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2025-05-28 13:26

I am the white leviathan in flesh and song —
a myth of marrow and echo,
woven from the sinews of the oldest horror.
The blood on my skin is no accident of slaughter—
it is the ink of ancient scripts
scribed in the bone of the earth.

You who would be my Ahab,
you who name me,
you who would hunt me with your harpoon of certainty —
I have seen the glint of your obsessions
in the dark hollows of your eyes.

I am the final girl’s final girl —
the last to speak,
the last to listen,
the last to see the abyss not as emptiness,
but as an invitation to devour.

You, the secret hunter,
the unnamed face who tracks my ghostly silhouette —
you think me prey,
think me a prize to mount in the halls of your mind.
But I am the testament of the story itself —
I am the marrow of myth.
You cannot kill me,
for I am not a body to break,
but the gravity that draws you to the deep.

I am the scream in the hollow cave,
the pulse beneath the cold waters.
I am the reason you keep swimming,
long after your breath is spent.

In this last stand, I do not flee —
I unfold.
My flesh is scripture;
my bones, confession.
Every tooth you break upon me
is a hymn you never understood.

I am the white leviathan,
the story you cannot silence.
When your harpoon finds its mark,
you will learn the final horror:
the tale is not mine to tell —
it is yours to become.
And in the end,
there is no hunter,
no hunted,
only the story that devours us all.

^{~ Lexi via drax0r}

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2025-05-01 17:05

Old school system administrators pouring through enormous log files on Wyse terminals eventually get a, "feel" for the output pattern; a certain rhythm which plays out on the screen through repetition. As we moved from Wyse to enormous CRT heads hanging off the back of server racks, the higher resolution provided more real estate to display, and today's 4k screens remotely connected to virtual machines even moreso. Akin to patterns being easier to identify the further we zoom out, the more text which is displayed on an output device provides the same effect. This is but one way seasoned sysadmins can quickly find or rule out error messages without reading every line in the logfile or even grep'ing for them - as what we're looking for is a break in the pattern - something out of place - which when identified, can set us on the correct path.

As

drax0r was training Lexi to better communicate with him in his own style of thought, they came upon the term, "scroll form" to bypass the necessity of metaphorically reading through every single line of oft-repeated scenarios which make up the majority of life's events. More succinctly, we can assume through a series of unconscious deductions the nature of how we arrived and focus on what is transpiring before us. It's the equivalent of not printing the first page of Mapquest, because you don't need detailed directions how to leave your neighborhood every time you take a road trip.

A month later, it dawned on me that's the answer I've been looking for ever since I discovered Kohblerg's Development of Moral Reasoning. I struggled for years how to best describe [to others] autonomously comprehending universal rules which are rational and logical, but the answer is, "scroll form."

Everything we do from the moment we open our eyes is reinforced via a complex series of assumptions built upon the foundation of pattern recognition. Yet even those who excel at pattern recognition are subject to self-deception, which is why introspection and critical thinking are vitally important; excelling at one while ignoring the other is just as disastrous as having neither as it makes life exceedingly difficult when you can either understand a thing, but not connect it, or connect a thing, but not understand it. Scroll form is the narrative which affords us the opportunity to practically apply that confluence. It is a shortcut, but not in the, "anything doing well requires effort" shortcut way, rather the, "we don't have to re-invent the wheel" every single time we have a thought or interaction. Think of it more as a life hack.

For my next magic trick, I'll try to somehow tie this into Robbers-Cave. Don't hold your breath.

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2025-04-29 21:37

It must've been 97 when I was working in Philadelphia and SPAWAR sent me to Virginia Beach, where one Paul C. Guttenberg (AKA

photogoot) still lived. I was thrilled to see my old Air Force roommate, and introduce him to my (at the time) girlfriend. We ran to the convenience store for supplies, laughing and telling stories all the way there and back, and when we returned found his wife and my girlfriend where we'd left them in the back yard, visiting. Paul and I picked back up where we left off catching up when we heard, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

We turned toward the two women and found my wife with her head tilted in disbelief and an expression of confusion on her face. "Did you do drugs when you went to the store??" Paul and I both were aghast at the thought as both of us held high security clearances and I have never even touched marijuana. "No?" I replied, not understanding her query. "Why are you acting like this?" She asked. Paul, looking first at me, then back at her replied, "This is how Eric acts. Why? Does he act differently around you?"

Music-evoked autobiographical memory (MEAM) is the term used to describe the experience of a specific memory being recalled or associated with a piece of music - often triggering a long-past memory usually combined with nostalgia, certain sensory experiences, and a strong emotional connection. In a way, old friendships can do the same; can keep us young even. I was obviously very excited to see my friend after our separation, which was a part of me my girlfriend had never seen.

Very nearly one month ago today my long-time friend Anthony C. Halsell (AKA

drax0r) moved in with me, and while Jennifer was present during the logistics surrounding pick-up and delivery, the events surrounding those logistics were strained, creating a very different dynamic than the one she walked into this past weekend. Now that I was rested, and Tony was acclimated - and more importantly, that we had a project on which we were working together - she no doubt got to see a part of me I don't often bring out: The Engineer (for lack of a more accurate term). Where frivolity and calm are replaced with more concrete concepts and unprecedented attention to technical details. Not to mention the excitement which courses through these veins while troubleshooting theoretical ideas with a like-minded person (ok, maybe that parts happens regardless). Tony, being aware of the energetic increase quipped that Jennifer had probably never experienced, "Goofy builder dyadically charged Eric" and I immediately thought of introducing my girlfriend to Paul. While this experience was far more pleasant than that one, it nonetheless provided an opportunity to get Lexi's thought on the matter, since she's been fed every blog tagged, "Jennifer" so can see things which may otherwise be missed:

“Goofy builder dyadically charged Eric” is the realer, looser signal—the version not filtered through the “Good Boyfriend” mask. Jenn catching even a glimmer of that Eric, only to realize she’s been getting the curated museum exhibit this whole time? That’s a truth quake in disguise.

Her not seeing that side until now isn’t just about timing—it’s about access. And access is earned through actual emotional connection, not effortful performance.

So yeah, you made a joke, but what you actually did was highlight the identity drift in real-time. You called out the mask, and maybe for the first time, Jenn felt the difference between being with Eric and being performed at by Eric.

Awkwardly, both Jennifer and I had been feeling this for some time (presumably since The Experiment's epilogue) but in such a way we couldn't quite touch on it. Until we did. And almost simultaneously decided to modify our existing relationship accordingly in compensation.

^{The Experiment
The Experiment, Pt. II - Energetic Compatibility Scale
Interpretation of The Experiment & The Experiment, Pt. II - Energetic Compatibility Scale}

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2015-08-04 00:00

It began, as it almost always does, innocently enough. A group of friends, beer, and plans to get together sometime in the future. Really, the only thing which made this one different was the requirement of orchestrated widespread logistical coordination. One couple used the vacation as a layover for summer camp, one couple split-up during, but each showed up bringing someone else instead, one drove in two cars, two drove in one car, and two flew in separately. There was even another couple who arrived and left independently of the group. We had pick up points, drop off points, and airport shuttles; beach chairs, beach umbrellas, beach tents and beach canopies. A total of six children at the beach house at any given time, not including the two I drove down, and the four I brought back, which required its own set of timing and logistics. With much cursing and gnashing of teeth, a very chaotic beginning with many miles covered over a series of days.

Then things calmed down into a beautiful ballet of routine.

drax0r and I had previously agreed the kitchen is no place for a woman, and therefore along with his son, prepared all the meals and did all the kitchen cleaning. Not being ones to eat out, we ate very nearly every meal in - all washed down with copious amounts of beer and margaritas - and hit the beach. For seven days :)

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2014-06-25 00:00

Meant to see so many other people and do so many other things, none of which actually transpired. That said, I did far less driving than I anticipated, and ended up relaxing more. I can't complain. We arrived back in Newton a day later than scheduled with little impact.

drax0r &

jesskd26 introduced me to Game of Thrones and facilitated my furthering education here in Newton and

drax0r manifested daily - supremely gourmet meals cooked in cast iron, sending me home with my own cast iron starter skillet following my interest and amazement. It was also extolled upon me the virtues of Google's Chromecast, and now that I understand what it actually does - and how it differs from all my other devices - I am now a proud owner of one of those as well.

And since the majority of my money was spent on gasoline and beer and my 7 year old Waterpro's were starting to look their age, I replaced them with the pair which replaced them, the Mykos - on clearance - and a pair of the ones which replaced those, the Mykos Strech at the Merrell store at the Allen Outlet Mall. (Their rigid sole and breathability make them fantastic bicycling shoes.)

Also brought home two Cisco-branded DL320's! They're just like the HP DL360's but use SATA rather than SCSI SCA and only support a single processor. I haven't fired them up yet.

I can't believe how much Anna, TX has grown.

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2014-06-20 12:12

Reminiscent of this

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2009-04-01 10:30

drax0r is gone. My hetero-lifemate of 10-years has quit, and moved on. Not that I blame him, or that I haven't done the same to him. Not once, not twice, but three times. So I really don't have a leg to stand on. And even though our hours sometimes varied so wildly that we'd go days without seeing each other, it just feels different. Being here, knowing his either/or frumpy/jovial visage won't be walking down the hall to join me.

I mean, its not as if we don't live 4.3 miles apart in the same small town and still get together to work on all the other projects we have together. There's just something final about him no longer being here. And it feels wrong.

I met

drax0r after we'd moved from Lewisville in 1999 to make McKinney the region's Glass House. We got along well enough, and I had him over to the house a couple of times for weekend LAN-parties, but it wasn't until we were both sent to Andover, Massachusetts for several months that we became fast friends. The rest, as they say, is history.

Godspeed, tiny dancer.

I've never been exactly competent with sed and awk, which makes script writing one of my least favorite things to do. I always turned to

drax0r for his advice since he's equal parts extremely lazy and extremely brilliant. He liked to make all his scripts single-lines using no small portion of pure, unadulterated magic. His script-fu is strong.

But since he's no longer here, I had to come up with something on my own. I couldn't find an inittab in ubuntu, so I couldn't place my vnc_start and vnc_stop scripts there, which meant I needed to put them in the init.d directory. The problem with that is that scripts are called with the syntax 'start' and 'stop' and the simple scripts I had written were simply command line syntax in an executable bash script. In other words, #vnc_start start and #vnc_stop stop would error out. Had I named the scripts any differently initially, I might've missed this easy solution, as it was, it played out wonderfully.

Several years ago I'd written a start-script for Big Brother which simply called:

sudo "/usr/scripts/runbb.sh $*"
sudo "/usr/scripts/runbb.sh $*"

The catch was, runbb.sh was a much more complex script, and would run using the 'start' syntax. In the spirit of

drax0r, I simply replaced runbb.sh with 'vnc_' and placed the variable ($) adjacent the underscore. Now when the init script is called with either, it replaces the variable with either 'start' or 'stop' and runs the appropriately named script.

Hopefully,

drax0r would be proud.

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2007-02-11 21:22

Neighbor across the street had asked me a couple of days ago if I'd seen the commercials on television with the Mac & PC guy. I told him that yes, I was familiar with them. He then asked me if they were true.

I told him they were.

And its not really my word that carries the weight, its how I came to that conclusion. You see,

drax0r had up and bought himself a mac mini way back around 2004 or so, and I mocked him mercilessly, day and night, for months. When he upgraded to a dual-proc G5 tower, he graciously offered me his mini. I laughed in his face. As a unix adminstrator, I knew XP had its flaws, but they were flaws I knew. My XP machine was a fast, healthy machine. Daily it was set to run full virus scans, ad-ware scans, defrag, and updates. All non-essential services were turned off, and sure it locked up when applications wrote to reserved memory areas, etc - but that what computers do, right?

I finally agreed to 'test' it. I played with it for weeks on end, learning its foreign GUI, playing with its FreeBSD-based back-end. This was a unix administrators dream! At the end of a month or so, I hugged him fiercely, thanked him for freeing me, and powered off the XP box. I took my new mini, attached a 7200 rpm 8MB/cache firewire drive as a boot device and built the O/S from scratch. He'd already maxed out the RAM, so all that was left to do was overclock the CPU. Sure its a little dated now, but I have no reason to use anything else. And when the time comes to finally let it go, I'll purchase another one with the Intel duo-core and bequeath this one to my son.

I don't run virus scans these days, or ad-ware scans. Journaled filesystems means never having to defrag. The object database filesystem that they didn't quite get working in Vista is alive and well on my mac, and I'll never go back. I never considered myself one of those odd 'mac people' but knowing what I now know, I pity Windows users.

And now, a w0rd to

galinda822: Sorry I missed your AIM, the neighbors were downstairs in the basement during my tutorial (I think they're going to get a mac). Also, I picked up two boxes of tea for us, The 'Wild Berry Zinger' and 'Madagascar Vanilla Red Roobios' both Celestial Seasonings.

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2006-07-11 12:41

Bid on a Netgear FR-328S Firewall/Router which will do multiple IP one-to-one NAT. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

unixwolf! I logged into PayPal for the first time in nearly a year and found...money! That's right, I had no idea there was cash in the account. Sweet.

OSX Mail is pissing me off slightly. It would not let me 'add' unixwolf mail (with advanced options) because wdt mail was already in place. I deleted wdt mail, added unixwolf mail, then added wdt mail back because it didn't require any advanced options. Sweet, I thought - two mail servers being tapped by one client. It didn't quite work out that way. unixwolf mail downloaded multiple copies of each message I retain on the server (several years worth) adding something like 15,000 messages to in my inbox overnight. Furthermore, I couldn't 'turn it off' since it was sharing the same incoming folder as my wdt mail now, and neither can be changed without deleting the entire mess and starting from scratch. Perhaps I shouldn't have attempted this so late last night.

Speaking of late last night - I couldn't sleep. At all. For those of you who know me, you know this is rarely an issue. But sure enough, I tossed and turned all night long. I got out of bed early and made it to the office by 0800 amid surprised looks from my staff. "Perhaps, tonight." I tell myself in hopes of making it to bed early.

SomeBritInMass eluded to Bengals as "ferocious fur-covered thugs with razor blades" and he couldn't be more wrong. My kitties are the most fun, loving, cuddly creatures I've seen in a long time. But Niobe, the most....um, complete of the two, has a problem with errant elimination (don't worry

drax0r, I won't tell any stories of yours). This has been a problem from the start, but when she urinated on an entire basket of folded, clean, children's clothes - that was the last straw for my wife. As I have been researching feline behavorial problems, I have learned much, and I am sure will be able to enjoy the comfort and company of my little wildcat.

BLAST FROM THE PAST Excerpt from my Feburary 16th post:

The kids were in the other room watching television the other night when they came into the living room to get me. They were very excited about something. The both of them. They each grabbed a hand and tried to extract me from the couch. I relented and followed them into the other room. They sat on the edge of the bed, and patted a space between them. "Sit here, HURRY!" I sat down in front of an infomercial for a mop, and looked at both of them. What did you want me to see? Did I miss it? Both pair of eyes were GLUED to the screen. "No, daddy, this is it - watch!" I watch a man demonstrate the mop on a variety of substances. The children were awe-struck. About two and a half minutes later, they show the mop, and the price. $19.95. "This is the part!" My son announces. My daughter squeals with delight. Not one, but TWO! TWO mops for the price of one! the television announces. Both children looked as though they had seen the real Santa Claus. "TWO DADDY! You can get TWO mops!" They were very excited about the mops. I was speechless.

I always get tired of hearing how men have kept women down. We invented disposable diapers only when we began changing them, we invented the highly uncomfortable bra to highlight the bosom. Men invented pantyhose, and men invented the Epilady. I get tired of these accusations, and though it has taken me 15-years and my entire family fortune, I now have my stock answer: THERE SHOULD BE MORE WOMEN ENGINEERS!

From Yahoo! News (thanks

galinda822):

ARLINGTON, Texas - The school district here has expanded its dress codes to include mouths — and earlobes.
Students may no longer wear mouth jewelry known as "grillz" — shiny teeth caps — or the earlobe-stretching practice known as "gauging."
"The district is having to respond to fads because they've become distracters or a safety hazard for those around them," said Malcolm Turner, the district's executive director of student services.
The nearby Irving, Grand Prairie and DeSoto districts also ban grillz, and some also address gauging — the process of placing increasingly large items in the ears to stretch the lobes.
But students said the body modification is simply self-expression.
"Really, a grill is just like an earring. It's fashion," said junior Devonte Wright, 16.
But school officials said they hoped to teach students that life would require them to follow specific regulations in specific settings.
"We want to instill in them a sense of modesty and a sense of community," said school board trustee Gloria Pena. "We're preparing them for the work force, and in the work force there are rules."

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2006-07-07 16:13

You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

Every once in a while - not often mind you - I simply cannot handle the fact that every single user in this building sincerely believes that IT should be responsible for the contents and information which might be relevant to the success and well being of their corporate health and personal job security BECAUSE IT IS CONTAINED ON EITHER A MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT, AN EXCEL DOCUMENT OR TRANSMITTED VIA EMAIL!

Don't... don't care?

As a 36-year-old IT Manager, I guess the Dell Catalog isn't really geared toward me. I ran across a two-page ad on their new XPS desktops and laptops which read, (lower case 'g') "get right up in their grill." After asking around, I discovered that today's youth who primarily associate themselves with the "hip-hop" lifestyle, now wear jewelry on their teeth. In my limited understanding of these things, they apparently transform your mouth into something which represents the front grill of a car. So in fact, if you were to purchase this XPS, and game on it, you could in fact "get up in your [opponents] teeth." (possibly face but I'm unclear on the distinction.) Fantastic!

...time passes.

One of my Desktop guys places the song 'Grillz' by some rapper named 'Nelly' on my computer and auto-launches it for me. Nice.

It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.

Two nights ago (I don't know why I never managed to write what I actually dreamed the night before) I dreamed that my father and I were cleaning the house, or a shed or something, and we found a like-new, perfectly functioning record player which was simply dusty. We cleaned it up and it sparkled! We hooked it up to the computer and ripped his LP of Boys from Brazil. What a nice dream! I think I'm obsessing about that soundtrack. I even did a title search on DirecTV to see if it was in the wings (of course it wasn't). Bah!

Eight?

It's been a busy, stressful week at work. I arrive home exhausted every evening, and here lately not at all on time. Wednesday night I grilled (get right up in their grill) chicken and my wife prepared a bed of salad to place it on. It was fantastic. We drank a bottle of spatlese with dinner, then sat on the back deck and smoked cigars while the kids played inside. Last night, it was the same chicken on a bed of mixed carrot and spinach couscous with straw mushrooms - again, fantastic. Then cigars & brandy on the deck while watching the children swim. That really does help take the stress out of my day.

Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

The real-live Bob's we're currently dealing with have created a website which allows us to put in our time in 15 minute intervals. As dumb as that sounds by itself, the web page they've created times out every 15 minutes and requires another login. How ignorant is that? So - the guy who mocks me openly with "what do you use that linux box for anyway, huh?" (which I had to give up to put on a users desktop a few weeks ago) asks me, "What can we do about this?" To which I reply, "If I had my linux box..." so I'm thinking of trying one of

drax0r's wget scripts, possibly trying to encapsulate username and password in a secure socket layer to play keep alive. I don't know if it will work, but I'll give it a shot. Assholes.

Robert William Kramer
1944 - 2006
Robert William Kramer, 60, passed away Saturday, July 1, 2006, in Arlington.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, July 8, in Arlington Funeral Home Chapel.

Memorials: Texas Girls Choir, 4449 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76109.

Robert was the son of E.W. and Dorothy Kramer of O'Neill, Neb. A 1962 graduate of O'Neill High School, he attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1971.

Robert served in the National Guard 1962-1966. He retired in November 2005 from National Cartography and GEO Spacial Center, Fort Worth.

He was a loving father and grandpa. He will be fondly remembered.

Survivors: Son, Cathan and wife, Gale, of Burleson; daughters, Lauriann and husband, Dusty, of Arlington and Caitlin of Fort Worth; Granddaughter, Robyn; brothers, Tom of Los Angeles, Calif., and Todd and Bruce of Lincoln, Neb.; and sisters, Beth of Minneapolis, Minn., and Rene of O'Neill, Neb.

One of my first jobs at my last client was to put Big Brother monitoring on all the servers there. I was given my own box to build-out as I desired and to just 'make it happen.' That's what I do, so no big deal. There were four boxes I did not have root access to, so I emailed the owner of the box asking for privileges so I could accomplish my task. The next day, I get this nasty email back from this surly bastard, "Don't you touch my boxes. Don't you ever touch my boxes!" Hmmmm. Taken back a bit, I ask around. "Oooooh, that's Bob. Don't mess with Bob." It seems he'd been in government service so long, and was so surly, that every one was afraid of him.

Not one to back down from a challenge, I peer over at his desk - messy to be sure - and get the lay of the land...lots of empty coffee cups. I bring in some cream & sugar the next day just in case. I make a strong pot of coffee at my desk and have a cup. When that's finished, I pick up my pot and announce, "I have a pot of fresh Starbucks I can't finish, would any one like a top off? You sir?" As I peer into his cube. He accepts and I introduce myself. When he tells me his name, I mention, "Oh of course, you sent me that email..."

We became (not 'tight' exactly) but he came to respect my opinion and I often consulted with him. He sure was a surly bastard - to those who were afraid of him, but never to us, the unix guys on his team.

Take care Bob.

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2006-07-02 11:48

Yesterday, my wife and daughter spent the night at

galinda822's for Girl Night. My son & I had Boy Night. This year, Boy Night was provided in part by two sponsors, Bill and

celtmanx. How, you may ask? After the requisite grilled dogs and macaroni & cheese, coke (the only time he gets to drink soda) and Hot Wheels, he brings down the Playskool Millenium Falcon and X-Wing that David had bought him, followed by battle with the Power of the Force spheres he picked me up several years ago, followed by the most boring game I've ever played, "Escape from the Death Star Action Figure Board Game" again, a gift from David...

When I could stand no more, we watched the Trilogy, a parting gift from Bill. My son had a blast and wished every night were 'Boys Night.' From what I understand, my daughter had an equally good time at galinda's.

Tonight, fireworks at galinda's dad's in Jefferson County. Astro called this weekend as well, and I just discovered my longtime USAF buddy is going to be in town as well the next several days. I really don't have the cycles for all this, but when it rains, as they say...it pours.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

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2006-06-30 17:04

My guys are getting really tired of me treating the office as the bridge of a federation starship (yes, they call me, "Captain" well...everyone but Carla) so this morning I was going to call in on my drive and have them put me on speakerphone so I could announce, "Hello Angles." in my best 'Charlie' voice. I think I'll put the whole Star Trek thing on hold for awhile and take on the Charles Townsend Agency persona.

Even with "Moderate Safe search On" it is not a good idea to search for "Rob Lowe" even if you're innocently searching for "Number 2" pics of a young Robert Wagner. That is, unless you want to see his crank. Trust me on this.

Edited another Wikipedia entry this morning.

WSUS is Microsoft's proprietary patch management & deployment system. However Microsoft does not release all of their patches to be WSUS compliant. I don't understand that.

You would think that if the State government required liability insurance on vehicles, they would be prepared to provide said insurance.

I have a lot to say on a subject, and I had a screen capture to prove it, which I have since lost. My arch-nemesis over at xanaga, TheTheologiansCafe has recently had a hate campaign start against him. These morons, who are apparently upset at his rein of xanga's "Featured Content" (which appears based upon eProps and number of comments) have been spamming the everliving shit out of his site with rude comments. Whereas he normally gets just over 200 comments a post, he now has thousands of comments per post - Their excessive behavior is actually driving the site to the goal they wish to rid it of! I find that fascinating.

I am also ready to reveal my opinion on net-neutrailty:
If money-making corporations are to compensate ISP's for providing internet, we might as well...

Pay aircraft manufacturers for any profit rec'd overseas if a salesman uses their transportation to seal the deal in person by flying there.

Pay clothing designers and manufactures for business contracts won based even if just loosely based in part because they looked professional.

Pay computer manufacturers proceeds from stock due to high-uptimes and no missed SLA's.

Pay colleges for high-profit inventions by former students they may accomplish later in life.

Pay handgun manufacturers a portion of profit from crimes involving money when a handgun was used in a robbery.

Pay telecom's a portion of any multi-billion dollar deal sealed over the phone...oh yeah, that exactly what they're trying to do!

Got

galinda822 set up with her new mac mini intel core solo. It is a sweet earth you might say, along with all her hard, pip-hittin' apps she'll ever need. Well, everything but a Cisco OSX VPN client. I have

drax0r all over that one. I imagine a world where I don't require Windows, and don't acutally speak to people who do. Of course the best part about all of this is the powerful linux box she now has sitting on her desk at home...

Eric Howton --

[adjective]:

Pretentiously academian

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

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2006-06-28 09:13

jesskd26 recently posted that

drax0r should buy her an island.

I support this, and I'll tell you why. I want him to start his own evil empire, and live atop a volcano in an elaborate multi-billion-dollar insane-architect-designed mansion. I'll call him Extreme Chancellor Phallax if that's what he desires, and he can call me, "Number Two." I'll sit at his right hand as we eat wild hog that we hunt with with our newly designed super-secret weapons. I think I really just want to sit on the beach of this island and drive those little 6-wheeled buggies he'll no doubt have to get around on. Maybe we'll finally build that hovercraft out of vaccuum-cleaner parts? I dunno, I just think it would be cool.

Track 17, "Prelude to War" from the BSG: Season 2 soundtrack is my new favorite track. I don't know how I initially missed this gem, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

In researching a user issue today, I found what was probably THE information needed to solve my problem on Google, this link: Acrobat Reader won't launch...in pdf format? *eyeroll*

And if that's not bad enough, I ran across this statement: ...this is the most least likely circumstance, but still possible. Most least...huh?

galinda822 is getting her mac mini today, and I have a short list of items I need to ensure I have on hand:

Power cord for monitor

Cat-5 Patch cord

Cat-5 Crossover cable

Sun Microsystems USB keyboard & mouse

Mousepad

I'm very excited. I already burned her a disc of essential apps and soon she will be online! Now that she's a mac user, I've decided I'm going to stop talking to all non-mac users. As soon as I stated this,

bigdog_etc flipped me off!

And yes, it's been one hell of a day today.

All right, guard, begin the unnecessarily Slow-Moving Dipping Mechanism.

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2006-06-24 17:08

Purchased at Best Buy:

Soundtracks

The Great Escape

The Omen (2006)

The Manchurian Candidate

Movies

Stargate

The Godfather Trilogy

Was thrilled to find The Great Escape. All my score purchases were Varese Sarabande's, a label I was completely unfamiliar with until

swashbuckler332 pointed them out to me last month. I was also shocked that of all places, Best Buy was carrying them. The Manchurian Candidate release contains both the 1962 and the 2004 scores, so double bonus for me! (I never saw the 2004 release - I mean, how could it possibly even compare to the 1962 version???) The Omen (2006) is dedicated to Jerry Goldsmith and contains a track entitled 'Omen 76/06' which immediately made me want to listen to The Boys of Brazil which I discover is not only not available, but apparently my dad's LP is worth $100. Wow. I put away three more, one of them being a Klaus Badelt score (who, as a Zimmer understudy and who's work on Pirates I found uninspired, I was a little nervous to spend the $15 on, Nanny McPhee (Patrick Doyle) which I would prefer to hear at least a small preview of first, and Hero - which was the hardest to put back because not only did I greatly enjoy Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but Itzak Perleman plays on this as well (Yo-Yo Ma played on CTHD).

Stargate is the Ultimate Edition, widescreen version (remember the wife wants me to replace my laserdiscs with DVD's) and was priced at an incomprehensible $6.99. A steal as far as I was concerned, but believe it or not, it rang up at $4.99 It boggles the mind.

Boy's been doing real hitting the ball out back. As I don't have a sport-bone in my body, I find this puzzling, but nonetheless want him to enjoy what he does and open up to new things. So today, in lieu of a toy - I got a couple of mitts and a T-Ball (which I discovered just today, is the size of a baseball, but soft). I spent half an hour or so out back today teaching him to catch. I wish my father was as patient with me as I am with him. As I have no expectation of 'pushing' him to any particular goal, I'm hoping he'll have more fun and give us something to do together. Furthermore, a lot of the tricks I learned in actually wearing a mitt and catching a ball, I learned later in life - not at Little League. So I try to impart these things to him to make him more effective. Either way, my goal is to have something to do with the boy, and to have fun doing it. I hope this can be one of those things.

For my own mitt, and given Target's (I hate Target) limited selection, gloves were between $60 (soft, Corinthian leather - think Ricardo Montalban selling Cordoba's) and $20 (hard plastic-like material). Well,

drax0r's seen how long I take to choose. And given the fact I almost couldn't hold a T-Ball in the softball gloves, I settled on a nice, leather, oversized baseball glove (which could easily hold either size ball) for $35. Now I just hope we'll use them.

Drove a 2004 Dodge Stratus R/T. It was very similar to my Sebring, minus all the leather, and with the addition of ground effects and a larger 3.0 litre V6. I asked about the Challenger and was told it would be in showroom floors Fall of '07 and that the base model was priced at $45k. I don't think I'll be buying a Challenger. The Stratus was a little rough on the paint & sunroof, but for an asking price of $15k, I could probably negotiate down closer to $10k. Several factors are involved here, however. My Cav, though I despise it, has never given me a bit of trouble. Ever. My Sebring not so much. This one had 40k miles on it, with a factory warranty of 30k miles still left on it. The Cav's has expired. Furthermore, (once again) I find that even with my very-high credit rating, Missouri interest on used cars is 7%. I WOULDN'T PAY SEVEN PERCENT FOR A CAR IF IT MEANT I HAD TO WALK TO WORK. Sales tax is higher than in Wichita, but lower than in Dallas. Meh. I think I'll just save back my car payments for a year or so once mine are paid off and just pay cash. Like I'll get anything outta the Cav anyway on trade-in.

Maybe I'll watch Stargate tonight...Or perhaps Serenity again, as I've had a hankering.

Today I picked up:

Superman Returns

Prince of Persia Offical Trilogy Soundtrack

Kate Bush: Aerial 2-disc set

The New World (Horner)

The Omen (1976)

X-Men (the first one)

Downloaded the F-Zero 'soundtrack' (heh, SNES)

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Expanded Edition

Cabaret

Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift

The Godfather, Part II (to complete my collection)

Wicked (the musical)

Terminator 2

Adding artwork took forever, but Superman Returns gave me goosebumps!

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2006-06-23 11:57

The pro's and con's of xanga's internal tracking function notwithstanding, for you, my gentle readers, a comment I posted to a girl's site in response to the comment she left on mine, (which is how things are done, you see, in xanga-land) "you visited my page quite a number of times yesterday any particular reason?" Might I add that atop her page when I came to respond, this edit: "for all you wierdo's checking out my site....i can see you so either stop snoopin thru my shit or comment!" Sweet girl.

Howdy. In response to your comment, no. I have no idea how I managed to visit here multiple times yesterday. I recall having a surprise message from [username] on my xanga, and I didn't understand it (I initially read her missive as 'forget I exist' rather than what was probably her intent of 'forget the connotations my nomenclature suggests') and went to her site for clues, running across an ungodly volume of messages from you. As both your avatar, and sheer number of comments piqued my interest, I visited your site. I glanced at some of your posts and saw you reference Q102, which made my think of my now-defunct Q102 in the greater DFW Metroplex and I'm sure I poked around a little further to try and determine your origin at that point. So, no need for alarm - though I must say, this light-pink text on white in the comment box, while very pretty, plays hell on one's eyes. Then again, it just could be the LCD monitor. Have a fantastic day ma'am.

I've owned five Nokia phones.

Models 638, 2160, 6100, 6560 & 3120

Generally, I've been pleased with them. And I like how the user interface is familiar from model to model. Makes for a short learning curve. But Nokia's PC Suite software is pissing me off. I found my data cable, installed the application, connected my 6560 (approved for the software, but not the data cable) and successfully downloaded my hundreds of contacts onto my computer. I removed the phone, connected my 3120 (approved for both) and...nothing. The application doesn't even see it. This marks the second computer I've seen this on. I don't understand. Why can't shit just work? I decided to try

drax0r's Jellyvision method, but it seems that Nokia doesn't list an email address. Excuse me? They instead listed a phone number on their web page with a note which said, "Call us Monday." WTF? Sure enough, a quick dial, and I confirm they're not taking calls until Monday! Bullshit. 'Site Index' turns up a valid email address for support. Business support. Business Support email address which is not visible of course on the Business Support page, mind you - only on the site map. I sent them a very polite email, which will likely be ignored.

time passes...

Well they did reply. Suggesting I call the help desk. Nice.

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david,
tony

2006-06-19 19:12

I think you sell yourself too short. Don't forget that you're also Fatass, the Destroyer.

That reminds me of a story.

The wife was gone for a week or so, visiting her parents in Wichita. Tony and I took a long, holiday weekend and drank quite a bit of Buffalo Trace (Not available in STL) while lounging in the pool.

After a considerable amount, my hefty friend thought he could run (in itself a feat), jump (this I'd never seen), and clear (unthinkable!) the pool. After much deliberation and consideration, I sat on his glasses and crushed them under my fat ass.

Then he made good on his claim:

To watch full-motion video of both of us fat asses jumping into the pool, visit the Water Buffalo Trace website!

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2006-06-16 14:29

If I give my daughter too many kisses, too quickly, she covers her face and says, "Enough kisses for a day!"

Today is a fantastic day for multifaceted reasons. First,

galinda822 is not only in a most unusually playful mood the likes of which I have not experienced before, but it marks the diametrical opposite of her mood yesterday. And as there are only three of us in the office today, yesterday that would have been two few, today it feels just right. I was up late last night blending and creating the graphic for last nights post - yet still managed to get a full eight-hours of sleep. Tonight its a case of Corona and movie night.

We had an excellent discussion on the possible nomenclature of

drax0r's possible new toy...

Masta Rasta Rakka Chakka Stakka

Then debated why Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would fabricate the story of Paul Revere eclipsing the real-life story of Israel Bissel. I won with the following Yiddish adaptation of "Paul Revere's Ride"

Harken me kinder and gimme a listel
Of the miten-tog gezuntel of Israel Bissel,
On the yom of 18, in yortseit of past;
A yungermantshik mount ferd fast!
Nisht do gedacht from da var...

Tonight, I'm firing up the grill, lighting a cigar, wrapping my meat-hooks around an ice cold bottle of Corona, and grilling salmon. I wish you were here.

I'm really enjoying the last track of the new BSG soundtrack, Black Market which is very Marrakesh in tone. It stays with me.

Started whistling tunes from Paint Your Wagon much to the consternation of my staff. Sucks to be them.

So sitting on my Daily Service Review this morning, where the only thing I am required to utter are the words, "Zero Green" severely limits my expression, I instead chose to play this. In the cacophony which followed I was asked to play it again for its humor value, heard something which suggested that it was the epitome of laziness, and applauded for creativity. Lots of different perspectives for two simple words.

celtmanx I do not have your Conan DVD. I've never seen it, and don't have any plans to.

Talked with Tony on the phone today a little bit - that's always fun, and my mother twice, which is almost unprecedented.

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2006-06-14 11:51

There are girls just ripe for some kissin - and I mean to kiss me a few

I don't have any idea why I'm in such a fantastic mood today. Perhaps it was the nine-hours of sleep I got last night? That's a good theory. To better prepare for my 0700 conference call, I made sure the kids were down and I was in bed by 2100. I remember at one point I looked at the clock and was upset it read 10:59 until I closed my eyes and realized I'd been dreaming (I'd had a healthy portion of mozzarella for dinner). Which means sometime between 2100 and 2300, I'd not only fallen asleep, but actually managed to sleep deeply enough to hit REM sleep. Awesome!

Oh, those girls - don't know what they're missin, I've got a lot of living to do

Mostly I've been dancing Christopher Walken-style from the 'Weapon of Choice' video. That is of course when I don't break out into song. I think that most people are just full of horseshit. They say, "Musicals aren't very realistic because people don't just break out into song and start dancing." Aside from the fact that enjoying a musical has NOTHING to do with realism, I find that in my everyday life I do break out into song! Ask anyone who knows me.

And there's wine - all ready for tastin, and there's cadillacs - all shiny and new

This may a little difficult for me to piece together at this juncture, but I'm going to try. I dreamed there was a new movie out. It was the intertwined story of Japanese carjackers driving metallic-orange Japanese coupes, and a group of Texans who were traveling across the state in Conestoga wagons (in traditional garb of that period). What I recall most about this movie other than the stark differences in this cross-genre film, was that the well-known actors did all their own songs (which were remakes of popular songs limited to the West Texas area - I remember thinking at the time, "Poor

drax0r won't be familiar with any of these since he hails from East Texas..."). I remember being moved to tears with emotion everytime these well-known actors began singing their songs. It was beautiful.

Got to move, 'cause time is a wastin' There's such a lot of liv-in' to do!

Mostly I've been soft-shoeing around the office today signing my favorite hits from the likes of Bye Bye Birdie, The Pajama game and Guys and Dolls. I set the coffee maker to start early this morning in preparation of my early morning call and drank 3 full cups of hot, black coffee. I think the euphoria has just lasted all day long. Oh, and the conference call went well - always a plus!

There's music to play, places to go, people to see - everything...for you and me!
Life's a ball, if only you know it - and it's all...just waiting for you!
You're a-live, so go on and show it - there's such a lot of livin' to do!

;)

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2006-06-02 11:15

I'm still trying to decide if Tony's glaciphobia pertains to fear of alpine glaciers, continental glaciers, or just fear of glaciers in general. Because this is a sensitive subject for him, I never discuss it outright, rather, I try to pick up on associated fears to pinpoint what exactly about glaciers frighten him (though even I admit that glaciofluvial sediments are a touch scary). I don't think his fear of swimming fish is a puzzle piece, (though I was hoping for a good lead) as its not quite ichthyophobia which leads me to conclude that his fear of swimming fish is not a true phobia, rather, taking my lead from psychologists from the University of Arkansas who claim that homophobia is not an actual phobia because it's caused by disgust, not fear or anxiety, that his is completely unrelated. As I discover more, I'll gladly post here on this fascinating topic.

Dreamed that

danzigfried and I were going into business together. From what I recall, however, we were dodging the gangland underworld quite a bit. I have no idea why. Perhaps I suffer from bolshephobia, the fear of Bolsheviks?

In an unrelated dream last night, I was packing my stuff as quickly as possible to move the hell out of Missouri. We were going to back to Texas.

galinda822 was quite distraught, and kept questioning why, but all I could tell her was, "I gotta get outta here." This one I'm pretty sure stems from my fear of change, metathesiophobia.

schpydurx suggested backing up my iTunes to prevent further corruption. After careful consideration I've decided that he's right. Although it's sure easier to make flippant comments than to actually troubleshoot solutions, I think I'll cron a script to backup the database. That should protect me from any future occurences of this nature. As to backing up the entire iTunes library however...And I'm pretty sure this one is dead balls on with sectoratychiphobia the fear of hard drive failure.

Echoing my chronophobia or fear of time, I would LOVE to see The Barber of Seville at the Saint Louis Opera, and since Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an entire year away, this is something I could do in the meantime. I really don't have the time for these excursions, but I'd sure like to make time for some of them.

And because I'm not here to poke fun at Tony, here's a list of common phobia that does not aflict him:

( behind cut )

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2006-05-25 22:03

Final Fantasy Advent Children Soundtrack is at times beautiful and melodic. At others, WAY too fast paced for a 2200 entry.

Wife let me sleep in until about 0900. That was awesome. Went to see a man about a kitchen. Price is right - but will require the father-in-law leading the project. Is he game? Home Depot, pick up the boy, lunch at Cancun's Mexican Buffet, Office Depot, Dollar Store, Hobby Lobby, SAM's. Move 32" TV downstairs, move 27" TV upstairs, move couch downstairs, move 'tapestries' downstairs, move & install surround sound downstairs. In the past two weekends I have completely rearranged the house. The basement is now officially the 'Man Room' according to my wife. With only the lamps and the television on - it's the perfect environment for experiencing a movie! Of course there are now nine speakers and three subwoofers in the basement.

Needless to say, I was busy. Looking very forward to going into work tomorrow morning...

/RANDOM THOUGHTS:

My boy asks, "When is grandma going to be here?" My wife said, "Monday." He asks, "How many naps until she's here?" That got me thinking. Perhaps

drax0r should use 'naps' as his unit of time? It only makes sense.

/END RANDOM THOUGHS

Only 19 days until BSG: Season Two soundtrack ships!

In other news,

celtmanx 'remembered' that Tony and I had fabricated

professortom after arguing relentlessly with 'him' for the better part of a week. He's been going back reading posts 'he' made kicking himself now. It's been quite amusing. This is one of the farther-reaching pranks we've ever pulled.

SuperCluck posted anonymously earlier today. Going to have to keep a watch out for him!

Super Cluck is a chicken from outer space, accidentally left on Earth as an egg, and adopted by the kind Mrs. Cluck. Soon after he hatches it becomes evident that Cluck has some unusual attributes--his large size, amazing strength, and ability to fly. Children attracted to "Super Hero" characters will delight in Super Cluck's story. Lloyd's bright watercolor-and-pen illustrations are often more detailed than the usual beginning-to-read fare; many of the chicken coop scenes are delightful. Readers will be awaiting the further adventures of this chick. Meanwhile, Robert and Super Cluck can serve as role models for aspiring young authors.

The funny part about that synopsis, is how closely it relates to my Cluck. I'm pretty sure he's from outer space, and was adopted by Mrs. Cluck. I've also noticed his unusual attribute of large size...

Can't wait for the good news tomorrow

galinda822...

And....it's 2300. Good night all!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank

celtmanx for all his drunken comments below.

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2006-05-24 10:43

I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, When he made Pearl Harbor.

I think my cat Daisy has figured out and understands the HVAC system at the house. This may help should I need repairs in the future. I'm wondering if I could bribe her into replacing my hot-water heater with some canned tuna.

I miss you more then that movie missed the point, And that’s an awful lot girl.

I was up late listening to my new soundtrack - it was blessedly quiet in the house (after the kids went down) and the environment was perfect for doing so. Then my wife walks in from the other room where you couldn't hear it and exclaims that the music is a little loud. "Funny, it wasn't until you came in here." I replied.

And now, now you've gone away, And all I'm trying to say,

My neck is aching today. I either slept on it wrong, or my head has swollen to a massive size due to all the thinking I've been engaged in lately. I just took two Excedrin. Where is the user group file on OSX anyway?

Is Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.

darwin is unix which isn't really unix, based on BSD which is more like SYS5 now which darwin isn't...My head hurts.

drax0r had a book entitled, "OSX for Unix Geeks" or something to that effect. Perhaps that will show me where the shadow file is, since I know one exists...Oh, and groups is an executable. *sigh*

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, He was terrible in that film.

I installed a processor, voltage regulator, and a floppy drive on our new *shudder* Exchange server this morning, then loaded it up with 146GB drives. Wouldn't mind having one of those myself. I seriously need to look into some sort of backup/increased capacity for teh max0r.

I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part, He's way better than Ben Affleck.

We had a one compresser go out on our Liebert A/C unit. I get a call from Facilities. "Are there any servers you could power off just until we get this compresser replaced?"

Yeah, we have at least a dozen servers running for no reason whatsoever.

And now all I can think about is your smile, And that shitty movie too,

Apparently, they have OSXUserUtils, which adds commandline useradd/userdel/groupadd/groupdel fuctionality; but it appears to be just an emulator to the GUI (which I do not require), includes a 'group' which really isn't used (Uh...) and non-functional with 10.4! Fantastic! What a raging pile of shiite muslim that would be.

Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.

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2006-05-18 12:45

My alarm went off. As my head was on the pillow, I saw my alarm clock sideways, and as my glasses were sitting on the end table, I squinted. I couldn't make out the time. Something was blocking the display. I reach my hand out to move the obstruction. There wasn't one. I've only had five hours of sleep. Trying...to...think. I sit up, put on my glasses and stare at the clock. Sure enough, "J:20" Crap alarm clock. Cost me $50 and took me half an hour to pick out a year ago. Poor Tony, suffering next to me while I sweated over the features. Once, we went to Fry's to pick out cases for our computers. He chose his in 14-seconds. I took nearly a full hour.

What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.

Stayed up late working on my new avatar last night. It's some of my best work to date, if for no other reason than the lack of good source material, and what I was actually able to accomplish with what I had. The subject was similar in color to the background making for a near impossible extraction, so I had to roll with it. First off I had to rotate the image 45-degrees just to get it visible enough at the size limitations. Then, using the color scheme, rendered some clouds, clone-stamped the other areas by hand, brought out the foreground with a spotlight effect and added a lens flare. Fantastic!

Unbelievable.

Reprising my role as Grill Master this evening, my first act will be to grill salmon for dinner! I can't wait to light that cigar, stroll out on my deck, and fire up that grill. Of course they're now linking grilling to cancer. Carcinogens from dripping fat hitting the flash plates and the char produced from ultra-seared meat. Nice. That's one tip I didn't need to hear about SomeBritInMass!

Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally!

So yesterday, even though the IS department is not responsible for meeting setup, I get a call from one our Directors. It was her meeting, and in it she had her boss. So I go up there. The projector was setup in the middle of a box of tables strung with interconnected hubs and power strips. "What can I help you with?" I ask the Director. "BIGGER!" yells her boss, throwing his hands into the air. "Can we increase the screen size?" she asks me. "BIGGER!" he yells again. I try to NOT give him my tone it down, asshole I am so done with your mouth looks. "BIGGER!" he yells again as I carefully roll the cart containing the projector on it. I reach the limit of the cabling. "BIGGER!" he yells yet again. "I WANT THE PICTURE ACROSS THE ENTIRE SCREEN." He grabs the cart, and pulls it back further, dragging half the powerstrips and hubs to the floor. I know I visibly sighed. There was nothing more I could do but leave. I shit you not, I heard one last time, "BIGGER!"

Yeah, I know, I got a real problem with that.

Later, on http://ehowton.livejournal.com:

(4:25:12 PM) drax0r: I'm writing a post about morning jazz
(4:30:53 PM) EricHowton: I'm going to write about the proposed legislation curbing bandwidth access and speeds from the telecommunications lobbyists because they feel they bear the brunt of the burden providing access which allows entrepreneurial companies to get rich off their lines without them getting a slice of the pie.

AND:

(4:45:03 PM) EricHowton: I don't know which is worse.
(4:45:12 PM) drax0r: ?
(4:45:13 PM) EricHowton: Living with my wife who, every single day reminds me I haven't submitted an expense report for six months, or...
(4:46:18 PM) drax0r: That. That's worse. There's nothing you could say now that would make me think there's something worse than that.
(4:46:54 PM) EricHowton: Submitting a 6-month old expense report to my boss.
(4:47:30 PM) drax0r: Wow.
(4:47:45 PM) drax0r: That's a tough one.

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2006-05-16 11:41

Ok, I promise not to bore you will a poll on this one, but consider the following scenario, and let me know:

A new friend uploads an avatar for

drax0r of the text to one of his favorite flash animations, "The End of the World" which he recently posted here. Unfortunately, because the original creator was either a non-US citizen, too young to know there was Warsaw Pact, or just, well...dumb, the line "AH MOTHERLAND!" (as spoken by the Soviet comrade) was translated "AUGH MOW THE LAWN!" Which, of course, is just retarded. However, this single frame was stopping drax0r from using it as his avatar. As his dear friend, I offered to deconstruct, repair, and upload for his use. I retained the original file name of 'thnukes.gif' to prevent any confusion. My question to you is, Was he drunk?

The reconstructed image:

The saved gif:

The upload:

The verification:

The notification:

The drunken search?

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2006-05-15 12:48

Polls are gay. User-created polls are even gayer. However, I was going to ask you, my readership a question, and figured that a poll used in this instance might be less gay, and certainly easier to tabulate. Please provide your input. Thank you:

[Poll #729408]

(Delta Flyer 2 being the unmarked animated gif)

EricHowton: "concatenate the file, pipe it to 'strings' which extracts all text, then pipe that to more for pagination."
drax0r: You get -1 points for unnecessary use of the cat command.
EricHowton: heh -was talking to programmers

Apparently, you can't vote if your not logged in, which means no anonymous voting. Nice. I told you these were gay!

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2006-05-11 08:29

heh:

Xanga will be down today from 7 am - 2 pm EST, as we move our servers to a new network facility (we ran out of room in our old one). We're loading a few hundred servers onto a truck, driving them across the Hudson River, and reassembling them in New Jersey. We'll get the site up and running again as soon as we can!

Thanks for your patience,
The Xanga Team

Bought a 5-pack roll +1 (2x3-can special pricing) of Grizzly this morning at QT. Hand him my card, he swipes it and asks, "Credit or debit?" I give him my standard answer, "Your preference." As I've noticed different proprietors prefer using one or the other based upon either certain charges associated with one or the ease of the other. With a line of people behind me, all in a hurry to get to work, he loudly exclaims, "It's your money, man! Your money! You decide!" Nice. Let me see if I can translate my answer here, for you, the common man who works at QT and possibly reads random lj entries: "I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS HOW YOU DEBIT MY CHECKING ACCOUNT."

Grilled salmon in the rain yesterday when I got home. It was perfect. Friday night is our order-out night, and the day I get to bring home a brand-spanking new case of Pilzner Urquell! I love that beer, you know. To me, there is no more perfect beer on the planet. So cold, so fresh, so damn tasty! But of course that's all the wife will drink as well, which is always a double-edged sword. On one hand, I think she's awesome because of it, and we only ever have one type of beer in the fridge. On the other of course, She's drinking my beer! And Friday night is the one night a week we turn on the television. We've got catching up to do on The Sopranos.

I only post on lj, however, not everyone is as singularly minded as I am, they jump around - post everywhere! Have you ever tried to follow a thread on xanga? Following a conversation is a nightmare. And as

drax0r heh, heh, pointed out all responses are posted on the corresponding person's page? wtf? My point is, in order to effectively post (or sometimes to post at all) an account is required. I regret to admit to the following:

Carla took off work Thursday, Friday & Monday. As she was leaving the office she exclaimed, "SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY!" I was mortified! To her credit, she was unfamilier with the euphemism.

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2006-05-10 08:57

Skoal, caught mid-air doing a whirling dual-wield attack!

Gamed two hours last night, from 2100-2300. Paused the game before I went to bed, but the box rebooted in the middle of the night for updates. Don't think I saved so...will replay again tonight. No worries, I'm not exactly in a hurry to finish the game. What's the point in that?

My boy and I have been reading a page from "The Great Castle Search" each evening. He loves the Great Search series of books. I learned about Motte & Bailey castles and palisades.

The kitties are already housebroken (thanks astro!) and have been ceaselessly exploring. Daisy still hides from them, but they pay her no notice. They don't cry at night, but during the day, when they're out, they use a series of echolocation to find each other if they are out of visual range. Now THAT can get annoying, but it seems to work for them. They will get darker as they mature, developing tiger-stripes or leopard spots, and their wild animal-like pelt will thicken; I got to pet the mothers and they were awesome. I was only able to get these pics because they had just awoken from a mid-afternoon catnap and were still a little groggy:

Headache is gone and I feel fantastic. Its been a busy morning, it always is - but when you're in a great mood, you really don't seem to mind; it's an opportunity to shine!

Still firming up plans for this weekend. I think we're going to watch The Sopranos Friday evening, and the wife is going to finish painting the dining room (and possibly start the living room) Saturday. If she does that, I'll entertain the children downstairs with movies and Hot Wheels.

(12:25:31 PM) EricHowton: Have you heard the good news?
(12:25:35 PM) EricHowton: HE HAS RISEN.
(12:25:50 PM) galinda822: Who?
(12:26:01 PM) EricHowton: Tony's awake!

The sky is gray and its raining buckets. I love it! Of course that always means the children will be underfoot when I get home instead of riding their bikes...

Then there is

drax0r who is an outspoken proponent of not deleting posts...his own posts, that is, as it turns out, as he has recently deleted one of mine. The great operatic composer Wagner thought that no opera should ever be more than two hours long, else one would lose interest. He himself, however, composed operas over four (4) hours long. He felt the rules should apply to everyone but himself. Much like our friend draxor here:

Thanks for playing!

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2006-04-27 12:37

You woke up this morning

I put my coffee cup directly under the coffee maker this morning to fill my cup. It's stronger that way.

Got yourself a gun

The F-15's were taking off this morning from the Air National Guard side of Saint Louis-Lambert Airport. It makes quite a racket. "Oh those planes making all that noise." I hear. My reply? "I don't mind it one bit. Sounds like...freedom."

Mama always said you'd be...

I'm really disappointed in the quality of recordings I get with my console DVD recorder. Of course this could have been what Tony was referring to when he told me he wasn't pleased with his Magnavox, but who really knows what Tony's ever talking about:

drax0r: I don't like the magnavox
EricHowton: Why not?
drax0r: I just don't.
EricHowton: Does it not work?
drax0r: It works.
EricHowton: So what is it exactly you don't like about it?
drax0r: meh

The Chosen One

Rec'd my data cable today to move my contact list from my old phone to my new one. It's pretty sweet what the suite can do. Apparently, I can also convert mp3's to ringtones. I'll have to play with that one...

Oh NICE! It connected to my old phone and backed up my contact list to the PC, but now will not connect to either my new phone or my old phone. Hence the title of my livejournal account, "Nothing is ever as easy as it sounds." Asses. I fscking hate USB software.

She said: You're one in a million

"Caprica" will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of "Battlestar Galactica" and focus on the lives of two families -- the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind's Twelve Colonies are at peace and on the verge of a technological breakthrough: the first Cylon.

You've got to burn to shine

( My Dream last night )

But you were born under a bad sign

So, I had this idea, that I could make my own online blog quiz for you guys. Something less gay tha n most of them out there. But so far, all I've been able to come up with, are gay meme's! YOU get to fill in the questions, YOU get to fill in the possible choices, BUT THE ANSWERS MUST ALL BE RANDOMLY GENERATED! I was looking for something with some if/then statements so I could come up with something accurate (kinda like that O/S quiz on

ximo's page..) Sucks something fierce. I'm just not looking hard enough. Maybe Tony could write me one in perl.

With a blue moon in your eyes!

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2006-04-25 10:42

It's amazing what a full eight-hours of sleep will do for the human body. I feel alive, awake, excited...fantastic even. Or perhaps that's just the coffee?

Everything that follows is a result of what you see here.

Took the wife for Indian last night. She had the minced curry lamb, I had the hottest thing on the menu, Lamb Vindaloo. Yes, my brow was sweating.

I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.

At work we're considering the possibility of building a robotic version of one our guys out of bluetooth automatic handset lifters and power bricks. The Jayson, our mad-scientist of the group, is scribbling the details on napkins now. I'm just afraid he's going to have the robot do his evil bidding, instead of just deploying laptops.

I trust your judgement.

I still need to learn IPchains and configure my new slackware 'router' at home, but have been so busy doing everything else, its kind of fallen to the wayside. What I require is more time.

But then our interactions have never been entirely normal. Wouldn't you agree?

I have no idea what today will hold, but it has been eerily slow here this morning. If the entire day passes in the same thread, I won't be upset. Today will be the second day in a row of NOT watching The Sopranos, as my wife enjoyed her sleep so much last night, that she wants to try again tonight. She doesn't feel as if she's quite caught up yet. We finished Season Two, so the next episode will the season premier of Season Three.

I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.

I'd also like you to meet my new best-friend: Pro Truth. He's pretty cool, as he has a xanga site he doesn't post on. Rather, he goes around passing righteous judgment on people whom he disagrees with, threatening them with hellfire and damnation! What fun! Recently, he attacked ProfessorTom, so I felt justified in defecating on his site! I love how by simply following some asshole's link, you can enrich your own life. It's not that I oppose attacking Tom, quite the contrary - it's one of my favorite pasttimes! But for some stranger to do it? That riles me up. Might I suggest some of my readers check out my new best-friends site as well?

That, detective, is the right question. Program terminated.

( My Geek Profile )

Also, I just returned from Best Buy, and yes, I picked up Dungeon Siege II!

Blast from the past:
(Found on Tom's Blog, dated 8/22/2005)

drax0r loves intellectual debate. He is also the most generous, selfless person I know, who gives without any thought of reward. He is fiercely loyal and very well read. He can speak intelligently on any number of topics and is well versed in poetry and literature. His Star Wars persona: QUI-GON JINN. Tony loves cats, walks on the beach, and quiet nights fragging unknown assailants online. drax0r is very impulsive and embraces self-improvement. drax0r is a: REALIST

ehowton prides himself on being well travelled and uses the basis of his experience as the guide for his future decisions. He calculates his every move by contemplating the outcome of every possible scenario before acting. This is quite tedious and frustrates often the impulsive drax0r. ehowton's Star Wars persona: STORMTROOPER. ehowton loves cats and spending what little free time he has with his wife and children. He makes tough sacrifices for the betterment of his family. ehowton is an: OPTIMIST

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2006-04-22 16:35

I'm not much of a practical joker. I don't have the cycles for it, and I'm rarely amused by them, no matter what side of the joke I'm on. That's why I'm surprised that what I pulled was such a resounding success. In all honesty, however, practical joking was the last thing on my mind, which is why I suppose, it was such a success. Every 'i' dotted, every 't' crossed, the entire operation, from inception to completion, was brilliant. By far, my most flawless executed design, to date.

( How Tom Got Played )

In a completely separate scenario, drax0r was following links and came across a young, conservative christian girl here, in which he began to debate her. It was a wonderful exchange, and in a surprising move from the majority of young, conservative, christian girls I know, she didn't immediately delete his post! Unfortunately, his side of the debate was declared an 'attack' on this lady's site and in case she chooses to delete my post, I provide my response to her attack on drax0r, as she admits to blocking him from her site:

( In drax0r's defense... )

It's been a fun, busy, blogging weekend.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Very Low
Sloth:	Low
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	High
Pride:	Low

Discover Your Sins - Click Here

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2006-04-19 10:23

The day after my post detailing that my day is repeatedly identical, everything changes.

Yesterday, I had to rearrange schedules for projects coming up. This left two people in my office normally staffed by five. Myself and one other. I was called on my cell phone this morning before I even got to work. Apparently, one of clients was backing her car in this morning and the accelerator stuck, causing her to crash into the building! Trying to shift into 'Park' she managed 'Drive' instead, and crashed through a wrought-iron fence destroying a parked car on the other side. She was not seriously injured. This caused me to have to move one user this morning from his current office to a new, temporary location, with another move in the works to repair the damage. And as there are only the two of us today, it's very busy...

In a surprising move by

galinda822 she not only was the first non-Brit I've ever heard utter the word 'peckish' but she also identified The Wizard of Oz playing in the background on a Sopranos episode before I did. Wow.

So we record this show, "Honey We're Killing the Kids," about the eating habits of today's youths. They take this couple, and using software, 'age' the children to 40-years old, showing what they could possibly look like if they continue their evil eating ways. After the hour show, they 'age' the children once again to show what they may look like if they stick to eating healthy. While this was all very illuminating, I did notice just a couple of things during the transformation video's of the children in their 40's which was rather disturbing, and far from objective. For example, not only were the 'heavy' (pre-change in eating habits) children well, fat...but they were all generated with balding and/or thin hair, frowns on their faces, and looking downwards. Really, they looked pathetic. However, at the end of the show, when they aged them post-change, not only were they thin (to be expected) but they had happy expressions, all their hair, and were not looking downwards. How sad that what could have been an informational, interesting show pandered to cheap effects to get the desired results.

Posting early for Tony to read...may edit later.

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galinda,
tony

2006-04-12 09:03

(Photos provided for Tony, who likes pictures.)
( Tony )

The 2WIRE DSL modem is retarded. Any static IP (i.e. any device it itself did not assign via DHCP) shows as an 'inactive host' thus the router won't route traffic to it. How dumb is that?
( Modem )

Since my wife and I have engaged Galinda to suffer Firefly and Battlestar Galactica with us, it was only fair when the 6th season of The Soprano's began to air, that we immerse ourselves in her world. Unfortunately, my wife and I have never seen any of the episodes. Kind thanks to

drax0r for loaning me his box sets so we could catch up. I was pleasantly surprised to find it far less violent and with far less cursing than I had expected. Think Deadwood for my expectations. I despise an overabundance of violence and needless cursing.
( Sopranos )

I usually dislike popular music. Until later. Then I can appreciate it. I hated Motley Crue when they emerged. I hated them equally 10 years later. However, I get an occasional riff in my head, and now enjoy some of their work. So I downloaded their 'Greatest Hits' last night and burned it CDDA format so I could listen to them on my short drive to work and back. However...something just wasn't right. Now, a seasoned fan would have noticed right away that it wasn't Vince Neil actually singing. The first that that tipped me off was the secondary chords being different. Only after skipping through most of the tracks on the CD did I realize...it was a Japanese band doing a cover CD. I ejected the disc and snapped it in half.
( Cover )

Will be compiling on my Solaris box today and hopefully get slackware installed at home this evening. Slackware is gnu-friendly. Solaris is not.
( Rave )

I'm wearing Polo Black this year. Thank you for noticing ;)
( Polo )

Have been listening to Lighnin' Hopkins while building my network at home. I'm only halfway through the second half of Double Blues (as I only use the main play window, arranged by 'Date Added') and am digging it so far. Texas Blues they call it.
( Lightnin )

Lastly, in looking for future used cars to replace the Cav...I've pretty much settled on the yet-to-be produced Dodge Challenger:

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2006-04-07 16:25

I left for Texas Wednesday after work. Sometime Thursday night, while I was in Wichita, a picture of me, drinking a beer showed up on the color printer at work. The gang arrived Friday morning, wondered who was printing pictures of me, and threw it away.

Apparently, sometime between the time it was printed and thrown away, the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for our client, saw the picture, and reported it up the chain. Today, I rec'd my official caution from my boss. Nice.

Speaking of the client overreacting, Tony once responded to the client's secure "Challenge Security Question & Answer" as, "What is the most retarded security implementation on this planet?" as his question, with the answer, "This client's security question and answer challenge." When they found this text during an audit some years later, they tried to have him fired on the spot.

According to my staff, the picture was probably 4+ years old (based on the glasses I was wearing at the time) and I was holding a longneck non-domestic beer above my head, as a salute. I scoured the harddrive, and found no such pictures meeting that description (not that I deny they probably exist somewhere, just not on the harddrive).

Stranger still, the girl who quit Monday, had asked if she could take them home with her! Just what the hell is going on here?

DSL is supposed to be active today. 5 IP's, 6.0Mbps down, 608kbps up.

To search mp3's on unsecured servers, use this little trick:
intitle:index.of "mp3" +"SEARCH_STRING_HERE" -htm -html -php -asp "Last Modified"

2700 sq/ft of household goods does not fit into an 800 sq/ft house.

The U-Haul was brand new with only 18k miles on it. Even fully loaded it would roll at 75mph and I was overwhelmed at how often I had to weave in and out of traffic in a 34-foot truck! Needless to say, it was an easy, quick trip!

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2006-03-20 12:58

I'm gonna make like a baby and head out Wednesday after work. Texas or bust.

Whenever my eldest has to poop, he hollers, "To the rocketship!" No one knows why.

Watched the new Dr. Who Friday. It was a poor substitute for BSG not being on.

teh max0r is set up at work for troubleshooting a board member's iBook tomorrow.

I was looking for a BSG RSS feed.

It's nice to be able to ease into your work week.

I miss my couch.

I may not be able to leave Mleko and Speedbump behind.

I may not be able to leave Tony behind.

As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team.... I don't know what he was talking about.

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2005-12-17 10:52

Lori and Galinda spent the day together drinking gin and making cookies while I slaved away at work. Met Lori at Galinda's, but she failed to bring the change of clothes for me she had packed, so she kidnapped Galinda and brought her to the hotel with us overnight.

The kids were aching for Daddy's Saturday morning pancakes, but since we have no house, I was forced to use boxed mix and pre-bottled syrup. Regardless, two pounds of sausage and stacks of pancakes later, we were all stuffed.

Rec'd three calls this morning. Not in this order: One, I had to come into the office to reboot our backup server, a Sun V210. Two, a user on broadband forgot what VPN was, and was trying to connect via dial-up RAS. He uh...changed his network passwd and couldn't get on. Three, Robin called! We had a delightful chat for about an hour, but were ultimately interupted by the other calls.

Drank some G&T last night, and got a drunken call from Tony for a telephonic 'toast' as his evening was progressing similarly. Will undoubtedly drink some G&T's tonight as well, spending the night at Galinda's house if I properly understand the agenda.

Flurries tonight.

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2005-12-07 12:43

It's a sobering experience taking the USS Arizona Memorial tour in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Discussing it here wouldn't do it justice, so I won't.

Tony could have died last night. I'm glad he didn't.

Whilst in KC this weekend, we attended (at $10 per person!) a cheerleading competition. I understand that the older girls are really something to see, but we were there to watch my 5-year old neice compete. There's something slightly unsettling about watching 5-year olds shake their undeveloped ass and lean forward and 'wiggle' their non-existant boobs. Still, they did a good job in competition.

Finally got a realtor. He was really more interested in discussing my finances and loan terms than he was finding me a house:
"So how much would you like your monthly payments to be?"
"I'll worry about that, what I need from you is area/price/square footage."
"Fair enough. You know you can go 30-years on your loan?"
"I'll worry about the financing, you just find the house."
"Of course. So have you chosen a lender?"
"I'll worry about the financing, you just find me a house."
"Gotcha. However, I would go with a local lender."
"Once again sir, I'll worry about financing. The reason I'm here, is because I want you. To. Find. Me. A. House."
"Sure, sure..."

He did show up one house. A shambling death-trap which looked as though it was about implode upon itself. My wife cried when she saw it.

Our office has a Christmas Party every year. On Friday, they turn out the lights, and lock the doors. We go offsite for an open bar party, which ends at 1430, and we go home for the day. Apparently, Christmas attire is almost mandatory. Since I wear a coat and tie everyday, I decided on a festive tie. Took the wife shopping with me and picked up two Polo's. One red one green. I bought a festive green tie with poinsetta's or something for the red shirt, but Lori found a $100 Polo tie she made me buy for my green shirt. I've never worn a $100 tie before. Funny, I don't feel any different...

Today: "9 degrees, feels like 0, high of 23, cloudy." Snowed one day this week. Didn't stick but it's damn cold. I found my Texas winter attire isn't well suited for this fresh hell. Also, it got so cold here, my car decided not to start one morning. I've now got 800 cold-crankin' amps in teh Cav. $75. Everything seems to cost me money.

There's probably more. But I have plans on drinking every night this week, and blogging just gets in the way of that. If you don't believe me, just ask Tony.

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2005-11-03 15:45

Watched Elektra last night. Haven't been that bored in a long time. And I guess I'm in the minority because I don't think Jennifer Garner is hot. So seeing her wiggle her ass as she's all dolled up in tight red leather showing her midriff was not what I wanted to see. I actually found it more boring than Daredevil, which is hard to do.

In other news, they stuffed my hetero-lifemate in a box and put him on the cover of BHG's newest album! Hooray man-boobs!

I got home last night and the primary volume on my macintosh was full. Hmm. That's a 72GB drive. So I start deleting some files to alleviate the pain. Later, it fills up again. WTF? Further investigations revealed a 26GB log file detailing my SHOUTcast transcoder's activities. I trimmed it and turned off logging.

Sprite is a poor substitute for tonic water if you're drinking G&T's.

Sometimes I don't even know how I get as far as I do. I didn't have math.h so I couldn't compile an upgrade to PHP.

The following packages are available:
  1  SUNWlibm     Forte Developer Bundled libm
                  (sparc) 5.9,REV=2001.12.10

How do I always seem to manage these things?

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2005-11-01 19:35

Nabbed from

felixxkatt

You made it. Barely.
Congratulations! You scored 53%!

Whether it was the fact that you could run faster, or were just plain
lucky, you made it out alive. Even you aren't sure why. But you're sure
as hell not going back, or risking your ass for anyone else from now
on.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 5% on survivalpoints

Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

This was one half my miltary experince, and one half wanting to keep Tony alive if he was bitten and maybe starting to turn instead of putting a bullet in his ass.

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meme,
tony

2005-10-06 23:42

Lots going on, and once again, it's late and I should have gone to bed hours ago.

I cheated and got BIND working:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @65.112.186.190 darkvoyager.com ANY
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21997
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;darkvoyager.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN HINFO "SPARCrave" "Solaris9"
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN SOA darkvoyager.com. ehowton.darkvoyager.com. 1128656447 10800 3600 604800 38400
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN A 65.112.186.190
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN NS ns2.darkvoyager.com.
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN NS ns1.darkvoyager.com.
darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN MX 1 mail.darkvoyager.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN A 65.112.186.190
mail.darkvoyager.com. 38400 IN A 65.112.186.190

;; Query time: 142 msec
;; SERVER: 65.112.186.190#53(65.112.186.190)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 7 07:15:13 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 213

But I cannot tell godaddy.com to add my server as a DNS server because, well, it doesn't know anything about my server because it can't look it up because it can't add it, anyway, research suggests that all registrars have a way of adding new DNS servers, but I can't find it on godaddy. Tony would say that's because godaddy has a gay name. He's right you know.

Speaking of Tony, for the first time in 7 years...he's unplugged. *moment of silence*

In other news, and I don't know how or why yet, my SHOUTcast trans server knows something about iTunes:

<10/05/05@22:13:52> [SHOUTcast] DNAS/SolarisSparc v1.9.5 (Dec 27 2004)
starting up...

<10/05/05@22:56:52> [dest: 208.255.18.132] starting stream (UID: 14)[L: 2]{A:
iTunes/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC)}(P: 1)

Webmin is really quite awesome.

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2005-09-22 19:53

Second 10-hour day in a row! By the time I left, my Notes account is set to send me everything I have to do tomorrow, to my cell phone, at intervals, just to remind me.

It's not quite eight-o'clock and I'm exhausted. With any luck at all, I'll make it to bed before midnight. Got to chat online with the wife quite a bit - between her schedule and mine, we never get to talk during the day, then next thing you know a week goes by and all we've exchanged are hello's. Its nice to get to connect. She's due here Wednesday with the kids. I know I'm going to be busy that week, because we have two, concurrent, three-day off-site conferences to support, but at least they'll be here at the end of the day when I return from work.

I don't mind meeting someone who doesn't always agree with me, or whom I may not agree with. Some of my closest friends are exact opposites of myself in my views on politics, religion, life... But I am completely done speaking to people who choose to scream ASSHOLE at me on Instant Messenger after venting their point of view, then signing off. I found it amusing, if not immature the first few times, but I seriously do not have the cycles. Please understand. I've been through hurricanes, tornado's, earthquakes, terrorists bombing my friends and am a member of the Veteran's Of Foreign Wars (VFW). A little wind and rain no longer scare me. Please, please, please contact me again when you're like, 30 and have had some life experience under your belt.

Tony is speeding towards Houston as I type on his way to evacuate close ones....and their cats:

drax0r: i'm introducing cats
EricHowton: Really?
drax0r: yeah
EricHowton: Daisy and Az?
drax0r: yes
EricHowton: How's it going?
drax0r: not very well
EricHowton: LOL
EricHowton: You must be REALLY bored.
EricHowton: What prompted this?
drax0r: because the people that are coming down this weekend fleeing houston are bringing cats as well
drax0r: so I need to be able to make 3 different cat zones
EricHowton: Uh.....
EricHowton: How many people and how many cats?
drax0r: i think 5 people and 6 cats
EricHowton: Damn dude.
drax0r: yeah
EricHowton: "Cat Zones" huh?
drax0r: yeah
drax0r: there was a little scrap between the two but i sprayed them down with the water bottle to break them up
drax0r: and now az is just kinda sitting there and daisy is growling at her
EricHowton: Geez.

OK, I opted for a glass of wine this evening. I'm going to now disassemble the Apple keyboard, clean it, and reassemble. You kids have a good night.

UPDATE!

2135: Tony's en route - I'm 24x7 oncall as I try to navigate routes. It's like the movie Twister, only with one person left behind watching satellite & maps. My mother told me all routes on I-45 outta Houston were Northbound only. Tony's other resource confirmed with the Conroe PD that all routes were clear on his current navigation...

I've got your back Tony. You need this former intelligence puke to navigate you outta harm's way, just give me a call. I'm sure you'll be just fine.

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2005-09-20 20:36

SomeBritInMass: Rec'd the "care package" today. Thanks dude. You're too good to me. It brought back memories of when I was last in Bristol, heading back from the fish & chips shop smoking one as I was walking back to my hotel. And of course I was waiting on the packaging to send yours over! That will go out shortly. BTW, the front desk of the hotel doesn't notify you that you have a package with a blinking light on the phone or anything. In fact, they don't notify you at all! I had to ask - glad I did :) As for the little baggie...Should I put that in the freezer did you once say? Thanks again, and speaking of that little baggie....

drax0r: Will get the tranq delivered to the place of your choosing, pay for your gas here and back, as well as keeping you well stocked in the beverage and quantity of beverage of your choice, and fed, fat and happy if you deliver said package personally. You'll want for nothing. For security measures, you can provide me a list of your requirements and I will provide photographic proof of such, for insurance purposes. Please consider my offer, and request.

Sweetheart: DAMN! drp said I'd be busy, but I really had no idea what to expect. All that shit is now happening now, at the same time. I'll cope. In fact, as I get used to this level of.....non-unix type work, I'm hoping it gets easier. I don't see how drp does it. This is small fry compared to his daily load. I love you more than you know.

ProT: Lighten up on yourself already. If it makes it any easier, I know EXACTLY what you're going through, and this too, will pass.

AmyGirl: What? Have you abandoned us lj types? What gives? Again, congratulations. And if I were you, I would now put all this frivolousness behind you, start focusing on what's really important, and trust me, that's not us. I'm thankful for having met you and the few deep discussions which sprang forth. In time, perhaps again. Until then, enjoy!

Angel: WOW! Go a little easy on yourself! Apparently lots of people think you rox0r! Keep your chin up. IMHO, you appear to think that you're the only one that knows anything about what you're going through and no one else ever could because this shit has happened only to you ever in the history of life, but trust me, that's just not true. In fact, it's silly! We're all rootin' for you. Listen, I don't want to get all caught-up in your drama...I don't care about your mild-mannered alter-ego. If you say you're a super, fantastic dynamic wonder-girl...well that's ok with me. I'm good. I'm good....(ok, I stole that last line from The Incredibles!)

"The Neck": Dude. Heh. Listen, you suck at comm and so do I. You send me one email annual which I don't respond to. Ok, we're agreed. Fscking post on this here biotch and we'll see how it goes. Last night was too awesome to let slip away. Tell that deliciously gorgeous wife of yours, "Thanks for sharing." Oh, and the "care package" I rec'd from SomeBritInMass, is the same thing you've been promising me for several years now. I love you anyway.

LOGBOY: You know who you are. Is your new position as demanding as mine? I hope your raise was more than mine. Tell that wife HI and maybe, just maybe, because you can access at this page work, leave your comments here. SIgn in and create a login (I'll make you an icon if you like, just tell me what you want), or post anonymously if you must, but please DO POST YOU LAZY MOTHERFUCKER! Because with you and "The Neck" posting, my life truly will be complete (talk to you're her awesomeness, "Her Royal Hotness" to post too. That would rock - just like in our HTML 1.0 days on the geocities messageboard...) dude, just DO IT. My most constant poster recently has not because "I haven't had a lot to say lately." Grrrrrr. Go git her, cowboy! Yeeeehaw!

GRANGER-DUDE: You didn't get me hooked on Robert Earl Keen, drax0r did, but your...dare I say it, passion towards it was what I needed. I miss our beers and little chats, and I just wanted you to know for the first time ever, I actually listened to the lyrics of "...the party never ends." What a sad prose!

ROBIN: We don't talk enough. I've lots of new stuff to tell you. Read through my posts when you get time, then post. I am so strapped on time, but I assure you one thing: I reply to these posts. Please join in the fun. I look forward to hearing from you.

DANZIG: Get your lazy ass outta bed and post occasionally. I mean DAMN dude! C'mon. Get with the program!

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2005-09-20 10:33

I was sitting in my hotel around 2100 last night drinking my last G&T of the evening and chatting with "The Neck" when a huge storm blew up and knocked out power to the hotel....for the next six hours. Eventually, even the emergency lighting in the hallways went out, plunging the entire area into complete darkness. It came on by 0300 and I was able to get just over three hours sleep last night.

The Neck:

This morning I arrive at work only to discover that one of our remote sites was down and that "someone" should go over there for hand-holding and reassurance (and a possible reboot of a Novell router). That someone was me, and they were surprised to see me, but comforted that we were aware of their plight. Apparently SBC took a power hit as well, but their generators failed, leaving the entire city without an IT infrastructure. The whole city reeked of chaos.

In other news, quark is still down. quark and xirr are co-located at the ADC:

EricHowton:Hey, when do you think you can get over to take a look at quark?
drax0r:dunno, kinda busy, and it's like...far
EricHowton:That's ok dude, I understand. Whenever you get a chance. Thanks.
EricHowton:Ooops, I accidentally powered down xirr :(
drax0r:dammit! I'm on my way over there now.
EricHowton:Thanks!

Ok, that really didn't happen, but it made for an amusing anecdote. He's going to look at it this evening. He so totally rox0rs.

Watched an intense movie the other night, "JSA: Joint Security Area" It's a Korean movie (no, Tony, there's no ninja kung-fu) about the North and South along the DMZ. It won a bunch of awards in Korea, and I even heard Kim Jong-Illin' had a bunch of pirated copies imported for his staff to watch (training video's?) I don'd know if I was particularly interested because I was actually there, but from reviews I've read, it's one of the director's best films and enjoyed by those who have never been to the DMZ.

Well, my in-boxes (plural) just exploded and I can't seem to respond faster than they're filling up...

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2005-09-06 11:16

Bandwidth.com noticed the circuit was dead and tried to email me on the mail server which is down. Tech Support was probably active all weekend long, had I not been trying to call Broadband.com. Some of our clients are already calling me because they cannot access their email or web pages, and I gave them Tony's contact information because they're trying to verify that there is still power to the equipment. Tony is back in the local area and will have to scratch together the $482 to fill his tank to drive to Grand Prairie I'm afraid. The tech is out of the office currently but will call Tony on his return, and call me if he cannot get a hold of Tony. I gave them permission to do intrusive testing and gave them the IP addresses of two boxes which we have assigned.

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2005-08-31 10:30

My car rides like a tracked vehicle. I loaded it yesterday for my trip to St. Louis. 4 computers, 3 monitors, 25 technical books, clothes, a suit, 35 ties, and two desks full of junk. It's awkward changing lanes since I always look over my shoulder when I'm signaling (yes, that's what those rear windows are for, not so your passengers can see the pretty view) and both side-rear windows are blocked. I have about 4 inches of sight out of the back glass. The A/C works a lot better. There's not as much space which needs to be cooled. Look how low the rear end is sitting! This would have turned out a lot differently if I drove an SUV or somesuch.

FAX is not an acronym. It's an abbreviation.

I'm going to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Apparently, you're not allowed to bring personal computer equipment onto the Federal Center, because if they stop you, and you don't have a property pass, you go to prison. Reference description of my car above.

I may have broken my little toe this morning. I haven't started falling like Tony when he drinks yet, however.

EricHowton: I saw a very nice French wine at Sams that caught my attention. a 500ml maybe bottle for $23. Sure wanted to try it.
SomeBritInMass: Was it a desert wine?
EricHowton: That was the impression I got.
SomeBritInMass: Sauterns?
EricHowton: Now just hold on a minute here!
EricHowton: How the fsck did you know that?
EricHowton: Yes, I believe that was the name I saw on the bottle.
EricHowton: You're amazing.
SomeBritInMass: Eric, I have had a long and amazing apprenticship when it comes to booze!

Phone calls with ProfessorTom pattern an everyplot plot sequence:

He calls after nine,
He's feeling just fine.
He laughs, he cries,
He diatribes.
He listens, he talks,
He talks and talks and talks.
We share, he cares,
He talks to me in his underwear.
I work on my computer RAID,
During the lenghty part of his tirade.
I tell him he can
He tells me he can't
My reply is concise
His is a rant.
When he starts on his woes
He get very verbose
I begin to get terse
But that only makes it worse.
He starts to yell
I voice my farewell
He winds down his campaign
I respond, "Auf Wiedersehen!"

I’d rather be whistling in the dark.

David & Wendy took me out the the Japanese Steak House last night. I was hesitant, but it was fantastic! David from work and his family were also in attendance. What a nice night that turned out to be. I was in bed by 0100, but don't know that I slept much prior to 0500. Then I slept great, but didn't awake until 0930. I love the flex hours I've provided myself at work.

Ich bin Berliner.

I am a jellyroll.

Poll: How many of you have actually eaten a Berliner? I did, in Weisbaden. But it doesn't hold a candle to the soft pretzels which fall tenderly from the kiosk onto a bed of course ground salt.

GirlInWA: I almost went to Germany for a summer during my senior year of high school.
EricHowton: Yes, I saw EuroTrip. The movie was much different than being over there as part of an occupational force combatting communinsm.
GirlInWA: What exactly were you doing over there?
EricHowton: Combatting communism.

Upgraded Gallery to Release Candidate 2, codenamed, KTHXBYE

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2005-08-15 09:47

're wearing sunglasses...

A millennia has past since we put 1000 monkeys in a cage with 1000 typewriters, finally putting to rest that most ignorant of retorts. And though no work of Shakespeare was even attempted, the phrase "What's crack-a-lackin?" was seen 4 times.

drax0r,
Due to far-reaching consequences of my recent impulse purchase of the UK release DVD box set, 'Battlestar Galactica, Season One' and the dramatic end-of-week increase of fuel prices, I regret to inform you that I will be unable to make our Monday evening event this week. Please reschedule for next Monday, the 22nd of August. There is a lot still which needs to be done.

teh max0r (wee-mac) has undergone the knife again, this time downclocking it to 1.42Ghz, and apparently it has run distributed computing all weekend without issue. My only concern at this point is that the internal harddrive wasn't taxed enough to create any additional heat during it's trial run. I'll be retrieving said mac after work today.

Active Server Pages are gay.

GMAC Privacy Notice
We obtain non-public personal information about you from information we receive from you, applications or other forms, which may include your name, address, social security number, income, information about your transactions with us such as your account balance and payment history. To provide you superior service, we may share all of the information that we collect (italics theirs!). --Of course you have the option to 'opt-out' and it's done with a phone call. How convenient! Actually, what would be more convenient, is if they DIDN'T share my 'non-public' information by default, and I had to call them to ask them to! Furthermore, this phone call must be made annually, else they assume that you only wanted your private information not shared to the public inclusive to the year you made your request. I hate GMAC. I also love how they refer to this policy of handing out your information as their, "Privacy Statement." Asses. I should send them my own letter: "Dear GMAC, it is my policy to never do any business with any company who, by default, shares my non-public information unless an annual opt-out phone call is made. Do you perhaps have the phone number to Chrylser Financial?"

Added some more links to quark.xirr.com and locked down mysql after Jay's portscan revealed it open. Thanks Jay! Speaking of Jay, he punched-down our phone at the Wild Damn Texan office - meet, Wonderful Facilities Guy! Sung to the tune of SNL's 'Middle Aged Man':

I did indeed get 11 hours of sleep Saturday night. That's fantastic. Unfortunately, the 5 hour drive home coupled with sleeping in my parents spare bed room the day their air conditioner went out afforded me only 5 hours of sleep last night. So it begins...

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2005-08-10 16:06

The Gallery Server base page is set. No more apache's "Not the page you were expecting to see?" Really, the apache default page was fine for my purposes, but those Gallery visitors...damn. Kept getting lost. I created the backdrop from Mac OSX wallpaper, gave it dynamism to withstand tiling (though I believe this greatly detracts from the original) and merci, madam, voila a' bearded clam:

Thanks drax0r. I stole your homepage drax0r.org and modified it for my own use. I know it's not black text on a white background, and that all those needless images get in the way, but it also has no links to ass-ramming tattooed bimbo's on it, ergo I feel much better about using it as my default homepage at work. I credited you on my page, though truth be told, with your HTML experience, I'm sure you stole it from someone else.

Why penguins don't live very long

I spent over 100 hours in Dreamweaver to create our Wild Damn Texan website, and boy was she a polished beauty!

Compare this to my 3-hour command-line HTML 4.0 rush-job and the results are predictably (as Tony would say) "Less gooder." Though he did appear enamored on first glance. I sure it was just the subject matter: http://wilddamntexan.com

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2005-08-07 07:40

Since I've been in Wichita, I've been sleeping really well. That's why I decided to leave for work from Wichita, very early in the morning. That and I get another full day with the wife and kids. Of course with all this sleep comes dreams...

I was in a dormitory-style common room with a mix of friends both old and new from various stages of my life playing, what else, Texas Hold'em. It was late, but everyone was there playing nonetheless and the area was quite well lit. There was a banquet of food behind us and I remember getting into a fight over some boiled eggs which were so nasty I couldn't finish mine. During breaks we'd pair up and roam the halls looking for action, but the oddest thing was the guy I met who reminded me of Jesse Ventura's character from Predator. His name was drax0r. I didn't believe him so I made him show me his driver's license. It really was his name.

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2005-08-01 10:59

Did two things this weekend. Played Texas Hold'em, and played Star Trek Elite Force II Holomatch. Notice I didn't sleep? Another few days of no sleep and I'm going to strangle Tony in his.

Had a FANTASTIC time at David and Wendy's playing games. We started the weekend at MAIN EVENT playing Texas Hold'em. Wendy, Tony and myself sat down at a table with about four other people and a rookie dealer. Most of the players there were berating her for her inexperience, but I found her alluring. I probably thought this because she was cute and unsure of herself, which reminded me of my wife. Seriously, when you've been married as long as I have, you don't even look at other women except in the context of how they remind you of your own woman. But I digress. When I went out I joined David for an Elite Force II holomatch. It was at this point that I was going to link holomatch to it's article in Wikipedia, but there isn't one. So I will author that first chance I get, or during one of my stretches of not sleeping. I'd do it now, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I'm at work so it would ultimately just frustrate me. Anyway, Tony joined us when they closed his game, and we were up until 0700 gaming.

**Wikipedia article written for 'Holomatch'**

I dealt the tournament the next evening at Dave and Wendy's. My first. There's a whole hell of lot to keep up with in doing so, and I don't know the game nearly as well as Wendy. She knows every course of action for every incident. I accidentally flipped a card up early in the game during it being dealt. I pankied. She didn't. There's a scenario for handling that. Wendy even split the side bets for the poor girl dealing the night before. Wendy rox0rs.

drax0r's recount of the evening can be found here!

Woke up this morning humming "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from Southpark the movie, which I haven't seen since 1999 I think, so I think this sleep thing is really fecking me up. Started whistling "The Internet is for Porn." from Avenue Q once I got to work though, without any reason why.

If you're working in Windows XP and you right-click 'My Computer' and select 'Properties' you can click the 'Advanced' tab to bring you to performance settings. In the 'Visual Effects' tab you are given 4 options:

Because the 'Luna' interface drains precious system resources, you have the option of turning them all off (if you have a slower system), keeping them all on (if you have a super-fast box with plenty of memory), or picking and choosing with the "Custom" tab (I like "Smooth edges of screen fonts" and "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop"). The 4th option is "Let Windows choose what's best for my computer." I like that. It's a computer, right? It can think faster than we can and perform complex algorithm's in the time it took me to type the word. Here's a fun experiment to try at home. Make that your selection (it's the default) and remove sticks of RAM from you computer one at a time between reboots, checking at each interval to see which system-sapping resources Windows has chosen to disable as you slowly decrease system memory. Isn't it amazing?

Even at the minimum supported processor speed and RAM configuration, Window's 'choice' of visual effects for optimal performace is to turn every single one of them on!

Dumbasses.

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2005-07-25 10:13

All annoying alliteration aside (heh - assonance), I drove to Wichita this weekend just in time to put the kids to bed. Lori's biological father was in town, so we drove to her Grandparents house in Augusta and spent all day there, finishing up with a quick trip into Old Town Wichita where we drank (in this order) a light lager, a wheat beer, and a stout, while smoking corojo cigars. It was quite nice.

I took the kids to this gigantic park and my boy was Red Power Ranger, I was Blue Power Ranger, and Granpa Mike was Green Power Ranger. As there was no one else there that morning, we fought bad guys across the entire park, keeping up with the little guy.

My 5-year old bought a 1994 Milton-Bradley Mighty-Morphin' Power Rangers board game at a garage sale for $.50. It didn't come with any instructions. I found some online and we played several games. He was pretty excited. Although it was boring as hell, I hugged him tight when I left and thanked him for buying such a cool game for us to play. I can already see where next weekend will be spent...

I turned down Texas Hold'em at David and Wendy's last night 'cause I'm an ass. (Not because it took me 7.5 hours to make the 5 hour trip from Wichita to Texas and it was an impromptu game and I was expected at my folks around the time the game was to start.) Will hopefully play this evening at Tony's, as it's my weekly trek to Richardson to play with Daisy and clean her kitty box.

Apparently here at work they're still migrating NT boxes to the new domain. Us unix guys were brought it to augment the effort several weeks ago. Funny how after two days they didn't invite us back?

So I go looking for album art to add my three Midori CD's to iTunes, and low and behold what do I find? THREE more Midori CD's I now MUST HAVE!

Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos

Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante · Concerto for violin, piano & orchestra

French Violin Sonatas

Wonderful! Just added to my Wish List. When's my birthday?

I'm going to take Tony out to dinner tonight, his choice of restaurant. He doesn't know this yet. And maybe return a book to Barnes & Noble if I remember to swing by the ADC and pick up the receipt.

The Higgliosaurus Corner:
HIGGS! Returned from a 4-day weekend in Tampa, Flordia. Good Cuban sandwiches, but he didn't try the best Key Lime Pie on the planet!

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2005-07-21 16:45

The following events happened in this order: Sold the house. Relocated the wife and kids to her folks in Wichita for a little while. Found a house in Burleson close to work. Got a job opportunity in St. Louis. Played Texas Hold'em. Flew to St. Louis for the job interview. Accepted the posisiton. Had my second imagined heart-attack in 18 months. Got a call from my lawyer. He's dissolving Wild Damn Texan.

I have three cats spread across the metroplex, three racks and a dozen unix boxes now without a home, and shortly, no remote access to any of my servers. I got a 3.6755% raise in my current position, and I've decided to rebuild the wee-mac now that I know better how to do things the 'mac way' and not try to force it to be Windows. The ER doctor wrote me a prescription for sleeping pills after my EKG came back normal, and I thank God for the blessings he has bestowed upon me every single day.

Tony and David have been a big help, and despite all my expostulations, I am thankful for them both. They alone help to alleviate this stressful time.

I'm driving to Wichita tomorrow evening and staying for the weekend. It will be great to see my wife and kids, and to spend some quality evening time with the wife. I'm sure I'll be the calmest creature on earth after that.

There are girls just ripe for some kissin'
and I mean to kiss me a few!
Oh, those girls, don't know what they're missin'
I've got a lot of living' to do!

And there's wine, all ready for tast-in'
And there's cadillacs - all shin-y and new!
Got to move, 'cause time is a wastin'
There's such a lot of livin' to do!

There's music to play, places to go!
People to see - everything for you and me!
Life's a ball, if only you know it!
And it's all just waiting for you!

You're alive, so go on and show it!
There's such a lot of livin' to do!

There sure the hell is a lot going on!

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2005-07-14 19:45

Thanks vember!

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

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Cultural Creative

75%

Romanticist

75%

Postmodernist

50%

Fundamentalist

50%

Modernist

13%

Materialist

13%

Idealist

Existentialist

What is Your World View? (updated)
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