The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

On fashion

| February 11, 2011

Liz and I were watching Buffy, and we were remarking as to how short the skirts were in the ’90′s. This brings up the question – why did we stop? Is it because all the girls got old and got jobs, where short skirts like that are not allowed? Liz’s theory is that 9/11 sucked [...]

Wow.. this is a new one…

| February 11, 2011

TestMyISP. Supposedly something done by the FCC in partnership with SamKnows. The idea is that you replace *your* router with *their* router. Are you f-ing kidding me? I mean, sure, your upstream ISP can see all your traffic, so that’s why you encrypt everything. However, this can see everything going through it – wired, wireless, [...]

On war, wikileaks, and politics

| February 10, 2011

So, I’ve been listening to old episodes of Dan Carlin, (playing catch up), and he was talking about the Collateral Murder video released by WikiLeaks. I watched this version. To summarize the content: Two AH-64 gunships are doing close air support and attack some insurgents. Two reporters were in the group. A mechanized infantry group [...]

Podcasts

| February 10, 2011

If you’re not listening to Dan Carlin, you should be.

Snow day

| February 2, 2011

The snow is falling pretty thick out there, and work is closed. IFC is running Lords of Dogtown which I had not seen but is pretty decent. Then again, I like historical movies and documentaries, and this was written by one of the guys in the movie. The soundtrack isn’t bad either. When I watch [...]