Something interesting for you all

So I did a little hacking back in my junior high days and there was always some small points that I have forgotten about till I saw a documentry about it all on tv last night before going to bed. Like the hacker orginization called 2600 stems from the frequency of a tone that you would use to connect to the automated switch in the old telephone system. And another interesting fact about it was the guy who invented the blue box (device used to call various places for free through payphones) was called Cap'n Crunch and he got that nickname cause he realized that this whistle that you could get in a box of CaP'n Crunch cereal made that 2600 frequency. So they could walk by a row of pay phones blow the whistle and disconnect everyone at once cause the switch would reset the call waiting for the next set of tones. This was also used to access the switch board so you could set up conference call rooms secretly inside the phones lines. Alas the very first secret chat rooms. =)

When it rains it pours

So my Job search may have turn on it's head the last two days. I had a call from a recruiter on the night of my birthday for a position south of Atlanta about an hour or so. But the more and more I started talking to him the more I began to suspect that this company he's trying to set me up with is Lockeheed Martin. Which would be a great job. My father works for Lockheed as a Director of Engineering so I think that would be pretty funny that me and my pops would be working for the same company. Sort of like the old days. =) But so far talks are going good. Looks like they want to pay me about what I was making before which is a big surprise since the market down turn. AND today my mother calls me and tells me she sees a posting for a web design position making more then I was making before. I called them but only got a machine but things are looking brighter already. Thank God I was going to have to hang myself if I was going to have to continue being a retail whore any longer.