Not only is my job to help deliver those evil advertisements that pollute your movie experience, but now my name is on a software patent application. On the plus side, now that I’m evil, I won’t have a moral dilemma if the only jobs available after this one are producing porn web sites or (shudder) working for the Republicans.
Category: Revelation
My second in-flight emergency
Yeah, this one I don’t put any quotes around the word “emergency”. It was scary, it was real, and I’m happy to be on the ground again. And I will never, ever, ever skip the run-up just because I flew the plane for two hours a mere 15 minutes ago.
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Not a pop culture maven
Until I reviewed my mail filter logs today, I had no idea that “Paris Hilton” wasn’t a hotel in France. I’m not sure I’m a better person for knowing that.
I’ve got a better headline for this
USATODAY.com – Cops: Glen Campbell violent by the time he got to Phoenix jail
I propose “By the time he gets to Phoenix, he’ll be reeling”.
Ok, it’s art, but not random.
In Rants and Revelations: Art in spammer subject lines I saw something that looked like art in what I thought were random words generated by spammers. Well, JoAnne just pointed out to me that the words actually come from The Master and the Margarita by Bulgakov.
Amazing. I assume that means the spammers just grabbed some text file they found on-line and used it to generate phrases, and not that they are secretly highly literate and fans of english translations of obscure russian authors.