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A Perfect Day

Blogged in Fun, Life in General by Tyler on April 9, 2006 at about 15:10

Yesterday was very nearly what one might consider a perfect final Saturday before boot camp. In the morning, I went on a beautiful hike up near Strawberry, Arizona with my friend Ernie and in the evening I had a gathering of friends, many of whom I had not seen in a long time.

The hike was down the Pine Canyon 26 Trail past Parsnip Spring to a “Deep Pool” (really only a few feet deep) and back.

The hike began at the top of the Mogollon Rim near Strawberry, down some switchbacks, past a beautiful spring covered in clovers, and ending at a set of small pools in the stream. The trail goes on past the pool, but we did not. Ernie and I took quite a few pictures, which I’ve placed in my photo gallery.

Do you like ColdPizza?

Blogged in Computers, Fun, Random Rants by Tyler on January 7, 2006 at about 10:44

There’s a site I visit fairly often called Groklaw, which reports on legal items of interest to the technical community. I found a recent article funny and scary at the same time.

The article is titled ColdPizza, a parody by Scott Lazar. To quote Groklaw,

There is no way Scott Lazar can read Coldplay’s DRM notice of terms and conditions without inspiration striking. So here is his latest, ColdPizza.

DRM, or Digital Rights Management, refers to technical measures companies take to limit the use of their products. An example of this would be a copy-protected CD, which has some technical “feature” that (theoretically) stops consumers from making copies of the music it contains. For a better definition of DRM, visit the Wikipedia.

The DRM mentioned in the article is on a recent Coldplay CD, which automatically installs software on (Windows) computers when the CD is first inserted. The software is supposedly there to stop the consumer from making copies of the CD or ripping the songs into MP3’s. The terms and conditions of using that CD/software are rather draconian, thus inspiring a parody thereof.

You’ll never think about cold pizza the same:

ColdPizza, a parody by Scott Lazar.

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