I had really hoped for Vonnegut, oh well

I honestly don't recall if I've ready any Clement. I probably have, but obviously it hasn't stuck in the tiny thing that I call a mind.

I am: Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs) A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Heh! Do I get a funny powdered wig with it?

I feel like a candidate for the Silly Party.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Milord Sir Lord Wayne the Inchoate of Menzies on the Minges Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

ZOMG! A Republican Communications Director tries to hire hackers to fix his GPA for grad school!

This is the funniest news that I've seen in quite a while! This guy, Todd Schriber, is the press aide/communications directory for Montana's Republican Representative, Denny Rehberg. He wants to go to grad school, but he doesn't think his GPA is quite up to snuff. He doesn't want it bumped up to a 4.0 level, just improved a bit. Now, isn't soliciting someone across state lines to commit a federal crime just a bit illegal? I'm wondering if the law is going to go after this guy.

The writeup is funny, just keep in mind that when the attrition.org guys start slinging technobabble that most of what they're saying is nonsense. You know, that ROT-26 stuff is pretty tough, easy to slip up on. And they're right, 3DES is really easy to circumvent. ROFL!!!

And my favorite part? The university that the guy attended that he wanted hacked to fix his GPA? Texas Christian University. Oh, and surprisingly, his boss fired him.


I could care less if the nerk is an R or a D, he's an utter moron regardless! Man, I'm going to be laughing at this all day!


The email exchange: http://www.attrition.org/postal/z/033/0871.html

A news article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999

The Slashdot thread: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/22/1550250

I would SO love to shoot an analemma!

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/apod/398953.html

I think it would be cool to do it up at the observatory, basically have a camera taking one frame a day at noon and uploading it, then selecting one a week and Photoshopping them all together. For that matter, you could make it a work-in-progress.

Well, I lied. I told some LJers recently that we got through the year with no family/friend deaths.

Fortunately it's not family. We got a call from Russet's mother today and the woman who played piano at our wedding, Ann White, passed away apparently earlier this week. Ann was Russet's piano teacher from the 4th grade and I believe she also taught music to all Russet's siblings. She lived in Oberlin for at least the last 30 years. I met her on three occasions: the time surrounding the wedding, the time surrounding the death of Russet's father (far too soon after the wedding, but we knew that was going to be the way it was), and last May when we came back from Blingfest and spent a few days with her mom in Oberlin. Russet went and saw her when she was in Oberlin in September. She was a really nice woman, and she blew my mind when she sent us an anniversary card last June!(compounded by including a photo of Russ when she was in the 4th grade, IIRC) I have been known to give wedding anniversary cards to friends on occasion, especially my friends Terry & Deb in Omaha as I was Terry's Best Man. I would have never expected one from Ann.

She was quite a woman. I will definitely miss her