Like Jesus, I still love you
You remember I mentioned that whole SendACrush thing a week or two back?
Dang, well I turn around and there is a similar email harvester hitting us again. This one is called FunnyCards.net. The tragedy of it is, two of our friends fell for it - and I know one of them reads my journal, so I will be kind. And tell him, Like Jesus, I love you.
You get this email and it appears to be from your pal's email account (nice little spoofing job they do). You click the link and it takes you their site and before you can get the card, they need you to help your friend get 'fun points' or someshit. And to get those fun points, you need to enter in 5 names and addresses of your friends.
Someone did this with Mrs. Robot's name and address - UGH.
I guess what we all need to realize that in this post dot-com apocalyptic interweb society, any time you give someone your email address, 90% of the time it will go onto someone's spam list.
Evite? Probably.
HotJobs 'send your friend this job listing'? Probably.
NYTimes 'email this article'? Maybe.
SendaCrush? Oh yea.
Cardwish? You bet.
FunnyCards? Get your spam pants on!
This whole thing reminds of once when I was a kid. We had this neighbor, Gary. Gary was the son of the nice people across the street. He was very close to my parents.
One day, when he was still a teen, this salesman comes by and stops at his house. Well, Gary wasn't in the buying mood at the time, but the salesman asked, "well, can you help me out with some information about your nice neighbors?" and Gary being a teen like we all were proceeded to tell this guy everyone in the neighborhoods name and how many children they have, and what ages, and if they prefer coke over pepsi and on and on.
So, you can imagine that when Mr Salesman walks up to our door and greets my mum with a script that includes the names and ages of her children, she freaked.
And then she kicked Gary in the balls.
Well, not really.
But, after my parents and his parents were done with him, he'd wish he taken the kick-balls option.
So, what I am saying is this: if you give out your friend's email address, you can't complain when they kick come to kick you in the balls.
In fact, I think you should say, "why, thank you".
Raq's Baby
Raq got one of them I-Macs. She just IM'd me on it and sounds... ecstatic? Yea, ecstatic. I think she is in love.
Beach
I wanna go to the beach. Yea, he's got the right idea.
My on again - off again affair
Trillian. Good lord. Trillian and I just never seem to get it to work. Trillian is a wonderful instant messaging program that conveniently handles IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger all in one program.
There are some minor bugs. Or maybe not bugs, but things that just annoy me. Those things I can not think of right now because I am so in love with one of their new skins.
The new one is called Microscopic and it's gorgeous and best of all: TINY yet readable.
It's about a fifth the size of the normal AIM window.
If you want to try it out, go to trillian.cc
Download trillian and go to skins and grab 'Microscopic'
This is the 'Microscopic' site - these guys did a really good job on this
Awesome Cool Paintings
I really really like this guy's work. Check it out: Tooth Paste For Dinner
(equally cool domain name)
Have a good weekend. Read Poop Beetle.
