Welcome to the Special End-of-Summer Swimsuit Edition of Weekly Recap(tm). Here you will find links to photos the most beautiful people from Slashdot and around the world wearing nothing but a thong!

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Ha! I *tricked* you! Now that I've gotten your attention, go on and click a link above and if you haven't done so already, take the auracolors test mentioned in that JE. If you have taken the test, spread the link around your journals. I'm trying to get as many respondants as possible. So far there's only 16. And I thank all 16 of those people for taking the time to take the test in the name of hacker science! I'd like to get more repnsones, however. So please, before the JE gets archived, go out and take the auracolors test now and post your responses in that JE. Ok? Thanks. ;)

I was reading this little bit on Indigo Children and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. I was like, dude, this is my story. As was the case when I read bio after bio of adult indigos. Many of their stories sounded way similar to mine.

So I noticed that they had a section on indigo adults. After reading this profile on an adult indigo, I was completely stunned. I fit this profile basically to a "T". But I was still (and am still) somewhat skeptical of this whole indigo thing. Although, OTOH, somehow I feel that I definitely am an indigo.

So I took the auracolors test at auracolors.com and was, I guess, not completely surprised that the my primary life color was indigo. In fact, I am, according to the test, a full 12-point indigo.

Now I noticed in the descriptions that many indigos are misdiagnosed as ADD or ADHD or Asperger's Syndrome (AS). This is also common in hackerdom. To quote esr from the Jargon File:

...hackers tend to believe they have good reason for skepticism about clinical explanations of the hacker personality. That being said, most would also concede that some hacker traits coincide with indicators for non-hyperactive ADD and AS ... It is probably true that boosters of both would find a rather higher rate of clinical ADD among hackers than the supposedly mainstream-normal 3-5% (AS is rarer at 0.4-0.5%).

Some of the indigo traits also seem to correspond to common hacker traits, IMHO, such as a strong dislike of broken systems (i.e., political, legal, health, etc.), a strong resistance to authority, fear of Big Brother, frustration with political systems such as voting, anger at rights being taken away, etc.

So a little experiment in the name of metaphysical science here: I'd like to see how many of you geeks (and even non-geeks ;) out there that read my journal rate on the auracolors test, and, as importantly, after reading the descriptions I laid out, do you feel that you are an indigo? If you, as I do, are a bit skeptical of the metagifted site, you might also wanna check out a some other sites on indigo children via this google search.

So here's what I'm looking for: what you are the results of your auracolors test, and do you feel from reading the descriptions that you might be (or your child might be) an indigo?

Weekly Recap(tm): Because enquiring geeks wanna know!

For all those who I told and *ahem* forgot, it was Surak's birthday on Sunday. He's 31.

jawtheshark returned from his alien abdution this week. While jawtheshark was quoted as saying "that my absence was not accidental," mumbling something about it being his "2600 post," we all know that jawtheshark was abducted by the same aliens that took FortKnox and SlashChick around the same time.

Red Warriorwas busy talking about something mysteriously referred to only as FTW. Nobody knows WTF FTW means, but Weekly Recap(tm) suspects it stands for Frisking The Walrus. The Walrus is believed to be a codeword for GMontag, whom Red Warrior frisked while he slept.

Servo was busted for smoking marijuana in Alaska. Fortunately for Servo, personal marijuana possession is now legal in Alaska. However, Servo apparently also thinks that "2 megapixels is good enough for 8x10 prints". Lay off the weed, man.

gmhowell, Mr. Don't care, don't care, don't care was also abducted by space aliens, although for not very long apparently. But long enough to go to Mars, apparently. Or at least wonder why he went there.

Em Emalb shot and killed a retarded Rhesus monkey clone on Thursday. No one knows exactly why, but shortly afterward, he declared ownership of cyberspace. Fearing the fate of the monkey clone, no one was arguing at first. At least not until Em got "a catheter shoved up [his] pee-hole, then jabbed on through [his] spleen, then out [his] ass--sideways."

Speaking of Em's fate, this will happen to you unless you send in your pictures for the Slashdot Photo Contest 2 , hosted by FortKnox right now. I mean it!

SamTheButcher had almost nothing to talk about last week, and then on Sunday, apparently blurted it all out in one big butt-fucking animal assed chunk on Sunday. Does anyone know what the flaming stick of fuck he was talking about?

TechnoLust has been busy pimping himself out with hottub girl, the girl from church, a hot blonde waitress and GMontag. I always knew that TechnoLust was into those Christopher Walken types.

Saige has been all upset about life in our anti-Christian America, And she has embarked in a new career in vehiclular art. So that's what the tank is for.

Bethanie has been a little too quiet lately. Weekly Recap suspects she's up to something. Maybe involving old fogeys and parades...hmmm...

Daoine wants to see your ID. She promises that she has no ulterior motives.

SolemnDragon has decided to start a cooking show. First, she teaches us all about cast iron, now she's teaching us french fries and grease fires. Sources close to Weekly Recap(tm) and SolemnDragon have said that Sol's insurance company is cancelling her renter's policy. Especially after she nailed this nastygram to her neighbor's door. Sol may have to take up having loud, screaming sex at 3:00 a.m. just to get even. (BTW, Sol ... I apologize if I haven't gotten back to you on some e-mails we exchanged, but I've been busy working overtime. Things are slowing down this week at work, so ... expect those interview questions! ;)

LadyGuardian came out of the broom closet this week and announced that she's a witch. Well, okay, maybe she plays one on stage or something. (Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;)

Get your web hosting from Simpli.biz, just 'cause Erica's cool.

One day while drinking my diet pop* (this was maybe about 3 or more years ago), I noticed the following wording on the bottle:

PHENYLKETONURICS:
CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE

Being the curious sort of person I am, I typed phenylalanine into google and determined that phenylalanine is a protein that's used to make aspartame, aka NutraSweet(tm), and that phenylketonurics are people who are unable to process phenylalanine.

Interesting.

Well, one day someone asked me about aspartame and about whether it caused headaches, because they got headaches whenever they drank diet pop. Remembering that one symptom of phenylketonurics is that pheynalalanine can cause them headaches (and even mental retardation!) I thought it useful to look it up and again, and show them the article I found, because they also said they got similar headaches from almonds, which naturally contain phenylalanine.[**]

Well, I type in phenylalanine into google and the first site in the results is a site called phenyalanine.net. Go take a look. The site is hilarious if read it carefully.

It appears to be common e-mail spam cleverly disguised as an article on phenylalanine. Everything is in there: herbal Viagra, buy real Viagra online, penis enlargement, and even AdultFriendFinder. The only thing missing were Tawny and her naughty friends! ;)

So here's my thought: the guy who made this site is a spammer. He figures a lot of people drink diet pop and have no clue what phenylalanine or phenylketonurics are. So they type 'phenylalanine' into google, and his site, which has somehow cleverly got around the google pageranking system is right up at the top. They click the headline, which says 'phenylaline and sexual enhancement' and boom, get this "article" which actually appears to be the Ultimate Web Spam!

Ingenious! Spam on every bottle of diet pop on the planet!

Why didn't I think of that? ;)

[*] pop == what we call 'soda' in Detroit
[**] why do people ask me this stuff? I dunno. maybe they think I'm smart. Maybe it's cause I'm an herbalist. I dunno. *shrug*

I tried to get an Ultra 60 this morning booted into single user by issuing a Stop-A and a "boot -s". The thing wouldn't do it. It insisted on trying to mount all the NFS mounts, one of which isn't working due to a server that is down and being changed. I wanted the Ultra 60 booted into single user mode to comment out the appropriate line from the /etc/vfstab.

Unfortunately, the stupid thing wouldn't boot into the single user mode when I issued a boot -s. It just kept on mounting NFS stuff like it was nothing. *sigh*

So I ended up booting into single user mode off a Solaris installation CD-ROM with "boot cdrom -s" instead. Then I fixed the problem by "mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt" and then "vi /mnt/etc/vfstab" ;)

The question is: WTF wouldn't the thing boot into single user mode off the HDD? I don't get it. I banged on it for an hour before giving up and seraching for the dang install CD. Anybody got any clues? Something I should look for?

Woah! Surak is apparently suffering from amnesia after being hit on the head with a brick by SolemnDragon! He can't seem to remember anything about bethanie or their recent episodes with public sex. Sol's Wicked and Evil twins also had an encounter with the Good Twin who returned from her watery grave. The Wicked and Evil twins apparently got a hold of the Zippo again, because Sol cleaned her apartment again, which apparently involves "matches AND a fire hose".

Meanwhile, Bethanie has found a new a TechnoLust. Quote: "It was bad enough when I lunged and embraced TL intimately (copping a thorough feel whilst I was at it, for good measure!); it took all of Hubby's willpower not to take TL outside and thrash his philandering ass." So apparently, Bethanie is none the worse for wear over Surak's recent amnesia, instead opting for new trysts with TechnoLust and gmhowell. More details on gmhowell to come.BethaniesHubby was notably silent on the issue.

berniecase, noticing how bad pop music is, has decided to to use it to kill people. No word on how successful bernie has been, but the songs of death have included "Rock With you" by Michael Jackson and "Around the World" by Daft Punk. Em Emalb apparently got in on the action singing his rendition of "Easy Like Sunday Morning" by the Lionel Richie. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Sulli has apparently decided to set himself on fire in the Burning Man event at Black Rock City. Sulli is, in fact The Burning Man.

sparky4 has been learning things from puppies. Amongst the things she has learned: sit, rollover, play dead, and shake. Apparently, she accomplished all of these tasks by Labor Day.

Some Womanwas found sptting Vodka in the face of Jesus. The Pope was notably silent on the issue.

Turg apparently amused by the simplest of things, like this colour matcher would like to know something about colour theory. Apparently turg is colour blind because he didn't actually try using the thing, unlike your intrepid reporter.,

Things are Looking up for LadyGuardian, which is especially good given the fact that she sucks at ass o'clock. Whatever that means.

NaveWeiss's tactlessness has cost him a friend. And he's somehow surprised.

Heliocentric would like you to donate money so that he can cause mayhem. If he's going to cause mayhem, why doesn't he just steal the money?

robi2106 wants you to know that "most girls are evil". And robi wonders why he can't get a date, It might be okay to think that, robi, but never, ever say it outloud.

FortKnox is starting his NEW photo contest! Now your chance to sign up. Let WeeklyRecap(tm) know that we can use the photo, and maybe, just maybe, we'll put out a WeeklyRecap(tm) special photo edition! WOuldn't that be cool?

Servo apparently is a moron. That is all.

Red Warrior, who apparently dresses in business casual, will "personally tend to ignore your clothes", however. Ick. Hey, Red: the 90s called, they want their clothes back.

And, finally, SamTheButcher has been airing his laundry and, apparently, his garbage as well. And he wants to "ANYBODY NEEDS A LINUX ADMIN IN COLORADO???" He's serious.

Oh yeah...get all of your hosting needs from basic websites to dedicated servers from simpli.biz. Tell Erica that Surak sent ya. ;)

for our special post-Labor Day edition.

In the meantime... pizza delivery people: what's up with that? The guy got pissed off because he had to drive 3 miles, my pizza didn't arrive til an hour and a half later, and then it's cold. And the most he does is give me $5 off?

*&)#@%^$*&)_!

What happened to service?

Here are some useful things I've learned as a techie bachelor living by himself. Geeks still living in their parents' basement need not apply. (And I just pissed off about half of Slashdot. ;)

Economic tips

Soda: Here in Detroit we call it 'pop'. So if when I say 'pop' I mean soda. Most geeks are caffeine addicts and drink soda by the gallon. Don't buy individual pops. Two-litre bottles are a good choice, especially since you can get them in the gas stations for as little as $0.89 (plus deposit). Read the ads for your favorite supermarket chain. Some of them like this one that many of you have never heard of but is big in the Midwest even put them online. Scan for sales on pop! I just picked up a few 12-packs of Diet Coke for $1.69 each.

Printer paper: Go to OfficeMax or someplace like that and get one of the inbox trays you undoubtedly have at work on your desk. Or steal it from work. I didn't tell you to do that. ;) Keep it next to your printer. Put all of those extra blank pages and aborted pages and any extra pages you have lying around in the tray, all facing one way. Flip it over. Now you have extra paper to print stuff like directions from Mapquest or phone numbers from Superpages.com on! (Also, if you can get away with it...print big stuff at work. Shhh! I didn't tell you that either! ;)

Food: Pizza and Chinese food have long been hacker staples. Eating delivery pizza and take-out Chinese every night can get expensive. Stir fry is one of those dishes that's as good as Chinese carry out (IMHO) and it's easy and cheap to make and takes <15 minutes, including prep time!

equipment:
First off, invest a few dollars into a George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine. You can get one of the small units with a bun warmer for as little as $50 at your local discount chain store. Also, you need a wok or a large frying pan. The non-stick kind. And an egg turner or large wooden spoon or fork or something to stir with. A kitchen knife for the meat.

Next, stock up on stir fry vegetables. I use pre-cut frozen stir fry vegetables that you can get for as little as $1 for a 1 lb. bag. (Ewww..frozen? In a stir fry you will never be able to tell the difference. Trust me.) And rice or noodles if you prefer. These are cheap.

Meat, if you eat that sort of thing: watch the specials. I usually get chicken breast fillets or pork tenderloins.

Oil. I use a nice extra-virgin olive oil, which tends to be a bit expensive, but you can use other oils. Olive oil is healthy and doesn't leave any odd tastes on your food though.

Sauce. You can make a sauce, but I personally just pick up a bottle of Kikkoman Stir Fry Sauce or Teryaki sauce. Most supermarkets carry a nice variety of different Asian-cooking type sauces and sauce mixes. The mixes are cheap, so you might wanna consider those, especially since you can always doctor 'em up more easily than the stuff in a bottle.

Cooking it up
Plug the grilling machine in (it takes 5 mins to warm up), and start preheat your wok or pan to 350 F. Get out your meat and start cutting any extra fat off and cut the meat into cubes. By the time you finish with that, the wok should be ready to add oil...add some oil to the walk. Get out your vegetables. You need about 1/2 of a 1 lb bag per person. Throw those in the pan or wok and stir. They need to cook for 5-10 minutes. Keep stirring them every 15-30 seconds or so. Take your meat, and toss it on the grilling machine. This will take about as long as the vegetables.

When the meat is done cooking, toss it in the wok with the pan, add your sauce, any additional seasonings you want, and stir. Let it cook about another minute or two. Serve and enjoy.

If you want RICE or NOODLES, follow the directions on the package for making those. You'll typically want to start your rice or noodles before you start anything else.

Housekeeping tips

General Cleaning: To avoid having to spend your Saturday or Sunday cleaning your place, start doing this. Take 5 minutes every day and do something to clean your place. Pick up clutter, dust off a table, vaccum a room etc. Use a stopwatch. Live by the stopwatch. You'd be surprised at how much stuff you can get done in 5 minutes. Then, when the weekend does roll around,
you won't have to spend all day cleaning, just maybe half an hour or so straightening up.

One bathroom tip: Completely remove the toilet seat from your toilet now and then...you'd be VERY SURPRISED at how much disgusting germs and slime accumulate where the hinges attach to the bowl. Ew. :)

Okay, this has gotten WAYYY to long... more in a later JE!

As SolemnDragon says this is my journal, do what I want. It's pretty much what most of the rest of you said as well, I think what Sol had to say was pretty eloquent.

Yeah, Sol, it's a dictatorship, not a democracy or a meritocracy. ;) I just don't want to come off like the ass that CmdrTaco makes himself out to be. Then again, as much as Taco would hate to admit it, Slashdot just isn't his personal blog anymore. Thanks again, Sol. :)

And thanks to everyone else who submitted their feedback. The overwhelming response, is of course, that there's nothing wrong with it, but do what I want.

So here it is: Weekly Recap(tm) will stay once a week (Mondays), and won't grow significantly in length...in fact, as it stands now it pretty much fluctuates a bit from week to week, so it's likely to stay that way. It's about what catches my eye...and if you don't make it in, it isn't that i didn't read your JE, it's probably either A) I forgot to put it in there (like in SamTheButcher's case) or B) there is a possibility that I just couldn't think of anything witty to write about it, or C) maybe there just isn't room this week. :)

So there ya go. :)

A) Make Weekly Recap(tm) longer to include more people, possibly at the expense of losing readers due to short attention spans on /.

B) Add another day, and make Weekly Recap(tm) a semi-weekly.

C) Leave it alone -- it's great the way it is.

D) Other

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SolemnDragon, has decided to keep knives under her pillow, following an incident involving a cake that didn't turn out too well. Could it really have been that bad? Sol also got older this week! Happy birthday, Sol! May the Twenty Seven Birthday Spankings Commence! Surak has volunteered his services in administering the birthday scour...err...spankings. ;)

bethanie, bethanie, bethanie. All you talk about is Bethanie, Surak! Well, if you knew that what she has that's *Warm*, "*Soft* *Moist* and tastes great," that's all you'd be talking about, too. Oh, and she wants to how many times *you've* had the pleasure as well. Weekly Recap(tm) has no idea what that's all about, but suspects that it may have to do with hints of a tryst between bethanie and gmhowell. Could this mean the end for Bethanie and Surak? Will Bethanie replace Surak with gmhowell? Find out next week!

Speaking of gmhowell, read his his rollercoaster ride job hunting exploits. Just do it.

robi2106 finally understands the U.S. Constitution after reading a version of America's highest law written for 5th graders. There is hope for robi2106 and the USA yet.

NeMon'ess has compiled his listing of the Best. Bondage. Movies. Evar. NeMon'ess was subsequently beaten severely by his dominatrix. He is currently at a local hospital and is listed as being in stable condition.

Remember last week's Recap tips? Well, The Cydonian apparently thought he'd get into Weekly Recap(tm) by whoring his way in. Well, well, Mr. Cydonian, it seems that you are wrong. So there! :-P

FortKnox, after last week's encounter with the mindless suit droid version of SlashChick has had his "brain wiped out" by Wings and Garlic. Dave Lewis, the new head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, could not be reached for comment.

How do you make 105 degree heat feel good? Well, according to intermodal, it apparently involves "a jury-rigged setup of a battery charger and a set of jumper cables attatched to my wife". Amazing.

SlashChick met FortKnox at the mall, but we all knew that. What we didn't know is that SlashChick has "some voice inside my head [and] it scares me to death!" Listen to the voices, SlashChick, listen to the voices... do what they say....

LadyGuardian has returned from her apparent alien abduction as well. What still has to be explained are the "140 odd /. messages" in her inbox. Alright, who left those? C'mon. Fess up. Actually, judging by Some Woman's latest display of total insanity, it was probably her.

Looks like it's going to be such "an expensive month" for Tet that he's going to "go...Hungary! (or something like that)." Wow. If you have food donations, you are asked to donate them to the Save Tet From Starvation Fund.

Em Emalb got seriously sunburned and wants to know whether you think that that's worse or gnawing your own arm off. Apparently Em has never actually gnawed his own arm off.

Oh, and apparently Surak after committing incest with a family member has become a dead-beat dad. And then the guy has the nerve to turn around and advertise himself as an available bachelor! Wow. He needs a beating. Sol? ;)

Update: FortKnox pointed out that SamTheButcher has been out butt-fucking animal ass. Police are currently searching for Sam and ask that if you know his whereabouts to call 1-800-ANIMALABUSE.

Will someone please tell the stupid fscking Slashbots that hard drives are NOT a reliable means of backup because they don't separate the media from the reader? This is System Administration 101 people! That is all.

Wow. Someone offered me money for my account. Apparently I have a low UID. Like it matters all that much. When I started, my UID was high. Now it's low. Whatever. How much are they getting for accounts with low UIDs and karma capped at "excellent" these days? Should I sell it? It's not like I need the money, but hey, a new PC *would* be nice. :)

Okay...here's the scoop: I have given up. After becoming wayyy to embroiled in family politics and ending up physically ill over it, I and the sorta-cousin, sorta-pregnant, sorta-girlfriend girl have mutually decided to give up. So there ya go. I am now searching for new love interests once again, there's no turning back this time. :)

So, if you or anyone you know is interested in dating a single male in his early 30s who has modern feminist ideals, works as a UNIX sysadmin with decent salary, and currently lives in Michigan but has considered (and will continue to consider) moving to other parts of the country (not for the sake of love per se... I think it'd just be cool to live somewhere else :), likes outdoorsy stuff (especially camping and hiking), sings karaoke, enjoys taking long romantic walks, likes to write and generally enjoys movies, music, books, is a great cook, intelligent, charming, attractive ummm...drop me an e-mail.

(Yes the personal ad is only semi-serious ;)

Weekly Recap(tm): Because enquiring geeks wanna know!

Surak disappeared last week, apparently abducted by aliens from outer space. Or Al Qaeda terrorists. Or it could be that he's been sick with gall bladder disease. But Weekly Recap is not buying it. We're going for the Al Qaeda terrorists from Alpha Centauri theory.

FortKnox is the next Slashdot user to abducted by said Al Qaeda terrorists from Alpha Centauri. After meeting SlashChick in the mall on August 12th, he hasn't been heard from since.

SlashChick, meanwhile, after being abducted by the alien terrorists, has been replaced with a mindless suit imposter. The imposter was heard using droid-phrases like "initial capital," "cash-flow statement," "secure additional capital," and "profitable." The search for the real SlashChick continues, and has begun with her mysterious disapparence along with FortKnox at mall near their homes. Anyone who has seen FortKnox or the real SlashChick is asked to call the milk carton hotline at 1-800-MISSING or your local FBI office.

Bethanie, deprived of the company of Surak, stating, among other things, "WHERE'S THE WEEKLY RECAP(TM)!?!" bemoaning "This is kinda like an alcoholic running out of liquor on a Sunday night ('round these parts) and getting desperate enough to break out the NyQuil," actually went back to performing her wifely duty. Meanwhile, bethanie's parents were over her place getting nude in front of her and her preschool-age child. Finally, the lights went out in Georgia. To quote bethanie "It was a hardship, I must admit. But we struggled through our hour of darkness (for indeed, it was about sixty minutes that we were without power) with the tenacity and strength of character passed down to us from our steely Appalachian forbears." Bethanie, honey, you don't know the MEANING of the word hardship. ;)

While LadyGuardian was battling an unidentifiable stench, probably emanating from the Royal Candian Mounted Police, the power went out. Evidentally, Toronto got their power going well before Detroit did, because Surak didn't have power until the next day. Damn those Canadians all to hell anyway!. All they do is go on road trips and get sloshed, just like LadyGuardian.

TechnoLust, who has been seeing multiple chicks lately, called hottub girl a whore and then slept with her! Meanwhile, TechnoLust has been stalking CR, the girl he met at church, while asking Slashdot users for their blessing in doing so. Bethanie, who is apparently into stalkers, was all over that, totally encouraging him to go for it!

Xerithane has apparently contracted multiple personality disorder, since he now thinks that he's Jenny from the Bronx. Obviously his latest journal entries are a desparate cry for help.

Rumours abound: sulli is actually Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly. Weekly Recap(tm): Gossip that's fair and balanced.

On a more serious note,SolemnDragon writes about her experiences with karma. She assures us that karma has nothing to do with her recent episodes involving cow flinging, poor dating etiquette, blood money, or the death of Gregory Hines. It is unknown if Hines' death had anything to do with the blood money, dating etiquette or cow flinging.

Some Woman is running for governor of California. However, it is important to note that, unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger, she is not for sale in North America.

intermodal was arrested today on charges of violating the USA Patriot Act. Apparently, intermodal is advocating that the states overthrow the federal government. No word yet on when intermodal's trial is set to begin.

How to make it into Weekly Recap(tm)!

Some of you were begging to make into Weekly Recap(tm). For those of you who didn't make it, and want to make it in, some tips:

• Keep your journal up-to-date. Stuff older than about a week generally won't make it into Weekly Recap(tm) (hence the name WEEKLY recap), unless it is being used as background for more recent material.
• Write interesting stuff about your life. The latest bugs in program X, while newsworthy, don't make interesting gossip.
• Get my attention. Good headlines grab my attention.
• Post in the Weekly Recap(tm) discussions if you aren't on my friends list. This will get me to notice your journals if you aren't on my friends list for some reason. I'm a little bad about keeping it up-to-date, so keep posting until I notice! :)
• If you can't be interesting, be funny. Unlike on the rest of Slashdot, this WILL earn you karma points! ;)