Article: Conficker Worm: Hoax or Criminally Genius Scheme?

The Conficker Worm is a virus that’s been spreading rapidly on Windows operating systems since about October of last year. The intents of the virus, which will initiate on April 1st, 2009, are currently unknown, but it’s been hypothesized that it could be anything as harmless as a foul joke to a botnet maker, spooling [...]

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Political Standing

I haven’t had much of a stance on politics since President Bush was elected. Even back then, I didn’t know much except that I didn’t like the look that John Kerry had in his eye. There was something about that guy. Oh, and Al Gore inventing the Internet? Are you kidding me?
Today I responded to [...]

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The Philanthropic Answers to Sherrie’s Random Questions

I happened to read a list of random questions that Sherrie wrote, and I decided to answer them for her and the rest of humanity’s sakes.
1. If humans intestines are long enough to go around the world like 3 times how do they fit inside our body?
Actually, they’re only about 30 feet or so long. [...]

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Saturday on the Canal Road with Julie

Today was the longest walk of my entire life. Time slips by when you’re having fun, so they say. 
The original plan was to have Julie Dog and Briana’s Bella (Bellatrix, AKA “Dufus”) meet and become friends, seeing as how they’re uber alike. Then I invited Kayla along because we had planned to go on an [...]

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A Study Rearrangement

I recently rearranged many of the pictures and posters on the walls of my study (I prefer to call my room my study; it sounds more astute). One of the main reasons was because my new loft bed (which was actually instated at the end of November last year, so not so new) was covering [...]

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Schemes

I have several upcoming schemes, some of a more secretive nature, some of a less secretive nature, that I will plot out below. If I actually write down said schemes, I’ll feel better about and will actually begin getting them rolling.

Finish editing Winter Eternal, film one or two easily filmed scenes (especially Scene 27); compile [...]

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Expenses

Needed:
1. Antique Macintosh Plus (1986), to write a memoir for the folks at OSNews to enjoy: ~$20.
2. A pack o’ DVDs. 
More-Wanted-But-Sort-of-Needed-in-a-Round-About-Way:
1. Replacement graphics card– at least with 512MB of 256-bit vRAM at 1700MHz, 600MHz GPU, 320 stream processing units… ~$70 (minus the $50-$60 I can sell my graphics card for– if not more– perhaps I [...]

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Ward Choir

People ask me perpetually every year why I, a devout Madrigal, loving in upmost adoration all music, don’t join ward choir. The truth is that I really don’t wish to mingle with such an immature-sounding rabble loosely called “choir.” Yes, the truth hurts, but they’ll have to face it sometime.
When they sing, all I hear [...]

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Winter Eternal Makes Progress

We’re beginning to edit again, and we’ve made headway in the process. I’d say editing is about 20% complete. For your enjoyment, I’ve provided three clips of humorous nature for all to see. Below, see how long Gus Gus can take to film one sentence, see Mister Tim Brooks comment on a grasshopper, and see [...]

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Take Johnny Guitar to State or Go on Choir Tour, but Stop Blaming Us

I recently enjoyed seeing the musical put on by the drama department (but cast mostly with students from choir) at West Jordan High School, a play entitled “Johnny Guitar.” It was a 40-or-so minute adaptation of a full and longer musical of (I believe) the same name. It was a very well put together to-do, [...]

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Intrinsic Influences, Volume II: Julie Dog

Julie Dog appeared on the scene way back in the days of 2001 as a wee little pup in a box. We collected that silly and cute dog at a McDonald’s in Kayesville from an old farmer for around $100 (US). The old man asked by brother (who purchased the pooch) what he was [...]

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One Year Anniversary: Caeruleus

It’s been about a year since I finished buying the parts to Caeruleus, built him, and installed Windows Vista, officially completing the project. A year later, and I’m quite pleased with Caeruleus as a whole though there are definitely better quality graphics cards out there.
The one sad thing about looking back a year is that, [...]

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Characterization Project

I recently had to complete ten manners of short stories that mainly focused on the development or introduction of one character. Several of these are from my ever-growing story, and the rest I made up on the spot. One I made up, but it has to do with my story later on (a part I [...]

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Characterization X: Only Friend

Only Friend
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
                She shook her head and stared at the desk with writing upon it. “No, no, no, no, no!” was all she could manage to murmur. She rocked back and forth, staring in that out-of-focus way at the grimy, vandalized desk before her. They couldn’t get anything else out of her; not [...]

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Characterization IX: Nobody

Nobody
–Jordan Spencer Cunningham–
                “Hey.” There was that voice again. It echoed around the dark, empty, wet alley. Victor Regaldi froze. He usually wasn’t afraid of people—even people he couldn’t see—but this voice had something hidden in it, something ominous, like an alkaline-poisoned pool of water. It was apparent even in the one syllable from unknown [...]

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Characterization VIII: Feeling Again

 

Feeling Again

By Jordan Spencer Cunningham­­­
                New York was just about a tough a place as any to try to subside in. Jean ought to know. She had lived everywhere in the city from the streets to condemned, ancient buildings to, when she had scrounged up the money, an actual apartment, sometimes [...]

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Characterization VII: Mentally Ill Male, Generic

A Mentally Ill Male, Generic
By Jordan Spencer Cunningham
                Sid wasn’t a bad person. He refused to be a bad person. It was those voices that forced him do the bad things in return for letting him live, so it was the voices that were responsible. Shivering at the thought of the voices, he looked at [...]

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Characterization VI: Beep-Beep

Beep-beep
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
Frederick Meister was alone. The only sound to keep him company was the constant ‘beep-beep’ of the heart-rate monitor. He stared at that ceiling day after day listening to that horrid sound—he wondered if he was starting to go mad from it.
                Beep-beep.
                They told him that he had no more than two [...]

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Characterization V: The Apathedral

The Apathedral
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
The massive building buzzed with apathy as he and his escorts walked along a roof that also served as a landing platform. Dominic looked to the left and right of him at the two crewmembers assigned to escort him—they, too, were having a hard time dealing with this absence of feeling. It [...]

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Characterization IV: An Odd Foriegner

An Odd Foreigner
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
 
It was the happy word that caught him. “Happy…” he said again; this time it was nearly a question—a detailed, precise question, all asked in two syllables.
“Yes,” sighed an old, nasaly voice behind him. The Trash Man scampered around to face an ancient man. “Were you?” The voice had a heavy [...]

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Characterization III: Tired

Tired
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
 
                Timothy Banks was, simply put, tired. He was often overworked and underpaid in his occupation, but the love and reward of teaching outweighed any lack of monetary compensation. He always stayed up too late—that was his own fault. What wore the swiftly aging man out most, though, was Alex.
                Alexander Xavier was [...]

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Characterization II: Numb Child

Numb Child
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
 
            And thus Mark Gregory was induced into the New Somersetian way of life. He seemed to live a fairly normal childhood, but then there was the adjective “fairly.” Though he was introduced into kindergarten at age five, he didn’t seem to get along with the other children.
            [...]

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Characterization I: Only a Hectocore at Fourteen Terahertz

Only a Hectocore at Fourteen Terahertz
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
Geoffrey had his eyes downcast. They glinted in the light of his handheld computer. Locke blinked at him. “What was that you said?” He recognized Geoffrey, but without the toupee and the thick glasses he sported what seemed like so long ago in the Gregorian courtroom he looked [...]

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I Am Root

The following is a bit of terminal work I did on Ubuntu to become the ruler of the world:
weildish@caeruleus:~$ sudo su
(“sudo su” is a command to give me root access, or ultimate power)
[sudo] password for weildish:
(it asks me for my password, so I type it in. Unlike most OSs, not even the asterisks are shown– [...]

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