Break out the Tool

I've never done the Marsh Creek Road run during the daylight hours before.

I got to lab today and found that after I left on Tuesday, Jerry came in to tell people that since there was a bit of confusion on when the midterm was supposed to be, it was going to be next week. Thus contradicting the written date as opposed to the verbal one.

I left early again today, took Railroad to Kirker Pass to Clayton, and ran the lesser Marsh Creek loop. After an hour, I was back in Antioch heading home, and no longer wanted to rip something apart, hex it, spit on it in elaborate ritual fashion, then tap dance the writhing bloody bits into the mud. I am still deeply angry. (What, you thought I'd be happy about this?)

Take note: I do not take well to being jerked around.

I'm just lucky that all it takes to calm me down is a decent stretch of road where I don't have to worry about speeding tickets, because I lack the skill to take the road at more than ten over the limit. I still wouldn't be able to face my lab teacher right now, but I am fit for society at large. Just don't poke me.

Paging Tom Lehrer

Irony is truly alive and well.

The Chief Privacy Officer of the company formerly known as Gator (remember them?) has just been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee". D. Reed Freeman will be one of 20 members on the panel. (The Salon article requires registration, but I recommend you sit through the free day pass if you want to read the whole short article -- it's pretty painless.)

This is the same Gator, by the way, that became infamous while making the term "spyware" familiar to a lot of people. The adware they installed on unwitting systems, by attaching it to popular programs as a hitchhiker of sorts, added advertisements in all sorts of places as you surfed the net. It was difficult to detect, even harder to remove. Nice show of integrity for a former Chief Privacy Officer.

Of course, the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security itself used to work for DoubleClick... why am I not surprised.

Musical happiness (well, sorta)

If I'm going to be mad for a little while, I might as well have ( good music to be mad to. )