Yes, Conrad Is Being Ambiguous
Because I enjoy it, and also the mental exercise is good for you out there reading this. Unless you have a personal assistant reading it to you, in which case you have more money than you need, and BOOJUM! will be happy to remove a substantial portion of your excess cash.
ANYWAY there is that brand of beer known as "Corona" which has probably seen it's sales dip a bit over the past year and a half, and which has doubtless been featured in a hundred unfunny memes. There is also the solar corona, which if NASA will oblige - Art?
From the Latin <hack spit> for "Crown"
Those of you who have been reading the blog for more than a fortnight will know that Conrad is a BIG fan of that classic Fifties sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet" (despite what Tom B. thinks about it) and that above mirrors a scene early in the film when United Planets Cruiser C57D arrives in the Altair star system. Art!
"Meanwhile, this ship arranges it's own eclipses."
You have to squint and use your imagination to see a crown in either image.
ANYWAY we are back onto Conrad's story about Corona Del Mar High School. I couldn't find the Reddit thread about the scandal that broke out there, so have a generic Reddit Youtube picture instead. Art!
The OP had mentioned that 11 pupils were expelled from the school in a computer hacking incident, yet avoided giving any great detail about the event.
Conrad saw a challenge! There was a lot more to this once I tracked down online news articles. For reasons known only to himself, a tutor at the school, Timothy Lai, showed pupils how to attach keyloggers to teacher's computers, allowing them to scrape personal details and log ins, after doing it himself; I suppose this was a "proof of concept" exercise. The 11 VERY NAUGHTY students then used this information to get into accounts and amend their grades. Their hacking was busted by a teacher who suspected their computer had been compromised to change grades, because it had been. An immediate investigation was launched, at which point Lai promptly vanished. Art!
He then Lai low
When busted several months later, Lai did a deal that meant a year in prison and five years probation, instead of the sixteen years he could have been dealt. Of the 11 VERY NAUGHTY students, five went to other schools in the Newport County district and six others left the district altogether. CdM did a huge retrospective trawl of 52,000 records to see if any other 'tinkering' had taken place, and you know what? it doesn't seem to have happened anywhere else.
You have to ask, what was he thinking?
Motley, we're going to see how good a hacker you are. First we chain you to this pipe in the cellar, and next we set the timer-release on this cage of rabid weasels, O - and here's a hacksaw. With a blunt blade*.
Home of the "Sea Kings". Whomever they are.
Whilst Talking About Hacking ...
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Here we come to the second of today's items dealing with a Roman legion fending off a zombie horde, and this time around we focus on the Gladius, the short sword that each legionary carried. Art!
Both stabby and slashy
As in, why take two bottles into the shower with you? The 'Spanish sword' as it was also known had both a point and edges, so as a Legionary you could either impale your opponent upon it, or slice them into quivering chunks of blubber. Any zombies within reach could be despatched by a quick stab to the skull, or taking the whole head off at the neck. There's a third method of dealing with attackers, as demonstrated by a wargamer at Phalanx once; slicing low behind the enemy's knee to cut their hamstring and render them partially crippled. Art!
There may be some out there who dismiss the gladius because it's not a gun and has an effective reach of maybe two yards. Undoubtedly true; yet it has no moving parts that may break down or malfunction, requires no ammunition, needs no power source, is silent, and can be maintained with a dab of oil and a whetstone. It can also dice fruit and slice loaves, which you cannot say of an AK47.
Less Chuck And More Hog
Earlier today we came across the woodchuck, one of those small rodents peculiar to South Canada, which is also known as the groundhog**. Rather than try to answer that very vaguely-framed question about how much wood a woodchuck could chuck, Conrad thinks it would be a lot easier to answer the question "How much ground could a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?" Art!
The answer is, not much. Groundhogs are not large creatures, and if lying down to hog the ground in a hug, they'd maybe hog all of a square foot. Unless! <typically grim and dark Conrad musings> - unless they were roadkill, in which cas<redacted out of good taste>
Three Wheels On Mein Vagen
Ah, yes, motorcycle combinations of the Second Unpleasantness! You will undoubtedly have seen these vehicular arrangements without realising, most certainly if you have seen "Where Eagles Dare" or that Indiana Jones film about Cross-eyed Losers or something.
The subject came up because Phil over on the SOTCW Facebook page had posted a picture of Sinister motorcycle and sidecar combinations. Conrad was unaware such things existed; if a model exists then it has to be real, am I right?
CAUTION! will also run on vodka
That's not the photo he posted, it's just a proof-of-concept picture that shows these things really existed. I think Art needs motivating with the cattle-prod to come up with some supplementary evidence - Art!
That, ladies, gentlemen and those unsure, is the MC combination from WED. We may come back to this, there's some mileage in it.
Finally -
Corks! Have started the final episode of "Sweet Home" and the slow attrition of our survivors in the Green Home apartment block continues, although they have seen off all the monsters that had infiltrated their block and it's garage. Not necessarily monsters in monster-shape, either. Which will be all I say for today, going out as I came in: ambiguously.
Now, this - this is a monster.
* Can't make it too easy!
** DON'T MENTION THE FILM!!
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