SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your
laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.

This is really frickin’ cool!

Way back in 1998, I got a job doing tech support for AIRnet, an ISP which serviced north Alabama. AIRnet had???? covered most of north Alabama, and was pushing farther and farther south — towards areas that didn’t know much about electricity, much less The Interwebs.

One of the high-growth areas was Blountsville, county seat of Blount County, Alabama. Blount being the opposite of ‘sharp’, I suppose.

One afternoon, the receptionist called out, “I’ve got a live one! It’s from Blountsville! Who wants it?”

While speaking with the exterminator today, I picked up a nice bit of trivia: Vitamin K is an antidote to Warfarin — aka “rat poison”.

The exterminator asked if there was dog food left out where the rats could get to it. He explained that dog food contains vitamin K, which would neutralize any rat poison he left out.

I’m trying out Flock again. Hopefully it’s not as poopy as it was the last time.

So far, it seems pretty nice — better, in OSX/Intel, than Firefox, which has gotten noticeably sluggish lately.

I have experienced some random weirdness with blog posting, but the availability of an AdBlock extension made up for it.

According to this report, a photo of a person’s eyes increased tips in a tip jar up to three times the normal amount. We’ll see how this works out later.

I’ve been fairly pleased with rootkit hunter.???? It’s trivial to set up, self-updating, and easy to use.

Fairly often in my career, I’ve started a job as an additional sysadmin, or worse yet, a replacement sysadmin. I rarely have the luxury of setting up a system or a network from scratch. It’s always difficult to determine the security level of a given system, and I rarely [never] have been able to treat production systems as “untrusted” and take them down long enough to do a full audit.

Among other things, GNU grep now supports color.

When I first read this, I thought, “Wow, now I can pick out just the black socks! grep –color=30 /dev/room/socks* ”

Oh well.

This review of X3 had an interesting note about one of the best scenes of the movie:

In one scene, the unstoppable Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) bashes through wall after wall, until a naive Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) slows him down by sinking him into the floor. The angry mutant declares, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!” and then continues on his quest, but the brief line sticks out glaringly in an otherwise vulgarity-free film. “When that line comes up, I’m probably going to start breakdancing, and Randy will scream out the phrase himself,” 21-year-old college student Xavier Nazario said excitedly, thrilled over the prospect of watching Jones utter the line made popular by an Internet spoof Nazario released last February. Using an old “X-Men” cartoon, Nazario and pal Randy Hayes dubbed their voices in, giving birth to the now-famous catchphrase. Hayes, who voiced Juggernaut’s ghetto persona in the top-rated YouTube.com clip, isn’t quite so shocked that Ratner paid tribute to the clip. “Everybody loves the Juggernaut,” he laughed.

Ring ring ring — BANANA PHONE!

This shit is bananas.. B-A-N-A-N.. oh, forget it.

Berry Plastics Corp. makes the monstrous 32oz plastic cups found at QT.