/* Make today delicious …is boring type with bad ideas after and below it. http://is.gd/jXdM

35. I’ve updated my nsm/ir laziness script ‘capture’ to run through daemonlogger pcaps http://is.gd/jSIq Ew perl, right?

36. Best Practices < Design patterns. BP: “We got a IPS-firewall! Prob solved!” DP: “We are applying Least Priv. and NSM! Still expect loss!”

37. Best Practices > Design patterns. BP: “We got a IPS-firewall! Prob solved!” DP: “We are applying Least Priv. and NSM! Still expect loss!”

38. Google reader ‘share with note’ needs a threaded reply feature.

39. I am Kitty Genovese. Nobody told me my release was a big fail in the 99% of users demographic. Webkit > Gecko http://is.gd/jB4i Fixed!

40. I wonder how many software easter eggs just popped up for 1234567890? http://coolepochcountdown.com/

41. THE BANSHEE WAIL OF DATACENTERS IS DESIGNED TO KEEP GEEKS FRO-WHAT?! I CAN’T HEA-$@%PHONE BRB-“YEAH, I’M IN THE DATACENTER IT’S SO-WHAT? I-”

42. I haven’t had to mess with Simplepedia in a while so I put it on userscripts.org http://is.gd/jiaW

43. Using perl to serially process a few hundred 500MB pcaps instead of using threads because I’m too stupid and lazy to grok threads or fork()

44. Unix epoch time 1234567890 is this Friday at 6:31PM EST. If your technical team has been looking for an excuse to have a happy hour…

45. What’s w/ people in the New Testament buried in tombs w/ rolling stones for doors? Didn’t want to dig in sand? Resurrection convenience?

46. 2AM, drunk: @electricfork How’s the fall of the military industrial complex ging? Marine Lt.Col: Quite the contrary I think. Me: Really?

47. Ever get the feeling that the conversation you just had was all exposition? It’s fun to treat everything that happens like it’s in a novel.

48. Glen /forgot/ to eat lunch. Somewhere out there, there is a big bald dude named Nelg that’s been grumpy all afternoon http://is.gd/j5DG

49. Excellent talk: Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery explains beer. http://is.gd/j5yl I think I’m too techy to be a CAMRA/Slow foodie. Almost tho

50. I asked @will_torres if coaches used biz terms the way biz leaders use sports terms. He says no, they just use other sports’s terms.

51. Outlook Zen Koan: Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open these items? Yes/No?

52. Confirming that 2 Amy’s is still second place to Pizza Paradiso with a Dales Pale Ale, wishing I had a spare stomach.

53. I just played a Theremin at the Hacker Arcade at Shmoocon: Jimmy Page emulation near complete. I need a dragon suit.

54. Dead Additc’s talk on security and the false trade-off at the sake of usability and design is excllent.

55. At The Reef in Adams Morgan

56. The UMBC bookstore had the textbook for my Java class finally. Yay! Now going directly to Shmoocon.

57. Have a brilliant Shmoocon barcode presentation idea, 24 hours to execute, and no budget to acquire the dozens of misdirections needed. Shit.

58. Yea!! I like your profile pic! You are almost not making a stupid face 8)

59. http://is.gd/inLs the riddles abound. Batman: [reading a riddle] What has yellow skin and writes? Robin: A ball-point banana! Precisely!

60. Every time I use a site with password complexity requirements I use the ‘Forgot Password’ function, log in, change it, & forget it. UX FAIL.

61. I just passed a lone tire mounted on a steel wheel rolling along in the slow lane on 83N, no 3 wheeled cars in sight. Gonna be a wierd day.

62. UMBC must have seen through the whole 90’s Aeron chair thing. These VIRCO MARTEST one-piece plastic and formica units are awesome.

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64. My Airport Express randomly decides that some songs should be played in the spirit of 4’33". Too artsy for me.

65. No turn signals? Know riding the bus.

66. On adverbs: Any word that ends in -ly should be removed from formal procedures. @electricfork says: Like Stavely?

67. Non@Shmoocon DC to-eat&drink list for this weekend: Pho, Regent Thai, Big Hunt, sushi (suggestions?), Pizza Paradiso, Shmoo party, 2 Amy’s

68. I named @vurtyou’s chili contest entry yesterday after the sounds that cows, pigs, and beans make.