Planet Nashville 2600

March 10, 2010

Dagmar

Scooter issues

Drat it, I knew I should have started the thing a few times during the winter (I did at least slosh the gas around twice a week or more). Won't start.

Hopefully getting it running again won't involve anything major. It turns, but won't fire (and this is after I recharged the battery).

Anyone got any suggestions?

March 10, 2010 09:08 AM

February 23, 2010

Dagmar

It's time to talk to your parents about Teh Internets

Yep. It's time.

CNN just did a story on ChatRoulette. This means that "old people" may now see it and find out about it. If you don't already know about it, it's probably better if things stay that way, but you still may have parents who aren't so wise in the ways of the world.

On the surface, ChatRoulette sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Click a button and you and your webcam are immediately connected to someone else and their webcam, somewhere out on the internet.

Let's go over that again in case you missed it.

You click a button, and you and your webcam are immediately connected to someone strange person out there on the internet who is, statistically speaking, probably masturbating furiously at this very moment.

Your parents may have recently purchased a netbook with a webcam installed, therefore...

It's time to talk to your parents about Teh Internets, before Teh Internets do it for you.

February 23, 2010 03:03 AM

February 22, 2010

Dagmar

This weeks coding conclusions...

* Flowplayer is cool and all, but when you've recently written some code to handle partial range HTTP requests outside of the usual Apache module, it's just very irritating to find that its pseudostreaming mechanism only has the archaic uri://hostname/reference?startpos=n mechanism available.

* FLV seeking of streams is ugly. Trust in the internets that the one example I can find of what's necessary in order to put metadata back into the partial bits and pieces is in a language nothing remotely related to it is written in, i.e., (@#$%!) Ruby.

* The people who designed SNMP should be flogged until they explain why it was necessary to put 1.3.6.1.4.1 into pretty much every SNMP query that will ever be made, and then just kinda stopped defining things shortly thereafter.

* This goes double for the people who write the resulting explanation of their particular implementation of MIBs in Backus-Naur, but not just in BNF but also carefully formatted to be equally unreadable to both man and machine.

* The error messages WMP11 emits about files it won't stream are just a delight to behold. The player might as well just put up an image of two fingers flying for all the good it does you. Did the remote end send back a 404? Did the remote end send back a text file containing ASCII art of horses? Did the remote end genuinely start handing over a file it has no idea how to play? Did the remote end explode in a fireball of doom? It's all the same!

February 22, 2010 05:04 AM

February 21, 2010

Oddball

Why many gun owners have a deep seated hate for the ATF

I know some of my friends roll their eyes when I say that something needs to be seriously done to the ATF (preferably, have them absorbed by the DEA and the FBI), so I thought I would share this lovely example.

A couple years ago, a company by the name of German Sports Guns decided to cash in on the popularity of the H&K MP5 and make a .22 caliber clone. A lot of people (myself included) were excited about this since it's practically impossible for a civilian to own a real MP5 due to its short barrel and full-auto capability. So, they started building and importing a .22 that looks a hell of a lot like the original, but is semi-auto only and has a 16.5" (instead of 9") barrel on it to satisfy the NFA regulations. In order to make it not look really silly with the long barrel, they put a plastic housing around the barrel that looks like a silencer. The variants that is important to story is made to look like an MP5 with an integrated silencer.

Now, let me make this clear, this barrel shroud was purely for decoration, it does nothing to suppress the sound and is in no way a functional silencer.

As is the law, GSG had every model (including this one) that they wished to sell in the US inspected by the ATF, and the ATF gav them the thumbs up. The guns started hitting the shelves, people started buying them, all is well. Right?

Um..... no....

Fast forward to last month. American Tactical, the importer of GSG firearms, posted a letter to their website. Apparently the ATF has changed its mind and decided that the piece of plastic that was wrapped around the barrel is a silencer, and that they must stop importing/selling the item immediately and must recall and replace those thae already sold. Apparently GSG has come up with a replacement that the ATF is happy with, but the fact remains that people who legally purchased this firearm in the past couple years are now committing a felony for posessing the old version.

Let me repeat that, there are folks out there that are unknowingly guilty of a felony because a non-elected government organization changed its mind.

And there's not a whole lot that the general populas can do about it since the law gives the ATF the power to interpret things as they like.

February 21, 2010 03:51 PM

February 14, 2010

Dagmar

ROFL! What a bad move...

In a moment of complete insanity, apparently Southwest Airlines tossed Kevin Smith off a flight for being too fat.

See also: http://twitpic.com/1340gw

February 14, 2010 03:54 AM

February 11, 2010

Oddball

So... last night, I was complaining that the revolver option for thugs masterminds in City of Heroes was just comically huge and I wish they were smaller to look more realistic.

Here is an image of the "magnum revolver," the normal revolver just has a shorter barrel.

Well, apparently they were just planning ahead for Taurus to come out with a revolver that shoots 3" magnum .410 shotgun shells.

February 11, 2010 08:52 PM

February 03, 2010

Oddball

random thought

Listening to conservative talk radio today. As can be expected, people are all upset over the idea that gays might be able to server in the military and be open about their preference. One of the arguments against it caught my interest: what about benefits to the spouse?

I mean... how do you really know who's a spouse in a same sex relationship versus just some guy or girl that person knows? If it's a romantic interest, what truly counts as a spouse? 2 weeks? 6 months? 5 years?

It's almost as if we would need some sort of legally binding contract to declare this... I wonder what that might look like...

February 03, 2010 08:07 PM

January 17, 2010

Dagmar

Icecrown Citadel

Last night we finally got ourselves together enough to go in there.  We downed Lord Marrowgar on the second go (I think), Lady Deathwhisper after a few wipes figuring it out, and the Gunship Battle on the second attempt.  We were down to 8 people by the time we got to that orc, and attacked him anyway just to get a feel for it.

He's soooo dead the next time we go.

Post Scriptum: Rocket packs!@#!#!!one!!

January 17, 2010 11:23 PM

January 11, 2010

Dagmar

Correction: Sprint are morons

 So, after swapping my new phone out for my old phone with the cell provider, I thought things would be fine and I'd fix the phone I'd "broken" later tonight once I got off work.  Then I got back to my work area and noticed the old, reliable Razr doing the same "up, down, up, down, no service now lol" thing the new Palm was doing.

Two phones, different manufacturers, different software revisions, exhibiting the same malfunction and the only commonality being that they were both using PCS (1900) instead of CDMA (800) on a particular provider.  Not bloody likely.  I suspected there was something not right about this when Verizon's network had no apparent problems telling me I couldn't make calls while roaming on their network, over and over.
At approximately the same time as I was talking with Sprint Technical Support again, I got an email from one of the managers at work saying something was up with Sprint's nearby repeater tower.  Too right it was on Sprint's end, but I don't think it was the tower.  The technician gave me a different MSID to program in than the one I'd gotten from their website last night--which immediately solved the problem.  Just a few minutes ago when I re-provisioned the Palm back onto my account, it gave me that same MSID. 

It's pretty awesome when you make multiple calls to technical support and no one is willing to admit they actually had a problem--like we're supposed to believe these things magically fix themselves.  If I could get signal with anyone else in this building I would so be getting a new phone and service provider right now.  Comcast has more useful support reps.

January 11, 2010 11:27 PM

Bleh. Cell phone in critical condition

Looks like the second time was the charm... my cell phone is temporarily out of commission until I can get the Razr back online while I take a shot at fixing it.  If ya need me, email or Google Talk.

January 11, 2010 05:19 AM

December 27, 2009

Oddball

The TSA continues to try its best to kill the airline industry. Now you apparently can't leave your seat an hour before landing and can't have anything in your lap including small electronics or books! (link)

December 27, 2009 04:58 PM

December 22, 2009

Dagmar

Comcast "community sales rep" madness

You know, it's amazing.  I have no obvious grey anythings, and yet the "community sales rep" Comcast assigned to our area seemed to think it would be appropriate to act as if I were a senile, easily-confused retiree on multiple occasions just because I live in a condoplex that has a lot of retirees.  When he first came around to "save me some money" he was looking straight at me so he can't possibly have confused me with the aged and infirm then.  After about 10 minutes of listning to him try to tell me he would be saving me money by signing me for more expensive classes of service.  I told him that I didn't need my internet upgraded because I already had double-docsis, just like everyone else in the area because they'd upgraded everyone over a year ago.  I also told him I wasn't interested in digital cable yet because my PVR equipment can't handle high-def yet and sent him on his way.  He left behind a broadsheet with channel lineups on it.  I told him I'd call him once I got some time freed up because I was planning to reconfigure things to handle digital broadcast media before the end of the year. A lot of technical language there, you think?  Most people would get the clue that they're dealing with someone who won't look kindly on being told to their face that they're "saving money" on a rate that is only marginally less than what they're already paying, and only lasts for three to six months.  For the record the "deal" he was trying to get me would have amounted to about $165 or so a month after the promotion discount ran out.  This is absolutely not cheaper than the $111 I'm paying now, and it was clear he thought I was an idiot because he kept insisting he would be saving me money, even after I pointed out that the rate changes after three months. So yesterday, I got around to calling him again.  I blew about an hour on it, and it was a complete waste of my time.  Comcast's site is a little gnomic, and I figured I would make things easy for the guy with one simple criteria: "What's the least expensive package that will get me Syfy in HD?" He couldn't answer this question.  He wouldn't even really address it.  He wanted to talk about saving me money by setting me up with phone service I don't need.  This went on for several rounds of me reiterating the question and hoping he would catch on to the words coming directly from my mouth, and then listening to him go back into "hard sell" mode and talk about their triple play.  So, after about 45 minutes of completely wasting my time, I faked some cell problems and hung up on him.  You know, the last time I checked, making the customer want to strangle you to death was not considered to be a winning sales tactic. I then went to Comcast's website, poked around a bit, noticed that it's screwed up and Syfy HD doesn't show up under any channel lineup at the moment, and then just called the 800 number.  That nice lady managed to answer my simple question and set things up so I can just drive over to the Comcast offices tomorrow and pick up a digital box.  About 15 minutes, problem solved, and no one has to die.  The idiot rep tried to call me back during and after the call to the 800 number.  If he calls me again today, god help him--because if he hadn't been such a thick-skulled jackass I would have actually had time to go pick up a digital cable box yesterday after talking to him.  I'll call up Comcast and let them know how well this guy is doing his job--and how he's misrepresenting more than just "savings".  (There's some things I know Comcast frowns on, like telling people that after the promotional rate expires, they'll just sign you up for the new promotional rate.) God forbid he show up unannounced on my doorstep where I could actually reach him in a moment of weakness.  I'm pretty much furious with Comcast right now, and most of it's because of this one guy.

December 22, 2009 09:04 PM

December 17, 2009

Dagmar

h8srt can suck it.

So, a virus "making the rounds" in the local area seems to be powered by a nice little rootkit called h8srt.  Here's some info that can help.
  • TeaTimer (from Spybot Search & Destroy) can prevent it from writing to the registry when it attempts to hook it's second stage payload in through WinLogon with a key named 'Taskman'.
  • Comodo Antivirus's whitelist can forcibly keep iexplore.exe from spawning silently in the background to access websites to get phony referral hits (if yer PC is playing commercials for no reason now, guess what).
  • Malwarebytes can see the second stage trojan it dropped, but can't see the actual rootkit.
  • It likes to install it's current second-stage payload into C:\RECYLER
  • It will bootstrap in more friends.  Take the affected machines offline immediately.
  • The rootkit prevents mbam.exe (Malwarebytes) from running, and even does a special something to cause vB errors if you try to rename the binary something and sneak around it.  (It's probably not smart enough to fall for it's own tricks, tho.  Renaming mbam.exe to firefox.exe will possibly work)
  • It definitely jumps onto thumbdrives using an autoexec.inf that winds up being pretty mangled because of the way they insert it.
  • RootRepeal can kill the sucker dead in memory hiding in the SSDT and just about everywhere else.  THEN you stand a chance at removing it with mbam and a little heavy-handed deleting.
  • The people who make AntiMalware are bitches.  The very first thing this variant did was trick the user into allowing AntiMalware to be installed by presenting a fake virus warning.  AntiMalware itself generates more phony virus warnings at a genuinely furious pace.  I would like video of the FTC cornholing their management team if a live viewing isn't possible. 
Yes, being able to make comments like that last one is why I flagged my own blog as being unsuitable for minors. Entertaingly when you uninstall AntiMalware, it actually asks why and reports that back.  I think I might have uninstalled it a few thousand times today.  I might still be repeatedly uninstalling it.  It really depends on how long I stay irritable.

December 17, 2009 02:33 AM

December 14, 2009

Dolemite

Bottle Shortage

I went to bottle up my latest batch (English Brown Ale) thinking that I had plenty of bottles - I have 11 of the 1L flip top bottles that I bought from NotLarry, plus I had a case of 12 22 oz. bottles from before, and then another 12 of the 1L flip top bottles in a box. Well, as it turns out I'm short 5 of the 22 oz. bottles (somebody didn't return the empty after I gave them some free homebrew!) and the unopened box of flip top bottles I had didn't come with the tops!

I had to improvise - there was a nearly empty 2L bottle of Black Cherry Soda in the fridge, so I emptied it out, washed it out, and it was barely able to hold the leftover that I had in the bottling bucket.

I decided to bottle instead of keg this batch since I plan on giving some out at Christmas.

:RASPBERRY:

by Scott Milliken at December 14, 2009 05:25 AM

December 03, 2009

Oddball

Is it a costuming post? Is it a gun post? It's both!

So, I've been kicking around with the idea of building steampunk garb for a while and bought a few pieces at Dragoncon this past year. I know, I'm a couple years late to the party, but there it is.

One thing I keep coming back to is the weaponry I see people carrying and what I should build/buy. I know I won't be happy if it look like a piece of shit, so most of the "eh, just buy a funny looking squirt gun and paint it" solutions won't work, and I can't seem to be happy with any concept I com up with using a NERF gun as a base (which seems to be a standard). I've seen some wonderful pieces of art made from wood, metal, and glass, but something always seemed off with them, and I think I've finally figured out what it is.

They're too damn complicated to ever have been reasonably created in any world.

Ok... I take that back. The folks dressed up as mad scientists get a pass, because, well, they're mad... and scientists/inventors/tinkerers often build things that aren't practical in the "real world" for a variety of reasons. But the hunters? the gun slingers? the air pirates? Would they rather have a big, clumsy firearm that has a good chance of breaking if dropped, hit with a stick, and/or have delicate gears exposed to the elements? Or would they rather have a rather simple and sturdy weapon like a Colt Single Action Army or the Henry Repeating Rifle?

Both existed during the period steampunk is loosely based on. Heck, I've been told that the time period was turn of the 20th century (I thought for a long time that it was closer to early-mid 19th). That means we get into the era of John Moses Browning, often referred to as the patron saint of gun design by gun nuts. While his 1911, BAR, and Browning M2 .50 machine gun are probably just at the cut off point, many of his designs were created before or just after 1900. Heck, even his Auto-5 semi-auto shotgun was designed before the turn of the century.

I'm thinking that steampunk specific mods should be left specifically to things like scopes, and, if you do build a custom odd looking weapon, it should have a story explaining why standard arms wouldn't suffice. Remember, a firearm needs to be as simple as it can to do its job. Consider that the owner is usually going to clean and maintain it themselves and any failure is probably going to be disastrous due to the nature of the function of the tool.

Of course, one of the big questions is how would most conventions look upon someone with something like this or this strapped to their side or this slung over their back with little to no modifcations.

There's also the fact that I may be missing something entirely, and I'm always open to discussion with someone more knowledgeable than I on the genre. Oh, and don't worry, I'm not going to go up to someone and say "your prop is very pretty, but stupid." I recognize hard work when I see it, and it's their costume, so it's their rules.

December 03, 2009 11:00 PM

December 01, 2009

Oddball

3 years ago

3 years ago today, I was woken from sleep by the fire alarm going off and smoke pouring out of the AC vents.
3 years ago today, I found out just how well you can find things when you're in a true emergency.
3 years ago today, I thought that I was watching everything I owned go up in flames.
3 years ago today, I thought I had lost my cat because she fled into a closet and I couldn't find her.

3 years ago today, I saw the best in neighbors I had never met.
3 years ago today, I would learn how good my friends truly were.

For those that helped [info]naienko and I through that time, thank you. We wouldn't be where we are now without you. I don't know how we would have come out without you guys.

For everyone, remember that sometimes the best you can do is to keep breathing. If you find yourself there, let people know. The people that care about you can't help if they don't know you're hurting, and there are probably more of them out there than you think.

A true friend isn't necessarily always there when you want them, but is when you need them.

December 01, 2009 03:20 PM

November 25, 2009

Oddball

Even without the craziness of things that are going on right now, I think it's important that everyone knows that there is the family that you're born into and the family that you choose. If you're in the Nashville area and don't already have plans with family, you're invited to join us for Thanksgiving. Just let us ...know so we can make sure there's enough food.

November 25, 2009 04:20 AM

November 22, 2009

Dolemite

Batch #14 - English Brown Ale

Name : English Brown Ale
Recipe:
3.3 lbs. Plain Amber Malt Extract
2 Lbs. Plain Amber Dry Malt Extract
8 oz. Crushed Crystal Malt 60L
1 oz. Willamette Hops (Bittering, 60 min)
1/2 oz. Willamette Hops (Finishing, 5 min)
11g Nottingham Yeast
(Above ingredients are the contents of a Brewer's Best English Brown Ale kit)

Brew Date: 21 Nov 2009
Bottling Date: 13 Dec 2009
Drinking Date: Christmas!

Starting Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.009
ABV: 4.1%
Calories: 131.5
Carbs: 12.9

(Calculations from Mr. Good Beer)


This time I'm fermenting down in cellar of the house, rather than inside. This is 100% closed off from sunlight and since it is underground on 3 sides is stays a pretty constant temperature in the mid 50s.

I also finally got to use the banjo burner that my parents gave me for Christmas last year. The nice thing is that it easily cut 45 minutes off of the time it takes to brew a batch of beer, because it heats up the kettle very quickly! The downside is that the black paint on the diffuser bubbled off as soon as I started using it and left a sooty, black residue all over the bottom of my brew kettle. I don't know what the manufacturer was thinking, because I didn't even have the thing turned up full blast. I guess people don't think everything through when designing a product. Hopefully it's caked/burned off enough to not force me to get out the brillo pads again after the next batch.

by Scott Milliken at November 22, 2009 02:00 AM

November 09, 2009

Oddball

random gaming anyone?

I'm thinking about getting some folks together to do some random gaming. We can do a one shot RPG, cards games, or board games. I don't really care, just want an excuse to get together and have some fun.

Anyone interested?

November 09, 2009 04:18 PM

November 03, 2009

ladymerlin

phreaknic 13

pics from another succcessfull phreaknic can be found here

by No Author at November 03, 2009 12:46 AM

October 21, 2009

Dolemite

Single Income

Well in just one more week our household will be down to a single income. My wife and I thought long and hard about it, but the cost of daycare is just too much, so we decided to have her stay home with the kids.

Well, that's what we decided, but then our son's daycare had a spot open up in the Pre-School class and moved him up. A year ahead of schedule. Yeah. Now he's learning things at the same pace as the rest of the class. So we've now decided that my wife will still stay home and keep our 5 month old daughter, but we are going to keep paying for our son to stay in day care for as long as we can. If we get to where we can't pay the bills each month then we'll pull him out, but we're going to take advantage of the opportunity as long as we can.

To help offset the costs, though, my wife is now selling Pampered Chef goodies all over Nashville. I thought it was somewhat unbelievable that with all of the Pampered Chef consultants out there that the domain nashvillepamperedchef.com was even available.

And yeah, I need to get some free time available to brew some more beer. I've had empty kegs for the last couple of months, but now that the baby is getting easier to manage, that may actually happen.

by Scott Milliken at October 21, 2009 06:06 PM

October 08, 2009

Oddball

Sick of this crap

On the way home from work the other day, I got stuck behind a fairly new Town Car that was puffing blue smoke at every red light. It definitely had oil leaking into the engine and probably a few other things. Looked at it's plates, and, sure enough, it was from a couple counties away.

For those of you that don't live around here, if you live in Nashville or the immediate area, you have to go through a yearly emissions check along with registering your vehicle. It's not a big deal, just a sensor shoved up your tailpipe or cable connected to your car's computer (depending on age), check to make sure the catalytic converter is still there, and a check to make sure that the gas cap still seals properly. This vehicle had new tags and would easily fail those tests.

Here's why this pisses me off (other than choking on this guys fumes). People are constantly harassing the government to put stricter and stricter restriction on the car manufacturers to put out clean, more fuel efficient vehicles. The truth is that the stuff coming out of the tail pipes of brand new cars are as clean, if not cleaner, than the air of many cities. The big polluters, as far as cars go, are the ones that have been on the road for a few years and not properly maintained. Not only that, but if the car can't pass the test, the engine is probably not running as well as it should and is probably wasting gas.

Right now, several cities require testing, but the majority of the US does not. I say we should make it mandatory across the US. Yes, it would be a pain in the ass to do, but I think some good would come out of it. It will actually do some good for the environment, the cars actually on the road will get better mileage, and the vehicles will probably be in better mechanical shape.

Bottom line is we should either get serious about our environmental controls or shut up about it.

October 08, 2009 06:08 PM

October 05, 2009

Dagmar

Yay outsourced incompetence

This month I just got an eBill from NES (the electric company) which was supiciously really high, after last month thinking that I'd somehow managed to miss the August bill and paid double in September.

After a little digging, I've got payment confirmation for that double payment, but apparently NES doesn't show it.

After a little more digging I see that this apparently happened in June as well and I just didn't catch it then.

Me and NES are going to have a talk on Monday about why I'm having to pay an extra $3.95 fee to the idiots they've outsourced things to who are clearly screwing up on a regular basis.

October 05, 2009 02:20 AM

September 27, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

  • o hai twitter! fergot u wuz. mah srry, i will buy u a drank (cuz u so fine too) #

by ware at September 27, 2009 03:37 PM

September 25, 2009

Dagmar

So, apparently I put up with someone's bullshit for six years merely to be told:

"I just never felt like I could trust you."

That from the person who broke up with me on more than one occasion so she could go date someone else for awhile.  What a load of crap.


In other news, I'm single again.

September 25, 2009 12:31 AM

September 19, 2009

Oddball

In honor of talk like a pirate day, they're giving away Monkey Island: Episode 1 for free at http://www.playlikeapirate.com.

September 19, 2009 07:26 PM

September 15, 2009

Dagmar

Comcast (disunion) clue

Dear Comcast,

Stop fucking with your traffic shaping bullshit if you can't make it work correctly.  Preventing me from ssh'ing to my equipment at home is only going to make me start giving my money to AT&T instead.

Not all your users are so stupid that they can't work a sniffer and see that you guys are in fact, tampering with connection traffic, again.

In short, DIAF.


Sincerely,

Dagmar

September 15, 2009 09:07 PM

September 13, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

  • got a lil wet on the ride but its all goood! time to play Zelda II (NES) on the projector! (yeah im a geek, but i love it =P) #
  • @arafatm there is a new Buffalo Wild Wings that opened here in Hermitage, its on OHB before Lebanon Pike (from 40) #
  • headin to Big Bang for a bit! #
  • needs moar cowbell! #
  • i lubz DMB, makes falling asleep that much mo'betta :) #
  • back from a 320 mile ride out to Jamestown! #

by ware at September 13, 2009 03:37 PM

September 11, 2009

Dagmar

9/11 - America Will Never Let It Go

Today is 9/11 and it's clear it's time for a change.

It's time for America to just put it behind them, because the press and politicians will never stop exploiting the incident for a buck.  Those who lost family and friends in the horrible incident should be even more offended that their loss is being used by others merely to draw attention to themselves.

Half of the news coverage today is a bunch of nonsense about who is doing what to show how patriotic they are, although after this many years they've been so busy talking about what they'll do that they've barely been able to pave over the site.

It's time to simply stop paying attention to those people and get on with life.



September 11, 2009 07:47 PM

September 06, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

  • RAAWWWRR! its Tuesday! #
  • bike night was fun, saw a SWEET 08 Suzuki B-King! #
  • mmm Five Guy's burger for lunch! #
  • BWW with Steph, cmon out! #

by ware at September 06, 2009 03:37 PM

September 02, 2009

Oddball

quotes of the day

"oooo... I made my brain vibrate. That was fun."
"Now *I'm* laughing and I don't know why."
-[info]naienko

September 02, 2009 11:11 PM

August 30, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-31

  • cant shake this love #
  • lookin' for my ninja Bovice. where you at Bovice? #
  • HAHAHAHA http://bit.ly/zqlIy #
  • happy birthday to me #
  • follow @shitmydadsays for some lulz #
  • thinkin' bout a time and a place that aint no more~ #

by ware at August 30, 2009 04:37 PM

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-31

  • cant shake this love #
  • lookin' for my ninja Bovice. where you at Bovice? #
  • HAHAHAHA http://bit.ly/zqlIy #
  • happy birthday to me #
  • follow @shitmydadsays for some lulz #
  • thinkin' bout a time and a place that aint no more~ #

by ware at August 30, 2009 03:37 PM

August 23, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

  • ugg, this is supposed to be my vacation time! #
  • looking for a 2004 or newer R6 / CBR600 / GSX-R 600! if ya know of something (outside of ebay / cl / etc) shoot me a link! #
  • Do you want to date my avatar? -> http://bit.ly/ylffp #
  • Put my kayak + gear up for sale, if you're interested lemme know!

    http://nashville.craigslist.org/boa/1333320544.html #

  • picking up the new R6 tomorrow, cant sleep! #
  • Party at @timoguin's house tonight for @laraoguin and me! Our birthdays are all this week. You're invited. Message for directions, or call. #
  • wondering if this after motorcycle high will always be there when I finish a full day of riding :) <3 #

by ware at August 23, 2009 03:37 PM

August 20, 2009

Oddball

This past Saturday, I tested for my next rank in Tae Kwon Do (green belt with a stripe/5th gup). I screwed up and showed up to the morning test and wasn't supposed to test until the afternoon. Ah well, got to watch the white and yellow belts test. Which was good.

My test started after lunch. We started with kick techniques, and I felt kind of sorry for the guy holding target for me when we got to turn sidekicks. He was significantly smaller than me and one the black belts in my class kept telling me to kick harder. I think he was relieved when it was over. After than was forms, which I got some compliments about later (even though Wiz admonished me for not be confident about part of one of them). I still need to work on them some to try to keep them straight in my head. Then the part I've always had issues with since coming back: sparring.

The biggest problem I have with sparring is breathing. Due to general allergies, my nose is almost always clogged up. I also don't have the endurance that I did 10 years ago. This means that I'm quickly soaked in sweat and breathing like a stuck pig. I did much better this time around, but I still need to work on it. Especially if I'm going to be sparring these teenage black belts. One of which was literally half my age.

The last thing you do at testing is board breaking. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to break with until the last minute. I was handed 3 boards and decided to break them with a turn sidekick. Usually, I break boards on the first or second hit. This time, I think it took 8. It was a combo of either not going fast enough and/or not being on target (I missed the boards entirely a couple times). I finally broke them and went up to receive my stripe. I was handed a blue belt instead (next level up).

I have been told I had a rather funny look on my face as I first looked at Mr Shine (who handed me the belt) and then Wiz thinking that it was a mistake. Wiz told me to take it, and then announced that she was pleased with how hard I had worked since coming back. Last time she embarrassed me be essentially calling me lazy in front of everyone (which I am), and this time she embarrassed me be declaring how hard I had been working. Guess that's a good thing.

Of course, now I have that many more forms to learn and am now at the low end of being a senior belt and may have to start teaching the white and yellow belts in class.

August 20, 2009 04:18 PM

Conversation I had with my boss a little while ago:
me: I think I'll head south tomorrow to install those wireless APs that we got in.
her: I'm going to be out of the office all day in meetings tomorrow, and Rob is taking the day off..
me: right. Staying here then.

August 20, 2009 03:32 PM

August 19, 2009

Dagmar

Zombies + LEGO == win!

First there was the Lego (or was that Playmobil--I think it was LEGO tho) Hazardous Waste Cleanup kit, and now we've got LEGO zombies, a-la carte.  :)

(Sorry about your paycheck, Mike)

http://www.toywiz.com/blebcocufiwe.html

August 19, 2009 06:01 PM

August 16, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

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  • killed the interview! should be working again on the 1st, but til then…. LAX #
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by ware at August 16, 2009 03:37 PM

August 09, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09

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by ware at August 09, 2009 03:37 PM

August 02, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-02

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by ware at August 02, 2009 03:37 PM

July 31, 2009

Dagmar

OOoooo...

The Color of Magic is in at Redbox.

W00t!

July 31, 2009 01:29 AM

July 30, 2009

ladymerlin

defcon bound!

on my way to defcon, cant wait to see everyone!!

by No Author at July 30, 2009 11:04 AM

July 26, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

by ware at July 26, 2009 03:37 PM

July 23, 2009

Oddball

Am I the only one that, when reading recent news, has a desire to watch Amos and Andrew?

July 23, 2009 03:09 PM

July 20, 2009

ladymerlin

lol

skydog gets a new hood ornemient for his bike....

by No Author at July 20, 2009 02:42 PM

July 19, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

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  • moving the weights / bench into my room and working out. kinda wanna go see Harry Potters tonight, anybody in? #
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by ware at July 19, 2009 04:37 PM

July 17, 2009

Oddball

More hysteria about guns in bars

So, apparently, the idea of law abiding citizens following the law will require at least one establishment to obtain metal detectors.

I would say that I'll make sure never to go back to Tootsie's, but it's a bar on the tourist trap strip downtown, so I'll never go there anyways.

It amazes me that the owner of Tootsie's thinks that he needs to subject his customers to something like that to keep his place as safe as it was last week. Oh, it also amazes me that he thinks his customers will put up with emptying their pockets before going to his bar when there are 5 just like it in the same block.

July 17, 2009 01:35 PM

July 15, 2009

Oddball

Just a reminder to everyone, according to the anti-gun crowd, the streets of Nashville will run with blood as carry permit holders take their guns to bars this weekend.

July 15, 2009 01:40 PM

July 12, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

by ware at July 12, 2009 03:37 PM

July 09, 2009

Oddball

I... had... no idea... this existed....

July 09, 2009 09:18 PM

July 07, 2009

Oddball

pop quiz time!

You discover the a computer in your company's computer lab is not working properly.

Do you:
(a) contact IT so that they can fix the issue
(b) move to another computer and let someone else deal with the problem
(C) tape a sheet of paper that reads "not working" on the monitor without telling anyone

July 07, 2009 02:14 PM

July 06, 2009

ladymerlin

July 05, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05

by ware at July 05, 2009 03:37 PM

July 04, 2009

ladymerlin

June 28, 2009

ware

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

  • kayaking to an island on percy preist after work to read / nap in my hammock. only remedy for this case of the mondays! #
  • woohoo! apparently going to Costa Rica mid-august with trip for some sight seeing / surfing! random adventures ftw #
  • had fun watching the sun set from the kayak earlier, but its sleep time! tomorrow is another day~ #
  • Run to your dreaming when you're alone, not what you should be or what you've become, just get heavy on with digging your ditch #
  • thinking about planning lake swims after work for excersize -> http://tinyurl.com/lwvlc5 -anyone know what TVA's rules have to say about it? #
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  • hangin out in cookeville! #

by ware at June 28, 2009 03:37 PM

June 25, 2009

Oddball

I used to enjoy going to the Sunset Grill for their midnight menu, and I'd consider going there if I want a nice dinner. Well, thanks to this, I don't think I'll ever go there or recommend it again. Randy Rayburn (the owner of Sunset Grill), along with a few other restaurant owners (including the owner of Sam's Sports Bar & Grill, another place I won't go to anymore) has decided that he needs to sue the state in order to stop the guns in restaurants law from going into effect. You know, that one that passed overwhelmingly in both houses, got vetoed, then had more votes to override that veto. According to this group, the state congressmen were duped and confused when they passed it twice.

I would have been ok if they had just posted a "no weapons" sign in their windows, but deciding that they need to sue to impose that decision on everyone?

I know neither of those establishments will miss my business, but it ticks me off.

June 25, 2009 04:16 PM

June 21, 2009

ware

Oddball

My girlfriend offered to buy me a shotgun because I was depressed, but won't buy me a knife for my birthday because "it wouldn't be appropriate."

June 21, 2009 02:11 PM

June 19, 2009

Oddball

Dear moron software maintainer/distributor: When I tell you that the software crashes on opening, don't ask me to do something from within the program.

Also, I don't care what you say, upgrading software doesn't normally require scrubbing the machine of the old version including using regedit.

Please kindly die in a fire and take your crappy software with you.

June 19, 2009 03:22 PM

June 16, 2009

Oddball

To all you celebrities out there that have said something stupid and need to apologize for it. Take a lesson from David Letterman:

Notice that he does not say "I'm sorry that some people were upset with my statement," instead he says "people mistook what I said, and that's my fault."

This is a true apology, not the crap that you usually hear.

June 16, 2009 03:39 PM