rekoil

Walk-in document shredding?

2010-05-04T15:36:03Z

I have a nice big stack of papers that I'll spend all night feeding to my home shredder if I can't find a better way. Is there anyplace near Midtown that has an on-site bulk shredding drop box I can take my stuff to?

Take a picture kids, this doesn't happen every day...

2009-03-01T18:10:03Z

It's snowing in Atlanta. A lot. So far about an inch accumulated so far and still going strong. After, oh, almost five years, this is the most I've seen yet - usually we'll get one or two days of flurries a year, that never actually stick to the ground.

I eagerly await the cries of "lightweight!" from my Northern brethren...

RewriteCond triggered by HTTP auth failure?

2008-09-19T20:52:19Z

Ye Googles are not helping me here...Is there a way to invoke a RewriteCond directive that returns true in the event of an HTTP auth failure? The goal here is to have apache alongside a squid reverse proxy, with apache serving active content directly but issuing 301 redirects to squid for static content (In lieu of renaming all the img src tags to point there directly...). squid is configured to use HTTP auth to access the content from apache; but since the world won't have that auth data, they should receive a 301 instead. So basically, something like this:

<LocationMatch "(match static content)">
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond (If authentication fails)
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://proxy.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</LocationMatch>

Any Cogent folks in the house?

2008-09-15T16:03:07Z

Got a quick question...email me or comment in thread...

Update: Question answered. Thanks!

rekoil @ 2007-07-18T22:30:00

2007-07-19T02:39:29Z

Attention spiggums:

Do you use Beatport? If so, send me some suggestions...

So far I'm digging Cut Copy's remix of The Presets' "Girl And The Sea" and just about everything Rex The Dog has on the site. Ellen Allien is interesting too...

rekoil @ 2007-07-06T13:35:00

2007-07-06T17:39:02Z

I'd tell the story of my recent experience with Motorola Customer Support, but it appears that consumerist.com took care of that for me.

(Background: Jen's non-carrier-branded RIZR died, so I sent it to Motorola for a warranty RMA. After six weeks and 10 phone calls it was time to call in the big guns to get it back.)

Pictures from Montreal

2007-06-28T17:04:54Z

All Gallery2-ified here for your viewing pleasure...we will be printing high-res versions of the Orange Julep sign for framing. Look for it on a wall near you!

rekoil @ 2007-06-03T12:07:00

2007-06-03T16:10:40Z

I'm missing D, F, H, I, X and Y. Brits might do better on this...

Karma's a bitch...

2007-06-03T15:37:38Z

So, originally we had hoped to go up to Montreal for my birthday, which is, well, today, but we missed the boat on airfares and wound up settling for the weekend after next, staying Wednesday the 13th to the following Wednesday.

Well, I just saw Skinny Puppy's tour dates:

Montreal - June 6th
Atlanta - June 14th

'Nuff said.

Things I miss from DC...

2007-05-28T03:44:40Z

When I think of the things that I do miss from living in the DC area, I usually don't think of many things until I'm reminded of them. On of those things is Rolling Thunder.

In 2002 or 2003, we were hanging out at the Lucky Bar on Memorial Day weekend. The parade was over, but the bikers were still out in full force looking for a place to hang out. A decent number of them wound up at the table next to ours outside the bar.

Looking over, I see one of them showing his compatriots the head of some sort of Uncle Sam doll. He said that he had noticed it on the side of the road, and was taking it home as a souvenir.

About 30 minutes later, he notices a bike going by with a headless Uncle Sam doll in the back seat, stopped at the corner traffic light.. The guy jumps up, runs out (and given this guy's girth, running is no mean feat), up to the corner, and catches the doll's owner before the green light hits.

Within 10 minutes, the finder of the head and the head's owner are both at the next table over, doing shots together.

I didn't talk to either of them, or anyone else at the table. I wish I had in retrospect. But I realized that there was something about that sort of camaraderie - the idea that a guy you had never met, but stood for the same things that you did, could instantly be, if nothing else, a memorable drinking buddy. I can't say I ever felt anything like that "I am of this tribe" instinct to that extent.

But I'm not gonna get shot at in some pointless war to get to that point, either. My loss.

rekoil @ 2007-05-16T19:54:00

2007-05-16T23:54:05Z

World Bank Board Negotiating Resignation of Wolfowitz

I realize things are different when you're the head of a multinational organization, but I really fail to understand how a resignation can be "negotiated". Whatever happened to "you can tell people you quit, or we'll tell people you were fired"?

I know, the world works differently in DC...

Montreal trip's been booked for mid-June. Looking forward to staying in a room in June that doesn't need air conditioning. Booyah.

rekoil @ 2006-12-11T23:16:00

2006-12-12T03:16:10Z

The best video of out-of-context clips from "Frosty The Snowman" synced with a metal band covering Aphex Twin you'll see today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01qVy7lw17o

Pearl vs. iPhone?

2006-12-08T19:07:51Z

OK, here's the rub. Unless Apple completely bones the pony and the mythical Apple iPhone turns out to be a product disaster, I will most likely wind up owning one at some point. However, the Blackberry Pearl is tre impressive, and probably the best mobile web browser (complete with map application) I've seen so far outside a Windows Mobile smartphone, which I really don't want to use (a. it's Windows and b. they're huge).

If I get a Pearl today with a 1-year contract from T-Mobile, it's a safe assumption that Apple's phone will be on its second rev, assuming the product is successful, by the time the contract expires, and I'll be able to switch then should I choose

OR, I could just wait until this thing is announced (supposedly late January) and make my decision then, albiet based on the first-gen specs. And hope it works on T-Mobile's network.

So, should I get what's available now, or hold out for what could be?

Yeah, still posting occasionally...

2006-12-08T04:13:49Z

Ladies and gentlemen, I have discovered Matthew Herbert:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=INwJj8-Ak-A

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xfdvUJxF-U

OK, I'm not this big a fan.

2006-09-15T15:13:59Z

Yeah, I know this is old...

2006-09-12T13:05:55Z

EN's Blixa Bargeld adds another line to his resume: hardware store spokesman.

Oh oontzgrrl...

2006-08-21T00:13:05Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhnw1gFuDA

Getting back to old bad habits...

2006-08-19T21:50:34Z

This the first time I've recorded a DJ set in about ten years, the first one I've done using software (All hail Albeton Live). This is live from the laptop (read: yes, there's a trainwreck or two)...and yes, I was in a very electro mood today...

Clicky

Finally started putting our bathroom together after spending a month demolishing it. Next up, beer and pita pizzas.

When fire safety systems attack...

2006-08-11T15:39:21Z

Yesterday a sprinkler head burst in my office about 30 feet from my cube. Hilarity ensued.

Couldn't pass this one up...

2006-02-17T04:12:21Z

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Please tell me my journal won't become a list of these types of things. Must be the wine.

rekoil @ 2006-01-06T00:02:00

2006-01-06T05:11:59Z

For those I failed to contact personally, Jen and I are planning on hitting bluvampr's event at the Black Cat on Friday night - I'm guessing we'll be there around 10ish. Come by and say hello if you deem us worthy...Details on the night here.

You know, I'm starting to wonder what the point of coming home to visit family is when all I feel is worry and frustration because (a) there's gonna be someone I'm going to miss who will feel slighted, or (b) someone is going to change their availability (which is what is happening this time) forcing us to change our plans to "fit them in" - said plan-changing potentially involving four hours of driving in one day. Argh, I say, argh.

rekoil @ 2005-12-26T21:48:00

2005-12-27T02:48:53Z

What is the internet for?

The great 2006 homecoming tour...

2005-12-22T01:30:43Z

That's right, for all who care (and if you don't, you should...), The missus and I will be in town the weekend after New Years. Most of the trip will be spent traveling all over the great state of MD visiting various relatives, but the goal is to keep Friday evening, Jan. 6, open for non-family activities.

Let me know if you'll be available and I'll keep you posted on whatever festivities we decide on. Suggestions are welcome. :)

Misadventures in creativity, Part XXVII

2005-11-27T20:18:14Z

Bad: realizing that the melody and chord progression that magically popped into your head yesterday and you had just begun to commit to sequencer is, in fact, a dredged-up memory of a real song.

Worse: The song in question is by the Smashing Pumpkins.

Best. Photoshop. Contest. Evar.

2005-11-13T01:10:54Z

Photoshop some new tourism ads to help Baltimore makeover its image