Busy catching up from last week, so little to see here. If you have emailed me, I’m not ignoring you, just no time.
In the meantime, check out the worst logo ever.
[I saw this on one of my linked sites, but I can’t remember which, sorry]
Archive for March, 2005
The Marshmallow Mocha:
Spent the long weekend recovering. Still feeling a bit dodgy.
I did however watch about 34 hours of telly. I love that word. Telly.
Yep, 16 episodes of Deadwood, 7 of West Wing and 41 of Sports Night. If you haven’t seen Deadwood, check it out you fuckin’ cocksucker. Oh yeah, but beware the swearing. I’ve never heard anything like it, and how they got away with the end of Series 1, episode 11 I do not know! Al is getting noshed off while rambling about killing the priest. Anyway, it’s crude and rude, but the dialogue is great. See what Spike had to say.
Aces over eights? Dead man’s hand:
In poker, the dead man’s hands are a category of two-pair hands, namely the “aces over eights” ones. The origin of the name is the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder, which is accepted to have included the aces and eights of both of the black suits.
Wild Bill Hickok is one of the early main characters in Deadwood.
Good question to pose next time you are in the pub with mates:
The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a 5-a-side indoor pitch. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is “out.”
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of “counter-tactics” training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup (this protects your balls/fanoire)
- Barefoot
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
** This is a hypothetical question. In no way to I condone beating kids up or the like etc. etc., it’s just a poser.
[I got this from somewhere, but I can’t remember where]
I’m utterly sick and tired of comment spam, I get about one every two or three minutes. I have Spam Karma installed, and that keeps the spam off the page, but I get emails about the spam and it takes up my bandwidth. So, I’ve installed Referrer Karma which is supposed to block certain IPs from even reaching your site. It even integrates with the Spam Karma balcklist. You can see the logs here, and it seems to be working OK so far.
Please, if you have any issues accessing the site, please let me know. Erm, is it worth me putting that? If you can’t access the site, you can’t see it…..
I also added a rewrite rule to my .htaccess file, as suggested by Dr. Dave:
RewriteRule ^blog/.*
http://shakykaiser.com/blog/wp-content/referrer-karma.php
?rk_redirect_to=&rk_ban_this_ip=1 [NC,L]
This rule insures that any spambot randomly trying to locate a Wordpress script (e.g. wp-comments-post.php) will end up in my permanent banlist: not only will they receive a 403, but the next time they try accessing any other areas of my blog, they’ll still receive a 403.
So let’s see, spam count up until now was 3224, plus the 1400 I reset when I fooked something up, 1000 of which came in the last day or so. Let’s see if this slows them down.
UPDATE: 20 mins in and it’s already blocked 27 attempts.
Just heard a song on Sports Night, the show that Shandyman put me onto about a year ago, but only just got around to watching. Why oh why did I wait? It’s brilliant. Fast, sharp, witty dialogue. Of course, as it’s from Aaron Sorkin. Him of A Few Good Men and The West Wing. Don’t give up after the pilot, or the first few episodes, it gets better.
Of course, I like the stato-geek guy. In one episode, he’s trying to come to terms with something his dad did, so he blurts on about Orion:
There’s a lot of great stuff on Orion, the God and also the constellation. Most people only see the belt, which is formed by Delta, Epsilon and Zeta, three second magnitude stars that are equally spaced in a straight line. Beneath the belt is a line of fainter stars and of these stars, Theta isn’t really a star at all. It’s actually the brightest part of the Orion nebula. So this great pink star in the sword of Orion turns out to be something far more…complicated and interesting. My father’s been having an affair with a woman for 27 years.
Like The West Wing, it can bring a tear to the eye. In the episode Eli’s Coming, you see a glimpse of West Wing season three and four finales — nowhere near as powerful and over in a moment, but I just loved the song they used. Eli’s Coming by Three Dog Night. Listen to it.
BTW Shandy, Sorkin is working on The Farnsworth Invention:
The Farnsworth Invention tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, a boy genius from Utah who, at 22, invented television only to become involved in an all-or-nothing battle with David Sarnoff, the young president of RCA and America’s first communications mogul.
“Invented television” What?!?!? This better not be another U-571. John Logie Baird anyone? Farnsworth did the preliminary work on the CRT, anyone knows that, if you just read what I did! However, he was 14 when he thought of it. Fourteen!? Wasn’t he supposed to be spending most of his time developing new wanking techniques?
Anyway, check out Sports Night and Eli’s Coming.
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