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Return of the funny emails

The spam filter in Mail, the standard Macintosh email application missed these two messages, but in this case I’m glad, as they’re quite good reading…

Future porn star seeks accordion player’s help

From: “Robert” [email address deleted]

Date: Sat Aug 2, 2003 7:27:48 PM Canada/Eastern

Subject: I am looking to audition for gay male adult films …

Hello,

My name is Robert, and I go by the film name Daddy Big Bucks. I am an amateur gay male adult porno actor, and I seek to audition for gay adult films.

Can you assist me, or barring that, can you send me to someone who can help me?

Return of the time traveller

Another sci-fi goodie from the time travelling spammer I mentioned last week. As i write this, there are just over 2 hours and 30 minutes to assist this hapless chrononaut!

From: [email address deleted]

Date: Mon Aug 4, 2003 8:27:47 AM Canada/Eastern

Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed fsr umf

Hello,

I’m a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

In terms of payment:

I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Monday August 4th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.

Latitude N 42.47935 & Longitude W 071.17355 and the Elevation is 119.

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!

I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.

Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now.

After unit has been sent please email me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com

with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

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WiFi Speed Spray

It’s the perfect gift for your gullible friend who can’t afford to switch to 802.11g.

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When thongs go terribly, terribly wrong

It’s funny when Ray the cat from the web comic Achewood wears a thong.

It’s even funnier when Ray’s real-life human equivalent does the same. Warning: I’m not sure if this photo is safe for work; check your human resources department for their policy on Speedos.

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When thongs go terribly, terribly wrong

It’s funny when Ray the cat from the web comic Achewood wears a thong.

It’s even funnier when Ray’s real-life human equivalent does the same. Warning: I’m not sure if this photo is safe for work; check your human resources department for their policy on Speedos.

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A facelift is forthcoming

As you might know, this blog is a “mirror” of the Blogger version of The Adventures of AccordionGuy int he 21st Century. Since Blogware is still in stealth mode, nobody outside the Tucows/vpop world knows of the existence of the Blogware version, and hence I haven’t been too worried about the appearance of this version. All I’ve made sure is that whenever I post to the Blogger version, I post the exact same thing to the Blogware version.

This weekend is a long weekend up here in Canada — Civic Holiday, they call it — and I plan to take some time to do some serious fixin’ up. I want to look good for the launch, and have every intention of being a Blogware poster child, spreading the Blogware love and using my Googlejuice to spread the Blogware message. It’s certainly a fine tool, and I hope to someday get a chance to contribute to the development effort. Nice work, Blogwarians!

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Bruce Eckel interview at Borland’s Community site

Check out this Bruce Eckel interview at Borland’s community site. The interview’s all over the map, covering what you’d expect: C++, Delphi, Java, Borland’s IDEs, Java vs. C#, and of course, his new favourite language, Python. There’s also stuff you wouldn’t expect: his favourite song, his favourite movie, and whether he’d rather eat the fat from a moose’s eyeball or a Pop-Tart™ (really!).

In honour of tonight’s meeting of the pyGTA (Greater Toronto Area Python User Group), I’ll end with the most Pythonic quote from the article:

Saving the best for last [he discusses other programming languages just before this part], I’ve said in numerous places that Python is my favorite language, and this is because I’m most productive in that language. I can get so much more done in Python than in any other language I’ve encountered that it’s very hard for me to use those other languages, because to do so means throwing away time. Also, I’ve found the Python community to be my favorite group of language people; I can’t figure out how or why this is the case, but it retains the gentleness and enthusiasm that I most value in my interactions with a language community. I look forward to when I finally get my plate cleared enough that I can continue working on “Thinking in Python.”

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Show Desktop for OS X (or "Damn you, Hammersley!")

On OS X, I believe there was some magic keystroke — possibly a magic click on a “close window” button — that closed all the windows and revealed the desktop. I’m pretty sure I’ve used it once before. I think.

On OS 9, it was easy — you’d just select “Minimize All” from the application menu (once again, I think that’s what it’s called — OS 9 and prior feel like distant memories now. On Windows, you can either click on the Desktop icon on the Taskbar or use the magic keystroke Windows-M.

Now you can get that capability in Show Desktop, an app that you can have either in the Dock or the menubar that will hide all open windows with a click. You can even provide it with a list of apps to exclude, just in case there were apps that you’d never want it to minimize (“Someone may be trying to reach me on iChat right now!)

I was going to post this entry to Forwarding Address: OS X, after looking for such a utlity to install on my spiffy new 12″ Powerbook. While checking to make sure that nobody on that blog had already written about it, I found that Ben Hammersely posted such an entry…today!

Damn you, Hammersley! Damn you to Hell!