Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

So I forgot to buy Blue Man Group tickets. They’re sold out now. The professional ticket scalpers are selling them for $120 a piece, when they retailed at $35. Guess we’re going to miss out on the concert. Someone tell me how it was!

This summer was the first reported death in Travis County from West Nile Virus. We live in a particularly mosquito-y neighborhood. Last month I walked into the back yard at dusk. In the space of 90 seconds I had 13 mosquito bites.
Last night around midnight I let the dogs out [...]

Geektalk alert!
Kenn asked if there was a way to patch against the hacks we’ve gotten. From the reading I did, nobody’s sure how the remote shell trojan gets onto the box. Some have speculated that it’s an ssh exploit. In our case, the mud binary was probably infected, and it got run. [...]

I got the new linux box up and running and answering like it’s supposed to, and the coders got the mud moved over and working great.
Three days later I see we’ve been hacked again.
I have a sneaking suspicion that someone ran the binary from the old box, which was hacked. I don’t know if [...]

Thanks to Chris at Quest 4 Treasure, I’ve found the site I was looking for. It’s ARGN, the Alternate Reality Gaming Network. Of course, the forums have been shut down. Still, there are some leads to interesting looking sites.
Speaking of, has anyone played The Stone?

I’m cleaning up the Austinbloggers webring. There are a bunch of sites that have been in the queue for months, whom I’ve sent the ring code a few times but it’s never been put on the pages. If your page is removed and you want to put it back, sign up again at [...]

I’m going absolutely nuts trying to remember this site I used to visit that had a forum which kept track of current web games being played. Like for example when the movie A.I. came out, there was a huge game associated with it on the web. Donnie Darko and The Matrix and The [...]

Nordstroms is opening their first store in Austin next weekend. It sounds like a really swank place. I’m particularly excited about the shoe department, which carries ladies’ shoes up to size 14. There’s only one store in Austin where I can get a decent selection in my size 11, and their styles [...]

Since I moved to Austin in 1990, I’ve had quite a few brushes with near disaster.
First was my possible contact with the Hyde Park Rapist. From 1990-1991 I lived in an apartment just north of the University of Texas, just south of the area known as Hyde Park. The news was [...]

Um, yeah, so the other day I was thinking that it’s been a pretty mild summer so far, not many highs over 100, downright tolerable. Wanna know what the temperature is outside? 105. That’s what I get for thinking.
The doc says I definitely have rosacea and should avoid temperature changes. [...]