The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Random bits

matt | December 26, 2006

(1) We're watching the pilot of “The Lone Gunmen” and a bunch of government agents are planning to get congress to appropriate them some money by flying a plane into the world trade center.
(2) I got the big DeWalt power tool kit and a vacuum packer thingamajigger.
(3) You don't need a Core 2 Duo CPU [...]

Survival, stupidity, and Windows Vista suckage

matt | December 22, 2006

Most of these are from slashdot, but for those folks who don't read slashdot…

Decent site on surviving in the woods:
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/

Idiot tries to hire hackers to change his college records:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999
Except they post the whole content on their website (use this mirror,
the other one is slow):
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/f90a8b85bd79721d7914c7c51aeb99f0/index.html
This is the original article:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/12/22/1550250.shtml

Windows Vista DRM imposes onerous requirements on… everyone:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

HPV Commercial

matt | December 19, 2006

Did you know that cervical cancer can be caused by a virus?
Yes.
I had no idea.
Then you're a fucktard. Get the hell off of my television.

Catholics, weddings, and other random bits.

matt | December 17, 2006

My cousin got herself hitched yesterday. Very nice wedding. Small, simple, elegant. When the worst amount of drama is when my aunt's “Mother of the Bride” dress has a train and the Bride's dress doesn't, you know you're doing well.
Oh, and the best man was bringing the groom to the Church and his car broke [...]

Random entropy from my cranial mass….

matt | December 7, 2006

(1) Re: John Edwards railing against Wal-Mart for not paying it's workers' health care.
It seems to me that the issue here is with the socialized medicine
issue. Wal-Mart isn't taxing me to pay for these people's health care -
the government is. All Wal-Mart is doing is making use of the system.
Seems to me that gaming the [...]