Spam, wonderful spam (NOT) aka rant time
May. 30th, 2005 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearIt seems the crawlers have discovered my email address at livejournal. It's not surprising, except for the fact that despite LJ's masking scheme it's an easy matter to divine email addresses for paid members by simply adding "@livejournal.com" to a person's screen name here. It seems to be concurrent with that latest (now seemingly defunct) blasted meme "who's looking" that came from some Russian website. Some of the memes/quizzes that circulate around here are so filled with tracking schemes, web bugs and whatnot in addition to the nonsense they waste bandwidth on. Besides, so many of those things contain code that blow up the friend's view of journals. Say 'no' to prepackaged memes. If you just gotta, however, participate in those that tell others more about yourself instead. I couldnt care less about what sort of Jedi side dish you are.
Notice I said "couldnt care less". It seems that the phrase has been bastardized recently. In conversations, commentary or even in print, people have fallen to saying they "could care less". Well, there goes the impact of your statement. If you 'could care less', then you havent really laid on the smackdown like you are intending.
The value of your cologne does not go up with the amount of time you've steeped yourself in it. Less is more. None is best IMO. Especially in crowded and/or confined situations.
Why do people insist on buying bottled water, especially when some live in areas that have very good tap water? I can correlate the current decline in current civilization with the advent of 'pay water'. That bottle of Dasani/Aquafina is nothing more than filtered tap water used in making Coke/Pepsi. You've paid the same for the water as you would have for the soft drink, but only got one ingredient. What burns me these days is certain settings (theme parks for one) have removed most of the water fountains and replaced them with vending machines selling water. For 3 bux a bottle. What a stupid waste of money and resources.
What did people do before cell phones?
I for the life of me cant figure out why a 4-lane stretch of highway must come to a screeching halt just because there is one car on the side of the road with it's hood open. Is the need for schadenfreude so great that people have to soak in the glee of some unfortunate soul's flat tire or overheated engine?
The above list was gleaned just from this weekend's outings, which, in addition to previous fun stuff, should become a posting. I just needed to vent. Y'all just happened to be in the fallout zone. :o)
Notice I said "couldnt care less". It seems that the phrase has been bastardized recently. In conversations, commentary or even in print, people have fallen to saying they "could care less". Well, there goes the impact of your statement. If you 'could care less', then you havent really laid on the smackdown like you are intending.
The value of your cologne does not go up with the amount of time you've steeped yourself in it. Less is more. None is best IMO. Especially in crowded and/or confined situations.
Why do people insist on buying bottled water, especially when some live in areas that have very good tap water? I can correlate the current decline in current civilization with the advent of 'pay water'. That bottle of Dasani/Aquafina is nothing more than filtered tap water used in making Coke/Pepsi. You've paid the same for the water as you would have for the soft drink, but only got one ingredient. What burns me these days is certain settings (theme parks for one) have removed most of the water fountains and replaced them with vending machines selling water. For 3 bux a bottle. What a stupid waste of money and resources.
What did people do before cell phones?
I for the life of me cant figure out why a 4-lane stretch of highway must come to a screeching halt just because there is one car on the side of the road with it's hood open. Is the need for schadenfreude so great that people have to soak in the glee of some unfortunate soul's flat tire or overheated engine?
The above list was gleaned just from this weekend's outings, which, in addition to previous fun stuff, should become a posting. I just needed to vent. Y'all just happened to be in the fallout zone. :o)
