Monday meanderings.

Monday, September 28, 2009 Filed in: My Life, Completely irrelevant, Current Events

Spent weekend away from home. No computer. Mailbox very full on return. Yuck.

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Speaking of email, I've noticed an uptick in the spam that makes it through my filters. They're almost always some variation of the Nigerian scam, or an advertisement for Viagra. Apparently I'm on the "greedy and impotent horndog" mailing list.

From a purely intellectual standpoint, I know that these people wouldn't continue their efforts unless they were seeing some return, but on an emotional basis I simply can't fathom that there are a sufficient number of stupid people with positive bank balances to keep them going.

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While I'm on the subject, would someone please tell me who would be fooled by a Nigerian scam from "MICROSOFT CORPERATION"? (Yes, the spelling is theirs.)

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William Safire died on Sunday. Politics aside, his crisp writing and unrelenting crusade for proper language were an inspiration to me. I'm not at all sure my prose even begins to measure up to his standards, but I do know it would be worse without his influence.

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New breakfast taste treat: scrambled eggs and fried summer sausage. Yum!

-=[ Grant ]=-
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