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About Me

GET YOURS NOW!! Background image:Two Beauties by my grandfather, Henry C. Porter.You will find it either here , or in my living room. ;-)What it is...I'm Dana. A handful of my peeps call me dookie, Patrick calls me Deezy, Sharonda calls me Danap (inside joke/term of endearment reserved only for me. Pronounced "DAY-nap.") Chris calls me Deez, and everybody else calls me...Dana. Amee calls me Rolo, which makes sense only to her. Oh, my mother calls me sugar...oh, and she calls me, well, I don't know how to spell it, but it's pronounced "Daynze". (Love you Mom) My son calls me Dad, and my daughter calls me...Dad, unless she having a hard time getting my attention, and then she calls me Father, over and over, until I respond. Sometimes she does it Austin Powers-style and says "FA-shuh". Again, over and over, until I respond (that's actually pretty funny.) My ex calls me...Dana, now, but it used to be lots of stuff.

I've a daughter age thirteen and son age ten. I've *always* wanted a little boy, and one just like the one I've got, but I could not have a more incredible girl. She's a pseudo-teenager now, and I hate it...although it is kinda cute when she rolls her eyes at me (well, not really rolls them, as that would get her a smack, rather kinda looks up halfway toward the ceiling with half a smile on her face when I say something stupid. Which I do a lot.)What else...I also have a chocolate lab named Maximus. He's...chocolatey. I had a hamster, but he died. And I had another one, but he died, too...so I stopped getting hamsters.So, I bought a "fancy mouse" from Petco for my son, and that little shit kept biting me so I set him free in the fields bordering highway 360 in Grand Prairie. I think his survival skills probably ended with biting the hand that fed him, so some hawk probably had a tasty fancy mouse dinner that night.And nature's "circle of life" continues on, sans fancy mice in the Porter house.That's all I can think of.

My Interests

Internet security, computer networks (layers 1, 2, and 3 of the OSI reference model to be exact), watching my son unconsciously emulate everything I say and do, watching my daughter develop into a teenager (gasp!)

I'd like to meet:

In real life: Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon (preferably at the same time.) In my dreams: Commander T'Pol , or Alyx Vance - or, again, both at the same time.

Music:

Pete Rock, ever since way back in college when my homeboy introduced me to "Mecca and the Soul Brother". I can still remember the day we bumped it in his jeep in Austin. (or was it his Beetle?) Since then I've collected all the Pete Rock I can get my hands on.The Roots, and pretty much anyone they've ever collaborated with. Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) is one of the most talented emcees this planet has known, IMO. If you debate that, well, you need to listen more closely :).Mos Def, Common (Sense), Thievery Corporation, BT, Hybrid, Linkin Park, Chick Corea, anything Chick Corea's ever touched (that's a long list, yo)digital underground

Movies:

Trey Parker and Matt Stone movies (these are GUY, and really, really cool chick movies...so far I've only met two females that not only saw, but LIKED Orgazmo. I thought both times I might have died and gone to heaven.) And Baseketball was pure genius.Blazing Saddles - "Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!"Office Space prolly tops the list - it's pretty much an icon for Cubicle America.Old School. Earmuffs.Are you starting to see a pattern develop here?Blade, Blade II, Blade III. I heard that Wesley Snipes has wierded-out on me lately, but he was dope in Blade, Blade II, and Blade III. Even if the plot was kinda shaky in places, he was, well, he was still Blade.Napoleon Dynamite. That shouldn't surprise anyone...even though I have yet to finish it. Yes, I said it. If you're reading this, it's because I still haven't gotten all the way through this movie. Oh, look - something shiny!

Television:

Dragonball-Z, Dragonball GT, Mythbusters (I was hip to it before Discovery started marketing the hell out of it), and pretty much anything else on The Discovery or National Geographic channels. CSI (not Miami or NY, but prolly only because I don't watch enuff TV to give them a chance), Justice League, The Tick. He's old school, but he's still The Tick.

Books:

Tom Clancy novels (read 'em all twice, about to start again while I wait for him to publish the sequel to The Teeth of The Tiger...and "computer" books. Naturally.

Heroes:

Dad, and...

My Blog

lunchtime quickie

I think I have a new favorite website. Slashdot's held this position in my life for many, many years (read: 1999), not to be usurped by even Digg...but its time has finally come. Check it ...
Posted by p|pe on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:36:00 PST

trece

My baby girl is thirteen today. I could write pages upon pages about her life leading up to this day, but I don't want to bore you. I just wanted to let y'all know - I have a freakin' teenage da...
Posted by p|pe on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:49:00 PST

phishing...or something more? (as I raise an eyebrow)

reposted from the bulletin Tom is a dork. He writes this blog about MySpace phishing, and it gets a gagillion comments, along with almost seven thousand kudos... And he's still missing the boat ...
Posted by p|pe on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:35:00 PST

it's mikey!

Perhaps the timing would have been a little better had I posted this last Sunday. In any case... Where's the comments section? I wanna see the comments section... Vanderjagt's profile...
Posted by p|pe on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:10:00 PST

marriage

Some amusing quotes I found on the internet while trying to resolve the author credit for my new headline. I especially liked the last one. Enjoy... Marriage is a three-ring circus...
Posted by p|pe on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:20:00 PST

eighty-seven.

Here's another survey that's (IMHO) better suited for blogspace (for discussion's sake.) Enjoy (thanks, Ray-ray!) Body: Level One(x) Smoked A Cigarette(x) Smoked A Cigar(x) Tried Weed(x) Kissed ...
Posted by p|pe on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:37:00 PST

death by google calendar. used without permission.

Came across this earlier this morning as I caught up on current events over my Raisin Bran and coffee: Death by Google Calendar I was going to post a bulletin about it, but if I put it here I also pro...
Posted by p|pe on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:33:00 PST

another survey.

Thought I'd take a short break to copy/post the output of a survey I took yesterday for Sharonda. She sent it to me (in an email) quite a while back, and I just got the chance to reply to it, fi...
Posted by p|pe on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:41:00 PST

raison d'être: myspace account hacking.

A few weeks ago I started noticing weird bulletin posts from some of my friends...they're almost always eventually followed by an apology from the poster, or a plea for help, or something. Basic...
Posted by p|pe on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:44:00 PST

oh yeah. it's on.

I've got to get this out quick...right now the boy is in the shower getting ready for a big day. I managed to keep from him for two or three days that I was taking him to Six Flags today (the ob...
Posted by p|pe on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:49:00 PST