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- I need to get a new parking pass.
This one's expired.
- Thought for the day.
If your morning divination returns the following result, maybe you should call off sick and go back to bed: "We're sorry, but your call did not go through. Please check th
- It ain't easy being a psychic octopus.
I hope Paul gets a quiet retirement now that the World Cup is over, and I don't mean on my plate alongside some wasabi.
- Yeah. It's a little like that.
- All hail Discordia.
- Paul and Storm bring the Squid to Birchmere.
Earlier this week while the usual suspects were at the Birchmere for Henry Rollins , I noticed that a couple of musicians that I wanted to hear, namely, Jonathan Coulton w
- We're stuck.
Dangerous winter weather conditions have paralyzed the DC metroplex. In other news, this was Baltimore's weather forecast for last Friday . Enjoy. I'm off to take a shower
- Comfortable, Shiro?
- Yet another silly energy drink.
It's not that great, though - we passed one of these around at a party a few weeks ago and agreed that it tastes like Kool-Aid made with Ringer's solution .
- Cephalopods rocking out!
Archie feeling the rock. Foregoing drumsticks, Bandit takes on the drum pads bare tentacled.
- Feeling silly tonight.
Here's a picture of a stuffed squid posting on the Eclipse Phase forums:
- Happy 44th birthday, Rick Astley!
Oh, come on.. there are far, far worse things I could have subjected you to.
- Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and Bruce Schneier have nothing on Neil Gaiman.
20 facts about Neil Gaiman that you probably didn't know. (Just kidding, Bruce.)
- We've finally named our new hamster.
After much deliberation we've decided to name him Pigpen , after the Peanuts character. Pigpen seems to enjoy making quite a mess in his cage, from throwing everything tha
- Hammerpants invasion!
Thanks, Pegritz.
- The nice thing about metrics is that there are so many to choose from.
One of the many buzzwords that you hear in the discipline of software engineering is metrics . They're supposed to be a measure of how effectively your coders are function
- Uh-oh...
I've updated my .plan file again. As always, there is not-safe-for-work content, so use discretion if you click on that link.
- An assortment of photographs.
Does anyone else find it amusing that a cast metal and plastic drum is manufactured by a company called Touch the Earth ? This is about as far away from their ideal as you
- Old school phreaking meets X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
You only need three people to make a blue box if you're standing around bored - two whistling at the proper pitches to make DTMF tones and a third to whistle in-band signa
- "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I can't help but wonder if Keith Olberman really knows what 'teabagging' is . (note: vaguely not safe for work.)
- Shmoocon 2009: ...duck!!
It's been six hours since I got back from Shmoocon , and I'm still readjusting to a low information density environment. Shmoocon is DC's premiere hacker con, held early e
- Cartoon Network rickrolled the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Rick Astley: the final boss of the Internet.
- "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!" (take two)
For unknown reasons, I just lost the previous draft of this post, and so have had to start over. That includes a number of edits that made the text more coherent to read.
- Presenting your vulgarity for the day.
I've updated my .plan file.
- Title restored - so how did I spent my weekend, anyway?
Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about t
- I see now how the Vorlons infiltrated Earth: Perfume!
There's a new perfume for women on the market called Alien, as photographed a few weeks ago at Tyson's Corner Mall. Fan of the science fiction series Babylon-5 will notice
- I have no idea what you're talking about...
...so here's a merangue cookie floating in hot chocolate .
- Of time travelers, web forums, and n00bs.
Presenting the short story Wikihistory, by Desmond Warzel .
- William Gibson has hurt me badly.
As the topic line suggests , this causes me great mental anguish this morning. Warning: Do not read while drinking anything. You will probably spray your beverage through
- New releases from Steampunk Magazine.
The staff over at Steampunk Magazine have a pair of new releases for the edification and amusement of everyone out there. First off, issue number three of their 'zine has
- At last, the post you've all been waiting for...
Exoteric life being what it is, I've been waiting for the right time to post about Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on 8 December 2007. The day is just what it sounds lik
- Here's looking at you, kids.
For unknown reasons, someone in northern Europe is leaving odd gifts for people all over the place - carved stone heads with rhymes taped to them . Each head (face, really
- I leave them alone for one hour...
You know you're overclocking too much when...
- I see no C-walk here.
MC Frontalot is at it again, this time celebrating the release of his new nerdcore hip-hop album, Secrets From the Future . In fact, he's released his first music video, a
- It's been that kind of day.
This one's for you, Pegritz.
- Now this is what warfare should be.
Here's a cute animation that steampunks out there will get a kick out of. There are gentlemanly disagreements, there are duels, and then there's going toe-to-toe in steam
- I need a life.
Last night, I watched Nightwatch again with Jean and Lyssa, and this came to me:
- New York has fallen! DC is under seige!
I don't know how much time I have to write this.. I can hear them outside, pounding against the brick and steel. The staircase of my apartment building rings with shambing
- At last, a little R&R on a Friday.
Worth1000.com has done it again.. this time, the theme of their Photoshop contest is if h4>
- Ummmm....
Google Maps is a wonderful thing. But seriously, Google's added some interesting features to their mapping webapp , namely, the ability to draw and customize your own pers
- Denis Leary: Prophet of the 20th century?
In his standup show No Cure For Cancer , Denis Leary used to joke about all of the drugs that Keith Richards has done, and about how people would have to smoke his ashes b
- The first spam of the day.
Subject: anti-spammers are lamers subj regards, spammer. Cute. How very cute. Thank you, Shaw Cable.
- The Easter Invasion!
What better time to invade Earth then when everyone is pigging out on candy and ham ? (note: safe for work)
- Captain Midnight goes porno early!
Last evening television viewers in Arizona were treated to an unexpected bonus cable show: Soundless hardcore porn in lieu of Tom Brokaw . It seems that someone zipped the
- Happy Pi Day, everyone.
3.14159... take a right at the decimal point, and bring your hiking boots.
- InSoc's first music video in fifteen years is out!
Early last year, InSoc put out an all-call for fans to submit footage of themselves doing the robot so they could assemble a net.roots music video of their first single, I
- Yeah, I missed Farpoint, but this makes up for it.
Due to the ice storm, Lyssa and I weren't able to get to the Farpoint sci-fi convention this weekend passed. As much as we would have liked to, the road conditions and ext
- It's not too cold to headslap, though.
I really did find these at Whole Paycheque last night. I know that DC's a liberal kind of place, but this is something else entirely.
- 24 takes on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
I didn't cover the abortive Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad campaign that went horribly wrong in Boston and Philadelphia because, quite frankly, the asshattery involved nearly g
- An excerpt from CdC issue #100.
Taken from CdC issue #100 , and is reasonably famous in the underground. It's A K-Rad Thing.
- You got Time Lord in my chainsaw! You got a chainsaw stuck in my... huh?
The first pressing of the DVD boxed set of Doctor Who , season 28/2 has a strange glitch in it: Footage from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre It seems that the master tapes wer
- You might be a CLAMP character if...
Capes and cloaks are practical fashion accessories. They always hang properly, always have stiff collars that never fall over or flop around, and always conveniently trail
- You might be a technopagan if...
You write computer viruses that contain copies of your memories. You're going to live forever, dammit! An antiviral software company has to release updates as a result. Yo
- The Doctor's weblog drinking game.
Take one drink... whenever I bitch about work. whenever I mention hating my lives, being depressed, or hating my family. for every piece of electronic equipment I mention
- Hackers: The Drinking Game
Take one drink: ...every time Dade grins. ...every time Dade yells "Sh-hit!!" ...every time someone is called "elite." ...every time Dade is shut down by Kate. ...every ti
- Wired strikes again.
This Wired article reads like Scott Sigler decided to write an Unknown Armies module .
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