Category: Rants & Rambles
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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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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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OK, I feel ranty
Ah, Boston. Where mid ’70s can be followed by hail and then snow in April. I think it’s snowed in April every year I’ve lived here. It’s been a while since I wrote something of any personal substance here. That ‘something’ usually ends up being a rant, so without further ado… Lately I’ve been an…
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Protected: I’m not dead!
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Protected: …Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are…unable…to speak.
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Your cellphone battery implements SHA-1, film at 11.
I read an article in EDN yesterday that came as a mild shocker, hashing and cryptography chips designed for embedding in….batteries. Yes, batteries. Specifically, rechargeable battery packs used in cellphones, laptops, cameras and similar consumer devices, allowing the device to reject “unauthorized” replacement batteries. Yes folks, slapping in a replacement battery pack for some discontinued…
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*mostly* just a datestamp entry :-)
And if rain brings winds of change, let it rain on us forever. I have no doubt from what I’ve seen that I have never wanted more. With this line I’ll mark the past as a symbol of beginning. I have no doubt from what I’ve seen that I have never wanted more. Today was…a…
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Protected: On saying goodbye, and all the other words I couldn’t, and in the right order
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So tired that I couldn’t even sleep. So many secrets I couldn’t keep. Promised myself I wouldn’t weep, that’s one more promise I couldn’t keep
Not sleeping…just dreaming. I couldn’t write any more, my eyes burned. I closed them and a face tried to eat me. Painted in motive watercolors in the noise behind my eyelids, the noise of randomness and neural crosstalk and every bright light I’ve ever glanced at. I folded myself into my bed, just for a…
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Lemme sleep on it…I’ll give ya an answer in the morning…
Decisions… dear bloggg, we have definitely had this conversation before. Not necessarily little meaningless decisions, nor always delicately-balanced fencepost ones that could fall one way or another at the whim of a gentle neural breeze. Sometimes they’re downright entangled, pulled simultaneously in several directions with such force that you’re almost afraid to touch them, that…
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F-word abuse: on giving a fuck, getting a fuck, and fucked-up progeny
It’s neat how there are a million little coincidences in life…a slice of (pi)zza at Wild Oats comes out to $3.14 after tax, the price of a phone card at the Radio Shack by my house matches the last 4 digits of my phone number, my morning ‘routine’ (the shaving and showering and so on)…
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Can you actually die from laughter?
The crisis has begun. The headlines are shocking, alarming. The Internet is under attack by dangerous, wicked abusers. These cyber-criminals must be caught, stopped and punished. STOP HACKERS NOW! There’s a Public Service Announcement. I especially loved this one. Oh Noes! they live in basements? I have a basement!!! *runs downstairs with a pointy stick*…
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busy\
Dear bloggg, I need to leave you for a little while. Maybe only a few days. Too much annoying stuff going on. I’ve just gotten sucked into administering (fixing, hacking, patching, cleaning out, …) the cexxy forums, and cleaning out the email, and… workness. Seeker arm schmeeker arm, but I know a certain TMSc6713-based board…
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Hell.
Yesterday i had a dream about dying… about laying to rest, and then flying, How the moment at hand is the only thing we really own. Some time ago J.R. and I were in Fasika and got to talking about the possibility of an afterlife, and what the worst possible afterlife would be. In some…
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extern far MCBSP_Handle hMcbsp1;
That makes my day. OK, not entirely…makes it slightly less sucky, but you’ve gotta start somewhere, right? The mimosa in my office has decided that december is a good time to start making flowers :-P After untold hours of hacking around and pestering TI tech support, I can now write a byte to the evil…
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Grr…humans.
Admin: “Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology.” (…lengthy post about cleaning up and rejuvenating a long-neglected Internet security message board…) User: So now it will be a “gentlemen’s club” [questionmark] [questionmark] That is a big disappointment. [sad] Admin: Er…what? “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him…” …it’s the famous introduction to an old TV…
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Interesting
Experts: Introverted youth have deep roots for behavior
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Playlist Oracle memememememe
Instructions: Set music player to shuffle. Ask the following questions, and hit ‘next song’. The title of the song will be the answer to your question. Question: What do you think of me, playlist? Answer: Stabbing Westward- Save Yourself Question: Will I have a happy life? Answer: Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction – Elvis…
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Throw a rock
into a pond and the ripples you produce will carry all the way to the edge, regardless of its size. Some of the energy will dissipate into the distant shore, given away as heat and sound from a collision that is never perfectly inelastic, but what’s left of that ripple will reflect, interacting with itself,…
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Category: Things I could have believed more wholeheartedly last week
“Don’t sweat the small stuff. More than that – don’t even sweat the big stuff. Because life can only kill you once, and the fact that you’re still around to sweat stuff means it missed. So nyarrr.” -me “There is nothing more satisfying than having someone take a shot at you, and miss.” -Murphy