Sunday, June 15, 2008

Pat makes his big screen debut










Tom Cruise played volleyball for the Navy. Pat played football for the Army.










Now, he's ready to be a star.



In case that endorsement deal with Subway doesn't pan out.*
(*All pictures stolen from Pat's blog.)
You probably already got this email, but I didn't want to miss anyone.

Some people asked me about this on Saturday. But yeah, my company did another short film this year for the 48 Hour Film Project. We had 2 days to make a 4-7 minute film based on genre, character, prop and line of dialogue provided. This year, they're showing at the Charles, a real theater, which is pretty awesome, this Wednesday (June 18). Anyway, if you'd like to check it out, you can see Neil and me in another film, along with special guest, Pat Hoffman, in his big screen debut!
Pat is on screen for like half the film and has 2 lines, one of which he added himself. I was not in charge of casting. But you already saw me do one of these, so my marketing plan=Pat. Anyway, here's the info.

Our group goes at 9:30, but for $8 you get to see about 10 short films, some of which are good, some of which aren't. I'll let you decide where ours falls.

You can buy tickets at the door or order ahead of time. The Charles isn't huge, so if you're definitely planning on going, you might want to order tickets ahead of time here


The Charles Theatre is located in midtown Baltimore at 1711 North Charles Street, just a block and a half north of Penn Station. There is $2 parking for theatre patrons in the covered lot just across the street, as well as metered street parking all around the theatre.


If you can make it, awesome. If not, I understand, it's short notice and 9:30 is kind of late for the middle of the week.

Oh, and in case you never saw it. Here's our movie from last year.


-George

Thursday, June 12, 2008

These are the people I work with....

First Email
There are reports of a new email-based phishing attack directed at the Hopkins email systems. The subject of the message is: "VERIFY YOUR JHMI.EDU WEBMAIL ACCOUNT" and specific information is requested including password and secret question/answer. Please disregard this message.
The subject line of the message is: "VERIFY YOUR JHMI.EDU WEBMAIL ACCOUNT
The text of the message is as follows:
"This email is to inform all our {www.jhmi.edu} users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a user of our site, you are required send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your email box. Further be informed that we will be deleting all email account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. So you are to send us your email account details which are as follows:
User name in full :.........................
Email in full :.........................
Password:.......................................
Date of birth: ...............................
Security question :.........................
Security answer:...........................
Any email user that refuses to send his/her details within the next two (7) days of receipt this mail, his/her mail account will be deleted from the site."

Second Email- Sent 24 hours later..
The message I sent yesterday concerning an Email Phishing attack was NOT a request for anyone to send me usernames and passwords. It was a reminder not to disclose account information, and had an example of the current attempt to collect this information.
Sharing account information is never a good idea and can be a violation of University and HIPAA policies.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Thursday, June 5, 2008

What's My Anti-Drug?

Not getting plowed over by a drunk guy while riding my 10-speed.

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A car plowed into a weekend bike race along a highway near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others, police said.

Police apprehend Juan Campos, who is charged with killing one of the cyclists.

The 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race, said police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez.
A photograph taken by a city official showed bicyclists and equipment being hurled high into the air by the collision.
Rodriguez said Juan Campos was charged with killing Alejandro Alvarez, 37, of Monterrey.
Authorities said the wreck happened 15 minutes into the 34-kilometer (21 mile) race Sunday along a highway between Playa Bagdad and Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
Campos said he is an American citizen living in Brownsville. The U.S. Consulate could not immediately confirm that.
"We are looking into the incident in terms of whether American citizens were involved,"

And the cop on the scene totally looks like Parkman from Heroes.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

What's My Anti-Drug?

Not getting mauled by tigers at the zoo.

"SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Medical Examiner says a teenager who was killed by an escaped zoo tiger six months ago had marijuana and alcohol in his system.

The toxicology report was released Monday. It is included with an autopsy that concluded 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed by "blunt force injuries of the head and neck."

Sousa's two friends also were seriously injured when a 250-pound Siberian tiger escaped its enclosure at San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day.

Michael Cardoza, a lawyer for the Sousa family, says it's irrelevant whether the teen was drinking or smoking pot before he was mauled. The family is suing the city.

The wall surrounding the tiger's enclosure was found to be 4 feet lower than recommended industry standards."