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  • When Mail Merge Blows Up

    Don’t you just hate it when your mail merge falls completely apart?

    That’s a piece of lovely scam email purporting to be from Verizon, which it actually isn’t because my Verizon account’s linked to my other email address. Oh, that and the links you see there don’t actually go to Verizon’s website. (I wonder if “ridgecrestcommunitycalendar.com” knows they’ve been hacked. Hmm.)

    So, if you ever wanted to see the guts of a phishing scam message, well, here you go. Enjoy.

  • By The Numbers

    This post marks 2000 entries to the journal.

    On June 26th this journal will be effectively 11 years old. Now, we achieved this partly by importing some back-dated entries from the previous website, but there you have it.

    We’ve racked up nearly 4000 approved comments, and let’s not speculate on how much spam we’ve deleted in over a decade.

    It’s worth mentioning that since posting dropped off precipitously after I lost my job with Entercom six years ago, the bulk of these 2000 posts took place in the first half of this site’s existence. C’est la vie, I guess.

    I have more content queued but when I noticed in the WordPress Dashboard that there were 1999 posts in the system, I figured I should mark an occasion somehow. And here we are.

  • Ivan With The Head Of A Bear

    How’s this for a bold, principled statement on a controversial topic:

    “Jack Frost” is the best MST3K episode of all time.

    Yes, better than its cousin, “The Day The Earth Froze.” Yes, better than “Manos, Hands of Fate,” largely because (let’s face it) “Manos” is just plain painful for most of its running time. Yes, better than “Gamera vs. Gaos.” Yes, better than “Prince Of Space.” Need I go on?

    Let the evidence speak for itself, then.

    • “I thought Jerry Garcia was Father Mushroom.”
    • ‘No, not a princess. You are a queen!’ “In that you look like Freddy Mercury.”
    • “M is for the many times you beat me. O is for the other times you beat me…”
    • “Jack Frost opened fire on a stand of willows today…”
    • “I’m bacon! Baconbaconbaconbacon…”
    • “Bob Keeshan is Mr. Natural.”
    • “Michael Nelson is Lord of the Dance!”
    • “So I guess instead of vacuuming this house, you Zamboni it.”
    • “Hello, this is the sun. Your call is important to us, so please stay on the line…”

    At any rate, until today I had to make do with an old VHS copy, but no longer. I now own this fine bit of televised hilarity in DVD form!

    You may now bask in the glory of my awesomeness. Thank you.

  • Toys Will Be Toys

    Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

    I dare you to find another photograph featuring a Zentraedi Officer’s Pod, a cast-iron “rubber” duck, and a black LEGO minifig.

    Context will arrive in the form of Thursday’s Quacked Panes comic.

  • Boo! Hiss!

    My speakers were just fine yesterday.

    This morning, however, I woke up the computer and turned on my Altec Lansing 5.1 speaker array and… HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

    I unplugged the jacks from the computer, no change. I fiddled with the knobs, turned the speakers off and on, no change. I unplugged the power cord and plugged that back in again and… change.

    Now they don’t turn on at all. I guess I’m going shopping later. Le sigh.

  • On A Scale Of C To C

    It’s possible that I’m a bit of a weirdo.

    My boss asked me to “make it so” (on a Kaseya module purchase, if you’re curious) and I did so.

    I then pointed out that I have as yet been unable to make it la, ti or do, and that we may need to look into renewal pricing for do, re, mi and fa.

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