So I woke up this morning to 163 emails in my work Inbox. Normally on a everyone-is-on-holiday day like today, I'd have 15-20 (and another couple hundred filtered to different folders). Anyways, quickly glancing across the subject lines and senders indicated that something had indeed blown up.
The envelope senders from these were water14-at-umich (if it's still live I don't want more crap coming through it), so it came through that list, but the senders were some people complaining, and a lot of list auto-responders complaining about not being authorized to post. Great, apparently this list has no checks for the from address either. The first one of the bunch appears to be a phishing scheme about eBay originated from Iceland. One person replys with a URL to the list info page with guesses about unsubscribing, and the list name sounds sorta familiar.
water14. That sounds like a water filtration project research data request I got spammed with last year (it was unsolicited, and to an address that was either harvested directly way back or bought on a list). Looking back in the spam folder I find the original message, and it lines up with the info on the list info page. Given who's apparently on the list (lots of list addresses and other random .edu people who don't know about it), I'm thinking this list was definitely not built using legit means. So an email goes out to abuse at umich with info on the correlation (and headers from the original since it was from November 2004 and likely out of the logs). It appears the list had already settled down, maybe they shut it off (although it more tapered off). I just hope the info will let them shut it down permanently (maybe after an apology to the recipients) and let the people who started the thing know that they did bad stuff.
$19.86 good enough? It's still #3 on Amazon's Top DVDs...
I think most of you who read this and are in the area are also on the movie-night mailing list, but in any case. Serenity, Thursday night, my place, lets say 19:00.
Not gonna do something crazy like last year. If you want to watch your computer slow down you can go look at last year's again.
Hope your day goes well, and you get to spend lots of time with the family. Unless you want to stay away from them that is.
The Crazy Delicious shirt. If somehow you don't get the reference, see the video.
I was just noticing that my Internet access is very fast right now. Normally it's not so fast except during the work day. Many other people have noticed how Comcast's speed has sucked lately (on the order of several months, not a short time) too. Yea it's not like evening, but... Given the day I think there's the reason, but I'd say it's a good data point to say the issues are not technical but due to excessive oversubscription.
I happened to log in and notice they had a stats feature. Figured that could be interesting, so went there. The bottom stat says it all. The OC one is almost as high... The other two sorta fit in there well too.
So there's rumors floating around on the boards about an article saying Joss Whedon has given up on Firefly. Apparently words were taken out of context, and Joss has a reply. It appears he has a rather high opinion of EW...
I've been sorta watching Amazon's DVD Top Sellers today and Serenity has been setting at the top - can't complain about that. I wonder if it's based on orders taken or completed (because they're shipping now). Mine shipped, so I'm happy about that. You can also find some deleted scenes and bloopers and stuff at Inside the DVD: Serenity.
Work is work. However we did have a Christmas party which was fun, and there was even something in the white elephant exchange called a Chipotle Gift Pack. As evidenced by the pictures, it involved a lot of foil and someone's office. That was probably the highlight of the work week.
Friday night, after a big discussion with a lot of people and then most of them not being able to make it, was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with JoeBuck, brooke and Hannah. Not my favorite type of movie, but it was decent. Saturday was Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Decent if you don't care about the plot, just want to see action, and are willing to laugh at the movie. Sorta like The Transporter. Today was Hide and Seek. It's not as good as it'd seem from the trailers, but still OK. Not at all scary. It had like 5 different endings, although none of them went back far enough. I wish they would have gone back like 2 minutes later and changed something there, although that sorta depends on one's views of the characters/purpose of the movie. Could have made enough of a twist to make up for the not-scary part in my opinion though.
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