I walked around downtown Bellingham today for a few hours.

I saw Pirates-R-Us tonight. They were sort of like The Hobogoblins, but nowhere near as good.

It seems Western‘s proxy is down, or something else is preventing me from accessing the internet without going through Tor.

Update: Apparently the problem was thus: “An upgrade of a piece of equipment, during which the netmask was incorrectly defined in such a way that certain IP addresses (for example google, yahoo) were thought to be on the local network (i.e. No Route to Host as people saw).”

Apparently my phone called 911 a little bit ago. (At least, that’s their story.)

The phone vibrated once in my pocket. When I took it out to look at it, it was in a call. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hello? 911: This is 911. Do you have an emergency to report? Me: No... 911: No, this is 911. Do you have an emergency to report? Me: No. 911: Did you call 911? Me: No. 911: Who had your phone? Me: Me. 911: Where was it? Me: In my pocket. 911: We received a call and then it sounded like buttons being pressed. Me: It must have dialed you itself. 911: So you have no emergency to report? Me: Nope. 911: Do you know how to lock your phone? Me: Yes, but when you lock it, it can still dial 9 1 and 0, noob. 911: STFU noob. You can disable that. Me: I'll look into it. 911: Do you have an emergency to report? Me: No. Bye.

I’ve done some searching online and I’ve yet to find anything about how to disable the 9, 1, and 0 keys when the phone is locked. There’s also no mention of it in the manual, nor can I find any option in the phone’s settings (It’s a Sony Erricson t616). If anybody has any ideas, feel free to enlighten me.

The call log is where it gets interesting. It shows me receiving a call at 5:23PM from 1-425-551-30800 (that extra zero is supposed to be there and the area code of this phone is 425) and then, after that, me placing a call to 888888 at 5:23PM. I’ve often noticed that the call log on this phone will reverse calls, so it’s possible that I dialed 888888 before the 551 number called me, but, in any case: 1) I never dialed 911. 2) I cannot use the 8 key when the phone is locked. 3) That number that called me is pretty strange looking.

Odd occurrences all around. I think those shifty bastards called me.

It’s a plot.

Today I got my copy of Robert Greenwald‘s latest film, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price. I think we’re going to watch it tonight.

Today, I went down to The Savvy Traveler in Edmonds to attend a seminar on Thailand. It ended up being a bunch of old people talking about 4-star hotels, which was slightly depressing, but they mentioned what sounded like a few interesting places to visit, so it wasn’t a total loss.