I look forward to the day when my nephews and honorary nieces and nephews look at me incredulously when I say that I was in my 30s when same sex marriage was legalized (because I'm OLD and that's just stupid it took that long!) And I really hope this one is the final hurrah and it becomes standard from now on.

I sincerely hope for this as well.

Today is my anniversary at this job and I'm being taken out to lunch of my choice. I have no idea where to go though!

Today is my anniversary at this job and I'm being taken out to lunch of my choice. I have no idea where to go though!

Go steak, choose steak!

More stuff for coffee drinkers to worry about: Denial-of-coffee attacks affect networked coffee-maker

Almost sounds like an Onion headline....

If you own a Jura F90 Coffee Maker, you can also buy a Jura Internet Connection Kit, which lets you program and set your coffee prefs via the network: however, its got a bunch of vulnerabilities that allow for remote denial-of-coffee attacks:

Guess what - it can not be patched as far as I can tell ;) It also has a few software vulnerabilities.

Fun things you can do with a Jura coffee maker:
1. Change the preset coffee settings (make weak or strong coffee)
2. Change the amount of water per cup (say 300ml for a short black) and make a puddle
3. Break it by engineering settings that are not compatible (and making it require a service)

I'm completely boggled that they embedded Windows XP in a coffee maker.

Could be worse; it could be Vista.

I'm completely boggled that they embedded Windows XP in a coffee maker.

So if it fails, you get the blue liquid of death?

Wonder if you can program it in Java?

C. Thomas Howell just looks so unpleasant.

Damn. One of my bosses was just in a motorcycle accident. He's OK, but he has some injury to a disk in his neck.

Just last week he was all excited upon trading his Triumph for a more powerful BMW cycle.

I think motorcycles are cool, but I've known too many people who've been badly injured on one... so I don't think I'll ever own one (as long as I live in a big city, anyway).

One of the boingboing commenters nails it:

How long until the RIAA issues files a lawsuit against a coffeemaker for music downloads?

oh lisa - I would be tempted to go to BK. I have been told that MY BK, the one just a short block in the consourse away, is closed?!?!?! My world is askew I think I know how those persecuted Christians feel, will no one think of ME!??!?!

ION, my parents are in town with a large group and thus staying in a hotel, but they came out to see mac last night and surprised him at his afterschool (he was not expecting to see them until tonight). He took a full 3 seconds to process what he was seeing them yelped and ran to jump at them with hugs. Not sure who was beaming more, they are such proud grandparents.