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So, this happened at NOAA
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012/al11/al112012.discus.020.shtml?
Poor Kirk.
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I went to YouTube for videos, not to be sold fantasy porn
I cannot even. How is this relevant to my interests, and who in the hell thought it was appropriate in the first place?
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I hold these to be self evident
Having just finished the two Exiles (Mageborn) books by Melanie Rawn...
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My password scheme, let me show you it
So, in the wake of xkcd and looking at discussions about it, I present the way I tend to think up new passphrases. This tends to work on all the systems where I use passwords that I type frequently - my laptop, the unix hosts at work, and even our intranet site. It falls over a bit in a number of web systems that for whatever arcane reasons don't ( Read more... ) -
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OMG. xkcd is what I've been trying to tell people for years. Information security uh-huh. You keep using that p4s5w0rd. I don't think it is as secure as you think it is.
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Welcome home, Atlantis
Yes, we were geeky enough to set an alarm for 2:15 this morning and watch as Atlantis made its last flight over the south Pacific, hit atmosphere, come in over Central America, Cuba, and Florida, and make a spectacularly peaceful landing just before dawn. I don't have a whole lot of words, but there's a point in this video of the landing, about 26 ( Read more... ) -
So long, Atlantis - may you touch the stars
There is something about a spaceflight launch, whether it be a Saturn V (which I never saw live) or a shuttle, that is so overwhelmingly impressive that it always brings tears to my eyes. The power of leaving Earth, with the dream of going places impossibly far away. I would dearly love to have been to Cape Canaveral to watch one right there, in ( Read more... ) -
Calendula to a good home
I have about a bazillion calendula seeds. They're currently the main plant flowering in our front yard (along with some poppies and monkey flower). The pictures there at Wikipedia are a good bit yellower than what I've got - mine are more orange like the poppy in my icon (really, the same color). So, if anyone wants some calendula seeds, let me ( Read more... )
