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Last night was Chris' 21st birthday so a few of us decided to go out to Old Town Pasadena for a pub crawl. We intended to start off at Club 41 Restaurant next to the Twin Palms but the damn place was closed so we headed across the street to Barney's LTD.

After a couple pints we moved down to McMurphy's where we promptly purchased a few Irish car bombs for Chris. Soon after that I got a a video of him showing his karaoke skills by rocking Whitesnake's Here I Go Again.

Rory sang a country song so well that we all suspect him of practicing.

We then headed out the back door into an alley to Old Town Pub. The place was strange, no front door (alley only entrance) and sells 40's, they also have a homebrew with the greatest tap handle I've ever seen. Erik and I were both pondering how to distract the bartender to make off with it.

From there we stumbled over to the 35er . Erik is a moron and doesn't have a state ID yet so the fat ass bouncer wouldn't let him in (even though he looks 40 something). Before we bounced from the Dirty Diver I saw this poster in the men's room.

I'm sure the MPAA and the movie's producers won't mind the creative license taken with their poster. Lucky Baldwin's and several pints of Lord Tetley's were next. I maintain that Tetley's is the greatest beer ever crafted, hands down. We finished the drinking at Barney's Beanery with a few games of 8-ball and some hot wings.

Our last stop however was at Del Taco. Our trip went as well as any one of us would have expected: Chris was trying to get out of the window of my Lotus to scream and yell at anything we passed by. After restraining him and getting our tacos he got most of the first one all over the inside of my car and proceeded to pass out halfway though the second.

We had quite a few guests in our retinue, even so this was just a warmup for this weekend in Vegas. More posts coming soon!

Holy shit, have we been playing punchface for years and inadvertantly been creating legions of zombies?

If so I wonder if that means we are immune to punchface induced zombification? Each of us has clearly been punched enough times to qualify. Perhaps it's only if you get sucker punched when you are about to eat that causes you to be pissed off enough to try to eat human brains? This merits further experimentation. Scary stuff though, really.

Update:

The video link has been updated and should now be working, damn the DMCA!

As an update to the Gun porn and SoCo post I offer the following picture:

This is 15 rounds at a timed 25 yard target with only one outside the black. The only stray was my last shot, I was getting a little excited by that point and dragged the trigger a tiny bit. Still though: 4 in the X ring, 5 in the ten ring, 5 in the nine ring with one eight ring isn't half bad at 25 yards rapid fire. My Kimber Gold Combat is one hell of a zombie killing gun!

One more indescribably retarded picture involving large amounts of alcohol seems appropriate:

I've been using these resolvers for years but never documented them, nor can I recall where I first heard about them. They are super useful for hotel wireless configurations with shitty NS resolution or ISPs that ignore TTL. After guessing them for the thousandth time I've decided to chronicle their existence for all (and me). Here you go:

• 4.2.2.1
• 4.2.2.2
• 4.2.2.3

As far as I can tell there are many of these IPs that work, something like [1..10] maybe more. They reverse back to vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net which seems to be owned by Verizon, thanks guys!

Update

As mentioned in the comments OpenDNS also offers free resolving nameservers. OpenDNS advertises that they filter out phishing sites and other web spam. I don't use them because servers 'helping' me out by filtering results to my queries is exactly why I sought out the ones I blogged about in the first place.

Besides being harder to memorize OpenDNS has the nasty habit of returning ads for queries that should come back with NXDOMAIN. This makes them a no-go solution for me.

$ dig @208.67.222.222 nodomain234r3973.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @208.67.222.222 nodomain234r3973.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51336
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nodomain234r3973.com.          IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nodomain234r3973.com.   0       IN      A       208.67.219.130

;; Query time: 110 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct  3 12:12:33 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 54

$ dig -x 208.67.219.130

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> -x 208.67.219.130
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25925
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;130.219.67.208.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
130.219.67.208.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN   PTR     nxdomain.guide.opendns.com.

;; Query time: 97 msec
;; SERVER: 64.207.129.233#53(64.207.129.233)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct  3 12:12:50 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

Thanks but no thanks, I already see enough ad spam.