I'm going to start putting stuff here that could be of interest to the world at large, and isn't otherwise indexed somewhere (as far as I can tell, anyway).
Matthew Miller once again caused me to wander off on a tangent.
While I find myself liking Jem's 'They' (discovered via cheesy reality TV), for some reason I have trouble taking her very seriously.
Seems like she's old enough to have known better, although maybe she assumed her target audience isn't.
You might not have enough bits in your IP address if you can't reach my SSL site. Just saying.
Apparently I helped a meme get off the ground today:
(Caption: "It is desirable to reduce the amount of cod which runs with privilege." [sic])
Originated here, linked here. Source image here, assembled here.
In unimportant, uninteresting news, I've decided to move my web stuff from beer.tclug.org/jima/ to jima.tk/ .
Also: 
: HUGE IMPROVEMENT.
Three links today!
- Throwing a reference up to Amanda's Links page.
- TCLUG ostensibly has a Twitter feed, which can be found here (or if you'd like to be offended, here).
- dragorn (of Kismet fame) is working on a fun project over on Google Code involving Smart Card research.
Despite the unfortunate date, today I'm going to link to my good friend Bill Lemieux's blog, Megajoules & Gigawatts. Bill's something of a Mad Scientist, tinkering with high voltage energy, magnetic fields, and lasers. Yes, freakin' lasers.
IMO, all that makes him more of a Mad Engineer, but regardless, he's a smart guy -- and to be honest, a lot of the technical bits go way over my head.
My Seattle-based photography buddy Joseph Graziano's web site can be found at http://faustomatic.com/, and his blog at http://photosbyfaust.wordpress.com/
If you're here looking for the TMBO abbreviations listing, it can be found here.
To go full circle, apparently jer_ has also put MTCFF up for the world to see.
For those who know him, my friend Ryan (Chi)'s site is infectious.cc.
There seems to be some confusion in the TMBO community about what "MTCFF" means. To summarize: Male TMBO Creepy Fuck Factor. See here no, here for more TMBO-related abbreviations.
I finally found a single reference to Hacker #139 online. Oddly, this didn't show up on Google at all. (I found it via Yahoo.)
I was having a discussion with another sysadmin today, when he mentioned in passing something about Secure Computing Corporation. I made some off-hand reference to my "hacker #139" beanie, which evidently confused him. A quick Google made me realize that probably only a handful of people have ever heard of these things.
Back in 1997 or thereabouts, Secure Computing had some sort of open house event at their corporate headquarters (when they were still in Roseville, MN). I was merely a geek in high school, but my mother liked to promote my interest in computers, so she took me there. Among food, drinks, and promotional literature, they were giving out souvenir beanie hackers, with the company's logo and web site address on one side, and "HACKER #139" on the other. It was made up to look like a chalk outline of a late technological ne'er-do-well, presumably after mincing packets with SCC.
As probably everyone else did, I took one. And now, 10 or so years later, I suppose I can consider myself fairly fortunate to still have it:
It's been sitting on my computer at work for maybe 6 or 7 years. I've never really thought anything of it; it didn't occur to me that it was an obscure, unknown object.
And now for some backfill:
Here's a link to pictures of my wang. Because I know everyone wants to see them.
Ask us how you can PIMP YOUR SPARC!
Taking the Information Superhighway to, err, the rest stop
PRESS RELEASE
We at Minty Green Media are proud to announce the latest in Broadband Technology. Most consumers have at least heard of FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Some of the more well-versed of you are familiar with FTTP (Fiber To The Premises). Today we bring to you an all-new concept: FTTTP!
Fiber To The Toilet Paper
To save others and myself some time, I'll pre-emptively answer some questions.
- Yes, this is a joke.
- Yes, that link light is on. The fiber is lit.
- I was bored, and wondered how far my longest fiber optic cable went. It can actually reach from my computer room on the ground floor to my pile-o-boxen in the basement...the long way (those who've been to my house can somewhat understand how far that is). So if I needed to (cat5 b0rk4g3 in the wall), or, for whatever sick reason, wanted to connect the machines downstairs with fiber, I could. (I'd just have to deal with phemale killing me. Minor detail.)
- The joke only occurred to me after I put the transceiver down on the nearest open surface (i.e., a roll of TP).
Now I'll sit back and wait for the venture capitalists to start calling. *crickets chirping*
My parody of spam hawking Norton as the SoBig [virus] Killer. Yeah, whatever.
There seems to be some continued interest (at least from spiders) in my SparcStack.
Here's a link to older pictures of my wang. You know I share the love.
