So yeah, I've been offline a few days.

[unixronin]

No technical reason.  Just ... felt like hiding in the corner or something.  It's becoming so hard to find any joy in anything any more.  The closest I come is escapes, and many of those are palling; I can hardly work up any interest in reading anything, for example.  I unsubscribed from puns, sages_of_chaos and engineers because I couldn't remember the last time I'd bothered to read a post in any of the them.  Almost left barrayar, too, considering how dead it is ... it was pretty much stillborn.  Well, it's not like any attempt on my part to create any kind of social gathering has ever been successful.  I do social about as well as a flatworm does nuclear physics.

So tonight I start up Logjam, and Logjam says I haven't logged in for 18 days, log in now?  Sure, OK.  Knock yourself out.  So Logjam logs in and I get a popup window saying LiveJournal thinks my password is too easy to guess and I should change it.  Well, yeah, I suppose technically it might be found by a dictionary attack, if the hypothetical attacker tried every language on the planet, but it probably wouldn't be that much quicker than bruteforcing it, and EVERY PASSWORD can eventually be bruteforced, given fast enough access to make sufficient attempts.  Did they just say "Whatever" and spam every user with this stupid warning?  I've never, ever had a machine or account compromised through a password attack.  (Matter of fact, I've never had a machine under my full control compromised, period, though cymrullewes' machine was rooted by a worm exploiting a BIND8 hole once.)  It's not like my password is, say, password1 or something, or 11111 as was used by the operations director of a former employer.  (When finally persuaded how weak this was, he changed it ... to qqqqq.)

I have no theme and no message here.  I'm just rambling.  I'm tired of my foot hurting, and my knees hurting, and my back hurting, and right now I feel vaguely nauseous as well.

Comments

[smandal.livejournal.com]

I MANY times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,

And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.

Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

-blink-

I must be missing something.

[smandal.livejournal.com]

It's about "escapes"

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

That's it.

I'm kidnapping you Sunday for the PLP. If'n I have to toss you on the back of my bike, you're coming riding.

Dammit.

I'll help

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Give me a way to contact you and I'll give you our address and home phone number.

Re: I'll help

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

you can email me at ka_murphy (at) comcast (dot) net

;)

Lunenburg to Hudson-NH

[parishnurse.livejournal.com]

It's only 25 miles

update

[parishnurse.livejournal.com]

I'm cymrullewes Mom

[adriang.livejournal.com]

I unsubscribed from puns,

That's really serious, dude. You should get help.

Seriously, though, I suppose puns has its high points and low points, and it's really not at a high point, right now.

Adrian

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll admit that was part of the problem. :)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i knows the feeling!

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried Shiatsu massage? It totally helped my foot, right out of the cast. It's sort of an "energy" thing; the therapist doesn't have to touch owchie parts; she does kind of a "laying-of-the-hands" thing. It's kind of earthy-crunchy new-agey, but what the hell.

I happen to know a pretty damn good massage therapist in Pepperell, MA.

;)

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

That sounds like Reiki.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

Um. Yes. That's what I meant. :P

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think rolfing is probably more what it needs, to break up some of the scar tissue.

Of course, I'd go into orbit ... but hey, maybe then NASA would hire me :)

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

How would ROFLing help break up scar tissue? I mean, unless you were whacking your foot on the floor in the process.

Ha, ha.

[greyman.livejournal.com]

I got that popup, complaining about my password... I suspect it is too short and not filled with enough gibberish.

LJ is not one of my high security concerns... thank goodness they aren't on that 8+ character mixed 90 day change no repeats in 13 changes thing my work uses to force everyone to put down their passwords on Post-It(tm) notes and stick them under the keyboard (or on the monitor...)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sounds like Intel to me.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the overzealous approach to misguided password security.