Many of the messages in the latest spam wave promote penny stocks

Really, people who buy into schemes like this deserve to lose their money. But it would be more efficient if they would just hand over big wads of cash to me.

Someone from Current called to interview me about fandom. He was asking me what are some of the biggest fandoms.

I grinned and said, "I'd start with Daily Kos."

Seriously. Freepers, Kos, AmericaBlog, they should all have special places at fandom_wank. They make scifi fans look completely sane.

We'll sit in the corner smoking, drinking, and glaring at them.

Woo! Can we dance and grope too?

Other great comments from Jess's link:

23. Chippy Chews cookies Not only do you get the weird combination of an H.R. Pufnstuf atmosphere along with Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “Candyman,” but these cookies, despite their name, completely dispensed with the definition of chocolate “chip” cookies and just filled the whole damn thing with fudge.

43. Small Wonder promo Sure, it’s not much of an ad, but we loved the idiotic show about a robotic little girl. And there’s just something immensely satisfying about seeing a giant robotic little girl drop someone hundreds of feet to their death.

Yeah...some of us are nuts. I hope that my crazy is at least the fun kind. Corwood, I can't understand where the personal responsibility issue comes from in this season. Those boys are twelve. They have no way to take personal responsibility.

Making a robotic infant with self-replicating nanobots that will grow the body structure over time and inserting an advanced neural net of molecular computers running a FreeBSD based OS with extensive self-learning algorithms in your garage is artificially manufacturing a child.

OK, you want to know what is really freaky? Something earlier today pinged a memory and I finally tracked it down in imdb. Then I come here, and there is mention of it in the commercials linked earlier (Small Wonder, in case you were wondering.) And then this, which may or may not have been sparked by the ads. Anyway.

How in the hell do you estimate a "measure" for a chapter of a document? No idea how long it is going to be until I WRITE IT and people stop adding shit. Sheesh.

Annual review documentation, ticket reservations...kind of a sucky day.

Green, out of the way (you will need a car), and a little pricey: Habitat Suites

That looks cool. Screw the price--I'm giving up my spring break in Hawaii to go to the conference.

I will be renting a car in Houston and driving to Austin. San Antonio's not far from there, right? That is, would it make sense to stay the four days in Austin and do SA as a side trip? Is there someplace else I'd want to go in that area? And will you still be around then?

San Antonio's not far from there, right?

It's pretty close. When I lived in San Antonio I drove up to Austin all the time.

Austin, Houston, and San Antonio are in kind of a triangle, but yeah, San Antonio's closer to Austin. It's about two and a half hours from Houston to Austin (and when the time comes, I'm happy to give you my opinion on driving directions, since I made that drive every other week for 18 months). IIRC, San Antonio is about an hour from Austin.

Avenue Q meets Fiddler on the Roof to become...Avenue Jew.

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