Well, this is very un-Colorado-like:
I feel like I moved to Seattle!
09/11/2013
Month: September 2013
09/09/2013
I’m in the market for an old Macbook Air for Kyra (to use for school). I found what seemed to be a pretty good price on eBay, until I looked at the fine print in the description:
The macbook works really well the only issue it has is the screen does not work on the unit but the camera and everything else works fine.
Umm… it works “really well” but the screen is broken? Clearly this guy’s definition of “really well” is a little different than mine.
09/04/2013
The first computer I bought cost $2,500. It was an Apple IIgs and it was awesome. The year? 1990.
A year later I sold that and bought an Intel-based PC. It screamed along with a 33MHz i386 processor and 4MB of memory. Two thousand clams.
Last night I read about the Cubox. It’s a cube two inches on a side, and it’s a full desktop-capable computer with HD video output, 3D graphics, networking, wireless and Bluetooth connectivity, USB outputs, a SATA connection for an external hard drive, yada yada. In short, it’s probably a thousand times more powerful than my first computer. The cost? $45.
Isn’t technological progress wonderful?
09/04/2013
Today I’m getting a bunch of spam messages from someone who’s a very bad spammer. They apparently forgot to set up their “Robomail” software, because all I’m getting in the emails is a list of the variables they could use to construct their spammy goodness.
Variables
1 01 |jeff@neobox.net| Email Address
2 02 |61426| Email Mailing ID ( ROBOMAIL ASSIGNS THIS ONE )
3 03 || Personalization field 2
4 04 || Personalization field 3
5 05 || Personalization field 4
5 06 || Personalization field 5
5 07 || Personalization field 6
5 08 || Personalization field 7
5 09 || Personalization field 8
5 10 || Personalization field 9
5 11 || Personalization field 10
8 cb |—-=_NeZtPart_067_86J4_21R5RT89.U586HT4| Randomized from the Content-Boundry template
9 CX |fashionably| where X can be 0 to 9, a random line from the wordX files, but stays constant through the email
10 rX || where X can be 0 to 9, a random line from the wordX files, but variable through the email
11 rw |chocolate| A random line from the word0 file
12 r0 |flycatcher| A random line from the word0 file
13 dd |neobox.net| The domain part of the To: address
14 db |4 Sep 2013 12:15:28 -0400| Date with no time
15 dh |Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:15:28 -0400| Complient Date: header formatted date
16 dD |Wed| Current Week Day Name
17 dM |Sep| Current Month Name
18 dm |9| Current Month Number
19 dn |4| Current Day of the Month Number
20 dy |2013| Current Year
21 fr || The next line from the “from” file.
22 ho |hygienics.bellyscateringservice.com| full hostname for sending ip
23 hd |bellyscateringservice.com| 2nd level domain of sending ip host
24 HX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitue X random Hexidecimal numbers
25 ip |199.71.215.20| sending IP address
26 NX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitue X random number
27 m0 |32946| The unique robomial mailing id for that campaign
28 qd |201309041215| Qmail style Message ID timestamp
29 rw |brierroot| A random line from the word0 file
30 rx |hatting| where X can be 1 to 9, a random line from the wordX file
31 su || The next line from the “subjects” file
32 tm |1378311328| The unix timestamp
33 uu |jeff| The user part of the To: address
34 yX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random lower case letters
35 YX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random upper case letters and numbers
36 XX |198JNMDESX| where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random upper case letters and numbers constant per email
37 x0 |wrss^arbobk(arg| rot13 of email address
1 01 |jeff@neobox.net| Email Address
2 02 |61426| Email Mailing ID ( ROBOMAIL ASSIGNS THIS ONE )
3 03 || Personalization field 2
4 04 || Personalization field 3
5 05 || Personalization field 4
5 06 || Personalization field 5
5 07 || Personalization field 6
5 08 || Personalization field 7
5 09 || Personalization field 8
5 10 || Personalization field 9
5 11 || Personalization field 10
8 cb |—-=_NeZtPart_067_86J4_21R5RT89.U586HT4| Randomized from the Content-Boundry template
9 CX |fashionably| where X can be 0 to 9, a random line from the wordX files, but stays constant through the email
10 rX || where X can be 0 to 9, a random line from the wordX files, but variable through the email
11 rw |chocolate| A random line from the word0 file
12 r0 |flycatcher| A random line from the word0 file
13 dd |neobox.net| The domain part of the To: address
14 db |4 Sep 2013 12:15:28 -0400| Date with no time
15 dh |Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:15:28 -0400| Complient Date: header formatted date
16 dD |Wed| Current Week Day Name
17 dM |Sep| Current Month Name
18 dm |9| Current Month Number
19 dn |4| Current Day of the Month Number
20 dy |2013| Current Year
21 fr || The next line from the “from” file.
22 ho |hygienics.bellyscateringservice.com| full hostname for sending ip
23 hd |bellyscateringservice.com| 2nd level domain of sending ip host
24 HX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitue X random Hexidecimal numbers
25 ip |199.71.215.20| sending IP address
26 NX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitue X random number
27 m0 |32946| The unique robomial mailing id for that campaign
28 qd |201309041215| Qmail style Message ID timestamp
29 rw |brierroot| A random line from the word0 file
30 rx |hatting| where X can be 1 to 9, a random line from the wordX file
31 su || The next line from the “subjects” file
32 tm |1378311328| The unix timestamp
33 uu |jeff| The user part of the To: address
34 yX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random lower case letters
35 YX || where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random upper case letters and numbers
36 XX |198JNMDESX| where X can be 1 to 9, substitute X random upper case letters and numbers constant per email
37 x0 |wrss^arbobk(arg| rot13 of email address
Come on, man, if you’re going to be a sleazy spammer, at least figure out how to use the dang software.