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Because malevolent is too hard to say!
And you can't tell me the alien ain't CUTE!
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furtive explorations
"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Friday, March 02, 2001
- 4:36:00 PM by mark
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- Wolffiles is good this week. Some quotes for you to chew on:
"It was certainly strange in Sandwich's time to eat with your hands. But for his day, he was like one of those computer geeks of today who have made millions and can afford to be a nonconformist." Hey, I resemble that remark!
Lee certainly documents the lives of nonconformists in her book, which offers biographies of the real-life folks such as Chef Boyardee and Barbie Handler, the daughter of a Matell executive whose name was immortalized by a boob-heavy doll. Ouch
"But if you heard the whole story behind the pop culture icons you love, you might feel differently about them." That pretty much goes for everything in life. Ever been to a meat packing plant?
Ahh, fluff reporting...
- 4:20:00 PM by mark
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- Here is a game for you to play as you surf the web or watch the news tonite. Try and spot as many instances as you can of the phrase "The day the music died." ABCNews is first out of the gate. I have a feeling you are going to get even sicker of that song than you did last year.
Actually, it just popped into my brain but you will probably get a great deal of "All of your Music belong to us" jokes too. [Insert Deity] help us.
Thursday, March 01, 2001
- 6:14:00 PM by mark
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- I just had a little moment here at work. I kinda teared up for a second. A rich warm moment that I was beginning to think would never happen finally became reality. What a wonderful feeling to wait a more than a year hoping beyond hope that something would happen and then to see it magically spring to life before your eyes. If I knew any of those weird Yiddish words like "verklempt" or "spritzing" I'd be using them right now. Heck I might even make a word up, like "contraplussed".
Oh yeah, the big event? We got self-assignable, transportable IPs from ARIN. We are now a real Tier 1 Datacenter. Beholden to no one and master of our own destiny. Some time tomorrow this link will demonstrate our newfound power. Yes, I am a pathetic, hopeless geek. but I'm
going to be a geek with IPs that betray no underlying network provider. so there :P
- 11:07:00 AM by mark
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- Things to talk about later, Ghost 2138, Misinformer, Peep, Allchin Fallout, Stallman and maybe a little musing on how I was working late like an idiot...
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
- 3:30:00 PM by mark
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- Here is a suitably anonymized quote for you to puzzle through:
<first> I understood that (both times), I didn't understand the other thing the first time. Understand?
<second> first: no, sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by 'the other thing'
<first> "the other thing" is not "this" nor "that". It doesn't matter. I was going to explain but couldn't figure out how so I made a joke (that was also not understood). /me goes to stand under something
- 10:26:00 AM by mark
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- Ahh Springtime, when a young government's thoughts turn to ripping up every road within 15 miles of my house! The time everyone in the Internet and Telco industries know as "The Coming of the Backhoes" is finally here again. Wire and fiber cuts, power outages, dead phone lines, and water spouts; everything you need to feel like spring is in the air!
- 1:09:00 AM by sklutch
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- Heh...you do realize that, technically, you might not have passed due to testing margin of error...right, Mark? But don't worry, you're in good company...*evil grin*.
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
- 4:02:00 PM by mark
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- I am just way too cool for my own good. I just passed the (DCN) CCDA test . Happiness abounds! Thus, I get to take the rest of Fat Tuesday off from work and slack about at the house. Oh frabjous day! Now, off to play video games and read comics some more!
BTW, if you are wondering, the test is graded from 300 to 1000 and a passing grade is a 755 or above. I got a 766 which is just about as fine as you can cut it. I studied week before last a lot, a little last week and some this weekend. Then I crammed like bear before hibernation last night. And damn it, I missed that tricky one about PPP's networking packet being NCP. That still pisses me off.
Monday, February 26, 2001
- 4:24:00 PM by mark
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- cliche to continue, clique to continue, kick to continue, clip to continue, clique to retinue. There is a punchline or three in there for someone...
- 4:00:00 PM by mark
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- OK, Here is a game, identify these as either routing protocol or comic: EIGRP, DeViations, HSRP, POCKET, RIP, DorkTower. My brain is full of Cisco's technobabble. Thanks to the word "protocol" being so beloved of the net.geeks I think every 2-4 letter word ending in "P" has been used at one time or another. Please help meee.....
KeenSpot's news machine seems to still be in high gear. And WTF didn't I remember to update Spaz Labs with their new MWF schedule and with the right freakin' link? *sigh* Later.
- 10:21:00 AM by mark
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- Here is a fun thing for you Geek types. WTF goes wrong that you can do a WHOIS on a domain and see it listed but when you do a `nslookup' or a `dig' on it you find that it isn't in the root servers? Poor bastards. I've never seen that happen in my 6 year span as a net-geek. It normally goes the other way; the domain is live at the root but you can't see any WHOIS data on them. I sure hope the net stays alive a few more weeks. I kinda wanna play my online videogames some more...
- 8:50:00 AM by mark
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- I totally slacked off this weekend. All I did was study for the CCDA and kill gnolls and baby polar bears. Videogames rock. I didn't even read all my favorite comics, let alone write any thing about them or fix up a real comics page on the site.
OTOH, the "good" idea I had back on the 23rd is already done for us! Hurrah! Both the MS and NS DOMs support using "contentid" to attach MIMEd parts to the HTML in an e-mail. I don't know how it works with XHTML yet but at least my e-mail problem is solved so I can whack out something in Perl and be a happy little webhamster.
P.S. Since we are linking buddies, won't someone please employ my friends? Dour, Bud, and Chili would all be more fun to hang out with if it wasn't for the constant whining about not being employed this and where will I get the money for food that. Don't get me wrong, it won't stop the constant whining, just the whining about not working. All three of them will naturally transition over to whining about work. =)
