Fighting For Liberty

Oh, Princess Leia
I hope a rancor eats you
dumbass nerf-herder

David Geekness, Haiku, Political Garbage

… how have I lived so long without you? Picked up a dual-band 2.4/5Ghz Netgear router, got everything (finally) hooked up and ooooooooh I like seeing those connection speeds.

Still have some fiddling to do, but it’s made quite a difference in file transfers and in managing incoming speeds (videos load and play much faster than they did with the old Linksys clunker I had on there).

Kinda crusing with some light workouts here and there. Another relatively light one today during class. I’m just maintaining right now, but that Black Belt test is coming up quick …

Weight tracking over the last five days:

4/27: 238
4/28: 238
4/29: 238.6
4/30: 237.6
5/01: 237.6

My goal: 235
Lbs away: 2.6
Days left: 15

Practiced some self-defense today. My back is fully healed. Yeah, there’s a little tweak here or there from time to time, but if I can hurl someone across the room with a shoulder throw, I consider myself to be doing just fine.

The toe is still bugging me, and it makes push-ups not a lot of fun as I put quite a bit of weight on my bent toes doing push-ups, but it’s nothing I can’t grit my teeth through, however. Honestly, apart from the Brown Belt test I had just a couple of weeks ago, this will be the healthiest I’ve been for a test. I’ve taken one with a fever, I’ve had two when allergies were in full bloom, and I think one where I had a 100 degree fever.

Paid for the test today, all that’s left is to go get the darn belt! Well, AND lose 2.6 pounds so I can say I’ve met my goal.

David Geekness, Gettin' Healthy, Martial Arts, Me

Weight tracking over the last five days:

4/25: 239.4
4/26: 237
4/27: 238
4/28: 238
4/29: 238.6

My goal: 235
Lbs away: 3.6
Days left: 17

I don’t like seeing the number go up.

Weight loss is going to have it’s ups and downs, that’s for certain. Yesterday, I didn’t get much of a workout in spite of attending class as we did mostly self-defense work which – while a great deal of fun – is not a crazy sweating cardio workout by any means. It’s more technical.

Today that will be fixed. I’ll push myself through a good, hard workout.

Received all of my new networking doodads and I’m currently trying to fix everything up and get things going properly. Still found something unexplainable from a technical standpoint … I can’t open up an Access database on a mapped drive on my own network because of a stupid proxy bypass checkmark in Internet Explorer? Seriously? Organization fail.

Though I realize where Microsoft has gone with security. Basically, if they get it to a point where you can’t open ANY files and you don’t receive ANY emails, you’ll never be exposed to malware! Next up? A security “feature” that prevents you from viewing any web pages. Voila! 100% security!

David Geekness, Gettin' Healthy, Me

Technology sucks.

I’m shopping around for a nice wireless-n gigabit router. Something that can give me that coveted super-speed.

I’m re-doing the whole technical thing in the house. Starting with one of these bad boys. Stuffed with two of these cool, low-power suckers.

Fileserver, mirrored drive, FTP access and all sorts of other technical doodads to play with.

What I need to do now is upgrade my poor little 5 year-old Linksys Wireless G gateway to something more substantial. Then take the Wireless-G to the range and send it off proper-like.

Do I go for sweet, sweet 5Ghz dual-band?

Or the cheaper, but very well-reviewed SMC?

Or stick with a Linksys, as that little Wireless-G has been a reliable workhorse for me for so long?

And … what do I need in order to get the PCs connecting wireless at super-dooper-gigabit-speeds?

I’m leaning toward the SMC as I’ve heard excellent things about their technical support and their routers get generally excellent reviews. But I don’t know about other components interacting with that SMC in order to connect appropriately.

Help me Obi Wan Technobie, you’re my only hope …

David Geekness

… Chicken.

All but one of 200 chickens died Tuesday in a fire at a chicken coop in Peterborough, fire officials said.

Peterborough fire officials said 199 chickens perished in the fire and one ran away and survived the fire at Sunnyside Farm on Greenfield Road.

The Kurgan was unavailable for comment.

It’s better to burn out, than to fade away, YEARGH!!!

David Geekness

BP was kind enough to share Hot Chicks With Stormtroopers.

Reminded me of this gem I came across somewhere on Facebook:

Heh.

David Geekness

I’m certain it’s just a coincidence, but ever since updating to IE 8, any time I visit a page with a Microsoft Bing advertisement on it, the browser crashes.

It would be a nuisance, if it weren’t so darn funny.

David Geekness

Just for fun, you know.

I uploaded it into their gallery under the following tags: humor, zombies, democrats

David Geekness

ZOMG can’t WAIT!

To the unenlightened, “The Last Airbender” is spawned from a Nickelodeon TV show called “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. Can’t blame them for dropping off the “Avatar” to avoid confusion.

It’s an American Anime-style cartoon and a fantastic show. If you have Netflix, you can watch the entire 1st season on your PC. Great story, great characters, it’s well worth a viewing.

Plus … Look at the trailer! Kung Fu and people throwing Fire around!

David Geekness

I’m sorry. I had to repost it.

Looks like AWB 2.0 is an old story … but that doesn’t mean I can’t bust out a little fun!

I actually had to go to the Wayback Machine to dig it up as I didn’t have a copy saved and that was a previous incarnation of the blog when I wrote under the name of “Liberty”. For those of you reading who are unfamiliar … I wrote this back in January (I think) of 2008. Holy cow … have I been blogging that long? Yikes. Apparently, it still applies today!

INCONCEIVABLE!

Well, I normally wouldn’t bust out this big of a story without a press release and a great deal of fanfare, but I was recently able to sit down with Paul Helmke and discuss what truly constitutes an “assault weapon.” Following is a nearly complete transcript of our conversation:

HELMKE: *holding a spork against a copy of the Constitution* So, it is down to you. And it is down to me.

LIBERTY: Let me explain-

HELMKE: — there’s nothing to explain. You’re trying to reclaim what I’ve rightfully hijacked.

LIBERTY: Perhaps an arrangement can be reached?

HELMKE: There will be no arrangement — *presses the spork against the 2nd Amendment* — and you’re destroying this …

LIBERTY: But if there can be no arrangement, then we are at an impasse.

HELMKE: I’m afraid so — I can’t compete with your assault weapons. And you’re no match for my legislation.

LIBERTY: You’re that thorough?

HELMKE: Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Bloomberg, Feinstien, Schumer?

LIBERTY: Yes.

HELMKE: Sissies.

LIBERTY: Really? In that case, I challenge you to a battle of wits.

HELMKE: For the Constitution?

LIBERTY: *nods*

HELMKE: To the death?

LIBERTY: *nods again*

HELMKE: I accept.

LIBERTY: Good. Pour the Kool-Aid. *holds up a blank picture* View this, but do not touch.

HELMKE: I see nothing.

LIBERTY: What you do not see is called an “assault weapon”. It is imaginary, inanimate, impossible to legislate, and is among the more reviled weapons to your average liberal or GOP candidate.

HELMKE: Hmm.

LIBERTY: *reaches into a bag, places two nearly identical weapons on the table in front of Helmke* All right, where is the assault weapon? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both shoot, and find out who is right, and who is … wrong.

HELMKE: But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the assault weapon in front of him, or his enemy?

Now, a clever man would put the weapon in front of him, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the weapon in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the weapon in front of me.

LIBERTY: You’ve made your decision then?

HELMKE: Not remotely. Because assault weapons come from gun show loopholes, as everyone knows. And gun shows are entirely frequented with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the weapon in front of you.

LIBERTY: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

HELMKE: Wait till I get going! Where was I?

LIBERTY: Gun shows.

HELMKE: Yes — gun shows, and you must have suspected I would have known the weapon’s origin, so I can clearly not choose the gun in front of me.

LIBERTY: You’re just stalling now.

HELMKE: You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you!

You’ve beaten legislation sponsored by the Virginia Tech families, which means you’re exceptionally well funded. So, you could have put the assault weapon in front of yourself, trusting in the evil gun lobby to save you. So I can clearly not choose the weapon in front of you. But, you’ve also sent a 2nd Amendment case to the Supreme Court which means you must have studied. And in studying, you must have learned that assault weapons are mind-controlling, so you would have put the weapon as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the gun in front of me.

LIBERTY: You’re trying to trick me into giving away something — it won’t work –

HELMKE: It has worked! You’ve given everything away! I know which one the assault weapon is!

LIBERTY: Then make your choice.

HELMKE: I will. And I choose — *suddenly stops, points* — LOOK! Somebody shooting squirrels with a .50 BMG!

LIBERTY: What? Where!? I don’t see anything.

HELMKE: *switches the guns* Oh, well, I-I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.

LIBERTY: What’s so funny?

HELMKE: I’ll tell you in a minute. First, let’s shoot — me with my weapon, and you with yours.

*three shot bursts ring out*

LIBERTY: You guessed wrong.

HELMKE: You only think I guessed wrong — that’s what’s so funny! I switched guns when your back was turned. You fool.

HELMKE: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is “Never claim a righteous shooting in Massachussetts.” But only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against the BRADY CAMPAIGN when a GUN BAN is on the line! HAHAHAHAHA!”

Just a note … few teeeny weeeeny minor edits in the above piece for re-publishing. The most drastic of which was the addition of Bloomberg. Come on, I had to!

Hope you enjoyed it for the second time!

And of course, the original scene from the movie:

David 2nd Amendment, Dumbass Liberal Crap, Geekness