I just got this spam:

Hi,
Hope I am not writinbg to wrong address. I am nice, pretty looking
girl. I am planning on visiting your town this month. Canb 
we meet each othber in persona? Message me back at cn@bravomailing.com

I know it's spam, but it's still fun to pretend it's real and critique it:

> Hope I am not writinbg to wrong address. I am nice, pretty looking girl.

Yes, you are writing to the wrong address. You have to find the address of a guy who's looking for an illiterate girlfriend. You can barely write yourself out of paper bag; my current mate can write beautiful poetry that makes my heart sing. You fail already in just writing a simple E-mail and we're not even halfway through the message!

> I am planning on visiting your town this month. Canb we meet each othber in persona?

Can you proofread your messages before you send them? No? Sorry, not interested.

> Message me back at cn@bravomailing.com

bravomailing.com? Go away, spammer. Have a non-nice day.

Amused,
-Zorin the Lynx

Let the rape begin! A kitten music video I had on my site was linked from Yahoo Video. I was pushing out 40 megabits peak with no signs of stopping until I removed the offending file.

Wow, talk about crazy. I'm a bit proud of my server, even though it was savagely abusing my employer's bandwidth. Luckily, no harm was done, but... Damn!

40 megabits! To the Internet!

Purrrrr.

Welcome to Club Lusk! No cover charge; just fly on in!

I've got a lot to write about, and probably will soon. But for now, enjoy some Second Life silliness. :)

Since I got my DSL, until a few days ago, all network traffic between home and work (FIU South campus, a five minute drive away) travelled all the way up to Atlanta or Washington before coming back. This resulted in roundtrip times of 90-120ms just to talk to machines on campus only a quick drive away!

This was annoying until a few days ago when Bellsouth started peering at the downtown NAP of the Americas, the same place FIU gets transit through! My roundtrip between home and work is now 9ms, and working on machines at the "other location" feels local!

It's damn sweet, especially since I tend to work from home pretty often. I've measured 800K/sec downloading from FIU hosts and it also makes working on the systems in general a lot easier. Also, peering so close to home means the connection feels faster in general as packets don't have to go to Atlanta or Washington before continuing on their way.

Gotta love it when ISPs actually implement INTELLIGENT network topologies for a change...

I shuffled some things around, including moving the hardware picture archive to this server. I also threw up the artwork of Zorin over the years page and added a "Furry Stuff" category.

Up next, moving the Lynxie Photo Archive to this server. Mmm, I love having lots of hard disk space.

How high can you go?

Pretty high. The problem when building these towers is no one can move; if anyone moves or disconnects, the whole thing comes crashing down, which is also quite hilarious to watch.

And of course, herding furries is like herding cats. Only not all of us are cats, so it gets complicated.

Heh, I'm in a silly mood this morning...

Got my Animaniacs DVD set yesterday! Wow, this has brought back memories, big time. I practically grew up on this show; it is the animated TV show I remember and enjoyed most, and it's about time WB decides to release it officially after being buried and unwatchable for years. This show was also a major contributing factor to my entry into the furry fandom, among other things.

The DVDs are quite excellent; the video quality is good and it's nice to see the episodes as they were originally aired instead of all chopped up like those bastards at Nickelodeon aired them. I watched the first disc last night and will be watching one disc a night for the next few days, except possibly tonight since I have other plans.

Anyway, if you remember and loved this show, be sure to pick up the DVD set! It's worth every penny. }:)

I've been a busy kitty; haven't updated too much lately. I figured I'd summarize what's been happening at least...

Went to Jacksonville the weekend before last. It was fun; I hung out with some friends there and we went bowling, goofed off in general and had a good time. On the way home I stopped in Orlando to visit someone else and we went to a Sushi bar for dinner. Spicy tuna rolls yum yum.

Last weekend I visited some friends in Chicago! It was tons of fun; especially the visit to downtown. Also got to eat dinner at the Signature Room on the 95th floor of the John Hancock tower! The view from up there is amazing; I'll be sure to post photos as soon as I get them; I took them with someone else's camera.

Now it's time to get back into the grind; my next trip will likely be MidwestFurFest in November, and that's a long way off. I'm most looking forward to my trip to California for Further Confusion in January, though; that promises to be fun since I'll be meeting some folks I've been wanting to meet in person for years now.

I've purposefully made sure that this has been a slow weekend. Have been mostly goofing off at home, DJing in Luskwood on Second Life and relaxing. After not spending a single full day at home in three weeks, I needed it!

Usually folks keep some crap on their keyboard shelf. This is the area above the function keys on a PC keyboard. For most people it's useful stuff that comes in handy often, like pens. But I'm not most people:

From left to right:

• 16MB of RAM in four 4MB 30 pin simms. This was the memory in FluffMUCK's machine for a good part of the late 90s. If you were on Fluff then, your ass was generally resident on one of those chips.
• Am5x86/133 CPU. This was the processor that ran FluffMUCK for much of the late 90s.
• i386DX/33 CPU. This is the CPU from my first dedicated Linux box. I administered FluffMUCK from this machine often.
• Badge from Duchess, a former Windows 2000 machine.
• A stray jumper
• A blue sharpie.

And thus ends this pointless post. Yes, it's a very slow day. By ghods it's slow.

I salvaged an Am5x86/133 CPU from some old equipment I'm throwing out. The funny part is right on the chip it says:

"Designed for Microsoft Windows 95"

...complete with a Windows logo.

Huh? How can a processor be designed for an operating system? Isn't it the other way around? I believe AMD processors were designed to be as Intel-compatible as possible; I doubt Windows had much to do with it other then precursory software testing.

It almost makes me hesitant to have this on my desk as a trinket; that ugly Windows logo will be staring at me the whole time!

Curses!!

-Z