Should you leave your rack-mounted servers insecure, the wily H4xx0r Pigs will r00t you. No matter how cute and fuzzy they look, they’re dangerous.
Hmm, less to report than I thought. The bus driver took the wrong exit when driving us back to Tempe on Monday, which added about 15 minutes to the commute. [...]

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I don’t think that guinea pigs would want to wear costumes, but maybe they do.
Sunday was a lot less eventful than Saturday. Tons of laundry, returning library books and getting new ones, spending a few hours fiddling with some test stuff for work, and stuff like that filled most of the day. I [...]

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On Saturday afternoon/evening, we executed the Furniture Moving Party. The living room of the condo was rearranged to better take advantage of stuff, and make it so that a bunch of people could more comfortably hang out in front of the TV.
It all worked pretty dang well.  We spent a lot of time eating [...]

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Very late on Friday night, I found the cellphone that I thought I’d lost on Tuesday. Somehow, it had ended up under my bed, so far back and to the right that I didn’t see it when I looked under the bed on Wednesday.  Good grief.  Well, I really needed a new phone anyway.  [...]

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Cats hate being dressed up. If this one had opposable thumbs, he would’ve gone for his six-shooter.
Apparently, it’s possible to completely hork up a Microsloth Exchange server by asking it to deliver 9 messages, each one about 30M in size, to 10 people. “Enterprise” e-mail system, my left hind arse. postfix, exim, [...]

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There’s a growing criminal element among our nation’s bunnies. I don’t know what the good citizens of this country can do about it, either.
And in other news, my cell phone is missing in action.  It was old and I probably needed a new one, but canceling the old one, getting a new one, and [...]

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The work project is going to be more complex than I had thought. Why this week? I wanted to do a lot of stuff. Oh well.
Trivia: Patty described some sort of run-in with anti-abortion protesters and a pro-choice counter-protester who had a sign with hilarious though R-rated language on it. It [...]

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After some practice, I’ve found that I can play the drums in Rock Band on Easy on a few of the less difficult songs without immediately failing. This isn’t exactly great, but what the heck. Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
Finished Accelerando. That book has an unusual number of in-jokes that only [...]

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I don’t think that’s what they meant by “hedge fund”. But giving money to hedgehogs might have been a better investment than the stock market over the last few months.
Went over to Trevor’s on Sunday and played trivia for a few hours. That was interesting. Trevor’s living room is actually smaller than [...]

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There are times when it would be really handy to have one of these rocket-propelled chainsaws lying around. I imagine that it wouldn’t be all that stable in flight, but it would look really cool when being used. I am surprised that no director has tried to put something like this in [...]

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