One of the first things I did when I entered the Computer Department of my university (some years ago) was to crack into the accounts of my colleagues. There were 47 others. I managed to crack about one in five without any hacking knowledge. Many of them had used their names with birthdates or years. [...]
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Ugly Duckling
Posted in Computing, Tongue in Cheek on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Scientist dies in botched Large Hadron Collider test
Posted in Science in General, Tongue in Cheek on August 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On the news, following the September 10th opening of the Large Hadron Collider:
GENEVA — In a shocking turn of events, rumors of haunting at the newly opened Large Hardon Collider (LHC) has revealed an internal cover-up concerning the death of a leading scientist. The scientist, a distinguished member of the American nuclear physics team at CERN, [...]
A Woman, a Black Guy, a Baptist Minister and a Mormon. Bummer.
Posted in Thinks it's Funny, Tongue in Cheek on January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since the Kottu and Achcharu bloggers seem to have local politics covered from almost every angle imaginable from sensible to downright ridiculous, I thought I’d do something completely nonsensical myself and comment on the US presidential race (it’s more interesting — you can joke without being hit with a terrorist tag).
About a month or two ago, during [...]
The Interloper, Chapter 5
Posted in Fiction, Tongue in Cheek on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Interloper burst into the set during the shooting of the second scene. He had a very different sort of shooting in mind, as evidenced by the six-barrel, 10 millimeter chain gun he wielded with apparent ease. The Indian soap opera actresses with annoying high pitched voices scattered, exercising said high pitched voices at the [...]
You mean it’s all been written before?
Posted in Fiction, Tongue in Cheek on September 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The last script writer/novelist on Earth committed suicide. Every conceivable plot had already been conceived, written and published. Every story remade twice over, rebooted, adapted, re-imagined, reinterpreted, stolen, sequeled or turned into trilogies, double trilogies or franchises that kept going where they had gone before. Every cartoon and comic book hero had his/her own movie trilogy.
The chain of suicides, [...]
