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Boston Police Get Stupidererer

March 1, 2007

You go, Boston!  A mys­te­ri­ous pack­age chained to a pole in the finan­cial dis­trict was blown up by police.  Cit­i­zens are now pro­tected from both evil traf­fic coun­ters and Mooninites. 
Next time I see a traf­fic counter, I think I’ll phone it in.

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If it happens a few more times, we might have to call it “trendy.”

October 11, 2006

So I guess yet another plane hit yet another Man­hat­tan high­rise.  They're say­ing it's prob­a­bly not terrorists.

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Obligatory Sept 11th post

September 11, 2006

Obli­ga­tory Sept 11th post:
Where was I?  What was I doing?  What was I doing the night before?  I don't know.  I was asleep.  I was between jobs.  I was woken up at 10am or per­haps 11 by an excited phone call.  I had a good tele­vi­sion with crappy rabbit-ears.  I watched the news ser­vices playing […]

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“We get signal!”

December 15, 2003

Yesterday/last night, I got PHP Gallery up and run­ning on one of my Dreamhost sites.  Mind you, this is not an easy task.  The com­bi­na­tion of secu­rity restric­tions and a funky home direc­tory path makes it not so fun.  Their PHP setup does not allow exec() calls–meaning none of the netpbm image com­mands will execute.  […]

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Blowin’ Shit Up

March 20, 2003

Okay, so it now looks like we are “blowin' shit up.”  I have added to my cus­tom Live­Jour­nal style and our office cam page a body count counter from Iraq Body Count that shows the cur­rent civil­ian body count.  The data is sci­en­tif­i­cally gath­ered from a num­ber of sources, and because sources some­times indi­cate a […]

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History erased via substitution of an identical object

March 8, 2003

Accord­ing to Kate’s par­ents, I start chan­nel­ing David Duchovny as soon as I start talk­ing about one of my big sub­jects.  You can prob­a­bly guess what those sub­jects are–they include, but are not lim­ited to: com­put­ers, com­puter secu­rity, pro­gram­ming, h4X0R tech­nique, phys­i­cal secu­rity, elec­tri­cal engi­neer­ing, blah, blah, blah what­ever.  Of course these are the same […]

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The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me

March 6, 2003

I learned sev­eral things today:
1. My lug­gage is cheaper to get repaired by the dude at the local lug­gage shop than it is to get repaired by the free life­time war­ranty.  The war­ranty does not cover ship­ping very large, very metal, very heavy Zero Hal­libur­ton alu­minum suit­cases and brief­cases to Utah or Col­orado or what­ever. 
2. […]

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Radio Free Albemuth

February 14, 2002

So, I’m read­ing this book by Philip K. Dick (he’s the one that wrote the sto­ries that Bladerun­ner, Total Recall, and Mimic were based upon), Radio Free Albe­muth.  There’s this brain-dead Pres­i­dent that some­how ended up in office.  He has very aggres­sive cam­paigns that are basi­cally worth­less.  He is chas­ing after nonex­is­tent ter­ror­ists, for example.  […]

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“Alas,” said the cat, and ate it up.

November 16, 2001

Why is it that the gub’ment can repeal and/or change a few amend­ments with­out a sec­ond thought (the Anti-Terrorism Act that makes hack­ing an act of ter­ror­ism, the man­date that ter­ror­ists can be tor­tured, and the order that sus­pected ter­ror­ists can be tried in secret mil­i­tary courts with­out the right to appeal), yet it takes […]

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Collect All 90!

November 7, 2001

Is it me, or does it seem exces­sive to have base­ball cards depict­ing Oper­a­tion Endur­ing Free­dom?  Hell, this “war on ter­ror­ism” isn’t even over yet!

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Propaganda

October 26, 2001

Propa­ganda is funny.

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No “Very Merry Unbirthday” For Me

October 26, 2001

Happy birth­day!  Your present?  A new bill.  Every­thing you do as a hobby is now an act of indus­trial ter­ror­ism and pushed as such. 
In the ele­va­tor today, I heard “Puttin’ On The Ritz” and all I could think of was the ver­sion from Young Frankenstein.

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