tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60135483324525378362024-03-04T21:26:29.882-08:00East Zia WestAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-51713058975985713892012-05-04T04:43:00.000-07:002012-05-04T04:43:18.274-07:00A Few Thing I Miss About New Mexico...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Decent chili rellenos<br />
2. Having a yard<br />
3. Seeing Breaking Bad being filmed<br />
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HELENA — The West Texas district attorney who prosecuted former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf in 2009 said Saturday that he'll file a motion to revoke Leaf's probation following his arrest in Montana.<br />
Leaf was arrested Friday in his hometown of Great Falls on burglary and drug possession charges, police said.<br />
James Farren, the Randall County district attorney who prosecuted Leaf in Texas and negotiated a plea deal with him in 2010, said he would file the motion Monday to revoke the 10-year probation Leaf got in the agreement.<br />
"I think it's sad," Farren said of the allegations against Leaf in Montana. "While I hoped for better results I'm not surprised it happened."<br />
Leaf did not immediately respond to text and voice mail messages left Saturday.<br />
The circumstances surrounding Leaf's arrest were not immediately clear. Great Falls Police Sgt. Dean Bennett, who confirmed Leaf's arrest, said Friday night that he had not seen a report detailing the allegations against the ex-football player.<br />
Leaf was booked on felony charges of burglary of a residence and criminal possession of dangerous drugs, plus a first-time charge of misdemeanor theft, Cascade County Detention Center Officer Robert Rivera said.<br />
Leaf was freed on $76,000 bond and is scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday.<br />
Leaf's defense attorney in the Texas case, Bill Kelly, said Saturday that he hadn't spoken to his client. Leaf's father, John Leaf, called Kelly on Friday to tell him about the arrest, he said.<br />
"His dad was pretty upset, of course," Kelly said. "People get hooked on these things and it's hard to get off of them. It's just a sad, sad deal because he was doing so well."<br />
Leaf, a former standout quarterback for Washington State, was the No. 2 pick in the 1998 draft behind Peyton Manning. But Leaf flamed out as quarterback for the San Diego Chargers, gaining a reputation as one of the biggest busts in NFL history.<br />
A message left at his parents' house was not immediately returned Friday night.<br />
Leaf released a statement through his publicist, Wendy Ogunsemore on Friday night.<br />
"I've made some mistakes, and have no excuses," the statement read. "I am using the tools I've learned to move forward rather than backwards, and will be open to talking about the details in the days to come. I am confident that there will be further understanding when the facts are revealed, and feel very blessed for all of the support, especially from my friends and family."<br />
Last year, Leaf had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his brain stem and later underwent additional radiation treatments.<br />
On March 21, Leaf told an Associated Press reporter in an email exchange that he had struggled through treatments and had an MRI scheduled for the end of the month, but "I'm doing/feeling much better and am excited for the rest of 2012."<br />
Farren said if the judge revokes Leaf's probation he could go to prison for longer than the probation term. The judge could treat each of Leaf's drug charges in Texas — seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance — separately because that's the way the plea deals were done, he said.<br />
Some of the charges carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.<br />
"The judge could stack them," Farren said.<br />
In 2008, when Leaf was a quarterbacks coach for Division II West Texas A&M, he was accused of burglarizing a player's home. An investigation turned up that Leaf had obtained nearly 1,000 pain pills from area pharmacies in an eight-month span.<br />
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He resigned that year, was indicted in 2009. Besides the 10 years' probation, he was fined $20,000.<br />
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Last year, he wrote a book titled "596 Switch" — the name of a passing play in the Washington State playbook — that focused on the 1997 season when he led the Cougars to their first Rose Bowl in six decades.<br />
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Seattle communications consultant Greg Witter, a friend of Leaf's who co-authored the book with Leaf, said Saturday that Leaf has been "diligent" about fighting his addiction, including admitting himself to rehab around Christmas 2010 when he saw inklings of his old behaviors surfacing.<br />
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"I'm hopeful this is a misunderstanding of some kind and that Ryan can continue making the great strides in his life that we've all seen over the last three years," he said.<br />
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I love Montana!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/33507085">shhRed Lodge - Best pow in the Rockies</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5033495">Bomb Snow Magazine</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-72839475915851984552011-11-30T14:25:00.000-08:002011-11-30T14:26:05.540-08:00"The Wire" Monopoly Board<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-wire-monopoly-board">"The Wire" Monopoly Board</a>: <br />
I have literally never wanted anything more than I want this. Someone at Parker Brothers better make this a reality. Tagline: It's all in the game.<br />
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<a href="http://www.themarysue.com/sarah-vowell-evacuation-day/">Sarah Vowell Tells Us About the True Meaning of the Day After Thanksgiving</a><br />
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<strong>Sarah Vowell</strong>, history geek humorist extraordinaire (and the voice of Violet Incredible), has a very important lesson on history that we have probably never really acknowledged in our lifetimes. As she described on <em>The Daily Show</em> — as its newly minted Senior Historical Context Correspondent — November 25 is Evacuation Day, the day that British troops finally left New York after the end of the Revolutionary War after imprisoning American POWs in prison ships where many, many, many of them died and/or ate maggots to survive. But the good news is that, as we all know, the British finally left in 1783, years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and those surviving prisoners were freed! Some of us will be taking advantage of sales this Black Friday. But some of us will be celebrating history by not eating maggots. <br />
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(via <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/22/daily-show-why-evacuation-day-should-follow-thanksgiving/">Time</a>)</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-41875297641266443022011-11-19T12:47:00.001-08:002011-11-19T12:49:07.535-08:00Occupy Karl Rove's Speech: Who Knew Karl Rove Was Even in Town?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/abrams/occupy-baltimore-interrupts-karl-rove-speech">Occupy Baltimore Interrupts Karl Rove Speech</a>: <br />
To the GOP braniac's credit, he had the cohones to not leave the stage and snap back at the protesters ( unlike Scott Walker ). Best line of the night: “This is actually the most fun you can have on a Tuesday in Baltimore.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After my recent trip to the great Brick City, aka Newark, NJ, I kinda feel like Frank McCourt in
Angela’s Ashes just without the Consumption, hopelessly alcoholic and absent
father, and starvation. Hopefully I left all my new friends, the bed bugs, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Newark. However, I think I am forever damaged by this experience that can only be described as fucking gross.</st1:city></st1:place></span></div>
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first person to get bit will continue to be the BB’s preference and they will
continue to feed from that person. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">They will choose hairless skin over
skin with hair, and prefer the scent of women--another example of male privilege in our society.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bed bugs will make you feel like you losing your mind.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bed bugs are nearly impossible to eradicate.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bed bugs are fucking gross.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If you want to see the pics... <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/103033875868854453456/BedBugs?authkey=Gv1sRgCNiZ54m7oOlL">you can see it here (warning it's fucking gross)</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Although I originally saw this on the local news, I was pretty excited to see it also featured on <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/">Gizmodo</a>:</span></h1>
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Feuding Women Inadvertently Create Toxic Gas In the Middle of a Wal-Mart</h1>
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Hey, did you hear the one about the two women fighting in a Wal-Mart? It's a real gas! No, really, that's not a punchline. Two women threw ammonia and bleach at one another and created poisonous gas <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-bleach-assault-20111008,0,2540895.story" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3697b3; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in a Wall-Mart:</a></div>
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Two woman involved in an altercation at southern Baltimore County Walmart store threw bleach and another chemical on each other, causing possible injuries for other customers on Saturday, police and fire officials said. Baltimore County Fire Department's hazardous materials units responded to the scene around 11 a.m., and at least one patient has been transported to Wilmer Eye Clinic, spokesman Glenn Blackwell said in an email. Two additional people were taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, police spokesman Shawn Vinson said in an email.</div>
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So far one person has been arrested. And, in case you were wondering about what happens when you combined ammonia with bleach it's pretty nasty—and <a href="http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicchemicals/a/Mixing-Bleach-And-Ammonia.htm" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3697b3; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">potentially deadly!</a></div>
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Mixing bleach and ammonia is extremely dangerous, since toxic vapors will be produced. The primary toxic chemical formed by the reaction is chloramine vapor, with a potential for hydrazine formation</div>
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The fumes are what get ya, although with a little extra ammonia the concoction gets explosive. Stay away! In the event of contamination, move in the opposite direction from the chemicals and call 911. Also, don't get in a chemical fight in the middle of a Wal-Mart. Falling prices? Cool. Falling dead people...not so much. [<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-bleach-assault-20111008,0,2540895.story" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3697b3; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Baltimore Sun</a>]</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-36127001715469075852011-09-22T17:07:00.000-07:002011-09-22T17:08:10.019-07:00The Hardest Part is Finding the Geeks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://baltimorenode.org/wp-content/themes/nodeb/images/logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://baltimorenode.org/wp-content/themes/nodeb/images/logo.png" width="320" /></a>Here is my reflection of the day about moving from a tiny, rural community to a large, urban community: It is just as hard, maybe harder to meet people. People still move away. Over the course of the last year I have lost everyone that filled that spot of "hit me up anytime". And, just like in middle of the New Mexican desert, I'm starting over. <br />
The hardest part isn't finding just any friend. If I really wanted to get out and make friends, it would be hard.; but there are good social places: kickball teams, soccer teams, flag football teams. I'm doing those and I have a good time playing around and having a beer afterwards. But, what I am craving is some good ol' geek time. And that isn't easy to come by. Where the hell do you find the geeks in a new city? Answer: The Node. So, today, I put in my application to join the Baltimore node. Fingers crossed, one footstep forward.</div>
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I wasn't sure if I wanted to get the hell out of Baltimore this weekend for the Grand Prix, or be in the VIP sections. I mean, the track runs right by my house, through some of the best parts of Baltimore, allowing me to relive my childhood love of Poll Position. Then I tried to grab a cab on Thursday. Races didn't start until Friday, but that didn't stop the flood of people causing more havoc than Irene. <br />
Being a prepared person, I called for my 5PM cab early. At 11 AM the cab company said it would be a 60 min ride from Federal Hill to Charles Village (normally 15). At 4PM they called and said they couldn't come because traffic had come to a complete standstill. So, I was happy with the decision. Then, I saw this:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to all of you for your kind words of support, as we look to recover from the devastation of today's quake!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />There were a few casulties at our place. A tiffany lamp my mom gave me, some picture frames and a shelf and the kind of stuff that sits on shelves. My favorite part, though, was that anything nailed to the wall is about 15 degrees off center. All of our pictures and paintings are symetrically crooked.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-51581638673331051752011-08-10T09:42:00.000-07:002011-08-10T09:42:47.333-07:00Otakon, You Have No Idea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ota13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ota13.jpg" width="320" /></a>It was about this time last year that I nearly stopped dead on Charles with a WTF? Seeing all kinds of brave and gangly teenagers walking down the street in full CosPlay. Little did I know, they were coming to the anime Mecca, Otakon. Last year, there were 25,000 people that attended the con and trust me when I say nearly all of them were in full regalia. Baltimore, in ways, seems an odd location for this geeky get-together, but for a city that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the East Coast, it's also kinda perfect. Check out the whole gallery at <a href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/08/05/otakon-2011-cosplay-gallery/">Geeks Are Sexy.</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-30258237306358514272011-08-01T15:46:00.000-07:002011-08-01T15:47:00.502-07:00It Will All Make Sense Soon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-31442301603917446542011-06-29T08:27:00.000-07:002011-06-29T08:27:59.188-07:00In the Meantime, IT Revenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/P-3B_Orion_NASA_aircraft_005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/P-3B_Orion_NASA_aircraft_005.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I am working on a synopsis of the past week or so. It has been busy, U2 and East-West-East trip, and some other goodies. So to tide you over, here are two things going on in Ol' Baltimore: NASA is going to be flying planes all over the city looking for pollution, and be careful who you piss off in the IT department.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Dateline">WASHINGTON -- </span>NASA said it will be sending aircraft over the Baltimore-Washington region beginning next week to help improve how satellites monitor air quality.</span><br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">NASA said two aircraft will make a series of flights to measure gases and particles in the air. The flights will be coordinated with an extensive network of ground observation sites from the D.C. Beltway to northeast of Baltimore.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>NASA has scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning to discuss the flyovers.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>The space agency said satellites already monitor many components of air pollution, but it is difficult to use measurements from space to detect pollution near the ground.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>The multi-year study is designed to help improve the ability of satellites to measure conditions near the surface.<span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes, revenge is bitter.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The reason for this is that sometimes you get your revenge and then you get, well, caught.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Please consider the feelings of Walter Powell, a 52-year-old IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems. Actually, he became a former IT manager there. Which, perhaps stimulated a desire for a little revenge.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-computer-hacking-sentence-20110621,0,857376.story" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am grateful to The Baltimore Sun</a> for offering this story which begins with revenge, has porn in the middle, and whose denouement is played out in court.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031110/got-fired-get-revenge.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031110/got-fired-get-revenge.gif" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Powell, you see, was reportedly fired in 2009. He wasn't very happy about this, so began to use his significant expertise to tap into his former employer's computer systems, according to the story.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It seems he may have had a piece de resistance in mind. I cannot be sure that this particular piece actually involved any sort of resistance, or even bondage. However, Powell managed to remotely control his former CEO's presentation to the board of directors of this nonprofit organization, which distributes public funds to substance abuse programs.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">At the point at which the CEO was to unveil a particular PowerPoint slide and give forth, Powell remotely shut down the system. When it rebooted, there, alas, was porn.</span></div><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, to be precise, <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/09/employee_charged_with_hacking.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it was some kind of a picture of a naked woman</a> on the rather sizable 64-inch screen.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I know that there will be those will admire his ingenuity. I know there will be those who can only imagine the smirk that must have come across his face--and perhaps those of one or two Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems board members--when the lady was projected.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">However, <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/technology/2011/06/baltimore_hacker_who_hijacked.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">court papers show</a> that Powell admitted his guilt--at least to two counts of "unlawful access to a computer causing it to malfunction" and one of "possessing a pass code without authorization."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">He reportedly received two years suspended (all but time served), 100 hours of community service, and three years probation. He was also barred from "possessing software that enables remote access and monitoring of other computers."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">How, though, might that last part be enforced? He's an IT guy. IT guys know how to do everything surreptitiously.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">They can get everything from everywhere with every kind of software. They press a couple of keys in Baltimore and traffic lights stop in Mumbai. They slip a little custom software onto their MacBooks and the prime minister of Montenegro is heard to talk like Donald Duck.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I know that they occasionally get caught.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But you cannot keep a clever IT guy down. What price a porn movie gets projected onto the doors of a courtroom in, say, Baltimore in the very near future?</div><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Just when you thought Candians were pissed, comes this gem:</span></span></h1><h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/vancouver-riots-2011-photo-5929916">From Esquire:</a> Love in the Time of Rioting (Updated: Backstory of a Kiss)</span></h1><div class="blog_entry" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img src="http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/vI/esq-vancouver-riots-2011-061611-xlg.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Certainly the greatest photo from Wednesday night, and maybe ever. More on the night in Vancouver <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/06/vancouver-stanley-cup-riots-2011/38880/" style="color: #bf0103; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> and more on the hockey <a href="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6666468/screw-boston" style="color: #bf0103; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img src="http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/1S/esq-vancouver-riots-kiss-staged-061611-xlg.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">UPDATE 2 (3:23 P.M.):</b> Getty Images photographer Rich Lam writes....</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I was covering last night's Stanley Cup Playoffs for Getty Images when Vancouver erupted in riots after the Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins. It was complete chaos. Rioters set two cars on fire and then I saw looters break the window at a neighboring department store. At that point, the riot police charged right towards us. After I stopped running, I noticed in the space behind the line of police that two people were laying in the street with the riot police and a raging fire just beyond them. I knew I had captured a "moment" when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn't until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing.</i></div></span></div><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Read more: <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/vancouver-riots-2011-photo-5929916#ixzz1PTPGhcz9" style="color: #003399; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/vancouver-riots-2011-photo-5929916#ixzz1PTPGhcz9</a></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720886260245085604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013548332452537836.post-67358811521997602292011-06-13T14:59:00.000-07:002011-06-13T14:59:00.864-07:00Crossed Off The List: The Senator Theater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Just because it is crossed off, doesn't mean I wouldn't go back. This theater caught my attention last week, because it was listed in F<a href="http://flavorwire.com/185882/the-best-movie-theaters-in-america">lavorwire.com's</a> "Best Movie Theaters in America" list. Coming in just behind one of my other favorites (The Alamo in Austin), the Senator was prime to-do material. Luckily, we already had plans to see Super 8. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNEQFmzk9G4kbh6nSCGRCeEQ1bgMPN_QrZULaDYGAgFu97fvJdN-xsbo8Ch8ApZ0akXqj7Nh1XPKA6P71EwrGGeOaYPFsmcTpAZn73QE4SnoQdSqiI-_rEgVcFiPiv6P4sgElcOIR-Xs/s1600/F24B7E0276D6FC8CCFBFE2E6066895B2_250_250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNEQFmzk9G4kbh6nSCGRCeEQ1bgMPN_QrZULaDYGAgFu97fvJdN-xsbo8Ch8ApZ0akXqj7Nh1XPKA6P71EwrGGeOaYPFsmcTpAZn73QE4SnoQdSqiI-_rEgVcFiPiv6P4sgElcOIR-Xs/s1600/F24B7E0276D6FC8CCFBFE2E6066895B2_250_250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNEQFmzk9G4kbh6nSCGRCeEQ1bgMPN_QrZULaDYGAgFu97fvJdN-xsbo8Ch8ApZ0akXqj7Nh1XPKA6P71EwrGGeOaYPFsmcTpAZn73QE4SnoQdSqiI-_rEgVcFiPiv6P4sgElcOIR-Xs/s200/F24B7E0276D6FC8CCFBFE2E6066895B2_250_250.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Originally opened in 1939, this single-screen, 900-seat Art Deco landmark has been fully restored and currently shows first-run titles. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the theater’s lobby includes the original terrazzo floors and murals, and the 40 foot curved screen is revealed at each screening by the opening of a massive gold curtain. In recent years, the Senator has faced threats of auction and foreclosure, but it has managed to stay open thanks to support from the community and City of Baltimore. Our own Judy Berman sings the Senator’s praises: “They’ve had all kinds of trouble staying open, and ownership has changed hands many times, but no matter who owns it, nothing beats the experience of seeing a film in one of America’s few remaining classic movie palaces.”--Flavorwire</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But this landmark, isn't just a new Easterly experience. In fact, it reminds me of the Babcock theater back home. It may house bands and boxing today, but I remember my parents dropping me and my brother off to see Beverly Hills Cop II back in the day. My dad even gave the usher $20 to let us in, even though it was rated-R, so that he and my mom could go out without us. Since it was the only theater downtown, it worked out well for us, and presumably my parents.</span></span><br />
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