Category: Random Thoughts

RT: Password Length

If you have a password that is so long that you sometimes lose your place and have to start over, the password may be too long or too complex.

RT: Frustration of the Imagination

It is really annoying when you try to think of something new and realize that you can’t conceive anything outside of what has been created before and then you feel certain that there is nothing new an interesting in the world, only to have the rational components of self to tell you that there must […]

Simple Excitement

Friday night I ordered some bookmarks from Amazon, because I realized I only have one good bookmark, and I don’t like the picking up a random paper thing (I do that too much in books already). Anyway, I’ve been like tracking the package through UPS since it entered the system. I feel crazy because I […]

Wasted IP Addresses

With the resistance of network operators and hardware vendors to accept IPv6, the lack of address in the IPv4 space is becoming more of a concern. I am personally wondering how many addresses in the IPv4 space are actually being used and how many are being wasted on frivolous assignments. Take for example, network 44. […]

RT: Thoughts on Cloud Computing

No matter how robust the server clusters are that operate “the cloud”, things will eventually fail. Even if the cloud itself does not fail, something will, especially those fragile little fiber optic lines that construction workers love to chop in half (btw, even in a cloud world, you still need real buildings, built by strong, […]

RT: Hypermasculinity

Random Wiki Article of the day: Hypermasculinity I saw this term in a person’s profile earlier and decided to look it up. It is an interesting concept and I find that I myself am interested in some aspects of hyper masculine art. Psychologically it is a very thought provoking idea, perhaps one that might be […]

Word of the Day: Weather-cock

I have been staring at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry all day, and I think it is starting to get to me. I ran across a fun word used several times in Longfellow’s poetry earlier, Weathercock. Webster says: "Weathercock – weather vane in the shape of a cock". Still not much better for my tired brain […]

RT: Riddle

A man was to be sentenced, and the judge instructed him “You may make a statement. If it is true, I will sentence you to four years. If it is false I will sentence you to six years”.  The prisoner made his statement and the judge allowed him to go free. What did the prisoner […]