some random thoughts about OJ

"heh listen to me make farting noises with my hands..."


9 years is probably a lot for this particular "armed robbery". If the sentence reflects his acquital from the nicole brown simpson murder, is that really justice?
Is there any consistency left in the justice system?

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.

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!

no words can adequately express...

Police: 'One-Man Crime Spree' Arrested For 99th Time

story here

a brief summary of Cedric McCants' 'career':
99 arrests
78 convictions
15 jail sentences

i'll skip the puns on his name and just congratulate the man for a very impressive career.

Come Again?

In case you missed Mr. Bill's speech in response to a question about Hillary running negative campaign ads, here's a quick recap...

"Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
"What did you think about the Obama thing calling Hillary the senator from Punjab? Did you like that? Or what about the Obama handout that was covered up, the press never reported on, implying that I was a crook. Scouring me — scathing criticism over my financial reports. Ken Starr spent $70 million and indicted innocent people to find out that I wouldn't take a nickel to see the cow jump over the moon.

"So you can take a shot at Mark Penn if you want. It wasn't his best day. He was hurt. He felt badly we didn't do better in Iowa," said Clinton. "But the idea that one of these campaigns is positive and the other is negative when I know the reverse is true — and I have seen it and I have been blistered by it for months — is a little tough to take. Just because of the sanitizing coverage that's in the media doesn't mean the facts aren't out there."

I love politicians. "...the idea that one of these campaigns is positive and the other is negative when i know the reverse is true..." And the reverse would be ... that one is negative and the other is positive? Xrist that is profound! And that's what I love about politicians, the uncanny ability to say nothing and be passionate about it. It's going to be a long year listening to all of this drivel.