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How good are you at phishing?...or at detecting it???
Take the quiz
My first go round I got a 90% because I marked a legitimate email as a phish. ;) I guess being safe is better than being sorry...
UPDATE: Corrected link...
I think I might be sick...The story...
How would you like to jump into a pool, then have a boa constrictor come out of a body cavity? ::goes to puke::
What will they do next...Zombies... Literally. Humans within the year...
The next rant...The past week has been really rough. Really high highs and some really low lows (read second last entry)... Work has stabalized back into a norm and thing are returning to as normal as they can. Buts thats enough about that...
On the upswing, side jobs are picking up. I've taken on two webmaster positions with companies in the area. I'm also now the DBA of a third company that I work for part time. They all look like a decent challenge but I'm looking forward to puling through for all of them. Plus, I get some practical experience in the workplace instead of personal experience which is a great advantage...
Three days ago I was followed home, literally. Totem and I were coming home from lisalou's house, Totem was taking an odd route, and well, I had a little case of road rage. ;) We approached an intersecion with a green light, turn into the left turn lane, stopped, and then verred into the right lane and continuted going straight. So I'm fuming, but I notice a car behind me turn on his blinker to turn with us, turn it off and then follow us back on the road. I'm like WTF and I tried to figure out what was going on... Left turn, followed. Right turn followed. OK, now my paranoia has got the best of me. I let Totem drive home while I keep driving (she does not know this is happening BTW)... She turns and the person keeps following me. Left turn, followed. I did a "S" drive up and down a couple of streets and I'm still being followed. Now I'm creeped out... I manage to get a block ahead and park my car in front of a house. He/She (I couldn't tell) pulled onto the street and waited. About two minutes later, they drove off. I never saw them again. I have a feeling a punk a$$ kid was just trying to see what would happen if he keep following me. Whoever it was, they had a souped up neon with fog lights, spoiler, and decals... I didn't get the lics though. I'm just glad I figured it out and didn't lead whoever it was to my house... Ve sure research papers we deliver are only of quality And The Scope.
I also started playing Final Fantasy XI this week. The online one. I'm not that impressed. The game is huge and very detailed, I'm not putting that down. What got to me early on was the lack of info for newbies to the game... It took me a really long time to get used to the interface and when I did, there wasn't much for me to do. Again on the expansiveness, there are a tons of things to do, but for a newbie, many of those are in areas that I couldn't survive. So, for the time being, I'm limited to local areas with low end monsters. Needless to say, I'm only level 8 and things are very, very repetitive. I don't know if I am going to renew my subscription, maybe one month more, but I don't see me going beyond two months unfortunately.
When Totem and I buy a house, I want to it be one level. Now that the computer is up, I'm spending way to much time upstairs. Totem's even said I can go and disappear now. While being on the same floor won't eliminate me using my computer, we'd be essentially togther. IE: Me sitting on my laptop in the living while we watch TV is better than me going upstairs to play a game...
Onward and upward. New project, I'm redoing my Linux box with a new kernel. It's a biggie redo b/c I tried to upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 and was not too successful... Plus the box needs to be rebooted every couple of days to make sure it still works... I think it's because I did a hardware swap without a new install (pulled all hardware out of old 350mhz box and put it into 700mhz box with no OS reinstall). Should be fun...
Another good read...This one is about wireless networking and how easy it is to crack. The sad thing is that they can break the encryption (easily) on the 30% of wireless networks that are encrypted... Ignoring the 70% of networks that are COMPLETELY unencrypted.
FEDS Cracking YOUR Wireless LAN
Call me naive......but I have a good excuse. I wasn't alive when the shot happened and was only 1 year old when the meeting took place.
Story here.
The story is how an attacker to the Pope will be denied access to the Pope's funeral. But what makes me stand back and say, "...Wow..." is that I never knew the Pope spoke face to face with the man that tried to murder him. I've seen that picture flashed all over the news during the last few days but I didn't know what the significance was...
Damn... That takes strength. Wow...
Faked benchmarks??? Bad coding???A lot of people use a SETI at Home work unit as a gauge to how fast their computer can run... My laptop can do a unit in 4 hours. Pentium 4 Mobile running 1.4ghz with 512mb of ram. My new desktop takes 19 hours. (!!!) AMD 64 2200+ running at 2ghz (I'm told) with 1.5gbs of ram...
The SETI optimized for Intel processors or is my laptop getting the "pick of the crop" in terms of easy-to-decypher radio signals??? :\
Take my advice...It's just my two cents, but .02 come from experience. I haven't been fired, but mistakes have been made and lessons have been learned. Hopefully scars have been healed, but scars are scars and will always be there unfortunately. Just remember that if you talk too openly about life, you will get burned. You will not be protected, even if you think you are covering yourself.
Here is some proof...
And it is not just me. I know personally, face to face, not just online, two people who have had to go into hiding and abandon their love to save their livelihood. I know countless more online... While viewed negativly, I do believe a statement like this one can be true:
Mistakes - It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.
Can spammers read???I just got this email...
You're invited... You have been nominated by a friend to participate in our new initiative. As of this year, we are allowing a select few individuals to obtain an Official Degree from one of a ten respected Universities without ever opening a book or taking a test. All we require is that you confirm your nomination on our secure site and we will ship the degree of your choice to you Worldwide.http://*************.com/***********
Respectable degree without ever opening a book??? WTF??? To me, that sounds like an insult to anyone who has EARNED a degree. But then to top that off, they say goto their secure website which is a standard link with no security. Are spammers just stupid (which I doubt b/c they manage to make a ton of money) or do they not understand how English is read and interpreted???
Thank you Thunderbird for good spam filters...
Desperate...OK. I understand the motivation behind spammers. Spam 100,000 people with "member" or "mammary" enhancing drugs for $50 a bottle. Get .01% of that 100,000 emails to buy a bottle and you just made $500. Not a bad return for a single click of the mouse...
But isn't it counter productive??? One of the new features of the comment spam blocking script is an activity log of all blocked comments. Domains with triple hyphens are being blocked. Domains like "super---duper-spam--site.com". The cheapest service I have found allows you to purchase domains is $15 a pop. Not only that, but you have to host them. And you have to host MANY of them (or at least host one and point all the domains at it) because it is too easy just to block a single domain. So even if you get $500 back from that spam, I would think up front you would have had to at least spend $15 x (the amount of domains you have to beat string matching blockers). Wouldn't that be more than you'd make on the .01%??? Granted 10 domains would cost only $150 but most spam blockers are intelligently matching strings (like *spam*site*.com) so you'd have to get more than 10 to not be put out of business overnight. Then the hosting that you'd have to pay for. And it'd have to be good so you don't DoS yourself. Plus, they'd have to have a really $hitty TOS so your spamming activities wouldn't kill your account.
It's just not win win in my mind... While making a quick buck is human nature ::cough:: greed ::cough::, is it really cost effective enough to do it? Or is someone gonna flame me b/c I'm not an uber elite spammer with millions of email addresses for sale...??? I can easily see that happening after this is posted...
Days late......and a couple of dollars short but still news none the less. Six Apart, the company that makes MovableType, which is the software running my blog, bought LiveJournal.
LiveJournal Press Release
Six Apart Press Release
Hmm... I really don't know how I feel about this. Maybe more integration of features that I and many of my LJ friends have been looking for...??? Maybe more ways to pi$$ off more people in the world, and managing to do it to 5.6 million users in a single step...??? :\
I Like it!Very good read: How to bring down a Copy Cat Website
Remember that last post about babies being safe???Look at this. Oh my frickin gawd. They killed the mother this time... What the hell is wrong with this world???
Foreboding...First a warning from my web hoster saying weblog installations across the board are cauing problems with server loading and then this announcement from MovableType...
Hmm... Looks like it this time, not only are the customers going back to MT and complaining, but web hosters are as well. I like it. >:)
UPDATE: Forgot to link the annoucement...
Checking over the logs......and I'm surprised to see how many governmental computers have been visiting my site. Tax dollars at work (US and International)??? Or fans who can't get enough??? :p The latter I doubt...
[snip]e46d.dhs.state.tx.us
165-234[snip].state.nd.us
c[snip]n.state.gov
[snip]003.net.gov.bc.ca
gate.[snip].gov.uk
bdrfi[snip].fnal.gov
proxyout[snip].maricopa.gov
gwc.rta.[snip].gov.au
[snip]pxav02.defence.gov.au
ikt[snip].inpi.gov.br
gk-[snip]-11.srvs.usps.gov
dialup[snip].dmz.jccbi.gov
woc-[snip]1w2k.saic.hq.nasa.gov
nwg001[snip].customs.gov
doegate[snip].DOE.GOV
wdcsun[snip].usdoj.gov
[snip].dhs.gov
proxy1.police.[snip].gov.au
I don't think I've said that much to pi$$ off government officials. At least not that many... :p What concerns me is why are some of these domains even routable??? I mean come on, customs.gov? I sure hope their smart enough to keep their mainframce off of the public network. Bots? Yeah, maybe. But this many? The above hostnames had more than 1 hit at a time on my website. IE: They didn't stop by, spam, and leave. They stayed for awhile, read entries, looked at the flash stuff, and more... Yeah, I've got usage paths for users on this site. ;)
What has the world come to???Not even your baby is safe.
Abduction by C-Section
::shakes head:: WTF?????
Now THIS is funny...Hehe... Someone at Mirco$oft (not necessarily Micro$oft itself) used warez'd programs to make some of the audio files in Windows Media Player. What's funny is that you can see for yourself.
Open notepad in Windows.
Select open and goto your Windows Directory.
Open Help.
Open Tours.
Open WindowsMediaPlayer.
Open Audio.
Open Wav.
Select any of those files.
Give notepad a second to open it and scroll all the way to the bottom.
See that "SoundForge 4.5" and "Deepz0ne". Yeah, hacked version of Soundforge by cracker Deepz0ne. Way to go MS for checking your code and business practices.
Original story here.
As the first comment on that story says, "Do what we say, not what we do". Way to go Micro$oft!!! HA! Sooooo true!!!
When news breaks...No one cares...
Why is this news? Gimme a break!!! Does anyone really care?
I mean c'mon... I have a blue truck. The sky is blue. ... OH MY GAWD!
Another messed up search...It's really amazong how search engines work. Kinda shows how "dumb" they are... Look at what one person searched for and Google brought them here.
"can a credit agency force someone who is mentally sick to pay the credit card"
I'm the sixth link from the top last I checked... Really odd.
What a load of crap...Bush's campaign website is blocked for people viewing it outside of North America... Story here.
Smart? Maybe. Shady? Oh hell yeah... Will the general public care? Probably not and that sucks...
UPDATE: For some reason, [sarcasm] I don't have a clue what it could be [/sarcasm], but these images on the front page of that site are very, very unsettling to me. OUTSIDE of the photochoping...
Images Copyright georgewbush.org
BTW, http://www.georgewbush.org appears to be a mirror and is still accessible from outside North America... Looks like the sys admins slipped a bit... :p
Just wondering...After watching the first debate and then the Vice Presidental debate, does anyone else think this race would be completely different if Bush and Cheney would switch positions???
Just a thought...
Hmm... Odd but good...Got in this morning and bought an Amazon energy drink. It tastes the same as all the other drinks I've tried (M. Dew, R. Bull, etc...) but this one only costs me $2.50 for a 16oz can instead of an 8oz can.
It's now 2:37PM. I drank this at 9:03AM. I'm still buzzed.
...mmm... ...HAHA!!!
8p
Obvious fan......of Larry The CableGuy. Just driving along on the way to work and I got stuck behind this guy. You can bet when I saw that, I just had to take a picture. ;) Awesome plates!!!
[Larry The Cable Guy] Git 'r Done!!!!!! [/Larry The Cable Guy]
Oh my... WTF!!!!You know... I have some SERIOUS problems with my religion...
Can you believe this $hit???
That totally gets a "WTF is wrong with you!?!?!?!?!?" reaction out of me. >:(
Dare ya......to stare at this for more than 10 seconds... >:)
View image
Don't worry, nothing happens. It just gets creepy and seems to start moving after you look at it so long... ::shiver::
Longest... Ever...Longest... Domain... Name... That is actually funny... Ever.
John Kerry is a douche bag but I'm voting for him anyway
Might not agree. Might agree. Funny either way. 8)
Cut from the DVD???I just finished watching the LOTR:ROTK DVD and I'm thnking something might have been cut from the DVD that was in the theatrical version... :\
I know in the book, towards the end when the humans approach the Black Gate, the leaders (good and bad) apprach each other and debate a little. At one point, Frodo mithril vest is thrown at the humans and all hope seems lost... I could have sworn that this was included in the movie at the theater. I have this strong memory of Everyone being repulsed by the orc/human/light skinned leader dude and everyone having a look of despair on their faces when they grab the vest off of the ground... Plus seeing how they try and hide that despair after seeing Frodo's belongings. Anyone else remember this?
This scene is NOT in the DVD but I keep thinking I saw it in the theater... Am I just making this up or did I do a really good job of taking the characters in the movie and putting them into the novel???
Thats odd...You know how in Windoze XP, the Start Menu "shrinks" itself by hiding icons and folders that have not been used in the last two weeks or so? Has anyone else noticed that the Internet Explorer icon never gets hidden???
Micro$oft must have forgot why they got sued a couple of years ago...
Snicker...Thank gawd for networks that allow you to connect to the Internet without authentication... ;) I'm at school with Totem today and all I had to do was plug my laptop in and presto! I'm online. :)
Talk about a security risk...
Bot Repository...Does anyone know of a place that publically lists IP addresses that are running bots to spam various websites across the web???
My block list is growing and I can't believe that I am the only one being targetted by these spammers... I've alerady written scripts to automatically block them, now I'm moving towards a pre-emptive approach to keep them from getting to my site(s) before they even know it exists...
What?So wrong on SO many levels...
BATH TURNS TRAGIC
More woes for Computer Engineers...The outsourcing is hurting people who are even close to finishing... Maybe this will backfire and create a demand for jobs in the US because of the lack of skilled employees??? Maybe?
Students shun Computer Sciences
Or is it just because we aren't being taught well enough...
Schools not up to snuff
Need to make friends with a judge...In traffic court today, I was waiting in line to speak to the County Clerk. Two or three people in front of me was a young woman waiting to do the same thing. The judge walks in...
Real Situation:
Judge: Come over here, Heather.
Heather (The Woman): Hello.
Judge: Does your Dad know you got this ticket?
Heather: Yes.
Judge: Did he get mad?
Heather: Yeah, he was pretty angry.
Judge grabs ticket... Looks at it...
Judge: I'll see you later Heather.
Heather: Thanks!
The woman smiles and walks out...
Any judges out there that want some computer work done??? ;)
Come on...I can't believe people these days. Almost anything for money...
Janet and Justin Dolls
Anyone want to buy the old, dirty, used sock I'm wearing? Bidding starts at only $100!!! C'mon! It's an authentic Unknown Geek sock, worn by the Geek himself! Everyone has to have one!!!
Fuggin' PA-THE-TIC! Thats almost as bad as the people who tried to mark up the World Trade Center stuff after 9/11...
Overloaded...Post a link on the Battle.net forums and everyone comes running... Kewl!!! :)
Thanks for the link to who ever posted it! Check out the other stuff while you're at it!!!
UnknownGeek's Flash and Multimedia Gallery
Word up!Ripped off with permission. Seriously. :) Be weary of going to the site in the picture unless you have a strong stomach and don't take things too seriously... And I'm NOT talking about Microshaft... :p Maybe I am... Anyway, if you check it out with an open mind, some of the stuff there is pretty funny.
Freaked out...Talk abotu cannibalism at its best... I watched one my fish eat another one of my fish yesterday night... Alive... ::quivers:: I felt so bad for the little guy. He was being eaten by our algae eater a few weeks back so we setup a new "tank" (READ: bowl) for 2 weeks while he healed. Once he was back in shape (minus a bunch of scales but with new skin covering his used-to-be-exposed insides), we put him back in the population. Everything was going fine until last night. I guess one of the other (obviously bigger) goldfish was a little hungry for... goldfish.
Talk about gros when Predator get a whole fin (about 2 inches worth) inside and prey just pulls it out all ripped up and not so much looking like a fin anymore... ::quivers again::
::elton john:: Its the ::cough:: fscked up ::cough:: circle of life!!! ::/elton john::
Peep Delta...I'm kinda surprised how many friends of friends of friends of friends are out there... Almost one new forum a day pops up from people linking to the Peep Delta animation I host. It's like friend A posts link on X forum. Friend B follows the link and is also a member of X forum. Friend B posts link on Y forum which he/she is a member of. Friend C, who is a member on Y forum, follows the link. Friend C posts on the other forum they are a member of, Z forum. Yadda yadda yadda...
Kinda neat to watch the word of mouth spread. I'm gonna try and count the number of forums it takes to eventually go back to the first. ;) I'm guessing 42. The answer is always 42. ::uber dork::
How the? What the?Who needs a bank anymore... ???
CNN Article
Simple Math...(Rear Wheel Drive Truck + Buffalo Winter) * Late Night Empty Parking Lots = TONS OF DONUT FUN!!!
::Dr. Evil pinky-to-mouth move:: Mwuhahahahaha!!! :)
Spam problems...I found an easier way to filter my spam email. Instead of looking for keywords and patterns found in spam, I basically dump all email that has "http://" in it, to a SPAM folder. Since most spammers want you to check out a website, they has caught hundreds of emails. For the legitimate emails I get that have that, I just add them to a MUCH smaller safe list (about 30 entries versus 300 entries)...
But now I have problems. I'm getting a lot more email that have Base32 or Base64 encoding... So the text filter does not see the "http://" in the emails. I know most web based email viewers and almost all ofline viewers convert these emails to readable versions... Does anyone know of a way to decode the emails before hand (IE: before I download them)?
I'm looking for something that will be able to see (for example) that E9CT2 or C9F is "http://" when decoded... Is there something out there that does this? (BTW, I don't even know what E9CT2 and C9F decode to, I just hit a bunch of buttons...)
Jenni Effect...Anyone who has ever heard of the JenniCam can probably relate to what I'm going to write... If you haven't, the long story short is this. A girl named Jenni put webcams in her apartment. If I'm right, they were in her living room, kitchen, and bedroom. They were online 24/7. Her point was to show something about the affect of privacy on ones life and how it really doesn't make a difference. (If there are any hardcore Jenni fans out there, PLEASE comment and correct me.) So she went online and if you wanted to pay a little bit of money, you could see her web cam images updated much faster than the for free images.
She ran her site for seven years. SEVEN YEARS. During that time she had as much fun as complete strangers commenting on her hair, her styles of clothes, tips on dating, comments on friends that came over (and were on the cam), and countless others. She also got death threats, crude remarks about wanting to "do" things with her, rude comments about how she looked, and... well you can fill in the rest...
I've gotten a wide range of reactions to the Buffalo News Article. Lots of good comments, a decent amount of indifferent reactions, and some very bad reactions... And a lot more spam...
"I saw the article and recognized Andy - neat stuff. Who knows,
he may end up with a career based on blogging..."
"Congratulations!"
In an email to my Dad... "That's very cool! I like his blog, too...."
"I'm finding your web site kind of hard to navigate."
"I have a ra*ing bo*er."
Some of the really bad ones I really don't want to post...
You win some, you lose some. I guess I expected this. It is only a matter of time until someone finds out about something you're doing. I figured that after a year of doing this, it was pretty much well known... I guess not.
Nice thing is that some people have been really honest and posting comments more than normal (which I think is really awesome).
Overall I guess my reaction is "What're you gonna do..."
Strange morning...So I had a dream last night/this morning. One of those it's way to coincidential dreams to be just a dream dream...
I was laying in bed and when I got up, there were no clocks anywhere. When I wnet out of my room, my house was packed with friends (current and friends from years ago that I don't speak to anymore, but for some reason, I can't remember the faces atm). I don't know why. I asked what time it was, everyone said noon and proceeded to laugh at me because I was late for work... The next thing I remember, is really waking up to see what time it was. All the alarm clocks in my room were flashing. $hit, power outage. When I got up to check the time on my cell phone, it was just 10 minutes before I had to leave to be at work on time...
Way too creepy to just be coincidential... How the hell would I have known in my dream that the power had gone out in real life and that I should get up right then and there so I wouldn't be late for work???
Pitiful...How pathetic is it when a person running for President is resorting to referral spamming to get more hits on their website... ??? >:(
"Protected" Websites...The referrer script has always been on my mind ever since I've had idiots spamming it. I've tried modifying the script to delete those entries, I've tried blocking IP's but nothing has worked. So I said fsck it. Fortunately, now I get enough traffic that the one or two spam entries I get on the list are overwhelmed by the 30+ search referrals I get...
So I started thinking about how they do it and are able to spam this site so easily. Obviously they are faking the http referrer header tag using a bot or program or something. So I went out on the Internet and found some programs that did it and wala. I was faking my referrer tag.
OK. That was easy.
So I decided to try something a little harder. I know of a bunch of website that if you just type in the web address, you'll get a 404 error or an access denied error. BUT, if you click on a link from a certain website that goes to that same domain, it works. I ruled out IP tracking by opening a couple of different browsers (Opera, Netscape, and IE) and it didn't work. I even tried copying the cache from IE into a website grabber that I have (which will mimic IE when it goes to a website) and that didn't work.
So I started looking for a downloader that allowed you to "fake" the referrer tag. Guess what? It worked. So all these sites that people normally do not have access to can be cracked by simply changing the referrer tag.
Pretty crappy security I think. Especially if they are trying to keep their product from the public...
Wierd...Do you know how wierd it is when people are coming to your site and they can't speak english??? Wow... I guess I would never have imagined having people on the other side of the world checking out stuff here...
Well it is the World Wide Web...
Pattern...I think I have found a pattern. Every party I've been to... Someone, who is drunk, it is a requirement, has to say the following words:
"I understand that... But..."
References...Someone was bored (check the last 200 referrers link) and I guess they wanted to see where I heard that quote... Looks like I'm not the only one who knows the quote. :)
WTF?!?!?!How does a search for "2003 email addreses of people tht manifecture shoes in china" bring you here... ???
Here is the search...
I guess it all goes back to the saying that if you sit 50,000 monkies at 50,000 typewriters, that can't all be wrong... Smart search... HA!!!
Unghhh...Every time I see a picture of Michael Jackson on the news I get more disgusted... Not only by what he is up against but by what he looks like. Why the hell would you want to look like that???
To quote someone out there who said this on a website (I don't know who and don't remember where):
"Only in America can a young, poor, black boy grow up to become old, rich, white woman."
Ouch...Fired for posting something to his blog... Man that sucks...
Here is the entry...
Quivers...Totem just won us a free honeymoon... ::stands frozen in shock with jaw laying on the ground and eyes wide open::
Dreams...I had the worst nightmare last night. It involved Totem and I in a situation that I never want to find myself in. And I don't know where it came from... I think I ate too much pizza last night at the LAN party... I don't really want to talk about it because of how personal it was but something happened to me that has never happened after a dream...
I woke up exausted, nervous, and drained. I was sore getting out of bed, my heart was racing, I was nervous for myself and for Totem, and it took a good 15 seconds for me to realize that I was dreaming...
Talk about being hit by a train...
Wrong...I just drove by a cemetary on the way to my Doctor's appointment... They had signs everywhere...
"Summer Sale! Buy one grave, get a second one free!!!"
That is just wrong in my book... Yes, people die and having your loved one next to you is a desired thing. But "sale" and "grave" do not belong in the same line... I was actually disgusted by the signs... :(
Odd...I requested a raise yesterday and looking over at the "On this day..." column I see that I got one almost a year ago... Wierd... I wasn't even keeping track of the days or anything... Kinda odd that I got it almost to the day.
Slooow...Well, 4 days after setting up an account over at BlogShares, I've made $38 dollars... Small... But, hey, you never know... I think I'll sit back and watch for a bit. Maybe something will happen...
Only bad thing so far was that I should have sold my 1000 shares I had in this blog on the first day. It was worth $72 (READ: 72k "cash") that day and is now worth $8 (READ: 8K "cash")... Not necessarily (sp) bad because I was given those 1000 shares for free. Plus, the drop was because I was releases more shares for this blog (up to 30000 shares now from the original 500 (I think) that was there) and as I released them, they got bought up, which is good I hope. Now I just need to figure out how to raise the "value" of this site a bit...
Strange...Have you ever gotten the feeling like you should be worried or stressed out or nervous about something that is supposed to be coming but is no longer there???
I'm feeling so wierd right now because I don't have to worry about Statics. Its like I should be getting nervous about an exam or frustrated over homework I can't do...
But there is nothing. No stress. Nothing to do... Nothing. Wierd...
Thanks... I think...The techer in my Com101 class is finally running out of material to teach. Bad thing is that she has issues with just giving us days off...
She actually asked us what we wanted to do to try and fill in the time. My idea was basically make us come to class, but teach less each day (we have one chapter left, and she normally can finish a chapter in one day). I figured if she was so paranoid about us not coming to class, this would make us come to class. We'd just be getting out much earlier. ;)
So she says, "::chuckle:: You know, you're so smart..."
I actually was like, this is cool. She's calling me smart. Kinda a self esteem booster in front of the whole class... Then she said...
"...you should teach this class."
Ouch. That hurt. That's ok, I don't use those teeth anyway...
I know she didn't mean it that way (I hope), but it kinda toppled the whole good-feeling-type-event-type-thing-in-front-of-the-class-thing. Probably didn't help that no one in the class reacted and a few were staring at me when she said it...
But it still felt good those first couple of seconds she was actually recognizing me... ::balls up and hides in corner, away from other students:: ;)
Cardinal Sin...I just committed the cardinal sin... I signed up with Columbia House...
Again.
5 DVD's for $.50 each... Too... Good... Of an... Offer... To... Pass up... Must... hide... in... shame... now...
Still...I still don't understand women... :(
I don't think I will ever understand in-laws either... :(
Thought for the day...Have you ever wondered?
Ladies...Hmm... Probably on the mind of a lot of guys...
Not so funny...Funny on one level. Not so funny on almost every other level...
What the...While doing a serach on google for "bfloeagle" (cause you never know what you might find, or what people are stealing =)), I came across this story. The title fits my website very well, but I have no clue as to what the moral or purpose of the story is... Can anyone fill me in?
Here's the link: http://www.usd.edu/engl/DWPls32.html
Here's the story:
Buffalo Brains and Eagle Scout
Two stuffed animals, a buffalo and an eagle, sat in Billy's Bargain
Basement, grey with dust because no one had bought them in the six months
that they had graced the store. This might have been because they occupied
the top shelf where no small child could see them.
These stuffed animals were cute and cunning; any child might want them,
even with a price tag of $9.95 each.
Finally, Dick the one-more-chance-or-you'll-be-fired clerk, decided to
dust the shelves to impress his boss in one last pathetic, belated attempt
to keep his job. Unfortunately, his boss, Billy, Wintlock, had already
decided to can Dick, but Dick didn't know that.
So, as Dick dusted the shelves, he moved the buffalo and the eagle to a
lower shelf and left them there, all the time muttering,
"Please-don't-fire-me-please-don't-fire-me-please-don't-fire-me" like an
incantation. He had heard that underneath it all, Billy had a soft
side--maybe Dick would get to see it for the first time in the seven weeks
he had worked there.
It wasn't three hours later--20 minutes after Dick had been canned--that a
dirty-faced little girl named Ethel P. Jones walked into the store. She
walked over to the candy bar rack and and stared hard at the rows of
tightly wrapped candies smelling of chocolate, peppermint, and caramel.
"Say, little girl," Billy said, "we can't have nobody barefoot in here."
The girl looked down at her feet. She didn't want to tell him she didn't
have any shoes. "Can I get some candy?"
"You got money?"
Ethel dug in the pocket of her jumper and pulled out a quarter, a penny,
and a shiny pebble with a pretty aquamarine streak through it.
Billy looked at the money and the pebble. "Nice rock you got there--you
better keep it."
The cheapest candy bar in the store was 33 cents--on sale. He pulled one
out of the on-sale bin and handed it to her, taking the money.
The little girl stuck the pebble back in her pocket, clutched the candy
bar in one grimy hand, and waited, looking at him patiently.
"What is it now?" Billy looked irritated.
"My mama says I should always wait for change."
Billy shook his head. He spit some tobacco on the floor and said, "Tell
you what. Instead of change, I got something for ya."
He walked over to his recently dusted shelves and said, "Pick one of these
animals for your very own, Honey."
Ethel didn't say nothing; she just looked at the buffalo and the eagle.
Hesitantly, she picked up the shiny brown buffalo and stroked its fur.
"Good choice," Billy said.
Ethel pushed her stringy blonde hair out of her eyes and looked hard at
the eagle.
"You want the eagle instead?"
The little girl looked at him; Billy saw how her eyes were like the
aquamarine streak in her pebble.
"They're friends," she said.
"Who?" Billy frowned.
She looked at the buffalo, then the eagle. "Buffalo Brains and Eagle
Scout. They're best friends. They can't be apart."
Billy looked up at the ceiling for a second; a twisted expression
that would pass for a smile on most folks crossed his face. "Well. Where's
that pretty rock you had? If you give me that rock, I'll toss in Eagle
Scout too."
Still clutching Buffalo Brains, Ethel pulled the pebble out of her pocket
and looked at it for a moment, stroking its smooth sides. Then she handed
it to him. Billy pulled Eagle Scout off the shelves and handed it to
Ethel.
She set the buffalo down for a moment and looked carefully at the
eagle. "Look," she said. "Look what Eagle Scout can do."
"Well, I'll be darned," Billy said. "I never noticed."
Eagle Scout could spread his wings.
Well, what'da ya know...Went to the fair today... Had fun. Jen got me to go on a lot of rides that I hated. Ate good tasting, artery clogging food, and blew a lot of money...
I heard from a comedian that if you ever feel bad about yourself, goto a fair. He was right! I have never seen so many smiles with missing teeth in my life!!! =) Kind of sad but true. Makes me feel a little better I guess...
And once again, it's late and I can't write much... I got something brewing, it'll be out in a couple of days...
Scared...There have been only a few times in my life that I can honestly say I was scared. And I mean absolutely terrifyied...
I have had hernia surgery in the past. Being my first surgery, I was nervous to begin with. But on top of that I had to walk myself into the operating room, look the the tools they were going to use on me, had to lay down on a table that resembled a crucifix, and I got to hear the doctor say "Scalpel" before I was out... :(
Last night I had another one of those events. My cat almost drown... It's not a good feeling especially because it was my fault... I was so freaked out. I couldn't take it. If it was not for Jen, I don't know what I would have done...
She, my cat, Gigabyte, is doing ok now. She was moving around this morning and playing with my other cat. I pray she will make a full recovery or I don't know what I will do. It's sad enough that she had to be in that situation. It's worse that it is my fault... :(