Tyler Oderkirk's Blog

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I use a shell script called `stream.sh` to launch my music player and open a given internet radio station. I use it like this to tune to a local AM station: $ stream.sh 1370 I usually edit small scripts like that with `nano(1)`. Rather than type the entire path to the script when I need [...]

Having last attended Shmoocon in 2007, I was glad to see that all the things that made it great ”then” were still present for the 2009 installment: A close-knit community feel. The Shmoo Group’s prolific members are very active in the infosec community and appear to unite many disparate groups within it. The freedom to [...]

On Sunday morning I left Denver for Sioux City Iowa. I drove northeast for a few hours then dropped the hammer through the flat flatness of Nebraska. I arrived sometime after midnight at the home of my elementary-school-era neighbors Tom and Noni. Tom directs an impressive tri-state air ambulance service and Noni hops from city-to-city [...]

I had a nice leisurely morning today – waffles, some meditation, and a swim in the hotel’s pool. I like this pace. After a ham sandwich lunch, I listened to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”1 as recommended by John Udell in an insightful piece about trying to sip from the firehose. The snow [...]

I coaxed my iron horse onto the road today at 5pm. Packing for a month of travel took a bit longer than I expected `:]` I plan to… Visit my sister and Jared in Tulsa. Check out a school and meet up with some folks in Denver. Potentially visit Sioux City and Omaha. Jet back [...]

My Dad ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook recently. I took some photos of the unboxing. Here are a few miscellaneous thoughts: You know how IE plays that little “mouse click” sound when accessing a new web page? It’s not so bad except for the fact that it often happens a second or so ”’after”’ [...]

Here are some pics from a recent hike I took in Bristol near Stid Hill.  Thanks to Paula for giving me some route advice. I took a Nokia N770 and GPS reciever with me and logged my return trip. Be sure to view the “Terrain” and “Hybrid” map types. Big kudos to John Costigan for developing [...]

Have you ever seen someone in a movie and thought to yourself “Hey, weren’t they in movie Y too?” This happened to me last night when I was watching ”Casino”. The parking lot attendant from a certain scene looked just like a character from ”Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. To the *nix shell, Robin!</Bruce [...]

While perusing some Python documentation, I came across some example text: “foo, bar, bletch”. Catchy. Maybe even better than “foo, bar, baz”. Turns out that there’s an entire Wikipedia article on the subject. Curious what other people have used, I consulted Google Sets and asked for a small set. Click “enlarge set” for some outstanding [...]