Blog posts

1. 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?

2. 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…

3. 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…

4. 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…

5. 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]…