Actually, I seem to recall bringing it up in one of the mailing lists, getting no reply, then tracking down someone who'd had and asked about the same problem previously, finding out that he'd given up on it, and just ditching it for lack of free time.
It honestly wasn't that important to me--I was just curious to see if it'd run, since I'd read somewhere that only 5.x supported my family of wifi cards. At some point I may be motivated enough to poke around with it again and do some more detailed tracing.
If it's just a lame attempt at a joke, that's one thing. On the other hand, if the GMA guy's boss told him "find personal information on this Albrecht chick, she's being difficult", and the mail was a response to that, I'd be very concerned.
If the latter is the case, the Wired article was very very tame considering how much of an embarrassment this would be for GMA. Digging up personal dirt on your business opponents, although it's done all the time, is simply not kosher tactics, and if an industry lobby and interest group is publicly admitting that it engages in this sort of unsavory activity to get its points across, then the average slob should know about it.
For the price of a segway, you can buy a nearly weightless (5 lbs) razor scooter that Lance Armstrong probably wouldn't be caught dead on, and with a few weeks of practice, any reasonably healthy person could out pace and out distance any Segway, indoors, at a crowded convention, in a business suit.
In fact, for the price of a segway you can buy razor scooters for all the fat bastards on your corporate board and upper management. Now, wouldn't that be worth it to see your entire company "leadership" riding around, making themselves look like a bunch of pathetic morons?:)
Yup, had I not been head-fucked from too much work and a cold and not enough sleep, and mixed up my X31 with an X40, one could narrow down my place of work to pretty much the entire Asia-Pac region
Actually it was BETA I started playing with, then moving to RC2 when that was released.. It was a fresh netboot on a separate HD. If you'll read a few of the newsgroups, there are plenty of reports from people who've run CURRENT without any trouble in production environments (although yes, it's not advisable.) And as for "2 months", ffs, don't be such a pedant--it was a while ago, I don't keep track of these things.
What's your problem with people seeing if they can get something working? Was I bitching in any form? No harm in trying, is there?
I hang my head in shame, I meant an X31. Been working so much I don't even know what model I own anymore. Anyway, it wasn't getting along with ACPI. 4.9 works a charm, as I mentioned.
And the X40 exists although it's a different model.
I'm running 4.9-R on my Thinkpad X40. I tried 5.2-RC2 about 2 months ago, and it was an utter nightmare. Wouldn't boot correctly, or if it did, it froze within a few minutes. Loads of errors, too.
Looks like I'll give it another try--5.x supports OpenBSD's pf and the Thinkpad wifi card (supposedly.)
The O.P. is correct, in that nobody was accepting registrations for.su for quite a while. They still don't want people to use it anymore, but apparently so many people demanded it for the "cool" factor that they just did some basic capitalist math and decided to make some cash off it--note the price difference with.ru; looks like a nice business tradeoff to me. Let 'em do it if they must, but make it expensive.
A few years ago, I wanted to register a.su domain, also for the above reason ("it's neat!"). I dug quite a bit and asked around, and finally was pointed to "Tanya". Apparently, "Tanya" was hostmaster for.su for some time, and sent me a reply, something along the lines of ".su is not in use anymore. Why not use.ru? I am looking for your nuclear wessels."
I think it's pretty cool that it's back, though. Sort of like my friend Andrei using a Soviet passport for several years after the USSR ceased to exist.
Most airports in the US, or with flights going to the US. The rest of the civilized world smirks/scoffs at that sort of shit as the FAA idiocy it is. Thank god, I don't want to smell the average tourist's feet.
I haven't read such a pack of bunk in a long time--it's not worthy of the MITTR.
Garfinkel claims that IPv6 won't be viable to roll out because routers need to be upgraded. Dude, that is an ongoing process. Does he think that today's IPv4 routing hardware can handle tomorrow's IPv4 traffic? Let's see, how many protocols did the early Internet support? I guess they never merged to IP, because it was too expensive.
Also, he's a bit of a pollyanna about NAT--NAT is not a reason for why IPv4 is going to survive. It's a fiendishly shit kludge. Ask anyone that received a 10.0.0.1 answer from Verisign DNS last week. NAT sucks. It's a fix, but it sucks.
Lastly, IPv6 shouldn't be deployed because it relies on _software_ being changed? Oh gee, I'm sorry mr. Garfinkel, but I'd completely forgotten that every single networked application, nameserver, mail server, and web server has evolved code-wise to a layer of abstraction and perfection that we never have to worry about another security hole again! Aren't we happy that we've all reached BIND25, which never ever has to be touched again for as long as we live?
...by the slashdot contingent, but invest in some _good_ brogues or wingtips or something. I don't mean Tod's or anything--there is a good reason why really excellent shoes cost $300 upwards (if you're hanging around airports and trade shows, I assume you're not a starving student, with at least _some_ disposable income.)
I used to dress like a schlub all the time (shorts & t-shirts at work, etc.) I had to wear suits occasionally, though, and found that, if you have to wear a monkey suit all day, you might as well make it comfortable. When you see people in Brioni suits, there's a reason for it--they are comfortable. Rule of thumb for a good suit is that you should be able to wear it all day, and not feel confined.
The same goes for shoes--I can't recommend any particular brands, since every foot is different (ask Dr. Shoe! 555-SHOE) but spending some dough for a really high-end pair of suit shoes makes a world of difference. They're lighter than combat or hiking boots, they look good (even with jeans) and your feet won't smell nearly as much after 10-15 hours in them (because you'll also wear some light socks, and because your feet can breathe.)
Look around some high-end shoe stores. Remember, trying shoes on is free and will give you an idea what you're looking for. Also don't hesitate to look around some conservative mens' fashion rags (GQ, Esquire and the likes) to get ideas for what makes good shoes. They have most of their features archived on their websites, and were of unbelievable use to me when I was buying my first suits (knowing what to look for in materials and make, and what questions to ask the sales guys.)
Lastly and please please please trust me on this, a good pair of shoes makes a huge difference in the impression you make. If you're hanging out with the type of insecure idiot geek (a geek is someone who bites the heads off chickens at a carnival, I fail to understand how it's used in a positive sense here) who won't give you the time of day because you're wearing a tie (hence, salesman), you're probably not around someone whom you should consider good enough in his(technical) field to be really competent. The really good people won't give a shit what you're wearing, but will listen to you instead--in fact, very few of the really awesome engineers, with some notable exceptions, have fit the steretype of unshaven, unwashed, t-shirt-clade slob--most look and dress like your average joe.
As for the other 99% of the population, a good suit/good shoes automagically puts them more at ease with you (not to mention speeding you through airport security.) Try it sometime, you'll understand immediately what I mean.
Looks may not matter, but like it or not, it does make a difference if you're dressed well. What precious few people in the technical community realize is that suits and business shoes can be more comfortable than a track suit and a pair of Nikes too.
Line 11,000 in a 25,000 ipf config file (yes yes I know, but it used to be a lot longer before I got there and was a lot shorter by the time I left. Big international bank, don't touch anything, you know how it is.) contained , instead of . 11:45 at night, not on call, drunk off my ass, about enter house, frantic call from manager TRADING ISN'T WORKING TAKE TAXI GET DOWN GO GO GO take taxi, stumble into office, see most of senior management standing behind desk chewing fingernails, sit down, unix guy runs in, looks around, comes back with cup full of cigarettes and another cup full of coffee, "you might need this", runs out, and at 5 a.m. we stumbled bleary-eyed out of the building having saved the day. "Ooops".
Also, not mine, but colleague while we were getting rid of the aforementined firewall abomination, and migrating the entire (huge) environment. Same guy from the unix team on IRC during horrible weekend-long infrastructure move: "Ooops". Me: "Dude, what 'Oops'?!?" Him: # cd/home/ ; ls -l | wc -l 32,019 # mkdir/home2/25/testuser; cp -R/home/25/testuser/*/home2/25/testuser/ rm -rf/home/ 25/testuser &... .... .....
A while ago, the government of the UK started yelling about proposals for universal ID cards (historically, I believe, Britons have not had anything like this, and unless I'm mistaken, a mandatory ID goves against a lot of the traditional principles of English common law.)
They requested comments, including those sent in per email. For a long time, they utterly refused to consider comments submitted via its Stand website. Finally, they had to admit that generally, the public were opposed to the whole scheme.
However, if you look at the Queen's last speech (State of the Empire? Wotsitcalled, sorry, forget the name), somehow it slipped in there anyhow.
Comforting to know we're not the only ones doing stupid shit like this.
A lot of colleagues of mine worked such long hours that their families just declared them dead anyway. No difference, except that they cashed in on the insurance (needed to make a living if the options weren't looking to pan out...)
A couple of years ago, I was invited to join some colleagues in a payment technologies startup in Munich.
This was a highly impressive bunch of people. The senior guys came from one of the major producers of financial transaction enabler platforms, which would be a core part of our offer, with a huge customer base. The management of that company was friendly with the guys starting ours, who had an excellent understanding of the technology and the field, and great customer contacts.
We had backing from one of Germany's major prestigious conulting firms, and a very senior, respected politician, who would help us to many useful contacts in industry. No fixed costs, and a free office in one of the country's most prestigious locations didn't hurt.
We had awesome ideas which could be translated into real-life technology pretty quickly (essentially taking existing components and putting them to fairly revolutionary use.) A lot of companies were really looking to do business with us. But we failed. Why?
The "guys in charge" were an incredibly venal, slow bunch. They took about 6 months (!!!!) to come up with a semi-legible business plan, and refused any sort of capital, even angel funding, beyond what they themselves had put in initially (complete refusal to hand over any control, anyone?) They did not understand the concept of "do something, do anything to get started", including low-level use of free technology, such as improvised websites and initial customers, preferring to plan for pie-in-the-sky everything-must-be-perfect-before-we-move. Suck. A lot of startups die because they have crappy product, or work inefficiently, or a bad business model, or economic realities. Us? Our own goddamm fault, 100%, and I could kick some people for it (no, not myself, I was one of several people constantly screaming to DO SOMETHING, so I feel pretty vindicated, if disappointed.)
It especially irks me nowadays to see a lot of the technology and processes that we came up with in our spare time (!) in use commercially, 4 years after we died miserably. My girlfriend started work in one of the big-howevermany consulting firms, and showed me a presentation they'd done that year for some eastern european telecoms and financial institutions, which went over like gangbusters. Not plagiarized from us, since someone was bound to do this stuff in the long run, but eye-popping nonetheless. If we'd only...
The thing that bugs me so tremendously is the sheer wasted opportunity here. I have no mercy with all the crappy dot-coms that blowthedotoutyourass.com (look it up) was so bitter about--there was no reason for most of them to exist. But I really really hate it when a good thing dies for no really justifiable reason.
Blargh.
So your comment about "half a clue in their heads" is so spot-on I could spit.
Frankly, I find the lines between the two becoming a bit blurry, hence my "just" linking.
Were you aware that the US is placing customs officials in European ports? Requiring all airlines flying to the US to submit passenger data within x minutes of taking off? Is mandating (at least on Qantas flights to.au) that you're not allowed to stand in line in front of airline toilets? Is attempting to prosecute foreign nationals for breaking (insipid) US laws by proxy? Is sending foreign travellers suspected (incorrectly) of terrorist affiliations to be tortured by third world secret police?
Seemingly unrelated, right?
I'm an American citizen living abroad, who is proud of the values that my country stands for, at least in theory. I want to be able to stand up and use "us" as a shining example to others--I actually believe all that "poor, huddled unwashed bell-bottom-clad masses crap", and bits about freedom of speech and assembly and religion and and and.
It just pains me right now to see the US setting such a shitty example to the rest of the world, both by childish, idiotic policies at home, and ham-handed attempts to bring a lot of aspects of international politics in line with the government's way of thinking; it sets a bad precedent, and doesn't present my country in the enlightened manner in which I think it could.
"If you don't like having anal probes inserted at police checkpoints to make sure you're not a butt-bomb carrying terrorist, then don't stay".
Do you realize how absurd this is?
"If you don't like it, don't come" is as silly a statement as "if you don't like the U.S. of A., go somewhere else, ya freakin' commie."
I'm an American, living overseas. I have family in the US. They're about the only thing right now keeping me from sending back my US passport, whether I'm "allowed" to forfeit my citizenship (I have another) or not.
And as for Brazilians picking on Americans, I say go for it. Pick on anybody pale-faced, carrying a fanny pack and speaking in a nasal whiney voice. Maybe that'll make people realize how pointless, intrusive and stupid this sort of thing is.
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Actually, I seem to recall bringing it up in one of the mailing lists, getting no reply, then tracking down someone who'd had and asked about the same problem previously, finding out that he'd given up on it, and just ditching it for lack of free time.
It honestly wasn't that important to me--I was just curious to see if it'd run, since I'd read somewhere that only 5.x supported my family of wifi cards. At some point I may be motivated enough to poke around with it again and do some more detailed tracing.
Well, kind of depends.
If it's just a lame attempt at a joke, that's one thing. On the other hand, if the GMA guy's boss told him "find personal information on this Albrecht chick, she's being difficult", and the mail was a response to that, I'd be very concerned.
If the latter is the case, the Wired article was very very tame considering how much of an embarrassment this would be for GMA. Digging up personal dirt on your business opponents, although it's done all the time, is simply not kosher tactics, and if an industry lobby and interest group is publicly admitting that it engages in this sort of unsavory activity to get its points across, then the average slob should know about it.
OK
For the price of a segway, you can buy a nearly weightless (5 lbs) razor scooter that Lance Armstrong probably wouldn't be caught dead on, and with a few weeks of practice, any reasonably healthy person could out pace and out distance any Segway, indoors, at a crowded convention, in a business suit.
In fact, for the price of a segway you can buy razor scooters for all the fat bastards on your corporate board and upper management. Now, wouldn't that be worth it to see your entire company "leadership" riding around, making themselves look like a bunch of pathetic morons?
No, but I do imagine they pretty much pwn America's Army
Yup, had I not been head-fucked from too much work and a cold and not enough sleep, and mixed up my X31 with an X40, one could narrow down my place of work to pretty much the entire Asia-Pac region
Actually it was BETA I started playing with, then moving to RC2 when that was released.. It was a fresh netboot on a separate HD. If you'll read a few of the newsgroups, there are plenty of reports from people who've run CURRENT without any trouble in production environments (although yes, it's not advisable.) And as for "2 months", ffs, don't be such a pedant--it was a while ago, I don't keep track of these things.
What's your problem with people seeing if they can get something working? Was I bitching in any form? No harm in trying, is there?
I hang my head in shame, I meant an X31. Been working so much I don't even know what model I own anymore. Anyway, it wasn't getting along with ACPI. 4.9 works a charm, as I mentioned.
And the X40 exists although it's a different model.
I'm running 4.9-R on my Thinkpad X40. I tried 5.2-RC2 about 2 months ago, and it was an utter nightmare. Wouldn't boot correctly, or if it did, it froze within a few minutes. Loads of errors, too.
Looks like I'll give it another try--5.x supports OpenBSD's pf and the Thinkpad wifi card (supposedly.)
That's way cool, thanks for the pointer.
The O.P. is correct, in that nobody was accepting registrations for
A few years ago, I wanted to register a
I think it's pretty cool that it's back, though. Sort of like my friend Andrei using a Soviet passport for several years after the USSR ceased to exist.
Yes, and in an interesting linguistic twist, it would be the world's first trilingual oxymoron.
:-)
No nudity, no women, and not-exactly up to date stories either.
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Most airports in the US, or with flights going to the US. The rest of the civilized world smirks/scoffs at that sort of shit as the FAA idiocy it is. Thank god, I don't want to smell the average tourist's feet.
I haven't read such a pack of bunk in a long time--it's not worthy of the MITTR.
Garfinkel claims that IPv6 won't be viable to roll out because routers need to be upgraded. Dude, that is an ongoing process. Does he think that today's IPv4 routing hardware can handle tomorrow's IPv4 traffic? Let's see, how many protocols did the early Internet support? I guess they never merged to IP, because it was too expensive.
Also, he's a bit of a pollyanna about NAT--NAT is not a reason for why IPv4 is going to survive. It's a fiendishly shit kludge. Ask anyone that received a 10.0.0.1 answer from Verisign DNS last week. NAT sucks. It's a fix, but it sucks.
Lastly, IPv6 shouldn't be deployed because it relies on _software_ being changed? Oh gee, I'm sorry mr. Garfinkel, but I'd completely forgotten that every single networked application, nameserver, mail server, and web server has evolved code-wise to a layer of abstraction and perfection that we never have to worry about another security hole again! Aren't we happy that we've all reached BIND25, which never ever has to be touched again for as long as we live?
What an idiot.
I used to dress like a schlub all the time (shorts & t-shirts at work, etc.) I had to wear suits occasionally, though, and found that, if you have to wear a monkey suit all day, you might as well make it comfortable. When you see people in Brioni suits, there's a reason for it--they are comfortable. Rule of thumb for a good suit is that you should be able to wear it all day, and not feel confined.
The same goes for shoes--I can't recommend any particular brands, since every foot is different (ask Dr. Shoe! 555-SHOE) but spending some dough for a really high-end pair of suit shoes makes a world of difference. They're lighter than combat or hiking boots, they look good (even with jeans) and your feet won't smell nearly as much after 10-15 hours in them (because you'll also wear some light socks, and because your feet can breathe.)
Look around some high-end shoe stores. Remember, trying shoes on is free and will give you an idea what you're looking for. Also don't hesitate to look around some conservative mens' fashion rags (GQ, Esquire and the likes) to get ideas for what makes good shoes. They have most of their features archived on their websites, and were of unbelievable use to me when I was buying my first suits (knowing what to look for in materials and make, and what questions to ask the sales guys.)
Lastly and please please please trust me on this, a good pair of shoes makes a huge difference in the impression you make. If you're hanging out with the type of insecure idiot geek (a geek is someone who bites the heads off chickens at a carnival, I fail to understand how it's used in a positive sense here) who won't give you the time of day because you're wearing a tie (hence, salesman), you're probably not around someone whom you should consider good enough in his(technical) field to be really competent.
The really good people won't give a shit what you're wearing, but will listen to you instead--in fact, very few of the really awesome engineers, with some notable exceptions, have fit the steretype of unshaven, unwashed, t-shirt-clade slob--most look and dress like your average joe.
As for the other 99% of the population, a good suit/good shoes automagically puts them more at ease with you (not to mention speeding you through airport security.) Try it sometime, you'll understand immediately what I mean.
Looks may not matter, but like it or not, it does make a difference if you're dressed well. What precious few people in the technical community realize is that suits and business shoes can be more comfortable than a track suit and a pair of Nikes too.
Line 11,000 in a 25,000 ipf config file (yes yes I know, but it used to be a lot longer before I got there and was a lot shorter by the time I left. Big international bank, don't touch anything, you know how it is.) contained , instead of . 11:45 at night, not on call, drunk off my ass, about enter house, frantic call from manager TRADING ISN'T WORKING TAKE TAXI GET DOWN GO GO GO take taxi, stumble into office, see most of senior management standing behind desk chewing fingernails, sit down, unix guy runs in, looks around, comes back with cup full of cigarettes and another cup full of coffee, "you might need this", runs out, and at 5 a.m. we stumbled bleary-eyed out of the building having saved the day. "Ooops".
Also, not mine, but colleague while we were getting rid of the aforementined firewall abomination, and migrating the entire (huge) environment. Same guy from the unix team on IRC during horrible weekend-long infrastructure move: "Ooops". Me: "Dude, what 'Oops'?!?" Him:
# cd
32,019
# mkdir
"Hmm that's taking a long time to copy.."
You're right--but I did say that I'm not bitter about the whole thing, just disappointed.
Squeaky wheel--yup. Tried. Did. Wasn't up to the task, unfortunately. The stuff that needed doing was simply not possible for me to do.
Best thing to do? Learn from mistakes, as you say. Remember, one learns more from a shitty work experience than from a good one.
A while ago, the government of the UK started yelling about proposals for universal ID cards (historically, I believe, Britons have not had anything like this, and unless I'm mistaken, a mandatory ID goves against a lot of the traditional principles of English common law.)
They requested comments, including those sent in per email. For a long time, they utterly refused to consider comments submitted via its Stand website. Finally, they had to admit that generally, the public were opposed to the whole scheme.
However, if you look at the Queen's last speech (State of the Empire? Wotsitcalled, sorry, forget the name), somehow it slipped in there anyhow.
Comforting to know we're not the only ones doing stupid shit like this.
A lot of colleagues of mine worked such long hours that their families just declared them dead anyway. No difference, except that they cashed in on the insurance (needed to make a living if the options weren't looking to pan out...)
A couple of years ago, I was invited to join some colleagues in a payment technologies startup in Munich.
This was a highly impressive bunch of people. The senior guys came from one of the major producers of financial transaction enabler platforms, which would be a core part of our offer, with a huge customer base. The management of that company was friendly with the guys starting ours, who had an excellent understanding of the technology and the field, and great customer contacts.
We had backing from one of Germany's major prestigious conulting firms, and a very senior, respected politician, who would help us to many useful contacts in industry. No fixed costs, and a free office in one of the country's most prestigious locations didn't hurt.
We had awesome ideas which could be translated into real-life technology pretty quickly (essentially taking existing components and putting them to fairly revolutionary use.) A lot of companies were really looking to do business with us. But we failed. Why?
The "guys in charge" were an incredibly venal, slow bunch. They took about 6 months (!!!!) to come up with a semi-legible business plan, and refused any sort of capital, even angel funding, beyond what they themselves had put in initially (complete refusal to hand over any control, anyone?) They did not understand the concept of "do something, do anything to get started", including low-level use of free technology, such as improvised websites and initial customers, preferring to plan for pie-in-the-sky everything-must-be-perfect-before-we-move. Suck. A lot of startups die because they have crappy product, or work inefficiently, or a bad business model, or economic realities. Us? Our own goddamm fault, 100%, and I could kick some people for it (no, not myself, I was one of several people constantly screaming to DO SOMETHING, so I feel pretty vindicated, if disappointed.)
It especially irks me nowadays to see a lot of the technology and processes that we came up with in our spare time (!) in use commercially, 4 years after we died miserably. My girlfriend started work in one of the big-howevermany consulting firms, and showed me a presentation they'd done that year for some eastern european telecoms and financial institutions, which went over like gangbusters. Not plagiarized from us, since someone was bound to do this stuff in the long run, but eye-popping nonetheless. If we'd only...
The thing that bugs me so tremendously is the sheer wasted opportunity here. I have no mercy with all the crappy dot-coms that blowthedotoutyourass.com (look it up) was so bitter about--there was no reason for most of them to exist. But I really really hate it when a good thing dies for no really justifiable reason.
Blargh.
So your comment about "half a clue in their heads" is so spot-on I could spit.
Frankly, I find the lines between the two becoming a bit blurry, hence my "just" linking.
.au) that you're not allowed to stand in line in front of airline toilets? Is attempting to prosecute foreign nationals for breaking (insipid) US laws by proxy? Is sending foreign travellers suspected (incorrectly) of terrorist affiliations to be tortured by third world secret police?
Were you aware that the US is placing customs officials in European ports? Requiring all airlines flying to the US to submit passenger data within x minutes of taking off? Is mandating (at least on Qantas flights to
Seemingly unrelated, right?
I'm an American citizen living abroad, who is proud of the values that my country stands for, at least in theory. I want to be able to stand up and use "us" as a shining example to others--I actually believe all that "poor, huddled unwashed bell-bottom-clad masses crap", and bits about freedom of speech and assembly and religion and and and.
It just pains me right now to see the US setting such a shitty example to the rest of the world, both by childish, idiotic policies at home, and ham-handed attempts to bring a lot of aspects of international politics in line with the government's way of thinking; it sets a bad precedent, and doesn't present my country in the enlightened manner in which I think it could.
That's all.
Yeah, well, don't be so sure. Have a look at new WIPO rules coming into effect this year, which will most likely affect you.
You're not alone out there.
"If you don't like having anal probes inserted at police checkpoints to make sure you're not a butt-bomb carrying terrorist, then don't stay".
Do you realize how absurd this is?
"If you don't like it, don't come" is as silly a statement as "if you don't like the U.S. of A., go somewhere else, ya freakin' commie."
I'm an American, living overseas. I have family in the US. They're about the only thing right now keeping me from sending back my US passport, whether I'm "allowed" to forfeit my citizenship (I have another) or not.
And as for Brazilians picking on Americans, I say go for it. Pick on anybody pale-faced, carrying a fanny pack and speaking in a nasal whiney voice. Maybe that'll make people realize how pointless, intrusive and stupid this sort of thing is.
Bad troll, no donut.
And a fine day it'll be when they need to start hiring engineers from western countries for solutions to the y2l problem.
I'd have trouble contracting diabetes too, if my HEAD EXPLODED FROM TOO MUCH COFFEE.
uh.... I don't know of any females capable of having a bulge in their pocket (okay, so it's been a few years since I left San Francisco.)
So, is that a goatse.cx in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?