I hesitate to even post this, but I figured I should follow-up on a long forgotten project.
You may recall my silly songs written on the subject of X-Men characters. In cleaning some files and updating a website, I found two forgotten recordings, never updated or previously released to the idkfa public. Perhaps that was for the best.
But now here they are! A Christmas Miracle. Or disaster, depending on how you look at it. Keep in mind that these were recorded years ago.
Northstar and Storm have been added:
http://www.robbiecowan.com/Songs/X-Men.html (www.robbiecowan.com)
I started my very first fantasy football league this year, at the invitation of my cooperating teacher. She invited me before the school year started saying that it was something that the staff did. Being my first one, I drafted a three home team players and a bunch of others I had no knowledge of. As it turns out, all of the people who knew what they were doing and drafted the right players (many of whom have injured themselves), are not faring well. Whereas I, who had next to no idea what I was doing, now have the best record and beat my last opponent by 83 points.
Does anyone else play fantasy football? I'm a huge football fan, and the sport (to me) doesn't need any extra to be compelling. However, I'm also not the guy who knows anybody's stats or even many players beyond team's quarterbacks. And while I thought that this would make me care more about these other players and what they're doing week to week, it just makes me look at my phone a little more on Thursday and Monday nights, and on Sunday.
I'm kind of in the same boat. More phone time. Also, I autodrafted and ended up with some really excellent players by random! But really, if you think there's skill in fantasy football, you are wrong. Unless you're in a league where there are TOO many choices (talking 8 or 10 person league, otherwise you just play whoever the fuck isn't injured).
Although, I do pay attention to more games now! I knew nothing about defenses before FF.
Student teaching is a humbling experience.
While teaching a lesson today on the Federal Budget and expounding on Social Security to answer a student's question, I said something like:
"...so all of you that have jobs are paying into it now. Theoretically, when you're 65 1/2, you can pull out."
Thank God it was senior civics and we all sort of chortled (including my cooperating teacher) instead of having to reign in 34 freshman who still make fart noises and laugh at poo-poo jokes.
Anyone know anything about configuring firefox settings? I'm trying to allow my computer to log on to the network internet at the school I'm working for, but my proxy settings are all out of whack. What's more, they're locked, so I can't change them. Further, I can't access the "local-settings.js" file which is supposedly where I'm supposed to be able to unlock them. I've been reduced to using my phone as a hotspot, or plugging in with a network cable which are both amateur moves. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Huh, so they have Firefox locked down? Or you're trying to use Firefox to get out from under the group policy-dictated proxy auto-configuration Javscript file for their network?
I used to manage this sort of thing for my company. If I recall, the auto-conf script determined which sites were allowed to pass through the firewall, and which were required to pass through the network proxy.
Larger organizations, and particularly schools that I used to manage, would use the Microsoft Active Directory server's group policy (applied to each user organization-wide) to force Internet Explorer to use a specific URL for their Javascript proxy auto-config file (PAC file). When using IE, the browser would the access the Javscript at that location, and behave according to the rules set forth in the PAC file.
Clever students would figure this out, and then try to download Firefox so that they were out from under IE. Given that we were jerks, and wanted to teach the students the lesson that creativity doesn't pay, we actively denied any HTTP traffic that was not explicitly proxied through our chosen servers. This means that even if they figured out a way around the proxy or their group policy-enforced PAC file configuration, the network itself would prevent them from accessing inappropriate content.
If your network admins are worth their salt, they should have locked this down as well.
The most common way to get around this is a method called "tunneling," which takes traffic of one type and masquerades it as traffic of another type, with some third party entity arbitrating. This usually involves an encrypted SSH tunnel, which is also pretty easy to block if your network admins are paying attention.
However, if you just want to configure Firefox to use your school's PAC file, these look like decent instructions (techlib.barracuda.com). Set the Automatic Proxy Configuratoin URL to the same as what it is in IE, and you should be set. Just remember to unset it when you go off-network.
I think it just has to do with firefox having proxy issues with signing into the wireless network. In about:config for firefox, the network.proxy.type setting is on 5 "use system settings" and locked. It should be on 4 "Auto detect proxy settings". When I try to get to the wireless network sign in page (by putting in another website and it automatically redirecting), it comes up with this message:
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.yahoo.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.What Should I Do?If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.This site uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to specify that Firefox only connect to it securely. As a result, it is not possible to add an exception for this certificate.
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This is the issue. I will mention that I can circumvent the issue by plugging in to the network cable and firefox works fine.
Well, okay. Then your wireless connection, prior to you authenticating, is passively redirecting all web requests (yahoo, etc.) to another page (I'm guessing their login page). Your browser notices that the encryption between you and "yahoo" (which is not Yahoo) is incorrect, and is notifying you. Same as if you were experiencing a man-in-the-middle attack.
Better question: why haven't you contacted your school's IT? They're the gatekeepers.
Because they're probably gonna tell me some bullshit like "Well, you have to use the shitty Apple laptop we gave you to access the internet. It's part of your initiation as an intern. You're not allowed to connect to the school network with your personal laptop, which works significantly better than this POS that we only keep around to issue to student teachers." I figured out that if I open IE I can get the link, because it's not a problem in other browsers. So now I just have to figure out how to get my login info off of my 10 year old school issued laptop so I can use it on my personal computer.
Interesting story I was relating to Josh the other night. After getting really excited to see this climbing movie I looked at the website to see where and when it would be playing in Anchorage. Turns out, it wasn't. So with the help of a little bourbon I send an email to the general manager at Bears Tooth expressing my disappointment that of all places in AK let alone the US they were not getting a showing. My reasoning that most of these guys train in the AK range and probably have on several occasions eaten at the Mooses Tooth post climb.
So the general manager actually gets back to me asking where I had heard that they weren't getting a showing. And if had been from a staff person then there might be some hell to pay, they just so happened to be negotiating for a run come late August and into early September.
At any rate I have Josh with me now... this shit should be pretty intense and hopefully a good watch.
Had this dream last night featuring most of the people who would see this post on idkfa. I dreamed we were all planning a move and were debating where in the Middle East to move to. It was narrowed down to Dubai or Qatar. Some people were also arguing for Africa - either Zimbabwe or Dakar. We were all siting around Mike & Kristen's house with brochures arguing about it.
Help needed! What non-itunes program should I use to rip my cd collection to my hard-drive? Needs to be easy (12 year old John is going to do a lot of them), and will need to be playable on google play music and apple devices. Would prefer to maintain as much quality as possible, and I don't mind paying a little for good software if needed. Thanks all!
http://www.alaskare...=10&esf=MkE3QQ (www.alaskarealestate.com)
i texted JD about this. This is the house we just moved out of in April; we finally got it on the market.
it would probably be small for you guys (it was small for the three of us) but if it is still on the market by the time you move here, and you guys are still scrambling, maybe we work out a lease for a year or something.
the schools are Tudor Elem, Wendler Middle, and East High, but zone exemptions are a super popular thing in Anchorage these days.
note that it says 3 bed but one of the bedrooms is really a walk-through bedroom. The developer who built these units, and many others around anchorage, was indicted for fraud about four years ago.
So, I'm on a massive, industrial ship. Almost as big as a cruise ship, but fitting more a fishing or shipping purpose. Lots of metal piping and corrugated metal walkways.
In this case, though, the ship is no long an industrial ship. It is instead a "university" ship, where all of the facilities have been converted into classrooms and lecture halls. Aside from a skeleton crew of workers and university staff, the ship is populated by college students.
And, as students tend to be, they are incredibly lazy. Rather than walking up the stairways from student quarters to the classrooms, a few dozen board the freight elevator and ride it up. Students rush on to make it before the slow-moving elevator starts.
"Oh hey, look at that ancient history." Somebody is playfully going through my wallet, and looking at my old student IDs as we ascend.
"Yeah," is all I have to say in response. "Pretty old."
Suddenly, there is a noise, and the freight elevator jolts.
"What was that?" somebody asks.
The sound from the elevator rises.
"It's the last hop before a gymnast jumps," I say.
Suddenly, a student leaning on a rail passes out. Then another, his eyes rolling back in his head. Something in the air, I think.
Another one goes limp, and tumbles backward. I breathe in and hold my breath, and dive forward to try to catch them.
I lose consciousness just as I catch them.
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Slashdot article about (tech.slashdot.org) how user interfaces affect 'old users'. Kinda hits home for me.
Interesting article. Orange is the New Black is the new Star Trek. http://www.slate.co..._of_kate.html (www.slate.com);
Work thing. We have teens at the library doing weekly projects for us, we call them VolunTEENs. (Librarians LOVE puns.) We have bought 3 Google Chrome books that we are putting through their paces to see if they are a feasible, cheaper alternate to the expensive laptops we currently buy for teen/public use. We have the volunTEENS testing them, trying to use them for normal stuff, trying to break them.
Two teen girls are "working" (playing) on a chrome book for this project. One teen girl is SUPER pretty. They yell across the room to a fourteen year-old boy "Hey Cody*, what is your favorite website?"
The boy's face - priceless. Pure unadulterated fear. He stammers while asking why they want to know. I left as they were explaning and before I heard his answer. But yeah, don't ask a teen boy that.
Probably a valid test of our computers, but not the testing we are doing.
*Names changed to protect the very sweet, hardworking teen boy. He would also be embarrassed to hear I called him sweet.
Cody: R-Reddit, m'lady.
Super Pretty Teen: Oh, I love Read-It! What's your user name?
Sweating (i1.kym-cdn.com), Cody glances at his post history.
If I was cool when I was 14, I would have said, "My favorite website? Well, my own, of course." Then I would have showed them that I had my own domain name, and a server, and I knew how to do programming, and then they would have been my girlfriend.
Or none of that would have happened, and I would have just told them that I liked looking for game reviews and walkthroughs on Gamespot. They would then ignore me until their programming projects were due at the end of the semester. But by then I would have been finished, and was playing Half-life Deathmatch with the other kids on the computer lab LAN.
I've always had respect for Dave Grohl, man is a music machine but also does love metal (literally brought up Sepultura in an interview one time), but this (loudwire.com) definitely justifies that respect. Damn son.
