I resolve to be outspoken and obnoxious.

If anyone knows Swedish and would like to translate a video for Swedish audio->English subs please let me know.

It seems there's a Swedish expose on Landmark Forum which would be great to have English subs for.

Any takers? You'd be doing free-thinking a great favour!

Drop me a msg here with your address or, if you're worried about cultish threats, mail slashdot (at) grub (dot) net or grieder (at) gmail (dot) com.

THANK YOU!

Here's the poop:

I used Linux a lot "back in the day" when Slackware came on a stack of 3.5" floppies for my 486. I moved on to FreeBSD and (my personal favourite) OpenBSD.

I'm setting up a machine for my workbench to work with JTAG and BDM interfaces and a lot of the info out there seems Linux-specific.

I'm not looking to be converted from OpenBSD, that isn't going to happen, I just want a decent distro of Linux to hack about on for this application and I don't want to do porting or debugging. If I screw up a piece of hardware through JTAG or BDM it can be rendered pretty useless, hence my desire to stay close to home.

Recommendations anyone?

1 minutes, 25 seconds of WTF?

I've always looked for the silver lining in a cloud, here's mine for 9/11.

In '01 I was working a 6 month contract doing network security stuff here in .ca. I had my TN visa in hand so I could move to Austin, TX to work at ud.com (they're the guys who assimilated the distributed.net crew) once my contract here was through.

We had a realtor lined up to sell the house, moving company arranged, etc.

My contract had ~6 weeks left when Sept. 11 happened. The immigration lawyer which UD supplied told me that the border was effectively closed.

Oh well, I still had a month and change of work in the contract, surely it would be settled by then, right?

The contract finished, the border was still tight. I wasn't working. So I took a few weeks off to basically play games, fuck the dog, whatever.

In Feb. 2002 the place I was contracted to on Sept. 11 heard I was still in town and offered me a position. Very soon after my ex and I got a divorce.

Fast forward a bit and I met Kim. And now we have Anna who will be 13 weeks old tomorrow, Sept. 12. I'm still working at the place and love what I do.

If it weren't for Osama's boys and their flight plans there'd be no Kim in my life, Anna wouldn't exist, and I probably wouldn't have this job that I love doing.

Weird how life works....

Have you had anything good come from what happened on Sept. 11?

rah1420 (whoever that is) made me his first foe. I've been fairly innocuous lately, wonder what did it... oh something shiny! Have to run...

A link to this article was posted as a reply to a post of mine yesterday. I've re-read it a couple of times and it just disturbs me the more I read it. There's a group of gay people who actively look for getting infected by HIV.

Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+

This is just fucked up.

BabyAnna.net

Quick 'n Dirty page (generated by a wee shell script). More to come.

3 weeks, 1 day early!
June 13, 2006 12:33 PM.
Running back to the hospital now, more info and pics later.

I have a Google spreadsheet called "Unintelligent Design" to which I'm freely giving edit access.

The reason? I'm wondering what will happen with no controls over deletion, editing or content. Will people leave crappy poetry? Goofy graffiti? Countless goatse links? Will whistleblowers from Roswell surface? Will those who hate our freedom use it against us?!

You can view, edit, modify or delete cells. Think chmod 777!

Go for it! Mail grieder at gmail.com or put your address in this JE for access.

NB: You'll need a gmail account, mail me for an invite. Once you get your spreadsheet invite in gmail, logout and back in. Once logged back in click the link to share the spreadsheet. From then on just go to http://spreadsheets.google.com Note that these invites are a 'backway' into Google's spreadsheet service, no need to go to their signup page, very much like a gmail invite.

Little Anna is due on July 5. This morning Kim wakes up full of energy and wants to go swimming right out of bed, very odd. While we're doing that ~8:30 AM, she's looking around the backyard and talking about what to do to the gardens and yard. Then gets out, pops up an umbrella and lounger then chills for a while. [fast forward ~7 hours] She's gone through all of the wee one's clothes, washed everything and is filing it (by size) in the closet. Also told me that I have to put the car carrier base in her car soon. And during this, has been packing the suitcase to bring to the hospital with stuff for all 3 of us.

She's crazy right now, I hear her upstairs working in the baby's room. Is this the 'nesting instinct' people have been asking me about? ("has she started nesting yet?")

(whoa, while editting something I see the new CSS layouts have kicked in... that freaked me out) ah.. I see the [i] tags are broken.

This is fun!

Stolen from Nizo who stole it from heliobacter...

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to: images.google.com and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results* (but do not tell me the word).

4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

If you've read any of my postings on downloading music, movies or warez, you know I'm a big believer in test driving things so long as you're somewhat honest and buy what you enjoy.

Last Thursday after reading yet another glowing review of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion I recalled that the ISO with crack was sitting there waiting for install (I'm a degenerate collector of warez, that goes back to ~1980 and the Apple ][+.) So I installed the game that night with the crack. Friday night at home Kim was busy doing something so I had a couple of hours to blow. Off to the game.

I was blown away. Amazingly rich environment, wonderful storyline and plenty of action. Off to bed. Fast forward to Saturday morning and I was back to Oblivion. Sunday morning was like Saturday morning, in Oblivion with a steaming cup of tea at my side.

It was then I decided the game was going to be played a lot and that it was worth my money. I bought the Collector's Edition of Oblivion for CA$69.95. Not cheap but if the game were to end now with the ~8 hours of play I've got in it, then its been worth every penny. Best bit, though, the reviews all claim between 200 and over 300 hours of play if you go on all the various side missions.

If you would like a D&Dish style RPG, selectable first or third person view, good combat, lush environment, immersive storyline you must check this game out.

That said, I have only one real gripe so far: the damn copy protection! I haven't installed the real game from DVD yet as I already have a working copy with a crack and no disk check. If I install software I've bought off the disc, I still run a crack. Software vendors won't replace damaged discs so the safest place for them is in the package, not in your drive slowing down the game loading as the checks take place.

Get it through your heads, software makers, protection makes it harder for legitimate users to use your stuff. The people who want your stuff for free will always get it.

In the story "Is Coffee the Persuasion Bean?" I suggested that people PayPal me a buck and I'd post the results later in the week.

Of course I meant it as a joke but I had three people take my advice! Thanks to N.H., D.B. and K.L. I have, after PayPal's fees, a CA$1.86 balance in my account.

It'll go towards a mega-large Dr. Pepper or Pepsi Slurpee this weekend.

CHEERS! :)

(Pardon typos, I'm not in the mood to correct much)

I'm officially wisdom tooth free today. Had an appointment at the oral surgeon's at 8:45 this AM.

My mouth is sore even with the Tylenol 3s (codeine, baby!) and Advil. I can only imagine the pain without.

To avoid laughing and the associated pain I'm watching cheese sci-fi and horror movies at home today. Just finished Event Horizon What a sad rip-off of (Alien|Hellraiser|the genres as a whole).

Cheese Moment #1: the heroes are put into liquid-filled tubes to survive the G-forces of the ion drive (I guess the ion drives of the future will accelerate much faster than the ones today...) When they exit the tubes, their coffee cups and other junk are still on tables around the ship rather than being debris crushed along the back walls.

Cheese Moment #2:On the Event Horizon there's a long tunnel separating the main ship from the spooky gravity drive. Along the tunnel are loads of explosive charges so the ship can separate in case of an emergency. "Right. Those will come into play later." I thought. Later on Lawrence Fishburne is able to run around the spooky ship setting those explosive charges by opening a cover and hitting a button. Wouldn't such devices have some safeguards for people going postal or sabotage?

There's more but I'm tired of typing and am going to watch The Off Season Judging by the reviews I'll have another JE later...

Cheers.