Another Word for Nerd

This just kicks ass.

Alton Brown, host of “Good Eats” on the Food Network, will serve as a commentator for a series of “Iron Chef America” specials on the cable channel beginning in April, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Brown, a food historian and scientist as well as a chef, will fill the expert commentator role played by Dr. Yukio Hatori on the Japanese original, a dubbed version of which is a cult favorite on the Food Network.

I’m a die-hard fan of Good Eats.

Dropped off my Les Paul Junior at Heart of Texas Music yesterday afternoon to have a professional setup job done. I also asked them to replace the cream-colored pickup ring with a black one, if they had one in stock. Hopefully it will be ready for pickup today.

Before dropping off my guitar, I shipped my old guitar to Rich. I hope he enjoys it!

On a side note, I will be doing no more shopping at Guitar Center. Heart of Texas Music isn’t that far from where I work, and it’s much more “comfortably scummy”. It’s also been there since 1961, and has employees who know what they’re selling and aren’t out to just exchange instruments for cash. It’s also the place where Stevie Ray Vaughn and George Jones bought equipment.

Picked up the LP Jr. from Heart of Texas Music today, its absolutely amazing after a proper setup job.

Ordered, with a two-month lead time, a Epiphone Les Paul Special II.

Basically it’s the two-pickup version of what I’ve got now, in “Wine Red” with all-black hardware.

Not a lot of entries for the next few days as I work on migrating to TextPattern as a backend.

I’ve been telling people that ZoneAlarm is crap for years now.

Zone Labs has alerted users that several versions of its personal firewall products are vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack conducted via e-mail that could leave supposedly-protected systems open to malicious code assaults, the company said.

GET YOUR JESUS NAILS TODAY!

Maybe its just me, but selling something like this would be like selling miniature model gas ovens at a Holocaust Memorial Museum gift shop, or toy AK47s and tire sandals at the Vietnam Wall.

Rearranged and organized the “computer room” power distribution (UPSes, etc). Switched from the NetGear RP614v2 to the PIX 501 firewall, uninstalled the software VPN client (since the PIX does hardware IPSec to work). Upgraded the PIX to OS 6.3(1) and PDM 3.01 while I was at it.

Just another typical boring Sunday at the Bradford household.

Now this is absolutely ridiculous:

“In San Francisco it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can’t do that,” Schwarzenegger said on NBC.

Just what we need – an actor/bodybuilder telling people how to live their private lives, and then comparing a union between two people to using an assault weapon for a crime, or selling illegal drugs. Wait, that’s not all:

The Republican governor said anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for at least 20 years as he has should “absolutely” be able to seek the presidency. A constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would make that possible.

Great, just great. Doesn’t anybody remember what happened the last time an actor was governor of California and then President? I admire Arnold for his bodybuilding, and for some of his acting – but his politics so far, suck.

By the way, Arnold, I’m going to expand my gun collection in September.

I spent all afternoon getting things ready in my head for work tomorrow. “Need to do laundry, need to get books together to take to the office with me..”

I realized about half an hour ago that it’s SATURDAY, not Sunday.

Having Friday off (comp time for work I did during our recent office move) has thrown off my “internal clock” completely. I’m used to having two “downtime days” at the end of the week, and having three has just gotten me completely out of whack.

At least I didn’t get out of bed at 7am this morning, get ready for work, and only realize that it was the weekend when I was halfway down the block. I did that once before, when I was working at a job that required me to be on-call 24/7/365 and had two weeks with no days off.

I’m a firm believer that two people that love each other, no matter their age, race, sexual orientation, whatever, should be able to be married and live as a couple, both in their eyes and the eyes of the law.

“Flowers for Al and Don” made me feel good about humanity again. A group of people are collecting money to have flowers delivered (at random) to people waiting in line to get married at the San Francisco City Hall.

I worry that if they start (or continue) to ban/deny homosexual marriages, what’s next? Will they start going after couples who can’t conceive children too? What bits you have down below and what you do with them doesn’t matter, its what you do with the stuff in your head that does.