Gecko Bloggle

Remember in Mondo 2000, when they were talking about computers that you could fold up and throw in a bag or back pocket?

Well here they come and only about eight years later than expected.

Sometimes the simple stuff defeats the tricky stuff.

Sony Corp Copy-Protection vs. .99c Sharpie pen is my fave, I think.

And back in 2k2, it was Gummi Bear vs. Fingerprint reader:

Go here and read it for yourself.

So it put it back, just like that.

Or maybe it won’t. We’ll know in a minute, won’t we?

You will be sucked dry by a leech. I’d stay away
from swimming holes, and stick to good old
cement. Even if it does hurt like hell when
your toe scrapes the bottom.

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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Gotta love the name of this group:

Legion of the Bouncy Castle

I mean, really… does it get much better?

Here at the Bouncy Castle, we believe in encryption. That’s something that’s near and dear to our hearts. We believe so strongly in encryption, that we’ve gone to the effort to provide some for everybody.

Their Circular Life is a totally amazing idea. A day in the life of… from a number of different places in the world.

crazy baby…

Pam had this on her site, but I found it by way of Tang’s

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

“An old fashioned envelope with a glassine window, through which he could glimpse the face of a twenty-dollar bill — that was from Mrs. Grose, who always gave the money she’d earned from readings (and then retrieved it at the end of the summer).”

From Last Summer At Mars Hill, which I bought purely because of the title, with the namesake of a surrealist BBS I used to hang out at/in/on. now I wonder if the board was after the commune, or the other way around.

Niftie.

So far, so good.

Got the new wireless router up, too.

Crazy baby.

Nukin’ the machine tonight. Wish me luck. I’m having a lot of weirdness and slow-downs, and it’s just “time,” I think.

See you on the other side.

J