More stuff that I remembered

  • I’ve gotten 112MB worth of Sobig emails in the last week, 1072 different messages. Those are just the direct emails, not counting the numerous bounces and “thanks for inquiring about our product” emails that I get from being the email in the From: address that hits a bad place on the internet. The bounces make it through my spam filter, unfortunately… well, some of them do. The viruses themselves get caught and sit in my caught spam folder, but they still are downloaded from the mail server, which is annoying because it chokes up the DSL…
  • Back a few months ago, we were all playing Game of the Worlds (a.k.a. Simcountry). They decided they were going to reset the game, though and I lost interest. Well, the last of my three countries was just conquered today… huzzah.

A week’s worth of updates

In no particular order, a laundry list of stuff.

  • Last night, as I was driving home, there was a crazy amount of lightning in the south sky. The strange thing was, even though some of the strikes were bright enough to illuminate the trees, I didn’t hear a single crack of thunder.
  • For those of you who are IGN Insiders, you can take a peek at the video preview for the Nokia N-Gage. Not that I’m buying one, but the weird part is that one of the two Nokia reps was a former co-worker of mine. I thought she looked familiar in the video preview.
  • Two of the last three nights, I’ve dreamt that I was going back to school… although in slightly different circumstances. One was me taking a full course-load while still working (echoes of bigdumbthing‘s past endeavors), and the other was me moving off to be a full time student. And in both cases, I was stuck in class, with no idea what the homework was, and I hadn’t done the reading…
  • I was playing .//MUTATION the other day, and I read a “post” in the in-game “BBS” by a character named meowa. And of course, I laughed out loud so hard that Leon had to see what I was laughing at. There were two posts, I don’t remember the first, but the second one was “Common sense is overrated,” or something like that.
  • I refuse to participate in the TV show meme. Partly out of the general hatred that I have for web-tests in general, and partly out of the fact that my username is mapped to Gary Coleman.
  • So, I leave for Indiana in two days. curse is gonna be driving me to the airport bright and early on Thursday morning. Hopefully I won’t be too out of touch.
  • Oh, and by the way, none of you got the reason why July 28th, 1991 was special. And only one of you tried.