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07:18 pm
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Here comes the spam again
"I changed my identity--kept a low profile--and the crooks STILL found me *GASP*."
I'd been totally spam-free for a year. I still sort of am. I like SBC's spamblocker. I'm not sure where they got my address, but it looks like I'm getting the same pharmaceutical spams, so it's probably only from one place.
But my bulk folder on webmail used to be reserved for internet orders I'd just made. Now real spam is turning up there. I don't miss the days of Earthlink and a much more visible account. But it was amusing to see one message slip through. And heartening it took over a year to do so. I wondered how long it would take. I wondered if I'd feel hunted when it did. I'm just glad that even if it got through it wouldn't be clogging my dialup download any more.
But I did enjoy this clever bot-fooler(warning, sports forum for those who dislike watching sports): http://68.178.249.199/forums/MrHoops/messages/79833.shtml
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12:05 pm
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See you on the other side of the alphabet.
http://ziyx.livejournal.com
I just got sick of this tangled LJ name.
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11:42 am
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Perspectiveful thought for the day
Whatever your petty worries are, remember, developments in the JonBenet Ramsay case are much more important.
Geez. I am just giddy at the thought of Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway retro in a few years. I try to avoid this crap, really I do, but I just can't.
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12:20 pm
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I solved Pitfall yesterday!
Uh, today.
I think my family got the game in '82 shortly after it came out. It always mystified me, and I tried running overground for as many treasures as possible. I think I got to maybe 70k(?) before time ran out. Thanks sincerely to the Stella emulator folks. I was able to finish with 54 seconds left and 114000 points.
A bunch of simple math will show that the minimum time to get through an area is 4 seconds but there's a lot of waiting around that bogs you down...things seemed on a knife edge if I'd get through. I remember drawing up maps and having trouble with the underground scorpion but I can't imagine why now. Anyway, JLV has an awesome walkthrough on GameFAQS(tried to email but his box was dead) and here is a really cool map.
Funny how I once bemoaned the time limits and when I tried to solve it last night I worried I might take too long. It probably took an hour or so with the mistakes I made and the reloading etc. The tough part was getting started. Those **** alligators always ate me up one way or the other.
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12:30 pm
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meta-meta-meta-meta-meta madness
I found this diary terribly funny. It has just about every sort of political blogging and responding no-no known, but it also has a lot of more general blogging booboos.
No, I'm not through it all yet, either. It's just so...rich and full of the human condition. I hope someone saves it.
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10:05 am
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Taking out the trash
Yesterday around midnight a brief storm came. The lights dimmed for a second, but I wasn't too worried, because I was writing to my 7-digit-byte file of notes and saving after every line. It's become the typing equivalent of saying "Like, uh," for me, or maybe poets had rosy-fingered dawn, I have control-s.
Once the storm passed the weather was no longer unbearably hot. So I took the recycling and kitty litter and garbage down. I tried to fill up the garbage bag to a reasonable point. But within a few minutes of climbing back upstairs I'd found ten piddly little articles to dump in my trusty white plastic bucket. My first reaction was that I hadn't searched thoroughly enough for garbage to pitch. A sort of inherited perfectionism of people saying "Well, you pay attention to details don't you?"
But my second was that I wouldn't have noticed all that if I hadn't made my first pass through it, so why bother worrying about it? And I guess it is the same with my writing. I know you just sort of have to get out there and write, but being able to compare not writing with sitting in a house full of garbage gives me a bit more motivation to do so.
Hey, you're lucky this post was about writing. Sometimes late at night I get very introspective about if the garbage I'm throwing out was really used for a good purpose before it officially became garbage, and what I can do better before my next garbage haul.
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09:27 am
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scratchwork
I am on the train and it's late and I decided to take the northbound a stop to make sure I could squeeze in before the others. On the way back I've finished my book but I don't have room to pull another from my backpack. But the person next to me can change CD's from a whiny male to a stilted female. I have to face into the sun as we make room and I notice one lucky sitter finished the crossword and SuDoKu. Groans as the train runs express as I'd been hoping but I am pinned to the center two stops from work. It makes up time but there's enough of an excuse to leave early anyway. Work's first half-hour involves Windows Software Updates, closing the internet browser from staying late last Friday, and writing in my notebook which isn't so hard as the previous week's notes help me with this week's. I thought I'd had more plans than that and done more as the later days are blank as usual. I wish I'd waited to pass the turnstiles once I heard the loudspeaker announce the delay so my one-day pass would expire a little later next morning. But I am sure I will waste 15 minutes today. I haven't even planned two things I could do at once.
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01:17 am
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Limericks, with African flavor
A con artist from Gaborone
Sold cuban cigars that were phoney
Til back in Botswana
He found marijuana
Resale less full of baloney.
A map impaired statesman named Ron
Made plans to arrive in Gabon
To meet Omar Bongo*,
Got lost in the Congo,
And wound up in Azerbaijan.
* - Not some random name, actually. Omar Bongo is Gabon's head of state and has been for 35 years. He gets more of the vote with each election. Some people just get better with age, huh? Oh plus he helped pay off some of the US national debt by paying a cool $9 million to meet with Bush, apparently through Tom Delay. OK, maybe it went to Haliburton, but I like to think the best of people, you know.
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02:19 pm
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The last word is intentionally mispronounced.
A surly trust baby named Mitch is
Well pestered by gold digging -----es
"A sweetheart since birth!"
"The salt of the earth!"
A shocking embarrase de cliches.
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12:02 pm
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On the heels of critical and popular success...
Thanks to all responders in my other topic! Here's a riff on the theme, but with a different downfall.
A diet and penis pill spammer
Sold briskly despite wretched grammar,
Then followed his yearnings
For millionaire earnings
By "helping" a 419 scammer.
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