Divine Lunacy

I spent like 4 hours talking to some random 7^th grader yesterday. Hehe. I really freaked him out. I knew when his great-grandfather died and his name. I knew his uncle’s name and his former address. It was really intersting to see him react to that. I have no idea why I was even talking to him, and I am surpired that he never blocked me. If I were him, even I would have blocked me! Well, I blame him for how crappy my report came out! :-p I spent all my time talking to him, and I should have been drafting a literary masterpeice.

No TSA this week :(, at least not for us non engineering people. All the engineering students took a trip to the guy in mass to discuss the playground. This means the website will be delayed at least another week, but I had nothing to do with it this time!!

Tom, and Tim: Hey, I’ll get your damned CD’s eventually. You can’t be too demanding when you are dealing with such goods.

I took my planned walk to the little general today! I had originally planned to buy $20 worth of pixi sticks. Unfortunately, after grabbing all the pixi sticks on the shelf and checking out the total was only $8.56; Only 16 packages of pixi-sticks. Not to speak in the in the past future tense ( it only exists in my minnd ), but we gave jill the pixi sticks today. It was mildly interesting, but of course, the more fun part was snorting some from the package I kept for myself.

Come Friday, a new POW. The title of it is Diminishing Squares

The Figure begins with a square of side length 2 units. Squares are continually added which have a side length which is one-half the previous square. Suppose this process continues to infinity. What is the area of the Figure? Explain your answer.

Well, the answer is most definitely not infinite, certainly not 5 and definitely not 6. Depending how far one wants to take this, it can involve some calculus, or just some simple arithmetic, but either way, it will involve plenty of exponents. Well anyway, if you give up, the answer can be found here ( a rough draft of my report )

Now for something more enfuriating. Battle of the Bands, which was scheduled for 1800-2200, yesterday was cancelled due to a tyrannical Principle. In our school, we have this annoying little thing called AI. Anyone who is on AI cannot participate in extra-curricular school events. Battle of the Bands is not a school event—In fact, the only association it has with the school is that it was scheduled to be in the auditorium. The insane principle went as far as to call an outside agency that was sponsoring it and tell them it was cancelled. Thats right!!! He wasn’t even running it, but he decided to make the called. If this was something like talent show, which is school run, then this would be ok, but they were paying to rent the auditorium and everything!!!! Talk about over using your power….

Around 1800 tonight, I was caught in what seems to have been a ddos (distributed Denial of Service). I suddenly found my internet connection lost, and promtly connected to my router. My outgoing seemed to be near dead, and everything incoming was on eiher port 445 or 3531. Port 445 is commonly used for samba, but many times, it is also used by worms that Exploit LSASS. I am running linux, so that is really no threat to me. All signs pointed to me being pinnged to death. My router could not handle all the information coming in, and hence was forced to deny the LAN its services. I have tracerouted some of the Ip addresses. Most of the ones on port 445 seem to be from verizon, and they are in a relitively tight Ip range. The attacks on port 3531 were more varied in ISP. The attack lasted for 15 minutes, until I was finally able to obtain a new ip address. I am now running ethereal incase another attack does happen, this way I will have more info.

I expect to have this template finished very soon. It is getting very tedious tweaking the finer points…I really hate that.