Gmail sucks and blows

by philrw
163 words - 1 min read
Rants and Raves Tech
Another reason why I really love running my own email server. Today I tried to log in to my anonymous Gmail account that I created for various identity-protection reasons and i was told that my account was disabled. Disabled. Instantly and without warning. Google sucks and if they ever want to get off my sh*t list they’d better do things right. I have a feeling my account was deleted because of some kind of automated message scanning thing they have going on and not a real live person ever looked at my account activity.
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Record Bathtub Earth Alphabet Foot Woman

by philrw
50 words - 1 min read
Tech

I got a spam with this in the subject line: Record Bathtub Earth Alphabet Foot Woman. I just thought it was funny.

If enough spammers send enough spam with enough ramdomly-generated subject lines, isn’t it only a matter of time until they come up with something funny, clever, or profound?

Gangs vs God

by philrw
34 words - 1 min read
Personal

Organized religions and gangs: are the two that different? At their core how are religion and gangs similar and how do they differ? I would propose that the two are more alike than not.

Nyms: Homo, Hetero, and otherwise

by philrw
272 words - 2 min read
Personal
What would the English language be without homonyms or heteronyms? A lot simpler, that’s for sure. English is a difficult language to master. I’ve been speaking it for 27 years now and I still don’t have it down perfectly. Fortunately there are many people who speak my language who insist on changing it, or at the very least, abusing it out of shape. Let me demonstrate with an improper sentence of homonyms: words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings. Eye road two the store awn my hoarse and bought sum food, witch aye eight later that knight.
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I Am Not A Pig

by philrw
261 words - 2 min read
Rants and Raves
I’m all for condom use. Let me say that up front. But have you seen this Trojan “evolve” TV ad with the pigs? Yes it’s clever, but something about it doesn’t sit well with me. Every time I see it I just get irked. Perhaps it’s the message that all men are portrayed as pigs. Only after a pig purchases a Trojan condom does he turn into a man, suddenly becoming attractive to the woman at the bar. Plus obviously none of the women are interested in these pigs in the first place, so what should be the impetus for one of them to even buy a condom?
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Thanksgiving Limerick

by philrw
31 words - 1 min read
Poetry

If the chef burns her turkey, I’ve heard
That the diners should not say a word.
Yet if fam’ly complains
‘Bout the smoking remains,
She should certainly give them the bird!