musings of wrath

October, 2005

It’s been 2 weeks since the sun went away. We lost power all over the city, after the last of the Fall warm fronts.

The gas stations were the first to go.

The military claimed it was strategic orders from the Pentagon. They mentioned the nation was at Threat Condition Red. They killed 1600 people before someone took out the General. In the end, the gas stations became “foothold” points where the military fought off rioters and innocents alike. What was surprising was the reaction by the world’s largest deparment store chain. They went against the military, and offered “citizenship” to all of its employees.

Since then, we’ve had rumors of the ice bringing the capitol to a halt. A few days later, we’d heard stories of a massive evacuation of the sparse survivors in DC. I’ve not seen anyone I knew there. My guess is that something has happened to our orbit around the sun, but I have no clue as to what.

I think it started with the earthquake - the only one on record, here. It made the news, but didn’t do much damage. It was forgotten for a few days, when it happened. The sun didn’t come up. The stars were still out, and my watch said noon. I wasn’t the only one who was confused. I joined several neighbors, some half-dressed for work, as they went from lawn to lawn, talking to each other. They marvelled how interesting, even wonderful, this all was.

Then it got cold.

It only took 48 hours for water lines to start bursting. It was then that military tracked vehicles started broadcasting curfew notices throughout the neighborhoods.

more later.

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Gettin’ old, aren’t we?

let me begin with stating:

I sometimes don’t really like this thing. It makes me think too much.

I’ve got this idea that could potentially be pitched to comcast. A local “root” domain, .cast. On it we have all sorts of services. Game servers, forums, public and private USENET groups (on the cast.* structure, of course). Every customer gets one .cast root domain for $10/month, hosted on pre-built “web hosting” linux “distributions”. They get up to 5 mailboxes on that domain, out of the seven they already get (using comcast’s current webmail structure, if necessary).

This can all be automated. We can provide other services, as well, like sourceforge provides. Need a t-shirt made? I bet cafepress would pay $10/year to have their domain on the .cast root. Talked about targetted audience - they hit all of comast’s clients, I’m sure.

I’d just want to make sure certain domain names are reserved.
what do you think?