Archive for February, 2012

Enigma Machine at RSA Conference


Crypto

Crypto, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.

I got to get a close look at the German Enigma machine at a booth at the RSA Conference. Fantastic crypto device! Of course it was ultimately cracked by some nerds at Bletchley Park.


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Chardon High School Killer Was a Shitty Person and Poet

A scrawny kid who allegedly got picked on for being Emo or Goth decided to bring a gun to his High School and prove that he was better than the cool kids.

TJ Lane, the teenage killer who shot two students dead at his Ohio high school and left another three injured, wrote a shitty attempt at destructive poetry on his facebook page foretelling his violence.

From the DailyMail here:

TJ Lane, who classmates described as a bullied outcast, ranted about ‘a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone.’

Local news reports said Monday evening that a second student has died in the wake of this morning’s shooting Chardon High School where 17-year old student Lane began shooting fellow pupils.

The Center identified the first slain student as 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor, who was shot when Lane targeted a group in the high school cafeteria at Chardon High School.

In the wake of the shooting, other students have said that Lane was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied. He had Tweeted that he would bring a gun to school, but nobody took the threat seriously.

Some say he was a loner, others say he was bullied, and yet another said Lane was ‘gothic.‘ Police say that Lane is now in custody.

The horrifyingly bad poetry on his facebook page couldn’t be trumped by the dreaded Vogons from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

In a time long since, a time of repent, The Renaissance. In a quaint lonely town, sits a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone.

The streets were his home. His thoughts would solely consist of “why do we exist?” His only company to confide in was the vermin in the street. He longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet.
They too should feel his secret fear. The dismal drear. His pain had made him sincere.

He was better than the rest, all those ones he detests, within their castles, so vain. Selfish and conceited.

They couldn’t care less about the peasents they mistreated. They were in their own world, it was a joyous one too. That castle, she stood just to do all she could to keep the peasents at bay, not the enemy away.

They had no enemies in their filthy orgy. And in her, the castles every story, was just another chamber of Lucifer’s Laboratory. The world is a sandbox for all the wretched sinners.
They simply create what they want and make themselves the winners. But the true winner, he has nothing at all. Enduring the pain of waiting for that castle to fall. Through his good deeds, the rats and the fleas.

He will have for what he pleads, through the eradication of disease. So, to the castle he proceeds, like an ominous breeze through the trees. “Stay back!” The Guards screamed as they were thrown to their knees. “Oh God, have mercy, please!”

The castle, she gasped and then so imprisoned her breath, to the shallow confines of her fragile chest. I’m on the lamb but I ain’t no sheep. I am Death. And you have always been the sod. So repulsive and so odd.

You never even deserved the presence of God, and yet, I am here. Around your cradle I plod. Came on foot, without shod. How improper, how rude. However, they shall not mind the mud on my feet if there is blood on your sheet.

Now! Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you. Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe. Die, all of you.

The saddest thing about this story is that TJ Lane didn’t put the gun to his own temple.


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Why So Serious, Mr. Rubik?


Why

Why So Serious, Mr. Rubik?, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.

We saw this outstanding piece of geek art while in Key West. This piece was hanging in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum. It is Heath Ledger’s Joker comprised soley of Rubik’s Cubes.


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Hurricane Grotto


Grotto

Grotto, a photo by FireFlyBuzz on Flickr.

We got to stop by the Hurricane Grotto at St. Mary’s by the Sea church in Key West. The grotto was built after a destructive hurricane and the story goes, that as long as this grotto still stands, the town will be spared a direct impact from another hurricane. And so far it seems to be working.

In 1922, a nun built the hurricane grotto on the grounds of the church in memory of the 600 who died during the great Atlantic-Gulf hurricane of Sept. 10, 1919, a Category 4 hurricane that made a direct hit on Key West.


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