Blog posts from 2005
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Sell^H^H^H^H Drop a TV
I posted my old 27" TV on craigslist. A week passed before an excited buyer came over to take it off my hands. I showed her that it indeed worked wonderfully by playing a few seconds of Sonic…
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Jericho doesn't like Myspace
The MySpace and Xanga meme’s have gotten prolific enough that I’ve been asked about them by clients concerned about their children’s online activity. I think any publishing and expression is a great…
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SuperDemoWorld
I took off today to finish up packing for the move but have been playing this game instead. It is ridiculously hard - I’m using save-state cheats on the modded-xbox and still getting baffled by a few…
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Best xmas card this year...
From the gf’s grandparents in Wyoming: Happy Holidays Take you and Mandy for a Hamburger or some thing. - Have a good Xmas (with a $20 check made out to me in the fold) Wags over break anyone?
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Solstice '05
The daylight only gets longer now. Erk pointed out this year that my celebration of observable solar phenomenon is oppressive to flat-earthers. I say humbug to you flat-earthers! You can’t keep me…
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GURU Achievement
Over the weekend, the GURU sign went up at the new office , where I work .
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Moving for '06
Amanda and I might be moving. It’s close.
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Superman Superdrama
The making of Superman V is getting a lot of links out there today and yesterday. I’ve never been a comics reader but always enjoy the Films. I was aware of Kevin Smith’s involvement but thought it…
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The cursed RSX
I no longer have an RSX. Ethan helped me pull out all of the audio gear I’d piled into it to replace the very sub-par stock sound system. The component speakers and head-unit have been claimed, I…
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Illustrative DC tale
Bureaucracy reaches out to the suicidal . I’m amazed that he was able to break the glass - must have been an old building. The 1000 block of 15th is near K St in a business corridor for you…
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Star Wars Security Theory
Picking examples from Star Wars as illustrations of security concepts . Very clever.
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ssh -2v
Exactly . reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for eyeout3.airnetlink.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT! I use rsa keys and have aliased ssh to add -2v to make logins as fast (and geekily…
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Network Engineer and Senior Network Engineers needed, DC Metro Area
So we are continuing to need people at work. Interviewing has been a curse and a treat. A networking fundamentals exam and an interview with myself or an associate (or both) are the next step up from…
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You look like...
…a guy that knows his way around computers. 😃 haha… I mean that in a good way of course. 😃 – Anonymous, technical consulting meeting, 2005 I should clarify that I was the subject of the statement.
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MJR RSS
MJR has an RSS feed now. Headlines only. I can only assume it’s because he didn’t care enough to configure it, wrote the feed generator himself and stopped at “functional”, or the log-watcher in him…
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Like we needed another reason to hate Sony
The EFF have sent an open letter re: this whole SONY/BMG rootkit fiasco. EFF: We look forward to hearing that you are in the process of implementing these measures by 9:00am PST on Friday, November…
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>hostname taxreturn.local
15" Intel Powerbooks .
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Challenge Club CD Release
Huzzah challenged fans! We are finally done our CD and will be having a giant fun CD release show on November 26th at the Talking Head. That’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving so you’ll have two full…
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messages from strangers to other strangers
I spied this in a parking garage in Silver Spring today, tucked under the driver’s-side windshield wiper of a non-descript blue Ford Explorer. The only good hunter is … A DEAD hunter!! Masterful use…
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Ever really need new computer at the office?
Did you document how often the six year old piece of crap you are forced to use at the office crashes? I mean really document it. Like, every single crash. Sometimes you have to have patience. For a…
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url123
Cheers to url123 for innovating slightly improving upon tinyurl ’s service. I’ve switched.
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MMW, 11/11/05
Just bought two tickets for Amanda and I. Medeski Martin & Wood Friday, 11/11/05 9:00PM EST 9:30 Club
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Henry
On the way to meet up staff from one of my clients for a happy hour in Silver Spring, we got caught in a terrible thunderstorm halfway through the four block walk. Street lights were swinging and…
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BSOD Fax
This is probably my favorite fax of all time: Sent to work by a client of mine after her Windows 95 (yeah 95, I said it) PC froze up after I’d recommended that they not use it at all / replace it.…
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Baltimore Santa Crawl 05
The invite just came my way, this will be my third year going… Santas Past, Present and Future, Once again it’s that wonderful time of year. Oh yes! The time of year which compels dozens of ordinary*…
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Halloween 2k5
And the obligatory halloween gallery. Cop-out last minute costume: Pick a uniform already in the house somewhere and go as that. Ben made a great Oompah Loompah - inspiration for next year. For…
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.08
Cheers . I don’t go to bars that I can’t walk home from without a designated driver. I’ve got no idea how incapacitated I would be at .08 as I’ve never blown.
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g35
My work vehicle for the first three months or so was my personal 1991 Corolla. It did OK but for half that time the exhaust pipe had a hole in it near the catalytic converter so it sounded like I’d…
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ATM crazyness
Whenever I’m at the ATM, or any checkout line nowadays, I feel very tinfoil hat paranoid. I Typically cover the number pad as I hit my pin and I typically will look around for any cameras that may be…
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Multitasking
The myth of multitasking . (mp3) You, are not a parallel processing computer. I know a few folks that give every topic an (at first) eery level of attention while maintaining the ability to jump…
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The Singularity is Near
My usual lunch meet-up bailed on me today as it was raining and a long drive, so I was left heading to grab some pho alone. Needing a book, I stopped at Borders on the way and headed for the ‘tech’…
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Katrina Kleanup
My Dad just got back from a week or so in NO helping his friend Kirk get his air conditioner running again, cleaning house, and doing general fix-up stuff. I was invited but my boss called my cell…
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USPS Information Disclosure Vulnerability
:rolleye: Via funsec .
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Busy week(s) multipost derp
The funsec mailing list is pretty high volume but I’m digging it and it’s a welcome addition to the often sleepy firewall-wizards subscription. My first new keeper list since the days of also being…
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Deleted Magic
An ogm of Deleted Magic , a re-edit of Star Wars episode IV full of alternate takes, cut scenes, and auditions found it’s way to me half a year stale last night. Not only did Han shoot first , he had…
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kill -9, lecture II
#cd /var/foo/bar #ls CTRL-X #rm -f * bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long #fuck -bash: fuck: command not found #for i in * #do #rm $i done And the also-handy closer: #mount -o remount,rw /
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Nitpicking rock lyrics
Who listens to Clutch for the lyrics? I don’t. Clutch brings the rock. So I’m checking out Robot Hive / Exodus , where the second song is called 10001110101 . It doesn’t convert to ASCII. Shit. Is…
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Shmoocon II
I got in before the price went up from $75 to $150 for Shmoocon , an east coast nerd convention that I went to last year with Ben. Anyone else going?
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PKD: A Scanner Darkly
Another PKD story optioned by hollywood . Does this cast look crazy enough for you? Keanu Reeves as Fred/Bob Arctor Rory Cochrane as Freck Robert Downey Jr. as Barris Woody Harrelson as Luckman…
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four-year-old boys can't drive
But they will be happy to come get you from inside to show you something neat. Something neat like your car nestled nose-first into a grove of pine trees 15 feet from where it was parked. And then…
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The Cuckoo's Egg
Just finished The Cuckoo’s Egg . Pre-morris worm haxoring! The closest anything came to a mention of Redmond was a flippant reference to “DOS” about twice, amongst many other PC OS’s. Ben suggested…
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BEEEEEP
Last week I was working for a fire alarm vendor fixing their VPN / redoing their firewall policy (Juniper Netscreen for those interested, with an LOL “[permit - permit] on the [untrust -> trust]…
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Merry Autumnal Equinox
Today we celebrate a day that is reliably predictable and observable - the autumnal equinox . Let us all share bad Falling-into-Fall jokes, remember our indian summers, our changing leaves, and share…
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MJR - 6 dumbest ideas
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security is getting a bit of attention lately. Some groups get it, some miss the point as expected . I dig Marcus’ link to his own book: My book has not sold very…
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hate
Sometimes, I really hate people . (Me in New Orleans last year)
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New digs
At work , we moved to a new office at the beginning of the month. I got upgraded from cube-vill to a center-office with windows, and a door. A few days ago we got whiteboards. The other team leader…
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Emoticon mystery
What does the following emoticon mean to you? Comment before reading the replies of others! :monocle:
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Want a new job? DC IT consulting?
We are again hiring for helpdesk, network engineer and senior network engineer positions. Send resumes . Or just blast one to anything @ jokerbone.com|writequit.com and I’ll pass it along.
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talk.google
Jumping on . Strangely, a few minutes later I receive the following from ‘ gmail.com ’ : The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
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Pixeljuice
Ah, it feels like 2002 around here. Just playing with styles, testing, check, 1, 2. SIBILANCE! Devil on my shoulder: Well uh, it’s different. Angel on my shoulder: It’s not kubrick at least! Devil on…
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Corporate Art
This is also an open invite for suggestions that I can forward as to how the rest of the new place gets decorated so that we can prevent Guernica from going back up. We already have a lot of framed…
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Gravitation
Snagged a new print for the new office, framed, 41" x 31".
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Sitting in a room
A handful of people that visit have never actually been over (irl), so uh, yeah. I’m working on an Automator action that replaces my old screenshot + thumbnail + upload + clipboard copy scrip t. It…
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RIP
If you are anything like me, you are always in search of a better live cd in case of emergencies. Try RIP Hardware-RAID support: Check 2.6 kernel: Check Shitload of handy utils like chntpw: Check
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Powerbook Burnout
Dear Customer We have received your request for a repair. The shipping box and return instructions for your product should arrive within two business days. Check your repair status at…
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Dense reading
I’m on the homestretch to complete Words and Music: a history of pop in the shape of a city by Paul Morley. I’m checking out Words and Music because of the sampled readings in dj food’s Raiding the…
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Why I no longer argue philosophy
The Australian Atheist Society vs. Phillip Adams . It reminds me of when I was 19 and would try to get theists to concede that God didn’t exist based on my own arbitrary and equally worthless…
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Loose Screws
Via Mind Hacks - Psychology Today: The Loose Screw Awards .
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Strange Angel
Curse you, Amazon one-click used book purchases! I just finished the boingboing-recommended Strange Angel . Get in line to borrow my copy or go buy your own - the story of the life of a pioneer in…
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STS-114
And the shuttle is back in the air, er space. Wikipedia as usual has very good and through coverage . Very good. And thorough. It’s been a while .
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Feynman
I’m 5/6 of the way through the audio-book of Mr. Feynman’s second book, What do you Care what other People Think , which is very touching and I highly recommend you borrow from me. So I was reading…
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wwII
Take a break and catch up on history…
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RAID0 Failure
Yet more proof that county employee’s have too much time on their hands: RAID0 has been given a full burial. 👻 Ben: He should have had more redundancy. Anonymous: Doesn’t he look like him self?…
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No, you're not finishing -- you're not saying anything.
Of course every time I turn on c-span anymore it’s always Today in Washington followed by pre-recorded call-in segments, at least the reason for that is because I no longer have the daily commute…
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RAID
Paul: lmao Paul: caught a cockroach off the floor here… shoo’d it into an empty water bottle w/ a piece of paper… stuck some leaves and sticks in there, a piece of a potatoe chip, and put a cap full…
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Suck
Suck , at one point, was a reason to crank up the old 28.8. I was linking to them six years ago , and had been for 2 before that. It’s so easy to forget how different a place the web was. Read a…
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Brownout / Wilco
My building had a brownout from about 4:45 last night to 6 this morning. As bad as the leasing office staff here is, and they are very very bad, I think they would have put out notice were it for…
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Tom Cruise, Scientologist
Too kooky . CRUISE: I’m a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It’s…
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Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
Does this have enough internally defined terms to challenge scientology or is my music theory rusty? Brief modal explanation: Doh Re Mi Fa So La Ti Doh In western music, it is so universal, it is…
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Elvis
Hello, I’m Grant, and I’m a big Elvis Costello fan. On a whim I download his first album to see what all the fuss about. Amazing. I wasn’t worried back when I decided last year that Let It Be was the…
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C's Get Degrees
Amanda just got her congratulations letter from the State of Maryland on passing her Engineer in Training certification, making her an EIT . A 70 is required to pass. She got a 70. :eng101:
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Hiring again...
GURU, Inc. has an immediate opening for a full-time Senior Network Engineer, who will be involved in all aspects of information technology including: user support, PC hardware/software, server…
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Sad face
:laugh: Smoking ban in DC eh? It’s like watching a thread on abortion or atheism.
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Home Broadband upgrade
Broadband included in every unit! I’ve been putting up w/ the shared USLEC T1 in my apartment for months now. I don’t mind the latency, the 1.5/1.5 line split 40 ways was unbearable most weekends and…
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Primer
See it a few times. Really.
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Vox
Vox AD15VT Valvetronix 15W Guitar Amp Kevin raved. I read reviews. Last weekend playing guitar w/ my Stage 112SE 180Watt 12" amp turned up to 4/10 on the clean channel through my multi-effects…
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Ryan's citation
Pretty cool news from my cousin Ryan: So today RADM Stevenson, the American Admiral running this show stopped by the ship to switch from a helicopter to a Sweedish assult boat to go ashore Bornholm…
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Challenge Club
Nothing like a mid-week drive to Baltimore, I’ve always said. The Challenge Club mailing list is up and running. We also have a spot on the web all picked out at www.challenge-club.com and site…
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Classics
A birdie gave me a 24 half-hour lecture series on Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver. I highly recommend it. Prometheus (a Titan) gave mankind all sorts of fancy shit we need like numbers, the…
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NIN Philly
The Dresdon Doll’s opened for NIN. It wasn’t my thing - both are obviously talented but shrug . During their cover of Warpigs, someone born in the late 80’s in front of me asker her boyfriend if it…
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Wyoming
I just got back from visiting Amanda’s Grandparent’s for her her Grandfather’s 80th birthday party in Buffalo, Wyoming . Check it out: Gilbert (Amanda’s grandfather) took us up to the pass of the Big…
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With Teeeth-ah
I left a a listening party thinking I only liked track 2. I now have track 2 and don’t really care for that one either. Ha ha ha .
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Science :(
Will you look at what these assholes in Kansas are up to: Take pages from both L Ron Hubbard scientific-vocabulary-abuse and Jack Chick tract writing and set up a string of logical fallacy’s that…
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nothing but the nerds...
Leave it to the visiting IT consultant to annoyingly figure out the silly maze-puzzle that no one else in the office has had any luck with.
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2 more weeks
My car appears to have a new door and rear quarter panel. I love that Shannon Autobody keeps work-in-progress photo gallery’s up for customers. I miss the audio system, manual transmission, handling,…
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Network Engineer/Consultant
We are getting pretty busy at work and are currently hiring. Know anyone in the DC/Metro area looking for a IT Consulting gig? GURU, Inc. has an immediate opening for an experienced network support…
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OS X Tiger
Upgraded to Tiger last night - a note of caution. My /etc/hosts file got completely wiped. :crying:
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Is it ok to laugh...
…at seeing a server with the Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor installed on actively supported network comprised of dozen’s of Windows 2000 machines running SP3? …at a vendor support tech that does…
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Drugs
The debate over pharmacist’s refusal to dispense specific medications for ethical reasons seems like a no brainer to me. Is this country just too sue happy for employers to terminate non-compliant…
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RFID Security
Privacy advocates are worried that RFID in passports will start open season on identity theft. Addressing the concerns from the commenters (warning: IANAHO/SG I am not a ham operator / signals geek):…
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Bumper Cars
I was driving west on NY Ave: Approaching sixth street, I’m in the center of three lanes, the light is green. To my left is a car trying to turn south on sixth st. NW, hanging out in the intersection…
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Ipod
After years of resistance to getting an Ipod, I finally picked up the 60GB Ipod Photo. Burning CD’s every morning has been getting old for months, I never label them, often remix them / reburn them,…
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Cherry Blossoms
Yesterday was a perfect spring day for pizza and a beer , a walk to enjoy the cherry blossoms on the mall , and milk shakes for the walk back to Dupont. Higher-res available upon request.
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Reeves Gabrels & effects
Custom Fernandez Sustainer guitar into , well, a lot of shit… Second video highlight: Reeves is playing a Fernandez with a pink vibrator through an envelope filter into a robo-talk, then a Sequa over…
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Forer effect
What’s your sign ? You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to…
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Design process
The wordpress template I use has become the default wordpress theme. I’m seeing it everywhere, understandably as it is very nicely done. Digging this font , I finally started work on a new masthead /…
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Bikers
This is why there are so many Share the Trail signs: Open Letter to the Trail Raging Psychotic Biker on the WOD Trail Reply to: anon-66237226@craigslist.org Date: 2005-03-30, 11:02PM EST Hi- We have…
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Wordpress spam
This one will be everywhere this week… The creator of Wordpress , the CMS underpinning this site and thousands of others was approached about hosting hidden articles in order to game Google PageRank…
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The Parker
An acoustic dreadnaught 6-string is next.
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Paul Westerberg
9:30 Paul Westerberg Late Show! 10pm Doors FRI. APR. 29 $25.00 I’m going.
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DC "With Teeth" listening party
Google -> a blog post on sg : Thursday March 31 @ 7:00 PM* VENUE : NATION 1015 Half Street Washington DC 20001 USA DETAILS : NIN - “With Teeth” Listening Party! Everyone who attends this party…
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Meridian Hill Park
No point here, just a ‘this happened to me’ story: Two days ago, I’m skateboarding downhill on the sidewalk, park-side, of 16th St. By the halfway point down the hill the grade is steep enough that I…
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Parker Fly Classic
I’m a little more than an hour away from buying her… Just need to wait for the shop to open.
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Episode 338
Ralph Wiggum: Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck,…
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The ongoing guitar search
So I want a new guitar. The '93 Mexican Strat (stock) I saved minimum wage dollars to buy used has lasted me almost 10 years. I can afford better. Last night I tried out two guitars at a local shop :…
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How to destroy the Earth
Seriously . And not so seriously, my favorite has to be: Explosively space-modulated by an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator Oh, and near the bottom under submitted but not Earth Shattering:…
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Blog to CMS
I Did it . I think the note at the bottom of each is enough. Re: blogging-since I’ve also moved the litestep, winamp skins, and other shit into the searchable blog system. I’m now considering…
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reading in three's
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest : Recommended by Erk . Loving it so far, still early on. Edward Tufte’s _ Envisioning Information_ : Halfway through. I wanted The Visual Display of Quantitative…
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Laser Vision Correction
Grant: talking to Anonymous at Anonymous laser vision correction office client of yours » lcd unit bad » had it fixed » any idea how to focus their projector » ? Ben: focus it? uh Grant: yeah »…
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Exchange 2003
If you place an Exchange 2003 server live immediately behind a linux box protecting it from spam and worms and then the linux box has a hardware failure, you will get this ever few hours until you…
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monopoly wikipedia entry > *
OK, no wonder I hated the game as a kid after the fun fighting-over-pieces-part… Some house rules omit the auction rule. That is to say, when a player lands on an unowned property and elects not to…
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NIN club show
Oh, I’m going to see NIN in Philly and you aren’t.
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Locals
I’ve been grabbing feeds from a few locals recently and will be adding more until swamped. Recommendations? DCist DC SOB A Ten, A Five, and Five Ones Yuppie foodstamp reference? DCFoodies DC Blogers…
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Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin, the apple developer responsible for the name Macintosh , among many other things, Just died . Bicycle was such a stupid name anyway.
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T-shirt ideas
Some of these I’ve seen elsewhere but would like to do my own, open a CafePress shop and sell. I have a few design ideas but would like to first open for submissions logo work for the below stolen…
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Schlomo
Dream analysis has as much scientific credence as thetans , subluxation , Sco’s Unix claims , or any press release from mi2g . Perhaps the most trenchant criticism of Freud’s work is that it fails to…
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Harris Teeter in Adam's Morgan
While it’ll be closer than the current closest grocery store by a block or two at 17th & Kalorama, the new Harris Teeter isn’t opening until the fall of 2006. Right after the construction on 16th…
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Smokefree DC
Indeed . Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has a poll on his website about the yet-again proposed smoking ban in Washington, DC. If you support local businesses, go vote ‘no’ immediately. It’s on the…
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Wikipedia down
Note to self: Never complain about restoring from backup again. I’m curious if Ben and Aaron can account for their whereabouts this evening and if a witness could corroborate. (no you’ll never live…
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Copyright Criminals
Watching this trailer / preview of a documentary on sampling has made me late for work. Check it out.
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Sanitation Engineer
New job title: Grant Stavely Senior Network Engineer Sirius Team Leader Ben and I gave a lot of thought as to how to name the teams over our regular post-planning-meeting Thai lunch, given no easy…
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kidtalk
Microsofts Parent’s primer to computer slang . What newbs .
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kerberos
Most geeks have specialties or focuses - in a large part due to the differences in how our brains function. I’m a very narrative person and have a poor memory for terminology, numbers, dates, times,…
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DD
Happy Darwin Day I know I would look silly but curses to the gene’s I’ve been handed that prevent me from having the ability to grow mutton chops like that! Or was it the big G himself?
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Smart Waater
Game every system .
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maps.google
Yay . I can’t decide what I think of the cludge that they are using to link to a map while during the query process keeping it all out of the url. It looks like the only extra data on the link is the…
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Wires Suck
I picked up a bluetooth keyboard this evening on the way home to use with my powerbook. :love: I uh, get a lot of “wow you type really fast” from people. I don’t know why, I think it’s actually that…
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Powerbook external monitor resoltuion reset
How to reset the windowserver preferences in OSX so that your external monitor that claims it is being overdriven and turns itself off . It worked. It is very bizarre to log into a mac using the GUI…
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Shmoocon update
Put best elsewhere : I left during the last presentation of the evening, which was supposed to be a sort of “hacker talk show.” It was more of a train wreck than anything entertaining or informative.…
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SVPERBOL
(paraphrased because Adium didn’t seem to log it correctly) David: Any plans for the Superbowl or are you totally apathetic? Grant: Totally apathetic. David: haha Grant: Did you do anything for the…
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merf
Jung: options are intriguing nonetheless
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Groundhog Day
First D.J.: Rise and shine, campers, and don’t forget your booties 'cause it’s cooooold out there today. Second D.J.: It’s cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach? First D.J.: Not hardly.…
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Netflix
I opened an account with Netflix Monday morning and snagged three movies that I had a mild interest in seeing. A day later they were in my mailbox. Last night we watched The Manchurian Candidate.…
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Contextual Color Perception
Mind reeling. A and B are ~#666666 gray. The parts of my brain not reading this information out of photoshop strongly disagree.
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Tufte - Rhetorical ploys
I know I’ve been guilty of them. Not new, but comments bump the thread in my RSS reader and I get to play catchup.
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Saturday Accomplishments
Student Loans consolidated Rent Paid Dentist Paid Blockbuster Paid
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Take my cat, please
< 3 Craigslist. Come get this stupid cat adopt him before I throw him out the window. He just got on my last damn nerve. the cat scratches and bites and shits everywehere. I’m sick of it. Litter…
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DJ Food 20th Century
Anyone manage to snag this before it was taken offline ? Looks like he put this book , to a mashup. UPDATE : holy shit . Have been less than impressed by the whole mashup-scene todate. Alright,…
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LOL CLICK HERE ON THIS
YOU COMPUTER ASSHOLES! I’M GOING TO CANCEL MY ACCOUNT IF YOU DON’T ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!! RUSH IS THE GREATEST BANDEVERLOL!!!111 _ CLICK HERE FOR A FUNNAY. READ THE WHOLE THING I’d love to mod my…
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Unreasonable search
via mefi : Supreme court reversal of Illinois Supreme Court decision which invalidated evidence found by drug dogs during routine traffic stops with no probable cause for the sniff. Link . The…
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Ostrogoths
From Phil : This is your last reminder. Friday night. Jan 21st. 10pm The Sons of Buford, The Ostrogoths and a few of the side projects that Nate Lohrmann (the impending marriage of whom we are…
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ms warez
bwa . I actually wouldn’t mind seeing the same thing run against say, everything on a RedHat release.
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MJR TMOHS
I’m plowing through mjr’s book The Myth of Homeland Security when the end of chapter two does this: It’s been tried before - attempts to mandate computing standards for secure computing have failed…
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Powerbook Status
01/10/2005 Ready to Ship 01/10/2005 Unit Shippped/Completed Note to self: Leave post-it on mailbox asking DHL to leave packages in the Leasing Office . Dell: WHIRRRRR FreeBSD: still liking. will miss…
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Carrot & Stick
PJ, our kitten, is crafty. His latest trick is to hold one of his favorite toys (feathers on a stick) by the handle, in his mouth. He then chases the feathers, which much to his surprise apparently,…
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FreeBSD
While the powerbook is in the shop I’m using a rickety old Dell on which I installed FreeBSD. I like. I want to try it on a server soon.
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The White Spots
Apple has either just now officially recognized or is extending it’s recognition and repair services for the White Spots disaster. My powerbook serial number is in the range listed and exhibits the…
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Religion rant
What a lot of us non believers keep to ourselves: SomethingAwful attacks religion and the state - it doesn’t even seem to get to ranty or over the top until nearly 2/3 of the way down when the funny…
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Fountain
The owners of Urinal.net have been served a few times for, uhm, well, posting pictures of urinals. I’ve been in One of the bathroom’s here (yes, that is the DC one) but can’t place the specific…
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The Music of Chance
Just put down Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance and am enjoying mulling over it. The Amazon reviews were my first thought after google failed to turn up any free information: Flat, boring, pointless,…