Someone’s going to die for this

This stupid MyDoom worm is slowing things down for me like you wouldn’t believe, and it’s causing e-mail server admins to block anything remotely looking like the virus. I’ve been trying to communicate with a tech support contact of mine who’s working from home and using her Yahoo! account. They just blocked my e-mail for “550 Administrative prohibition” — whatever the hell that means.

Now there’s a variant of it going around, and SCO is offering a reward for the capture of the SOB who created this. Meanwhile, there are jackasses who are cheering the creation of this little bastard.

This thing is pummeling my servers. They’re all sending the packets to the bit bucket, but it’s still unwanted traffic that has to be looked out. UtterlyBoring.com was down for a while this morning because the server its on was getting pummeled with e-mail requests with the virus. And for all of SCO’s faults, is this worth it? I’m not fond at all of what SCO is doing to the open-source community, but is taken down the Internet’s e-mail system as a whole a proper revenge? Hell no. My servers are running Linux or Windows 2003 — two great OSes, but they’re getting beat up, despite having nothing to do with SCO. Is that fair? No way.

SCO deserves what they get, but the rest of us don’t.

January 28, 2004

Bill Gates says no more spam by 2006

You may be a knight, Mr. Bill, but you’re still a moron.

January 27, 2004

Thoughts of a Jewish Buddhist

Thanks to Barney for this list of Jewish Deep Thoughts of sorts.

Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as the wooded glen. And sit up straight. You’ll never meet the Buddha with posture like that.

There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that?

Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.

To practice Zen and the art of Jewish motorcycle maintenance, do the following: get rid of the motorcycle. What were you thinking?

Be aware of your body. Be aware of your perceptions. Keep in mind that not every physical sensation is a symptom of a terminal illness.

If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?

Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems.

The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others. The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides. The Tao is not Jewish.

Drink tea and nourish life. With the first sip, joy. With the second, satisfaction. With the third, Danish.

The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings. Still, would it kill you to find a nice sentient being who happens to be Jewish?

Be patient and achieve all things. Be impatient and achieve all things faster.

To Find the Buddha, look within. Deep inside you are ten thousand flowers. Each flower blossoms ten thousand times. Each blossom has ten thousand petals. You might want to see a specialist.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes.

Update on 4/20/08: It’s been brought to our attention that these lines that were forwarded to me originally appeared in Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment. So if you’re looking for more like this, buy the book.

January 27, 2004

Sir Bill Gates?

Actually, since he’s American, he’ll be “Bill Gates KBE” (which stands for “Knight Commander of the British Empire”). Full Story.

So let’s see here…If I remember correctly, he’s in the same company as a gay/bi man (Elton John), a fruit cake (Ringo Starr has been knighted, if I remember correctly), a speed demon (Roger Banister) and a pure genius (Tim Berners Lee). That’d be a fun party.

January 27, 2004

Artistry on Acid

To quote the very interesting site

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

January 27, 2004

The best of b3ta 2003

If you’ve read this site long, you’ll notice that I post links from b3ta’s newsletter quite a bit. I’ve finally got around to post this one that’s been sitting in my inbox for a while: b3ta’s Best of 2003. It includes such hits as the pigeon cam, simon swears, the newspaper dogshit stunt, the man milk or moo milk quiz, the squirrel band, among others. Spend a day (away from work, as much of it is a bit vulgar) checking them all out.

January 27, 2004

Mini-golf on a new level

Ladies and gentlemen, Vertigolf, one of the niftiest mini golf games I’ve played in quite a while.

January 27, 2004

Virtually pee in the snow

We’ve all done it (at least all men have). We’ve all tried to spell something in the snow with urine. Now you can do it online and send the message to your friend.

January 27, 2004

You and your dog are too close when…

…you pay somebody to create one of these.

January 27, 2004

No more text messages from Jesus

A service promising to answer people’s prayers with a text message apparently sent by Jesus has been shut down after complaints by Finland’s mobile services watchdog. Full Story.

January 26, 2004