Spam....

[akicif]

I think I've just decided not to go to Interwossname.

I'd been debating it, and had more or less decided that I'm more likely to have the at-the-door membership price next summer than the current price before the end of the month - after all, I may magically acquire a better job or an unexpected tax rebate or something....

However, I don't buy from spammers. Full Stop. Ever. And I've just received spam - from someone who should surely know better - telling me to BUY NOW.

I was initially tempted to fire off a standard complaint to the spammer's ISP, but life's too short, the individual probably doesn't merit it, and they used one of those web-based "amusing domain name" hosts who tend to ignore complaints anyway (yes, I realise there are contradictions implicit in the above).

EDIT: Mail to spammer bounced - inbox full. Forwarded to the other interthingy address in the mail to pass on....

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Re: Oops

[akicif.livejournal.com]

That sort of thing, yes, except it's more likely here in Edinburgh that the faux-kilt is on the tourist. Oh, and MacSween's do an absolutely excellent veggie haggis - and I speak as a haggis-loving omnivore.

Actually, as the rules on importing food over in the States seem to bar sheep's stomachs full of oatmeal and offal, maybe a good veggie haggis would be an ideal souvenir to bring back?

Oh, and a year on the Brittanica? Wow.... was it fun? I guess it can't have been that bad 'cos I don't remember you ever mentioning it in adfp?

Re: Oops

[huaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've actually never had a real haggis. But how do you make a veggie one? Is it in the stomach of a turnip or something? Or does it just contain no meat-type products other than the stomach?

The only reason I'm aware of the existence of the faux-kilt -- er or rather, that a real kilt is not "plaid wrap-around skirt with pleats and large safety pin" -- is because of my textile-related interests.

I actually spent 3 or 4 years at Britannica all told, and many things about it were really fabulous. It was a really, really neat thing to be working on... my first salaried computer dork job was the Macintosh network there, and then I joined the small UNIX group which was responsible for the then-fledgling Britannica Online. The IT folks there were top-notch. The lusers were lusers. ;-) I regrettably lost my entire amassed collection of print reference materials published by EB, when I got divorced, and I still miss those. I was working there when I first started hanging around adfp, and moonlighting at Tezcat, and then eventually went to Tezcat full-time. Or doubletime depending on how you look at it.

The only real down side to the place was... well, that it was a time of tremendous financial loss for the organization, leading up to it being sold. So there was a span of about 18 months when some 80% of the people who worked there were laid off, groups of 'em every Friday. It was after a long span of that -- including them laying off the director of the group in which I worked -- that I walked away. I still have my 3-year pin, some old business cards, and a few such souvenirs, and the folks I used to work with are pretty much all folks I'd love to hear from again one of these days.

Were I to say that I felt I had a real "calling" in life, it would be something involving the preservation and distribution of knowledge, in particular as new technologies can be applied to doing it. So to be entirely honest, working in IT at Britannica was a dream job for me, and something I will always, always be glad that I got to be a part of at some point in my life. And I mean, just imagine all the lore that I could access.

Re: Oops

[armb.livejournal.com]

Lots of haggises for carnivores have plastic "skins". I imagine that vegetarian ones all do.