the coolest nerd

A little bit late but here’s a nerdy music video that sorta commemorates Obama’s inauguration. It’s pretty amazing to hear all the technology terms rolled into a hip hop video.. surprisingly it works.

Every so often someone asks me if they should be worried if their internet access is being monitored at work; my answer is always maybe.  It’s definitely possible to figure out what sites are being visited, entire IM conversations can be logged (so use encryption), who and what your emailing (so don’t use your corporate account for personal use) (and don’t assume that just because it’s deleted it’s gone forever).

My intention is not to make you paranoid.  It’s very unlikely that you’re being watched, unless you’re constantly hitting “questionable”  sites or the higher ups want to monitor you — but I suspect you’d know if that were the case. (reprimands, complaints)

Please note that the above is not the official policy of my workplace. I’m only informing you of what is possible.

The link below provides screenshots, video, and background on one such incident. I LOL’d. ^^ I don’t care what you do at home, but please don’t do this at work.

So we started monitoring him on the camera and using DameWare so we can view his desktop and see just what the hell he does all day since he has no actual work to do at the moment. Aside from the grunts and noises which came as expected, we noticed some interesting sites/chats going on. I will let the screenshots speak for themselves–

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I’ve been eating a lot of ramen lately, it being cold and all. I can easily say that I’ve eaten more ramen this month than all of last year. I even made a trek to Santa Ramen down in San Mateo — and was surprised to see a line of twenty people waiting — and it wasn’t going to open for half an hour!

After a few trips, I sat there wondering if there were some sort of etiquette to it, sort of like sushi — and well, the magic tubes of the internets never seems to disappoint. Watch and learn! (Submitted by the Chairman) (The video is from Tampopo, the movie in which Tanpopo is named after)

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MAIDEN, N.C. – A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first.

Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.

The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.
The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.

“The rest of the family was very much against it,” Steele said.

Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.

“the pizza that bites back” “Ecstatic Flavors!”

Too bad it doesn’t look very tasty. Maybe if it makes you hyphy it’s worth the $2.99? Anyway, I spotted this at Blondies — only had my cell phone with me hence the poor quality.

I wonder if they’re inadvertently promoting dog fighting too?

Lets say you’re stuck in the office but you’re craving some delicious BBQ’d meat.. here’s the solution! For more details click here.

I guess this is what you get if you mix Initial D (頭文字(イニシャル)D with the Power Rangers.