Sneaky Bastard

In the movie Major League (1989), Pedro Cerrano constructs an alter for Jobu, with the expectation that he will take the fear of the curve ball from his bats. In one scene, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken is brought into the locker room, and his teammates apologize that they could not deliver a live chicken for the sacrificial offering. My family has seen the movie dozens of times, and we often quote memorable lines. There are several great clips are on YouTube.

When I interviewed for a job recently, my mom constructed an offering to Jobu. She arranged some of my favorite items, along with my personalized cloth napkin and a whole chicken. Obviously, it worked. How else could I have been selected for the position?

I bought a BernzOMatic Micro Torch (ST200T) yesterday to make heating shrink tube easier. It was about eight bucks. I figured it had a quartz igniter, but no. They recommend lighting it with a match. You’ve got to be kidding me.

They do make one (ST2200T) with an igniter, but it’s less convenient and more expensive. Awesome.

To satisfy my curiosity after the increase in worm activity affecting WordPress websites, I decided to run a quick query of the wp_users table in all the WordPress databases on a server. Adjust the database names as necessary, and create a MySQL password file as /root/.my.cnf before running the loop:

for U in adam baker charlie delta; do
  DB="${U}_wordpress"
  echo "Database: $DB"
  sudo -H mysql -D $DB -e "
    SELECT u.user_login, u.user_registered, um.meta_value
    FROM wp_users u INNER JOIN wp_usermeta um ON (u.id = um.user_id)
    WHERE um.meta_key = 'wp_capabilities'
    ORDER BY u.user_registered DESC"
  echo ""
done


The output will show the most recently created user accounts for each WordPress installation. Apparently the current worm creates an administrator account called “Administrator (2)” that is used to login and make changes to the site. I don’t know if that string appears in the nickname field, or what, so I didn’t query for it explicitly.

Facebook just presented this ad to me. I can’t recall the other content on the page in which it appeared, however Facebook made a giant blunder in profiling if it thought I would be receptive to an ad in which Ben Stein shills for a slimy credit report company. The thing that struck me as hilarious was that the ad listed his credentials. I imagined “Columnist” and being hastily crossed out and “Crackpot” written in by hand. I would buy (almost) ANYTHING from a company that used Ben Stein as a tool (explicitly).

Coincidentally, there was an article on Pharyngula today showing the depths to which Ben Stein has sunk. It must be quite murky down there.

I will never, ever attend a meeting that has Linux, Real Estate, and Investment on the agenda.