the burn

First softball game of the season last night. I tagged up from 2nd base on a deep sacrifice fly and coming into home plate the catcher fakes like he's taking a throw.
I do a quick drop to slide in. Focker!
i play as hard as the next guy, but there is absolutely no reason to fake a play at the plate other than to get somebody hurt.

picture update

Little League season is over for all the p0nklets. It was a very rough year for dad and youngest p0nklet here as we had the difficult task of starting an expansion team of rookies into the league.

What's In A Name?

I stumbled across this yellow pages ad in our local phone book over the weekend. I am not letting anyone with this name near my mouth.

video of the week

System Administrator: Undeliverable...

Backscatter (also known as outscatter, misdirected bounces, blowback or collateral spam) is a side-effect of e-mail spam, viruses and worms, where email servers receiving spam and other mail send bounce messages to an innocent party. This occurs because the original message's envelope sender is forged to contain the e-mail address of the victim. A very large proportion of such e-mail is sent with a forged From: header, matching the envelope sender.

When a spammer uses your email address to spam, all of the undeliverable mail gets returned to YOU. So instead of getting the odd spam msg once in a while addressed to you, you will get hundreds of spam email 'returned' to you because the other system thinks you are the sender. Spam filters don't usually stop these because they are coming from a valid sender, the mail system administrator to wherever it was originally sent. In other words, this particular kind of spam is a major pain in the arse. I've heard of this phenomenon but had not experienced it until today. The first couple started trickling in this morning at 9:28am. By 9:58 (30 minutes later) I had received 513 such messages.
Spending my Friday (the 13th) deleting spam from my inbox, NICE!

Criminal(s) of the Week

Police nab three for copper thefts
story here

highlights

Jon Krisner Manson, 32, and Christopher Lee Jackson, 39, who both live in room 255 of America's Best Value Lodge, and Patryce Eboni Ryland, 27, who lives in room 257,

Jackson told the officer that he lived in room 257 with his girlfriend and her two children, Pickles and Toy Toy, according to the report. Jackson couldn't give the woman's last name, telling the officer that he had not known her for long,

Tornado vs First State Bank of Iowa