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Telephone Etiquette: Appropriate Call Times.

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iMorph
at January 16, 2010 in General, Personal and Reflect. 0 Comments

Somnus
Sleep is awesome. According to this Ask Yahoo! page, we burn calories while we sleep:

This weight-loss calculator from FitWatch.com asked us to enter our weight and how long we planned to sleep. According to the ensuing calculations, a 160-pound person who sleeps eight hours will lose roughly 549 calories in the process.

Don’t ask.

Derek’s Original Sleep Diet™!: Lose the blubber while you slumber!
Don’t have time for the gym? Don’t have enough for a Pilates trainer? Don’t have space in your home for workout equipment? Don’t worry! Derek’s Original Sleep Diet™ is for you! Call now!

My future. I sees it clear ass day.

Unwanted Wake-up Call.

Our neighborhood council leader rang us at 0833 this morning with non-earth shattering news. Calls should never be placed to anyone, unless you have plans, before 10 am on a Saturday. There are exceptions. Here is the checklist:

  • Is Godzilla thrashing Tokyo Bay?
  • Is the planet on fire?
  • Is the Sun about to crash into the Earth?
  • Is there a tattooed Romulan named Nero drilling down to the Earth’s core?
  • Daleks?
  • Giant tidal waves?
  • Fire falling from the sky?
  • Massive asteroids?
  • The Earth’s rotation is out of contro?
  • Animals of Earth working together?
  • Collision with antimatter Earth imminent?
  • Vogon Constructor Fleet?

No? Then DON’T CALL!
Options

Allow me to suggests several non-intrusive methods of communication:

  1. Email
  2. Letter
  3. Post-it on door
  4. Tweet
  5. Instant Message
  6. Blog post

If the above are not viable, CALL AFTER 10 AM!
Resources:

Blatant, Bold, and Courageous!

Published by
iMorph
at September 22, 2008 in Entertainment? and General. 0 Comments

Crafty Little Esse Oh Bee: Phishing for Fun and Profit.

My spam is better than yous. Check this out!

Due to spam complaints of email users in our webmail system,
our investigation shows that your email address is compromised
and is used to send out spam message in our webmail system.

Very crafty, this one is. Who wants to be blamed for spamming the WORLD!? “OMG, MY mail account is spamming the Internet! How do I make it stop?

As a result, our network engineer will be conducting a maintenance in
our webmail system, your Username will be disabled if you do not send
us the required information within 24hrs.

Now that you are feeling guilty for something you didn’t do, let’s hit you up for some “informations.”

Informations Required:

Your Full Names:
Username:
Password:
Retype Password:

The “Retype Password” adds just the right touch of realism. Good job, guys.

We value your business and thanks for using our Webmail Service.

I bet you do! “Hey, sucka, thanks for your l/p!”

Maintenance Webmail Team. Webmail Upgrading Service
Email: activeweb@mail2consultant.com

Be careful out there folks; the predators are on the loose and they want your data.

Reading Material.

Published by
iMorph
at August 24, 2007 in General, Links and Personal. 9 Comments

Empty.

My hard drive died a few weeks back. The essentials were rescued, but my RSS feeds are gone. I want yours.

Share “one” feed per comment.

Thank you.

No Touching.

Published by
iMorph
at May 16, 2007 in General. 0 Comments

Give it to me, baby.

Chikan (痴漢, チカン, or ちかん)?

Chikan is a Japanese term meaning “molester” or “pervert.” The term is frequently used to describe men or women, who take advantage of the crowded conditions on the public transit systems to touch people, either male or female, sexually.

Chikans getting Busted!

Two documented cases of heroism:

Personal Encounters:

Ladies, How to Protect Yourself from Chikan

Sound Advice

Published by
iMorph
at April 23, 2007 in Computing and General. 0 Comments

The Issue:

With the ipod nano, how do i know if the charging is complete? there’s a battery indicator on the top right corner, but it’s barely visible when it’s charging and it never gets light until you unplug the cable, so i dunno when the charging is actually complete.

Nano Battery Icon

  • DUDE: no i know about the icon
  • DUDE: but its too dim to be visible
  • ME: take your iPod to the Apple Store.
  • ME: Say, “My iPod nano is being a naughty boy.”
  • ME: and then spank your iPod’s bottom while shouting, “You bad little pony! *Spank Spank* Oh, you like that, do you? Have some more.” They will help you immediately.
  • DUDE: i am actualy very close to an apple store
  • ME: Well, there you go.

Dr. Seuss

Published by
iMorph
at October 25, 2006 in General. 1 Comment

Green Eggs and Ham. A Classic.

We all have a copy of this somewhere, yes? If you don’t, well then, shame on you.

That Sam-I-am: 

Do you like green eggs and ham?
Would you like them here or there?
Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
Would you eat them in a box?
Would you eat them with a fox?
Would you? Could you? In a car?
Could you, would you, on a train?
Would you, could you, in the dark?
Would you, could you, in the rain?
Could you, would you, with a goat?
Would you, could you, on a boat?
You do not like them.
So you say.
Try them! Try them!
And you may.

That Sam-I-am stayed the course. Green Eggs and Ham.

A Challenge.

From snopes.com

Claim: Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after being challenged by his editor to produce a book using fewer than fifty different words.

Status: True.

Click here for “the rest of the story.”

Inspiration via IRC. Again.

Is it obvious IRC has a hold on me?

Box_Nine can be found here.

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.

Days 4 and 5.

Published by
iMorph
at August 24, 2006 in General. 1 Comment

Day 4: Hon Kawagoe.

Places to go and things to do:

Roll back the clock this summer in Hon-Kawagoe. You can see old school fire and tobacco machinery, ride in an authentic rickshaw, experience architecture from another age, and get your fill of classic candy at Kashiya Yokochou.

Hon-Kawagoe, a trip back in time.

Day 5: The Chill Zone.

Pizza and a movie. That’s it. Nothing more to see here. Oh, and I made some Okinawan donut holes.

Posting Playlist

  • Am I asleep or awake? from the album “PinkBeltRageCast” by PB Rage
  • Heart And Soul from the album “Closer” by Joy Division
  • Face Up from the album “Low-Life” by New Order
  • Blue Monday from the album “The Ultimate Eighties CD2 (UK Release)” by New Order
  • Senses from the album “Movement” by New Order

Spent more time listening to the songs than typing up post.

Too Much Time on my Hands.

Published by
iMorph
at July 17, 2006 in General, Japan and Reflect. 1 Comment

How Far is Far?

I live in Tokyo, Japan. Tom lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Can anyone tell me the distance between these two cities? Please don’t cheat and use google or something – even though that’s what I did.

This City Distance Calculator service is provided for FREE by Geobytes, inc to assist you in determining the distance between two cities. Click here to checkout our other FREE services.

As the crow flies, the distance between Tokyo, Japan, not Tokyo, Papua New Guinea, and Raleigh, North Carolina is 6921 miles or 11137 kilometers. Don’t think about walking it.

Huh? Tokyo, Papua New Guinea?

The population of Tokyo, Papua New Guinea does not rival that of Tokyo, Japan. It isn’t even worth mentioning, but since you are probably all curious and stuff, the population, more like the surrounding area, of Tokyo, Papua New Guinea is about 775 people. That falls about 125 people shy of the Class of ‘85. Sad. They need more people.

Watching and Waiting.

You are sitting outside a WiFi enabled McDonalds, in Tokyo, Japan, waiting for a friend to show up. While waiting, do you:

  1. grab some french fires and a shake and then wait quietly?
  2. bust out your MacBook (w/built-in iSight webcam), fire up iChat, initiate a one-way video chat with Tom all the way in Raleigh, North Carolina, and then point the camera at pedestrians?

One couple pointed at the shiny MacBook, an older gentleman bowed at the camera, and then one couple sat and had a brief chat with Tom and myself. I guess this makes me a geek loser. Ask me if I care.

The answer is, “Yes.” So, please don’t point, laugh, and call me names.

Love Me Tender.

Published by
iMorph
at June 1, 2006 in Entertainment?, General and Notices. 0 Comments

Clinton Defends Marriage: Defense of Marriage Act.

  • First, it allows each state (or similar political division in the United States) to deny any marriage-like relationship between persons of the same sex which has been recognized in another state.
  • Second, it explicitly recognizes for purposes of federal law that marriage is “a legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife” and by stating that spouse “refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”

The full text. Oh, the history of civil marriage in the U.S. is also a good read.

Latest Cast of One.

The theme for this episode was initially on katakana. How it went from marriage to Japanese katakana is beyond me. The katakana cast is still in the works.

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