NMRC Chai Blog

2004-06-18T15:35:00.000-05:00

Good lord, I have a headache. I was sick last weekend, and it wrecked my stomach, so to try and make things better I'm trying to decaf things as much as possible. All week I've been drinking decaf iced chai (Tazo actually makes one, in case you are wondering). So my body is rebeling and the voices are REALLY LOUD in my head right now. I told them to knock that shit off, or they're getting the

2004-06-11T11:34:00.000-05:00

On my way to Starbucks, there are a couple of school zones. While I don't mind slowing down during the regular school year, I totally object to slowing down in the summer. They have the flashing lights to let you know to slow down, and regular school is out! This sucks, I've got chai to drink. The main reason is pisses me off is because of summer school. I figure that I should be able to drive

2004-06-09T09:27:00.000-05:00

As many of you know, a my New Year's Resolution was to "keep on rockin', every day this year". One element to this was to fuel myself with tons of chai, which I have been doing fairly religiously this week. Yesterday for example I made three trips to Starbucks. Today I anticipate at least one trip since Weasel and I will be heading to DC214 this evening and we meet at a Starbucks before heading

2004-06-08T00:19:00.000-05:00

Another HellNBak story, this one from IRC.... no ops for hellnbak until we are entertained with another stabbing story ops for everyone, except ppl who have pissed on a mcdonalds :) haha <-- cask3t has quit () How about a getting beaten by a man weilding a rock story? or have I told that one? no you have not hehe ok

2004-06-07T09:02:00.000-05:00

It's early, but fortunately the wife went to Starbucks and picked me up some chai. Very strong, very sweet. Yum. The lab is coming along nicely. The mail server is chugging away, the out-sourced web server is chugging away, all logging and IDS stuff is wasting disk space with hack attempts I really don't even care about, although I have two separate systems running Fedora that keep crashing due

2004-05-16T14:02:00.000-05:00

Ah, buzzing off of my last trip to Starbucks. I have been blessed in that I haven't had to deal with that idiot manager there. So here's a HellNBak story to scare you from hanging out with HellNBak at DefCon. I got this story from one of the hackers working for HellNBak's start-up. In fact he works for HellNBak. And he told he the story in front of HellNBak who didn't remember it because of all

2004-05-13T11:05:00.000-05:00

Man what a busy couple of weeks this has been. I need to rearrange my priorities in a serious fashion, and focus more on chai instead of the wife's hospital and surgery, serious demands from work, and paying bills etc etc. Chai rules. In fact, apparently my iced chai is truly a man's drink. That's right, I said a man's drink. Last night was the DC214 meeting over in Dallas, so as is our ritual I

2004-05-02T00:11:00.000-05:00

Good God, two weeks of travel and plenty of crap surrounding and during. Lots to catch up on. First the fucknuts at SBC. Ok first off the big day comes for the Great Network Cut-over. And I wait. And I wait. So finally it is like 3:00pm, and they haven\t shown up. No goddamned chai either, because I'm waiting for these assholes to show up. Finally I start calling. First phone call and I get

2004-04-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

Man, lots of rearranging of equipment n the Vortex in anticipation of the Great Network Cut-over on Wednesday. I sure don't want a Southwestern Bell guy in the house. Many chai-fueled nights have been spent pulling cable and rearranging things in the pseudo rack. But it will be pretty cool when complete. The worse thing about this is I've become convinced that the manager at the local Starbucks

2004-04-07T14:43:00.000-05:00

Just got back from Starbucks, Brian served up a 12 pump venti iced chai for me. My god I'm buzzing. Pity I have work stuff to work on, I'd rather be coding something interesting. And speaking of work, I've decided that all of the security standards such as FISMA, HIPAA, and ISO 17799 all were put in place because the bureaucrats of The Man are jealous. That's right, jealous. You see, now that us

2004-04-02T13:41:00.000-06:00

I made the mistake of telling Nomad I made Chai, so now I have to talk about it...I first tried the Starbucks Chai Tea Latte, which was good, but a bit too sweet for me. I liked it enough to attempt Weasel's recipe, but I didn't have cardamom pods and used ground. Not the same at all. A local Indian merchant got me a supply, so now I'm happily customising the recipe to my tastes (extra spicy).

2004-04-02T12:04:00.000-06:00

Random chai-influenced hacker thought here. I've decided that teleportation is not what it is cracked up to be. As I stated yesterday on #!w00w00, you think things are fine, but someone 0wnz your teleport machine, and next thing you know you have an umbrella where your dick was. Fuck that.

2004-04-01T14:26:00.000-06:00

Busy day so far, going on no sleep. No chai yesterday, but some today after lunch. This weird thing happened at Starbucks, the manager there is obviously some type of control freak. One of the barristas who has been working there since I've been going in was waiting on us, but the manager came over and just reached around the guy, "correcting" him and typing in our order. Go back to commie

2004-03-31T10:13:00.000-06:00

Well yesterday got the rest of the flooring put in, this time an Asian work crew putting down a wooden floor as opposed to a Hispanic crew putting down tile. Floors look great. Man we are glad to get that carpet out, because repeated shampooing over 10 years still doesn't get out cat piss, which is apparently indestructable. It's like a military weapon -- we should be throwing cat piss in

2004-03-29T10:11:00.000-06:00

¿Puedo mampostear su grieta de la nalga cerrada, por favor? Roughly translated, it means "may I grout your butt crack shut please?" Nothing more frightening than looking up from the computer and seeing a hairy butt crack.

2004-03-29T09:51:00.000-06:00

Yesterday kind of sucked. We went to watch our son's soccer game, and things were nice with partly cloudy skies, the temp in the low 70s. Nice breeze in my face out of the south. Unfortunately dark clouds moved in from the north and west, the wind switched around, and the temperature dropped at least 20 degrees. And it started to rain. Apparently the other parents couldn't handle it. Of course

2004-03-28T00:08:00.000-06:00

I've decided that I need to commit "random acts of rock". These are acts where I try to live the dream of rocking every day. I did commit an act of random something today, whether it was "rock" or not I'll leave it to you to decide on your own. I was passenger in my wife's Miata, and we were driving on the highway with the top down after lunch in Grapevine heading back to Arlington. With Pink

2004-03-26T22:22:00.000-06:00

Just got back from Starbucks. Both Brian and Jamie added extra pumps to my iced chai, so I'm buzzing on about 14 pumps. Jesus H Christ I'm going to be up for a while. Brian was giving us the "horns" hand signal when we walked in, famous with rockers, because he is so on board with the "keep on rockin'" thing. Brian is quite possibly the best barista on the planet. Well I guess I should try to do

2004-03-26T18:12:00.000-06:00

Ok well today was a fairly easy day, but it still required chai. I went by the local Starbucks after lunch, and with my family in tow we ordered our usual huge amount of consumables, mainly chai. My chai was the usual 8 pump venti iced with all water no milk. The barista Mike and some other curly-haired guy whose name I don't know seemed rather curious as to what my favorite band was, since I've

2004-03-26T17:58:00.000-06:00

I'm thinking that this blog is going to be one of the biggest timewasters of my life. I'll be sure to give the account and password to the other NMRC members so they can also ruin their lives, too.