I have a worst case scenario desk calendar and today’s survival tip is how to foil a UFO abduction.
1. Control your thoughts.
Do not think of anything violent or upsetting - the extraterrestrial biological entity (EBE) may have the ability to read your mind.
2. Resist verbally.
Firmly tell the EBE to leave you alone.
3. Resist mentally.
Picture yourself enveloped in a protective shield of light, or in a safe place. Telepathic EBEs may get the message.
4. As a last resort, go for the EBE’s eyes - you will not know what its other more sensitive areas are.
It’s just plain weird that they consider themselves the experts on alien abductions. How do they know the best way to foil one?
As for #2, how would the alien know English? With #3, for all we know, being enveloped in a shield of white light may be the universal sign for please kill me in their society. And lastly on #4, their eyes could be the stongest parts of their bodies. Or even worse, attacking the eyes could be their mating ritual. Hope you enjoy your new life with a little green man.
While working on an AMD Opteron server running SuSE one of the running processes jumped out at me. It’s name was blogd.
For those not familiar with UNIX, a ‘d’ at the end of a process name typically indicates that the process is a daemon or a service. For example, the DHCP server is dhcpd, the HTTP server, Apache, is httpd, the SSH server is sshd, and the cron server is crond. I’m sure you get the idea.
As you can imagine, seeing a blogd process immediately made me think it was a blog server, but couldn’t figure out what a blog server would do. I looked for a man page but failed to find one, so I looked around online and found that blogd is nothing more than a boot logging daemon.
Although the thought of blogging making its way into a Linux distribution is intriguing, I still can’t think of a reason to have a blog server. Maybe it could be an open source TypePad clone. However, if anyone does decide to create something like that, they’ll have to find a different domain for it. blogd.com is taken.
