Archive for September, 2006

Spam Round Up.

Published by
iMorph
at September 30, 2006 in Computing. 2 Comments

Junk (540 messages, 486 unread). Adult?

Oops, maybe it’s time to empty out the ol’ junk-mail folder. Let’s make sure nothing important gets pitched out by mistake.

From: Alan Ruscoe
Subject: secretaries turn into sIuts
Body: Seksy secretaries turn into cray sluuts.

Hmmm, maybe Alan meant, “Secretaries turn to suits for help,” or “Secretaries turn on suits.” I just don’t know. Oh, and, “…cray sluuts”? Are they Cray Computer sleuths? I just don’t know.

Delete.

I’m in the Money.

Africans are freakin’ rolling in money! No, no I kid you not! Miss Grace Onuoha’s dad was loaded:

…he secretly called me on his bed side he told me about this money five million five hundred thousand United State Dollars.USD($5.500,000)he deposited in a private security company in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.

He said that during the deposition of the box containing the money in the security company, that the box was declared as a family valuable properties not as money for security reasons. He told me that the money was meant for a hotel business he planed to establish in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire and finally he gave me all the necessary documents Issued to him by the security company during the deposit of the box which will enable me claim the box from the security company. The following are the documents: (i)Certificate of deposit (ii)Agreement of deposit (iii)Receipt of deposit payment.

Where are they getting all this money? I want some.

Blog Comment Spam

The only forum I visit, Formula Pod Forums ( AKA. FP06-A Forums ) - Powered by vBulletin, experienced its first pR0n spam comment. You know, the standard fare: 

Hello, I'm Jinna, I'm looking for
group sex, can u help me?

Meet me here: married but looking

Other links you might like to visit:

There was a long list of links. Here are some of my favorites:

  • how to blackmail married women into sex: Why not just ask? I mean, they just might say, “Sure. Why not?”
  • adding a dildo to married couple sex: Add? What were they using before marriage? Why is a dildo required after marriage? And last, who is the dildo for? God, I don’t want to hear the answer to this one.
  • african-american married women living with aids: Financial aid? When did being broke become attractive?
  • is oral sex after you’re married a sin? Being married makes a difference?
  • married priest sex: ????
  • married women phone numbers frm ahmedabad: Where is ahmedabad? What are the rates like from Tokyo? Are women frm ahmedabad hot?
  • free married women looking for sex: I asked Goat for his interpretation of this one. He said, “maybe they have free time
    or are free of guilt. either way, it’s all go”.

Well, that’s just about it. Stay safe on the internets.

Snakes on a Plane.

Published by
iMorph
at September 26, 2006 in Japan and Uncategorized. 3 Comments

スネーク　フライト (Snake Flight)!=Snakes on a Plane

“Snakes on a plane.”

To: Idiot Catch-Copy Writer
From: Me
Subject: Your Sucky Renaming Scheme for Snakes on a Plane.
Body: WTF, why did you go from Snakes on a Plane to Snake Flight?
Do you know what is going to happen once Samuel Jackson hears
how you butchered the title? Do you? Huh?! HUH?! 

You are dead! DEAD! And I will not mourn your loss.

Idiot. Snake Flight. Lame.

Sincerly

ME

What’s great is, the file name is snakes_on_a_plane.html

Rip. Click. Sync.

Published by
iMorph
at September 23, 2006 in Entertainment?. 0 Comments

The ’80s.

I got busy and ripped a few songs last night. Here is the playlist (PDF): 122 Songs, 7.1 hours.
The Big Eighties Playlist.

Yes, I own all of it.

Full Album Rips.

Only four albums were ripped from start to finish:

  • T.S.0.L.’s Thoughts of Yesterday: True Sons of Liberty?
    1. Peace Thru’ Power
    2. Property is Theft
    3. Word Is
    4. Abolish Government/Silent Majority
    5. Weathered Statues
    6. Thoughts of Yesterday
    7. Superficial Love
    8. Man and Machine
    9. No way Out
    10. World War III
  • Rapeman’s Two Nuns and a Pack Mule:
    1. Steak & Black Onions
    2. Monobrow
    3. Up Beat
    4. Coition Ignition Mission
    5. Kim Gordon’s Panties
    6. Hated Chinee
    7. Radar Love Lizard
    8. Marmoset
    9. Just Got Paid
    10. Trouser Minnow
    11. Budd
    12. Superpussy
    13. Log Bass
    14. Dutch Courage
  • The Cure’s Staring at the Sea: The Singles
    1. Killing an Arab
    2. 10:15 Saturday Night
    3. Boys Don’t Cry
    4. Jumping Someone Else’s Train
    5. A Forest
    6. Play for Today
    7. Primary
    8. Other Voices
    9. Charlotte Sometimes
    10. The Hanging Garden
    11. Let’s Go to Bed
    12. The Walk
    13. The Lovecats
    14. The Caterpillar
    15. In Between Days
    16. Close to Me
    17. A Night Like This
  • The Sugar Cubes‘ Life Too Good:
    1. Traitor
    2. Motorcrash
    3. Birthday
    4. Delicious Demon
    5. Mama
    6. Coldsweat
    7. Blue Eyed Pop
    8. Deus
    9. Sick for Toys
    10. Fucking in Rhythm & Sorry
    11. Take Some Petrol Darling
    12. Cowboy
    13. I Want
    14. Dragon [Icelandic]
    15. Cat [Icelandic]
    16. Coldsweat [Remix]
    17. Deus [Remix]: CD is a bit mangled. This track didn’t make it.

Honorable Mention

XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel from Drums and Wires.

“For the Love of Money is the Root of All Evil.”

Published by
iMorph
at September 21, 2006 in Reflect. 3 Comments

Recycle.

I am all for homeless guys feeding themselves from the money made off turning in soda and coffee cans. Unfortunately, a certain group has a problem with this. My other half informs me:

Currently, there is a group of angry mothers and teachers working to discourage homeless individuals from turning in cans for money. Why? Well, the homeless guys are cutting in on the Kids Club profits. The Kids Club uses profits from collecting cans for various activities.

So, the question is, who gets all the cans?
Cans

Growing Up?

Published by
iMorph
at September 16, 2006 in Health., Personal and Reflect. 2 Comments

Puberty:

Puberty happens to everyone, but it does not happen at the same age, or same speed for everyone. Some people begin puberty and body changes as early as 10, while other people do not experience it until 14 or later. Everyone is different and no two people will develop at the same time or same speed.

The first sign of change was hair on my chest at age 37. Looks like someone is a late bloomer. There are other signs.

Childhood Disease and Infections.

  • Childhood Allergies? Check. Initial allergy attack occurred circa 2001 or so.
  • Cavities? Check, check, and check. Had a handful fixed a few months back.
  • Diarrhea? YES. I’ll keep the gory details to myself.
  • Pink Eye and Conjunctivitis? YES! Not fun at all.
  • Ear Infections. Maybe. Thanks to my latest cold. Going to let the local butchers take a look at my ear today. Thanks to CW for pointing out that pain in ear == ear infection. My first thought was, “Don’t kids get ear infections?”

I guess kids do.

A Handful of Screws.

Published by
iMorph
at September 14, 2006 in Computing, Entertainment? and Reflect. 5 Comments

Blink. __________ Blink. ___________ Blink.

What happens when you put your Mac portable to sleep? This:

  • The Ethernet port turns off (see Note below)
  • Expansion card slots (such as PCMCIA) turn off
  • The built-in modem turns off (see Note below)
  • An AirPort card, if present, turns off (see Note below)
  • The USB connection only responds to the power key on an external keyboard (see Tip below)
  • The optical media drive spins down
  • Audio input and output turns off
  • Keyboard illumination, if a feature of your portable computer, turns off

Computer Sleep Mode == Human sleep. Shutting down your computer == Death.

Apple also says:

As you might guess, a computer uses considerable less power when in sleep mode then when awake. The computer will continue to power RAM in sleep mode, so that whatever was in RAM when the computer went to sleep will still be there when the computer wakes.

What that document doesn’t mention, is the pulsating LED. On for 1 second, dims and goes off for 2 seconds, and then comes on again. Like it is breathing. Some people cannot sleep with this pulsating LED in the room, “…the light on the screen flashes when the computer is “sleeping” and i just want to turn it off.” So, you may be asking yourself, why doesn’t he just shut it off?.

a lot of times before i go to bed i have a ton of webpages that pdfs open which i am bouncing between. I want an application that will record which save that state and then allow me to reopen that next time i start my machine.

i mean, i’d want something that’ll save everything thats open, and when i turn on the computer again, i run the app and it goes back to where i left off, with the apps open, and at the last spot i was.

any os x apps that can do that?

He wants the benefits of sleep mode to have his work right where he left it, but he doesn’t want to use sleep mode, but he cannot turn off his computer because he has open PDFs that he wants to go back to the next day and there is no OS X app that can do that, but he could use sleep mode to accomplish this, but since the LED pulsates, he cannot.

Phew.

Solution.

This baffled the other IRC chatters. Did I mention this took place on IRC? If not, it did. Someone busted out the Universal Problem Solving Tool Kit:

  • ME: I just want to get this straight, you want to turn your machine off because the little LED blinks?
  • ANOTHER DUDE: Duct tape.

Once again, ladies and gentlemen, duct tape to the rescue.

Grab Bag.

Published by
iMorph
at September 10, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

Places to Go. Things to Do.

Homebrew text Apple ads: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Three New Mac Ad Ideas.

…he hurls them against the wall behind him, where they smash into a thousand pieces. He then picks up a gas can and dumps the contents over his head.

The Matrix, coming to a webgame near you. Watch your future: Human Computation - Google Video

Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve.

There are a set of games:

More info on Human-based computation.

Drugs. Spiders. Webs. Spiders on drugs and spinning webs. I hate spiders.

I lost: Ganguro Girl 1.5 - 2 Flash Games. Ganguro girls are scary.

The basic look consists of bleached hair, a deep tan, both black and white eyeliners, false eyelashes, platform shoes (usually sandals or boots), and brightly colored outfits. Also typical of the “Ganguro Gal” look are cell phones covered with purikura stickers, tie-dyed sarongs, mini-skirts, hibiscus flower hairpins, and lots of bracelets, rings and necklaces.

Slang:

The Cockney gift to world culture is the phenomenon of Cockney Rhyming Slang - a code of speaking wherein a common word can be replaced by the whole or abbreviated form of a well-known phrase which rhymes with that word.

Visit the dictionary here.

Root Causes.

Published by
iMorph
at September 9, 2006 in Personal and Reflect. 1 Comment

The Pool Incident: Why is everyone laughing?

*Sigh* I remember the laughter like it was yesterday. There I stood on the edge of the pool ready to dive in. Suddenly, _all_ the adults started laughing in my general direction. No, laughing at _me_. I dove in. After the dive, I had only one question for my mom, “Why were they laughing at me?” She answered, “There was this big, beautiful butterfly on your head.”

Her explanation could not undo the damage that had already been done by my brain/ego, “We have to make sure no one ever laughs at us again.” The event from that day and the resulting decision, “…to make sure no one ever laughs at us again,” has influenced my decision making process for years. It’s time for it to go.

Identifying the Process. YMMV.

Something happens which evokes a feeling, data is collected about the event; stored; and assigned a priority, a decision is then made to either avoid or seek out the conditions or event again, and finally the criteria for this event are appended or prepended to whatever thought process the brain runs before action can be taken. There are all sorts of problems with this system.

Borked.

In extreme cases, the priority gets set to, “Avoid at all costs” and results in a complete system override. Or the opposite, “Gotta have more of that goooood feeling!” which leads to addiction. Everything in between is luggage/emotional baggage and interferes with your day-to-day activity. /me points up at Pool Incident. Now that the process has been identified, we need a fix.

Fix/Patch/Update. Take Your Pick.

This is a three-part fix - yes, it is time for a list. I couldn’t resist:

  • Anything asking to get stored has to get approval from me.
  • Anything that sneaks past, does not get assigned a priority at all. So, even if an event sneaks in some random criteria, they will be ignored.
  • All current criteria and events are under review and will be purged or have all priorities and criteria deleted.

That should just about do it.

Movie Link with Ties to Post.

Check out The Final Cut (2004) for an example of what can go wrong if erroneous data makes it into your system.