Author: Jon

A recipe we’ve been playing around with, and took to a Halloween party Saturday night. It’s quite tasty. For a single serving: 1 ounce vodka 1 ounce vanilla liqueur 1.5 ounces apple juice 1 tbsp. real pumpkin Cinnamon (dash) Nutmeg (garnish) In a shaker with ice, shake up all the ingredients (yes, shaken, not stirred).… Continue reading Pumpkin martini

So apparently the Storm Worm—an email-propagating trojan that’s creating an unknowingly-large botnet—has learned how to figure out when security researchers are probing it and is retaliating (Via Boing Boing via Slashdot): The Storm worm is fighting back against security researchers that seek to destroy it and has them running scared, Interop New York show attendees… Continue reading Storm front

Jen posted something along the lines of what I was thinking; first there was National Novel Writing Month, now there’s also a National Blog Posting Month, what’s next? Any why are they both for November? Did the NaBloPoMo guys just follow the model too closely? Okay, enough rhetorical questions. (The answers, by the way, are… Continue reading NaNoWriBloPoMoFo

I know I’m a day behind on this, but every now and again, Slashdot posts a story that is so incomprehensibly gibberish-sounding that I point and laugh. Yesterday was one such: Time Dimension To Become Space-like. ‘We show that regular changes of signature on brane-worlds in AdS bulks may account for some types of the… Continue reading Slashdot gibberish

Jake beat me to the punch on blogging this, but I couldn’t resist anyway. I got this comment on my clothesline post the other day: The rules are the rules. Anyone who doesn’t want to live by the rules can go live in the ugly lowlands. It was signed "Sally Heatherton" and points to the… Continue reading "Sally Heatherton"

Jake points to an utterly jaw-dropping article in the Wall Street Journal about a woman who is running into trouble up on Awbrey Butte by… get this… daring to hang her laundry on a clothesline. No kidding. This is stupid beyond words. Check it: The regulations of the subdivision in which Ms. Taylor lives effectively… Continue reading Let’s string clotheslines all over Bend

When I wrote the post about the G.I. Joe movie awhile back, I started ruminating over the apparent trend over the past few years of making movies based on 80’s TV series. Like "Miami Vice" and "The Dukes of Hazzard." It took awhile, but there is an "A-Team" movie in production, scheduled for a 2008… Continue reading Strip mining the 80s

Announced on Variety.com: a live-action G.I. Joe movie, to be released summer of 2009 and directed by Stephen Sommers. Hasbro’s Goldner said that the mythology of G.I Joe was fleshed out during the 1980s through 155 issues of Marvel Comics, as well as an animated TV series. There are about 30 core characters, good and… Continue reading I’m surprised it took this long

A random collection of things that… well, the title pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? "There’s two roles I think [Steve] Buscemi was born to play. The first is Cobra Commander in a live-action G.I. Joe movie. ‘Retreeeeeat!’" source I found the trailer on YouTube for the never-released 1994 Fantastic Four movie… it is… Continue reading Geeky things that I find enormously funny

Before I get asked by anybody: No, the person who signed "Chuggy" to the "Web Rant" section at the bottom of page 5 of the latest issue of The Source is not me. I feel the need to preemptively clarify this because my own wife asked if that was me. So there you have it.… Continue reading It’s not me…