David S. Atkinson's Blog, page 56

I Am Deeply Sorry To Mayor Hancock

I am deeply sorry to Mayor Hancock. Regardless of any political feelings toward him or his administration, I keep thinking of the following quote from Repossessed every time I hear his name:

Frieda : What does the name ‘Aglet’ mean anyway?

Braydon : Well a long time ago ‘Aglet’ meant ‘He who puts those tiny little plastic things on shoelaces’ you see a long time a go a mans’ name was his profession.

Frieda : Oh so a man named Fred Carpenter would build houses and John Baker would make bread.

Braydon : Exactly.

Ned : So what did John Hancock do?

It’s nothing about him, just his last name. Still, I think it every time. Sorry about that, man.

Now THIS Is A Good Animated Gif Of Pancakes

Now THIS is a good animated gif of pancakes.

They just don’t make animated gifs of pancakes like this anymore.

I’m Not Into Astrology But…

I’m not into astrology, but I think this meme might take things a BIT too far.

After all, I’m pretty sure that the sun and earth are going to have at least a little effect on my life.

Is It Weird That I’m Nostalgic For This?

Is it weird that I’m nostalgic for this?

I’m fine with that if so. It is what it is.

Is That The Spam Filter Working Or Not?

I have separate spam filters on the blog here and on my email. When I get a new comment on the blog here that hasn’t been flagged as spam but should have been, it often gets caught in my email spam filter. That’s because it includes the text from the comment and the email filter correctly picked it up as spam.

However, I don’t want the email spam filter to pick it up if it comes from the wordpress moderation email addresses because I need to tell wordpress it’s spam so they can adjust their spam filter. It’s both spam and it isn’t, or the email from wordpress isn’t spam but it contains the text of a message that is spam.

Do I count that as my email spam filter working or not?

I Am NOT Becoming A Scientologist

I am NOT becoming a Scientologist.

Seriously, I started reading L. Ron Hubbard’s The Invaders Plan. ONE status update on Goodreads, only about 40 pages in since I started it late in the evening, and instantly people start asking me about it.

I am not becoming a Scientologist. I do not credit L. Ron Hubbard with much more than science fiction. I don’t even expect that the book is going to be my sort of thing. I just decided to read it since the Mission Earth series was on a list I saw a while back. In fact, I’m going to read the whole series because I got a good deal on a decent condition set of all ten volumes in hardcover. It’s no big deal, not everything I read has to be amazing or a guide for my life…nor do I assume ahead of time what I’m actually going to like reading since I can’t really know until afterward.

Ya’ll can chill.

You Know Why

You know why.

You know you do.

Spam Warning Me About Spam

I’ve been talking a lot about the spam I get on here recently. I suppose that’s okay. Most of the traffic is probably the various bots crawling to leave spam comments, so really this is here for them to talk to each other. Regardless, I didn’t expect the spam to warn me about other spam:

Males can find the female with their choice effortlessly through free dating sites.

These scammers usually simply have one picture of their profile, thus it is the norm for some experienced people who date online to believe that one picture profiles don’t show the true person. You have complete control that you would like to make contact with and whom you desire to block from.

Maybe they’re going to start fighting each other next.

Books?

Books?

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There’s A Chance I’m Hungry

I just found myself Googling “pizza rolls animated gif” again.

There’s a chance I’m hungry.