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Archive for July, 2011
Looking out over the Thames
Jul 30th
I got to enjoy my home for about 36 hours. Now I’m back at Dulles waiting to board a late flight to London. The flight is delayed, I’m stuck in a middle seat because the trip was a bit last-minute, and I will be gone another week.
Blogging will, as is most often the case these days, be erratic, light or even non-existent at times.
And has anyone else noticed that my blog, which started out to be an opinion/politics blog has become much more of a travel blog this past year or so?
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Loading ...Geeks Talk About a Strip Club
Jul 30th
I think its been a long time since I’ve been to a strip club, ’cause I don’t remember any of these “promotionals.” I LOLed at this poorly animated video taken from a recording of nerds talking to one another at a corporate cubefarm.
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(2 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Obama’s Policies on Illegal Immigration is Working!
Jul 30th
Illegal aliens are self-deporting themselves by the hundreds thanks to the aggressive policies from the Obama administration. What are those policies? It certainly isn’t enforcement of our immigration laws on the books. Its the fact that the economy is so bad that Mexicans are packing their duffel bags and heading back to Tijuana.
From the SacBee here:
There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.
“It’s now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico,” Sacramento’s Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. “We have become a middle-class country.”
Mexico’s unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.
An estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants have left California since 2008
All those potential democrats fleeing the country?? What will the Demos do to force them to stay? I know! More free benefits and maybe a little amnesty?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hole in One on Alpine Run’s 18th
Jul 29th
Arguably the most difficult hole in all of 2011 Golden Tee is the 18th. I had a wind behind me, steep slope down, with water on all sides. For one of the fewest times, I managed to keep it on the green. And miraculously, I cupped it.
My wife and son had just walked into the Buffalo Wing Factory to meet me for dinner, and my four year old had pulled up a chair to watch over my shoulder as I played the last hole. I embarrassed by wife by shouting in the near-empty restaurant “Get in the hole!!!” And Cartney thought this was a fantastic shot too and yelled “Get in the hole” during the replay.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Garbage Truck, Shirley Temple, and REO Speedwagon
Jul 28th
At the Hard Rock in Hollywood FL is REO Speedwagon’s Dave Amato’s guitar encased within a coffee table on a common area. My boy is busy driving a toy garbage truck over it and sucking down a Shirley Temple.
I reckon ol Dave’s ax didn’t merit a more prominent placement in the casino?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chillin’ at the Hard Rock
Jul 28th
My wife and I honeymooned here at the Hard Rock Seminole in Hollywood, FL. Neither of us gamble, but we love the amenities, shopping and wide variety of food and fun that a casino resort offers. Its our last day of vacation and we are having a blast with more to come. Cartney swam himself into a catatonic state and Jess and I downed an “Oh Yeah!” Kool-Aid-sized pitcher of sangria while we were poolside.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Cartney Laying Lillies
Jul 28th
We had one sad piece of business we needed to complete this morning in south Florida.
Cartney got the chance to visit his maternal grandmother’s memorial garden where he laid these lilies on her plaque. He never had the chance to meet her and really didn’t understand the purpose of these actions. He will someday.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Reason 509 to Homeschool: Your Failing Child Won’t Go to a Vo-Tech School Where Teachers and Principal Smoke Meth
Jul 27th
So you screwed up and didn’t get your kid homeschooled from the beginning? Now he is smoking weed between classes and has all but flunked out of the county schools. His only hope is to learn how to sand rust off of fenders at the Vo-Tech academy across the tracks. Well even that might not be too helpful if the teacher and principal are smoking meth while on the job. Or do they earn credits for dealing with tweakers? Its been a while since I put one of MontanaMetProject’s vids on the site. So here it is:
From Fox here:
A West Virginia public vocational school has been shut down indefinitely after traces of methamphetamine were found throughout the building during an investigation of the principal and a teacher.
The teacher admitted he smoked meth with the principal in the principal’s office.
Teacher Jack Turley faces charges of manufacturing meth and procuring Sudafed for making meth. Principal Keith Phipps faces charges of purchasing over the legal limit of Sudafed.
With so much of the public schools failing, its really sad that the only school where any real world skills are taught gets closed because the teachers are drug addicts and failures at life.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Cartney and the Lorikeets at Butterfly World
Jul 27th
I have a couple of friends that are terrified at the thought of birds crawling all over them. Cartney shows no such fear. Well, maybe he did get a little freaked when one got on his head.
And no one got pooped on, which is awesome.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Giant Bird-Eating Spider Peeking
Jul 27th
We took time out from Beach Day to visit Butterfly World, which, in addition to the incredible butterflies, they also had an Insectarium and a Lorikeet aviary.
Jess was overcome with an outrageous case of the creepy-crawlies in the Insectarium, mostly due to the fact that living, free-roaming Orb Weaving spiders had webs hanging in the corners of the room. If that weren’t enough, there were hissing cockroaches and scorpions, and Jess fled the building.
While she was outside, Cartney and I laughed at all the huge spiders, 3-inch grasshoppers, and giant millipedes. While Jess was outside, Cartney posed with this huge bird-eating spider.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Whoops! Online Mob Wannabes Getting Busted for Running LOIC
Jul 26th
When Anonymous recruited minions to act as dupes to run a simple script to send oversized packets and pings against Paypal as retaliation for dropping the ability to contribute to Wikileaks and their ongoing criminal activity, those dupes had no idea that the payloads of those packets acted as a fingerprint. PayPal turned over logs to the FBI and they are simply going to round up the top 1000 participants. And they are doing it for the lulz.
From Wired here:
It turns out there’s a method behind the FBI’s raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous’ DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing down PayPal during ”Operation Payback” — Anonymous’ retaliatory attack against companies who blacklisted WikiLeaks. On July 19, the feds charged the first 14 defendants under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspects for evidence.
PayPal collected traffic logs on a Radware intrusion prevention system installed on its network.
On December 15, the company turned over a USB thumb drive containing the Radware reports, which documented “approximately 1,000 IP addresses that sent malicious network packets to PayPal during the DDoS attacks.” The list represented the “IP addresses that sent the largest number of packets.”
It was easy to distinguish the packets coming from the’ “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” — Anonymous’ fire-and-forget DDoS tool — because they contained strings like “wikileaks,” “goof,” and “goodnight,” the affidavit notes.
There are many other characteristics of the LOIC traffic that can easily make the attacks distinguishable as opposed to simply hitting the refresh button over and over again. Any decent IDS can detect such traffic, and if these idiots were using their home computers, they are up shit’s creek about now.
Sites like Paypal and Ebay are built to withstand most DDoS’es anyways, and the entire online mob attack only resulted in a few spotty outages. But the righteous fury of the script kiddies that wanted to participate in online “protests” will likely earn them some real time in jail, which is okay with me for supporting a criminal like Assange and his leaks of secret information. So these mob participants wanted to mete out some justice? Seems like things are getting even more justicey now.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Remy Gonna Make it Rain- Raise the Debt Ceiling!
Jul 26th
My favorite political rapper is back with this awesome song about the current crisis du jour in DC.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Sunset Mural
Jul 26th
Had to snap this photo of a mural in a keywest dockside ice cream parlor. We are now enjoying a couple of days in Lauderdale By The Sea for fun in the sand and surf.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Directions to Everywhere
Jul 25th
Just a lazy day in the keys. Far from everywhere. Gotta run; between Piña Colodas.
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Oregon Elects Furry Rapist Democrat
Jul 25th
David Wu, when not trying to ruin the country with debilitating programs and tax hikes, is dressing up in fur suits and raping barely legal daughters of campaign donors. But Wu’s office is quick to point out that its really not “rape.” Its an “Unwanted Sexual Encounter.”
From Oregon Live here:
A distraught young woman called U.S. Rep. David Wu’s Portland office this spring, accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter.
When confronted, the Oregon Democrat acknowledged a sexual encounter to his senior aides but insisted it was consensual.
The woman is the daughter of a longtime friend and campaign donor.
In the voice mail, the young woman accused Wu of aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior. Reporters could not verify the young woman’s age. Notes on Facebook over the past 18 months indicate she graduated from high school in 2010. California records show she registered to vote in August.
Wu is 56.
Another Congressman who demands sexual favors from his subjects. And he is also adamant about not resigning. I wonder if Wu can still rely on that donor’s money?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...6toed Sloth
Jul 24th
I got to visit the Hemingway House in Key West and the place was crawling with 6-toed cats, each a descendant of one of Hemmingway’s original cats.
And if you ever wonder what happens when these cats outlive their lazy lives, they go to the 6-toed kitty cemetery out back.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Key West Butterfly Museum
Jul 24th
What a great place!
I have a couple of pics of some of the different butterlies encountered, including the Atlas butterfly.
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Ghost of Winehouse
Jul 23rd
If they ask you to go to rehab, you should go, go, go. From my twitter stream:
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hemmingway was a Badass
Jul 23rd
Thanks to Genius Scan, I was able to capture this fabulous photo from the World Famous Sloppy Joe’s Pub in Key West Florida depicting a reluctant Ernest Hemmingway out for a fishing trip off the coast of Peru during the filming of the Old Man and the Sea, a film adaptation of his famous novella.
In 1956, motorized fishing boats and fishing techniques for large game fish like the 900 pound Black Marlin caught here, were still in the iron age of development. It is so amazing that they were able to haul this gigantic predator to shore, on a lark while filming a movie.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Key West Bound
Jul 23rd
The family is taking a much-needed vacation. I’m blogging this as I hop key to key across the OverSeas Highway on the way to Key West. It’s hot here but no where near as brutal as the heat back in DC. I’ll post more when I can.
UPDATE Our son is so well behaved and patient. Traffic was brutal on a Saturday driving into Key West, yet he stayed patient, kind and calm the entire way.
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