Archive for September, 2004
I’m still betting on the monkeys.
If you have ever wondered which phishers succeed, have a look at this website which asks you for your: * Credit Card Number * The code on your signature panel * Mother’s Maiden Name * Your Current User ID * Your password
This isn’t a scam: it’s the real Citibank website for changing your password. (To get here manually, go to [...]
In another unsubstantiated news report (which seem to be all the rage these days) I remember hearing that the US House of Representatives canned a bill that would have exempted liability for not-for-profit athletic organizations except in the case of gross negligence.
Isn’t that the way it should be now? Or did everyone sign that new [...]
While driving home last Friday it seems that everyone had come down with “A Case of the Stupids”: 1. A car that had slowed down and gotten in the exit lane suddenly decided that it was the wrong exit and swerved back into the driving lane. Without checking to make sure that I wasn’t already occupying [...]
As I have spent more time in driving in the Northeast, driving in and around Boston, MA has become easier (though probably a little more frightening). The unfortunate facts are that the Rules for Driving in Boston which are found on many humor sites are actually true. I will need to start keeping my own [...]
A new site design is finished (at least the main page). Perhaps with this one I will actually get around to finishing the other pages also. Other things to finish include an overhaul of the categories and posting more often.
Let me know what you think.
A while back a friend wrote a poignant piece on what Danger is:
Some say that danger lies in unknown situations and unpredictable circumstances. I say danger, true danger, lies in knowing exactly what is ahead, yet walking into the fray anyway. To have so much disregard for one’s own intuition is to be [...]
Human memory is a wierd thing: it seems that important things come and go, while other semi-useless bits remain around. Like these vocal warmup exercises I learned in my high school drama club: * Roll those big round vowel sounds * She makes a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot * What a to [...]
These stories (from a recent email) take note of stupidity that is just too far out there to be made up.
I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, how much do you charge for a shampoo and a “blow job?” I turned around and walked back [...]