The more they change? That doesn’t sound right, but does seem to apply to what’s going on right now: it looks like I will be heading down to SoCal next week to interview with a network security company. The contact came through an ex-colleague from the Network ICE/ISS days.

No matter what happens, however, we will not be moving back to SoCal. The only reason I expressed interest when I was initially contacted was that the position would be work-from-home. This would be a pretty big change from the current 80-mile round trip I do every day… and with the money I wouldn’t be spending on gas, I could afford to have a business-class Internet connection installed at home.

Ever wonder what working in the Hall of Justice is really like? Now you can see for yourself!

(9MB QuickTime; strong language)

HowStuffWorks writer Dave “Stuffo” Coustan recently tried finding the A-team on craigslist.

It’s a B-grade show that’s been off the air for almost 20 years and lasted only five seasons, but people everywhere still hum its theme song before rolling into action. What does “The A-team” mean to people today? Stuffo set out to build our own A-team from scratch, and in the process find out if Faceman, B.A., Hannibal, and Murdock still live on in the hearts and minds of dreamers everywhere.

Phase 1: Recruiting. If you were looking for a band of misfit ex-military types with welding and stunt-driving experience, where would you look? The “real” A-team lived in LA. So we placed an ad on Craigslist’s LA site. There was no category for “crack commandoes” so we settled for “gigs>>crew.”

The inevitable responses from those who did not get the joke are particularly amusing.

Keep this out of George’s hands, to be sure: How to destroy the Earth at Sam’s Archive.

This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other planets; indeed, other star systems. If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.

This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.

Why do villains always add an extraneous “the” when talking about destroying “the” Earth?

New restaurant review tonight: Thaiphoon (Thai, obviously) in Palo Alto.