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Two annoyances for the day
Two things I find annoying at this particular moment:
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At work, the industrial strength spam filters keep me from getting hardly any spam whatsoever. But at home, and with an address that I don’t really hide from the world (andrewk@lunaradventures.net — email me. See? Not hiding it!), I get a ton of spam.
What’s most annoying, though, isn’t just the high volume of spam. It’s that I get boring spam. Pretty much all of my spam can be plopped into two buckets: phishing scams, where someone thinks I’m dumb enough to give them my username and password to important accounts by pretending to be PayPal or whatever; and foreign spam.
At least with regular spam, as I delete them I can chuckle at what lamebrained scams someone is trying to pull on me. Donate money to Joe Random Ruler of Country I’ve Never Heard Of and I’ll get a 500% return on my donation, increase the size of my penis, have more hair. (For the record, I need neither of those two products. OK, so I’m starting to lose my hair. But that’s a story for another day.) But phishing scams aren’t fun to read, they’re just boring fake notices. And foreign spam, always in an Eastern language I can’t even guess at the meaning of, is just as boring. I long for the glory days of spam.
- Why is it so trendy to merge two movie stars’ names into one when they’re dating? This is stupid. Bennifer was OK at first because it sounded like this two-headed monster from the deep. “ROOOOAR, I AM BENNIFER!” But the latest is “Brangelina”, a melding of Brad Pitt and Angelie Jolie. For the record, Brad, I think you did better with Jennifer Aniston. (I have it on good authority that Brad Pitt reads this very blog. OK, that might be a lie.)
Anyway, Brangelina doesn’t sound like a monster, and it doesn’t flow off the tongue. It’s just mushing two words together. There are very good reasons to do this, etymologically, when there is a need for a word that does not exist that contains two similar yet disparate objects. But there’s no reason to go inventing words like “Brangelina” to discuss a celebrity relationship. I feel strongly about this.
UPDATE: (06/20/2005) STOP. THE. COMBO. NICKNAMES!!!
Fri June 10th, 2005 4:39 pm
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I still like the spam I got for Viagra “Soft” Tabs a while back. Heh.
Have you tried SpamAssassin? You can set it up to flag messages (it’s filters are great) that are spam and have your e-mail client just delete them. Or you can keep them in a folder just in case you want to check and make sure it’s not real mail.
I’ve received a few spam e-mails that were able to get through but not many.
Stephan — Oh interesting, it’s server-side as opposed to client side. Looks like it’s a little bit of work to install… I’ll look into it when I get a little free time. Thanks for the tip!
The celebrity co-naming thing is very annoying. I feel your pain. But have you seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith? I’m not a huge fan of Angelina or Brad, but damn, do those two ooze chemistry together! They simply crackled. If the rumors are true, I could almost see why…
Hey Rob! We need to find a way to get an SP# for time spent browsing blogs as “research”…
(Rob is a coworker)
I haven’t yet seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith — but it’s on my todo list. It seemed pretty cool in the trailers, despite my not being a Brad Pitt fan and not an Angelina Jolie fan. She’s yet to do anything I didn’t fall asleep during except Gone in 60 Seconds (and she didn’t do much for me there, I was busy lusting over the cars to notice her).
Amen on the co-naming thing…
I think we should take co-naming to the next level. Let’s just start slamming random words and names together. Like W and Cheney could be Weney.
Ok, forget I brought it up.
Hey Federal Duck — I love names that are the answer to a particularly arcane trivia question. (A nickel to whoever can identify where his name came from first — you don’t count, Federal)
Update — I just heard Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise referred to as “Tomkat.” Make it stop.
Ah, names like something including the number 42, you mean? Though that’s not quite as arcane these days, for better or for worse…
That’s it, Andy. We have to get our own nickname. I’m thinking “Andory” or “Malandy”, which has a particularly disease-filled connotation I almost dig.
Also, your blog always makes me wish I had a cute, really personal blog…and I already have two online journals.
Andory sounds like hunky-dory, Malandy does sound like a malady. I vote Andory.
I’ve found that the key to my blog is that I never include actual thoughts that have any sort of relevance to the world.
Yes, I’ve found that as well.
I almost didn’t mention the nickname thing as it relates to us for that very reason. But this comedienne just can’t pass up a good joke.
Wait, timeout, a ways up, did you call my blog cute?? CUTE?? what about manly and tough
Yes, also that. Of course. What was I thinking.
No! Wait a minute! I said your blog made me wish I had a cute blog!
Someone is a little defensive. What’s on your conscience, huh?
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