happy birthday to erichris

that's an immortal quote from my friend Chris as he went to see the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy a couple of years back. Out of a simple statement comes truth that resounds in the hearts of anyone who's held something near and dear to their heart, which was then made into a movie. I think it's a rallying cry for fandom. I'd wear that t-shirt.

That being said...

There is NO KISSING IN NARNIA.

the parking lot was packed at the polling place this morning, and with only a slight amount of issue,
I was able to cast my votes for people who should or shouldn't be in office.

I voted for woody meyers simply because the poll research that I've seen show that he's the one candidate of
the 4 viable ones for district 7 who has a chance of knocking out carson. But he's not the best guy for the job.

David Orentlicher is hands down the best democrat to run for the seat I think. I would love to see a race
between him and Elrod. That would a fun one.

If carson gets unseated, I hope the republicans will actually fund a candidate for once. Elections should be races, not roll over and play dead for seats.

so, like a lemming...

we were up with a sick baby, and my thought sitting on my bed when the quake got going was that my bed
had decided to turn into a bed with magic fingers.

I was just given cake for being here at my job for 2 years.

and today is mendy and my's 9 year mark. Time flies when you're living.

it's 2am. I must stop computing and sleep.

damn you forces of learning!

I think layer 3 is going to be the death of me.
the incident response stuff I have pretty cold, but the first place we started with hacking
was the network layer (layer 3). It makes the brain hurt.

I didn't get to sight see too much, I walked down to old san juan on sunday, but then after seeing the first site, I sprained my ankle stepping off a sidewalk, which moved me back to the hotel and
I was done being a tourist. (after 3 days now, It's a lot better, but still a bit gimpy.)

The class is fun overall, the majority of the class is the army team from westpoint who are participating in a cyber attack exercise against the other academy's in a month. They are fun to be around, a bunch of young folks who call you sir a lot. the older guys in the class giggle when they do that.

that's how many people actually decided to vote.
466,549 registered voters who could of voted,
84,750 actually voted. That means the guy who one,
while he one fair and square, did not have a mandate of the people.
he had a mandate of 18.17 of the people he now represents.

AUGH!

I need to go bash my head against the nearest windmill now, excuse me.

check out http://imcwwa2k3.indygov.org/elecnight/2008spec/view.asp
for all your election night fun.
as carson wins precincts, do shots. it will be a fun night!

I've had several people complain recently about mounting drives on home machines at work to access files/music/pr0n etc. In listening to a recent podcast, I found out about a nice utility, jungle disk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) which simplifies the use of amazon's s3 simple storage service (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261).

It's all laid out how it works on the jungle disk site, it's not free, it's pay per use, but it's fair and it's encrypted.

So, this is a place holder post for me to refer back to, but also a neat tool to pass along a cool distributed storage system idea along to folks who want to try it out.