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I fed the wildlife.

I had some nuts and seeds handy so I took it upon myself to make acquaintance with this little creature.

Motorcycling is dangerous kids.

I know that’s kind of funny. This was scary. I came up on this when the bike that got hit was bursting into flames.

You can see my view here starting at about the 5:40 mark.

Open source rules.

Vocabulary for the week.

Definitions for the following list are here.

  • Similitude
  • Homunculus
  • Skinner box
  • Machinima
  • Pedagogy
  • Superannuated
  • Penultimate

NJ Motorsports Park – Thunderbolt

This is Theo and I at Thunderbolt at the end of May 2010.

Interesting details on government worker cost…

The Millionaire Cop Next Door

Facebook perspective.

“Hey, someone made a skinner-box that teaches you to undervalue your privacy . Cool.” – Cory Doctorow

Simple as that.

Our old HX4 contents…

Are now back up. Just go the the “OLD HX4” page link to see it.

Cheers

Mike

Funny, true and soooo sad.

From http://xkcd.com/
From XKCD

Uptimes a year later.

I must have a hardware clock in me because it seems like strange coincidence that I thought to make this post today; which turns out to be the day I made the same post last year. I wonder if this will happen next year too.

michael@X:~$ uptime
10:21:53 up 229 days,

mhanson@X:~$ uptime
10:22:33 up 502 days,

michael@X:~$ uptime
10:38:46 up 113 days,

michael@X:~$ uptime
10:39:51 up 443 days,

[michael@X ~]$ uptime
10:44:09 up 186 days,

Thats 1,473 days of uptime on 5 boxes. Are Windows servers staying up like that these days? I remember back in the dark ages I could go for about 90-100 days before I would need to reboot our NT 4.0 server, and that was pretty long for a server back then.