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schuyler: leather gloves make typing haRD. I CAN SEE WHY DR. HORRIBle goes fr the video blog. sorry caps. this is hard
Lee Sonko: hahah!
Lee Sonko: I need photos!

I just installed the NoSpamNX comment spam plugin. Hopefully it will reduce the daily  drudgery  of me deleting all the inane comment spam I get. Each week I have to remove 5-20 spams that make it through Akismet. And I have 1,500 comment spams that Akismet caught from the last 15 days sitting in my spam box.  Hopefully that number will decrease.

From the Boston Globe, a new ad campaign on the T from the Boston Area Coalition of Reason, which links to the United Coalition of Reason.

Via Maura… from Symphony of Science

local version:

I installed the Tomato firmware on my WRT54GL about 15 minutes ago. I was clenching my teeth, preparing for a long slog through the trenches of firmwaredom but I got a very pleasant  surprise!

Installation was:

1. download
2. install firmware
3. set the SSID and password

I was up in 5 minutes! W00t!

Now I’m wandering through the configuration and it all “just works”. I am very happy. I think I might have to make a donation to the project.

The main reason I needed to upgrade was that the Linksys firmware has this asinine problem: you can open specific ports in the firewall for services like FTP and VNC but you can’t set static DHCP IP addresses with the server, you’ve got to muck with the client computer’s settings. That is dumb. All the open source firmware does it, DD-WRT, Open-WRT etc… but Tomato promised to do it EASILY. And it succeeded.

5 stars for Tomato!

Who buys lab coats? Open up Amazon.com and search for “lab coat”. Pick the first one.

Let’s take a look see… (right-click and open the image in a new window to view full screen)

What is that down at the bottom? Down where it says “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”… Are those lab goggles? No. Are they  pipettes? No! They are welding goggles. Welding goggles? Who could possibly need welding    goggles with their lab coat??? I’ll tell you who!

Doctor Horrible!

Thanks to Schuyler for pointing this out to me!

Tom Kennedy would certainly have laughed heartily at the winning entry of this Craption contest with Tom and Haideen Anderson’s Dr. Strange McCain Bus.

To view my local copy, you should right-click on the image below and view it in another window, or download it or something. I’m sure you’ll figure it out.

Read more about Tom Kennedy and Haideen Anderson’s vehicle art on TomKennedyArt.com

I was asked today by a friend to write down “one thing you saw today that made you smile”. Here is what I wrote:

I walked to the new Whole Foods supermarket in Noe Valley. I walked around quite a bit and found myself in the back at the meat and fish department. I smiled at the whole scene. There was a young mother with 2 kids draped on her shopping cart waiting in line. She, along with others in the line stood and waited; she looked uncomfortable at being in line and uncomfortable, somehow in her life situation. She didn’t know if she was doing things the “right” way, going to Whole Foods, spending the money on organic food instead of conventional, having kids, waiting in line. The scene looked familiar, it looked like a scene I was in when I was a child. There wasn’t a right answer then, or now. I smiled because, in knowing that there is no answer, I know the answer to her worries.

I just read in an article that came with my phone bill titled “Mandated Messages from the CPUC” the following:

When you call 900 numbers or toll-free numbers such as 800 and 888, the company you’re calling may be able to receive and display your phone number by using an FCC-regulated technology called Automatic Number Identification (ANI). With ANI, there’s no way to prevent your number from being identified during these calls. You canoot block your number from being displayed as you can when you call other phone numbers.

If you want to keep your phone number private, use a company’s regular toll number instead of the toll-free number. Or, call from a payphone. If you do use a toll-free number or a 900 number, you can ask that your number not be given to phone solicitors.

I had always heard that there was some technology that made it so your phone number could not be blocked. Now we both know its extent.

I think of San Francisco as being Home of the Zombie. So why isn’t there a San Francisco contingent for Thrill The World?

I assume that the local undead community believes this event to be about shark jumping.