circles

i saw a commercial for the dukes of hazard movie. it's funny because kids much younger than me probably wouldn't have watched the dukes of hazard, but this movie would prompt them to start. so now we've got a whole new generation of younger kids watching the same shows as us and laughing at them, but for completely different reasons than us. it's always the same.

Kaska

hehe, i made a little tiger for my blog. ok ok, i didn't make it, i adopted it from some much more clever person. but still! i named it kaska because that's what i named my dog in a dream i had. yeah, i'm a sucker for cute things. but don't cross me or i'll kill you

adopt your own virtual pet!

religious?

i was at my parents house today taking care of the animals. they're out of town for their 30th anniversary. they never took me to estes park . ANYWAY, i was looking at some stuff laying around and thinking about the fact that my parents are very religious people. i am not. i don't know if they know that yet, i really don't talk to them about stuff that matters. but my parents are at least the right type of religious. yeah, they do the whole church and praying and blah blah blah, but it's honestly for them. they aren't the judgy kind of christian or the "you're going to hell if you do ______" type of christian. and i've never heard them say to anyone that they aren't the right religion. they're the kind of christian that accepts everyone as god's creation, no matter what you do, think, or believe. if you ask me, there needs to be more people like my parents and less of them worried about what everyone else is doing.

overdramatic

some people are so overdramatic, i hate them. it's not that big of a deal, geez. i dont' even know what they're talking about, but it's probably a relationship and that's just fucking retarded and annoying. in other news, i chopped off my hair after cleaning the house and taking out the trash in the rain. i love the rain.

Dennis Cooper

I've been reading Dennis Cooper's blog. yeah, i'm a nerd. anyway, he was talking about writing cause some jerk was teaching a writing class and telling kids the "rules" and he had to say that that guy was a jerk. anyway, he said something kind of cool so i thought i'd repeat it here.

Fiction is a drug. The reader is a druggie. The writer is
the chemist designing a drug that will give the reader
an ideal high. Don't design a drug that already exists.
If you do, no one will remember the high you gave them.

hooray. now it's time to get ready for work. and my roommate's girlfriend is leaving. she's weird. she has NEVER once said hi to me and barely even looked at me. even when i've said hi to her!!! what a stupid whore.

hot

it is wayyyyy too hot. and our fridge broke. it's nasty. the kitchen smells like shit now. landlord is coming over later to look at it and hopefully fix it. may not be till tomorrow though.
i have the house to myself for the next couple days. well, not exactly to myself, but i hardly ever see my other roommate anyways. i have a feeling i'll be cleaning a lot... that's what i tend to do when i get bored. there's also video games and harry potter. i'm a little way through that book. i have to finish it and give it back to my mother soon.

well

i got minish cap for my birthday sunday and i'm almost done with it. i've been playing it almost nonstop. it's a really fun game... you get to fly in this one. there were a bunch of things i wanted to do, but i started a series of events which i think will lead me straight to the end. hopefully they let you play after you've beat the big bad guy (this one's is vaati... no ganondorf, hmm).

bleh, i feel like shit

Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now

fuck. everything is stupid. everyone is stupid. i hate them all; i hate this all; don't worry, i hate me too. no real point to writing this, i wanted that quote somewhere. it just sounds so sarcastic, i fucking love it.

OoOoh

i just made my first packet filter with OpenBSD. it's cool cause it's a bridge so it's transparent. it has no ip so you can't ping it, it doesn't make traffic, etc. i got bad instructions from some guy on the internet. most of what he did worked, but his rulesets were bunk. luckily we figured it out and it ended up being a lot shorter than the guy's. and the top of my pf.conf has a cute little face. he looks like this:

                                 \\\//
                                 (o o)
----------------------------oo0o--(_)--o0oo----------------------

hooray for ascii creativity. So if anyone is a nerd/geek/computerperson/interested-in-transparent-filters, read on. if not, stop now for the next bit will be boring and nonunderstandable.

### Enable IP forwarding
# edit /etc/sysctl.conf
# uncomment the line: net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
###

### Bridge interfaces em0 and em1
# ifconfig em0 delete
# echo 'up' > /etc/hostname.em0

# ifconfig em1 delete
# echo 'up' > /etc/hostname.em1

# echo 'add em0 add em1 up' > /etc/bridgename.bridge0

# Verify bridge by running ifconfig -a. Output should include:
# bridge0: flags=41 mtu 1500
###

### Enable packet filtering
# edit /etc/rc.conf
# pf is disabled by default. change to:
# pf=YES
###

### Ruleset for transparent firewall on bridged interfaces
# /etc/pf.conf
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Interface aliases

ext_if="em0"
int_if="em1"

# Block and log all incoming traffic
block in log on $ext_if all

# Pass in SSH (22), SMB over TCP (445), and Microsoft RDP (3389)
# Pass in bootpc advertisements for DHCP
# keep state allows quicker packet handling
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to any port { ssh, 445, 3389} keep state
pass in on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port { bootpc }

# Pass out all traffic with SYN flags and keep state
pass out on $ext_if all flags S/SA keep state

### End ruleset

yeaaahhh

i feel so lazy. nothing i've been doing has seemed interesting to me at all. today, a guy from force10 said to send him my resume and he'd see if corporate has a job or internship for me. i don't know if i want to live in california though. whatever. it all just seems pointless anyway.

awwww

today was really long and annoying and i was there late and it just sucked, but leaving i saw this and it totally made me happy again. it didn't even seem scared of me and came right up to me almost.

No Escape

Half Life

I got half life today. the first one. it was a set i guess, like 5 games. though when i put the cd key in steam, i got 6 games. they weren't all the same games though. there are i think two in the set that i have cds to that i can install from the cd. i was going to play tonight, but i was playing dungeon seige. and i need a taller chair. mine is so short, my arm holding the mouse went numb.

i got a new ps2 game recently called katamari damacy (it's spelled damashi sometimes). it's really fun, even though it's strange. you roll up stuff in your little ball. as long as you are bigger than it, you can roll it up. eventually you get so huge you're rolling up like trees, then buildings, then whole islands. it's all kinds of crazy. but it's super addictive. we've been taking turns the past few days cause we both want to play it. today i was going between playing it an dungeon seige (that was before i got half life).

moved

hooray, i'm moved. i have a LOT more stuff than i thought i did. i'm going to have to take care of that before i move again. but i got a really cool folding table for my computer. it kicks ass. setting up a computer under a table is way easier than a desk and i have more room on it than any desk i've had.
....
i lost my train of thought because comfortably numb is playing.

Hmmm...

no work shinnanigans today, i actually did what i was supposed to do. make wonderful posters for labs! woooooo. i was told i should write security books for kids cause of my posters. the last one was fun. it has great m$ clipart in it. i was listening to a song from the layer cake soundtrack and it said don't think about all those things you feel, just be glad to be. maybe i should do some packing.

New Instructions

I wonder how many people will follow these ^o^
Step 1: Place pointed end in mouth.
Step 2: Jump down stairs

Holistic

The word of the day is Holistic:

1. Of or relating to holism.
2. 1. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
   2. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts: holistic medicine; holistic ecology

I started listening to the audiobook of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and so far I like it. Of course, it's really cool that it's read by Douglas Adams. I have also learned today that for an iPod to do it's bookmarking and speeding/slowing down that it claims to do for audiobooks, the files have to be converted to AAC and then change it to m4b instead of the normal m4a. That's a pain. Plus I forgot to change my settings to do AAC instead of Apple Lossless... so even though it makes m4a's, it didn't work and I had to start over. Yay for Apple...

Madagascar

we just saw the movie! it's pretty funny. i love the monkeys. they were gonna fling poo!

and i got a book... it's cooooooooool. Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication. It's like a text book sorta, but it's got the history of cryptography, and like, tons of kinds of cryptography. starting with heiroglyphics! maybe i'll start encrypting my blogs and see if anyone can read them. hmmm... i think it's time to go read that book some more.... and find out what the word "clandestine" means....
ahhhh, here it is: adj : conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

excellent

racoon face!

the racoon that lives in the tree

What kind of world do we live in when I can blog from my phone?