You have an unusually repulsive personality, that’s what my fortune is. You too can find yours at Bad Cookie – Real Web Chinese Fortune Cookie. It’s like the real thing except you can’t snack on the cookie.

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Let the rites of purification begin, Scorpio. Flush out the gunk in your sensitive psyche, the angst in your courageous heart, and the toxins in your beautiful body. In fact, purge and shun every influence except those few that propagate the jiggle and the hop in your soul. Only you know how best to perform the cleansing, but here’s a goad to get you going. See if you can go seven consecutive days in which you never even glance at a TV screen.

(– Brought to you by http://www.freewillastrology.com/ –)

After over a year of having the same IP number it finally changed. I was online last night late late and suddenly my cable modem dropped offline. I was a bit peeved, but was like, whatever. After a few minutes it came back online. When I logged into my unix box, I happened to do a ‘w’ and saw that my IP# had changed.

I’d gotten so used to the IP# I had. The cool thing is that DNS was updated by the time I woke up in the morning, so it wasn’t THAT bad.

Over on one of the MUDs I hang out on someone yesterday mentioned a cool site called Lost in Translation. It shows the effect of sending text through numerous translationors and what you get from them.

For example, the text:

Back when I lived in Pittsburgh, I lived on ramen for periods of time.  I’ve only just been able to stomach the stuff again recently.  Now I find I like to mix stuff in to add a bit of stuff to it.  Zannah posted a link to Ramen City.  Your source for all your Ramen needs.  Though I’d love to see some reviews of the various kinds of ramen before trying some of these.

Becomes:

The sustenation, when I lived the Pittsburgh, I has lived ramen ignition for the periods.  Still the substance would know only total to the air line with the stomach of her recently.  The hour is as the substance to the mixture of the piece that internal I add it to a small substance.  Zannah announced a connection to the city of Ramen.  Its source for all its necessities the Ramen.  Exactly if I can see, that one the examinaci—n something of the last one ramen something before the examinaciones they diverse types. 

Maybe this can be a new art form, post bad poetry into it and see if the end result is any better.

The sun is out, but I think I’m either fighting some kind of bug or allergies are kicking in.  My head’s all kind of stuffed up and I feel like I am in a haze.

I hate feeling like this because I find it so hard to get work done.  I just want to go down to my car and take a nap.

Woke up again and decided to answer email. Deep in the heart of a long email I suddenly felt like I was kind of floating. I’ve had this feeling before and it’s really cool. It always happens when I’m sitting in front of the computer typing. I think it may be a bit of overtiredness plus just concentrating so much on the screen that I block out everything else around. But I just end up feeling like I’m floating.

(Ahh, the joy of late night blogging.)

I’ve been watching what feels like an insane amount of fansubbed anime lately.  So I thought I’d post a bit of a recap for those of you who are interested (descriptions of the shows are linked with the titles).

• Ai Yori Aoshi – Only the first four episodes of this have been fansubbed already (and I think only about 6 have been broadcasted).  The interaction between Aoi and Kaoru is quite well done.  I’m also finding Aoi to be quite an interesting character.  On one hand she appears fairly meek, yet I think she’s actually a fairly strong character.  She’s taken the most risks and in some ways has the most to lose.

• Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar – An horribly cute show about a young girl who meets up with an apprentice snow fairy named Sugar.  The show is very cute, but not unbearably so. I’ve only seen three episodes of this, so I’m still not quite sure where it is going.

• Onegai Teacher – I think almost every teenage boy must dream of having a teacher fall in love with them.  This one has a couple of twists on that in that the teacher is also an alien from another planet.  While I wasn’t too sure what I thought about the show at first I’m finding that I like it more as time goes on.  I think it has done a fairly good job at avoiding a lot of the obvious types of plots one might expect.

I’ll follow up in a day or two with some of what I’m watching on DVD these days.

Back when I lived in Pittsburgh, I lived on ramen for periods of time.  I’ve only just been able to stomach the stuff again recently.  Now I find I like to mix stuff in to add a bit of stuff to it.  Zannah posted a link to Ramen City.  Your source for all your Ramen needs.  Though I’d love to see some reviews of the various kinds of ramen before trying some of these.

SpamAssassin is this wonderful unix app that checks each email coming into my mailbox to see if it looks like spam.  Basicly it’s got a list of common attributes that make up spam mail and each one has a certain point value.  If a message has a high enough score it marks it as spam and moves on.  I then have procmail filter those messages to their own folder.

The best thing about it though is some of the things that count as hits.  And every once in a while it seems like you get a message that just seems to hit just about everything that can be hit.  Here’s the results for a particularly spammy message:

SPAM: Content analysis details: (36.84 hits, 5 required)
SPAM: Hit! (1.2 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Invalid Date: header (no timezone)
SPAM: Hit! (1.31 points) Character set doesn’t exist
SPAM: Hit! (1.77 points) BODY: No such thing as a free lunch
SPAM: Hit! (3.32 points) BODY: Doesn’t ask any questions
SPAM: Hit! (1.57 points) BODY: Talks about direct email
SPAM: Hit! (1.6 points) BODY: Offers a full refund
SPAM: Hit! (1 point) BODY: Asks for a billing address
SPAM: Hit! (1 point) BODY: Asks you for your signature on a form
SPAM: Hit! (0.7 points) BODY: Contains word ‘profits’ in all-caps
SPAM: Hit! (0.5 points) BODY: Contains ‘for only’ some amount of cash
SPAM: Hit! (1.72 points) BODY: Talks about email marketing
SPAM: Hit! (3.46 points) BODY: Contains word ‘AMAZING’
SPAM: Hit! (1.2 points) BODY: HTML mail with non-white background
SPAM: Hit! (1.55 points) BODY: Contains an ASCII-formatted form
SPAM: Hit! (1.56 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam
SPAM: [score: 12, hits: all you, are you, broadcast]
SPAM: [email, check credit, city state, com subject,]
SPAM: [com with, credit card, credit cards, email]
SPAM: [address, email advertising, email from, email]
SPAM: [package, find out, for free, for only, for your,]
SPAM: [free bonus, free order, from our, increase]
SPAM: [sales, number exp, order form, order phone, our]
SPAM: [broadcast, phone number, product service,]
SPAM: [receive least, response rate, send out, state]
SPAM: [province, thank you, the internet, this email,]
SPAM: [this program, united states, web site, what you,]
SPAM: [when you, with our, with your, within days, you]
SPAM: [for, you not, you receive, you you, your]
SPAM: [business, your email, your name, your]
SPAM: [order]
SPAM: Hit! (3.33 points) HTML-only mail, with no text version
SPAM: Hit! (1.75 points) From and To the same address
SPAM: Hit! (1.8 points) No MX records for the From: domain
SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com
SPAM: [RBL check: found
225.159.1.212.relays.osirusoft.com.]
SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Received via a relay in relays.ordb.org
SPAM: [RBL check: found 57.62.43.216.relays.ordb.org.]
SPAM: Hit! (0.5 points) Received via a relay in ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org
SPAM: [RBL check: found
225.159.1.212.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org., type: 127.0.0.6]
SPAM:

I highly recommend this app to anyone who’s a unix mail user.  It even runs on my OS X box.

Harry S Truman. “If you cannot convince them, confuse them.” [Quotes of the Day]