There's one thing my boss knows how to do on the network at the shop, and that's read access logs for the VPN. I set it up for him by request so he can "make sure no one is getting access" to his data. (translation: to check up on me since I work mostly from home now.)

I've had this little problem with my network where the workstations periodically would lose their connection to the domain. It was a bit of a bitch, because it required me going in, logging in as admin, releasing and renewing the IP, and logging them back in. I put a dirty little hack in place to ensure that no one lost resources in the future, but now they get an IP conflict error message about 3 times a week. It means nothing, and everything still works as it should, but I know that one day soon it'll be my job to get rid of the errors, so I'm staying one step ahead by logging on from home and trying to putz with the DHCP server.

Tonight I go into the shop just to waste a little time and my boss has a million questions about why I'm spending so much time logged in remotely. It evolves into a 75 minute training session on IP protocols, Active Directory and domain controllers. I know every word I say is going in one ear and right out the other, but he still wants to know every little detail. Total waste of time.

Needless to say, I don't want to have to deal with the interrogation every time I do any work, so I came up with a solution. First I changed the location where the log files were being generated to a nested folder deep in the recesses of my network, out of harm's way. Then I created a little application that runs as a Windows service, essentially invisible to anyone without too much savvy who logs onto the console. At midnight every day, it generates two or three random times and three random durations between one and three minutes. Then, at those generated times, it appends an access log for me for one of the random durations. The real logs will still be safe for me to inspect for genuine intruders, but now I have a nice, clean log file for my boss to look at every day that tells him everything is ok and not to worry.

I rule. *Kevin Spacey fist pump*

tl;dr: Boss flips out over too much time logged in remotely, thinks his network is blowing up. I write a program to pretend everything is ok regardless of the hellfire that may be going on behind the scenes.

So yeah, what things have you guys done lately that make you kick ass?

I'd call you a dork, but I can't think of anything better.

Three tours in 'nam.

Uhhh...I learned to play My Sharona on my guitar.

That counts...right?

Fuck yeah it does.

Without ever having heard it before, I transcribed Chinese folk music out of Jingpu notation into western notation and learned how to play it the night before I performed it in front of a room *full* of Chinese people (some Koreans and white people, too). I even gave a short intro in Chinese. This was all as a favor to my Chinese prof, who handed me the music the day before the event.

Some girl is comming up this weekend... so as long as Taped goes home like a good roomate I'm getting some action.

what did I do?
Me: hey what are you doing this weekend?
Her: I dunno, hopefully I can get out.
Me: do you have a car? you should come up and drink.
5 minutes later
Her: yeah I guess I'll have to come see you.

Zane Wins.

The Opposite Vent Topic ftw!

I just am.

Ok that is a lie but it is the morning and my brain hasn't got started yet.

Hi guys, how's it hanging?

Everything's alright, how about you?

sup

Yeah, yeah. I'll go home, play a ton of starcraft, masturbate using my own tears as lubrication, then go out folk dancing with all my hippie friends. Same as every weekend. Good luck.

When I got home, I weighed myself, took a dump, and weighed myself again. I lost 1.4 pounds

Well, tonight I made the bar our poker league plays at 300 bucks!
Got dinner for free, and a case of chips donated to the league($50).
Not to mention I dealt for the final 2. With 2 decks.
Made $50 on top of that.

Finished my bar and gaming courses last night with flying colours.

Now I can make bitchin cocktails.

Yaaaaaaaaaay! Congrats!

As for me, I found a bra that fits and is comfortable, and that's pretty awesome when you're me and bras always suck for you.

Yaaaaaaaaaay! Congrats!

This post is worthless without pics so we can all judge for ourselves.

Ninja edit: God, did I just actually say that?

Yes. And you will be losing the fridge next!

What does that even leave me with?


If you were a car door I would slam you all night long.

The children!

i am eating bagels

bagels make everyone amazing

Yay, I'm amazing. *munches happily*

I was able to win an argument in my women's studies course. Against a bunch of women.

I am the ultimate male.

thread over.

What was the argument about?

There are 3 girls I could get with the snap of my fingers and another girl who just wants to hook up with me and fool around, no relationship.

I out drank one of the most known drinking champs in my old school.
I totally kicked his ass, but at the end of the night we both were passed out. Him around the toliet, me laid back on the garage floor like a pimp.

How the author for the article we read sounded like she thought all women were smarter then men. And the professor (a lady, mind you) agreed with me. I really don't know why she likes me so much.

I thought of something. Last saturday, I was out contra dancing as usual, and my partner and I spun out of one move, which we were doing with other people, and our spins carried us perfectly into the next move together. As we continued down the line, other people complimented us. A few iterations of the dance later, we did it again, and once more before the dance ended. It felt great.