Restraint

NO offense

Open Letter To The Roommates Upstairs:

One of you good folk has failed to keep your system updated and patched. As a result, during the format of my desktop/server today, my computer was attacked and compromised by a DCOM exploit worm on the local network mere seconds after it booted for the first time. I know that the worm did not originate from Leslie or Suzanne’s PCs, because I personally patched them against this exploit long before a single worm was written for it.

This has caused me to lose no small amount of non-recoverable data, including all user and configuration info for the restraint.org and harsh-reality.com web and email services. I expect the recreation of this data to take no less than several days of work. In the interim, web, mail, ftp and other services will be non-functional and/or severely degraded.

If you could find the time over the next day or so to prevent your systems from taking further hostile actions against mine, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your consideration, fuckers.

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I’m at my mothers, taking a break away from the relentless video game battle that has consumed my brothers and I for the last few hours.

I am surrounded by boxes. Boxen. My mother’s moving tomorrow, and it could be a very, very long time before I see her again. Charlie, my little brother, is going with her.

Adam’s already left. Christo was the first to go, and Paul isn’t staying. Venk’s still here, but we don’t talk, really. We haven’t since I’ve moved back. I don’t think this is likely to change.

My potential ‘best men’ are all in absentia, as it were, and now most of my immediate family is about to leave as well.

Soon, there won’t be anything outside my house for me at all, in this town.

#27 – The hero is recognized

On the internet, no one knows you’re Frank Black.

(…and while related only peripherally, I shall also humbly submit Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale.)

Inappropriate grokking of young teens

Texan parents are looking to remove “Brave New World” and “Stranger in a Strange Land” from the curriculum.

We feel this is inappropriate for the ages of the students at (the) Science Academy or at any South Texas ISD High School,” parent Julie Wilde said of Brave New World, adding that the books may lead to “inappropriate sexual arousal of young teens.”

(Update: The South Texas ISD board voted unanimously to keep both books.)

Huzzah!

Avast! Get yer grog and yer hornpipe, as it be Talk Like A Pirate Day, mates and beauties!

It be best to get your pirate names on for the day! So says Mad James Flint! Arrr!

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

The RIAA continues its fight against filesharing and all its evils, suing a 12-year-old and forcing her into a $2000 settlement. Breathe easy, Madonna — you’re safe now.

Bill Joy, perhaps the greatest computer scientist who has ever lived, is leaving Sun Microsystems. (And here’s a link to why the future doesn’t need us, for those who have yet to read it.)

Also leaving us is Leni Riefenstahl, the brilliant Nazi propaganda filmmaker who wrote and directed “Triumph of the Will“.

And finally, our third brilliant departure for today is Warren Zevon, as remembered by Dave Barry. (Who once performed Werewolves of London with Zevon, Carl Hiaasen, and Stephen King.)

Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.

Researchers who ‘proved’ that Ecstasy equals Parkinson’s gave monkeys the wrong drug. (Prediction: This announcement will have zero effect on drug policy/propaganda, and substandard research will continue to serve the status quo. It’s a pretty wacky theory, I know….)

Voight-Kampff Test administered to San Francisco mayoral candidates.

Direct-to-DVD Family Guy might happen soon.

White Wolf sues the shit out of Sony for making a crappy movie in the World of Darkness without permission.

Trifid M20 and IC 443.

gang stories part one

Sometimes I think that I must be miserable in order to be happy — or that this once was true, and the remaining vestigial parts of who I once was seek to sabotage the now, if not by action then by emotion.

How do you war against your shadow?

I’ve never known if insomnia is the condition, or the symptom.

Noted for future reference: There have been helicopters and fighter jets in my area, these past weeks. Driving back from Toronto a month ago, I saw an unmarked bomber refueled in midair, both planes grey. Two weeks later, I saw them there again.

I can hear them now, circling overhead.

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I would like to be able to afford the starving student lifestyle, someday.

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Winamp 5 is the shit.

That is all.