August 2003 Archives

Diya has a livejournal!!!!!

Dear god this is the best day of my life. That's sad, that diya having a live journal makes this the best day of my life. BUT SHE IS SO FUNNY!!!! Ever since i've met her I've wanted a tap into her brain ... now it's halfway possible!

I want to try something, similar to the Marco Polo thing ...

O! H! ...

PS - read my post below

Alright, it's my general assessment that everything is clear by Insight. It's been a week and no termination in service. All that was lost essentially was the email server, which for me didn't mean much because all my spork@thespork.com mail got was spam anyway. For CJ I think this might suck, cause I think he used god@absenceofdesign.com pretty frequently. but losing the email was a better loss than the whole server, so for this we are thankful.

The radiohead show was incredible. I've read everything online from Thom was speaking a storm (i guess the two lines he said to the croud is more than he ever says normally) and that this show was the best of the north american tour so far. I certainly would agree simply by listening to bootlegs I have from last week that dont' compare to the show we saw. They let loose, or something, cause they definitely were experimenting with some of their songs, and improvising. They also did a lot of older stuff from ok computer, kid a, and amnesiac alike. i guess radiohead hadn't been in st. louis for a long time so they wanted to "catch up on lost time." Man that show rocked, and yesterday Devin (one of the ones who went with us) got a bootleg of it (which surprised me, because devin is probably the least computer savvy of the group, but not to say he's illiterate). I'm listening to the last track of the second encore as we speak.

When talk show host came on, I was giddy beause I knew it was Joanna's favorite song. Afterwards, I turned to Devin and told him that, and he asked what my favorite song was. I go "Paranoid Android" and Devin's like "really? interesting" and then BAM! the next song starts and it's paranoid android! I went crazy. Second hardest I danced all night, only second to Idioteque which was CRRRAAAZY good. Man it's hard not to just shake your body to a beat like Idioteque. When I play music really loud, I have a hard time not getting my body into it. So at a concert you can imagine the music is LOUD, so I really want to dance. But I normally refrain for lack of guts, skill, and out of curtousy towards others. But man, by the third song of the show I said "fuck it" and just went crazy on every song. Each song I found a different movement that just felt right to the mood and just let it go. The guy next to me was stiff the whole night, and Devin actually danced too, same with the guy next to him.

but man that show rawked. I still can't believe it

-Sk/Jn-

I'm going to provide an excerpt from a comment I made in discussion over my last post

But I'm thinking that as of the moment things with Insight, and me going to college, and concerns with my parents and our home network while I'm away, that it's highly likely TheSpork.NET (the web server at my house) will go down permanently. It's convenient to have to happen now, because my domains run out next month or the following. I was going to renew, but now I might not.

Save TheSpork!

Spork.

Just note that Insight might shut down thespork.com again. If this happens, I will be offline (because they disable your account) until I can convince them to put me back up. When this happens, look for me online and check my profile for updates on when/how the site will be back up.

Admin.

Marco! ... ...

I thought that this was wayyyyy too funny.

And because the poll is down, let's discuss. Who think this is disgusting? I do, although, I'll be living in Chicago come a month and a half and might take advantage of this ... but it's still disgusting!

Problem for McD's is that customers are probably going to want technical support on why their wifi isnt' working while they're chowing on their big mac.

So yeah, who has a laptop? who loves their laptop? Who has wi-fi? who loves their wi-fi? Who loves mcdonalds? who is obesce? post! now!

spork.

So I think I owe a post (or seven) ... so I'm putting one up. This one is dedicated to Marc Farris, for no reason other than he reads the most online journals of anyone I personally know. You're my boy, Blue. ^**

Well, I'm just basically going to touch on this week. Things were never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. Shit, wrong story. Anyway, last Friday (guess that's a little further than this week, oh well, shoot me for it) Paul, Marc, and I went to Starbucks. This was fun, and we talked about college, and classes, and girls in college, and why anyone would choose to buy a desktop ever again, after going notebook, and roommates, etc. Then we went back to Marc's house, and continued our conversation till about ... two thirty I'd say? I think that's right, because I got home at three I'd like to say. The storm that night was CAAAAARRRRRRAAAAZZZY. Massive bolts of lightning, huge blasts of thunder, and whenever a flash came I expected to see for a split second in the white light a man in a raincoat and rainhat standing in the window and then flash of black and another flash of white and he's gone already. He'd probably be holding out a knife as well, preferably a cleaver. Anyway, so yes, good thing I did not see a fisherman with a cleaver in the window. Then I get on my computer (this is now three in the morning) and power goes out. So I wait, and wait, and I'm like "I know it'll come back" and then it doesn't, so finally I decide to go to bed, and when I go into the next room I realize power is back, it was just that the computer room had blown a fuse. So I switch it back on, take care of what I needed to to care of on the PC, and go to bed around 4:00.

Saturday was Victor's graduation party, this was cool, I especially loved the jazz music of all the hit pop songs. Speaking of jazzy pop song stuff, I came across a copy of that Christopher ORiley does Radiohead CD. While it's good and all, and Chris does a great job with the songs, the music is strictly instrumental (piano). In my eyes, (or ears, I guess) it's basically the same thing as the cheesy jazz version pop songs, except at least this is radiohead (which is good music) and that makes it kinda worth it. Good to see the people I hadn't seen all summer. Good food. The works. Afterwards Makinde, Victor and I chatted for about half an hour while his cousins cleaned up. I know if that were my family, they'd be pissed ... but come on, it's Victor's party.

I guess the only thing worth mentioning about Sunday was that Emily, Jimmy, and I had dinner together. My parents at this point had been out of town since Saturday, and Emily had been housesitting for a good week and a half so it was pretty much only Jimmy and I at the house all week. So after he and I played golf, we met Emily for dinner and it was good. Mmmm yeah.

Monday night, Paul and Marc came over and crashed at my place. We basically set up a network of our laptops as well as my pc (where most my music is) and did a little SneakerNET action. Talk about bridging two networks ... I never imagined bridging a SneakerNET with Ethernet LAN but that's just one more beauty to why everyone should go mobile. Seriously, notebooks are the future of mankind ^**. So is SneakerNET. So yeah, that was a good time for a short while, until the power went out. Then we were left to entertain ourselves by our own devices, and thankfully shortly there after Paul decides to call Ellen, who happens to be with Marian, and those two peeps come over till ... one? something like that. Then Paul Marc and I still have no power, and go to bed around ... 3? maybe 4. Can't remember.

I had to work the next day, so I did that. Left them at my house to sleep longer. That night, it was us three again plus T-bag and J-Hill at Starbucks, another sausage party. More conversations about college, and laptops, and roommates, and the dorms at UVA named Balls and Woody. Hilliard will be staying in Woody. That is pretty incredible. But the evening wasn't long, and we all went home.

Wednesday I don't think I did anything, if anyone can prove me wrong please do so. I'm drawing a blank.

<update>I can't believe I couldn't remember what I did Wednesday. I'm thinking "I know I did something, maybe if I make a reference someone will correct me."

Wednesday night I went over to Brian (PrinterAisleBoy) and David's place to get a copy of BE's WinXP cd. This was a legitimate transaction, believe it or not, cause we both got a copy free from Microsoft for being Best Buy employees. Anyway, then, I ended up staying for a good three hours or more, just chilling with Brian and catching up on such important matters as pressurized ion bombs over Iraq to turn all that fucking sand into one big sheet of glass!!! And then engineering some sort of "glass skates" instead of "ice skates" and other matters like making fun of CJ, and introducing me to the alt.binaries newsgroups. Then Dave came home, and that was badass too cause I hadn't seen him. And I started telling them about Vietnam, and suddenly I realized, that I don't think I've really filled ANYONE in on Vietnam. I put up a hundred hard to navigate pictures with no thumbnails, and that was it. I intend to do this sometime. Anyway, B and D are hopefully going to be the next members of my HaloFest2 team, and when you read that and think I'm a dork ... fuck you. I think I went over there at six and ended up leaving around ten. That was awesome.</update>

Thursday my roommate called me for the first time, so I heard his voice at last, and he does not have an accent like I thought he would. This is good, because it avoids any poking fun. He can still laugh when I let my guard down and slip out a few "ya'll"'s "luhvul"'s and "baah"'s (instead of "bye"). hay-er (hair). ayand (and) ok, that's enough of them. We talked for a decent amount of time, and then I had to get back to work, and then we spoke again after I got off. That night was interesting because Amanda finally showed me the infamous Sleepaway Camp which I must say, is quite a disturbing movie. That, and it's totally 1980's. I now know why Iain was telling me never to let her show it to me. If you are looking for a .... surprise? sure, a surprise ... rent sleepaway camp, and hide it from the little kids. You will never truly know terror until you see this movie.

Friday night it was Tyler who set up the SneakerNET, Ethernet bridge with me. In fact, I think this SneakerNET was more authentic than the last because he brought over his cd's as well as laptop plus we might have even done wireless at one point (or at least I did) making this a Wirless to Ethernet to SneakerNET three way bridge. Pretty incredible. All I have to say about this is that I am giddy, absolutely giddy, because Tyler not only completed the Doors Greatest Hits collection for me by providing disk 2, which I was missing, but also got me the Cranberrries - No Need to Argue as well as Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Again ... GIDDY.

Saturday my parents came home, and I went out to dinner with them. This was my dad's birthday, but Emily and Jimmy weren't available so we did no actually celebrate this night, so Sunday night we did that. I got my Dad a half hour golf lesson which I paid for myself, while Jimmy (this is funny) gave him only three golf balls (which my Dad had already paid for jimmy to use) and a golf glove that jimmy won in a tournament. Do you see the problem with this? But it's funny, plus jim's broke so it's understandable. He also owes me sixty dollars. It's been three months, but I will get that money.

But now SunDAY, Iain and I went to autocross. This was pretty cool. For one, I hadn't hung out with him in a while, and also I'd always wanted to go to one of these racing gigs. But we only went for a short time, and then left to go eat taco bell and drive around listening to Sound Garden and Smashing Pumpkins. We also discussed possible plans for bridging our SneakerNETs sometime. Then we went back, and first Iain tought me to drive a stick. I think I cought on pretty quick, and he claimed I didn't hurt his car too much, and while I don't think I'll be driving one anytime soon, it'll be good to have the experience just in case I'm forced to be a DD one night, or something like that. I can basically, at my current level, as Iain put it, move a stickshift if need be. AND THEN, Iain gets me a passenger ride in a ghetto corolla for the race. I put on the helmet, got in the seat, put on my seatbelt and ... the seatbelt is broken so that it's not very tight ... GREAT. But I go anyway, and just hold on to the handle. It was a lot of fun, the guy ran a 53 which was his best time up till that point of the day. So I guess I didn't weigh him down.

So I think that's it for now, I'm at work so I should go. CIAO.

SpK.

asp 3.0 crapped out randomly ... sorry for this, but jo's site and half of cj's site should have still worked (cj's new asp forum did not, but the rest did) ... it woulnd't access any databases ... weird

if this happens again I will be sure to shoot myself

a.

Attention: Important Security Information

A virus has been sent by an unknown user to the TheSpork.com email server. The name of this virus is W32/Mimail@MM. Mimail utilizes an exploit found in Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Outlook Express to penetrate a user's computer for infection. The virus can only utilize such an exploit however if the user (1) has not kept his software up to date and (2) opens the attachment. If infected, this virus then scans the user's computer for email addresses and then spams each of these addresses with the virus email.

To do this, the virus uses its built in smtp server and sends an email spoofed to appear as though it is from admin@[the user's domain].com.

Note: An email has been sent to many of the @thespork.com email addresses to appear as though it was sent by the admin at thespork.com account. This is not the case. The email sent by the virus has infected somebody with a connection to thespork.com, more than likely a visitor. This person's IP address at the time of the email was 213.48.202.225

If this IP address resembles yours, you may be the infected party and should scan your computer and remove the virus. Note to anybody with a sporkmail account (I don't think anyone still uses theirs, but just in case) don't run the attachment, I'd never email you something you were't expecting and I'd probably IM you and then post it in the files folder somewhere anyway.

Alright, whatever, back to work.

Admin.