There is a disturbance in the Force.

What is wrong with this picture?

I'll give you enough time to figure it out.

*goes to make coffee*

Ok. What's wrong with that picture? It's simple. People are responding to a Calbog post. Last I checked, he was covered under OStT.

Meaning, we do NOT reply to the troll. Especially when he starts topics.

Sure, you r.a.driving and m.t.road newbies might think he's harmless. Trust me, this is not the case. (Look for the post by calrog@gmail.com, one of his aliases.)

Calbog is, put simply, a troll and an attention whore. He blasts people for absolutely no reason on the newsgroups. He spews enough homophobic bile to make one think he's buried deep in the world's largest closet. And, to add insult to injury, if you're not running Windows, chances are you can't even see his steaming pile of a site.

Most of us don't respond to him and have him as the primary target of Operation Starve the Troll (OStT) for a damned good reason. Some of us might break out the flamethrower on blogs and such, but we try not to respond directly to him on the newsgroups. It is in everyone's best interests to leave Calbog to the professionals like myself and anyone else who's not one of the offending newbie posters.

Thus ends this public service announcement.

Mini-upd*te and a mini-rant

Just two more album updates tonight... I'll finish up tomorrow.

IH 12 - Pics taken at various points in the highway's St. Tammany Parish routing
The Tammany Trace - Fitting that the largest album I have so far would be of a bike trail. 24 shots in all spanning from Abita Springs to Mandeville.

As per the usual, all snaps are geotagged. No need for "Operation Spam Minor Upd*tes" when you can keep up as you go instead of waiting on it, you know.

Also, Accueil saw a fairly hearty upd*te of its own tonight. Check the Updates page on the site for that info.

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Two for the price of one! OSTT so far appears to be working well against its initial targets, Calbog and Racist Randy. At the least, inane idiocy doesn't turn into a flamewar of Vietnam-like proportions. (Except in the case of two people who "broke" it earlier tonight on Calbog. Guys, <ostt-break> is still OSTT-breaking!)

Well, apparently, someone liked the concept enough to suggest it at another NG, this time on Poologski. About time. Way to go, Odo. Don't know who you are, but way to go nonetheless.

That said, once Poologski found out, he turned around and proceeded to pitch a bitch in MTR like a child whose favorite toy got burned right in front of their eyes. Someone just call the WAAAAAAAHmbulance already, please.

While OSTT/MTR currently doesn't apply to him, can we please expand it to Poologski? It's only fair, considering how much he likes spamming #roadgeek, then whining about it on MTR.

Sometimes jackassery gets old...

I'm normally the type to just sit on IRC 24/7 and idle for most of it. I do so on a couple of other networks, but recently Poologski has decided to troll and spam the hell out of #roadgeek, using endless proxies to connect, evade bans and ignores alike, and generally just piss off the users. This course of action, of course, is the bane of any channel operator or IRCOp. Even one with limitless patience or a dark sense of humor like myself.

So instead of vegging out to the sound of the radio, chatting with the Comrade and working on web material or some bit of code to make the Linux box run more smoothly, I have to deal with a jackass who cannot take the hint that he is NOT WANTED THERE. Kickbanning a lamer is the most fun part of IRC for me, but having to do it several times in a 15-minute span to the same idiot takes all the fun out of it.

Put simply, I tire of it. If his plan is to annoy, it's working. I'm getting tired of loser mouthbreathing little wannabe trolls/spamtards making a chatroom a nightmare and forcing nightly clearouts.

It makes me wonder if a move is needed... I don't want to rock the boat, just putting an idea out there.

Boulder, CO: Kids, don't do acid. You might catch the stupid.

KMGH-TV: 'Bridge Troll' Arrested After Confrontation With Deputy

After a long two days of working on the site, I needed some lulz. This prime example of drug-addled stupidity sure qualifies, even if it's from last Sunday. At least the idiot was being a "troll" of the classic sense instead of the Internet sense.

Witnesses told police that (Robert) Hibbs and Bradley Boville, 19, were demanding $1 from joggers and bikers who attempted to cross the bridge.

Whatever happened to "answer three questions or thou shalt not pass"?

Regardless, this is why you shouldn't touch harder drugs. Just park yourself at the gateway and stay there.

Just like that...

Gah. Just after I post about how his level of idiocy has declined, he's come up with this doozy (reply after mine) of a flame, and one completely unrelated to the topic at hand as well.

I take back what I said in the last post... he's just as much of a dip as Aunt Judy... *sigh*

Today needs moar lulz

Mister Prime Idiot is at it again!

Hi Viatologists,

After careful consideration, access to the Worldwide Highway Library from
the Vatican City State (212.77.0.0/19) is tentatively and hereby denied.
All registered users in this IP address block will need to find an alternate
source or seek another IP address in neighbouring Rome.

...So now he hates Catholics? I normally can't stand the filth that comes from the Vatican every other week, but banning them? Troll, though he may be, CalBog's got balls. (In the same sense as one might say a woman has balls, not in the sense of actually possessing a pair, mind you.)

Then again, this act of his elicited three responses, so maybe he was only trying to break the Cone. We all know that the Vatican considers teh intarwebz as witchcraft.*

...Nah. He can't be that crafty!


* - Denotes sarcasm, not meant to offend. For once.

Lulz from MTR

I've read (with enjoyment) Mr. Yamamoto's "The Experience" for a few days now, and some of the funniest posts in there are when he starts trashing someone he calls "CalBog" - basically a disliked, trollish "viatologist" who posts in MTR, annoying the piss out of people along the way. Well, CalBog just posted again, and he must be desperate for pageviews or something. Today, he's posted an update to his site for "Ruta Federal 2" (Mexican Federal Highway 2) videos.

"Hola viatolicos mexicanos,
¡Buenos días! Hoy, la Worldwide Highway Library (WHL) tenga una nueva
fotografía "Virtual 360" de la Ruta Federal 2:"

(link would go here... but not on MY blog...)

"Si quiere verla, necessita Apple Quicktime."

I wonder if he's thinking he can get through the Wall of Silence by posting in Spanish? Anyway, right there, you see one of MY gripes against the guy - he's desperately trolling for pageviews, but he's rabidly anti-Linux. Plus, it's a Mexican Federal Highway, not a Mexican Federal Route.

Highway = Autopista
Ruta = Route

Next!

"Ruta 2 tenga dos ramas a Chihuahua. La rama secundaria se conecta a Palomas y la rama primaria. Use la rama primaria para los viajes entre Juárez y el estado de Sonora. La WHL tenga los mejores fotografias y las mejores vídeos de las Americas."

Let's see what that translates to...

"Route 2 has two branches in Chihuahua. The secondary branch connects to Palomas and the primary branch. Use the primary branch for travel between Juarez and the state of Sonora."

Uhm, OK. I can get that from Wikipedia. At least his Español isn't as crap as his Français. Next!

"The WHL has the best photographs and videos of the Americas."

This I doubt. I've read real roadgeek sites in my life. I could probably do better than our friend here if all I had to work with was a machine running Windows 98 and some poor B&W scans.

All in all, massive lulz.