"As initialization vectors, 'Bruce Schneier' and'Chuck Norris' are interchangeable.
Not quite "Bruce Schneier" has slightly more of the "je ne sais quoi"[1] we call entropy [2].
So perhaps the site could add,
"Bruce Schneier, more je ne sais quoi than Chuck Norris!"
[1] It's from French and depending on who you belive it means either "I know not what" or "I do not know what".
[2] This could of course be wrong depending on if you are using the "A sin to err" or "Eat on Irish lid" frequency tables.
]]>This Bruce fact got me laughing out loud.
]]>I've sent this as a suggestion to an old acquaintance who is a TV maker specialising in programs taking the mick out of stupid stuff and people. He was absolutely thrilled with the idea of showing up with a parachute as carry-on luggage on a flight to Washington DC.
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I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored
I been John O’Hara’d, McNamara’d
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I’m blind
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, ‘cause I’m left-handed
That’s the hand I use, well never mind!
The supervisor's supervisor (Marco by name) explained that I cannot take that through to the secure zone, lest I poke someone.
I asked if he has any opinions about pens (I carry about seven, in various colors, including red - which might either camouflage a wound or cause undue panic.)
He did not. He said it was rules from America.
I pointed out that I'd flown from the U.S. with this same sock (smaller, but not by much - Prague's too interesting for me to get much knitting time.)
He gruffly escorted me to the bag-checking area, where I checked in a ziplock bag. The dude at the next bag-checking counter suggested that I could form a Very Scary Tool with my knitting. I suggested I have fingers and am not afraid to use them, and bade farewell to the sock and needles, fully expecting not to see it again after my international stopover.
Ahead of me, in the plane, was a rather nice woman. I could tell she was nice 'cause she sat there, quietly knitting on her sock the whole fight. Did *she* BruceSchnier someone?
When I got to Seattle, airport staff was unanimous in saying that I shouldn't have had my knitting taken. That niceness made up for the rudeness with which the ICE & CBP treated incomers - right down to the long lines we were made to stand in.
And the knitting? It made it back safely.
]]>It occurred to me that one could fashion a really effective spear by adding a shaft by wrapping the WSJ around that bamboo piece. I made an example in about 5 minutes, and later gave it to the flight attendant and asked her to pass it along to her security folks with the request that they consider eliminating the bamboo object.
TBH, she was a little shocked, and her reaction was between "do I thank him or report him to the Air Marshal?"
]]>That's because the Higher Ups haven't yet been able to come to a concensus about the proper code name.
]]>e.g. The backscatter operator procedures seem to be designed to ensure an operator is never _caught_ doing something they shouldn't.
]]>So what's the verb when you use logic to confound and perplex an officer and get into even more trouble?
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