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- Last night: Henry Rollins at the Birchmere.
I don't remember exactly who it was that got me into Henry Rollins' spoken word stuff. It might have been Mika, who gave me a two disc set for a long drive a couple of yea
- TSA agent thinks planting contraband in luggage is a joke.
As long as I can remember, rumors of people being framed for smuggling have gone around. The urban legends go something like this: an unlikely sort gets stopped at the air
- Snowpocalypse 2009.
After my utter failure to get to the store to stock up for the winter storm that I didn't expect would actually happen (cynical cat screwed the pooch this time), Hasufin a
- 0000 EST5EDT, Black Friday '09.
Around midnight last night, Lyssa and I were on the road headed in the general direction of her parents' place in southern Pennsylvania. It's plain to see that there were
- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
As the title of this post so subtly implies, today is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I don't actually have a whole lot to write about right now. Lyssa and I l
- Life is so much more interesting when you don't get any REM sleep!
It's a sure sign that you're trying to accomplish too much when you start forsaking sleep for other things. Lately, work has been running me ragged so to compensate I have
- Back from vacation on the eastern seaboard.
Lyssa and I got up early (which is to say, we slept in for a change) last Tuesday to get our stuff packed and leave for our first vacation in a couple of years. Jason met
- Life and sleep deprivation.
Disclaimer: I got three hours of sleep last night because my sleep schedule is screwed. This post will probably not make a whole lot of sense. Lyssa and I organized craft
- Back to and from Pittsburgh.
As I write this, Bill (my father in law) just came out of surgery to implant a defibrillator to monitor his heart. I'm told that the procedure went smoothly, and he's reco
- Holy shit.
Taken en route to home just before exit 151 on I-70 east. I really hope that no one got hurt, though the bus appeared to have already been evacuated when we drove past.
- Such a beautiful weekend - seemed a shame to waste it.
After so many weeks of cold, bracing wind and a few days of snow, a weekend of bright sun and temperatures in the mid'70's seemed like an ideal time to get out a little an
- It took long enough to get snowfall out of this winter.
Winter in DC is a funny thing; it's rare to actually get anything other than bitter cold temperatures and the odd gust of wind. Every once in a while we'll get some rain o
- Merry Christmas, everyone (a couple of days late, but still..)
The powers that be saw fit to give everyone at work an opportunity to go home four hours early on 24 December 2008, the better to go home and get ready for Christmas Eve.
- "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.
- Honeymoon's over.
Lyssa and I are back in DC after a lovely weekend honeymoon in the mountains of southern Virginia, courtesy of my cow-orkers. I'll get around to posting the pictures I'd t
- DC Metro starts random searches of travellers.
In my "to post about" queue for a couple of days but certainly not forgotten has been a recent development in Washington, DC which Lyssa pointed out to me not too long ago
- EDITED (20081101): Lyssa and I are now married.
To preface what I'm about to write, I never thought that I would have missed so many details pertaining to what happened a few days ago. Shortly before the wedding, Lyssa
- OK, OK, OK, -1, -1, -2, -2, -3, incap, regenerating, dead.
I haven't been posting a whole lot lately since Lyssa and I got back from Pittsburgh two weekends ago; we'd gone home to finalize the wedding plans that remained, such as
- Just like your friends, don't abandon your boxen, either.
A basic maxim of information security is that when someone has physical access to a machine, all bets are off. If someone can touch a box, they can do pretty much whatever
- Saloncon 2008: Adventure! Excitement! Romance! Sleep deprivation!
I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last Thursday night due to getting ready for Saloncon 2008 and general problems getting a decent amount of rest these days. I think that
- What a weekend.
Lyssa, Laurelinde, and I returned from Saloncon about four hours ago. We're dead tired. I'm going to bed. What a weekend. What an adventure. What a success.
- Just a bit late: Jill's wedding.
About two weeks ago Lyssa and I took a couple of days off from work to drive in the direction of Princeton, New Jersey to attend the wedding of her sister/my future sister
- As if there wasn't enough to worry about these days.
Some days, I cringe when I page through my list of newsfeeds at the things going on in the world right now. For starters, the US Transportation Safety Agency, a government
- Safe browsing from hacker cons: Running a personal proxy.
Whenever I plan on using my laptop at a convention, in particular at hacker cons, it's practically assured that an unknown number of attendees will be monitoring the wirel
- The Last HOPE.
I arrived in New York City somewhen around 1400 EST5EDT, after getting turned around in Penn Station (what kind of adventure would it be without my getting lost, after all
- Back from The Last HOPE.
Got back from The Last HOPE about two and a half hours ago. Dead tired. Lots went on. Even had a couple of "No shit, there I was" adventures. I'm going to go to bed shortl
- Liveblogging: The Last HOPE and moments up to.
1007 EST5EDT: On the road, er, rail again. Just a few scant minutes ago I boarded the Acela express train out of Union Station in Washington, DC destined for the city that
- Catching up before I go.
Work's had me running around a bit more than usual lately, which has put a serious crimp in my time to write, let alone keep up with current events. I don't know how much
- Last weekend, by this weekend.
Late on Friday afternoon, Lyssa and I hurriedly packed our bags, jumped into the TARDIS, and set course northward once again for southwestern Pennsylvania and the general
- Walking the Thresholds: This one went to eleven.
At more or less the last minute last week, I decided to attend Walking the Thresholds 0x0B at the Four Quarters Farm, just over the Pennsylvania border, in the lands I sim
- Going traveling for a while.
Headed up to Pennsylvania to go camping. Back on Sunday. Take care of yourselves, everyone.
- Storms ravage NOVA: power loss and major property damage
It's probably hit your local news by now, but I'll push on with this article, anyway. A series of violent thunderstorms ripped through northern Virginia yesterday afternoo
- Where's the Doctor?
Running between work, home, and the bed to sleep, mostly. It's been an unusually long week (and it's not even Friday yet), and rather than write incoherent posts in the ev
- No rest for the righteous or the wicked.
Work was work this week, and that's the fairest thing that can be said about it. It wasn't glamourous, it wasn't fun, and it wasn't an adventure, but it wasn't horrible, e
- Confiscation and examination of electronics at the border intensifies.
It would appear that the confiscation and analysis of personal electronics at the US border is intensifiying and that people are starting to get up in arms about it. It's
- Alabama seems to not like Yankees too much.
I'm back from Tuscaloosa, though worse for wear. It seems that my remarks about the Chinese restaurant we visited on Tuesday were unfounded, and for this I formally apolog
- I'm stuck in Tuscaloosa three million years in the future, and where the smeg did I get this traffic cone??
Well, not so much. I was hoping to riff off of a famous Red Dwarf quote or two to make this post more entertaining, but after a few revisions it's just not coming together
- Is the TSA playing Calvinball with travellers?
I feel ever so much safer now that the TSA is requiring travelers at some airports to dump each and every electronic device they're carrying into those damned grey bins fo
- Explosive post queue flush in three.. two.. one....
As one might expect, it's been a busy couple of days (a week, really), which has kept me from being able to post anything. I got back from Philly around 1700 EST5EDT last
- Helllllooooooooo.... Philadelphia!
Well, I'm the field again, back in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to fight the good fight. Or get myself so worked up that I'll blow through an incarnation, I'm not sure which
- EDITED: Concert report: Cesium-137, ThouShaltNot, and Information Society at the Trocadero in Philadelphia.
(obligatory disclaimer: Many links reference my Amazon Associates account.) On Friday evening, our good friend Derek Pegritz drove down from Pennsylvania to visit Lyssa an
- "Oh my God, he changed the words!"
Hi, Kurt. We're back from the InSoc show safe and sound, and getting ready to pass out. I can die now. More on this after I regain consciousness.
- I should have expected this from a trip to the dentist's office.
Early this morning was my final trip to the dentist's office of 2007. I figured that, seeing as how I'm on the road so much I should get a checkup and cleaning before New
- State of the Time Lord: I never could stay put for very long...
I'm writing this update from Lyssa's parents' house once again - the holiday is here once again (however you happen to celebrate it), and this year we've gone back to visi
- Living on the run: Camping in airports.
Given what happened with the wedding of 'lex Pendragon and Marlise this past weekend with some of the attendees and celebrants having problems attending due to delayed air
- Congratulations, Alexius and Marlise!
This weekend was a wacky adventure from start to finish - not only for Lyssa, Laurelinde, and myself, but it marked the beginning of a similar adventure for some good frie
- Now that I've managed to free up some time, why have things been so quiet lately?
That's actually a pretty easy question to answer. First off, my job's kept me very busy the past couple of weeks - I've been spending between two and three weeks on the ro
- Irony of ironies.
Coffee at 0500 in your hotel room: When you need it the most, you are least capable of successfully making it.
- Coming to you very much live and direct (though undercaffeinated), this is the Doctor.
I've been sent on the road again for work, this time to the west coast, and the lovely region of California called Palo Alto. It's 0606 EST as I begin writing this from my
- *groan* *wheeze* *hiss* *wheeze* *bworrrrrrp.... THUD!*
Short, sweet, and to the point because I"ve been out of touch for somewhere in the neighborhood of a week now. Also because I'm tired, jetlagged, and fighting back a nasty
- EDIT: FIXED - I took to the skies once again, and found myself in a strange, wonderous land.
A land in which traffic in the heart of the city is sparse at high noon, there are restaurants on nearly every corner (woe to my waistline and coronary arteries), and the
- A word to would-be presenters out there.
Unless it involves 0-day security vulnerabilities that amount to a global panic in the style of bad Hollywood action movies never, ever install updates of any kind on the
- Wait a minute...
Does this strike anyone else as being oxymoronic?
- Coming to you live from the high desert of the great American southwest, this is...
...not Art Bell. It's me, the Doctor, checking in after an entire weekend on the road. At this moment I've found lodgings in a quaint little hotel about forty miles into t
- On the road again, and this time after not a bit of adventure.
I'm in the field again on assignment, this time well south of the Mason-Dixon line. Far enough south, in fact, that people actually have accents, and truck stops are the p
- Damn, it's good to be a gangsta.
I'm back in Maryland on week two of (possibly two, possibly three) of my field assignment. I'm in another hotel in the same general vicinity as before and approaching dead
- Funeral's over, and I'm back in DC.
I don't have a lot of time right now, so I'll give everyone the highlights: Lyssa and I got back from Pennsylvania around 0000 EST5EDT this morning. Grandma Pat's funeral
- More WtT stuff.
After the main rite on Saturday, everyone sort of split up and went off to do their own things for a while. Lyssa and I went down to the kitchen to grab dinner, which was
- Back in DC, safe and sound and wondering what in the hell happened.
Last week some very good friends of Lyssa and I (Heron61 and Teaotter) stayed with us for a couple of days, and then we headed out to the Four Quarters Farm for the gather
- We're home and on life support.
Lyssa and I got home on Sunday afternoon safe and sound from Walking the Thresholds. We also got home from the Skinny Puppy concert tonight about an hour ago. I'll write a
- Heading out of town for a couple of days.
Lyssa, Heron61, and I will be departing shortly for Walking the Thresholds at Four Quarters Farm this weekend. We'll be back on Sunday.
- We made it to Connecticut in one piece.
Yesterday afternoon Lyssa and I struck out northward for New England to visit Jean, an old friend just over the Connecticut border. We loaded up the newly repaired TARDIS
- Belated LayerOne entry number two.
1048 PST8PDT - Burbank Airport. What a dump. I finally got to see more of it because I'll be stuck here for a few hours. When I originally arrived we were ushered out of t
- Back from Pennsylvania and playing with my toys.
The down-low on Hussein's execution. My new USB audio recorder rocks all known sheep. I'm currently recording the third tape of.. who knows.. and the damage done to the ta
- Happy "Oh, gods, I have to go back to work?!" day, everyone.
Wait a minute... ex-president Gerald Ford died?! Lyssa pointed me at an article that brought up something that never occurred to me - how libraries manage the limited amou
- Archive: 20070109
Here's an article just in from the "In other news, fire is hot and water is wet" department: A study shows that studies funded by companies tend to frame the products of t
- Snow for sale and more.
For those of you wondering if winter's ever going to arrive, wonder no more! Someone in Fort Collins, Colorado is selling samples of snow from the blizzards they've been h
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