December 2008


Who was the bright moron over at Evites who thinks that having planned maintenance on New Year’s Eve, one of the biggest party days of the year, when the highest number of people are depending on your services — makes sense on any planet in this universe? (more…)

So sometimes I think about sexonomics, and how in the sexual playing field, a female is a treasure, and a male is worthless. And it often goes back to testicles: Males are generating sperm that needs to be emptied, and thus it becomes a basic bodily need — at the base of Maslow’s triangle, along with food and shelter. Women? They don’t have any sperm to hold back.

But then I wonder if it’s deeper than that. A vagina is a hole, and a penis is the opposite. They’re meant to be together. But who needs who more? Does something that can have something stuck in it need something stuck in it more than something that can be stuck in something needs to be stuck somewhere? I’m leaning towards no.

Then I think about hardware, and male vs. female jacks. All stereo receivers, TVs, iPods, etc have tons of female jacks just waiting for something to be inserted in them. Yet have you ever seen something with every jack plugged (shut up Glen)? How often is the microphone jack in a computer plugged? Or the headphone jack in your home theatre station? Do you use every available input on all your devices?

Very unlikely. And that’s okay. The female jacks don’t need to be plugged in.

Yet if you have a pair of headphones with a male jack — There is an expectation that you’re going to use the headphones. They’re going to be plugged in. They need a jack to be plugged into.

And the cord that connects your guitar to it’s amp? Male on both ends. It needs to rock out with its cock[s] out.

So there you have it. Sexonomics in the hardware jack world is analagous to sexonomics in the real world. It had not yet occurred to me. (more…)

I made this awhile ago… just felt like randomly blogging it.

I love McDonald’s. Not because the food is superb, but because I DON’T CARE if my food is good. Eating is a chore. I would gladly sacrifice all the great tastes in the world — and never eat ice cream again — to free myself of the burden of having to eat every 2 or 3 hours. And the monetary savings alone would put thousands more in my pocket. Remember this axiom:

Cheap, Fast, Good – pick two.

In most things in life, you can only pick two. If I want food that’s cheap & fast, I’m going to McDonalds. If I want food that’s cheap & good, I’m going to Subway (where it’s not nearly as fast). If I want food that’s good and fast? Well, I’m not sure where I’d go for that — but it isn’t going to be cheap, that’s for sure. And if I want food that’s good and cheap? It’s not going to be fast; growing your own food yourself is the healthiest, cheapest food you’ll ever have. But it’s slow as fuck.

Anyway, now that I’m done with my anti-anti-McDonald’s spiel, here is my review:

McDonald’s recently moved double cheeseburgers off their $1 menu (the only thing I order off of — if the food is fast and not good, it damn well better be cheap). Now they are $1.20. And now the $1 menu has a “McDouble” instead. What the hell is a McDouble?

I don’t know, so in the name of science, I ordered a $1.20 double cheeseburger, and a $1.00 McDouble. I opened them up and examined them.

As far as I can tell, the only difference is an extra piece of cheese. And that could simply be an error on their part while cooking. I see no difference.

So people — Don’t pay $1.20 for a $1 burger. The tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist in me says that McDonald’s is testing to see how stupid Americans are, and to see if they are dumb enough to pay $1.20 for something they’ve been paying $1.00 for, even when faced with a choice of either. Don’t fall for it.

I’m sticking to the dollar menu. Nothing at McDonald’s is worth more than $1, and this is proof.

Alternately, maybe McDoanld’s personnel are not paid enough to bother making the burgers correctly. Maybe they are SUPPOSED to be differnet, but nobody making minimum wage cares enough to bother?

UPDATE: Chris Y confirms that the difference is indeed 1 piece of cheese. Wow. (more…)

 movie coverI'd rather be watching TV![IMDB link] [Netflix link] Our quest to watch all Anna Faris movies continues.

PEOPLE: Anna Faris. Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions). Ryan Reynolds (the male nurse from Harold & Kumar 1, Deadpool in the next X-Men movie, and was also in Dick.) Amy Smart (Starship Troopers. She also plays Strawberry Shortcake whenever she appears in Robot Chicken). Chris Klein (American Pie 1 & 2).

QUIRKS: Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit in the beginning of the movie == creepy. You see, the movie starts in high school, when Reynolds tells Amy Smart that he’s always loved her. But she only ever saw him as a friend. Later, he grows up, is no longer fat, and is a hotshot record producer. Anna Faris plays a completely batshit crazy pop celebrity (who I’d love to hang out with), quite possibly modeled after Britney Spears. They end up with private jet difficulties (caused by Anna Faris acting like a blonde and microwaving tin foil inside the private jet, starting a cabin fire), and Reynolds ends up staying in his home town. Of course he’s going to try to see his old high school friend, at which point more “romantic comedy” ensues.

BAD STUFF: Just another romantic comedy. Throwing a fat suit into the beginning doesn’t really change that.

CONCLUSION: This has it’s funny moments. Since it seems MOST comedies are romantic comedies — excluding the genre as a whole would deprive us of many laughs. The problem is the time in between the laughs. But this touched on being in the “friend zone”, something most guys have had to deal with at one time or another. There’s some non-unique lessons in this movie. And some good dialog. Anna Faris is not the main female lead, but she definitely adds to it with her trademark crazy/ditsy character acting.

RECOMMENDATION: Anna Faris fans, romantic comedy fans, or people who have dealt with being “just friends” — can definitely enjoy this movie. Just don’t make it the highlight of your week. It’s a generic, passable movie.

MOVIE QUOTE #1: Mike: “Yeah I slapped the ham to it about an hour ago.”
Chris’ Mom: “What ham did you slap hunny? I hope it wasn’t the one I just bought.”

MOVIE QUOTE #2: Chris: “Y’see, when a girl decides that you’re her friend, you’re no longer a dating option. You become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like a brother… or a lamp.”
Ray: “I don’t want to be a lamp…”
(I love lamp?)

COINCIDENCE #1: (Splendor, Just Friends) 2 movies in a row with scenes where characters romantically involved are talking to each other in a public place that has large screens where, on those screens, the same people are talking to each other. Strange coincidence.

COINCIDENCE #2 (kind of a double-coincidence): (Just Friends, Wasted) 2 movies in a row with people returning to the town they went to high school in, as well as scene/plots involving trying to get out of the ‘friend zone’ by dating a female friend they were interested in. Wasted was more depressing.

With all these coincidences… Movies are starting to feel the same. I think we’re starting to get sick of them! 2009 will probably involve watching more series and fewer movies.

FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Benj really liked it.

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Culdcept is an insane game, a combination of Monpoly and Magic The Gathering.

I decided to post the book I used to win my Gooba / Gooba Queen medal. Non-players should stop reading, but may be impressed with the level of thought in the strategy of this game. It’s also available for Xbox360 and I strongly encourage people to get it. I’ve clocked almost 500 hours now, and Carolyn’s up there too (300 hours?). (more…)

So, some f***** at 67.168.155.207 decided to hack my WAWI server. Which is basically how I automate music control. For example, I can type “play” at any command-line in my house (or from any web brower outside of my house) to play the music. It does this by using wget to make http requests to various pages on the WAWI server.

1) They changed the title from “Clint and Carolyn’s music” to “Clint and Carolyn enjoy raping children” (see bold below). I must say…Whoever it is shares my exact sense of humor.

2) They also attempted to do something with a file located at DirtyPoodle.com — specifically something with http://dirtypoodle.com/mp3s/SAW/NeverGonnaGiveYouUp.mp3Never Gonna Give You Up? The Rick Astley song? Is this some botnet attempt to rickroll winamp users?!?!?! Are they trying to insert an external song into my winamp playlist as a prank? Am I discovering a new twisted turn in RickRolling?

3) It’s really fucking annoying. It didn’t work. But my winamp keeps reverting to track #1063 in my playlist. Even after reloading new playlists. There’s no log entries in WAWI, and Netstat isn’t showing any unusual connections. Did they load a program on me somehow? I’m still trying to figure out what triggers my playlist reverting back to #1063. I put a catchy song in that position so I notice when this happens. UPDATE: Firewalling winamp off from the world appears to have made that stop.

4) They created a user named ‘fucked’, to give themselves a way to get in later. I killed it though.

Sigh. Looks like I’m going to have to close winamp off from the external world to make them stop making me hear the same song over and over again. And I wrote email to the WAWI author and will send him a link to this post.

My general security philosophy is to not put TOO much work into security. I tend to leave things open until I find out otherwise. This is one of those times. Sigh.

67.168.155.207 is a Comcast IP address that seems to be from Washington. I recall the time a friend played a trick on me and ended up with the Virginia Tech NOC contacting them because I reported them. You’re not anonymous when you do these things. And if you’re a friend of mine, I suggest you fess up before I do something. I’ve gotten people’s yahoo’s suspended before when they attack me and I wouldn’t want to end up doing that to a friend.

Other info:
DirtyPoodle.com: Administrative Contact: Hart, Todd thart@eml.cc Turville Street London, GA E2-0000 GB
ThePlanet.com/78.84.211.98: RTechHandle: PP46-ARIN
RTechName: Pathos, Peter
RTechPhone: +1-214-782-7800
RTechEmail: admins@theplanet.com
OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE271-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: The Planet Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-281-714-3560
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@theplanet.com
OrgNOCHandle: THEPL-ARIN
OrgNOCName: The Planet NOC
OrgNOCPhone: +1-281-714-3555
OrgNOCEmail: noc@theplanet.com
OrgTechName: Technical Support
OrgTechPhone: +1-214-782-7800
OrgTechEmail: admins@theplanet.com

It’s also notable that this only happened after http://70.84.211.98/ randomly pinged my server — is this a botnet? Did 70.84.211.98 discover my server and then ask 67.168.155.207 to try hacking it?

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Mood: annoyed
Music: Kreator – As The World Burns

 movie coverI'd rather be watching TV![IMDB link] [Netflix link] I originally read about this movie in that piece-of-shit trendoid free advertisement magazine Nylon that everyone started getting out of the blue. Then either Sammy or Joe H (I think–or maybe both) strongly recommended that me & Mark watch his movie. So we decided to watch this as soon as we got a chance. This got a 7.2 (3000 votes) on IMDB and 3.8 stars (1700 votes) on Netflix.

PEOPLE: Ben Kingsley. Famke Janssen (yum). Josh Peck (a relative nobody who was in Spun). Olivia Thirby. Mary-Kate Olsen (as another hippie chick… like her role in Weeds). Jane Adams (who I’m always semi-aware of due to her memorable face… She was in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Frasier [as Mel], Wonder Boys… And even a few episodes of Family Ties). Method Man. The movie is directed by Jonathan Levine, who I’ve never heard of.

QUIRKS: 1994. Hip-hop. Drug use. Drug dealing that you really think should get someone busted — but it’s New York City so nothing happens. Paying your shrink for sessions by giving him marijuana. Having a crush on his [step-]daughter. Awkward first relationships. Seizing life. Attempted suicide. Divorce. Summer vacation. Poor parents.

BAD STUFF: There’s really not much bad about this movie, except for the focus on Hip Hop music, which I think SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS. I tend to dislike dramas for the sake of being dramas… But I also tend to like most movies I see. The worst thing about this movie, really, is that it’s quite depressing. But it’s also quite poignant.

CONCLUSION: This was a good drama about life, wanting to live it, seizing the day, not being a loser, and love. You have to get hurt if you want to play the love game — that’s how it works. The two main characters (pot-dealer + shrink-who-smokes-pot) basically become friends and explore their depression together. It’s also a good snapshot of 1994 (pagers, not cellphones). Awkward drug dealer has to explore his first romantic/sexual relationship in the context of his own loserdom. Depressing yet ultimately hopful events ensue.

RECOMMENDATION: A great movie to see to give you a poignant perspective on life. Netflix: 4/5 stars. IMDB: 7.5-8/10.

MOVIE QUOTE 1: “Don’t say nothin’, ok? Just stand there til I leave. I wanna remember this. I’ve never done it before.” “Never done what?” “Had my heart broken.”

MOVIE QUOTE 2: (main character goes on about not feeling great) (shrink asks:) “Is this about Kurt Cobain?” I hadn’t put two and two together that this occurred right after Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

COINCIDENCES: I just bought a cigar box ($1) for storage the week before watching this movie, where the main character used a cigar box for storage.

FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Nobody’s seen it yet, but I’m sure a lot of people will. Eric M and Glen have it in their queue. Sammy/Joe H (wish I remembered who told me about it) seemed to really like it and strongly recommendd it to me as well.

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UPDATE: This does have a happy ending (see comments), I did get the shirt. But not from Zazzle.com, or the internet. With respect to custom shirts: Fuck the internet.

And guess what happened? After spending 1.5 hours designing it on Zazzle.com, my shirt was rejected for using copyrighted images. Namely, a poster for the movie. A cover of a book containing photos of the movie. And 3 snapshops from the movie, as well as a promo black-and-white snapshot not from the movie. Which I painstakingly removed the sky from so that the corner would blend seamlessly into the shirt.

Oh I’m sorry, I can’t print a t-shirt with copyrighted images for myself? I forgot we had to protect the “artist” who took this picture 50 years ago, from the “theft” by Zazzle daring to make a profit with their “property”.

Does anybody seriously believe the guy who drew the poster for a 1959 movie is still getting royalties from this movie? This movie airs on TNT and is on Netflix. Plenty of people can watch the movie without purchasing any of these copyrighted pictures. Nor are there The Tall T shirts currently being sold by anyone.

It isn’t about protecting revenue streams for the artist. There’s no revenue stream to protect. Show me The Tall T shirts I can buy — I don’t see them.

This is about corporations wanting exclusive control over anything where money changes hands.

By the way — I post all my stuff under Creative Commons where people can use it, even for commercial purposes, even with modification. Cause I’m not an asshole. Nor do I expect to get royalties everytime an appliation I wrote code on runs, or everytime anybody uses anything I ever created. I expect to get paid… (drumroll)… when I go to work and work.

*Post delayed until after Christmas to not spoil Dad’s surprise. I’ll probably have to make the shirt with no fucking images instead. Goddamn ASSHOLES..

Click the image to see the proper-sized version:

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I wish I could embed this, but it’s not on YouTube. Voltaire is a renowned animator who did many MTV and Sci-Fi Channel IDs. Remember the guillotine cutting off the head of the MTV logo, circa 1995? Voltaire.

Anyway, he animated a short film about Christmas, called X-Mas Detritus. It’s message is pretty simple: Christmas is bad for the environment and creates a lot of junk. Some of it comes alive in the film, which is only about 2 minutes long.

Check it out here: X-Mas Detritus. Or run “wget http://www.glasseyepix.com/adventures/creepy2008/films/files/dec18.mov” to download the file to your computer. (more…)

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