The LaRouchies are getting restless...They have taken their longstanding feud with the Math Department to the next level. Some of them wandered into Padelford Hall yesterday [which is to say, early yesterday, morning-ish] and plastered a bunch of flyers around the Department. They're good and crazy, so I scanned one for you...
(UPDATE: My sources tell me that the quotes in the flyer are complete fabrications. Which shouldn't come altogether as a surprise.)
What I want to know is, how did they find out we worship Baphomet? Who broke the Vow of Eternal Sneakiness? They will be damned to the Forbidden Zone for all time...
In completely unrelated news, I think someone broke into my office last night, opened my desk up, and moved my emergency Pop-Tarts. My drawers were open, and so was the window. Nothing was missing. They'd just...moved the Pop-Tarts. And some staples. They were at my office-mate's desk too, and moved an envelope. This is just...silly. Who the hell breaks into a TA's office and moves their Pop-Tarts?
It's also sort of creepy. And by 'sort of' I mean 'extremely'. None of this makes any sense.
Did the LaRouchies get into my office? I really doubt it. Sure, I've pissed them off before, but I don't think I've given them my name...And if they went looking for a short math guy with a beard, they'd probably end up with Dave, not me. Was this some kind of a prank? Some kind of wacky frat thing? Was someone looking for incriminating smack and dildoes in my desk so they could blackmail me? What?
This is a strange, strange day...What the hell is going on? This is math! Who in fuck's name wants to mess with math?
UPDATE: The LaRouchies must've been in the building [again] last night, because they'd left some of their standard, non-mathy pamphlets all over one of our two graduate classrooms. The plot thickens...
In a totally unconnected but still paranoia-inducing development, the departmental computers have been under (apparently) heavy attack for weeks now by some random hackers, which is not only inconvenient for those of us who're trying to use them, but seems to have brought the FBI into the picture somehow. I hear there's some connection between these attacks and a hack attack on some kind of governmental supercomputer in a lab somewhere; I also hear there's some kind of military connection. This is just rumour and hearsay, but something piqued the FBI's interest...
Posted by aloysius at May 26, 2004 11:17 AM | TrackBack |