Some Iranian Physicist wants to sign my Guestbook?

Hmmm… I used to have one of those nifty little guestbooks for people to sign.  Sadly, the only people who ever wanted to sign it always seemed to be selling something.  Oddly enough, they also almost always seemed to be from places like Malaysia, Korea, China, Russia or somewhere in the Middle East.  You know… countries of real virtue and honor.  Yeah, right.

Suffice it to say, that I check my server logs regularly and habitually ban IP ranges from those countries whenever they appear to be trying to access things they have no business trying to access.  Tonight, however, I get a new one… Iran.  Why would anybody in Iran want to sign and/or spam my guestbook?  (My guess is the latter, of course.)

First off, I didn’t just look at the IP address and think to myself, “Oh, that’s Iran.”  I use a Network Lookup tool to fish that sort of stuff out.  So, anyway, here is the IP:  217.174.16.30

Wow, now that’s interesting…

inetnum:  217.174.16.0 – 217.174.20.255
netname:  NIOC-NET
descr:  National Iranian Oil Company
country:  IR
admin-c:  AA1143-RIPE
tech-c:  AHG2-RIPE
tech-c:  AHR
status:  ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:  NIOC-MNT
source:  RIPE # Filtered

National Iranian Oil Company?  Far out.  If you check the IP using Network Tools, you’ll notice there are some interesting contact persons associated with it. 

person:  Amir Hassan Rasti
address:  Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics
address:  and Mathematics (IPM)

Theoretical Physics? Now, what on earth are these knuckleheads up to? Selling Viagra? 

Hey, Ali, Amir G. and Amir R., consider yourselves BANNED!

For my Wife

On a transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning. One woman in particular loses it.

Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. “I’m too young to die,” she wails.

Then she yells, “Well, if I’m going to die, I want my last minutes on earth to be memorable! Is there anyone on this plane who can make me feel Like a WOMAN?”

For a moment there is silence. Everyone has forgotten their own peril. They all stare, riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.

Then a cowboy from Texas stands up in the rear of the plane. He is handsome: tall, well built, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He starts to walk slowly up the aisle, unbuttoning his shirt. One button at a time…

No one moves…

He removes his shirt…

Muscles ripple across his chest…

She gasps…

He whispers…

“Iron this…then get me a beer.”

Debunking Hurricane Katrina Myths

“Bumbling by top disaster-management officials fueled a perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors. In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest–and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history…”

The government is not the solution… people are the solution.

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Bush on Gulf Coast a Year After Katrina

Yep, he is here… I just got caught in a 30 minute traffic jam on Highway 90 in east Biloxi thanks to our Prez.  So, I get back to the office and see this article written by one Jennifier Loven of the Associated Press.  The article wasn’t that great particularly… but, one statement towards the end jumped out at me:

“He is spending a little more time freely roaming Mississippi than harder-hit, less-recovered New Orleans.”

Say what?  Have you ever been through a big hurricane, Jennifer?  The Mississippi Coast was in the northeast quadrant of Hurricane Katrina… that’s the worst part of the storm to be in.  New Orleans’ problem is the fact that they didn’t use the federal money earmarked for levee upgrades for the levees.  They made their own bed and now want the Feds to lie in it.

New Orleans wasn’t “harder-hit” than Mississippi… there was – and is – as much devastation in Mississippi as there was in New Orleans.  If not more.  The difference is that Mississippians didn’t sit on their hands and whine about what “the government” was or wasn’t doing to help.  We rolled up our sleeves and got to work cleaning up and rebuilding.  Yet, all the media can focus on is New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans.

Why?  I’ll tell you why… because New Orleans and Louisiana is run by a bunch of leftist Democrats who wrote the book on Big Government.  That, and hedonistic New Orleans is party central… you know how left-wingers like to get all decadent and party, right?

Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that Mississippi has a Republican Governor, no?  Maybe if the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast had started raping and killing people and looting Walmart for beer and plasma televisions, we’d be the focus of media attention in regards to Katrina’s aftermath…

New Orleans harder hit?  My ass.  Go to hell, Jennifer Loven… I hear you’re a Democratic Hack anyway.

Battlestar Galactica Webisodes

The team that creates the Sci Fi channel’s Battlestar Galactica will be posting “webisodes” in the time leading up to the season premiere in October.  It’s a great show… dark, sexy… not your average science fiction program.  Check it out!