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Why are gods special? Other non-existent entities don't warrant this kind of hand-wringing.

  Do you believe in Santa Claus?

  No.

  Are unicorns real?

  No.

  Does god exist?

  That's not a normal scientific question.  It's impossible to know for

  sure because you cannot deductively prove a negative proposition.  It's

  proud and intellectualy irresponsible to suggest that nowhere in this

  vast universe is it possible for their to exist an inkling of evidence that

  suggests god might exist.

  

I was just wondering that

Grab your dick and double-click, the internet is for porn.

It's a fun little game. I had to look up jonny lee miller to find out he was Sick Boy in Trainspotting, but let's see if I can get back to BB from there.

  JLM -> Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting)

  EM -> Frank Oz (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)

  FO -> Harrison Ford (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)

  employ the Harrison Ford maneuver...

  

I had all but forgotten about Buckaroo Banzai until /. reminded me. Of course, everyone remembers John Lithgow from that movie, but it seems that the everpresent football player-rapist, Clancy Brown was in it, too. I am going to fuck off and download BB now.

I'm about a month behind on catching up with my /. reading, but I read today about the final chapter in the Sony Rootkit affair. Sony BMG settled with the states of Texas and California to the tune of $750,000 each, plus $175 to any user that can document their machine was damaged by trying to removed the rootkit.

While it's nice that Sony was made to pay a pittance for their crime, I can't help wondering what would have happened to a greasy 22 year old geek that had perpetrated the same "crime".

The lack of crippling fines and jailtime highlights that there is a disparity between what's just punishment for a citizen and what's just punishment for a wealthy corporation.

I bought a WD 500GB External HD (USB) and hooked it up to eddie over the weekend (setup, btw, could not have been simpler - literally plug in, reformat to NTFS, and play).

Soon, however, the problems began. bash randomly (ok, it wasn't random it was quite regular) shote itself with odd errors about being unable to fork or failing to allocate heap space. One time in four I was able to logon remotely through sshd, the other 3 resulted in network errors or connection reset by peer. A quick search through google turned up some registry hacks that "may" help with the problem, but not in my case. So, I hit Cygwin.com since I haven't updated in a while. There's not a new SETUP.EXE, but there are updated versions of just about every utility, including bash. Download and install updates.

After the update, I don't get the memory allocation errors anymore (I did find a release note that mentions one of the fixes in Cygwin v1.5.23-2 has to do with errors while trying to fork processes), but now the profile and .bashrc files all give "command not found" and "not a valid identifier" errors when trying to run a login shell. When I ran the Cygwin setup, I did not mistakenly select "Dos CR/LF Text Mode" (hell, the setup automatically selects the setting used during the last update, so there's nothing to do except hit Next unless one wants to change something), however, it appears that all these script files (and perhaps all the text files in my cygwin install, and I can't be sure since I haven't done an exhaustive search) were changed from Unix line breaks to DOS line breaks. Some manual d2u fixed that problem and I am once again in Cygwinirvana.

It perplexes me, however, that the "help" on the Cygwin lists so often consists of abusing the user when in this case, the SETUP clearly fucked up the files. Well, it's clear to me even if it's not clear to Larry Hall. Be ware, luser.

It's an awful long way to go for a "Real Player sucks" joke, but I was willing to take the journey.

I got snowed in at my parents' house yesterday by half an inch of snow. It started snowing just as I was arriving, but the weather drones were only calling for "a dusting" of snow. Even though my parents live down in "the holler" (about 300 ft rise in elevation in the 0.25 mile from their house to the paved road + another 150 ft rise in elevation over the one mile from there to the main road) I figured such a paltry sum of snow would not be a problem. Not knowing snow was being called for before I left, my chains were safely stowed in the garage.

Well, by the time I had decided to leave for home (around 3:00pm) the snow had compacted and turned to ice. I had a hell of a time making it up to the paved road and was doing great on my 4th attempt until I had to stop for a retard that was blocking the intersection for no apparent reason (they moved on shortly after they saw me coming, but I had slowed to a stop by then). At that point, my attempts to either advance or slowly back down the hill resulted in me starting to slide sideways - so I attached the tow-eye to the front and called in the cavalry.

It's not clear that had I made it onto the paved road I would have had any luck getting home, since my brother reported that he nearly did not make it up the final hill in his 4-wheel drive vehicle. Anyway, I've yet to see any evidence for the oft repeated assertion that VWs are great in the snow.

VW's neuer Sportwagen - the Shitrocco.

Is it VW's latter day take on the Karmann Ghia?

Ok, I've set FF 2.0 to "Manual Proxy Configuration". I even went into about:config and double-checked the value for the network.proxy.type key was correct. The proxy info tells FF to tunnel all its traffic through the SOCKS proxy that Putty sets up.

However, if I start up FF before connecting through putty or if the putty connection goes down, FF "helpfully" changes the proxy option to "Automatically Detect". This helps me nought. If my tunnel goes down, I want FF to fail to connect so that I know my traffic isn't being tunneled any more, which what I've told it to do, but it figures it knows better than I do.

Hmm...yeah. Crystal is really fond of St Francis of Assisi (aka Franny).

Some of them aren't really self-portraits, but whatever. I took my self-portrait using an IR remote as illumination. Yes, I'm that cool.

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  i'm so tired of going along with it, along with it.

  all my time, i can't recall if you tortured me.

  and every day is like the song, like the song.

  i'm so tired, it's a drag hanging out with me.



  More and More, the bottom drops out of the floor.

  More and More, the bottom drops out of the floor.



  you're so fine all the time and i've noticed that

  there's no guy to pick you up at the train station.

  every day is like the song, like the song.

  i'm not tired, if you don't mind hanging out with me.



  More and More, the bottom drops out of the floor.

  More and More, the bottom drops out of the floor.

  More and More, the bottom drops out of the floor.  

  

Rockin' it VW Transporter style.

Don't visit this Penn fan's blog using FF 2.0 unless you like to see your web browser munch up CPU cycles and memory like a fat kid with Prader-Willi syndrome.

If I had my way, there wouldn't be any men in pornographic films.
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Yeah, I always felt it was, too, cuz you know. The only thing more beautiful than a woman is two of them. That's right, two women together in bed is god's way of showing how much he loves us.

I recently learned of the wonder that is wild carded google phrase searches, which allows me to find shit like this encyclopedia dramatica entry or this boing boing entry.

Just think how easy it will be now to find all the derivative crap out there based on "i'm in ur..." or "all your base". I shall never stop with the LOL now.

Satellite photo of the pumice raft linked to previously ( stranded ).

Continuing the recent flatus theme:
Using a fart to light a candle.

I didn't think it was possible, but I got the Rabbit up to 84MPH last weekend. Thanks to the new tires and properly balanced wheels (courtesy of Costco), I didn't feel like Chuck Yager whilst doing it.