Category: General
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A friend (who, ahem, should be studying now! ;-) sent this the other night: The Autism Quotient test. (A real test by actual researchers, not that OKCupid crap.) If you take it, post your results here – I’m kind of curious what everyone else got; e.g. what’s the spread, whether the test seems skewed one…
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Life’s a beach, and then…
Einstein’s down on the beach staring into the sand Cause everything he believes in is shattered What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay We all get burned as one more sun comes sliding down the sky My folks came out to Boston-land this weekend; dragged me out to Cape…
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Walking (walking away (walking with my back toward the world again today))
I think I’ve been unusually piss-off-able lately, and I’m not sure why. I don’t think Aunt Irma is an issue for menfolk, especially for an entire month, but I’m starting to wonder. I was probably no more irritated / irritable today than any Normal Person given the same circumstances, but for me I considered it…
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Top 15 practical uses for duct tape in the bedroom
Practical uses for duct tape in the bedroom: 15. To insulate grindable or chippable (etc.) surfaces against wear/damage due to excessive banging, rattling, friction or lateral motion; or to dampen noise / squeaking from same. 14. Vibration control. 13. To secure the paper bag, should the direness of your straits require one. 12. If there…
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Don’t write conference descriptions before lunch
From the list of discussions at the Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference* this year: MASTERING MDA COMPOSABLE SYSTEMS BOUILLABAISSE presented by John Singer, Objective Interface Systems Bring your requirements and tools and together we’ll create a savory real-time dish, steeped in technology yet palatable to management. Using the Finest Ingredients: 2C Real-time CORBA base 2C…
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E(vent)ful weekendish
More than my fair share of drama during this timeframe, but that’s already been ranted elsewhere here. I’ll probably do a bit more ranting later, then try to forget about it all… Thurs.: Seder dinner at J.R.’s place! (I’m not Jewish, but I can fake it convincingly…especially when there’s such good food to be had!)…
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I thought the future held a perfect place for us That together we would learn to be the best that we could be In my naivety I ran I fell and lost my way Somehow I always end up falling over me I’m pretty naive sometimes, in matters concerning people. I very seldom lie–pretty much…
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Empty rooms that echo as I climb the stairs. Empty clothes that drape and fall on empty chairs
I’ve always considered myself a one-woman man. (Actually, that’s usually one more than I can handle ;-) ) But a few nights ago, the idea of polyamory was suggested–by my girl, no less–and, while it doesn’t sound like something I’d be either into or good at, I guess I’ve been giving it some thought. I’m…
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Baby, sometimes I feel like dying, driving while I’m closing my eyes
Yeah, I’m ranty lately… I was up this morning dropping my girl off at work#3, in an area of town I’m not that familiar with. I’d take a bullet for this girl, but that doesn’t mean I won’t rant about it afterward ;) Anyway… I don’t mind driving in Boston so much when I know…
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Oh Noes! Text document security vulnerability
Remote Incorrection Vulnerability Affects Textual Internet Documents Why yes, it *is* April 1st, why do you ask? ;-)
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Baby it’s cold outside…
…but I am hatful. Yeah, I think I’ll heep her :-)
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Words of the day: Rez, teledildonics
This weekend I was at J.R.’s place and we installed a hard drive in her PS2. Jordan supplied a memory card containing exploit code which executes from the card when the PS2 begins running most PS1 game discs. From there, you can run arbitrary code, including loaders for the network-attached hard drive, FTP servers, Linux…
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Dark Roast and the Coffee Pod Conspiracy
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do! Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the martians under wraps? We do! We do! For the last half-year or so, I and many co-workers have been using a Senseo single-serving coffee machine that someone randomly stuck in the…
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Top Google pagerankers exposed…
Results 1 – 10 of about 25,270,000,000 for -32768. (0.04 seconds) Enter most any query, including a numeric one, into Google and it will return all the pages which contain that term or are pointed to by links containing that term. But not long ago, I couldn’t remember whether -32767 or -32768 was the maximum…
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It’s been beautiful weather in Boston the past couple days…
but still… I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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The food-warming fridge of potential doom
Yeah, so our refrigerator died the other night. Well actually, it’s been slowly dying since the last week*, but nobody really noticed ’til recently when they went for their ice cream and it was all melty. I just thought maybe the freezer door didn’t close all the way, and overnight with a verified closed door…
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Protected: I’m not dead!
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Protected: Ca(non)ical v-day posting
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I love, hate, love the wall street journal
Some gems from today and yesterday: “Then on Jan. 10, 2001, a deranged catfish farmer went on a rampage in a small Northern California town, killing three people and igniting public outrage.” (Nothing wrong with the sentence [& it was actually a serious article], I just found the mental image amusing [er…except for the people…
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Woo, cexx is back in vogue
The Bricemaster (one of my TSU buddies) pointed me to this tonight. CEXX.org (Counterexploitation) also has excellent forums, is ad free and somewhat broader than Spywareinfo, with links to the anti-spam community. Google to combat spyware – Newsday (Ha, I feel all famous again. Now, if only I had time to actually maintain the darned…