Monetizing the fan base

I don’t think I’ve expressed much love for MLB since 1994. I enjoy the game of baseball. I like some of the teams and players. I just absolutely hate the governing body of professional baseball. A lot. Another exhibit in the bottomless stack of reasons why I hate MLB is this bit of spam I…

Odd pastime

I like to make snarky comments to the spam email I receive. It must be some vestigial thing left over from the days before email spam—when every email you received had been laboriously typed by someone you had a reasonable expectation to be corresponding with. Like there’s someone on the other side of this who…

Homonken

Is it the case that the high volume of Web searches for “Windows Installer [additional tokens here]” I’ve made in the past week or so have led to the massive spike in email spam trying to sell window replacements and installations? Because, if so, I’m a little creeped out by that. I’m also more than…

Noise!

Oh hooray! Amazon publishing spam is now a thing on Spotify [1]. This is why we can’t have nice things. At least in the case of Amazon they were able to clean things up a bit. Here’s to hoping Spotify can follow suit. [1] http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tldr-hundred-songs/

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Is this an effective and efficient way to ensure robust communication? Or is it a facile way of demonstrating how busy one is? Because, seriously, the two in the example I’m working off can take their “I’m doing FOO know. You should do BAR”, “I’m almost done with BAR, you should be able to start…

Spam and eggs

Getting more and more convinced that there has been a disturbance in the force. Weird Facebook status update emails and now some out of the blue SMS spam. It’s not the first time ever so we’re still in the realm of coinkydinks but as the day goes on the more I feel like everyone’s favorite…

Two unrelated things…

First: Weird coincidence time! I’ve been reading Zodiac where one of the baddies is a company named Forex. I got spam today from a betting service named Forex. There was a weird moment where I couldn’t figure out why a betting service was dumping PCBs and why they wanted to contact me. Like maybe they…

Late night build support…

While composing a detailed “you broke the build and here’s how, but you’re not here so you’ll see this in the morning and have to answer the gnashing and wailing from the angry horde of testers” email, I was chatted up by hotandhorny13. I did not blur the URL to the probable malware site linked.…