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And while we're at it, how about a warning sign generator:
You might notice from the links above, I made some code changes and from now on all links will open up in new windows. Thought that might just be a better way of doing things around here.
- Holiday times are stressful with family and all, but never have I considered killing my parents, brother, and grandmother with a pipe. Forget the trial, forget the life in prison. Just give me a gun and let me take him around back. I'll blow his brains out personally, and save the taxpayers 17k a year in expenses to keep this sack of worthless shit alive in prison.
- What better place to have an impromptu dance part than Wal-Mart?
- Would you like a fully transformable transformer's costume? Your damn freakin' right you would!
I leave you with these links, I have a lot of poker's in the fire right now and not enough time to post a lot. Plus tonight is anime night, and I look forward to relaxing a bit and vegging out.
I wired them all up to x10 modules, so we can turn on all the lights with the push of a button :)
Christina Rodriguez, 29, of Chicago said her car and several others were trapped between the crossing gate arms when they came down.
And another video link, the video for Slam by Pendulum. If you like seeing shirtless, out of shape men dance around topless in downtown london then this is your lucky day. :)
One last site, Why the Netflix settlement sucks balls. Ok, I added that balls part, but once you read it, can you really blame me? $2.5 million to the lawyers, and crappy coupons for the customers (which if you don't cancel, increase your price at the end of a month). That's just fucking weak man.
Well, that's enough for now. Yesterday I was captain suburbia. Jen and I tackled a bunch of winterizing projects around the house. Mulching leaves, breaking down branches, getting the snowblower running and draining the weedwacker and lawnmower. Plus we re-organized the garage to fit both bikes for winter better.
Last but not least, we put eyehooks all around the house for the christmas lights, and preran the extension cord for them. Did you know they make white outside cords now? $5 bucks for 40' is cheap enough to convince me to get rid of the ugly orange cord.
Is that really so wrong? The round, shiny, candy like button.....
The scary thing is, I'm pretty good about cleaning out my computer like 2 or 3 times a year. I was down there yesterday getting everything ready for bringing it downstairs (installing a new wifi card) when I snapped the pictures above. Quite a bit of a mess. Thank god those Dell computers are so simple to open, and our central vac is so strong. It's just scary how fast they accumulate.
Oh, and it started snowing today....joy.
I started tracking people who were linked directly to my photo album, bypassing my main site all together. You know, it's mostly google image search traffic. But the amount is amazing...seriously amazing....
I've placed it lovingly next to me ATHF box set and have high hopes of getting her drunk enough to watch it soon :)
Moving on...
Let's talk about the whole Sony DRM CD craptacular that's been going on. We both just realized that we have 3 of those damn things in the house, but none of our computers were affected because we have autorun disabled. So thank god for that, but I ran across probably what is the best, simple explanation of this whole mess in a thread on Fark:
Sony's DRM mechanism uses what's called a "rootkit". It modifies the underlying functions of the operating system to make itself completely invisible. Can't "find files", doesn't show up in process list, etc. Even third party applications can't see it because they all rely on the operating system's basic functions to do the searching - and the rootkit has modified those functions.
Sony's is particularly bad because the method it uses can easily corrupt the operating system and cause loss of data. For inexperienced computer users, that means it can turn your PC into a paperweight.
Since Sony's DRM simply hides any files that are named $sys$*, and is next to impossible to remove, people are starting to use it to hide viruses and the like.
Imagine a computer virus that is, by definition, impossible* to detect. That's scary.
Really, honestly....I wouldn't eat this shit if it was free. I'd eat MRE's over this any day of the week. Seems I'm not the only person out there thinking this.
