stupid brain.

"When the rebuttal to your argument is The Federalist Papers, generally that means that you've lost the argument." - JWZ

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I skipped the part about love
It seems so Shallow and low
Low, low, low
Low, low, low
You and me
We know about time
We know how things go
They come and go
They live and grow
They pass and go
And glow and glow
Up and down
High and low
Low, low, low
Low, low, low

from an interview with Viggo Mortensen:

“Now, Viggo, you speak seven languages, you write poetry in three languages, Danish, Spanish and English, you ride horses superbly and you’re a great swordsman and all our womenfolk are in love with you… do you understand how annoying you are?”

Radio interview with Richard Glover
ABC Sydney
24 March 2009

It is amazing to me that you can go out and look for a particular piece of industrial equipment (not computer equipment, mind you) and find a variety of vendors with prices ranging within 400% of each other for either the identical unit or something very similar. And you know there is some factory in China that makes them all for a fraction of ( Read more... )

I was doing some detailed ethernet packet sniffing today for a customer project, and the following caught my eye -- packets being sent to destinations in the hopes they are unprotected machines running ICQ and will actually take the bait. Interesting.

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X = X + 1

Now if I was only having a nice party tonight instead of going a grueling school board meeting.

straight out of a Neil Stephenson novel.

SeaCode, a possible "offshore" programming shop, 3 miles out to sea using 3rd world labor.

I once had a scary experience on a flight coming back from New York city into Portland, Maine late at night on a small jet. The plane was a few hours late leaving LGA, and I had been scheduled on a earlier flight that had been canceled ( Read more... )