the reality tunnel

good stuff from jason
my buddy jason, who’s interning in the trenches in the district directed me towards a few gems:
1. john ashcroft being a complete hypocrite about internet privacy. campare what then senator ashcroft said here with his current tune.
2. a snippet of conversation about war, leaders, and the general populace between [...]

The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1492

So I showed the video to my parents tonight. They responded kind of how
I expected. My mom said she liked it, but didn’t really react much to
it, My dad was critical of it in the sort of arbitrary,
non-constructive way that tim can sometimes be. Underneath all his hot
air, however, he did [...]

thanksgiving at the legion of decency

my mom and dad came over to visit from pa. my uncle came down from toledo for the feast, and tim invited chad and mikael over since they were both stuck in empty houses for the holiday. we made a tofurky, some wasabi mashed potatoes, and some [...]

cheap domain registration, dynamic dns

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the kids 7 – college football 0
walking home from stephen’s (after his apartment had inexplicably been overrun by high school bmxers who ejaculated drunken gems like “give me some fucking beef jerky” and “i want to fuck a fat bitch” – at least it was good to see paul and matt again), we came upon [...]

calculating ntp timestamps
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntpfaq/NTP-s-related.htm

pot smokling is bad for your lungs
google news pointed me to this article which cites a recent study by the British Lung Foundation which found marijuana smoke to be more carcinogenic than tobacco smoke. From the article:

The BLF’s new report finds smoking three cannabis or marijuana [...]

upcoming shows at the legion of doom
Saturday November 9 9 Shocks Terror @ Bernies
Thursday November 14 Tragedy @ Legion
Friday November 22 Selfish @ Legion
Sunday December 1 Fuerza X @ Legion

installing perl modules
dj pointed me to this comprehensive guide to installing perl modules, particularly if you want to install them locally in your home directory or on systems with an older perl distro or a broken one.
http://www.viaverio.com/support/virtual/perl/mod/install.cfm