If I was ever lost in the woods and a bear attacked me, I wouldn’t put up a fight. I would let the beast toss me like a rag-doll for a while, just to make him think he was macho. Then I would pull out my trusty machete and carve a hut from his steaming carcass.
More Neutrino coverage in the news, these things are getting some attention. It looks like we are learning more and more everyday.
About 10 years ago, observations of the solar neutrino flux found unequivocal evidence that the neutrino, a weakly interacting particle, had mass. The nature of the discovery also indicated that there must be an unobserved neutrino, called the sterile neutrino. This raised the possibility that the sterile neutrino might make up a significant component of dark matter. Some early observations and calculations showed that if the sterile neutrino did have the right properties, then it would also explain other cosmological anomalies like unexpectedly early star formation.
Now what about worldly issues? Oh yeah we’ve got em’. I came across this cool site which uses some really cool illustration to make their point. The “choose your weapon” graphic is interesting, check out how much the US spends in comparison to the rest of the world. Have any of you read anything about the government reclassifying information about nuclear weapons?
Researchers at the National Security Archive, an independent library that belongs to The George Washington University, found that officials from the Pentagon and US Department of Energy have been trawling through reports that have been released to the public and deleting numbers of missiles, despite some of the statistics being decades old.
I was recently introduced to the Tao Te Ching and have been giving it a read. Pretty interesting stuff. If you want to peruse the book, stop on over to this site. There seem to be some really good ideas in here, things to make you think. Plus it is always good to learn as much about Chinese culture and history as possible, we are a world economy now.
A good message. Does he say “she’s aerial hotdog”?
What happens when a lot of private search information is released to the public? Everyone gets to look through it. I guess 650,000 AOL subscribers had their search results shared recently and it is churning some concern over privacy. So what do users of the internet do with such informatoin? Simple… they use it for games.
So I figured since Tuesday was a slow day in the personal blogosphere, I would spice things up with a Wednesday full of fun things. What better way than to start with some good old fashioned consumer goods. Sure there are people dying from starvation or lack of water, but why not indulge yourself with some fun products and services.
SNAKES ON A PLANE
I am sure all of you have already been to Snake on a Plane several times by now, so I will keep this plug short. If you are unaware, there is a customizable Sam Jackson page for creating personalized messages. Please do not subject us to this marketing campaign, we would not like our phone number targeted by marketers. Remember, we didn’t do it to you.
SHARE CLUETRAIN WIDGETS
The web 2.0 bullshit generator does (imho) an excellent and amusing job of bringing these latest buzz phrases to life. Having a marketing background myself, one of the stupidest things marketers do is try to name things. Everything needs a “hip, cool, fresh, buzzworthy” name. I call it buzzification - lets see if this catches on - too bad it sucks. blogosphere, ha.
THE KING OF GAMES
What would a good post be without cool Nintendo merchandise. I ran across this site selling Nintendo themed t-shirts out of Japan. It appears that they are now shipping these sweet shirts over the US and are avail to order. I haven’t done and Yen to US Dollar conversions to assess cost, but they are some pretty snazzy shirts. Who doesn’t love Zelda? (I actually know a few of you don’t care for the RPG games so there are Donkey Kong shirts for you)
OPTICAL RELIEF
When was the last time you needed to see though someone’s clothes but just didn’t have the proper optics for the job. Maybe you are a secret agent on missions not to be discussed or simply you’re a perv. Regardless of your situation, Kaya Optics has the answer to all of your problems.
EDITORS NOTE:
This is the truncated and salvaged portion of the original message.
Have you ever sat in the waiting room waiting to find out answers to the unknown. It can be quite the nerve racking affair. It is truly a challenge of relaxation and patience.
It is always interesting to watch people waiting to hear the unexpexted. Some of them are anxious, others calm and collected. There is a woman staring off into what seems an infinite abyss. The children are playing oblivious to the situation. There are business types on their blackberrys and a few elderly hacking and coughing.
There are people looking around, looking back at me looking at them. Everyone seems uneasy. At least the view is nice.
It is an interesting setting to say the least. As I sit here and people watch, I look at my toenails and think “damn I need to clip them”.
I was 20 minutes into a post (i had been saving) when something happened and 3/4 of the article was erased. There are no version histories or undo’s so it was lost. I wanted to throw up a post before bed, but that’s not going to happen now. I guess this one counts but it just doesn’t cut the mustard.
What the hell does it mean to “cut the mustard” anyway? Fuckin’ A
This post thanks to lyle koch, his nice lady friend and their lapriffic laptop.
PS: the data transfer on the radio server should be complete some time today, i will let everyone know when it is done, don’t worry.
I receive a considerable amount of spam each day and choose to sift through it instead of blocking it all. I find it intriguing the kinds of things that turn up. My spam folder is a goldmine for ideas, and those not only commercial in value. One of the things I enjoy looking at in my spam folder are the names of the people in the “from” field. A quick survey for this article yielded the following:
Lakeisha Funk
Doyle Grimmett
Hudes Lukes
Bice Melancon
And none of those names were from pornographic marketing. Sometimes I wonder if there is a secret organization of spammers around the world that sit around and come up with names to use for spam messages.
I am also starting to wonder about the mental capabilities of the general public. I think that since the Internet became mainstream 15 years ago, the overall intelligence level of the common email user has dropped tremendously. Sure I am generalizing here, but the phishing and scam techniques I see in my junk folder are becoming more and more obvious, to the point that they actually read “phishing scam” in the subject field. Pretty soon they might just as well say “give us your bank information, ssn, and address and we will steal your money and make your life a living hell”. Here is an example:
[PHISHING]: Fifth Third Bank - urgent security notice [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:05:21 -0060]
First of all, I have never heard of Fifth Third Bank let alone have an account with them. Secondly, when you open the email, it is one large graphic OF text (instead of actual text) that links you to some scam site that requests your personal information. Have people not learned by this point that anyone ASKING for information has a 99.9% chance of being a scam. Banks and other institutions never ask for personal information, especially in an email, let alone one that says “phishing” in the title. It is even in brackets to inform you that you are about to have all of your accounts gutted and your identity stole. Here is the complete email, image and all.
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rep Zoopay
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Platinum 2006 has detected that this email could be spoofedTake maximum precautions, as spoofed emails could be the sign of a fraud attempt.
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I should note that when you open the email, the only thing visible is the image of text. The rest of the spam is concealed in white text, preventing it from being seen in most html compatible email clients. (Which is one reason why everyone should send email in PLAIN-TEXT) The stupidity of so many people are costing those who understand scam email a lot of money. I’m fed up, I say if you get scammed by something as stupid as the email above, you deserve to loose all of your money AND your identity. Heck, you might as well just send me a check for everything in all your accounts and save yourself the hassle of the identity fraud. I only want your money. I have an identity, that of a savvy email user.
We will be taking bagakiRADIO down for the next day to perform some much needed upgrades to our server. We will also be reconfiguring our drives that contain our music. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Please let us know if you experience any performance issues when accessing our site. Thanks
Mr Bagaki
I ran across this article “Are you SURE you want to remove that?” and found it interesting for two reasons. Reason #1, the title. You would think a professional news source like Reuters would come up with a more professional title than said chosen title. Reason #2, doesn’t biggpappa have a friend with this condition?
Check it…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian businessman born with two penises wants one of them removed surgically as he wants to marry and lead a normal sexual life, a newspaper report said Saturday.
The 24-year-old man from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh admitted himself to a New Delhi hospital this week with an extremely rare medical condition called penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said.
“Two fully functional penes is unheard of even in medical literature. In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary,” the newspaper quoted a surgeon as saying.
I cannot blame the guy, it would just not work too well in reality. I am sure there are many men out there that “think” they would like this condition, I’m sure they wouldn’t. I was talking to a good friend about this (whom recently attended the Body Worlds exhibit) and he did mention how pretty substantial arteries (or small arteries, i forget the technical name) run through the male reproductive organ. That will be a tricky situation, the operation that is.
I have a friend working in the customer service world and it sounded like he had one hell of a day yesterday. His adventures began about 30 minutes into his 14 hours shift. His second customer of the day was a friendly African American woman, (I bet he liked that, he digs black girls) and according to him she smelled nice. They were chatting as he entered her information into the computer system. He accepted her payment and handed her credit card back to her. Upon handing the card back to her, she reached across the counter and poked him in the chest, joking about how he didn’t check her signature on the back of her card with the signature on the contract. The funny thing is that according to him, she poked him pretty hard, hard enough to feel it for a few seconds after contact. Ha-ha, I bet he liked that.
Moving right along, about mid-day a disgruntled customer came to the counter. He raised his voice with disapproval of his experience. When asked the required information to close the customer’s contract, and not having that information, the customer responded with further anger, this time using everyone’s favorite explicative. My friend appeased him and he went along on his way. About twenty minutes later, the man approached the counter again, this time with two jars of jam or jelly and offered them. My friend graciously accepted, and then later threw them into the garbage. (The were opened, I joked about the guy poisoning him) The kicker is that the man with the jelly was so excited that someone could enjoy the really great jelly from a church that his aunt bought at some type of fundraiser. It made that mans day.
Finally as things were winding down for the evening, his final customer came to the counter. He was a nice gentleman. a consultant, who was no longer in need of the service my friend offered. He returned to square things up and complete the payment. He was happy with the service, happy enough to tell my friend, “You’re the man“. The customer was like, “I bet no one has told you that before, you’re the man.” Ha
What a rainbow of characters to deal with during that wonderful Saturday afternoon. I laughed pretty hard at the three situations; this written version just doesn’t do his version of the story justice. It is always better from the horse’s mouth I guess. I just wish I could have been a fly on the wall watching his reactions to the conflicts and I still laugh at “the poking”. A-ha-ha
