Posts from ‘August, 2005’

I thought the Oil Storm TV flick was a little far-fetched when I saw it. It depended on a lot of specific circumstances and the gas prices shot sky-high.
Then Katrina hit. Prices around here are $3.28/gallon, jumping 50 cents overnight. An oil pipeline along the east coast has been shut down. Experts are predicting the [...]

Here are a couple of Linux-related articles I think are worth reading, especially if you’re at all interested in Linux or running it on the desktop.
The first is “Five reasons NOT to run Linux” (found via /.). Yes, that’s sarcasm, y’all. It addresses the five chief complaints/excuses people have for avoiding Linux.
The second is “Five [...]

El Reg has picked up the story about the creepy dude busted on the NY subway I’ve been talking about the last few days. The article has an update saying the man has been identified, and if the identification is correct, he’d been busted on a similar charge back in 1994.
There’s a flurry of activity [...]

I just read this Information Week article (found via Help Net Security), and I’m shocked.
At a time where banks and other institutions whom we trust with our personal and financial data should be doing all they can to ensure said information stays safe, they’re more worried about convenience and commercialism. In this case, they’re going [...]

It was not our terrestrial oceans beneath which the mad Abdul Al-Hazred saw Great Cthulhu and his dreaming city R’lyeh. It was the frozen oceans of Enceladus in orbit around Saturn.
And now the Great Old One awakens.
He’s coming for us all.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu ftagn!

I’ve got this cocktail of pills I take every morning.
Fortunately it’s all voluntary at the moment: a multivitamin, chromium picolinate, and fish oil. When I feel like it, an extra vitamin C. A scoop of whey powder goes into milk or a smoothie every other day after exercise, with sometimes an extra day as breakfast [...]

As if I don’t have enough to occupy my time, I’m taking part in a fantasy football league this year. Given it’s my first time out, I’m happy with my team, The Magnificent Bastards. Our league is the Geezer Gaming Brigade Football League (we’re all 30+).
My team:
Quarterbacks
Drew Bledsoe (Dallas)
Donovan McNabb (Philly)
Running Backs
Michael Bennett (Minnesota)
Chris Brown [...]

The world’s first photograph took over 8 hours to expose.
Today my digital camera can get down to 1/1000th of a second. With the right equipment on hand, I can have a print in five minutes. And that’s just consumer equipment.
Neat stuff.

Couple fun items with criminals in the news today.
First, an inmate tried to live out a prison chick movie plot when he busted into a cell populated by female inmates. They reportedly “just talked.”
I have a feeling a few jailers are in deep shit. The article explains how he got through: he passed a [...]

Check out this review of the director’s cut for Daredevil. It provides a full list of the restored scenes, and it looks like the studios cut out some really good stuff, including a lot of development of the secondary characters. Sounds like the original was a much better movie. I’m now tempted to buy the [...]