Archive for the 'Rants' Category

DefCon14

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Seriously . . . do your fire marshall walkthrough the day BEFORE you are supposed to open the conference. 2 hours after the scheduled start time, we’re still waiting for the conference to open . . .
las vegas, defcon14

Bio-Fules, Ethanol and Creamed Corn . . . A view of bio-efficiency from the kitchen:

Monday, July 31st, 2006

So as I was reading this blog entry on Ethanol, when I suddenly recalled my cooking experience from last night . . .You see, our summer vegetable garden is nearing its peak of production and last night was all about picking the corn. Out of the 8 or so corn plants, I was able [...]

Work Stuff

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Coming in on Monday to find that your company has been sold to a much larger bank from the East Coast kind of sucks . . .
Watching everone fear for their jobs really sucks . . .

I don’t make this stuff up . . .

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Republican State Lawmaker in South Carolina has proposed a bill that would make it a felony to sell devices used primarily for sexual stimulation in his state. The bill goes so far as to also allow law enforcement officials to confiscate any such “contraband” when discovered.
Sounds to me like some idiotic lawmaker is trying [...]

A Day Without an Immigrant?

Monday, May 1st, 2006

It’s turning out to be more like a “day without a central or south-americanâ€? . . .
At lunch I saw a caravan of 4 small import cars blaring their horns and driving around downtown Oakland with American, Mexican and Nicaraguan flags flying . . . the unfortunate part was that the largest of the flags [...]

A Day Without A Computer Administrator

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Following up on my previous post about the Bush administration using child pornography as a reason to force ISPs to store records regarding all of your web access, a post over at Identity Woman got me thinking . . .
Maybe we should have a “day without a computer admin”; we could all shut down our [...]


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