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The Alphabet Post

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z!

Now, all lower case!

a b c d e f g h i HI! j k l m n o NO! p q r s t u v UV - better get your sunscreen! w x y WHY? Why not? and z!

That was fun.

How about backwards?

Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A!

And now lower case and backwards!

z y x w v u t s r q p o n m l k j i h g f e d c b a!

Now we know them backwards and forwards! Forwards and backwards. Upper case and lower case! Yay!

I Gotz Nuthin’

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

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Thermonervosity Sclerosisticism

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Do you wake up in nervous sweats?

Where the sweat has soaked your pillow, and dried out to a gooey paste, making your face adhere to the pillow like glue when you wake up in the morning?

Where the sweat is dry and the dries are sweaty and your sweaty armpits are sticky like honey and your honey is dry like a dead horse in the hot summer at high noon?

Where the pillows are no longer fluffy but instead quite gruffy and you wake with a hunger but no not for what yet are hungry for nothing but nothing will satisfy?

Where you’re satisfied with dissatisfaction and dissatisfied with satisfaction and you wake tired and you’re tired when you sleep?

Where your sheets are all over the floor while your bed’s on the ceiling and you’re floating in the closet and wondering what’s going on?

Where your room’s not a room but lays on a broom and the broom makes your room and fills it with gloom?

Where you dread the mid-morning and mid-morning dreads you, while all winter long, you slumber in the warmth of the evening sun and freeze in the summer’s morning sunrise?

Where the milk is not milky and the tea is all silky, where the coffee is flowery and the flowers are coffee-y?

Where the toast is a roast and the roast is a loaf of bread and it all tastes like hot mustard on a salad of grains?

Where the blood never boils but the boils are bloody and the mood is sincere but the sincerity seems moody?

If this has happened to you, if this happens to you, if you think it could happen to you or even if it’s never happened to you but you think it could, then you may suffer from thermonervosity sclerosisticism.

Fear not, however, as thermonervosity sclerosisticism with a few short visits to the public park where the parking is public but the public has parked down by the river which is up from a sliver, where everyone eats their curds and whey.

So, hurry now, and cure yourself or yourself may never be cured of thermonervosity sclerosisticism.

Nuking the Spammers

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

You know, I hate spam.

Usually, you can’t do much about it. A lot use forged or temporary addresses and many will be gone before you can report them to anyone. And reporting usually doesn’t do much good anyway.

But some spammers are not the sharpest crayons in the box.

You see, some affiliate programs really frown on spam too. And, they prohibit affiliates from spamming to promote stuff.

So, a couple weeks ago, I received spam from someone spamming their affiliate link from one of these networks.

Rarely can you do much about spam but, in this case, oh, yes, you can.

So, I reported them. And heard back from the affiliate company that their account was terminated.

Victory!

Until today, when I get a spam message from the same person using a different affiliate ID.

So, I reported this one.

No sooner had I reported it then I received two more, at two different eMail accounts, for the very same thing.

I reported those too.

What really ticks me off is that these three addresses are not widely publicized, so they’ve remained mostly spam free. And now the spammers have found them somewhere. Argh! At any rate, maybe this spammer will learn a lesson.

If not, I’ll keep getting their accounts terminated, which is nice because it means they won’t collect any money they might have earned from their spamming efforts.

Digging Into the Spam Bin

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

So, I’ll dig into the comments and see what keywords spammers are trying to use my blog to promote.

And then I’ll list the keywords here, without any links to the spammers’ sites, which increases my blogs relevancy to those terms while at the same time removing any possible benefit to the lowly spammers.

analog atomic clock - Okay. I’m sure that’s a popular term. I do have a picture of an Elgin Starburst Clock which was from the Atomic Era, more or less, but that’s about the closest my blog has come to having anything possibly relevant to an analog atomic clock.

cesspool emptying - Well, the spam comments on this blog, which don’t get posted generally, are pretty much a cesspool and that needs emptying.

extra large dog beds - Little Too is a chihuahua. She doesn’t need an extra large dog bed.

Blackberry iPhone - Um, huh? Silly spammer is confused.

toothless dragon plush - I’ve posted about a dragonfly, but that’s not really close to a toothless dragon plush toy.

dog training guides - Nice try, Lee.

golf tips and tricks - Yeah, so the poster (who was not really Lee) with the name of “dog training guides” posted about “golf tips and tricks” in their spam comment. That makes a lot of sense, especially on a post about Friday the 13th?

military - Since when does the military have an affiliate program? Do they pay for leads? How much?

That’s just a sampling of the spammers whose comments never got through on here. Bummer, eh?

Groundhog Day

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

It’s a TRAP!

Groundhog Art

It doesn’t matter whether the groundhog sees his shadow or not. It’s six more weeks of winter either way!

Green Arrow but Not a Smallville Spin-Off

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Green Arrow

The CW is doing a Green Arrow series not featuring Justin Hartley. So, I’ve completely lost interest.

Dot to Dot

Monday, January 30th, 2012


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Connecting the dots won’t make you any smarter. Sorry.

Deer John

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Deer John

She said she got a “deer john” letter. I said I didn’t want to hear about it.

Q the Deer

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Queue the Deer

Hmm. Maybe it was supposed to be “queue the deer.”

That might make more sense.