Back in the good old days, I read comic books. Please note. READ comics. Not Collect. I’m one of the people that enjoys just reading ’em, and swapping them with other folks. That “put it in mylar, and attempt to sell it 30 years from now” deal is sort of silly. (also, sort of futile… the comic speculation market has really had the bottom fall out of it. Sorry, if you were holding onto that copy of “Spawn meets The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, and you don’t like spawn, or the turtles… you’re out of luck. I mock thee. Mock! Serves you right, silly! Next time get something you like!) What’s more, the comics I enjoyed are the really whitebread ones… Superman, Spidey, Fantastic four, Justice League, more recently Astro City and Tom Strong… vengeance comics were right out, for the most part. However….I have to admit a shred of affection for a hero who will – without skipping a beat – empty eleven shots from a .357 magnum at point blank range — into a stubborn doorknob.

oh, I found deadjournal and I created an alias Scottobear there too… just because. I’ll probably never ever use it.

I *love* the fact that I can add entries to the past now, and it won’t bubble to the front of folk’s friend’s pages… I updated 5/27/01, and it’s nice placed there, where it belongs.

My curent favorite crackpot theory is the glass cathedrals on the moon. Apparently there’s a whole bunch of people who believe that some mysterious force has built these tremendous buildings out of glass (or some other transparent material) on the surface of the moon. As evidence they offer pictures from the various moon landings, and point out faint lines and mysterious reflections. The government is, of course, covering this up. They cover up *all* of the good stuff.

In other news…

Egad, Jay Forman’s account of monkeyfishing made my skin crawl. (It’s not for the sqeamish, mind you, as it’s just what it sounds like it is.)

Here’s something new and potentially illegal and undoubtedly annoying, Microsoft’s next version of Internet Explorer will insert new hyperlinks on Web pages where no hyperlinks existed in the first place.

The so-called Smart Tags recognize certain words or phrases and check them against a database of other words and phrases (owned by Microsoft and sold to the highest bidder) and create instant links on any Web page.

The good news is that the function ships in the product turned off, and Microsoft will provide site owners with code to disable Smart Tags. The bad news is this is Microsoft we’re talking about, a company you can trust just about as far as they can buy you outright and kill your technology.

argus (AHR-guhs) noun

An alert and observant person; a watchful guardian.

[From Greek mythology. After Argus, a giant with 100 eyes who was sent to watch over Io. He was later killed by Hermes and after his death his eyes transformed into spots on the peacock’s tail.]

“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
— Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address

grilled cheese boca, living alone, hermit crabs(I and O), atari st, no phone, broker than broke, library, motorscooter, beany’s subs, gentle giant, quamtumm leap, loneliness, liberties, shelaigh, the measure of friends, I & O, first Dbase program, Shelly.

Ah… my site’s back up… all my linked piccies are fine. *phew*

day’s been going slow, lots of work, my love is in meetings much of the day, apparently one of my photo-hosts (my website, too) is down, so the flash operation of my lj, and many of the embedded pictures are unavailable. No story ideas are comeing to me for the hobo plot… I think stream of thought will fix that, though. Not a lot of time ot seek new residence… I really would like to bounce out quickly.

ah well. It’s Thursday.

Some good things –

My sweetheart and I really communicate. I love talking to her. Just can’t get enough. Heck, I love her. been saying it and meaning it for nearly seven months now, and I am still warmed, delighted by the thought of her. I must’ve done something really good to be in a relationship with her… whatever it was, I’m glad!

Also –

Diana’s on vacation for another week. one less thorn in my side… much simpler to do work without her wheezing smoke into my personal space.
Dale on Vacation tomorrow at noon… I’ll have the office to myself, and will have free run of the machines, without having to kick him off.
Dan’ll help me move… school’s out for summer!
Dan’ll be able to goof around more, in general! 🙂

allow me to experiment, as the faq isn’t too clear on how this works, (at least to me) Since it’s rude to ask your age, I’ll ask…

this poll was braught to you by the ‘scale’ feature in lj polls! feel free to answer. 🙂

My morning, the short form.

My spark plugs must be misfiring. I went to bed earlyish last night…and I must’ve been asleep before my head hit the pillow. I like to read before bed, or at least put on my CPAP. about 3am, I awakened with mouth very dry and with Newt nestled securely along my right leg… a place he very rarely sleeps. I reach over, get a swig of water, and put on the CPAP, all the while my bod was unrested. Flash forward to 10am. I wake to Newtie pitty-patiting my face, and I thank him. Sometime during the night, the big brain froze, so I set him to reboot, and played with the kitty as the machine comes up… I check my mail and chitchat with my sweetie, then hop in the shower, and head to work. I’m still tired.. and haven’t gotten around to scarfing breakfast yet. [Update – grabbed a bagel and two oj’s off the roach coach ~12:30]

word of the day

wag WAG, noun:
A humorous person; a wit; a joker.

Wag in this sense perhaps comes from the obsolete wag-halter, “a rogue; one likely to be hanged.”

Lots of wags of assorted sorts here. I’m sort of surprised the dictionary doesn’t mention scalawag.

Been noticing folks are sick all over lj… colds abound in Boston, Maryland, Florida, Canada… all over my friend’s list. you guys are getting it all germy! feel better soon. *big hugs*

I fear no colds, because of ultrababy-x, and his ladybug virus repelling helmet is near!!

I thought that this was cute… a test to see how healthy your feces are. (Nothing gross, little cartoon poopies)

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In its thirteenth season, “COPS” will continue to bring viewers squalid scenes of bored policemen harassing dispirited, shirtless losers — but this time with a laugh track!

When I was young, I’d anonymously mail packets of salt (like the ones you’d get with french fries) to people I didn’t like, in case they were witches, zombies or evil space slugs living in human guise.

*WARNING*

Improper use of the glow text feature will open you up to mockery, and painful commentary…”That looks like a fuzzy commode lid at an old folk’s home!”

{table style=”filter:glow(color=lightgreen, strength=4)”}i’m sorry for not telling you {lj user=daizee}!{/table}

now everybody knows! (replace curly braces with appropriate greater/less than signs)
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from lj-maint – (profanity edited out)

We got SYN flooded by a DDoS. 50 Mbps of incoming SYN packets isn’t good. Things broke.

Whoever did it is a punk. These little d-less morons can’t break into the car, so they decide instead to slash its tires. Well now our tires have metal guards. incompetent sysadmins at the sites where the hacked machines were flooding from didn’t have their routers configured correctly, so the packets got out onto the net with forged source addresses.
– end quote

for more info about this sort of stuff –

http://packetstorm.securify.com/papers/contest/
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos/
http://packetstorm.securify.com/distributed/

the first link was back towards the very begining of DDoS existance. the latter are updated…

Weird.. I just did a post about good firewall software and DDos attacks… Maybe I should post about LJ’ers being given huge sacks of money?