A bear walks into a bar and says, “I want a bourbon and…… coke”.
The bartender asks, “what’s with the huge pause?”
The bear says, “I’ve had them all my life.”
July, 2008
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Jul 08
My New Favourite Hobby
You can check out mine at brady8.muxtape.com. If you make one of your own, link it up in the comments – I always like discovering new music!
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Jul 08
TIME
KILLER
Jul 08
TIME
KILLER
Me, Summarized
Hilarious Dilbert excerpt about those poor souls who grow up to be Engineers.
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Jul 08
Star Trek 2009!
I cannot believe that I just found out about the new Star Trek movie that J.J. Abrams (!!!) is directing, to be in theatres in May 2009. I am officially relinquishing my Trekkie card.
First of all, J.J. Abrams is just about the best director they could get to continue on the franchise – he’s the genius behind Alias and Lost, two of my favourite TV series. Let’s hope he puts everything he’s got into making a Star Trek movie worth watching (there’s been more than a few misses over the years with my favourite franchise…)
The casting of this movie is awesome! Reading through the cast list on Wikipedia, I’m just blown away. Creepy Heroes star Zachary Quinto, Shaun of the Dead‘s Simon Pegg, and best of all John Cho as Sulu. Seriously? You got the Harold and Kumar go to White Castle guy? This film is going to be ridiculous… it’ll probably come out awesome in the end, but I won’t be able to stop myself from laughing as Simon Pegg and John Cho try and do a serious film for once.
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Jul 08
37Signals Keeps Your Plaintext Password
So I had to reset my OpenID URL today, and as part of that I needed to login to 37Signal‘s Highrise using a username and password instead of OpenID. I clicked the “forgot password” link, typed in my username, and I was very surprised to find an email in my inbox with my original, unhashed password.
Now, I always thought that storing unhashed and salted passwords on the server is a big no-no – there’s no reason to not hash the passwords, not to mention the bigger no-no of sending the original passwords in plaintext by email.
Your thoughts?
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Jul 08
Australia’s Hot Rocks
I just watched a segment on Discovery Channel about the abundant reserves of radioactive superheated granite in Australia. Apparently there is enough potential generation capacity from superheating water to steam that they could provide all the power for Australia for the next 70 years or so. The problem getting to it is the 3 kilometres below the surface that needs to be drilled. Each pair of drill holes (one to pump water down, one to flow steam up) supplies about 10KW of power, so there would need to be a significant amount of drilling happening in order to make this feasible on a large scale. The Australia Government has a pdf that has a lot more information, and is totally worth looking at. The project profiled on the Discovery Channel segment was the Habanero Project by Geodynamics.
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Jul 08
Biggest Regret
Video made from results of Google query for “biggest regret” (via boingboing).
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Jul 08
The Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show
China has got some serious competition in the over-the-top show category as they plan for the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in a few weeks.
The grandstand show at the Calgary Stampede was just amazing. I had never been before and I suspect a lot of the awesomeness was due to celebrating Quebec’s 400th Anniversary (Calgary’s sister city) as well as the Young Canadian’s 40th. (The Young Canadians is the group that performs in the grandstand show.) To summarize: 2 hours of continuous action, two amazing strongmen, motocross bike jumping, the most fireworks and pyrotechnics I’ve ever seen in one place.
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Jul 08
#3 – Dinosaur Provincial Park
This past Sunday was time to visit one more Heritage Site in Alberta. Dinosaur Provincial Park is located about 30 minutes north of Brooks, Alberta, and about 1.5 hours from where I’m staying in Drumheller.
It was very hot out, close to 32 degrees in Brooks when I stopped in there, and when I drove down into the Red Deer River valley at the Park it seemed to get even hotter because I was shielded from any breeze.
Not too much to say about this one. I went on one of the various hikes in the park and tried to look for some fossils but didn’t really see much. At the lookout point just before you enter the park there is an amazing view out over the valley, and you can see half a mile in most directions and see the river snaking through the badlands. Very cool.
