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Communism is awesome, in THEORY
This past weekend, I went out camping for the first time in a long time, which was pretty sweet. Unfortunately, I apparently was unaware of the disposition of the people I was camping with. Specifically, we got into a discussion over teaching creationism in schools and I mentioned FSM. One of the girls there had never heard of it and so I explained ( Read more... ) -
I think I just found my new favorite book...
It's like Cory Doctorow was able to purify my geeky/technophile/security-minded/political interests into a concentrated form and turn it into a book.
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (The book is FREE!) - The story of what happens when everyone loses their minds out of fear and the government takes it too far ( Read more... ) -
There are those days and then there are those WEEKS.
Not only is this one of the most ingenuitive things I've seen in a long time, it is SO much better than the original. Plus I can totally relate to this particular strip.
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Trust no one
Good old social engineering, alive and well in our security paranoid, post 9/11 society.
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US Cellular, T-Mobile, or Verizon?
Today was a wash. Woke up early to go to the Chicago Autoshow with my dad, but he was feeling really sick and we just postponed til hopefully later in the week. I stayed awake for little while and then ended up taking a nap... til 5pm. I've since been able to do dishes, laundry, vacuum, sort through some of my initial tax paperwork, and ( Read more... ) -
Huge Upset
Inspired by my friend Doug last weekend, I went to my Super Bowl party on Sunday fully prepared. I went with equipment and proper utilities. That's right, I arrived with Super Bowl Bingo!
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Fanboy be thy name
Is it bad that I just spent $100 on board games? I'd like to think it was money well invested in future evenings of struggle over a cardboard battlefield ( Read more... ) -
How to totally bugger your mail server
I'm about to get fairly technical here, but after a solid day of downtime and hours of debugging, this is worth putting down.
So, I'm pretty regular about keeping up with debian updated packages on my personal server, griffin. I'm paranoid about exploits and the like, and I like to play with the latest and greatest features. Plus, debian is ( Read more... ) -
Random encounters
This week has been mildly surreal. We had our regular Cooking Army on Wednesday with an aggressive Mexican menu. Four different courses along with homemade tortillas. Anyway, Jenny (Jason's wife) invited one of her good friends and her new husband this week. None other than Marc, my business manager at the office, turns out to be the new husband ( Read more... )
