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The movie is called Downfall and over the past year or so there’s been plenty of funny subtitle alterations from getting banned from Xbox Live to Hillary’s last days. This time it’s the Electronic Frontier Foundation reminding us all that those funny videos are exactly what the media companies don’t want you to be able to do.

• NIN/JA was a great show. SSSC did well too! #
• Recap of NIN/JA coming forthwith. Waiting on the pictures. I didn’t bring a camera but a friend did. #
• Check out the video on Day 5. Meet the Spy: http://www.teamfortress.com/spyupdate/english.htm #
• More movies. WAR expansion trailer: http://bit.ly/Qrek0 #
• Hrm, still no photos from friend. Will have to beat it out of him today. #
• New Sword of the Stars expansion announced. Congrats guys! http://bit.ly/gb0WX #

On Saturday my wife and I went with another couple to the Nine Inch Nails / Jane’s Addiction concert. (No Matt, I don’t know when the PIR/ATE concert comes to town.) It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to a large outdoor show, like back in the cell-phones-didn’t-have-cameras era. It turns out Trent is pretty cool about the whole recording the show thing. Probably since he’s thrown off the chains of a record company and struck out on his own he’s willing to let the fans get the word out via flickr and youtube. That and he’s a big nerd, he did the sounds for Quake for crying out loud.

After we sat down in our seats waiting for Street Sweeper Social Club to take the stage we started talking about the trek to get to that point. I thought it was surprisingly laid back, but maybe that’s because I flown a lot more times than gone to shows in the last few years. The sun was going down and there was a chill in the air so everyone except for Shawn had jackets. (He eventually wore the purchased JA t-shirt over his other t-shirt. He didn’t want to be “that guy” but at a certain point comfort overrode cool.)

In order to get in we got the usualy line up security search which involved a weak pat down on the sides and belt with my arms up holding my keys and phone. I was asked if I had anything else in my jacket and I automatically said no, but there was no confirmation. I could have had anything lighweight in the pockets.

Then I handed the four barcoded tickets to the next guy. He beeped the top sheet and handed it back to me. I showed him the other three sheets underneath but all I got was a blank stare. We proceeded to check out the $35 t-shirts and grabbed $12 cups of beer (no lids so there’s a better chance of spilling and requiring refill) and then proceeded to our seats. The final check was to make sure we were in the right section, all 4 tickets confirmed.

It was then that I realized the security was all about “guns & money”. The pat down was for any obvious weapons like a gun in the belt or shoulder holster, but every bag was thoroughly checked for any drinks that were dumped before entry. It’s tough to sell an $8 cup of wine if you can bring it in yourself. They’d let pretty much anyone into the “outer ring” of the ampitheater to buy those drinks, food and t-shirts. The actual ticket check was in the sections to make sure you didn’t try to sneak in an upgrade to the price you paid.

P.S. I will post about all three performances later this week. Waiting for the pics from Shawn to prove that it did happen. Feel free to check out the pics and youtubed vids over at NIN’s site in the meantime.

• Blew the dust off the ol’ rorschach.net blog. Trying out some plugins and scripts to link the blog w/ here & facebook. #
• RT @rstevens: Octopus Pie is back from a server meltification, please pass it on. http://www.octopuspie.com/ #
• Attending the NIN/JA concert tonight. Very excited! #

• Blew the dust off the ol’ rorschach.net blog. Trying out some plugins and scripts to link the blog w/ here & facebook. #
• RT @rstevens: Octopus Pie is back from a server meltification, please pass it on. http://www.octopuspie.com/ #

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Needless to say my lack of posting on this blog doesn’t mean I’m inactive. Usually it means I’m too active (elsewhere) or have found a different new (twitter) shiny (facebook) to occupy my time. But communicating at 140 characters a post really isn’t writing, and sometimes I like to write. Sometimes I want to talk about subjects with a little more depth.

So I’m blowing the dust off the blog and trying some plugins and scripts to link together the social networking sites so you don’t have to “follow” me on multiple services to know what’s going on. 

I’m committing to at least one post a week and shooting for three. We’ll see how it turns out.