Archive for August, 2006

Republican Party Spamming

I’d sure love it if the GOP party would stop spamming me. They’re sending me junk every day now, all from different addresses at gop.com . I click their unsubscribe link (contrary to the proper way to handle spam, I know) but they must have dozens of lists or more.

IBM TS3200, Linux, mtx

There’s not very much information online about using a IBM TS3200 (3573-TL) SCSI tape library with the “mtx” utility, and the documentation for the library doesn’t mention much about Linux at all. I’m using rdump, over SSH, and I’ve reached the end of tape. As I understood it, the tape library was supposed to automatically [...]

Rumsfeld’s Media

[Rumsfeld] said, for example, that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers’ abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.
I wonder if Donald Rumsfeld gets all upset at the local news when they report an accident closing a few [...]

PAX 2006 swag

So far I’ve received: Magic The Gathering “Core Game”, w/ 2 starter packs, a guide, a “collectable premium card”, and some extra cards, along with “Magic Online”, a PC version of the game. 2 booster packs for MTG. A copy of Project Gotham Racing 3. A t-shirt from 1UP.com. $10,000, if I was the first [...]

Bawls

The taste of bawls is surprisingly good.
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Raffle Sweetness

Sweet. Won a copy of PGR3 from Microsoft. More racing goodness.
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Beating Zelda in 30 minutes

Watching the video of someone beating Zelda in 30 is funny. The crowd is passionate about his methods — he uses secrets and exploits, so there are many cheers, and many boos. More the former than the latter at least.
Too fun.
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PAX 2006, day 2

Sweet. I guess people who pre-registered don’t have to wait in line after 9 or so. So I got to walk straight in.
I can’t believe I got a sunburn yesterday, going to a *video game* convention.
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