After my car got broken into a few weeks ago, I started worrying about one of most precious possessions: my laptop. After a few hours of hacking I came up with this script called Bacon (beacon was too obvious), which sends the laptop’s current IP address and some other info to my server, so if anything should happen to my laptop I can try to track it down. Currently it’s only been tested with Vista and probably won’t work on XP. I’ll have a linux version up shortly.
So you might have noticed that my site disappeared for a while. I was on a sympathy strike with the Writer’s Guild, and I’m finally back to blogging now that that everything is settled. In fact, I was so sympathetic that I started my strike 5 months before they did. Actually, I’ve just been too lazy to do anything here lately, but I was bored and decided that the ol’ blog shouldn’t just sit neglected in the corner.
Anywhoo, things have been pretty swell lately. Christmas break was pretty nice, and I’m back at school with about 2 more years left. Still have the teaching assistant gig, which has been working out quite nicely. Not much to report other than that. I’ll try to keep this updated this more often, but I can’t make any promises.
Thank you Meriam Webster for adding ginormous to the dictionary, so people can stop telling me that it’s not a word.
I’ve tried to avoid ranting about politics on here, but this time Fox news has gone too far.
“That man…did a whole generation a disservice”
Of course, they’re talking about the evil Mr. Rogers
Someone should come up with an “away message” type feature for cell phones. Instead of having to do all the complicated stuff to change your voice mail message, you should just be able to hit a button and say “I’m in a meeting, I’ll be back in 30 mins” or “I’m at the beach, I’ll get back to you tomorrow”, and your phone will save it as your voice mail message. That way people could know where you are or when to expect a call back. I always thought that would be handy for when you’re expecting an important call but won’t be able to answer your phone.
PS: Phone companies, you can take this idea as long as you give me free service and phones for life.
I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to the Cherokee clothing company for creating size 31×30 pants and Target for selling them. For the first time in quite a while I can actually buy pants that fit me.
The 2nd version of my Beryl theme “Dark and Nameless” is out. You can download it here.
Here’s a couple screenshots:
God bless the USA
Yeah, those Valentines Day trees I talked about a few weeks ago? Now they’re St. Patrick’s Day trees. They had shamrocks on them. Apparently the tree wasn’t already green enough, so they had to decorate it with green stuff. I’m not sure why I hate that so much, but I really do.
You would think that since I pay several dollars a month for this site, that I would at least have the desency to post something occasionally, but this appears not to be the case. I would blame it on being busy with school and whatnot, but that’s certainly not the case. I guess I don’t have enough to write about.
Since I am writing this, I might as well take the time to inform you about the Valentines Day tree they had at Hy-Vee. As you may have deduced from the previous sentence, Hy-Vee has Valentines Day trees. I find this to be the most retarded thing ever. The worst part is, they we’re quite obviously nothing but Christmas trees that someone was too lazy to take inside, so instead they decided to throw hearts and pink ribbons on them. That was probably the maddest I’ve ever been at a tree.