We got a notice from our Apartment mgmnt yesterday saying that they were going to have a Fire Inspector going throughout the complex over the next two days. So I decided to check out our sprinklers and found that we had a leak right above MY computer desk!!!
…. son of a…. I had to move my entire desk over to another wall.
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This a major cock-punch to any pre-UAV pilot who actually risked their LIFE during missions… Under the new policy, approved last month, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system operators may be awarded the DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross). The DFC is a prestigious decoration awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement.
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5:30 am – Alarm clock goes off…. it’s Miranda’s…. oh bullock’s! I forgot to set MY alarm! Good thing for hers.
5:53 am – Taking my shower and starting to think about what today will bring me at work.
6:10 am – Miranda’s alarm clock goes off again. This time, she turns it off herself. I continue to get ready… pack my laptop bag up… make sure I have my wallet, Blackberry, keys…
6:23 am – Go into the bedroom, tell my wife “goodbye” and give her a little peck.
6:34 am – Notice that the roads seem dead today for a Monday morning. Oh well… no need to listen to NPR, I’ll leave Jason Mraz in the CD player and head to Starbuck’s for some breakfast.
6:45 am – Approaching Starbuck’s….I think to myself, “Man, it’s dead on the roads today, what’s going on?” I decide to turn on NPR to get my morning news…. nothing…. just classical music. WTF??
6:56 am – Got my coffee (Cinnamon Dolce Latte) and a slice of marble-loaf and start on my way to the office. I’m still bothered by the lack of traffic and News on NPR. I look at my Blackberry…. I can’t believe this!!! It’s SUNDAY, not Monday!!!
GAAAAAAH!!!!!
Oh well…. I’m up now, might as well do something constructive. I tossed together a server from spare computer parts I had laying around Friday afternoon, so I figure I will play with configuring/testing out the MS Office SharePoint 2007 Server I installed yesterday on it. I use the previous version of SharePoint at work, but want to test out the new version before we swing over the stuff there…. a nice perk to my job is having free access to all things Microsoft.
…. as Carlos Mencia would say… “DE DE DEEEE!!!!”
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wow…guess I can do whatevah I want!
Here was the HCSO’s one-line response to my e-mail regarding their stance on the use of “radar drones” in Tampa:
I am not familiar with FCC regulations regarding radar drone equipment. Perhaps, you should contact the FCC.
Since the FCC doesn’t forbid it, I guess I can move forward with my 1-mile sweeping radar drone project!
woo-hoo!!! I’ll be lighting up radar detectors ALL over the road now! oh, happy day for me!
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“Tired with all these, for restful death I cry…”
- Shakespeare
I finally wrote an email to the HCSO regarding the use of Radar Drones on personal vehicles. If the FCC doesn’t have a problem with them… and they are sold to the public… I wanted to know that they will approve of my legal use of one.
I have been driving on the roads in the Tampa Bay area for only the past 16 years and each day I see people breaking traffic laws every minute that I’m on the road…. especially speeding. Every day, I realize what a minority I am on the roads. Imagine… a person who actually obeys the traffic/speed laws like they said they would when they applied for a Driver’s License and signed their name to it. That’s me and my wife.
You may think me an ol’ fuddy-duddy, but I don’t care. Most people who even read this know that I can be a bit militant on my attitude towards the “rules” and laws.
I have the honor to do what I swore an oath to do… like when you signed that little piece of paper when you got your license stating that you would obey the laws… remember that? Maybe that’s one reason why I never went into the military… I could never follow the orders of someone that I disagreed with.
I’ve written to the HCSO before and they were quick to respond, so I hope to hear something back soon on this issue.
…maybe I’ll start up a new auto-club…. the M.T.L.O.M. (Members of the Traffic Law Obeying Minority)
hehehhee
To be honest, I can’t stand driving for longer than 10 minutes it seems. I start to have what I can only describe as mini-panic attacks to where my blood pressure goes up and I start loosing my breath… feeling like the car is closing in on me.
….and I used to like driving… it used to relax me. 
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I like how Leo is wearing a sweatervest with the old “TechTV” logo on it.
…I miss the ol' TechTV shows. (
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I’ve never been one to believe everything I’m told.
When it comes to science, I think that many people only see half of the story. Take the science of physic’s for example…Many physicists think that the laws of physics are the same throughout the known universe.
I never have and never will.
When someone mentions physic’s, I usually add “You mean ‘Earth’-physics?” to their muttering. Like them, many scientists have their heads buried in the sand once they hear an idea and say it is “fact” because it makes sense to the majority.
::aside:: hmmm… maybe this is why I felt that school was ‘stupid’ when growing up and failed every year of high school? ::/aside::
During school, I had questioned many scientific theories, but never had the guts to debate them with my teachers. Sure, many theories/laws that concern the Earth are accurate, but I feel that many that concern matters outside our world are not.
For example…. traveling at the speed of light (light speed). Scientists say there is nothing faster, I disagree. They just can’t measure anything faster because their ideas are prevented from going outside-the-box of the human brain. In addition, many books and people will tell you that “If you look at a clock and move away from it at the speed of light, the clock will stop…”
Bull-poopie.
“Time” is a human invention. What it measures is constant at any speed or place. Regarding my previous example: I could care less about the clock stopping… I would be more impressed by how you could still SEE that clock from nearly 186,000 miles away in that first second. Scientists are merely playing on what an observer would see “IF” it happened… yadda yadda dribble.
Anyhoo, I just had to rant and post this so that I didn’t forget an explanation behind the “Big Bang” theory that many scientists are stating as a fact.
Yes, astronomers have proof that galaxies are moving away from a central location… but to assume that everything in this universe started out from a little ball of energy? That’s a bit much.
Funny how science is. They will laugh in the face of a person trying to prove that teleportation is possible, but tell them everything started out as a little ball that burst… and they’re scratching their heads and nodding in agreement.
I have never heard any other stories or arguments against that theory, so here is mine:
The reason why the Universe is expanding from a single point is because THAT is the “exit point” of the Black Hole we came through.
Some Theoretical Physicists, such as Hawking & Kaku, think that there is a possibility that there are universes outside of our own. Black Holes have been discovered, but what happens to the matter sucked into them? Some think that they go through a worm-hole of sorts to another part of the Universe… or possibly to different Universe altogether. I think the latter is what happened in our case.
I find it easier to put my reasoning behind the “ass-end of a Black Hole” than into the “Big Bang”. This could even explain a lot of what the Big-Bangers are thinking too… from an observers standpoint, it would have seemed that the Universe started out as a single point and burst into being. They just didn’t realize that it was just being shat out of a Black Hole.
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oh well…. that’s your topic for the coffee house this week. Discuss.
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Stoopid exploitable PHP scripts!!!!
It appears that my domain was actually sending out thousands of e-mails due to a web-based chatroom script written in PHP.
My webhost has a feature to where it can install various types of web-based tools/sites on a single click, rather than having to configure everything. Well, a long time ago, I was checking all of them out to see if any of them may be useful… one of which was called “phpMyChat“.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND EVER INSTALLING THIS THING!
It contains code that can be used by others to make your e-mail life miserable. It is still partially my fault for not removing it, because I never had a use for it, but that is besides the point IMHO. My webhost should NOT be offering this as an installable option if there is a severe security risk.
As far as the spam goes, new ones have stopped being sent, but I am still getting the bounce-backs as the servers will try to resend them for a few days. Eventually, they will stop. Yesterday, I had only 211 of the Delivery Failures because I was filtering them out…. today, about 400 without a filter.
We’ll see how this goes…
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Let’s see….ended up with a little over 8,500 Delivery Failures yesterday and came home to a bit over 2,600 today.
JOY!! I FEEL SO POPULAR!!!! I GOT OVER 11,000 E-MAILS IN JUST TWO DAYS!!!!
sigh… ::head hits desk::
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My appreciation for the human race has hit another low. People never fail to let me down… they keep reassuring me that “Yes, we suck! Hooray for us!!”
Today, it seems that my online presence was used in a spam-attack on at least 8,300 people. How do I know? Because that is how many “delivery failure” messages I have in one of my inboxes.
Since I’ve had an online presence/website/domain for over 6 years, it was bound to happen. Someone finally got down to my name in the list…. and it’s not even MY name! So if you’ve been spammed with part of my name in the “To:” field…. sorry.
This sort of thing is the type of thing that brings me a step closer to mass genocide. I feel sorta like Lex Luthor in Superman Returns when he said so matter-of-factly(?) “Billions of people will die”. If I could choose a billion people, it would take but a minute…. with no remorse.
Never mind me, I’m just in a tiff. >:o(
…only 912 more e-mails to go until one of my Inboxes will be empty.
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