From the mouths of spammers

From my spam-catcher’s log:

A fine line

Cute? Or ugly?

Of course, they’d probably just chop my toes all to pieces anyway.

The old college try (to remember)

Do you remember that whole thing last year or so, about the girls who wore flip flops to the White House? I think it was last year, but I don’t really remember. I’m so out of touch it took me an age to realize that it was my own school’s women’s lacrosse team what done [...]

I am such a loser

I ran into the linked-arms couple again today — literally, since the stairwell in our dorm is only 2-and-a-half people wide. Well, it’s probably actually about 3 people wide, but you take up more space when you feel the need to be in physical contact with your S.O. all the time.
I kind of really hope [...]

Joy is not restricted to the morning

THE INTERNSHIP PLACE EMAILED ME AND THEY WANT AN INTERVIEW.
I submitted my application for this thing January 1, and the deadline was February 27. This is just one of many long, dragged out projects I’ve been dealing with, waiting for some sort of resolution or news; and to make things worse, having these things in [...]

Mad props

Is it because I’m in the research business (so to speak) that I think this article about hobby aviation from the NYT is sorely remiss in not even mentioning the EAA?
The article is good so far as it goes, exploring the reasons why the field is shrinking and skewing older (funny how those go together). [...]

Urban Dictionary is almost tragic

Check out the example sentence:

I laughed so hard when I read this.

Compassion and forgiveness

The BBC reports on Virginia Tech memorials and notes a trend of including the gunman in the count of victims:
The Reverend Howard Anderson drew comparisons between Cho’s bloody rampage and the carnage in Iraq, but he also called for compassion for the gunman.
“He too is a child of God, and a victim of [...]

Mmmmmm

I didn’t have lunch today, so when I got home from work I was pretty hungry. I decided to stop and get a granola bar or something at the shopette downstairs, just to tide me over until dinner without glutting myself on raisins. I lucked into something much better on the way in, though: a [...]

Doomed to repeat it

There’s a very interesting article on the Daily Mail’s website by a Major Judith Webb, retired British Army, about women in combat (she’s against). At the end, she notes:
I worked in intelligence for seven years and think women have more patience and can be better at analysing fine details.
They can be incredibly useful working as [...]