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IF YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST,
I want to know 20 things about you. I don’t care if we’ve never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don’t. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends!

I’m keen to hear!

Yesterday was a long one at work, but I had a plethora of goodies once I made it to the grotto proper. A very handy copy of the Washington Post, a wonderful card, two lovely magnets and an assortment of my favorite candies. (Including a Skybar and Caramel Creams!!)

Kind of neat… Triple-O Eight in Our Man Flint was played by Landon from Planet of the Apes.I didn’t recognize him until this most recent viewing.

Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen

Mr. T says “Be Somebody, or Be Somebody’s Fool!”

Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds – waxy posts a very thorough article on the recent lj/craigslist drama. How’d I not catch this on Monday?

On Monday, a Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: “Posing as submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get in 24 hours?”

He took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad (warning: not safe for work) in another area, reposted it to Craigslist Seattle, and waited for the responses to roll in. Like Simon’s experiment, the response was immediate. He wrote, “178 responses, with 145 photos of men in various states of undress. Responses include full e-mail addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and in some cases IM screennames and telephone numbers.”

In a staggering move, he then published every single response, unedited and uncensored, with all photos and personal information to Encyclopedia Dramatica (kinda like Wikipedia for web fads and Internet drama). Read the responses (warning: sexually explicit material).

Instantly, commenters on the LiveJournal thread started identifying the men. Dissenters emailed the guys to let them know they were scammed. Several of them were married, which has led to what will likely be the first of many separations. One couplein an open marriage begged that their information be removed, as their religious family and friends weren’t aware of their lifestyle. Another spotted a fellow Microsoft employee, based on their e-mail address. And it’s really just the beginning, since the major search engines haven’t indexed these pages yet. After that, who knows? Divorces, firings,lawsuits, and the assorted hell that come from having your personal sex life listed as the first search result for your name.

More at Waxy’s article

full followup links on rfjason’s site

Is this guy just a jerk, or suicidally stupid? I can’t imagine hundreds of angry local men won’t have at least a few violent thugs amongst ’em… Or at least someone that knows a good lawyer?

Also… why is it so much easier to become famous (infamous?) for being a creep than a good guy?

Is this true?

If you have to introduce a second cat into your house,your first kitty cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a little perfume on both cats, so that they will smell the same as each other, they will trust each other more.

1 year ago – Red Thread, Postcard, walking weather, work, 2nd life, battersea,

2 years ago – visit meme, case against voodoo, freeflow thought, Mexico Wal-mart Protest

3 years ago – Newt-vet, shoutcast, tiny cities, Why I dislike leiberman, Frankie mooches again, Turkish Hairballs

4 years ago – Lots of robots, World Affairs, palm art

5 years ago – Shocked awake, Nostia, folks scamming relief, weather, programming, lovely chat

6 years ago – Pompano Weather, Warghetz, Suzy News, Censorship, Loved

Manchurian Candidate + Abe Lincoln’s Ghost = Good Comedy. Ending was a little weak, but it was nice to see Gargantua-1 again.

Also caught the first House of Season 1 – interesting character adjustment, but I don’t think it’ll last for very long.

I have some good irons in the fire, and more to come today… please beam me good, lucky thoughts, prayers, or whatnot, dear journal.

Matt’s Started his Halloween Countdown already!! I look forward to his articles every year.

1 year ago – 2nd life, raccoon icon, newt sleepies pic, halloween jukebox, condo doesn’t like newt, ADP ship-out prep

2 years ago – Ivan raises the dead, BK covers call, Shaun of the dead, JLU, Weather pictures, Safe!

3 years ago – Photo Friday – faith, I have a cell phone, soundless music, skunk ape

4 years ago – nice dreams, wargaming terrain tips, $25 benefit for being a non-litterbug, Tony gave me Ants, Brains, Cities and Software

5 years ago – Helping, act more – gripe less, Rant about people who say “we deservedit”, Long chat with Hala, Worried about DelMarVa, chickenpoo dream

6 years ago – looking for things to do, Newtcam reactivated

The Momster was pretty dang hep to the plans for October… she’s going to be in the region and will be able to come. I’ll be interested in seeing how Linda and Wilton get along with Chris and Larry. I’m elated that everyone is enthused and happy. I still have the urge to isolate some folks from others, just for sanity’s sake, but I know I love ’em all.

Testing out geotagged photos in flickr – seems to work ok.

Went to a Animal-health benefit at a comedy club in Boca last night. 2 local comics, a b-lister and an “a-lister”. Locals were cute, but too much unfunny ethnic humor that “I’m half black and half Korean… I keep robbing my own dry cleaning store”, b-lister was a lot more fun (I’ll have to look up his name again, but he did some clever bits that had a nice combination of shock value & cerebral), and the a-lister (Artie Fletcher) was just totally lame.

Note to comics – If the crowd has a big percentage of the crunchy granola / vegan / animal lovers, doing jokes about abusing your dog or Steve Irwin dying is probably a bad idea.

I’m making it sound worse than it was. I had a nice time with GG, and her buddies Heather and Lisa over a couple of baskets of fries (I had diet cokes, and they were drinking apple martini-type stuff) We got there at 8ish, expecting to be late, because the card said that they started at 7:30, but I’d say the first comic came up at about 9pm, and the whole thing ended at about 10:30.

Something a little odd – I bought raffle tickets, but didn’t win any of the critter baskets (there was a cat one that’d have been a Newton-nirvana), or any of the other loot… however a friendly person gave me a book on “Whistle blowers book of 1001 secrets: consumer news you can use” – It’s published locally – Pompano Beach, FL – copyright 1999, so who knows how accurate the stuff in it might be these days. Seems pretty entertaining.. a bunch of little one-paragraph entries on things like credit-card fraud, energy-saver light bulbs or swordfish depletion. It seems to be put together by a member of the tinfoil cap crowd, but sometimes those guys have a little signal amongst the noise.

The Go game want to paying me $75 for a 3-hour (maximum) Event in Miami on Sept 13. They’re looking for other extras, so if you want to meet me in south beach at the mall for a few hours, let me know! Here’s a flash demo what things are like in the game.

Thanks for the initial go game tip, ldy !

The only downside is that 9/13 is a Wednesday, so I’d have to miss a few hours of work to do it.

1 year ago – confirmed Deerfield condo, iguanas, wonder woman, pb&h, 2nd life, songs meme, quizzies

2 years ago – future life, fly-eating bot, living in Broward, Maroon, tracking Ivan,Danny’s students read my lj, on call all weekend, HIP/Bag lady

3 years ago – Run, Trism-Gollum, Run, robot zoo, dirty-sounding words, palm-day atwork, lifetime membership in there, time marks the beginning of the end for prop2

4 years ago – oatmeal, remembrance rant, touch screen voting, flash CAD thingie.

5 years ago – hardscrabble, Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, (and other daily life books), good things

6 years ago – saw a black tip shark, conch fritters, everway