Sun-Times article: it’s all about o’malley’s show.
sorry. i can’t help it, i honestly love the show, and i love it when people i know do anything in the public eye.
Archive for August, 2003
my phone is totally fscked.
it barely works, i’ll be incommunicado till i find a solution
happy birthday to kenneth and to randy.
(K and R are throwing them selves a party at the hungry brain on belmont. they did something similar last year and ended up crammed into the corner of the get me high, which is no bigger then a postage stamp to begin with-will this year be as uglY? will the bodies pile up once more against the glass? will everyone just go to the nexus as usual? go see for your selves. sat night at 9, till whenever.)
see ya whenever
phone is really messed up, antenna drops off , phone shuts itself off even when it doesn’t fall off, and i’m not getting any calls.
hairball: your breaking up i can’t hear you, ffej? ffej?
ffej: i haven’t called you yet, you moron…
hairball: uh, let me call you back later, when mars isn’t this close, there’s interference…
ffej: i’m sitting next to you in the fscking bar you [BLEEPING] [BLEEP-FONDLER]!!!
hairball: ok, let me call later, bye!
ffej: {BLEEP} hairball, you’re a fscking [BLEEPER]…
(the preceding was a true a story. the time and location has been changed to effect causuality. any resemblence between stories living or dead is purely an act of plagerism on someone’s part–have you seen stella lately? witnesses may have been paid off. pay no attention to the man behind the curatain. please inseert 50 cents for next three balls)
tune in at anytime for random acts of sensless oligarchy.
i accideatally smashed my phone while answering a call on saterday.i glued it together, but it’s acting flakey..wonder how neil fared atcburning man?wonder if ungeris in town ?wonder if this will post? (and ofcourse it din’t post.
problem is th esntenna is making little or no connection, and i probably cracked the circuit board. they don’t sell these anymore, damn it….oh well, i w2as running out of steam anyway.
september isn’t all that far away, get your tickets now!
See O’Malley’s show.
then laugh your guts out.
it’s that easy.
(i didn’t check with o’malley about blurbage–so i won['t insert some wise ass comment here. this is the funniest show in town. it's about getting clean and sober, the depradations and delusions of the seond city system, and O'Malley wrote it and stars in it, and he has my gonads in a box over there at the house that del built [ok, ok, del looked on while charna built it SHEESH, can we back off this fair and balenced crap already?] ok, it might not be a box, it might be a can, or mason jar, i’m really not sure and frankly i just want them back, and not stir fried with pea pods as O’Malley keeps threatening. please help ffej get his nads back, go see O’Malley’s show.)
go read slashdot for todays SCO noise, including the bit about IBM stage managing the outrage from the open source quarter–if they think that IBM is managing me they have another thing coming, and make sure you read ESR’s rejoinder, which includes this bit pf wisdom: “And now you cap it all with this paranoid ranting. It’s classic, truly classic. Was this what you wanted out of life, to end up imitating the doomed villain in a cheesy B movie? Tell me, does that dark helmet fit comfortably? Are all the minions cringing in proper form? “No, Mr. Torvalds, I expect you to die! ” I’d ask if you’d found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you’re in Utah, after all.”
paul is finally gone. kenneth should be back soon.
the net, or at least my portion of it is very slow today, no doubt from all the virii and worms propagating…
new canon EOS Digital Rebel: a 6.3 megapixel G3 in SLR clothing for under a grand!
Java Anonymous Proxy backdoored by german court order. and they didn’t tell anyone…till they were outed. “Jap is a collaborative effort of Dresden University of Technology, Free University Berlin and the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (ICPP). A press release from ICPP assures users that JAP is safe to use because access to only one Web site is currently being disclosed, and only under court-ordered monitoring. ”
mnore register on ibm and hp quarterly reports leading to outsourcing, and the death of the middle class.
the best buss powered firewire hub is back, for a limited tim only, FIREDINO! the amazing gojiro-like reptile! (firedino is product of charismac, and bears no relation or resemblance to costandino, who isn’t a reptile and who is actually quite nice and won’t set fire to your little paper city or run around smashing things in a rubber suit, besides which he;s up in madison in a bread and breakfast.)
SCO is preparing to bring suit against linux end users
SCO pisses on the GPL, while adding more GPL’d software to their proprietary software line.
Eben Moglen on SCO’s GPL defamation. “This argument is frivolous, by which I mean that it would be a violation of professional obligation for Heise or any other lawyer to submit it to a court.”
MS socialogist on newsgroup mining, and learning who’s a worthy human…
linux boffins laugh at SCO, and SCO says even if your right, we’ll win…
2 years ago, the SBA raided Ernie Ball, the guitar string and musical instruments company. Sterling, Ernie’s son, vowed never to use Microsoft products again. ever. this is the best article on switching i ever read, period the end…and the best on being raped by the SBA/M$
Danny reports on a day aboard the USS Howard, one of the latest in WUV (war utility vehicle), which are fast supplanting SUV’s as Amerika’s favorite thing to drive. 
ole’ poddy boy wishes he had one of these tied up at the marina…post the pix, Danny! (and how did you get onboard?)
and finally DONTBUYMUSIC>COM is back up after being shat on by some lawyers of buymusic.com.
(yet another moblog that didn’t publish. damn).
very cool macosxhint by andrew stone on how to deal with the rash of sobig emails if you use mail.app under OS X. should work for eudora and other non M$ smarter mail applications….
this from slashdot:
“The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the guidelines until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being accepted.”
hollywood are idiots: this article complaining about how use of SMS text messages are destroying hollywood marketing campaigns for movies, by killing first weekend hype. i beg to differ. while SMS can help deflate a movie, two other, far more likely culprits come to mind, the simple phone call, and bad movies. i’m far more likely to use the minutes on my cell phone then to use SMS, which costs me and most other users money to make and receive. most people i know are annoyed by SMS, because they either haven’t figured it out, or it costs them. (which leads me to the telcos are idiots for charging extra for a feature that saves them money…)
the register is reporting that apple is going to update it’s powerbooks this week…
right now i’m at kenneths, for the day/night at least. staci is over using the wi-fi. this is so nice. BANDWIDTH! ahhhh.
A couple of pretty quick and easy ways to keep track of your favorite weblogs.
You can sign up with Blogstreet.com, and they’ll set up an IMAP email account for you on their server, so you can just use (about) any email client to read posts. Adding subscriptions is a bit awkward: the easiest way is to look for a white-on-orange “XML” icon somewhere on the blog’s main page, copy the link, and paste it into Blogstreet’s subscription form.
If you don’t mind remembering to visit a web page instead of using email, Bloglines.com makes subscribing a whole lot easier. Sign up, then go to the EasySub page, drag the link to your “Links” toolbar, and when you’re at a blog you want to subscribe to, click your “Subscribe with Bloglines” link and if the blogger’s done the right thing, you’re signed up. Then when you find a post on your “My Blogs” page at Bloglines that you want to rant about later, click the “Bookmark This” link under the post, and it’ll be copied over to the Bookmarks folder in the left frame.
If you just want to have a list of links to your favorite blogs, sorted by when they last updated, sign up with blo.gs, use the teeny tiny search box in the upper right to search by name or URL (or use my bookmarklet), then click the link thing at the end of the link to the blog (a plus in a circle in Mozilla, something broken in IE as I remember) to add it to your favorites list, and next time you come back click the “just my favorites” link to clear out the chaff, and you’ll have a list in last-updated order.
Whole Wheat Radio, An “Interactive Radio Theatre And Music Party Webcast” from a 12×12 plywood shack in Talkeetna, Alaska. Great indie music, domestic disputes, and blogs read live, all in a glorious stew, being remixed based on what people are saying in the chatroom at the time. (both from phil ringnalda)
UPDATE: Paul Newman sues HUD!!! pissed off at FOX news suite against comedian Al Franken’s use of Fair and Balenced as the title of his latest book, Mr Newman will sue HUD over theft of personality!
You go, Paul. this ranks up there with roger (jim) mcquin’s suit against M$ for apropriating the first four note of his song “8 miles high!”
(the newman suit iss at least a parody, but sueing for fair use is like sucking cock for an aids benefit…)
i was hoping SCO had something better then this up their asses, because i wante to see some real fights, not continuence fests. this article shows they don’t, at least on the lieaked code.
i’ve read that code in various news groups (not just the one mentioned), in a programming book and the Lions’ book (and i’m not a programmer!) this is old, old, code that has been used for example all over the place ( i believe K&R used this in a usenix slide show…
Dean may have read it as well (i know he has the Lions’ book). i won’t speak for Ben, for legal reasons.
either way, the clinker is SCO released the code under a BSD license in 2002, long before the licensing lawsuit. BSD licenses let the user do what ever they want with the code, anything at all. follow th elink in the article. makes me think this was a ploy to inspire over confidence in the IBM/llinux camp. they just couldn’t be that stupid, could they?
