Ok, SCUL “pilots”, it’s time to face facts: You are LARP ing.
Sure, your kink is different from the traditional LARPer, but this does not change the fundamentals… I was recently in aconversation with a few SCUL members, and somehow the topic of LARPing came up and both of them started laughing and poking fun at LARPers. But this struck me as really hypocritical, because I’ve always thought of SCUL as LARPing.
Be Loud, Be Proud, Be LARPers… I promise I will continue to make fun of you just as much as I do other LARPers.
…is me for being able to go with Rory to see the final game of the 2008 ALDS.
…are the Red Sox for managing to still win that game after blowing a two-run lead.
It was an awesome game, though, and Rory and I stayed around Fenway for a long time after the game taking part in the post-clinch celebrations.. We were also at the game where the Sox punched their ticket to the post-season, and we didn’t stay around long enough for the celebrations, so we weren’t about to make that mistake again.
And that failed suicide squeeze attempt, that was one of the best baseball moments of the year…
Red Sox Nation sent out a dispatch last week about a first-come, first-served contest for tickets to watch Game 2 of the ALDS at Fenway. This was an away game, so the party was being held in the State Street Pavilion, which are some of the more expensive seats in the park. I replied right away, as did roryk , and we both got on the guest list. coco_b thought it’d be a fun night too, and so we all went over there on Friday night.
It was really a blast.. RSN was giving away some neat prizes, the ultimate being two box seats to tonight’s game (we didn’t win anything, but it was fun nonetheless). The pavilion is basically a restaurant with glass facing the field, but when you’re actually at a game, you have seats on the other side of the glass to watch the game from. There were TVs to watch the game all over the restaurant, and we were also welcome to go out and sit in the seats over the field (where there were also TVs). The food was what you’d expect from a ball park, not great, but definitely a little better than the vendors in the concourse. There was a full bar and table service, and there were probably about 150 people at the party. We got pictures with the World Series trophies, but some of them are on Corinna’s camera, so I haven’t gotten them yet. The ones I took with my phone are up, though.
The game was completely awesome, a little bit of everything.. Started out hot, Angels slowly crept back, the awesome jack by Drew to put the final nails in.. It was so great watching the game with such a group of hardcore fans… Rory and Corinna really seemed to enjoy it as well, even though coco was pretty tired by the time the late night game ended…
Ok, I’ve been having a debate in my head for about a week now, and so I figured I’d open it up for discussion:
Right now, I have three classifications of passwords:
“Secure” - A memorable, yet obscure base (would look random to most people) with host-specific unique data inserted within (via a mental hash function)
“Screen-door lock” - a simple mixed case alphanumeric password I reuse across multiple hosts. This is for hosts (typically, random Web sites) where it would be mildly irritating if someone had access to my account…
“Who cares” - This is for the hosts that I don’t care about yet require me to input a password. It is a completely insecure, throwaway password. It could probably be brute-forced in about 30 seconds.
I began thinking about whether or not it would be ultimately more secure to have one classification of password (really secure, pseudo random noise) and store those passwords in a single, encrypted password store behind a single “secure” password. This store would obviously be very backed up and treated as other personal data.
Clearly, this is a single point of failure, so if someone compromises my password store, everything is compromised. On the other hand, each individual password would be far less guessable…
