sdc Pluto

My day is made.

http://twitter.com/sgthartman/statuses/892607304

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

08:38 Spam subject of the day: MSNBC breaking news: Bush sells Louisana back to the French #
08:38 props to @azure7sky for finding that one. #
12:34 @bynkii because most k-12 people aren't techs or web geeks, and don't get paid nearly enough to learn it. #
14:06 @wilw I'd suggest avoiding the freeze ray, though. #
15:44 @bynkii unless you're odd, and say "an Eff-Aye-Que" instead of "a fack". #
15:45 @bynkii what really bothers me are those who say "an istoric" and fail to pronounce the "h" that's supposed to be on the front of that word. #
16:10 @snipeyhead those aren't shoes, they're torture devices. #
18:33 @bynkii GOOD MAN! #

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The Rich Get Richer?

SoundExchange, the organization that represents performers and record companies, said it supports the higher royalties for Internet radio because musicians deserve a bigger cut of Internet radio profits.

Aw, it sounds almost like the artists are actually going to get a dime of those increased royalties… how adorable. Too bad internet radio has to pay more in royalties per song than satellite radio by a gag-inducing proportion and most artists are still getting a pittance per song compared to the amount collected.

This industry needs a revolution. The middlemen are the only ones taking home a real profit.

thanks, carmen!.

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

03:54 Home and out of the shower; rode Midnight Madness and managed a pretty good pace; finished in less than 1:25. Not bad for 8 months off. #

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(kinda) homeless

So right now, I'm temporarily homeless... sort of.

I'm crashing at my aunt's place for two weeks, until we can move into the new place. It's interesting enough, and my aunt seems rather happy to have me.

Ryan just left for NY again, and we also moved out. It was, shall we say, an ordeal? Not the ryan part. He was so much fun to have here. We went to Hillcrest last night and had fun. :D I'll miss that boy.

I'm not too sure what to do about work though... cause I can't request any part of winter break OR thanksgiving off... I just am like, ack, I want to go home... but it doesn't look like I'll be able to. Sometimes I really hate working in retail. >_O

Changing The Way We Do Things

I’ve been avoiding looking at my grades this summer. Until 10 minutes ago, I didn’t know what, if any, classes I passed.

At the beginning of last quarter, I recognized a pattern in my classes. If I took 3 classes a quarter, I’d do badly. If I took 4, I’d do reasonably well (still not great). If I took 2, I did very badly indeed. Unfortunately, because of my dubious academic standing with the school, I was always encouraged to take fewer classes by my advisors, under the logic that more free time would allow me to excel.

So last quarter I threw caution to the wind, signed up for 6 courses, and became a recluse.

I’m very pleased to report that it worked better than expected. I definitely overshot the point of maximum return (which appears to be around 4.6 classes in a quarter), but I did pass everything: A, B-, C+, C, C, Pass.

My 3rd A in college.

shut up.

I just noticed that I didn’t get credit for tutoring CSE70. So: 7 things.

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

10:44 Feeling like my monitor isn't positioned JUST. RIGHT. It's driving me batty this morning. #
12:33 @rudra_banerji good lord why? boot camp, or vmware? #
12:40 I would simply like to say that Postini (Google Message Filtering) frakkin' rocks. $3/user/year. tinyurl.com/5r9nxm #
12:47 @rudra_banerji I prefer vmware mainly because I use it everywhere else. Much broader guest OS support, which is important for me. #
12:49 @bynkii it is my goal to have an avatar drawn by the Foglios (girlgeniusonline.com/) I'd make a great Jägerkin. #
12:50 @bynkii I've always loved your avatar/icon, btw. It seems so appropriate to your online demeanor. :D #
12:52 @bynkii OMG! Reliability of free email is why I moved away from it, to a for-pay hosted email solution. I'm much happier now. #
12:53 "You get what you pay for." It's always been true, and will always be true. Some things really are worth what they cost. #
13:02 @bynkii sounds like a rough life. #
13:23 @augmentedfourth You're right. Look at the bottom of here instead: tinyurl.com/35b2pt #
14:00 I'd LOVE to spend my birthday home, off work, watching a GitS:SaC marathon on DVD. If only I had the two season box sets? #
14:14 @djcapelis nobody told me I had to be subtle. 'sides, if you don't ask for something, you'll never get it. :) #
14:21 @snipeyhead: whenever there's a party, you bring the happy. #
14:22 @siracusa that your home link? #
14:22 @siracusa obviously, your link is too fast. #
14:27 gvim, how I love thee #
14:32 @snipeyhead ? Thank goodness "help" includes "hit me on the head with a blunt object", or I'd think you were evil. Hey, wait a minute? #
14:42 @numist USBeeeeeeeeer devices. #
16:41 doing battle with perl-ldap and SSL and losing horridly. SSL is a bitch. #

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Keeping You Safe From Internet Sodomy

I have a lot of family who send me virus warnings and the like to see if they are valid, and spend enough time on the internet to get into trouble, but not enough time to be able to really be resistant to the kind’s of psychological attacks that script kiddies use these days.

This is intended as a reference for them. A first place to look if you get a message that isn’t obviously a message from a friend.

The best scams will appear to come from a person you know. Maybe even a friend. This is usually because they got trojaned successfully themselves, and the payload gained access to their address book, friends list, or what have you and sent itself to all of them. If it comes from someone you know (especially someone you haven’t spoken with recently), that doesn’t make it safer.

The next test for “how suspicious should you be” is the quality of the language used in the message. If the spelling and grammar are different than messages you’ve received from that person in the past, be suspicious. If the message contains egregious crimes against the English language, you probably already have your answer.

Now that you’ve been slightly primed, an example. Do yourself a favour and do not click or browse to anything you see in this message:

hi Scott, wow.. you could be tht naughty i didnt knw :D

have a luk urself…
http://www.google.com.id.lsldoosh.0nv3v7.56982a17.cn/gallery.php?id=vvlrvczf5&auth=9984053&cyua=wh32fimg8h
(click open or run when prompted)

First, note how this person doesn’t know me. I’m naughty? That’s news to me too. Most of these types of message try to lure you in with the idea of free pornography, which this message cleverly alludes to ?�the person is reciprocating a link after finding out how naughty I am. Sometimes this backfires: I got this message from a guy I barely know on Facebook; I’ve got no intention on seeing his homemade porn, thanks.

BUT LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE! I would drive over and slap someone I knew who wrote me a message like this, assuming I would slow down enough to get out instead of running them over.

The message also tells you to “click open or run when prompted”. Now remember: you’re already suspicious, and if you clicked on the link you’ve already done enough to get hacked. Don’t change your browsing styles because some suspicious message told you to. NEVER CLICK RUN.

Lastly, the link is the final straw (it usually is), but you have to know the structure of a link to really know if it’s dangerous or not. It starts with www.google.com, so it has to be good, right? Wrong. That’s not how links work, and I’ll show you why.

Links have multiple parts, and the most important is the domain, which translates directly to the address of the Other Guy. This is the portion between the http:// and the next /. The whole thing, not part of it. Let’s remove everything but the domain for the message I just got:

www.google.com.id.lsldoosh.0nv3v7.56982a17.cn

Domains are like a family tree, but they read from right to left, with each part separated by a period. maps.google.com is a site under google, under com. The domain from the hacky link I was sent today was a site under google, under com, under id, under ?, under 23652a17, under cn. That’s not the same google.com that you know… it’s an imposter! If you don’t recognize all of it, or it doesn’t make sense when read right to left, don’t click it.

Links are great, but sometimes they can be hidden from you. If you see a link in an email that says “http://happyfunplace.com”, it might not point where you think it does. Right-click on it, and copy the link. Paste it in a document (NOT YOUR BROWSER) and have a second look. It’s probably not what you thought it was. Does it look like snot? Trash it.

Lastly: Unless you know exactly where it points (you recognize every single letter in the link), do not click a link in your email. If you get a message from your bank saying that you have to fix some issues with your account, call them (more effective if there is actually a problem) or (if you use online banking) log in the same way you usually do. Do not follow the link.

I know that’s quite a bit to absorb, but really, this is all you need to know to keep yourself from getting infected as you frolic around the wonderful internets. Go have a good time now, and never click “Run”.

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

08:40 @ejacqui re American Idol hate mail? at least you know you have readership! #
08:45 @feliciaday someone needs to gift you a Tivo. #
08:47 yummy toasted bagel w/ cream cheese. Oh, and Apricot nectar! I love our coffee cart. #
10:17 @sirhc you're a quick one, you are. #
10:54 @snipeyhead i haven't played in nearly a year now. Haven't been paying for it, either. #
11:04 @numist jackhammers are the woodpeckers of the industrial age. #
11:04 @numist waking up to a woodpecker on your house isn't much fun either. #
11:09 is debating setting up Google Message Filtering for his domain (tinyurl.com/5r9nxm). #
12:17 thinks this would make an awesome family car: tinyurl.com/5zzrwz #
12:24 @wilshipley You should get one of these to counterbalance your Lotus: tinyurl.com/5zzrwz #
12:29 @Alowishus: It's Google Message Filtering you were telling me about, right? #
12:55 @rudra_banerji we have yet to see it. amazingly, we've been too damned busy to get out to the theaters. #
13:06 @rudra_banerji There's an IMAX not 7 miles from our home. It's in the plans. :) #
13:13 @jephjacques where'd you get it? #
13:13 @snipeyhead stop sitting on electrodes, lady #
13:13 @snipeyhead also, have a banana. #
13:22 @snipeyhead: No, the actual fruit, not the euphemism. Unless, of course, you WANT the euphemism. Then it's none of my business. #
14:15 @AmyJane you NEVER know when that stuff will come in handy. I've got a similar collection. Honestly, I don't know what else to do with 'em. #
15:20 waiting for Fusion to take a new snapshot. #
15:22 @jauricchio can you also improve the perf of my PATA mac mini? :D #
15:33 Goddamn why are Rolos so tasty? #
15:55 @numist What I've seen from the 2.0 betas looks vahree secksie #
16:00 Hello to all the random people I don't know who are now following me on Twitter! I hope I keep you entertained. Actually I don't care. HELLO #
16:01 so, really, how does one follow 71k+ twitters? do you spend all day clicking "Follow" on the entire twitter user list? #
16:07 Oh, how I love discovering that it's mds/mdworker tanking the crap out of my Mac. Thank you, Spotlight, for not understanding 'nice'. #
16:08 Twitterpoll: Should I take a vacation day for my birthday? #
16:49 @sterno not much older than you. #
17:09 @danbenjamin is the only diff between drobo 1 and 2 the FW800 port? #
18:14 eating my first Burger King Whopper in what must be at least a decade. #
18:16 Why can't Google let me search my mail for 'is:unlabled'? It would dramatically simplify my life. #
18:17 @jauricchio that's "do bad things to you with computers." Hello, I am your Grammar Nazi today. #
18:27 Verdict on Burger King: one of the tastier fast food joints. I think they have better fries than McDonalds. Also, "regular" size? Yeah, big. #
19:14 @augmentedfourth that makes me want to cry #
19:38 Maintenance Night. Yup. I'm maintenancing the hell out of our mail server right now. #
19:46 @jauricchio you see the irony, yes? #
20:40 Google, fail me now! FAIL! #
20:51 Impressive that Gmail enforces the mantra, "Try again, it might work this time." #
21:07 @snipeyhead get out and burn the fucking tree to the ground. KILL IT WITH FIRE! #
21:41 @rudra_banerji i hate to say it, but... myspace? #
23:37 @rudra_banerji didn't you just decribe job hunting in a nutshell? #
23:38 is feeling unpopular. Only one person responded to my impromptu poll. #
23:38 looking forward to going home now. Long day. #
23:40 wtf, did the sun Java updater/installer just try to sneak OpenOffice on to my Windows system with an iddy biddy checkbox? #

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Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

09:40 @gebl @jauricchio Remember, though, that there's nothing and nobody forcing you to buy an iPhone if you don't like it. You CHOOSE it. #
09:44 @gebl so, of course, you took a picture of it. Did you make an offering to the river stones? #
11:27 heading down to have lunch with @azure7sky #
13:30 Dear LazyTwits: I'm told Google offers a be-your-domains-MX-and-spam-filter service. Where do I find it? (Not Postini.) #
14:40 @jauricchio actually migrating away from gmail :) need better spam handling, though. still looking. #
14:40 @bynkii I love your imagery. #
15:16 @numist I'm on a hosted Zimbra instance now. So, if Zimbra's spamassassin doesn't pick up the cluebag soon I'm going to need an MX-based? #
15:16 @numist service to front for my mail server instance. #
15:45 @numist it's black-boxified behind (under?) Zimbra. I have no knobs. #
16:11 rediscovered Clipper (for OS X) when pointing out to a friend, and there's a new version: www.omh.cc/software/clipper/ #

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Exotic Foods

Out of all the different types of food one can eat on an animal, I thought I had heard of most body parts being consumed.

I was quite wrong. There is one body part that never even crossed my mind to eat as part of a "normal" meal, crude jokes aside.

VMware ESX Postmortem Thoughts

So, yesterday there was a lot of talk about VMware’s ESX bug. Yes, there was a time bomb. Yes, we didn’t mean to ship it. I can’t really provide any information you don’t already know on this topic, and I won’t.

The most surreal part about being part of something like this from the inside though, is seeing the actual effect it has. A lot of people reported this to us, starting in Australia. Big people. With affected systems like? “Payroll”, and some of them with names containing “Government”. Wow. I’m not sure folks have any idea how badly we actually feel about this bug (because, I really do want everyone to get paid on Friday), but a few friends of mine were able to point out a silver lining which is worth mentioning.

This is a business, so this kind of bug is unlikely to happen in free software. That’s been beaten to death. The point is that this bug is a people-forget-bug, and not a there’s-a-bug-in-our-code-bug. ESX sells because it is stable. We have good code practices internally, and bugs have a hard time making it into new code. The result is a fantastically stable product that does what we say it will do, which (for me) is a breath of fresh air from a software company. It’s why I’m here.

VMware has the best code practices of all companies and projects I’ve worked with, including (especially?) my own. A clear engineering guidelines document. Reviews for all commits (made especially better by Review Board, which had its start here). We get the highest score on the Joel test of any place I’ve worked or visited. Our release branches are all super-stable, and you can tell ? just try using one of our products. Even the betas go through rigourous testing and release procedures (check your release notes!). There’s always room for improvement, but the things we have written are very reliable.

It really sucks that this has affected so many people, and hopefully people will forgive us the mistake, and judge us based on our reaction as a company. After all, it’s how you solve problems (especially in crisis) that shows your true colours. If you’re affected, patches are already available.

This incident has had two effects for me: first, I am just as confident in our code as I was on Monday; second, we all get to eat some humble pie. It’s not a bad thing to do sometimes.

Delicious, delicious pie.

Now where did I leave that code I was working on?

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

08:38 @danbenjamin short-url-roulette :) #
15:19 @gebl c'mon, like other phones don't have one. Only they're probably controlled by the carrier, not the manufacturer. #
16:30 For your viewing pleasure: tinyurl.com/6kylrr #
16:31 @gebl no, not an apologist. Palm isn't a platform? Windows mobile isn't a platform? Well, sure, they both suck, but still. #
16:32 also, wtf is up with "ANYONE WHO POINTS OUT A FACT ABOUT APPLE IS AN APOLOGISTIC JOBS-ASS-LICKING CUNTFACE" on teh intarwebs? teh fuck. #
16:32 and if your fact is negative you're a h8ter. #
16:32 can't fucking win, so why do I keep talking? #
16:36 @gebl also, while the iPhone is a "platform", and an iPod, it's also. Just. A. Phone. #
16:38 @snipeyhead see, the problem with that is that I like it when you're mean to me. #

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Defcon recap

Random notable/unnotable things from defcon:

I was finishing up my code in the car on the way up to Defcon, it was in the car that I landed SSL support
We spent minutes at the toxic BBQ before realizing that to proper way of attending the toxic bbq for the first time was to have someone else who regularly goes drag you there. We then left the toxic BBQ.
Spent almost all of Friday working on my talk and giving my talk
Konsole on my laptop now a configured profile for "presentation"
More technical presentation this year, was better I think
Buying some chips and playing a game of poker with friends is better than gambling in a casino
Got a chance to see Tiller and David's talk on RE:Trace, looks interesting
As has become annual tradition, I renewed my EFF membership at defcon
Turns out most of the people running the wall of sheep are folks I know from toorcon
Got a chance to see the gringo warrior contest
One of the coolest talks I saw at defcon was given by Chris from flylogic.net. This guy actually puts needles down inside chips and runs power through it to break into chips.
The party of many names was pretty awesome
I've gone from barely being able to get into the cool parties to being able to ask for invites for others
Several folks were nice enough to give me plenty of advice on research, love and life. While quite a bit of it was given "under the influence" it was good advice.
I didn't get to sleep on Saturday night
We decided to go to a strip club at around 6am
One of the strippers had defcon badges for the previous two years, and I know she wasn't lying because she described them to me after seeing mine. She seemed legitimately interested in badge hacking.
My keychain now includes four bump keys
An empty bottle of Wild Turkey serves as an adequate bump hammer
You don't want your oil light to come on while on the freeway headed out of Vegas

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

08:50 @sterno no, but for the right price, it CAN be Friday. #
08:55 Whoohoo! Flash crashed Safari. #
10:08 is peeved that the ability to add storage to his MythTV system is in one version NEWER than he's running right now. #
10:16 What the holy hell? look at the pattern of text on the floor mat protector in the image here: tinyurl.com/575hhj #
13:59 @Heilemann ? As excited as I am about Habari, your choice of Baskerville is proving hard to read, making me a sad bear. :( #
13:59 @numist because you started with the spec, not the spinning platters. #
14:07 @numist hah... Time Machine in a VM, or on a host? #
14:12 @codinghorror I've decided to migrate away from Gmail to a hosted Zimbra instance. After all, with a free account, you get what you pay for. #
14:44 needs his own personal tachikoma. For reals. #
14:51 @wilw even if you didn't break it, the pain sucks. I separated a rib about 2 months ago, hurt like hell. Get an x-ray; no break = better. #
14:51 @wilw also, have fun coughing and sneezing. New definitions of pain. #
15:22 @sterno I've been hearing of a number of problems. Can't wait to actually do the migration off Gmail to my hosted Zimbra instance. #

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Is it bad...

...that I'm as excited about the Treo 800w as I was about the iPhone last year? 3 more weeks till I can upgrade to it. :)

Speaking of the iPhone, it looks like it's having a lot of problems staying on 3G. I wonder if AT&T's going to eventually wire all their towers to support it; my parents would possibly have gotten iPhones if they could get 3G where they live.

Oh yeah, I'm (er, Thoughtbug is) also going to get into the mobile application business. First application will be for the iPhone and will be on the App Store soon. Eventually we'll support Blackberry, Windows Mobile and iPhone/iPod Touch. :)

Anyways, back to work.

Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

09:24 is deciding that 24hr pharmacies are a very good thing. #
09:39 @snipeyhead I haven't done any font management, since I don't really worry about it for my work. Sorry. :\ #
09:40 @snipeyhead it's saturday. why you workin, dumbass? :D #
09:53 @snipeyhead I'm just not a font whore. :) #

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Tweets for Today

I had these brilliant things to say on twitter today:

09:38 Hmm... @angieslist is following me now. This looks genuinely useful. #
09:39 @snipeyhead what problems are you having w/ Zimbra? #
09:40 @hotdogsladies eat a bean burritto, and you'll have plenty of free gas. Won't smell like lemons, though. #dontgo #
10:05 These aren't activists, they're (legitimately) terrorists. tinyurl.com/69dylk #
12:58 Can the 2GHz Mac Mini handle full 1080p HD output? Considering using one as a Myth front-end. #
13:01 @gruber "Yeah, I hit it, and my wife and family know, and we've moved on." American obsession with people's sex lives has always amazed me. #
13:53 @snipeyhead I tried MailTags, but it didn't quite mesh up with Zimbra's tags. #
15:24 @snipeyhead I've found that Mail.app works perfectly with Zimbra via IMAP. Mail.app has problems if you have multiple accounts and (cont.) #
15:24 @snipeyhead use the "collapsed" Inbox view (i.e., mix all my inboxes together.) #
15:47 @snipeyhead what kind of problems are you running into? #
16:07 @snipeyhead group by date isn't a feature in mail.app, sadly. :( #
16:08 @snipeyhead are you using both the IMAP and web clients ofr zimbra at the same time? You shouldn't be getting those errors... #
16:08 @snipeyhead if your mail.app's local cache is horridly out of date, it might happen, though #
16:09 @snipeyhead or if you make changes in Mail.app while disconnected, and then make changes via web, and then reconnect.... #
16:09 @gruber which wife? #
17:50 @bynkii tinyurl.com/6xytdl #
17:53 What the hell? Is it twitter or twitterrific that auto-tinyurls urls? #

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HD output on a Mac Mini?

Dear LazyWeb:

I want a small, quiet, light-weight machine to act as a myth front-end in my living room. The Mac Mini, in it's current form, looks quite appealing.

Can the 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, with its Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics, reliably and without glitching, display full 1080p HD video?

Tweets for Today

09:45 To all you Prius-driving hyper-milers: STOP SIGNS FUCKING APPLY TO YOU IN YOUR ECO-WANG, TOO, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY HURT YOUR MPG, BEYOTCH. #
10:35 Neat. Google Street View cruised my neighborhood, and caught our house with a big-ass pile of crap in the yard pre-dumpster. #

Tweets for Today

10:00 My IM contact list is rather populated today. #
10:00 wonders what it is about today that caused so many more people to sign on to IM than have the last week. #
12:39 is currently cursing the RF black hole my building sits in. #
12:56 @Heilemann You mean like "[ ] STFU?" somewhere in the preferences? #
13:07 @codinghorror you can run [disc] games off the HD? I had no idea... #
13:09 @codinghorror Ah... I hadn't been keeping up with all the announcements. About damned time, though. #
13:38 @numist But we have to follow the rooooooooooolz! #
13:53 @gebl oooooh, BK opened? I guess I have my lunch plans for tomorrow... #
14:03 @jephjacques dung beetles FTW? #
14:04 @jephjacques BTW, thank you ever so much for the Hanners sketch (preview night @ comic-con). She's getting framed and hung in my office. #
14:39 @danielpunkass There is no such thing as a "surgical IKEA strike." It all goes to hell when you try to load your car. #
14:59 @wilw WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, OVER #
16:35 Testing sms tweeting #
17:15 Wow. 91F at home after 5pm. #
17:18 School and day care parking lots are dangerous places. #

Psychology of Food and Behavior

This class I'm in... oh my god. We're watching this video right now on taste, and they had a part on chocolate. Holy crap. This is the jessica commentary

This is like, so unfair. I'm so friggin' HUNGRY now. Ahhh... or well, not even hungry, but like, my mouth. It's craving food. Watering. >_O

Myuurr, it makes me want to go home and cook. The woman is really... strange who is narrating it. Right now she's going over spanish cuisine. Er, hispanic. Mexican. They're making corn tortillas, and talking about chilis. And now they're talking about how there was one thing in tortillas that killed the europeans. Lye, or something that sounds like it, was necessary.

Ahhhhhggggg... pork mole. Mole and chile.

Silly narrator. There are sounds other than clinking at dinner... chewing! :D

Noooo, why are your making sweet tamles? SAD FACE. But oh, that's cute... making your daughter's favorites on day of the dead. Sweet foods children like naturally... spicy comes later on.

I find it amusing they keep using these stereotypical accents for dubovers and music.

We got to watch them kill a pig. And cut up a lobster. *shudder*

Art good enough to eat... mmm... Woah, they served them almost whole. I still have a problem with eating lobster and crab.

Sometimes I envy the sort of traditions that otehr cultures have. Yet, I think that as a kid, I might have thoght of them as stuffy as having to go to church every easter.

This lady uses too much makeup on her eyes. I'm being a bit more judgemental and mean than I need to be though... "this food will nourish your body as I will nourish your soul..." cheesey, yet sorta true, hm? Why we have dinner with people, and when we eat by ourselves it's quite sad.

Man, I want a good food right now.... mmmrraahh... hunger....

Tweets for Today

08:59 @bynkii I've always gotten the impression that Apple's heart really wasn't in it for the server side of things. #
09:00 @bynkii to an outsider, it seems like they only have a server line to manage/service Mac workgroups, and oh yeah teh intarwebs. #
11:02 @bynkii oh god yum; eggs fried in bacon grease? delicious and deadly, the perfect combination. #
11:02 @ejacqui bears on horses... context? #
11:04 @Angry_Drunk haha, it'd probably tank the stock price, too. maybe I could afford to buy some... hmm... #
11:31 "more money than sense" seems to apply to a whole lot of the world. #
11:44 @Angry_Drunk but I WANT to matter! #
12:38 is having evil ideas about remodeling the house, possibly involving (re)moving walls... #
16:33 Is it just me, or is Lucas completely disavowing the Clone Wars animated series that aired on Cartoon Network before SW:Ep3 was released? #
19:32 got to come home to a sick dog and vomit and poo all over the house. Yay. No idea what the hell made her sick. #
19:33 Poor Hilde will be fasted until morning, at which point she'll either be better and back on food and water, or trucked off to the vet. #
19:33 Ozium FTW in controlling the smell. #

Tweets for Today

08:37 hates being sweaty first thing in the morning just because he walked from his car to his office. #
10:06 is reading about "animal-rights activists" firebombing medical research scientists at UC Santa Cruz. There is a reason he owns a shotgun. #
10:31 New addition to my desk: tinyurl.com/63ab4o #
14:28 @rudra_banerji and @Nwsart ? welcome to the twitterverse. #
14:34 is checking in lots of changes to the cfengine configuration at work, and crossing his fingers that he doesn't break anything everywhere. #
14:54 @wilw I think you need to be cut off from soymilk for a while. #
15:17 Can Ikea rescue me from an overstuffed house with inadequate storage? Quite likely. But can I afford it? #
15:22 @codinghorror must one be only either a apologist or a watchdog? #
15:36 @jauricchio I'm more earnestly looking at Ikea as a "get started so I can clear out the garage and set up my woodshop" solution? #
16:19 Surprise! It's "I have a quick question but will end up sucking 30 minutes of your time asking it" time! #
16:20 @numist easier to do when you have at least a little free space to start with. #

Thoughts on Law School

So.
I’m not really sure what is going to be my success rate in law school. The process of applying, getting in, and now starting in less than 2 weeks has been unreal (and daunting).

I’m not sure if I’m ready. Do I have the skills? Am I going to fail? Everything is so hazy that its making me uneasy. I’m not sure if I have the strength to accomplish everything I have mind set on. I want to have fun, but I am really, truly scared.

And I think that was the first time I admitted that I was “scared” about school. Sigh.