ginaspider

Ok, this is just between you and me internet. I've got this reputation for only liking girls so keep so this is totally on the down-low, get it. I have a secret crush on paul asadoorian. I don't know I think it's because of the way he laughs. Here's a video with him in it:


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I feel very cute today. I can't say why exactly, I just want to do cute things.

This makes me smile :)

Ok, I've listened to all the defcon 17 talks and have chosen a winner. death of anonymous travel is totally it. Moxie destroying SSL is probably a close second


... in other news I got in an argument with someone online so tonight I'm writing a vocoder to prove a point. wish me luck

that it, I'm not working on this anymore

I'm thinking there are three different devices.

* Block devices
* Character devices
* Frame devices (think ethernet)

Then there are two special devices that may not be tied to hardware:

* Multiplexers (Think network devices or screens with windows)
* Namespaces (maybe this could include filesystems... maybe not)

I want to sperate namespaces as a device so that there's a standard technique for processes get it's namespace... and change it's namespace. I also think there will have to be a global namespace and I'm thinking that something like DEVICE,PROTOCOL,ADDRESS,[PORT],[path] would work well. I don't know of course. What kind of primitives for devices do you think is out there? What do you think about ioctl? I'm wondering if there could be a way to mix credentials and ioctl

I have a friendship-date (I know that sounds kinda dorky) on tuesday that I'm kinda looking forward too. It's not a date, it just to see if we could be friends. I don't know, we'll see how it goes.

In other ginaspider news I'm seeing someone else on wednesday that I'm really looking forward to.

After that, I don't know. Seeing someone else (yes I'm leaving out all these names intentionally) on saturday.

I think I kinda get lonely at night, so I get excited about seeing people and take survey of when to make myself feel less lonely.. if that makes sense.

Went through my old emails and that kinda made me a little depressed. There are some correspondence that I just can't stand to read, it makes me feel so embarrassed.

I haven't been very confident about how I look lately. I have fear of being around people I don't know for too long. I always have that fear but it's been pretty bad lately, makes me want to be around the comfort of familiar people all the more. Think I'll cut my hair tomorrow, maybe that will help. Maybe I should take pictures of myself. Not really for anyone- just for me.. maybe I'll find a couple that I really like. That'll make me feel better. I miss people.

in other other ginaspider news, I'm a little disappointed because I can't hold down too many keys at the same time on my keyboard. I wonder what keyboard is the best for this.

hey openbsd people! Is there a good way to get raw r/w access to a network device? bsd packet filter seems to be read-only. I know there's raw sockets on linux and am wondering if there's something similar for bsd. I am wondering why network stack is traditionally in-kernel. Why not have ethernet cards as character devices? I think the only way to really answer this for myself is to experiment with writing a user-space network stack. Immediately slowness comes to mind with all this ipc and context switching for the supposed network program but I wonder how true all that'll be.

... maybe it looks better like this. I don't know, what do you think?



in other news, I never really realized how common it is for dogs to bloat. In researching this online I've found quite a few pictures of REALLY REALLY uncomfortable looking dogs :(

I wonder if there's any digital media that will be non-volatile for 500 years. Anyone care to guess? Is there anything that'll last longer, do you think? Hmm... how about shorter- 50 years? Think anything will last for 50 years? How long do you thing CDRs will last?

also...

I like the UFO crowed but once you're kinda on the fringe with that you get a lot of moon-bat theories tossed your way about all sorts of stuff. Let me address one of them...

I never really understood the we-never-went-to-the-moon crowed but apparently it's larger then I thought. What's with this fascination that people apparently have with the idea of the moon landings being fake? I think there's some social aspect of this that I'm not understanding... anyway I never got it. With the huge volumes of data collected from our six landing-trips to the moon we'd totally win in court. Their entire case hangs one fucking thing:


Basically it's charged particles trapped by the earth. This phenomenon has been proven by experimentation and first verified by explorer 1 mission. The constant propaganda (and yes I'd go so far as to call it propaganda) I hear from the non-moon-landing crowed is that this will cause instant death to any astronauts and also slowly kill their families- soon there after they become zombies. Fucking space-zombies, that is. Irradiated astronaut space-zombies.

Ok, ok... I'm now making fun of the non-moon-landers. I'm sorry, all apologies. Tell you what- you're not a scientist and neither am I. So let's ignore this whole van allen thing shall we? Let's pretend this whole thing doesn't exist. With that behind us I think I know what this all boils down to and I probably side with you on it. It's that governments lie, isn't it? The thing with me is that governments typically do a bad job at it. The only time they get away with doing a horrible job is when we're encultured to ignore how bad of a job they're doing. (which sadly, is often)

Listen there's a fuck load of data from the apollo missions, a lot of which is publicly available. Go listen to the flight recordings of just one and then tell me that government is capable of pulling shit together to that well. Fuck, we can't even get a health bill to pass without tearing ourselves apart. Fake moon-landings and fake collected material, fake broadcasts from space and fake recordings, fake capsules falling from the sky and fake launch missions. Fake this and fake that over a period of 6 years after apollo 11. It's a little too far fetched that all the data from this is fake, I feel. But that's just me and you're a moon-bat.

Just finished drawing this.

what? rogue clown is a licensed attorney? I never knew...


In other news, ancient egyptian art really creeps me out. You know, everything is straight down look straight ahead. Everything looks so cold and it all has this fixation on the after-life. There's no emotion in it. It's not like greek art for instance where everyone is in a much more natural looking and everything is more sensual. I don't know how much this is a reflection of their understanding of art (as it's evolution was back then) or if it's a reflection themselves as people, it still creeps me out. I wonder how different they are from us. As I understand egypt had some influence on early greece.. so maybe they would be too much different. Inca and mayan art seem pretty damn creepy too, egyptian is the worst though.



So who figured out how to read this egyptian written language?



This guy, who might I add is fucking leet. jean-françois champollion will fuck your shit up guaranteed

There's a certain personality type that really rubs me the wrong way. I was largely indifferent until I started to date someone who fits, more or less, this personality. Let me describe this to you by listing a number of qualities that someone with this personality may have. This person is...

*fuck-up in some deep level and is overly defensive of this
*Tends to hold grudges for a long time with most of their energy going towards maintaining these grudges
*Usually thinks the law is largely there only to help them fuck people.
*Typically holds beliefs that they've figured out how to trick the system and this helps them feel above of the law

Generally I like to think I have patience for people. I've discovered that for this type, as it is in my head, I have no patience for.

Hey, could you guys

git clone git://repo.or.cz/hrr.git
cd hrr
./configure
make
make install
hrr

and tell me if you have any problems. Thanks. Mind you configure error messages are way not correct, so if that happens you probably shouldn't think they're correct. Also ffmpeg changed fifo things around a little so if you got a version over SVN-r13839 that may or may not be an issue, I don't know.

... in other news I think the style of this is beautiful.

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There's so much fear put into us from pop-culture about these things that it's difficult to remove that from peoples' reactions to alien type things. This video is so light and fun even though it portraying very strange things. To approach this without becoming afraid of the dark I think is important. The stars are beautiful and you should not be afraid of them. I think if our approach was one of curiosity for how strange our world is we'd all deal with this a little better. Anyway, I'm rambling... by the way that's budd hopkins doing the regression work there. He's done many many many of these and wonder how he absorbs what he hears. Don't be afraid, that's what I say. good-night

Made this logo for one of my favorite radio shows.
Not quite satisfied with the hands but it's probably not going to get any better.

I'm so impressed with security people. That seems like one of the hardest aspects of computers to master in. Everything seems to always be changing. To all the good security people out there- total respect.

in other news. Water!! The moon!!

Here's a fun thing to do when you're bored, have some change, and are around a couple of pay-phones. Mind you the last time I did this making a call on a pay-phone was a quarter- so some things have changed.

One thing that may of changed is peoples' willingness to answer phone-calles from unknown numbers. So maybe some more patience would be necessary.

Basically what you do is pick up a couple of phones and put the receivers together and call a couple of random numbers. Can be kinda interesting sometimes. This could just as well be done through other devices. Got three-way-calling and some time on your hands? Sweet! This is done with skype by slacker:

subway_mob.mp3

... and then someone else from the pla forums:

pla_2.mp3

The funny thing is most people never come to the realization that this could be a prank orchestrated by a human.

Huh, I just remembered that a lot of people thought I smoked pot in high-school. I always thought that was kinda weird. I've always been the sort of person to not drink or smoke but I guess I didn't look like it back then.

Anyway.. remember prodigy? I totally love the feel of this video, makes me smile:



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The last, and probably will remain the last, rave I went to I remember I bounced around dancing like that while handing glow-in-the-dark stars to people- It was so much fun! I absolutely love bouncing around and dancing like that.

I'm probably going to make it to the special interest group on beer and pizza.

:::Quote:::

Pizza at the Mall....

We have reserved space in the atrium. See you there.

BTW Special thanks to Jim for filling in while I was out of town. I left
unexpectedly as my dad was not doing well and forgot all about getting
someone to take care of SIGBAP.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * SIGBAP MEETING NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Who: You, and anyone you'd care to bring
What: Special Interest Group on Beer And Pizza (SIGBAP)
When: Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 7:00pm
Where: Green Mill, Rosedale Mall, Roseville (tel: 651-633-2100)
Why: Cuz' it's fun :-)
How: Rosedale Mall is located on the north side of highway 36
between Fairview and Snelling. Green Mill is located on
the northeast side of the mall.

::: End Quote :::

This is unix-centric meeting and comes from the old unix-users-of-minnesota meetings. I haven't been to one of these in years and if anyone wants to come too, well there you go