Top 5 Jason Hacks

broderic on October 28, 2006

I know I am late with the Friday the 13th stuff considering that it was two weeks ago, but I was thinking this in the shower the other day. I have seen almost all Friday the 13th slasher flicks and while they’re all pretty stupid, you have to admit that some of the deaths are mighty gruesome and hilarious. I can’t remember which films are which, but I don’t remember some of the gore. Here’s my list of the five most memorable Jason hacks. I’m excluding Jason in Space and Freddy v Jason, because I have yet to see them.

5. Party favor in the eye. While this is rather tame, I’m including it here for the fact that as it was shoved into the eye it made the noise party favors make.

4. Head squish. Jason was strong enough to crush your skull. He did it to one dude whose eye popped out. I think this was from the 3D movie.

3. Young lovers on a stick. Speaking about coitus interruptus.

2. Sleeping bag slam. Jason takes a camper hiding in her sleeping bag and whips her into a tree snapping her like a twig. Funny.

1. Handstand walker split in two. Dude who can walk on his hands gets bisected by Jason from crotch to sternum.

IniTech Employees Revolt!

broderic on October 25, 2006

Why, oh why, am I stuck at my job at IniTech? Because I’m a pussy. Look at the
cool shit I can be using if I was an indy Mac developer. I suck.

This is just a rant to get you to notice that MacBook Pros have been upgraded to the Core Duo. MMmmm. Can you smell what Apple is cooking?

Out! Damn Spot!

broderic on October 20, 2006

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Once you read this article by Pat Tillman’s brother, you’ll understand why, NO FUCKING REPUBLICANS, is my motto for the next election.

Oui. C’est vrai. Elle est une hottie.

broderic on October 20, 2006

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Esquire’s Women We Love 2006 issue features some obscure women that they love. Nothing comes as obscure as this hottie, Melissa Theuriau. She’s a French tv newscaster. Kicks Katie Couric’s ass in looks, and I bet the sad news about the Iraq war would sound some much sexier coming with a French accent. C’est la guerre.

Infernally Departed

broderic on October 20, 2006

The Departed. The US remake of Infernal Affairs. I had recently watched the original because by coincidence it wound up on my Netflix queue at the same time the US remake debuted.

The original was confusing. Now this may sound cliched but I couldn’t tell the bad guys apart. They were all chinese to me, so that when it was time to remember who the mole was in the police department, I couldn’t pick him out of a police line up. I spent the better part of the movie trying to fathom out what was going on. At least the undercover cop was easy to pick out because he’s the infamous Tony Leung. Supposedly, the other guy is somewhat famous, but I don’t really watch much chinese cop dramas because I am limited to the kung fu genre. Anyway, the original besides confusing me ended in a very bitter tone. You had the mole, who always wanted to be a good cop, make it and the undercover cop not. Like the scene in Heat with Al Pacino and Robert Deniro, their tales where intertwined, and you know that someone loses in the end. In this film, it turns out the good guy was the bad guy. For some time after, I was confused by the turn of events to let the mole live. It felt wrong, but I felt conflicted liking the bitter ending, but not liking that crime triumphed. Heh.

The remake adhered to the premise of the original with lots of the same plot rythms. Along with The Aviator, this pic does not include many grand Scorsese stylings. Scorsese sublimates his style to tell the story. Nicholson on the other hand is always Nicholson. The quiet unfolding of the film under Scorsese was punctuated by Nicholson’s brashness and makes the film seem lively, but the length of the movie was very noticeable. I squirmed for the last half hour waiting for the ending. Of course, there was an american twist in the end. You cannot end an american story embracing the dark side. Unlike the original, the mole gets his comeuppance. This was rather phony. For once, an american film should’ve ended (like the original) with the embrace of bad cops rule. I would’ve liked the bitter ending to have remained.

Mark Wahlberg was the best. Followed by Alec Baldwin. DiCaprio and Damon were alright. The boston accent is teh suck.

Original: 2 of 5 stars.
Remake: 2 of 5 stars

Omaha

broderic on October 17, 2006

Last night went to dinner for a friend’s birthday. While waiting to go,we played a few rounds of poker. Usually, we play Texas Hold’em, but there were only three of us so play had to be loose. That sucks as there is no hiding your bad hands dealt.

Whenever in these situations, I panic because I hate folding on badhands and letting the other guy steal the blinds. It gets worse whenits just head-to-head because you must play because there is no more strategizing then. You can’t wait for a good hand or the other guy isjust going to build his stack with the blinds you’re giving up.

Anyway, we switched to Omaha Hold ’em. Four cards dealt with thecommunity cards as in Texas Hold ’em. But we played it wrong. It seemsyou have to play two cards from your hand. You can’t play one and get four from the community cards! Wow. That’ll make it even more interesting. Check the link for more rules.

Perhaps a game of high-low.

Notes: CS 790 Course Project — Samba

broderic on October 16, 2006

Samba

History

Development Purpose
– UNIX in a Windows dominated world. Cross platform interoperability of file
and printing services.
– Reverse engineered from Microsoft’s proprietary CIFS (Common Internet File
System) and SMB (Server Message Block).
– Similar to network file systems.
– Several transport protocols that it suppports: NetBIOS, TCP/IP, etc.
– Platform independence to access personal files.
– Interoperability.
– Open source development model. Multiple developers.

Key Features
– File and printer sharing. Remote access to files and printers on a network
whether it is a UNIX or Windows machine.
– User authentication and authorization. Security measures and access controls
for files and printers.
– network name resolution. Mapping of a machines IP address to its identification
on a network neighborhood.
– network browsing. Allows graphical browsing of files and printers similar to
Windows File Explorer.
– Transparent interoperability with Window’s network neighborhood.

Windows Network Neighborhood
– Samba strives for being a peer in this aspect of Windows.
– Collection of machines that share files and printer resources.
– Centralized workgroup access to the files as well as authorization.
– Domain controller centralized authentication entity.

SMBD
– Samba’s SMB implementation
– Responsible for receiving service requests from client and provides the shared
file or printer service.

NMBD
– Samba’s naming resoultion and network browsing component.

Authorization Component

Search Strings

broderic on October 12, 2006

Most of the time, this blog is read by the four of my regular readers. Yet, through the magic of Google, some unwitting bastards arrive here not knowing what to expect. It’s funny especially with some of the search strings that lead them here.

Doobie Keebler is the most active. Supposedly, it’s a slang for a marijuana cigarette. In truth, Doobie Keebler is the mispronounced name Matthew Brock asks Jimmy James in the classic NewsRadio episode.

Next is Oksana Akinshina naked! Sorry. I don’t think she’s posed for any nudies. Most of these searches are from foreign lands.

TV blogging

broderic on October 7, 2006

As I sit at home on a Saturday afternoon, I think about some of the television I watched. Basically, I’m trying to catch up with what’s on my tivo.

First, we’ll start with a favorite for the last couple years: The Amazing Race. It’s fair to say that this is showing its age. Like the tired and worn survivor, the Amazing race inn it’s tenth season needs to reinvigorate itself. Of course this won’t happen this season, but the next race needs some changes. This year they started out with twelve teams rather than eleven. In the first episode, they eliminated two teams with one of those eliminations at the half way point of the leg. What would be better is if they eliminated a team at any time. Imagine that all teams make it through the first three legs, then starting after the next RoadBlock the last team finishing getting eliminated. Then it goes unpredictably from there. It would make good drama, but maybe not good racing. At this point, I would be blogging about the show, but I am not therefore I am none too excited about this show right now. Perhaps when I pick a team to root for…

Next, Battlestar Galactica premiered its new season on friday. What a disappointment. Perhaps I wanted Viper battles against Cylon raiders, but it wasn’t too exciting for me. It’s also overtly political. The story being occupation of a planet for the good of the occupied people. Iraq? They’re fucked. Yet, there are some intriguing developments. Is Roslyn a Cylon? Then how’s she going to escape the death squads? Is Baltar?

Thursdays it’s Supernatural. I missed the season opener and tivo did not record it for me. This weeks was about killer clowns. “Can’t sleep clowns will eat me.” At points I was scared. Darn clowns. Thus the X-Files lives!

Thursdays is also Ugly Betty. I just watched my first ep and found it funny as all get out. This is going to be good for the first eps then slowly crash into soap drama. I hope it works and makes it through.

That’s it for now. I want to try a few new shows, but the time is hard to find.