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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Moving
This blog is moving.
The new URL is http://blog.perkonis.net
Yes, I finally got around to setting up Wordpress and importing everything from here. Hopefully everything works. ¶ 11:40 PM 0 comments
The new URL is http://blog.perkonis.net
Yes, I finally got around to setting up Wordpress and importing everything from here. Hopefully everything works. ¶ 11:40 PM 0 comments
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Photos: Hunter Bags 5-Legged Buck
Some kid in Illinois shot a deer with 5th leg growing out of its chest. And he still ate it. Check out the pictures.
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OK, the theme for the day seems to be mutant deer. This brings up 2 questions...
1) What is up with the mutant deer? Are they planning to take over the world? And...
2) Am I just a pussy, or does eating said mutant deer seem like a bad idea? ¶ 10:44 PM 0 comments
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OK, the theme for the day seems to be mutant deer. This brings up 2 questions...
1) What is up with the mutant deer? Are they planning to take over the world? And...
2) Am I just a pussy, or does eating said mutant deer seem like a bad idea? ¶ 10:44 PM 0 comments
Wisconsin Hunter Bags Deer With 7 Legs
Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers - and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it's a real rarity."
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Wicked Looking Fish Dredged Up From The Depths
"Many species of deep ocean fish have special adaptations to living in extremely high pressure, low light conditions. Viper fish are some of the most wicked looking fish dredged up from the depths. Some of them are black as night all over with light organs in strategic places on their bodies, including one on a long dorsal fin that serves as a lur
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Door Holding Etiquette
Being a generally polite person, I usually hold doors for people. But lately I started wondering what proper etiquette in these situations? Obviously if a person is two steps from the door it's polite to stand there and hold it for them. Equally obvious is when that person is 100 yards away. Somewhere between these two points is the fine line between polite guy holding the door and psycho stalker freak standing in the open doorway.
I want to know where this line is. Is it five feet from the door or twenty? Really, though, I don't think it's a set distance. I think there is a somewhat complex equation used to determine where to draw the line. You need to give certain people more distance than others. Someone on crutches gets maybe ten extra feet whereas Mr. Mullet gets a few feet subtracted. There is also weather to consider. If someone is rushing to the door to beat a thunderstorm, you probably need to give a little more leeway.
And then there is the whole hotness factor. The amount of additional distance given for someone is proportional to there coefficient of hotness. Again up to a point. SO I don't think it's a simple linear scale. So you have a base distance which gets adjusted based on some combination of ability to open the door themselves, the weather, and probably most important, the hotness coefficient. Now if I can just figure out how to put them together... ¶ 8:10 PM 0 comments
I want to know where this line is. Is it five feet from the door or twenty? Really, though, I don't think it's a set distance. I think there is a somewhat complex equation used to determine where to draw the line. You need to give certain people more distance than others. Someone on crutches gets maybe ten extra feet whereas Mr. Mullet gets a few feet subtracted. There is also weather to consider. If someone is rushing to the door to beat a thunderstorm, you probably need to give a little more leeway.
And then there is the whole hotness factor. The amount of additional distance given for someone is proportional to there coefficient of hotness. Again up to a point. SO I don't think it's a simple linear scale. So you have a base distance which gets adjusted based on some combination of ability to open the door themselves, the weather, and probably most important, the hotness coefficient. Now if I can just figure out how to put them together... ¶ 8:10 PM 0 comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Swiss government tests VoIP bugging
Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung , reports that the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK) hired ERA IT Solutions some time ago to come up with a program capable of infecting PCs and tapping conversations without the need to crack VoIP PC-to-PC encryption.
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Well, that was odd. This story briefly made the front page and got buried. That's not the odd part. After it got buried, it kept getting Diggs for no apparent reason. It was buried. No one was going to see it unless they specifically looked for it or if it were dugg by one of their friends.
At one point it was up to 36 diggs. Looking through the list to see who was digging it after it got buried, I saw some names I hadn't seen before. There were a total of 6 that I checked on that had just registered today. They had no friends, so the idea that they found a buried story through their friends was out. When I went to check their history, it came up as "invalid user provided." Poof. Gone. I can only assume that since these accounts were created today and disappeared a short while later, that they were banned.
It seems someone is up to some kind of shenanigans here. I don't mind that the story got buried. It happens. No big deal. What happened afterward is annoying. Someone (or several someones) were up to no good apparently trying to resurrect a buried story. I don't know who or why, but I'm glad they were caught and banned.
Update: this gets stranger and stranger. 2 of the 6 profiles that I noticed being banned earlier have reappeared in the "Who Dugg This" link. But their profile still comes up as invalid. I've also noticed that there are more brand new accounts digging this story. I'm beginning to wonder if this is some kind of attempt to get me banned. ¶ 3:00 PM 0 comments
read more | digg story
Well, that was odd. This story briefly made the front page and got buried. That's not the odd part. After it got buried, it kept getting Diggs for no apparent reason. It was buried. No one was going to see it unless they specifically looked for it or if it were dugg by one of their friends.
At one point it was up to 36 diggs. Looking through the list to see who was digging it after it got buried, I saw some names I hadn't seen before. There were a total of 6 that I checked on that had just registered today. They had no friends, so the idea that they found a buried story through their friends was out. When I went to check their history, it came up as "invalid user provided." Poof. Gone. I can only assume that since these accounts were created today and disappeared a short while later, that they were banned.
It seems someone is up to some kind of shenanigans here. I don't mind that the story got buried. It happens. No big deal. What happened afterward is annoying. Someone (or several someones) were up to no good apparently trying to resurrect a buried story. I don't know who or why, but I'm glad they were caught and banned.
Update: this gets stranger and stranger. 2 of the 6 profiles that I noticed being banned earlier have reappeared in the "Who Dugg This" link. But their profile still comes up as invalid. I've also noticed that there are more brand new accounts digging this story. I'm beginning to wonder if this is some kind of attempt to get me banned. ¶ 3:00 PM 0 comments
