Is it just me, or have spam emails gotten way more personal recently? This dropped in my inbox yesterday:
Hey dude,
last night sucked, so mad about my play in general over the last few games, next week we will get it done.
I forgot to hit you off with the check after the game, I still have my checkbook with me, so let me know what you want me to do. I am filling out the check for 139 and writing it out to Evan Harris, as opposed to NYurban…correct? Maybe we can meet up one of these nights, or I can perhaps leave it off with your brother if we are both waitign for a train at grand central. Let me know what you are thinking…during the days i am pretty booked up, but tomorrow is looking somewhat slow for me, so maybe tomorrow. let me know.
_ian
I work late-night tech support as most of you know, and if there’s anything I’ve grown to love more during my tenure than really addicting flash games, it’s pictures of lolcats and Windows XP registry edits.
In the former category, though, you can’t beat DiceWars for sheer, unadulterated, last hour-killing merriment. If you’ve played the board game Risk, you’ll get the concept immediately: you start on a randomly generated map of brightly-colored polygonal shapes, with a pre-set number of dice (die? but oh so negative, that plural form.) You take your stack from one territory and throw it against an opponent’s stack on another. If you roll higher, you win it; roll lower, you don’t - and only keep one die on the attacking square; roll the same value as your opponent, and the situation’s the same — except now he’s really pissed off at you.
The number of additional dice you get per round is directly related to the largest number of contiguous territories you hold. So — expand slowly! Move your troops forward! Watch for a rearguard action!
Something that occured to me while watching this that escaped me in my younger years…They always change (morph?) from their individual smaller shapes into the really big super bad ass robot in the last five minutes of the episode to defeat the bad guy. Why don’t they just do that when they started fighting the bad guy?
i thought, i could use some Islands(restaurant) but i’ve not heard of Islands(band), so i went to the show! and it was fun! the song above (”Rough Gem”) was cool!
If you haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 yet, you need to. It’s not yet too late to help Mozilla set their world record for, I dunno, most people sexually pleased by a piece of software in an hour or whatever, but that’s a secondary concern to actually being really and truly sexually pleased for the first time by a web browser.
The changes range from the superficial: It’s prettier! To the unseeable and unknowable: It runs faster! Gmail seems to load considerably faster too, but the Google folks have been spending some time lately streamlining their backend, as well, so it’s probably more of a really happy coincidence than anything else.
There’s not a whole lot of (useful) extensions ready for version 3 at the moment — I was unsuccessful in tracking down a compliant version of TabMixPlus, for instance. But the upside of it is that the add-ons run a lot smoother on the new version than they did on the old one.
So, if you liked Firefox 2, and if you like the idea of something so grandiose and perfect as a browser that surfs the web and does your laundry for you, then download it. Now.
It’s been about five years since I signed up for my Facebook account, and in that intervening time I have not had the horrible experiences I’ve had with MySpace. No one’s tried to phish my email and password, no angry ex-girlfriends blogging about the guys they’re sleeping with and sending me emails to that effect, no angry current girlfriends blogging about the guys they’re currently sleeping with and sending me emails to that effect. No annoying band friend requests, no friend requests from people I don’t know (except, it seems, from people who share my name, which has become some sort of meme on Facebook, I gather. I dunno. I’ve been out of the loop so long I don’t know what the kids are doing for kicks these days. Snortin’ jay and doing JagerBombs all night long and then going home and searching for themselves on Facebook.) (more…)
so, i’m borrowing(stealing?) my friends XBOX 360 and i borrowed FIFA ‘08 from another friend.
FIFA ‘08 has a fantastic soundtrack. among the popular songs that i already knew there are a bunch that I don’t know. one song caught my ear: “Fall Into Place” by Apartment.
while Apartment kinda just sounds like The Kooks or even The Veils, this particular song is catchy.
So, today I’m kicking off a new chapter (Act?) in Popsquad.
Too often I have friends tell me, oh, listen to This Band and That Band and The Band. Most of the time I forget. Not because I don’t like you but because, well, I forget things. The booze strips me of my short-term memory.
Anyway. This blog will be a place where I can go back remind myself of music people suggested to me and where I can recommend music to others.
That’s about all I got for now. Stay tuned for MUSIC.
Ted Stevens (Alaska, R), took some time, a while ago, to explain to us just what the internet is, in very eloquent terms:
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially…
my tenure than really addicting flash games, it’s 
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