The big jerk with the BIG SPEAKERS!

We tried asking politely. We tried random harassment. We tried... well, nothing else. But that jerk who shares a back wall with us (fall '99) would not stop playing techno rap karaoke music at 3 o'clock in the morning! Oh, sure, he'd turn it down when we asked. But it only lasted until the next song. Then it was right back to making our windows vibrate. Understand, we're talking LOUD. Like, it impeded conversation in our room when he was playing his "music."

What to do... what to do...

Of course we could just report him to Residence Life and file an incident report. That'll get him in trouble eventually. But it's not near as satisfying, and it doesn't make for as good a story. So we kept thinking...

Sara came up with an interesting plan.

My plan was a little more involved. I came up with a full set of electrical/structural blueprints for our dorm. I was going to have Derek and a few more accomplices flip off all of the circuit breakers for our block of rooms, and then quickly install an on/off switch on the guy's power supply. Then, whenever he turns his music up too loud, we can just flicker his power. Reboot computer, problem solved. However, this plan was discarded when we discovered that access to the wires behind our wall was mortared closed.

The current plan is to discover miscreant "X"'s IP address, so that we can engage in various flooding attacks and stuff like that. This plan is going a little bit slower. We made two web pages, fhk.html and home.html. The idea is to let the jerk know about http://colonel.resnet.tamu.edu/home.html, and to let his immediate neighbors know about http://colonel.resnet.tamu.edu/fhk.html. We were going to notify him by sticking a little flier to his door advertising this link as the "FHK homepage." Then we'd monitor my access logs to see who accessed the 'home' file. Whichever IP accesses that one is our culprit. This hasn't worked, yet, though. The lazy moron hasn't actually visited our page yet.

Next, we're going to get one of our 'friends who is a girl' to knock on his door on some pretense and tell him about this webpage. If that doesn't work, we try Sara's brick plan. (see above)