Jason Griffey

…yet. Betsy is having trouble with blogger uploading her posts, and my laptop power supply died.

🙁

Sad tech times in the sandlin-griffey household.

…and already I'm jealous of someone. Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He's 22. Oh, and already a PhD. Gah. That's just freaking amazing. Check out the other winners here.

…and already I’m jealous of someone.

Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He’s 22. Oh, and already a PhD.

Gah. That’s just freaking amazing.

Check out the other winners here.

Just in case you were wondering where you could buy Puroresu (Japanese Wrestling) masks for your GI Joe figures:

http://www.ningyoushi.com/other/figures/wrestlingmasks.htm

Just for you, Trish:

Cross Stitch Trogdor

And if you don’t get this AT ALL:

Homestar Runner

Very funny “You know you live in Chapel Hill when...” post.

Interesting case out of Florida…the band Hell on Earth is interested in having someone commit suicide live onstage while they are performing, and a terminally ill patient has agreed to do so. Evidently, the State has a problem with this.

Story from Rolling Stone

I have so many problems with this, I can't even begin to list them all.

The University of Florida has began using a program called Icarus to discover students on campus using their computers as servers, and requiring them to stop. This is supposedly to prevent P2P abuse and limit copyright violations. The problem is, of course, that it also prevents ANY FREAKING USE OF THE COMPUTER AS A SERVER. You can play games on a LAN, you can't do an enormous number of useful and educational things with your computer. The burden of proof is up to the student to show that his use of the system is non-violating…this just strikes me as a priori censorship…no one is going to TRY if they know they're going to be dragged before the school and forced to defend themselves. So no more P2P downloading songs you already own (NOT a copyright violation), or using P2P to grab large files (linux distributions, etc…). Stupid, stupid, stupid….

Full story at Wired News.

I’m just testing some new blog software…WordPress, an offshoot of B2. We’ll see how this goes for a bit, with some tweaking. I like Userland, but this has some advantages, esp the fact that I can access it from anywhere, rather than just from my laptop.

So, unless I get Tiki working, and it just blows me out of the water, I will switch over to WordPress.

Photos are up from our trip this past weekend. No captions yet, but that's mainly because we took SO MANY FREAKING PICTURES. Over the course of basically 3 days, we took 185 pictures or so…go, go digital camera!

A quick review: lots of friends, beautiful campus, wacky old sanitarium, karaoke party, wonderful dinner and lots of fun.