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National Cathedral
Apr 9th
_DSC6865, a photo by Nikon FTW on Flickr.
This is a fantastic rooftop shot of the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Not sure how the photographer was able to get this vantage point, but it is surreal with the fog in the background.
Oddly enough, I found the photo by looking at photos of food on food trucks because, well, I’m hungry, and wondering why food trucks don’t roam my neighborhood at night. Because foggy National Cathedral, that’s why.
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Apr 9th
Carpenter Bee on the Peonies, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Our peonies have popped in Northern Virginia. The early spring has brought four of our Peonies to full bloom and our yellow peonies are due to pop in about a week. Carpenter bees are all but having porno shoots in the blossoms. Never seen bees wallow among the pollen as much as they are this year.
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Apr 8th
Easter Egg, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
We got to have a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt this afternoon. It took about an hour for three little boys to find the 50+ eggs I had hidden around the gardens and flower beds of several homes in our culdesac. This photo is of one of the last eggs that must have blended in with the colors of the purple flowers around it.
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Got the TShirt
Apr 7th
Saw this Tshirt over at RiptApparel and had to get one. Mixing Old School Nintendo with Beer Branding? They know me too well.
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Apr 7th
Nyah, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
While boiling the eggs for Easter, this one cracked and had an eggy protrusion. It looked like a tongue so the Missus filled in the rest. Its my favorite Easter Egg of the bunch.
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Apr 3rd
Oh Appalachia!, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Just outside of Luray, Virginia we stumbled across this collection of black Appalachian doll babies in a Quilt Shop. They were handcrafted, individually named, and sitting atop a cabinet of quilted pillow cases.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Old Navy Creepy Mannequins
Apr 2nd
Old Navy Creepy Mannequins, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Nothing is creepier than a dozen or more naked headless mannequins standing around in the department store.
The Old Navy at Dulles Mall is changing locations and they stripped all of the Still Life hired help for the death march to the new storefront. We rounded the corner between the men’s and ladie’s tees and were shocked at the display.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...5 Wood Holeout
Mar 22nd
Got some pretty decent shots on Golden Tee the other night. This is a five wood holeout on Dusty Bend.
Believe it or not, my next shot was a hole-in-one, but it was with a 7-iron and those shorter shots don’t automatically get posted to YouTube. And I forgot to manually save it off.
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Letting This BlogSpam Stay
Mar 19th
As a popular WordPress blogger, I get inundated with pingback spam from other online resources trying to take advantage of my keyword rankings to promote their own content. Everything from furniture to nailpolish to zombie makeup. I have to delete up to a dozen pingback comments per day. But I’m letting this one stay.
So if you’ve got gigantic man-tits like Fat-ass Barney Frank, this pingback spam is for you. I think maybe CheesePizza guy and @Myrcurial could benefit from this piece of fortuitous spam.
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Mar 19th
Cherry Blossoms, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Today is the last day of Winter. The Cherry Blossoms have come in early due to a mild winter and a wonderfully warm March, and the neighborhood is alive with spring colors. Loving it!
It still didn’t prevent the Missus and I from getting into a deep conversation about how, instinctively, as humans, we are so greatly relieved at the coming of the Spring. Genetically we know deep down that Winter is the freezing and starving time- even though neither of us have known a real day of hunger or exposure- that is if you don’t count us freezing our asses off on the first day together in our new home before Potomac Gas hooked up our heat- but we still had firewood. Yet despite our lives of ease, we still know, as animals, that this is the time of the year to begin to celebrate life and the thankfulness that Winter is no more.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Spring Cleaning
Mar 17th
Spring Cleaning, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Ten years worth of old paint cans, failed projects, a 200 lb CRT television, and old baby toys were ejected from the garage today. So the good news is that I have my garage back. I could even park the SSR in there if I wanted to.
Bad news is that now the neighbors think we are hoarders. If they complain I’ll throw one of our 80 cats at them.
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More LOLsuits Threatened
Mar 14th
As the trial of Byron Sonne looms large, his most ardent supporters, who have put their reputations on the line that he will be found innocent, must be biting their nails. Its not everyone who can count among their friends a man who, in a fit of anarchistic fury, convinced the cops that he was plotting to blow up the G20 in Toronto.
One of these supporters, James Arlen, a liberal frequent guest speaker at hacker conventions, despises me because of my criticism of Byron Sonne. You see, Sonne had his CISSP suspended for his actions leading up to the G20 in which he made threats against the police. Sonne was also busted cooking explosives in his house that was bought and paid for by his wealthy wife’s family. That would-be anarcho-terrorist is loved by Arlen. Arlen has donated cash to Sonne’s defense fund. But a CISSP in good standing like me who criticizes Sonne’s actions must be silenced.
He is threatening lawsuits and attempting to have my own CISSP certification suspended simply because of my speech.
I was debating the cost of getting a complaint notarized – no longer debating. I was debating the cost of a lawsuit – no longer debating.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
@CanSec One group failing to police their own characterizes the entire group.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
@CanSec dm me an email address and I’ll send you a copy of the complaint.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Arlen even attempted to contact a former employer to complain about my free speech in an effort to silence my criticism of Sonne:
Anyone at Netwitness available for a quick consultation on an issue?
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Pretty cowardly.
And what is ironic is that Arlen was a vocal critic of SOPA, which would have had the effect of creating censorship on the Internet.
You see, as a typical liberal, Arlen is a big believer in free speech so long as it supports liberal group-think. Any opposition or deviation is quickly labeled as “hate speech.”
@BelchSpeak The shame is yours alone for your bullying behaviour and unsupportable bigotry and hate.
— James Arlen (@myrcurial) March 9, 2012
Not that Arlen could point to a single thing I’ve said that is bigoted or hateful. Oh, yeah, I called him fat, which he is. He continues to threaten a libel lolsuit, but all I have to do is point to his ginormous gut as exhibit A.
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Metal Storm for Your Network
Mar 13th
I’ve been working for a while on a new gig, and I still get to use NetWitness on client networks, so that’s awesome- but I generated a new philosophical discussion over my refusal to encrypt email updates to the client.
My team mates on the project suggested to me that, “Best practices dictate that any communications to the customer takes place over secured channels.”
“Why?” I countered. “My communications to my home server is encrypted. My home server sends out email via TLS. If the customer somehow downloads the email unencrypted, then I’ll just list that as a finding for the final report.”
“But what if the adversary is somehow reading the email?” they asked. For years, incident response teams in unfamiliar territory on a network have to make a presumption that the adversaries on the network might be listening and intercepting communications.
I replied, “I don’t think the adversary is interested in what we have to say, and besides, I don’t care if he knows we are on the network and are shutting him out.”
The team mates seemed shocked. “Look,” I continued, “I’m tired of keeping the red carpet out for these A-holes. They aren’t welcome on this network. You think they might be peeking at application data? I have the biggest packet sniffer ever on this network. I have the advantage from now on. He might see one thing we do, but we see everything he does. Let him know we are here; have the bigger guns. I hope he’s scared and will delete everything and never come back. The game has changed. We are in charge now.”
And I saw some shrugs and nods and could tell they were considering my words. Back in the day when an incident responder had to crawl from system to system with a limited set of disk-based forensics tools, that forensics examiner was always playing defense, attempting to reconstruct network movement based on snippets of data files or incomplete logs. Now with a network-wide sniffer like NetWitness, a forensics investigator can quickly locate adversaries and work to alter control systems to block the intruders. Its only defense for the first moments, and then the power shifts away from the adversary and back to where it belongs- the owner of the network.
One person mentioned it was like creating an “area denial weapon” for a network and then he showed me the Metal Storm video. Thats the kind of power you feel you have when you are matching NetWitness against intruders on a network.
No more welcome mats.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Sky Lunch
Mar 2nd
Sky Lunch, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Wrapping up my visit to San Francisco by dining in a skyview restaurant downtown. Traveling later so posts will be light.
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Feb 29th
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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Feb 29th
Dock of the Bay, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
Taking a break from the noise of the RSA Conference floor, so I headed to the old Ferry Building where I had a fabulous Boccalone Meat Cone. I was also able to take a few touristy-type shots, with this one showing Pier 14 and the bridge to Oakland in the background.
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Power of Positive Tweeting
Feb 29th
I’ve been at the RSA Conference this week out in San Francisco. And yes, there are hobos and smelly homeless people everywhere shaking their paper cups at me. But since I’ve been here I decided to tweet that I’ve been winning prizes at the vendor booths, with each prize becoming progressively better and better than the last, beginning with winning a pair of free movie tickets. Read the tweets from the bottom up.
And while I’ve been having fun with that, the most amazing thing happened. I really did win something, much to the chagrin to my friends.
Freakin’ hilarious! Haven’t had much chance to play with the new laptop yet but I’m still stunned that I really won a great prize.
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Feb 23rd
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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Feb 23rd
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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Feb 22nd
Blue Door and Coral Walls, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
We were out for a bike ride on Key West and came across this unusual-looking house. It had 4-foot walls made from coral boulders and stones and the most unusually colored blue door as a gateway into the yard. The dolphin topping the round hothouse also adds to the curiosity of this place.
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