100 Facts About...

...Electronic Vagrant

If you haven't seen the 100 Facts About website, created by the folks over at brainfuel.tv, go check it out.

I will highlight a few facts about Electronic Vagrant that you might NOT know, and you can follow the link above for the rest:

• Electronic Vagrant can watch a season of "24" in just three hours.
  
• You are what you eat. That is why Electronic Vagrant's diet consists entirely of bricks, steel, and the tears of small children.
  
• If it looks like chicken, tastes like chicken, and feels like chicken but Electronic Vagrant says its beef, then it's beef.

I would recommend comparing your list with my hero Ed Hochuli and the list of 50 True Facts about that courageous man. Even with 50 less facts, I bet he still wins....

Every bathroom should have one of these....

...Electronic Vagrant's favorite bathroom item. Stall doors? Maybe. Shower? Sorta gross. Soap? Not totally necessary. Scale in the corner by the door?
CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT.

It is always good to come to the Nashville office because, in EV's honor, I can weigh myself before and after bathroom breaks.

TSA is terrible....

I shouldn't use broad generalizations, but since I travel almost every week, I really do think TSA airport security is terrible. I won't go in to my own personal experiences of lax and slow government employees, because this blog post takes the cake. I stole the photo for my post from that link. Basically the blogger (accidentally) carried box cutters onto an airplane. The photo sure looks like an airplane bathroom. I know photos can be doctored, but I don't doubt this actually happened.

In TSA's defense, a lot of the airport employees are part time, which minimizes their benefits, and they are the armpit of the organization. But still, they could attempt to use their brains here and there...

Also, Electronic Vagrant e-mailed this link out the other day concerning TSA, which I thought was interesting:
kiphawleyisanidiot.com


UPDATE: Here's a really, really long blog post about TSA ruining lives, LINK.

New idea on voting for Matt for torch bearer....

I give all credit on this idea to Electronic Vagrant.
He proposed using Tor (download page) to vote for Matt to be torch bearer. Now, yes, this takes a bit of effort. But, if you were thinking about using Tor to do some simple anonymous browsing, then download it anyway and vote for Matt.
Since Matt said it logs IP addresses, this would be a way to get around that.

Two other options:
1) You can download Tor and then use a Firefox extension called Tor button to turn Tor off and on in Firefox. Although more people have viewed this page with IE 6 or 7, I know that many of you use Firefox (and I highly encourage it).
2) You can download a portable (you can run it off a USB key) version of Firefox that is integrated with Tor, called TorPark. Just download, extract and run it. This also means you can put it on your work computer because you don't have to install anything (in case you don't have the permissions).

And don't forget to vote for Matt.

P.S. Remember to use Tor wisely, aka, don't start logging into websites with all of your personal info. I'll be monitoring your traffic on my Tor node.

50 Cent on his way to retirement...

According to an article just to me e-mailed by Electronic Vagrant, looks like Kanye West has outsold 50 Cent by over 100,000 CD's. Great news for those of us who want 50 Cent to retire.
In 50's defense, he does want to go by Curtis Jackson now and get into movies. And as my future wife pointed out, he did have such cult classics as "In Da Club" and "Candy Shop".
And don't feel sorry for 50. If you haven't heard, he made a cool $400 million thanks to Coke buying Glaceau.

But, I'm glad to see all of you listened and went out and bought Kanye's CD. My new marching orders are to keep hiding 50's CD in other places in stores. I don't expect you to buy more than one Kanye CD...that's just asking too much....