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spam selling spam

One of the interesting things about running a server and owning a domain is getting all sorts of spam trying to sell you services promoting your site or brand, or offering to design logos and websites for you. This morning I got the most ridiculous of the spams I’ve seen yet: a spam offering spam services. It’s good to know that, if need be, I can send 3 million emails an hour. For your edification:

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Host up to twenty of your own websites
You can use it also as an smtp server to send your email
80 Gig hard drive Pentium 4 was build to send millions of emails
Send up to 10 million Opt-in emails a day 

Guarantee 30 days of service month to month no contract

FREE 24 hours 7 days a week technical support

Full access to the server using terminal service or Pc, anywhere or any other      remote access software you prefer

Set up time is two hours

The server comes with the following:
MOTHERBOARD:  Intel 
PROCESSOR:  PENTIUM®-4  1.8GHz 512K CACHE
MEMORY:  512MB PC2100 DDR ECC REGISTERED
HARD DRIVE:  IBM 80.0 GB EIDE HD 7200RPM
CASE: Super Micro 2 U Rackmount
CD-ROM DRIVE: C52X max.
OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 2000 SERVER / WINDOWS 2003 SERVER/ Red hat 7.3/ mandrake / or whatever OS you prefer

You will also receive two years free membership with www.ewasher.us to clean your emails  

Prices are as low as $2000 a month with $100.00 set up fee.  Please call or email me when you are ready to begin.

150,000(messages)/hour - $1,500.00   total     
300,000/hour - $3,000.00                 24/7 Free Phone and email technical support
600, 000/hour - $6,000.00
2 million/hour - $12,000.00
3 million/hour - $16,000.00   (UNLIMITED CAPACITY LICENSE)

EMAIL LISTS
We also offer you a 100% guaranteed deliverable semi opt-in email list.  Our emails go through ewasher to ensure their delivery.  If any of the emails bounce back we will replace them with emails that are deliverable free of charge.  You will receive 30 million emails for only $5000.00.  These will be yours to own.

netflix is neat

So… since we have a tendency to rent a movie or two every week, I decided it would be cool to join netflix. The idea is you queue up a bunch of movies that you want to rent, they mail you up to three at a time, and when you’re done with them, you mail them back. You can do this as many times as you want for $20/month. So, we break even if we rent more than 5 movies a month (which I’m pretty sure we do). Also, since netflix is based here in the bay, I figure we’ll get the movies lickety-split. It also doesn’t hurt that I have *cough* a DVD burner.

One of the cool things about netflix is they allow you to rate all the movies on their site, and based on your ratings, they suggest future movies that you might want to rent. This is pretty cool, and I totally spent an hour and a half clicking through hundreds of movies and rating them. Now it recommends for me “the best of the muppet show” along with “apocalypse now redux.” Hmm.

In other news, my mother has shipped me all my old scuba-diving equipment from Austin. In combination with my brother’s, which is already here in CA, the idea is not to pay through the nose for the basic stuff (mask, snorkel, fins, boots, gloves) that they require you to have for the Open Water Diver class, but refuse to rent. If we were to buy all the stuff, it would be about $200-300/person. Blech. In any case, after this we will be duly trained/refreshed for our upcoming excursion to Mexico which I am so looking forward to.

frighteningly good mario drama

What more can I say? See for yourself:

The score seems to include bits from Requiem for a Dream and Radiohead. Wow.

Comments

em — 2004-03-02 09:26:31

Arghh!  No ending in Part III !!!!!!!!

bryan — 2004-03-03 14:37:33

yeah, I know. Where I found them, they mentioned that these were the only three known to exist. I like to think of them as the back story to the original game. The life mushroom eventually revives Luigi, and you go on to conquer king koopa. Isn’t that better?

em — 2004-03-03 22:11:49

Ahh, much better!  Thanks!

buy me this

This is the coolest thing ever!

http://www.xat.nl/enigma-e/desc/index.htm

Leslie can attest to the fact that when I was in Baltimore with her, and we stopped by the NSA museum, I was ecstatic to get to touch and play with an original Enigma rotor machine. Right behind it were the bombes that the English in Bletchly Park to crack the original code (they were led by Alan Turing himself).

Maybe the next time I have $150 lying around.