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Went to Thanksgiving dinner at a local back road community hall a few miles from my house. Ended up as president of said hall's board. It's really beat up and needs a lot of work, but I've got big plans to turn it around and get it fixed up, and market it so that it'll get used. It's a great sounding room to play music in.

From a Reddit PS Battle thread: Poor shoop, great idea. Improvement on the above.

I hate to revive a zombie, but I finally had a chance to hear the Crack/HD600 paining. Wow! What an amazing value for the price. It looks like Bottlehead has just launched an upgraded crack: http://bottlehead.com/product/crack-a-two-a/ I'm thinking the Crack-a-two-a will be a nice little project. I ordered a kit and I'm looking forward to breaking out the iron and getting to work.

Ric, it's you from the future! No time to explain, just listen to me! Add Bishop Jerry!

So far as I've been able to tell, you could make any android phone as secure as the granitephone by downloading a few apps. Other than that pic of an unattractive interface, they don't really publish any solid info on what's special about it anywhere. It's very pricey as well. It's weaker than a kickstarter page for a half baked idea. All this jargon filled vaporware can be yours for $830. The actual black phone 2 has a security team that modified and patched the android OS lead by some big names like Phil Zimmerman (creator of PGP) and former Entrust Chief Technology Officer John Callas (the man behind much of the security in Mac OS X and iOS). Blackphone's chief architect is Mike Kershaw, (known in the security realm as the developer of the Kismet Wi-Fi auditing tool). The device receives security patches faster than even Google patches nexus devices typically. The modified Android it uses called Silent OS supports multiple (up to four) "spaces": virtualized phones within the phone. It has very granular control of permissions allowing you to selectively punch through between spaces per app and controlling apps permissions for privacy, matching company security standards, and for several users. Software is installed to create a virtual burner phone and encrypted secure private communications. Phone calls are encrypted peer-to-peer and end-to-end over the network, so the service doesn't hold a key to decrypt the contents. While it doesn't prevent legal wiretapping on a public switched network, it protects privacy from direct call monitoring at the source. Texting has a function called "burn notice." You can set a time limit for a message to be available to the person you sent it to, after which the key for the message expires and the text or image is deleted (texts are a link to a temporary message encrypted on secure server hosted on Amazon cloud). The apps use pinned certificates. The smart WiFi manager prevents communication with rogue access points that poll cell phone devices for APs they are searching for in order to spoof them. It also creates a fingerprint of nearby cellular towers to control permissions on WiFi and Bluetooth instead of relying on GPS or Google's location services. The OS has selective wiping of sensitive apps and data options, remotely or conditional. It's obviously overkill for an average phone user, but it's the only phone in my opinion actually focused on security and privacy first.

A good two days of working on the living room with my father. Faux fireplace, wired for TV and speakers, new built in nook for the electronics and some in-wall speakers to clean things up. Ship lap paneling, a reclaimed mantle and no wires makes me very happy. We just need to caulk, fill, prime and paint the pine and oil the mantle and take care of a spot where the plaster didn't cooperate when installing the speakers.

And their Buy Now section doesn't seem to use https , so does that mean you start by sending your credit card details across the web in plain text?

There is also the 24 Hours of Throbbing Gristle cassette suitcase set: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2015/01/12/for-the-serious-throbbing-gristle-fan-who-has-almost-everything http://www.discogs.com/Throbbing-Gristle-24-Hours/release/1352072

Whoa, VII?!?!? I'm behind...(resolves to catch up)...

We saw Jenny Lewis play at a weird old church in Chicago a few years ago -- one of the all time best shows I have seen.

Had something similar a year ago. It was awful -- had a million tests done, including an MRI of my head. Nothing turned up. Doctor said in the end he thought it was a virus or some sort. Hope you feel better quickly, but take the time to do so. School's not that interesting. We went for a drive around western CT and MA to see the leaves, and met up with family for some dinner. It felt very New England.

Lamb of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

Somehow got the reverb channel working on my twin. Maybe the footswitch had been hooked up to the speaker out jack by mistake before, not sure. Finally sounding the way it's supposed to after owning it for like 2 years. Now I remember why I bought it. This snakehead tele is the best electric guitar I've ever played. I've been practicing with it acoustically, in fact.

This one is for you, Ric.

Sorry for the loss of your friend Wayne. And thanks for this post. I lost my two older brothers to alcoholism. It is a horrible thing, as at the end my brother Chuck hated me and we ended in a bad way. I'm still in conflict over his passing, ten years later. Your words ring true. I looked up to my brothers, and this disease consumed them. I know I drink, but I also know I am not like them. Life is too important to let it go that easily. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is fleet week this week here in SF so my Dad and I went to tour the ships. In town were the USS Coronado, the USS Cape St. George and the USS Stockdale. The lines were very long, so we limited our visit to just the USS Coronado. It is the newest ship in the navy. I really wish we had more time to see the other ships. The Navy has some seriously impressive hardware. -- Shots of Coronado. The Coronado has a massive "mission bay" that allows it to load different modules and configurations for many different types of missions. The Coronado is made out of aluminum rather than steel so most of the walls are lined with flame resistant foil. The view out of the helicopter hanger, one deck up from the mission bay. Looking over at Cape St. George and Stockdale from the flight deck of Coronado. The Coronado's bridge is SERIOUSLY impressive and futuristic. Each station has triple flat screen monitors and a joystick for control. Captain's seat. Another shot of Cape St. George. And finally one more of Stockdale. -- GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!

Rico Kiley -- More Adventurous Many good songs, not least A Man/Me/Then Jim, which I would have to say is one of my all timers.

I think I might have to pre-order a Surface Book.

What a way to make a 25,000th post! n00b **BRENT**

just do "DIR >> directory.txt" or simply put in a batch file @echo off dir >> directory.txt and just run it everytime you do an update ...