Wednesday, December 15, 2004

(bulk email): Congratulations on becoming a powerseller

Welcome to a community of sellers that have achieved exceptional level of success and positive feedback on eBay!

Um.. never used eBay. Sorry.

We invite you to join us as a PowerSeller

If you agree with this rank please register by accesing your account within 24 hours

Um...why does that link go to www.recipieforsuccess.com/suckerspleaseclickhere ?

Very Important !
The registration is active only once.

Why become a PowerSeller?
PowerSellers are eBay top sellers who have sustained a consistent high volume of monthly sales and a high level of total feedback with 98% positive or better.

Hmmm, I've enver actually gotten any feed back , positive or negative. But then again , I've never bought or sold anything on ebay either. Hmmmm... very powerful seller am I ..

When I go to the indicated link, it takes me to a page that looks just like ebay. Hmmm.... phising scam I see....


woah, the real ebay site has live chat , I think maybe I'll ask them about this ....

Wound up forwarding the email to spoof@ebay.com after a chat session and letting them
worry about it. Tried to copy and paste the chat session , but it wouldn't copy :( bummer.



Question and Answer Time



Swiped this from The Pink One:
(and I swiped it from Kitten With A Whip)


First, recommend to me:

A.) A Movie
B.) A Book
C.) A song, CD , Musician..etc.


Next: Ask me three questions...anything you want..anything,go ahead..... just ask away!


Go to your blog, If you be a blogger, copy and paste this and see what turns up!

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Israeli's Hero's of the Muslim's

You hear a lot about it on the news. Muslims hate the Israeli's. Suicide bombers attack Isreali's, ,etc etc.

I have a freind at work, an Arab , I won't give his name he still has family back home. Someone got into a discussion with him about this, and then he explained the whole situation to us.

The Middle East is run by dicatorships. Dictatorships don't actually ask their populations what they think about anything. They tell you. Then they tell you to get out and shout the correct slogans for the western media , etc etc. If you fail, they shoot you . Similarily , every western reporter is followed around by Minders, something I recall them complaining about at the beginning of the Iraq invasion. (Reporters woke up one day , where did all the minders go ?)

What the arab population really thinks is that the Israeli's are their hero's. Enemey of their enemey and all that. The Dictators hate them so they have to be the good guys some hows.

Well , if you're a dictator you're not going to win many friends are you ? And long simmering hatred's that you push tend to boomerrang , don't they ?

Who would of thunk it ? Israeli's are the hero's of the common muslims.

Just don't ask them about it when you have three minders tagging along behind you , thats all.

:)


Saturday, December 11, 2004

From the Bulk Folder : bowling ball 94 ballerinas

Ummm .. ok ... yeah ... bowling balls and ballerina's.

???

nzhwngu


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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Writing a Novel

I've decided to write a novel.

No scratch that. I've always been writing something , somewhere, since I was 10. I've decided to put it online for all to see. Actually writing it is something I can't stop.

Check it out. Bottom right of the blog is a link to it. Tell me what you think.

Monday, December 06, 2004

Idiots Try out for Terrorism

http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/ott-bomb-hydro-041206.html

MONTREAL - A mysterious group known by the initials IRI is claiming responsibility in a communiqué for damaging a Hydro-Québec tower in the Eastern Townships. The tower near Coaticook is part of a line that carries James Bay power to the Boston area. Police say it appears the tower was damaged by an explosive charge. The group says it set the charge at the base of the St-Hermenegilde tower to denounce the ''pillaging'' of Quebec's resources by the United States.

Well why the heck not ? Every other wacko across the ocean is getting lots of attention , even compromises just by planting a few bombs here and there, why shouldn't our home grown wacko's be any different ?

This is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists. Everyone with an agenda decides they want to try their hand at it. Next thing you know they'll be bombing schools that teach evolution because it violates their biblical beliefs or some nonsense like that.


Deserters Paradise

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/12/06/deserter-refugee041206.html

TORONTO - A soldier who deserted the U.S. army and now calls Toronto home will make his case to remain in Canada as he appears in front of an Immigration and Refugee board on Monday.

So. When did Canada become a haven for cowards and traiters ?
Lets be frank here. The terrorists hit your country , killed three thousand people. Rather than fight them , you decide to run away and tell everyone you don't want to fight. So , either you think that killing americans is a good thing (ie: traiter to your own country) or you're a coward who doesn't want to fight anymore.

When did we become a haven for this ?

And what would Canadians do if americans started taking in canadian military deserters on the grounds that the canadians decided they didn't want to be shipped out to afghanistan ?


Sunday, December 05, 2004

The Husband Abuse Continues

http://story.canadastandard.com/p.x/ct/9/id/508f31a797386a83/cid/71df8d33cd2a30df/


>Canadian parents who fail to pay child support could face up to six months
>in jail under a proposed bill in the Ontario legislature.


>Sandra Pupatello, the provincial community and social services minister,
>said the current three-month maximum jail sentence, isn't enough of a
>deterrent, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday.

Thats just beautiful. Throw dad in jail because the support payements are too high. Now he loses his job because he's not around for six months and has to go on welfare. So now the support payments just stop entirely. They are based on income, and your income just dropped to zero.

A friend of mine went through the whole wife / kid / divorce thing. Basically she kept complaining , and got a free lawyer, and he had to pay for his , and even though the complaints had no basis he faced bankruptcy just from having to pay his lawyer over and over and over.

It was really messy and he decided she wasn't getting a dime. He deliberately got himself fired and went straight to welfare. Then he didn't have to pay because he had nothing.

This law just automates that process. Six months in a minimum security jail (you didn't actually hit anyone right ? Just a little short on cash, they aint gonna put you in with the gangsters) and then straight to welfare because you have no dough ...

The intention of this law is to make life easier on the wife who supports the kid. The result is to enrich the lawyers while putting both wife and husband on welfare. Stupid stupid stupid.

Friday, December 03, 2004

Movie Time : Spider Man 2

Man this movie sucked !

After a while, and a fair amount of beer, I managed to plow through it ,especially the beginning , with the soul intentionof writing this report on it. Otherwise I would have tossed it.

Spider Man is a super hero with super powers. A piece of fiction. You watch movies about him mainly because your every day life is boring and you want to escape. This is in fact the main reason you watch any move. To escape into some kind of fantasy land for a while.

The makers of this movie forgot that.

It's a two hour movie. And they spend an hour and a half *WALLOWING* in not just how ordinary Spiderman's alter ego is, but making sure everything goes wrong for our boy. He's fired from two jobs, he almost flunks out of school ...

I don't mind drama. I watched the Core and loved it , a movie filled with ordinary people and no super powers by anyone . But the drama in this movie was so ridiculous, so unbelievable, as to be not worth the time. You made a two hour action film, spent an hour and a half on story ,and the story sucked ! It doesn't justify ten minutes of time, never mind over an hour.

Plus there's the fact that people come to the movie to escape their humdrum life. Not wallow in it. We all know that if you're constantly late for work , you get fired. Don't show up for class , you flunk. You don't need to rub our noses into this for an extended period of time.

That being said, after you get beyond the first half of the movie it actually gets interesting. Spider man shows up and starts in on the heroics, there's a bad boy out there ("Doc Oc") in need of some serious attention , they have a grand old time.

I rate this movie two out of five on the "Ottawa boy" meter, because only the second half would I watch again. The first I would certainly fast forward over.


Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Wowless in Ottawa

Was reading on the blizzard forums for a game I want to get, World of Warcraft (wow for short). They were having serious problems with the servers being overloaded, you know, play for ten minutes, then get disconnected, wait in line for an hour before you get back in.

Seems this problem is fixed. If you go to a low population server, you can get in with no line up at all. It's all those people who made charactars on the high population ones who dont' want to abandon their work and start over that are waiting in the long lines.

Call up my local computer store.

No more copies of wow will be sold until the new year. Blizzard has already announced it.

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGg !!!!!

I am an adult. I will not freak out over a stupid game. That would be immature .

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG !!!

Ok. I'm freaking out now.


Winter's First Strike

http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/koconnor100/detail?.dir=ff98&.dnm=56dc.jpg&.src=ph

Got my digital camera out, the cheap 69$ one, fiddled with the batteries for a while, snapped a few shots and uploaded them to my yahoo site. I thought I'd share with you the joy of an Ottawa Dec 1 , for all those people in southern and equatorial climes. :)

Bush is in town visiting the Prime Minster. He's not going to address Parliment because even though our mouthy Bush hating MP (member of parliment) got booted from the cabinet, they can't take her seat away. And so she still gets to be in parliment when he arrives, and you gotta know she's gonna heckle him if he tries it.

The newspapers are getting goofy around here. I mean come on ! Bush is running a war in Iraq and Afghanistan ! You could be complaining he's a war criminal ! You could be complaining he's a war hero , the terrorists did list Canada as being on the list of nations they want to hit after all , you could be printing all sorts of stuff !

What do they print ?

Bush is gonna cause traffic snarls.
Security is gonna be tight, so the poor little reporters are gonna have trouble reaching parliment hill and are probably gonna have to suffer getting searched for weapons before they get close to him.

Thats it ? That's all you can say about this controversial figure visiting our fair city ?

Someone is just not paying attention !

Oh , and I saw the news about the protesters. All of them imported from elsewhere and bussed in. Just like when the World Trade Organization came to town. Big fights and everything. But it was all out of towners vs out of towners. Someone's just running smear campaigns everywhere, I guess.

Evolving Ode Poetry Entry : Dec 01 2004

Oh the joy of simple words upon page
Evolving Ode runs a poetry 'test
Yet why am I writing such at my age ?
Vanity doth drag , unwilling, contest

Computers, electronics , be my trade
not the battle of word and the pen
yet I persist, with staid words upon page
the ego can make fools of us all , then

and so with a pen I ink an entry
knowing futility , there is no prize
the winner of this get's aught but "praise thee"
but bloggers delight in so few such ties

though truely it was a keyboard I used
and the pen never touched paper, so sue