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This is what a hack looks like

nobody@flickr.com (RCanine) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:11:41 -0800

RCanine posted a photo:

None of these people are on my friend list. The same spam message sent over several days.

I'm pretty sure this is *NOT* a Windows virus causing it, but either a brute force attack, cookie/beacon hack or Mac virus.

Kali’s spot to sit (1000 lines, day 9 of 365)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:59:29 -0800

Kali’s spot to sit
is atop what I’m doing.
A coincidence?

Finally caught up to the real date!

Observant poet (1000 lines, day 8 of 365)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:59:33 -0800

Observant poet
wears a new shirt, wears it twice,
Takes off the price tag.

Passing stranger is (1000 lines, day 7 of 365)

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:59:06 -0800

Passing stranger is
suddenly fascinated
by a blade of grass.

It’s something I never understood about cities, and something I miss terribly about home.

SoCal Winter (1000 lines, day 7 of 365)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:59:43 -0800

SoCal Winter:
Billowing mounds of hot tub foam,
drifts of windblown sand.

Apologies for gloating, but Detroit is having a huge blizzard right now. Me, a heatwave.

Fine layer of ash (1000 lines, day 6 of 365)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:59:36 -0800

Fine layer of ash
Red glowing mountains
Summer’s funeral pyre

Last year, the fires terrified me. Now I realize it’s just the way things are in Southern California.

Michigan falls to Northwestern, school-record 8th loss

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:29:26 -0800

Michigan falls to Northwestern, school-record 8th loss

Friday night haiku (1000 lines day 5/365)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:59:29 -0800

Friday night haiku:
just seventeen syllables
scrawled on a coaster.

I never said I was a purist!

How to Fix a Flat

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:59:55 -0800

How to Fix a Flat:

Last September, I was in a hotel room watching CNBC early one morning. They were interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation. I could not help but shout back at the TV screen: “We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What business were you people in other than innovation?” If we give you another $25 billion, will you also do accounting?

Friedman hits this thing right on the head. I have no pity for Detroit. They’ve shoved their heads so far into the sand for so long that the hole’s turned into a grave.

Link via Daring Fireball.

Kali laughs (1000 lines day 4 / 365)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:15 -0800

Kali laughs; she sings;
She cries of neglect or pain.
The words are the same.

While I was first surprised by my cat’s acrobatics, as she’s matured I’ve come to be amazed by her combination of being able to distinguish my car engine and tread from others, empathy when I’m sick or sad, and affinity for getting trapped in cupboards.

Twin Pines (1000 lines day 3 / 365)

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:59:57 -0800

Twin pines
too distant to embrace, shade each other
from the summer sun.

Jill and I feel the same way about the way the Church continually interferes with politics. The issue seems similar to bad parent who as the government to monitor their kids’ TV watching for them. It seems like every time I try and rekindle my trust in Catholicism, they pull stunts like the aforelinked one. I feel like Ronald Regan: I didn’t leave the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church left me.

1000 lines: day 2 of 365

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:11:24 -0800

Pinot noir tempts
Fruitfly into his
delicious stemware coffin.

1000 lines: day 1 of 365

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:42:49 -0800

Incoming tide.
Scrawled in the sand: “AMBER,”
half a heart, apostrophe.

For the past two years, my fiancée has engaged in two amazing projects: Daily Pleasure and [365days|me]+1. Her photography has turned from a hobby into a passion as well as a visual diary of her life. Jill’s dedication has inspired me to a project of my own. One Thousand Lines is my attempt at something similar.

One haiku per day for an entire year. One thousand lines of poetry. I would love for comments, analysis, suggestions and questions on word choice.

My special joy with this one: the alternate definition of “apostrophe.”

Wow, I’m a nerd.

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:59:00 -0800

Wow, I’m a nerd.

"I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I..."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:04:00 -0800

“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to become president.”

- John McCain, from his 2002 book Worth Fighting For, via The Writer’s Almanac.

"The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:23:19 -0800

“The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.”

- Founding father Alexander Hamilton

"There’s no such thing as a one-man project. Every project will always have at least two developers:..."

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:32:00 -0700

“There’s no such thing as a one-man project. Every project will always have at least two developers: you and past-you. The sucky thing about past-you is that he’s always a worse programmer than you.”

- From Trek.

This is why I left the Catholic Church

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0700

This is why I left the Catholic Church:

I’ve been trying to formulate my thoughts on religion of late, what with getting engaged to be married and all. Michigan has a ballot proposal to allow stem cell research—you know, what Scientists believe could have saved Ronald Reagan. The Archdiocese of Detroit is telling its members how they should vote.

To me that is the abomination.

A List Apart invokes my pet peeve

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:16:00 -0700

A List Apart invokes my pet peeve:

Somehow “From an _____ Perspective” has infected our vernacular. An ideology or group can’t have a perspective, an individual does. Aaron Gustafson’s subheads claim perspective but then describe a process.

I only feel justified in quibbling about word use here only because the article was—baring this exception—superbly written (and illustrated).

McCain giving up on Michigan

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:01:43 -0700

McCain giving up on Michigan:

AP:

The Arizona senator canceled a trip to the state next week, he won’t run ads on TV after this week and is dispatching staffers to states that show him in stronger position.

So it begins.