I owe the Berlin trip a proper writeup, but some highlights: talk went extremely well, saw many old friends and acquaintances, came up with yet another paper we need to write with Dan Kaminsky, had some interesting discussions about a computer science curriculum that emphasizes security from the get-go, narrowed down the scope of some tools I need ( Read more... )

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(SCENE: our bedroom, this morning)
maradydd: Sweetie, it's time to get up. You've got a doctor's appointment this morning.
enochsmiles, not opening eyes: Can't the doctor come here?
maradydd, suppressing giggles: No, sweetie, he doesn't do that. It's time to drink a Red Bull.
enochsmiles, still not opening eyes: Can't the doctor drink a Red Bull?
maradydd: No, baby. C'mon, open your eyes...
enochsmiles: ( Read more... )

enochsmiles: Odin and Bounce are getting old. We should get a kitten soon so that Bounce can teach it how to be a sweet kitty.
maradydd: We could do that.
enochsmiles: Where would we look to find a kitten?
maradydd: People give them away on Craigslist a lot.
enochsmiles: *opens a new tab to craigslist* What should I search for? *enters "kittttttttties!" in search pane*
maradydd: *dies*

I have discovered that enochsmiles not only talks but in fact sings in his sleep. He's been going on for about fifteen minutes now; most of the speech, and all of the singing, is fairly muttery and incoherent, but audible phrases have included "Very green," "I can't follow you," "You can't multiply those," and "I don't have the butter." He rambles for a while ( Read more... )

enochsmiles discovered that our herb garden has been infested by aphids. The spearmint and the chocolate mint were looking pretty faint, so he suggested we get some ladybugs to address the aphid problem ( Read more... )

Good shit: I picked up a set of ramps and a torque wrench yesterday, so that I could change my transmission fluid and filter. (Saturns have an easily-accessible drain plug, so if you own a Saturn and your mechanic tries to tell you that you need to pay him to use his fancy-schmancy vacuum-line system to flush your transmission fluid, either he is ( Read more... )

enochsmiles: No, I'm not going to blog Hello World in Brainfuck. I'll write something new.
maradydd: You could do RSA in Brainfuck!
enochsmiles: ...Damn you.

(The conversation quickly devolved into a discussion of Brainfuck vs. Brainfuck-C and the difficulty of looking at so many dashes.)

maradydd: I was thinking about those sig files that have RSA in four lines of Python.
enochsmiles: It'd be ( Read more... )