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Yesterday I had one of those “When you think you’ve seen it all…” moments. I got a Spam e-mail from someone whose method of sending out their messages was to utilize the contact information left by people who sign the online guestbooks for people who have died.
There are times when I don’t understand people. Who would think of harvesting a bereavement memorial site for contact info for Spam purposes???
Snagged from APoD, Orion and Canis Major rising over ancient ruins in Turkey:
Merry Christmas to my readers, and thank you.
UPDATE: Hi, Reddit folk! Feel free to hang around. (But you should know that the quote in the picture over there is not mine. I have never written or thought any such thing. I’m weird, but I’m not Messianic about it.)
1. Take a picture of yourself.. riiiiiight.. NOW!
2. DO NOT change your clothes. DO NOT fix your hair.. Just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.
5. Tag 10 people to do this!
Well, I’m not going to tag anyone; go ahead if you’re so inclined. But here’s what I look like with no helpful editing at all:
Well…yeesh. Thank God I was clothed.
(I apologize for the mental image I have just inflicted upon my readers…but no, I don’t make a habit of websurfing in the buff, as it were. But so much for weaning this blog of the overalls….)
Because I like pictures of Presidents looking non-Presidential, here’s a slideshow of shirtless Presidents. I had no idea that Reagan had that much of a gut, and while Bill Clinton shirtless isn’t much to look at, Hillary Clinton in a bathing suit looks just fine. That is all.
President-elect Obama has not appointed to his cabinet nearly enough long-haired guys who spend their days wearing overalls and wishing the world would learn to love George Lucas again. I can’t imagine I’d be filibustered in my quest for Senate confirmation as Secretary of Geekery.
(Anyone who utters any phrase of the form “Obama has not appointed enough _____ people to his cabinet” needs to shut up.)
This will be the final edition of Sentential Links FOREVER!!! Or, for this year. Get ’em while they’re hot!
:: That’s why I don’t date horses. They lie. (See, I don’t date horses because they’re big and they eat oats and, well, they’re horses. I never get to the stage of a relationship with a horse where honesty becomes a factor.)
:: We always had fun when we were working on Next Generation, but when Majel was on the set, it was a party. (BTW, did anybody ever wonder about Christine Chapel’s reaction to learning of Spock’s death? Was she still in love with him by then? And then what about her reaction to learning that he’d been regenerated?)
:: I might like it. I might not. But I am going to taste it completely, and then make up my mind AFTER I see what it is all about, not make up my mind going in. (New book-club blog, featuring Belladonna, among others. Good luck! And take the benefit of my experience: don’t try to inaugurate your new group-read blog with The Brothers Karamazov.)
:: Has anybody ever traced the history of human characters in short cartoons? I specifically mean the use of humans as supporting characters in cartoons that are about anthropomorphic animal characters. (I confess, I never thought about it much….)
:: Related thought: For a group that tends to pride itself on toughness, this is a lot of whining.
OK, folks, that’s about it for Sentential Links until 2009. Excelsior!
(But stick around, I’m not doing a blog-stoppage or anything. Just no Sentential Links for a week.)
I dunno, folks, is there any interest in me continuing this series? I didn’t do one last week, but there are no guesses at all for the last two installments, UI 49 (for which one might want to follow some evidence) or UI 50 (for which one might require the services of an engineer with lots of, oh, imagination).
Anyway, here’s one that really ought to be pretty easy:
Where are we? Rot-13 the guesses….
Not a whole lot going on weird this week. I’m losing my touch….
:: Letterman’s Top Ten George W. Bush Moments:
Number Four is my favorite. Remember, the guys at Powerline still think this guy is Teh Genius.
:: The Periodic Table of Awesome. Sure, I could quibble a bit, but since they replaced “Bob Saget” the other day with “Samuel L. Jackson” (whose element symbol is, of course, Mf), I’m happy. (Bob Saget? Awesome? Come on now!)
I don’t remember where I saw this linked, because I forgot to bookmark it and only found it again by Googling.
That’s all, I guess.
UPDATED with some correct guesses!
I’ve just seen a movie quote quiz-thing over at Erin’s blog. The idea is simple: you pick 15 movies or so, give a quote from each one (IMDb is good for this), and challenge your readers to identify the movies. As the quotes get identified, I’ll strike through them. I can’t pass this up, now can I? Why, no! So here we go (and just to make it slightly harder, there are no quotes from any Star Wars movie here):
1. We grew up in peacetime!
2. You’re as crazy as your mama! Goes to show it’s in the genes. (JFK, guessed by SamuraiFrog)
3. The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? It’s one thing to dream about it; very different when, when you, when you have to do it with your own hands. (Amadeus, guessed by Charlie.
4. Sherif, is there not one thing in your life that is worth losing everything for? (The Wind and the Lion, guessed by SamuraiFrog)
5. I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.
6. That’s enough, Baron. Turn it off. No one’s impressed with your cheesy light show, okay?
7. If you ever get tired of going steady with somebody that ain’t around, I’m up for grabs. (American Graffiti, guessed by Aaron)
8. We had a nice couple of minutes together. She threatened me, I patronized her. Didn’t have anything to eat, but I thought there was a connection. (The American President, guessed by Charlie)
9. I can’t fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can’t do it again. Oh, I don’t know what’s right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us. (Casablanca, guessed by Aaron)
10. “People”? I ain’t “people.” I am a – “a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament.” (Singin’ in the Rain, guessed by Will Duquette)
11. When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome… and then, of course, you spoke. (As Good As It Gets, guessed by Aaron)
12. I’m not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up, OK?
13. We didn’t choose this place! We didn’t choose these people! They were invited! (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, guessed by SamuraiFrog)
14. Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.
15. Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don’t you think? (Serenity, guessed by Aaron)
There they are. What movies are they from?
Time for a quick poll of my readers, all eight of you! A co-worker asked me this question a while back, probably while I was on hiatus, and he was totally baffled as to why I would answer the way I did. So here it is, and you can all answer in comments:
Let’s hear it!
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