July 2010
2 posts
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul -... →
This? I love this. Ahmadinejad is a crazy little tyrant and he needs to grow a sense of humor. Or wish one from Allah. Whichever.
kaytee:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader, says Paul the Octopus, the sea creature that correctly predicted the outcome of World Cup games, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world.
He claims that the octopus is a symbol of decadence...
How to get friends on this thing...
capricecrane:
You’d think “posting pics of boobs” would be answer number one, especially considering what I’ve been seeing around these parts (your… parts) but I asked around and there were two resounding answers (no, it wasn’t the “left boob” and the “right boob”). The answers were: kittens and bacon.
I won’t do it a lot. My dog Max would not have it. But since I’m feeling like the new kid on...
June 2010
3 posts
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Okay now...
Even I can’t accept The Steve’s directive of, “Well, just don’t hold it like that,” regarding the antenna connection issues on the iPhone 4.
That said, I don’t happen to hold my phone “like that” anyway, and when I try to replicate the issue, I can do so only if I use the entirety of my thumb to hold the side of the phone (just branching my finger...
Watchnondescriptoneblog:
#OilWell #Capping video produced by a friend of mine to demonstrate my oil well stopping idea. Note: Given that the casing has probably ruptured somewhere further down, this idea is even better, because the brush can be pushed down the casing past the rupture, theoretically, and the “junk shot” material can be inserted down the drill pipe itself. Please disseminate as widely...
"Personal Responsibility, What?"
There has been endless chatter about the “cost” of Google’s one-day stunt in which they celebrated the venerable video game “Pac-Man” by replacing their daily graphic with a fully-functional HTML5 version of the game that anyone could play.
@Workawesome, a favorite Twitter feed (and corresponding web site) put out the following this morning:
The cost of the hours...
April 2010
2 posts
"OMG"
Over-aggressive soccer mom just got out of line behind me, pulled around me, squeezed through the gate, and parked ahead of me PAST the pick-up line to be first.
Seriously? I SO wish the worst thing I had to be concerned about in life was jockying for first car in the primary school pick-up line.
People, you have no idea what’s waiting for you out there.
"Well, huh."
I’m home today so my wife can chaperone a field trip with 9’s class to Mt. Vernon. Something came-up at work I really needed to be there for, but we couldn’t find someone to either take her place or watch 2 all day and pick-up 7 from school.
So, my wife pings me at 1:02 PM to ask if I’m going to 7’s Spring Party. I had no idea about this, except for a vague...
March 2010
7 posts
...and yeah.
I think I’ll be doing a few more of my “favorite things” posts. I mean, if Oprah can do it, why can’t I?
Oh, right. Because she’s Oprah. Whatever. I’m still doing them.
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Stuff I Love #476: My Walther PPS Pistol(s)
The black one is the new Walther PPS pistol; it’s compared to its older sibling, the Walther PPK/S.
I’ve been a Walther pistol fan forever. For my high school graduation present, my mom took me down into Arlington to a pawn shop that she knew well. Besides being a source of alternative financing, it was also a gun dealer for both new and used pieces.
Looking through the case, I...
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Stuff I Love #322: My Keurig Brewer
Love.
I am in serious like, if not love, with my home Keurig coffee maker. Not only does this bad boy brew a perfect cup of coffee each and every time I use it, but it can also do any variety of teas, hot chocolate, or even a Cup of Noodles (on the travel mug setting!).
While individual K-Cups (the little plastic cup of coffee that you feed into the machine) are a little expensive (about $0.50...
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IRL? OL? WTF?
A couple of weeks ago, I had an email conversation with a friend (::waves::) about the differences between in-real-life friends and on-line friends. I guess I never really thought about it before, but in talking with her, I realized something.
To me, there is no difference.
I first went online sometime back around 1984 or 85, sitting behind my Coleco ADAM computer, using its 300 bps modem...
February 2010
2 posts
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Stop It!
Rachelfabulous’s post about her mini-meltdown reminded me of an episode two nights ago with my nine year old daughter.
I was checking her homework for her, and it was late, and I had just done another twelve hours at the office. You can imagine my mood.
She wasn’t listening at all, being disrespectful, and pushing my buttons left and right. I was getting angrier and angrier, and...
Whole & Sometimes Broken Crackers: A funny thing... →
This? Couldn’t have come for me at a better time.
Sometimes you need to just realize the problem isn’t you. And then you need to bow out gracefully, as quietly as you can. You need to realize your own insecurities and worries actually have little or nothing to do with anyone else or how they perceive certain situations.
Sometimes you make a…
January 2010
5 posts
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Can't Win for Losing
Today is my middle daughter’s 7th birthday party at one of those bouncy places. I had planned to come home early from work to help my wife corral the 32 kids at the party, but baby girl’s miserable case of Roseola had me staying home with her.
I haven’t heard from the wife yet, and the party should have ended a half-hour ago.
I hope my not being at 7’s birthday party...
The Wiggles: How we got started - Jan. 19, 2010 →
Wow. I’m a little surprised that the Wiggles make only about $45 million per year.
Having three girls, I think I’ve already covered at LEAST that much in tickets and merchandising myself.
Fail Whale, What?
Twitter has a fail whale showing at 07:25 AM EST? Already?
Wow, if that isn’t an omen for the rest of my day, I don’t know what is.
ETA: Still a solid fail whale at 7:43 AM EST. Either Twitter is getting a massive upgrade, California is having an earthquake, or Twitter is under attack again by Russian/Muslim/Chinese dissidents/extremists/hackers.
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Computer Forensics Eated Mah Soul
*** WARNING: This post is not for the faint of heart. I’m not kidding. Please stop reading now if you have a sensitive nature. ***
“Why I am who I am,” or “Computer Forensics and You.”
For the better part of the past thirteen (thirteen?!) years, I have been a computer forensic examiner. Sure, the title varies by job and location — digital forensic analyst,...
Don't call me, I'll call you (no I won't)
Super-sized ditto.
rachelfabulous:
I hate the phone. There, I said it.
I hate landlines, I hate cell phones, I hate the sound of a ringtone. I hate to hear you eating in the background and typing on your keyboard. I hate to hear the wind blowing while you walk and talk. I hate to hear crackle crackle static and they you cracking up at some joke you made that I didn’t catch.
I hate when...
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To my Twitfam on New Year's Eve...
I simply wanted to thank you.
This past year has not been one of my best. Though I have a fantastic family and a great job, the going was still frequently rough, and it continues to be. There were many times that your Tweets brought the first smile to my day, and there were even more occasions in which they took the edge off when I needed it most.
I have some long-time friends on Twitter who...
December 2009
5 posts
Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search →
Hah! I had no idea FoxMarks had become XMarks, and that XMarks not only worked with Firefox installations but also Internet Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome.
For my little geek heart, this is awesome. It means I can have Safari and Firefox bookmarks on my same system synchronized, and that same synchronization will apply to my iPhone and to the Firefox installation running on Ubuntu on my...
“80% of CEOs and CFOs said they would not spend money to make their factories...”
– From The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet by Sharon Begley for Newsweek (via novaurora)
WatchThe cuteness…it burns!
November 2009
8 posts
::sigh::
Today? This weekend? I’m just done.
So, so done.
Google Wave
If SMS text messaging and MMS multimedia messaging had a baby together, and if email and chat had a baby together, and through some odd happenstance, if those two babies grew-up, met, and had a baby together, that baby would be called “Google Wave.”
“Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try...”
– adamcoomes (via soupsoup) (via kaytee)
Life
…is a truly wonderous and amazing thing.
For other people.
MEN AND URINALS: An Investigation →
An excellent article, really, but it completely left out the problem of “the puddle.”
That’s right…you never want to touch the bottom of a man’s shoe unless it’s still in the box in which it rests at the store. After that, never.
kaytee:
It’s maybe a little sad how absolutely fascinated I was by this.
New iPhone Tumblr App Release
Lots of new features, including video posts!
Original TripAdvisor Review Submission for Inn at...
Reblogging in support of my friend who took this trip.
Somehow the owners have gotten the people at Trip Advisor to remove his review (which scares me, because I want to read bad reviews with the good, or sites like Trip Advisor become USELESS.
nondescriptoneblog:
Earlier in the summer, we had booked accommodations at another facility in Corolla. Our son became ill, so we had to cancel those...
WorkAwesome →
Thanks to Mindy Steen for pointing out this site to me. There’s some good stuff in here, and it’s a little ::gasp:: inspirational about being better at what we all do.
October 2009
2 posts
“Wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.”
– Mary Conan Doyle, to her son Arthur (via kindacarsick)
September 2009
2 posts
Blrrgh.
I just realized my breakfast could be featured on thisiswhyyourefat.
::facepalms::
I read “thisiswhyyourefat” during lunch not to motivate me, but to make me feel better about the contents of plate sitting before me.
When looking at a picture of bacon-wrapped, deep fried Twinkies, suddenly my pile of steamed edamame and panang curry over rice doesn’t seem so bad.
August 2009
13 posts
Snow Leopard - Exchange Isn't Exchanging
So, within my office network or over VPN, Snow Leopard’s Mail.app works fine in its integration with Exchange. However, from the Interwebs, it can’t see the Exchange server.
It works via IMAP, and the iPhone’s Exchange service works, but I get nada from home on the range.
Interestingly, Entourage suffers the same fate, so it’s gotta be a misconfiguration on the server...
::sigh::
So, I stayed-up late last night to help my wife deal with her PTO (it’s like a school PTA, but for smaller schools) duties. Not having an early meeting, I set my alarm later than I normally would so that I could get-up for work without fighting to keep my eyes open.
Almost an hour earlier than that, my girls decided that today was going to be “early wake-up day” and they made...
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show -... →
Even though this doesn’t directly impact my work in computer forensics, when ANY of the forensic disciplines take a hit, we ALL take a hit. I mean, if you can fabricate DNA evidence now, there’s not much to say about the ease of potentially fabricating computer evidence, now, is there?
iPhone vs 9mm FTW! →
Explosion At Berryville Graphics Evacuates Plant →
Berryville Graphics is only a couple of miles (maybe less) from my house! I hope the damage isn’t too severe; they’re one of the larger employers in the area. If you have a paperback book lying around, there’s a chance that Berryville Graphics printed it. How sad.
WatchClarke County Fair Demolition Derby, Third Heat (Yes, we live in the country, don’t we?)
WatchClarke County Fair Demolition Derby, Second Heat (With Fire Crew Response!)
WatchClarke County Fair Demolition Derby, First Heat
24 riders rescued from California roller coaster ... →
OMG, this kind of stuff terrifies me. I hate roller coasters, and I’m not a big fan of open heights, so the thought of being stuck in a ride eighty feet off the ground for three hours makes me want to puke. I’m twitchy just thinking about it.
AP News: Obese Texas inmate hides gun in his flabs... →
To be fair, it was probably something tiny, like a Kel-Tec. I doubt he was able to hide a full-sized Sig-Sauer in a meat pocket.
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iPhone + iDisk + Resume = Job →
1. Write or update resume into something A) of which you’re proud and B) http://www.manager-tools.com compliant. Heck, maybe it’s even not a resume, but a highly-stylized digital business card? Or a V-Card?
2. Upload resume to your MobileMe iDisk. (What? You don’t have a .Mac account? Sinner.)
3. Put the iPhone iDisk application into your little friend, if you...