short takes

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On Christmas, it is customary for Jews to go out for Chinese food and a movie. I'll have you know that Dani and I are not so stereotypical: this year we are going out for Japanese food and a movie. So there. :-) (Tomorrow should be a glorious day for getting work done. There were only about six people in the office today.)

This discussion of teaching INTJs resonates in many ways. Speaking of siderea, check out her surrealistic junk mail. (I have had similar "WTF?" reactions to some of the junk mail I get, but she articulates it better.)

With spammers lately trying the "random sequence of 4-8 letters in the subject line" gambit, it was only a matter of time before a Viagra ad was cloakced in coherence. The one that got me had a subject line of "junit" and was sent to my work address.

This eBay auction (link from _subdivisions_) takes an old prank to a new level:

I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church with no bell because angry Germans stole it. Aside from vodka, there is not a lot for me to do. During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing. These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details about the addressee. Details you will provide me.

I am not especially surprised that he was able to find a market for this. I am surprised by the winning bid!

A coworker passed along this XP review. Fun stuff:

I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. [...] All I can say is "wow!" You can see that a lot of work has gone into making XP more reliable than its predecessor. The random program crashes, and hangs appear to be a thing of the past.

It's snarky and over the top, but I got some giggles from it. (I have never used Vista.)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

*grin* I stumbled across that XP review a few days ago, and it is indeed fun. I only used Vista briefly, but completely agree: it seems to be a hog. Then again, every Windows OS does until SP2 comes out. I paid extra for XP Pro over Vista, upgraded the UI from XP-like to 2000-like, and further upgraded it to look as close to 95 as possible. But that's just me.

The idea of going out for Japanese on Christmas is a good one. All my local Chinese places (the ones serving edible food) are owned by Christian Chinese, so are closed.

And thanks for the INTJ pointer. I never joined that group, but siderea's description sounds quite familiar to me (but phrased better).

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

So, you didn't say what movie you were going to go see. We're also thinking Chinese and a movie, although we may pick the food such that we can bring it to the hospital to visit our friend's son (he's in their for cancer, diagnosed the day before the Bat Mitzvah). He's salt-limited, so we might choose a different cuisine.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that eBay auction is hilarious. I love it!