I’m not a mathematician, and I have never claimed to be one. Why then, when someone was walking by me trying to remember the number 238 did my brain automatically try to remember the number as 2^3=8?
My brain is a funny, funny thing friends…
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Memories…
As I was cleaning out the garage last weekend ( a chore and a half…) I ran across the above picture of me and Eeyore at Grad Nite in Disneyland my Senior year of High School back in 1991.
Wow, look at the hair I had. Long, flowing hair. Thick locks of hair.
Damn…
Anyways, I have some memories of the night, key among them was falling in love with one of the singers of En Vogue (I can’t remember which on anymore honestly) and having to watch C&C Music Factory standing on a chair and having a security guard ask me to stop standing on the chair…
Walter Sobchak
Lance dressed as Walter Sobchak of The Big Lebowski fame for Halloween today and made this awesome name tag for himself.
So cool, I wish I’d thought of that…
Yeah… Let me know how that works out for you…
Got the following email in our Support mailbox asking us to join the class-action lawsuit:
Hello
I am writing you today to ask that you get involved in a Class Action Lawsuit to stop the abuse and blackmail perpetrated by a vigilante organization known as Spamhaus and run by Steve Linford.
We have talked to many ISPs and hosting companies and the consensus is basically the same. ISPs are tired of being blackmailed and bullied by this group of thugs and we propose to put an end to it by filing a Lawsuit. The defendants in this lawsuit will be
1. Spamhaus.org
2. Steve Linford
3. Companies that use and support Spamhaus.
4. ISPs that unjustly shut or refuse service based on Spamhaus direction.
As you may already know Spamhaus just lost an 11.7 million dollar lawsuit filed by e360insight.com. they have refused to abide by the federal court order and will be soon held in contempt. If you are using Spamhaus you may be exposing your company to huge liability as they do not follow any law in their blacklisting and Steve Linford uses his position to abuse his list as a weapon for personal vendettas.
Facts:
1. Spamhaus lists sites, IPs and ISPs that are not spamming.
2. Steve Linford uses his blacklists to enrich himself and for personal vendettas
3. Steve Linford owns a hosting company UXN.COM which is a direct conflict of interest in operating his illegal blacklist
4. Steve Linford Ignores United States courts and laws
5. Steve Linford Blackmails ISPs by listing IPs of innocents in order to get them to comply with whatever he asks.
6. The same list Spamhaus misrepresents as their SBl is freely available at [URL deleted by Ted] (without the blackmail)
7. Steve Linford has no regard for free speech and puts sites on his list solely for speaking out about him to repress the growing Anti-spamhaus movement.
One only needs to log into [URL deleted by Ted] to see the absolute nonsense that goes on there and Steve Linford banging his chest and bragging he can shut down any site or host in the world.
Regardless of the fight against spam there is no place on the internet for one man to decide who has a website and who does not.
If you are Interested in more information and updates as we progress please send an email to [Email address deleted by Ted] and we will add you to our confidential list.
At the very least if your tired of this kind of blackmail, do not bow to the Illegal actions of Spamhaus and log into [URL delted by Ted] and tell them what you think of their blackmail tactics.
It is time for Spamhaus to go. if you google “Spamhaus Terrorists” and “Spamhaus Judgment” you can read more about what is going on recently.
Thank you for your time
Committee to stop Spamhaus censorship and Blackmail
Yeah, we’ll go right ahead and do that…
How does one, exactly, clog a urinal?
Explain to me please, how does someone clog a urinal? I see the toliet paper in there, and it doesn’t go away, but why would somebody do that?
The plunger, for obvious reasons, won’t clear this out. I’m NOT sticking my hand in there. Who the hell uses TP in a urinal? Two or three shakes or (in some cases) a tug should get everything out, right? Right?
Well, at least we’ve got a second option in the office. I’m still unsure why the hell someone would use TP in a urinal though…
**UPDATE**
After finding some rubber gloves, I was able to remove the offending TP and the urinal is now back up and running. I still am VERY curious as to why someone would use TP in a urinal. Ah well, a question for the ages I guess…
HOLY CRAP, IT’S HOT!!!
HOLY CRAP, IT’S HOT!!!
Originally uploaded by TedsBlog.
It’s 108 degrees in Livermore right now, but it only feels like 106. Good thing too, 106 is bearable, 108 is just crazy hot…
I can’t believe I grew up on this kind of heat and didn’t even bat an eye.
Spare The Air Day
As I was driving my SUV (in first gear to get the revs up really high, as is my wont) by myself into the office today with the AC cranked, all the windows down and smoking a Cuban cigar, they announced on the radio that today was a Spare the Air day in the Bay Area. “That’s good,” I thought as I passed a school bus with blinking yellow lights (stupid kids trying to cross the street, I almost spilled my Venti Caramel Macchiado swerving to not hit some six year-old), “we need to have more of those around here. The smog is going to get really bad this Summer.”
Parking my car in the lot, I left the engine running and the AC on so that my car isn’t too hot when I go home at 6:00 this evening. (Now, before you get all angry at me, it’s on low. Jeez!)
Another reason why I shouldn’t be working in IT…
I feel like an idiot right now… I was doing some maintenance on my PC, like I do every other week or so, just to clean up anything on the machine that I was demo’ing or whatever and accidentally uninstalled the drivers for my wireless card.
That’s a problem see, because I don’t have a router anymore and it’s pretty hard to download drivers for your wireless card if you can’t surf the intertron. After a few seconds of, “holy crap, now what,” I remembered that I could just roll back the clock and do a system restore to a few hours ago…
I think this will wind up being a “Lanlogic blog entry” tomorrow.
Damn Livermore, what did you eat?
The last month or two, there has been a terrible smell wafting over our building. We have a waste treatment plant about a block from us and apparently, it’s been having some issues with the management of the smells coming from it. Honestly, it smells like, well, shit. I suppose that’s to be expected, that every once in a while you’re going to get a whiff of the city’s, uh, byproducts, but for two freaking months?
Last week a very nice gentleman from the City of Livermore Waste Treatment Department dropped by the office to give us a one-sheet “explanation” of what’s going on… Turns out that the City of Livermore has an “upset stomach.” Yeah, so do I and my coworkers.
Is it sad that I can tell when the residents of Livermore have had eggs for breakfast?
