Monthly Archives: June 2005

Lebowski Fest

So almost every work day I go to Revolutions for a Double Tall Iced Mocha, lite on the chocolate. There is a sticker they have hanging on the wall that says “Enjoyin’ my coffee.” which of course is a line from one of my favorite movies The Big Lebowski. A while back I noticed the sticker [...]
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1000 Bars

This appears to be old news, but I just came across it today. Dan Freeman is a retired 60 year old computer consultant who has decided that in 2005 he will have a beer in 1000 different bars. He is steadily approaching 600 and on track to finish up by December. It appears as though [...]
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Softball Standings

The industrial league softball season is wrapping up. We have our last regular season game the weekend of July 9th and the playoffs begin the 10th. All things considered we have had a good season, and after this weekend we are now tied for 3rd place with The Twilight Exit. It looks like our run differential [...]
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SeattleDrunks.net

It has been almost a year since I setup the Seattle Drunks Wiki (What is a wiki?). While it does not a get a ton of attention, like all good wikis we have our wiki gnomes. A wiki gnome is someone who without announcement volunteers their time to keep a wiki up to date, fix [...]
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BookCrossing

I have registered my first Bookcrossing book. The idea is same as the “Where’s George” stamps you see on dollar bills. You register your book, you label it with BC-ID (book crossing id) and note letting the person know about the site, then you leave the book somewhere. You can then track your book to [...]
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11 years ago

Meloknee’s post about her past of poetry inspired me to dig through all of my old notebooks and journals. It is always strange to revisit the things I thought about as a teenager. This is a poem I wrote about 11 years ago, I was either 16 or 17. See more …
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Cheese Steak Back Log

First things first: I am not alone. I must say that OneFineJay is braver man than me to experiment with a McDonalds cheese steak. I was having a conversation yesterday about Cheese Steaks and was reminded that I never posted anything about my Roxy’s Deli experience. Sometime last summer Jason and I went for a [...]
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"I believe we’re making zero progress in computer security, and have been making zero progress for quite some time. Consider this: it’s 2005 and people still get viruses. How much progress are we making, really?"

Interview with Marcus Ranum I normally wouldn’t post something that has been linked of off Slashdot, however I really enjoyed reading Marcus’s interview and rants on computer and network security. I was introduced to firewalls by someone who was of the “Proxy firewall” school of thought versus “Packet Filtering”. The first firewalls I setup/used were Marcus’s firewall products [...]
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