At last! I'm in the final deathrows of unpacking.  Until recently, I had forgotten how much I do not like moving, however, moving yourself is nice because one doth bask in the new digs. Here is my latest spoil, an older stereo yamaha receiver. Retro cool.

set selector to LD(Laser Disc)

What would you say with 32 characters and where would you say it? How about pushing your 32 char thoughts to a wireless router's SSID?  Today I was really hungover and couldn't get my brain going to do any real work.  Instead I spent a few hours reverse engineering the management console for my Linksys WET-11 wireless bridge. 

I was able to produce a command line application that updates the SSID to whatever you like. This effectively broadcasts any message out to anyone that is looking at the available wireless networks. A short range messaging system.  I'll probably figure out a cool way to tie other applications into it. Maybe display the current weather or upcoming events. Ideas?

bssid.exe in action

There has been a lot of drama in the workplace lately. It's really unnecessary. You see, at work we get fed three days a week. When we first started getting meals, we had disposable plates and after a while we all started hating ourselves and could _not_ figure out why.  Then it dawned on me(the collective us) that we should get real plates to waste less(and by causality reduce sad pandaitis).

All was good at the utopia until dirty dishes started showing up in the sink.  Benign at first, but then, it festered into interoffice emails and now my email. To the poiint. Punctuated. Hilarity. (if i do say so myself)

To whom this may concern (the people/person who insists on leaving dishes in the sink),

I don't like washing your dishes and apparently you don't either. If there is a dish in the sink on friday again(feb. 27th, just so there isn't any confusion), I am going to figure out a way to set up a webcam watching the sink area(big brother at his finest). At which point I will catch you red handed/dirty dished, make a nice photoshop mock up of you sans-clothes, and proceed to make fullsize prints to be displayed around the office.

Regards

Me

I think Friday should be interesting. Muhaahhaaha!

I think all this chatter about cloud computing is rather dull and this comment pretty much sums up why.  It's like 1970 but there exists more than 10 people(exaggerating!) in the world switch_[sic] program.

"Stop treating the cloud as if it was something unknown and start realising how much it's just the successor to the mainframe and things start making sense."[edited for clarity]

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1120171&cid=26771271

While reading slashdot, I ran across yet another great comment(happens a lot actually).  I think it's a good example of the type of humor I strive for.  Well intentioned, internet/technology/pop related sarcasm + a shred of information. For conversational context you'll need to also read the slashdot article and parent comment.

You obviously don't understand the nuance of the story's analogy. Well-intentioned liberals often want to release bicycles in the wild so that the bike population breeds and grows over time; it's a well-known fact that bicycles don't breed in captitivity. However, bikes will start breeding too fast, and before you know it they'll start having more and more encounters with humans to catastrophic effect - in the denser areas of bicycle territory, you'll even see people get so desperate as to try to ride them, in a manner similiar to a horse, in order to tame them. This is obviously the law of unintended consequences.

Compare this to Linux. Right now, it's slow to wake up. Well-intentioned liberals see this lethargy as another sign of Linux captivity. They also want to see the population of linux grow. So, they come up with the bright idea to make linux less lethargic: if they wake up faster it means they'll have more energy. If they have more energy, linuxes will breed more often. Thus, it seems to the liberal, that fast boot up is desirable as to achieve this similiar end goal.

But the law of unintended consequences strike again! Many linuxes are in family homes, and their owners don't want to them to breed more. There'd be all types of trouble: imagine if the linux was at home and all it could breed with in its harmonal state was a Windows? Remember the Lindows travesty of years past?

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1111303&cid=26681449

Funny. I know!