I can't believe that none of my geek friends ever recommended "World War Z" to me. Just got done with it...that was awesome!

For a long time now I, like you, have been hearing about the terrible economy. But it never affected me directly; the people that I saw getting laid off from their jobs were people that should have been fired long before. The companies that I saw removing people were using 'the economy' as an excuse ( Read more... )

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A few political thoughts ( Read more... )

My friend Crates sent me this. Of course I had to post it:
(This is from a webcomic called xkcd. I encourage anyone who hasn't checked out this site to do so. It can be found at: http://www.xkcd.com/


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I wonder if the same folks that don't want evolutionary theory taught, also have a problem with music being taught because of music theory?

Maybe they believe music doesn't exist?

Last week a friend of mine contacted me to assist with some problems on his network. Seems a big chunk of his email was being pushed into the spam bucket; a bit of investigation showed his IP was on the dreaded spam list ( Read more... )

As a system administrator for my company one of my jobs is to keep the bad people out of our system. It is up to me to understand that there are people out there that would hack us, just for the thrill. I have firewalls and intrusion detection built into my system, along with constant updates and vigilance. It’s an ongoing process ( Read more... )

I've come into ownership of several rifles ( Read more... )

When you're a 15 year old boy and make fun of your 13 year old sister for not having muscles, and decide to prove it by challenging her to an arm wrestling contest ( Read more... )