Geek Drivel

(This entry is only here for reference purposes. I plan to refer to it in several future entries on both religions and technology.)

Philosophy is like an onion.

Most people, on reading that, might think that I’m referring to layers… how you can peel away layers of both, seemingly forever, always finding more layers below. Some might mockingly take that analogy even further, pointing out that if you keep going long enough, both of them turn out have nothing at all at their core.

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Apparently I hit a chord with my Skype Spim entry. It has had more hits than any other entry, most of them from Google searches. I tried entering one of the searches into Google myself, and sure enough, that blog entry was the first hit on the list. Apparently there were only two pages that mentioned it, but I still feel special.

It seems that this company has been spamming (or rather, “spimming”) everyone they can, and some people are doing searches to see if they’re the only ones seeing it, or maybe (given the company’s damnable persistence) to see what they can do to stop it. I hope my entry helped.

“The devil made me do it” may be out of fashion as a legal defense, but it seems ol’ red-and-pointy-tailed is still busy in some areas of the country. He’s now being accused of masterminding a “stealth invasion” by illegal immigrants by a Utah Country Republican.

Good luck, delegate Larsen.

The first line of this article goes “A group of American aerospace engineers have written a book on how to defend the earth against alien invasion.” I have to ask… why would an alien race bother?
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Boston has gone crazy. As evidence, I present the late-January lunacy with the ad campaign using glorified Lite-Brites that they decided were terrorist bombs, and the destruction of a traffic counter that was chained to a light post, which they also decided was a terrorist bomb.
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For all her devoted acolytes, the GoddessJ has declared that Dairy Queen’s Peanut Buster Parfaits are appropriate sacraments.

As mentioned in this post, I’ve been getting “spimmed” (instant-message spam) via Skype from a particular English-challenged person. I had switched my copy of Skype to known-contacts-only mode and thought nothing more of it.

Until last night, when I received a fourth copy of it. How it got through my privacy settings, I have no idea.

I specifically blocked the username it had come from this time. Hopefully that will be enough to stop it.

And I thought some of my friends were prudes.

Take a look at this story in The Register.

Priceless. Simply priceless.

The Transformers were really cool geek things when I was a kid. I could never figure out how some of them fit in though.
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