Friday, March 31, 2017
The Bunny Rabbit and Pancakes
A bunny rabbit wakes up one Sunday
morning with an extreme craving to eat pancakes. This desire cannot wait and
the forest diner is closed on Sundays, so he decides to hop all the way to the
grocery store (which is about 25 minutes away). He gets there and buys
everything he needs: cooking oil, pancake batter, four types of jam, Canadian
maple syrup, butter, the works. As soon as he gets home though, he realizes he
had forgotten that his frying pan was very old and ended up getting completely
ruined last time he used it, and thinks to himself:
"Damn it! I really don't want
to hop all that way and back again, it's almost an hour. Wait! the bear lives
only five minutes away, he eats tons of food, and I know he has a bunch of
frying pans, surely he won't mind lending me one!"
So he heads out to the bear's
place. On the way, he starts thinking:
"You know, maybe the bear will
want some of the pancakes since he's lending me a frying pan. Well, I guess
that's fair, I mean, I couldn't make the pancakes without his frying pan. Out
of the 15 pancakes I can make with the stuff I bought, I guess I can give him
5. Yeah, 10 will be more than enough for me.
"Hmm... well, the bear is much
bigger than me, so what if he wants more than 5 pancakes? Well... I don't know,
I guess that's all right. I don't usually eat much and I'll probably be fine if
I eat just a few... So if he wants 10, well, 5 should be enough for me! I
really only have this craving, and if I eat only a couple, it will probably go
away (as they say, a lot more exciting at first...)
"Hmm... well... what if he
wants more than 10? I mean, he's much bigger than me, it's not like I can do
anything if he decides to just have them. If he says he wants to help out
because he wants to eat some too, I can't really say no, after all, he is
lending me a frying pan. But then he can come back with me and while we make
them, he could just eat pancake after pancake and I can be left with nothing! I
mean, what's the big deal, why can't he just lend me a damn frying pan for 20
damn minutes, he's got tons of them?? I always try to help him out if he asks
for something, why can't he do the same?!"
Just about this time he gets to the
bear's place. Knocks on the door, bear opens.
"You know what, bear? Fuck you, and fuck your frying pan!"
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Well, now that our government rolled on us... what's a VPN and why should you use one
I ain't no Computer Rocket Doctor Surgeon, but I've used a VPN for various reasons, including banking and most purchases. I haven't used TOR because I don't fully understand it. So if any of you Internet wizards have anything to add, please leave a comment or email me. I'm fairly green in the VPN world, and I'd love to learn more.
Well Jimmy, its a virtual private network. Virtual Private Networks (VPN) allows you to connect to the Internet via a server run by a VPN provider. All data traveling between your computer, phone or tablet, and this “VPN server” is securely encrypted.
Well Jimmy, normally, when you connect to the Internet, you first connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), which then connects you to any websites (or other internet resources) that you wish to visit. All your internet traffic passes through your ISP’s servers, and can be viewed by your ISP.
When using VPN you connect to a server run by your VPN provider (a “VPN server”) via an encrypted connection (sometimes referred to as a “VPN tunnel”). This means that all data traveling between your computer and the VPN server is encrypted so that only you and the VPN server can “see” it.
Provide privacy by hiding your Internet activity from your ISP (and government)
Allow you to evade censorship (by school, work, your ISP, or government)
Allow you to “geo-spoof” your location in order to access services unfairly denied to you based on your geographical location (or when you are on vacation)
Protect you against hackers when using a public WiFi hotspot
Allow you to P2P download in safety.
It costs money (usually around $5-10 monthly with a one-year subscription)
You are basically shifting trust from your ISP to the VPN server (EFF logos are a plus)
And it can crap out and slow you down at times.
Bestvpn.com has tons of info and all my info is pulled directly from their beginners guide to VPNS
(Wikipedia.org/wiki/virtual_private_network)
Pcmag also has some very good articles on VPNS.
(via)
This... Changes... Everything!
To quote my buddy Tim (who came up with this gem),
"Be still my beating heart. And if I ate this, it probably would."
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Website Wednesday 17.13
Website
Wednesday
a subsidiary of Skip's House of Chaos
(The 234,453rd Most Interesting Man in the World)
"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
through the Sphincter of Electronic Mail,
peeing like a baby on a changing table
into the brisk digital wind..."
a subsidiary of Skip's House of Chaos
(The 234,453rd Most Interesting Man in the World)
"From the Large Intestine of the Internets,
through the Sphincter of Electronic Mail,
peeing like a baby on a changing table
into the brisk digital wind..."
We’ve all
heard that
those little
plastic-ringy-things
on
six-packs
of soda and
beer cans can
be dangerous
for
waterfowl,
and I’m
totally on
board with
finding some
sort
of viable,
eco-friendly
alternative.
In the
meantime, does
anyone
know how much
I can get for
a six-pack of
ducks?
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Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery is coming sometime in 2017. It was originally set to be released in January and then May of this year, so now we're just waiting to see when it comes out (the current thinking is sometime in May).
When it does debut, it will initially be on CBS, but then move to CBS All Access, an over-the-top subscription streaming video-on-demand service.
Here's where the new series will fit into the rest of the Star Trek universe:
