Category: imported from GM

Here Comes Your Man

Last night, I went to the screening of my latest movie, “Jane White Is Sick And Twisted“. It was very, very cool. The screening was a benefit to raise money for the American Cancer Society to benefit breast cancer research, and I hear that we raised close to 10,000 dollars. Cool!
I am always nervous before a screening…I never know what the audience is going to think, I don’t know if the movie is going to suck…it’s never a fun, relaxed thing for me. So I was very, very happy to see that the movie is indeed funny, and I think I’m really good in it. I always worry that what I prepared in my head and what I did on the set won’t make it into the final cut, which happens more often than you’d think…just read any of William Goldman’s books, to get an idea of how an asshole director can ruin a movie.
A big challenge for me right now is to convince The Industry that I can be funny…I once made some flyers for a comedy show I was in, and wrote on the back:

I heart idiots

It has just been brought to my attention that someone is sending out a potential virus, changing the From: header in the email to appear as if it’s coming from [email protected].
If you have received any emails claiming to be from me, with an subject called “usample” or any other file alleging to be a README, delete it, and send an email to [email protected], since I’m pretty sure that’s the IP where the email came from.
Here’s the information I got by running the headers through Sam Spade:

Trying whois -h whois.ripe.net 194.165.169.179
% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
% Please visit http://www.ripe.net/rpsl for more information.
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
inetnum: 194.165.160.0 – 194.165.175.255
netname: ESATNET-ROUTE6
descr: Esat Net Consumer Dialup Modem Bank
country: IE
admin-c: CA1690
tech-c: CC1276-RIPE
tech-c: GP1184-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
remarks: For SPAM/UCE complaints, please email “[email protected]”
notify: [email protected]
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-NONE-MNT
changed: [email protected] 19991207
changed: [email protected] 20010128
source: RIPE
route: 194.165.160.0/19
descr: ESATNET-NET5
origin: AS2110
remarks: Aggregated route covering multiple Esat Net networks
mnt-by: IEUNET-NOC
changed: [email protected] 19960528
changed: [email protected] 20010423
source: RIPE
person: Colm Anderson
address: Esat Net Limited
address: 4 Westland Square
address: Pearse Street
address: Dublin 2
address: Ireland
phone: +353 1 6790832
fax-no: +353 1 6799634
e-mail: [email protected]
nic-hdl: CA1690
changed: [email protected] 19990118
source: RIPE
person: Catherine Chelmiah
address: Esat-X
address: Citywest
address: Co. Dublin
address: Ireland
phone: +353 1 432 6926
fax-no: +353 1 242 4001
e-mail: [email protected]
nic-hdl: CC1276-RIPE
notify: [email protected]
changed: [email protected] 20010823
source: RIPE
person: Gary Petticrew
address: Esat Residential Service
address: 7-13 Cardiff Lane
address: Dublin 2
address: Ireland
phone: +353 1 6724016
fax-no: +353 1 6771477
e-mail: [email protected]
nic-hdl: GP1184-RIPE
notify: [email protected]
mnt-by: IEUNET-NOC
changed: [email protected] 19981031
source: RIPE

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(-1, Troll)

I read /. daily, post infrequently.
As I’ve said before, I am really, when you get down to it, a geek, who’s just looking for validation from his fellow geeks. So being asked for an interview by them was pretty goddamn cool…and the scariest thing, ever. I knew that the server would crash. I knew that I’d go so far over on bandwidth that I’d have to take out a 4th on the house. I knew that the other people hosted by logjamming would get hosed…and I was scared shitless that the trolls would come, and eat me alive.
Thankfully, things have been okay, so far. I read /. at 3, so the signal to noise ratio is very good.
Anyway, I wanted to share something that I thought was hilarious, and very cool.
The story at /. was “Ask Wil Wheaton Anything.” There are some REALLY great questions there, and I’m going to have funtimes answering them…but, as I was reading, I saw the opportunity for a joke, and I had to take it.
I was asked:

Do you have an account here ?
Have you ever posted here ?
Have you ever submitted ?
Have you ever got a submission accepted ?

I was tempted to answer all the questions there, using my Slashdot UID, but I resisted…except for this one, because I saw the chance for some operation mayhem:

Do you have an account here ?
Yeah, I’ve had it for quite some time. I never put my name to it because I was afraid I’d automatically get modded down.
Have you ever posted here ?
Yeah. But not too often. My motto is “if you don’t have something to say that’s worth at least +1, don’t say anything at all”.
Have you ever submitted ?
Yeah.
Have you ever got a submission accepted ?
Are you kidding me? If I had a submission posted, that would make me cool, and that would begin the slow unraveling of the very fabric of space-time.
If this post isn’t the poster-child for karma whoring, I don’t know what is.
I am Jack’s.sig

Now, the humor of this will be completely lost on you, unless you are familiar with Slashdot’s moderation system…but this post got modded up, which I suspected it would…but the Operation Mayhem kicked in, and the joke paid off, when someone moderated it down…(-1, Troll).
If the person who modded it down is reading this, I must say thank you. You totally got the joke, and I am giving you a personal (+1, Funny) and a (+1, Insightful) along with a (+1, Underrated).
With my feet in the air, and my head on the ground.

Slashdot

The site seems to have mostly recovered from being Slashdotted yesterday.
That was pretty damn cool.
Welcome back, everyone.