heehee.

exchange between me and foofy_attorney, a few minutes ago:

me: guess what Rob did this evening on the phone to cheer me up.
foofy: sent you a lolcat with a penguin on it?
me: no...
foofy: sent you a penguin with a lolcat on it?
me: no...
foofy: sent you a lolcat with a penguin on it, compiling a linux kernel?
me: no...although that would make me really happy.
foofy: i knew it would.
me: he sang me "albuquerque." by weird al yankovic. all twelve minutes of it.
foofy: wow...that's love. i think in several societies, you'd officially be married.

more surprise buttsets!

my blog is on the first page when you google the word "buttsets."

awesome.

lazybones

i have again been rather delinquent on putting together furniture. i haven't been as delinquent as yesterday, though. i put my chair together, and started on my desk. however, i thought it would be far more fun to finally set up mozilla thunderbird on this box, so i can have one place to check all my email. so, that's what i've been up to this afternoon instead of finishing up my desk.

maybe i'll have everything assembled by the end of the week?

today's tuesday...and some people on the normal pub trivia squad can't go. this is good news for me, as one of the subsitutes. i'm looking forward to pub trivia fun, since i haven't been since the day before i left for boise, way back at the beginning of the month.

i should get ready for trivia, but not yet. i don't have to leave until seven, and it's only five. before i get ready, i think i'm going to finish the book i started a few days ago. it's called spam kings, and it's fascinating. it's about the battle between spammers and anti-spammers in the early aughts. i haven't been particularly up in arms about spam in years, ever since all of my email providers [most notably gmail and my law school] put up such good spam filters, filters that have kept thousands of junk ads from reaching my eyes. however, spam is a major waste of resources and bandwidth, and it's neat to see what kinds of measures the hardcore anti-spammers have gone to in order to fight off the spammers.

the president doesn't get a funny hat.

i've been getting AIM spam from screen names with "Salmon" or "Trout" in them for months. some of them are boring. some of them are weird. this one is just historically inaccurate:

OutOfSyncTrout: Pope Pius XII was a great President, don't you agree?

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