Archive for April, 2007
Adventures in Spam
April 11th, 2007. Published under General. 3 Comments.
According to an Ars Technica story I found on Digg today, that 2007 will be the year that email spam will overtake “human-issued” emails in numbers.
Call me crazy - but I could’ve sworn that spam overtook “human” emails a long, long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away).
The latest in my blog spam has been offers of “Mexico Pharmaceuticals” and nude photos of various people in show business. Oh…and Florida Mortgages.
ALL THINGS THAT I NEED!
Or, perhaps not.
Tonight will be spent watching a movie snuggled on the couch, takeout from Chan’s and some adult-type beverages.
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Also, seriously - winter can officially SUCK IT.
Rocking, Running, Reverands
April 10th, 2007. Published under General. No Comments.
Hope everyone had a great Easter. We’re celebrating it this coming weekend at my parent’s house due to my siblings’ in-laws demanding that the holiday is celebrated on the holiday. My parents could care less.
So we celebrated by having a friend over (was supposed to be her and her husband, but her husband got sick) on Saturday night and played co-op Guitar Hero II until 1am. Lots of fun! I’m still pretty bad compared to Tim on the game, but I’m getting better.
Also, thanks to Guitar Hero II, I now have “Killing In The Name Of” stuck in my head.
Sunday we ate the Easter candy we bought and made egg salad from the leftover Easter eggs we decorated on Saturday afternoon. We’re such rock stars!
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Over at the Pink Ninja Studios forums, I’ve started a Nike+ running group and we’re going to have monthly challenges with each other. It’s more of an encouragement to run and setting goals for yourself, since we’re all at different levels of fitness. I wish Nike had designed a challenge to record the number of times you’ve run in a month - but they’ve only designed mileage/distance challenges. So this month I put a challenge of the first to 50 miles, but had everyone set their own personal mileage goal that was going to be a challenge to achieve. Whomever gets the closest to their goal or beats their goal by the higher percentage will “win” for that month.
It’s just a way to get people running - and to nerd out with the technology. Right now, we have three (including myself) signed up for the PN Challenge. If you want to join, go to the PN Running Group thread on the forum, join the forum and post in the introductions thread.
Obviously, you’ll have to have a Nike+ thing and a Nano - but if you do, come and join us!
My new Nike Free shoes should be in today. Over the past week, I’ve been having minor problems with my foot again and its prompted me to rehabilitate my foot to make it stronger so I don’t continue having these problems. It figures that I made myself have a goal of 35 miles for the PN Running Group and my foot is starting to fuck up again.
I’m going to nip this issue in the bud myself. However, if it get to the point where I have to go see a podiatrist, then I’ll go. But I’m guessing what will happen is that I’ll have to do physical therapy exercises - which I’m going to be doing now anyway.
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In regards to this story, am I the only person on the planet who seems to remember that this is Don Imus, the man that built his entire career on saying inflammatory statements about minorities?
I’m not saying that what he said was not offensive - but who decides out of all the “politically incorrect” and inflammatory statements that Imus has spouted in his career which ones are horrible racist slurs and which ones are not? Also, why in the hell is the Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson getting involved? The Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team, their coach and their University President should be the ones taking care of business, not a couple of self-important, political has-beens.
Also, the mob clamoring that his suspension is too mild and that they should cancel his show - whatever happened to, oh, NOT LISTENING TO HIS DAMN SHOW!? The business is built on ratings, and if his ratings go down, they’ll get rid of the show. All this wailing and gnashing of teeth is doing nothing but launch his ratings (2 week suspension notwithstanding) into the stratosphere.
People can be so stupid sometimes.
Oh noes! I’m saying inflammatory and racist statements against stupid people! Cancel my show!
WWJD for a Klondike Bar?
April 4th, 2007. Published under General. No Comments.
I’m sorry…but I’m finding this to be hilarious! Who knew the popular exclamation would be created in sweet, saintly milk chocolate?
*dies laughing*
Although I’m a bit confused by what the “outrage” is all about. It can’t be the fact that Jesus is being portrayed in chocolate, because that’s already been done. So it must be because he’s NAKED (OMG!)? If that’s truly what they’re freaking out about, they should all be sterilized and never be allowed to be nude for the rest of their lives. WTF?
Office Supply Lust!
April 3rd, 2007. Published under General. 1 Comment.
Late yesterday afternoon, my shredder finally showed up!
It took all my strength and willpower to not open the thing and start shredding things in my office. I controlled myself until after we went to the fitness center and ate dinner. But then the carnage ensued!!
*evil laugh*
The one thing I was surprised about was its lack of ferocity when it came to shredding the junk mail. I took an American Express “pre-approved credit card” envelope complete with fake credit card in it and fed it to the hungry machine. Rather than a loud, fierce, fast grinding of the offending mail, the little guy plodded along, shredding the envelope at a modest and sensible pace. Granted, it wasn’t as satisfying as I was hoping it would be - but it didn’t matter how thick or thin the junk mail was, it plodded right through it like a tortoise. A fierce, paper shredding tortoise.
The shredding bin is easy to empty - a big plus over my old shredder which had to be practically dismantled before you could empty it. It’s also quite compact - the only downside to that is that it can’t take a full page fed through it - so you have to fold it in half. But, considering it thrives on thick stacks of folded paper, that’s not a problem.
All in all, I’m very pleased with my purchase. I’m going to be taking pictures tonight.
I know…I’m a dork. :-)
Hangin’ Tough!
April 2nd, 2007. Published under General. No Comments.
I’m supposed to get my super shredder today…and I haven’t gotten it yet! I’m twitching with anticipation!
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Our new fitness center opened up this weekend. It’s a Fitness 19 center where we pay $27 a month as a couple for a membership. They don’t have a gymnasium or a pool or a locker room or anything like that - so as a result, they don’t have a huge operating overhead and their membership rates are very reasonable. They’re also not one of those “open 24 hours a day” fitness centers where they’re not staffed and you use an access card to get in - if the center is open, there’s a member of staff there at all times.
First off, who the hell works out in the middle of the night? Secondly - the possibilities of creepies hanging out around those centers is HUGE! Seriously.
Anyway - I used their treadmills and a few of the weight machines for the upper body. I think I got lulled into a false sense of security thinking their treadmills were “slower” than mine and did 4k at a 0.5 MPH faster than I normally do. Considering my legs STILL ache from the run on Saturday, I think I overestimated things a smidge. I did break my personal best for the mile, so that’s good. I may get that 10k under my belt yet this year!
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One of my co-workers, after going through a bunch of donated books for a children’s book drive to weed out the books that aren’t child-appropriate*, runs up and squeals “you need this book!” and runs off.
It’s a New Kids On The Block book.
Who donates these things?
* - Seriously, some whack job donated books on how globalization is going to ruin the world, and how Jesus can save your life and how living together is against all that is moral and right in the religious world. Huh? These are books that are supposed to be for kids 5 years old and younger. I don’t know what’s wrong with people…
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