I got my review at work a few days ago, and it went pretty well in my opinion. My boss sat me down and asked me how I thought I was doing. I’d been dealing with some… “reservations”… at work recently so I thought I’d lay it all down on the line. I told him I thought my numbers were lacking, and that I spend too long on events that could be passed quickly, just because they perk my curiosity and I over-investigate them. I told him I was bored out of my skull and I latch onto any opportunity to practice the things I’ve learned and really apply myself. And that I need to get into an engineer position badly. He came back with “Good. That’s pretty much exactly what I put. Glad we’re on the same page”. Apparently upper management only sees numbers, so I have to spend a few months pushing trash. But Joe has assured me he’s speaking loudly for me to get into CCNA training to get an engineer spot. I wish it was coming sooner, but this is good news.
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They were just showing clips of someplace presumably north and/or east of here where it was snowing. Not gonna lie. I’m looking forward to winter. I’m one of those sadistic types that really likes it, it’s my favorite season. Don’t ask why. I have no idea.
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Pretty much everyone is used to getting spam by now. And it’s usually all the same, and usually pretty benign. Subject lines like “Enlarge your penis”, “Go up one chest size in a month, naturally!”, and stuff like that. As a guy it’s a little odd getting both emails back to back, but whatevs. It’s the internet. They’re simply suggesting my junk may need enhancing to please the massive throng of “ladiez” that clearly travels in my wake. One I got today stood out a little though. I guess suggesting wasn’t enough… Here was the subject line: “All jokes aside, yeah you do got a tiny cock”. I laughed when I read it since it’s so far from the standard boring spam I’m used to getting. I guess if spam starts becoming funny it will bug me less to find my inbox full of it.
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Yeah, I’m still alive. It’s a fact, I double checked the math. I even carried the one. “Real Life” hasn’t been hugely busy, so I guess I have no excuse for not posting. So here’s more or less what’s been going on…
I’ve finally gotten back into a regular gym routine again. I’ve been going for a few weeks and made it over the “going back to the gym” hump… That unpleasant time where you just feel gimp and tire quickly. I’ve been able to cook it pretty hard this week so far. Also the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack is not only awesome to this day, but rocks for working out.
I thought it would be cool if drivers had little thought bubbles over their cars that would be like a little explanation of why executing whatever bit of asshattery they’re executing at the time. I realize most of these little thought bubbles would just say “lol wut”, but the occasional “my blinkers are broken, srry” or “I’m scurred of the right lane” would at least be handy.
Browsing through my web server access log is interesting. Especially the part where it tells you what search terms led to your page. It reminds me of how much random shit I have on my server. Long story.
Ok that’s it for now. That’s all you get, internet.
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They need to mint a new set of dollar coins. It’d have a picture of a carwash on one side, and a quarter with a line through it and “For your convenience” embossed on the back. I don’t know what the connection is between carwashes and the dollar coin is, but they have it for eachother big time. For a while it was great, most DIY carwashes would take quarters, $1 and $5 bills, and some even took plastic. Now it’s “Use the goddamn dollar coin or get the FUCK out!”. The best are the machines that dispense their almighty tokens and don’t take quarters, you can only change bills into dollar coins. They tell you this is “for your convenience” using reasoning that’s clearly over my head. I swear, carwashes are the only reason the dollar coin is still in circulation. Thusly my idea for the new coin design. Someone from the US mint must have taken a bullet in the dick for someone at the Underground Carwash Illuminati or something.
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So Comcast has been doing this really sneaky thing to try and cut back on traffic in general. Bittorrent constitutes a significant percentage of overall traffic on the net, so Comcast is all like “hey, we can mess with that lolâ€. They got this program that seeks out Comcast customers with active bittorrent streams and basically severs them (it forges RST packets and injects them intot the stream towards each end). So if you’re a Comcast customer and your torrents have been dying, that’s why. They didn’t announce it, and it’s a pretty crappy thing try and pull in the first place. There are lots of legit bittorrent uses. What’s more, they forge very messy RST packets and basically break RFC protocol on how one is supposed to use TCP/IP… not the sort of thing an ISP should be doing. If I went around doing the same thing, dropping peoples’ connections to other people randomly while they’re in the middle of doing stuff, I’d probably get in trouble for it. It’s a really *bad* thing to get caught doing.
Anyways… It’s been bugging my roommate for a while now and I tried to see what I could do about it since I more or less control our network. I spent a decent chunk of the day reading up on this issue, TCP/IP in general, and scanning through tcpdump output (basically a record of the raw packets passing through the firewall). It’s funny how I get on kicks like this, going into it knowing *not so much*, and I come out as if I re-learned something I knew all along. And I get excited about it on top of that. Very much like having an epiphany. I feel like I took in so much in the few slow hours I had at work that it’ll take me a couple days to fully digest. I suppose that’s how I know I’m in the right field?
Sorry for so much Nerdy(tm). It pays the bills and keeps me occupied. I can’t complain.
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Sick of being sick. Well, I’m not anymore really. My sore throat is completely gone, and that’s what was really bothering me. No more foggy head either. But I have a lingering cough that’s slowly getting better. Too slowly for me honestly. It’s starting to give me a headache, like a gunshot in closed quarters every time I cough. I honestly wish what I have was bacterial so I could at least eat some nasty tasting pink pills and make it go away. Stupid virus.
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“About 36 percent of Illinois fourth-graders ranked as proficient in math, up from 20 percent in 2000. In eighth-grade reading, 30 percent rated as proficient, down from 35 percent in 2003.”
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FWIW at least that means that the majority of students can’t wrap their brains around how sad that is. A student was quoted as saying “who needs math irl lol”. Ok I made that up but you know it’s true.
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So the UK is apparently putting in some sort of anti-cyberbully bill. I guess it’s no different from the normal treatment this topic gets from the powers that be. It’s fine to mess around with the little nerdy kid, making his life some flavor or another of living hell during gradeschool as long as it’s face to face. But mess with Buffy the pretty white girl’s myspace page anonymously and you’re going to pay. So it’s little nerdy kids taking out their frustrations via the internet and all the sudden there need to be bills put in place. Cute. Way to extend the status quo into the internet. Sucks for them I suppose that it’ll never actually work.
In any given modern society, the expectation of personal wellbeing and some mote of respect from peers is granted as a right. Or something like that. It’s typically expected that humans will act like decent humans towards other humans in “real life”. you have no such right or expectation on the internet. “Grow some thick skin” is not an acceptable response to some poor kid getting bullied at school since they have no choice but to go and face the same people every day. But it’s perfectly reasonable to tell some little twit whining about cyberbullying to grow some thick skin since they’re on the internet by choice only.
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Stupid people are funny. Nay, hilarious. I know that makes me shallow or elitist or something, but I guess I’m ok with that. Matt (the roommate, for newcomers) and I started watching the new season of Beauty and the Geek. Normally I avoid TV. Normally I avoid reality TV even more. This is something different though, it’s a thing of beauty. They get a dozen or so of the most socially inept geeks and put them in a house with a dozen or so “really hot” girls. Then they toss in one of those elimination/survival games and shake up the house.
I enjoy the show for two reasons. First being that I used to be one of those socially inept geeks. So I can respect where these guys are coming from. Of course I hit a certain age and got a hold of a certain amount of mojo, and it seems like these guys just never got that. One of them is even a real live LARPer. Not even kidding. The only thing scarier than a furry. The second reason I watch the show is for the priceless shit that comes out of the mouths of the girls. I mean, you just don’t hear stuff like this. The question was asked “which is closer, the moon or the sun?”. One answered “The sun, it looks bigger”. Two just answered “The sun” with a little nod. Two more answered “Same distance”. I mean, how can you get out of grade school and not know the moon is closer? It’s just so unbelievable, the shit they say, I can’t help but watch.
Matt and I watched the last season and liked it. Being 2 socially well adjusted nerds, we get a kick out of both sides. Looking forward to this season. I reccommend watching it. Ignore the “elimination game” part of it, and just watch the contestants interact with people from their own group and the other groups.
Albert Einstein: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
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