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Tempt not my wrath
July 01, 2004

Some guy identified only by the name “Sam” left a comment about my post, “Kurt Cobain Death Day”. I figured that this was a good time to point out a couple of facts regarding my comment system here at Asymptomatic.

First, every comment you make comes to me in email (provided the system doesn’t tag it as spam). So usually I know instantly when the comment has been posted, and I have a perfect copy of your original, along with the IP address from which you submitted it. I get the IP regardless of whether you leave your name or email address.

Wireless Ethernet Bridge
July 01, 2004

I got myself a new wireless ethernet bridge from Linksys (via Amazon using my Paypal-linked Mastercard - Ah, the wonders of technology) and hooked it to the XBox. Now I can watch video files over the network using XBMC without having to turn on the basement lights (thus powering the network hub that lies dormant in the basement). Now if I could just remember where I put those episodes of Keen Eddie…

I played a little DOA3 last night. It was good enough. Playing with the regular controller takes a little getting used to. Speaking of which:

Lightning Bugs
June 30, 2004
We went out tonight to Chuck E Cheese because I promised Abby that she would be allowed to climb around in tunnels at home after I wouldn't let her do so at the Spy Museum. When we came back, we hunted fireflies in the front yard.

It occurred to me with some new camera skills that I’m aquiring that I could capture the lightning bugs on “film”, and so I set up the camera on an empty Amazon box (where the heck is my tripod?) and pointed it toward the neighbor’s yard. The exposure time was 8-10 seconds and the F setting was 8, whatever that means.

Anyway, the streaks of yellow you see in the pictures are the bugs. I’m not sure to where the junebug is indiginous, but I suppose that they’re a pretty odd sight if you don’t have them locally. Basically, the bugs blink yellow light every few seconds. The bugs are very friendly, and you can get them to land on you quite easily, which is what Berta and Abby were doing behind me as the camera ticked through these photos.

No Blogathon This Year
June 29, 2004

I wasn’t paying attention and they cancelled the Blogathon this year. That really stinks. Just because the people that rent the domain name aren’t going to manage it, we all get the short shrift.

Anyway, I guess the folks over at Project-Blog are going to take over the operation. They won’t call it Blogathon, of course, but it’s basically the same thing. I can’t imagine it’ll be the same. Actually, the frequency of their ’thon is a little less– only every half hour instead of every quarter hour.