happy halloween!
from the burninator and a guitar hero.
not pictured: 1up mushroom and a bleeding heart robot.
not pictured: 1up mushroom and a bleeding heart robot.
posted by gijyun |
10.31.2007
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7:59 AM
do you ever get those matrix moments
where it's a pretty typical morning, though you went to starbucks for a latte which is weird because you don't really ever go to starbucks and you never get lattes, and it's the first morning in october that actually feels like a morning in october since most of the month has peaked at over 80 °, and you were the first one in the office and you didn't turn the lights on just to see what it felt like to sit at your computer in the dark, and at quarter to eight a.m. the phone at your desk rings and you pick it up, but because the whole morning's been slightly off-kilter, you suddenly forget your name, where you work, and who you are?
current costume pitches:
zombie prom queen
pumpkin spice, the long lost spice girl
trainwreck
technophile
current costume pitches:
zombie prom queen
pumpkin spice, the long lost spice girl
trainwreck
technophile
posted by gijyun |
10.29.2007
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6:58 AM
i like trains.
i didn't know i liked trains until i had to start taking them all the time - they're not really a common mode of transportation in the high plains; the rocky mountain menu offers you a selection of a long car trip or an expensive flight.
i've taken a train to someplace no less than 10 times in the last five months, and while i don't think they'll be booming out west again any time soon, i have been working on a list of why trains are the next airplanes (so meta!):
1. there's no seatbelt. there's also no corresponding interlude from the flight attendant heckling you to fasten it. in fact, there's no attendant that heckles you at all, except to show your ticket. then you pretty much get to do whatever you want. trains allow you to live on the edge (like slash did in the LIVIN' ON THE EDGE VIDEO where he had to get out of the way of the what? THE TRAIN.).
2. you're usually connected - trains have the added bonus of wi-fi. not only that, but they have power outlets right there at your seat. iPod battery dead? charge it! cell phone low? charge it! laptop? plug it in! electric shaver? turn it on! food processor? set it to chop! need to plug in your reading lamp? no problem!
3. they're dependable. trains are on time, usually never delayed, and very, very rarely cancelled.
4. SNACK CAR.
5. i saw jeffrey sebelia at 30th street station yesterday. he was standing in line with everybody else to get to the platform, and i told him i'd be remiss if i didn't say hello and that i was a fan, and he said oh thank you! and then i left him alone. this has nothing to do with why trains are better than airplanes, but i didn't know how else to fit in the anecdote, so merry christmas.
trains, i choo-choo-choose you.
i've taken a train to someplace no less than 10 times in the last five months, and while i don't think they'll be booming out west again any time soon, i have been working on a list of why trains are the next airplanes (so meta!):
1. there's no seatbelt. there's also no corresponding interlude from the flight attendant heckling you to fasten it. in fact, there's no attendant that heckles you at all, except to show your ticket. then you pretty much get to do whatever you want. trains allow you to live on the edge (like slash did in the LIVIN' ON THE EDGE VIDEO where he had to get out of the way of the what? THE TRAIN.).
2. you're usually connected - trains have the added bonus of wi-fi. not only that, but they have power outlets right there at your seat. iPod battery dead? charge it! cell phone low? charge it! laptop? plug it in! electric shaver? turn it on! food processor? set it to chop! need to plug in your reading lamp? no problem!
3. they're dependable. trains are on time, usually never delayed, and very, very rarely cancelled.
4. SNACK CAR.
5. i saw jeffrey sebelia at 30th street station yesterday. he was standing in line with everybody else to get to the platform, and i told him i'd be remiss if i didn't say hello and that i was a fan, and he said oh thank you! and then i left him alone. this has nothing to do with why trains are better than airplanes, but i didn't know how else to fit in the anecdote, so merry christmas.
trains, i choo-choo-choose you.
posted by gijyun |
10.18.2007
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8:37 AM
project spamalot, cont.
so, after receiving what seemed like a sincere email from retep0201 (which quickly made me realize just how dense i am, not seeing that retep is peter spelled backwards), i actually got three more from him that day.
"he" sent me ("he," since i still have no proof of whether this is a real person or a bot, a spammer or simply a confused german gentleman) an email with the subject "here is why," which included a link to his online kodakgallery.com photoalbum, and though i am really weary of phishing, i clicked through and saw photos of this old dude and his wife, on vacation in coppenhagen, which just confused me even further.
is retep/peter a real dude? if he is, how'd he get my email address? if not, why is this bot so clever that it actually compiled a photojournal of retep in an attempt to phish my email address?
i think they just went on a cruise or something. i still get emails from him, most of which contain more links to his photoalbums.
whether or not he's real, it's hard to imagine pestering a mug like that on AIM, so i mostly leave him alone anymore.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
stay tuned for the story about the danish (icelandic? dutch?) university kids that somehow put me on their email listserve and continue to send me their papers for review!
"he" sent me ("he," since i still have no proof of whether this is a real person or a bot, a spammer or simply a confused german gentleman) an email with the subject "here is why," which included a link to his online kodakgallery.com photoalbum, and though i am really weary of phishing, i clicked through and saw photos of this old dude and his wife, on vacation in coppenhagen, which just confused me even further.
is retep/peter a real dude? if he is, how'd he get my email address? if not, why is this bot so clever that it actually compiled a photojournal of retep in an attempt to phish my email address?
i think they just went on a cruise or something. i still get emails from him, most of which contain more links to his photoalbums.
whether or not he's real, it's hard to imagine pestering a mug like that on AIM, so i mostly leave him alone anymore.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
stay tuned for the story about the danish (icelandic? dutch?) university kids that somehow put me on their email listserve and continue to send me their papers for review!
posted by gijyun |
10.10.2007
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2:17 PM
project spamalot
enough about baseball, what's up with you?
to kick off another installment of sober in october®, i thought i'd tell you all a story about spam.
i, like many, am very curious about the origins of spam (the junk email, not the hawaiian canned meat sensation), and any time i get spam from an AOL address, i always add the handle to my buddy list to see if it's a real person.
take, for example, retep0201. in november of 06, i received this email:
Retep0201 signed on at 10:37:27 AM.
jezabel245: SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM
jezabel245: guess what
jezabel245: i like spammers
jezabel245: that means you and i get to be good buds
Retep0201 signed off at 10:58:58 AM
or this one:
[14:07] jezabel245: my back hurts. probably because of something you did.
[14:09] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one:
11:44] jezabel245: are you ready to bury the hatchet?
[11:45] jezabel245: when you're so quiet like this, so strong and pensive, i can't tell you how much it turns me on.
[11:59] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one (*i was watching Borat at this time. yes, i feel this aside is necessary. because bad things would happen if it weren't here.):
[10:40] jezabel245: THROW THE JEW DOWN THE WELL
[10:40] jezabel245: SO MY COUNTRY CAN BE FREE
[10:41] jezabel245: YOU MUST GRAB HIM BY HIS HORNS
[10:41] jezabel245: THEN WE HAVE A BIG PARTY
[10:48] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one:
[13:49] jezabel245: hi sweetie
[13:49] jezabel245: your mom called
[13:49] jezabel245: she and your sister are coming over for dinner tomorrow
[13:50] jezabel245: which means we need to clean up the guest bedroom before they get here, you naughty boy
13:51] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
then finally one day, i got another email from retep0201:
...there's more to this story, but blogger is being wired about the blockquotes and i'm super hungry, so i'm off to get lunch.
IS THE SUSPENSE KILLING YOU?
to kick off another installment of sober in october®, i thought i'd tell you all a story about spam.
i, like many, am very curious about the origins of spam (the junk email, not the hawaiian canned meat sensation), and any time i get spam from an AOL address, i always add the handle to my buddy list to see if it's a real person.
take, for example, retep0201. in november of 06, i received this email:
From: "Retep0201@aol.com"who is peter? who is carmen? like rob cockerham and his how much is inside adventures, i was determined to find out. any time retep0201 signed on, i'd make it an attempt to ruin (or enrich. you never know with me) his life:
To: annelynn
got you in my computer. you will see my e mail and no doubt will be shown in case you copied it down wrong ha ha. we will talk later as after I got off the phone carmen got up to go to the lu and said who was on phone and I told her it was you. she said same as I said that we were talking about you guys the other day. small world eh. we will talk later.
peter and carmen
Retep0201 signed on at 10:37:27 AM.
jezabel245: SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPA
jezabel245: guess what
jezabel245: i like spammers
jezabel245: that means you and i get to be good buds
Retep0201 signed off at 10:58:58 AM
[14:07] jezabel245: my back hurts. probably because of something you did.
[14:09] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one:
11:44] jezabel245: are you ready to bury the hatchet?
[11:45] jezabel245: when you're so quiet like this, so strong and pensive, i can't tell you how much it turns me on.
[11:59] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one (*i was watching Borat at this time. yes, i feel this aside is necessary. because bad things would happen if it weren't here.):
[10:40] jezabel245: THROW THE JEW DOWN THE WELL
[10:40] jezabel245: SO MY COUNTRY CAN BE FREE
[10:41] jezabel245: YOU MUST GRAB HIM BY HIS HORNS
[10:41] jezabel245: THEN WE HAVE A BIG PARTY
[10:48] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
or this one:
[13:49] jezabel245: hi sweetie
[13:49] jezabel245: your mom called
[13:49] jezabel245: she and your sister are coming over for dinner tomorrow
[13:50] jezabel245: which means we need to clean up the guest bedroom before they get here, you naughty boy
13:51] Meebo Message: Retep0201 is offline
then finally one day, i got another email from retep0201:
From: "Retep0201@aol.com"
To: annelynn
i am a kodak member-ur e mail or how you sent it wants me to be a member but i am and have been long time so long that i forget my password so just send it to me as an email and we will look at it. as i said we were busy busy and gone to the baltic and amsterdam for 3 weeks on a cruise out of amsterdam after several days there. what have you been doing? have picture of carmen and me at dinner on ship and will send soon to show we are still alive and kicking. our grand kids are 19 and 17 (susie's) and 3 year and 18 months (michel's)-dianne 000000000.
talk later
peter and carmen
...there's more to this story, but blogger is being wired about the blockquotes and i'm super hungry, so i'm off to get lunch.
IS THE SUSPENSE KILLING YOU?
posted by gijyun |
10.05.2007
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11:14 AM
phillies win
hopefully it won't be long before people realize my good luck charm-like qualities.
posted by gijyun |
10.01.2007
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12:31 PM
