27/04: Press conference
(Clears throat…)
(Taps mic…)
This thing on?
Excellent.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I have just released documentation attesting to the fact that my hair, while it is, yes, frequently, somewhat frightening—not to mention semi-sentient, and occasionally possessed of the power to detach itself, acting independently of the rest of my person as a vigilante crimefighter by night much as did William Shatner’s toupee on Robot Chicken—that notwithstanding all of these admittedly unsettling facts, my hair is a native citizen, born right here, and not in some scary ‘other’ country the average citizen of Alabama wouldn’t even visit as a sex tourist.
Why hasn’t Mr. Trump done the same? Certainly, he must be aware of the dark rumours that his hair is neither from this nation nor this planet, and in fact has terrifying and dark appetites that can be satiated only by feeding it the flesh of virgins. Certainly, he must have heard the unnerving suggestions adrift on the internet that his hair is wanted on several separate warrants across much of the developed world. Certainly, he must have heard that there are breakaway sects of a certain white power movement somewhere in Utah who believe his hair is a herald bearer for the antichrist, foretold in certain ancient apocryphal texts…
Nay, I am not endorsing these rumours. Far from it. I am merely asking: why has he yet to address these perfectly legitimate insinuations of responsible, concerned citizens squarely? What has he got to hide? There are important issues, America, that we should be addressing, and the subject of Donald Trump’s technically possibly alien hair is a dangerous distraction for us at this juncture. America needs leadership, and this kind of stonewalling simply isn’t leadership.
(/Oh, also: watch my show. It’s way better than Trump’s. My catchphrase is: ‘You’re deported!’ Thank you, and good night.)
(/Original here.)
(Taps mic…)
This thing on?
Excellent.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I have just released documentation attesting to the fact that my hair, while it is, yes, frequently, somewhat frightening—not to mention semi-sentient, and occasionally possessed of the power to detach itself, acting independently of the rest of my person as a vigilante crimefighter by night much as did William Shatner’s toupee on Robot Chicken—that notwithstanding all of these admittedly unsettling facts, my hair is a native citizen, born right here, and not in some scary ‘other’ country the average citizen of Alabama wouldn’t even visit as a sex tourist.
Why hasn’t Mr. Trump done the same? Certainly, he must be aware of the dark rumours that his hair is neither from this nation nor this planet, and in fact has terrifying and dark appetites that can be satiated only by feeding it the flesh of virgins. Certainly, he must have heard the unnerving suggestions adrift on the internet that his hair is wanted on several separate warrants across much of the developed world. Certainly, he must have heard that there are breakaway sects of a certain white power movement somewhere in Utah who believe his hair is a herald bearer for the antichrist, foretold in certain ancient apocryphal texts…
Nay, I am not endorsing these rumours. Far from it. I am merely asking: why has he yet to address these perfectly legitimate insinuations of responsible, concerned citizens squarely? What has he got to hide? There are important issues, America, that we should be addressing, and the subject of Donald Trump’s technically possibly alien hair is a dangerous distraction for us at this juncture. America needs leadership, and this kind of stonewalling simply isn’t leadership.
(/Oh, also: watch my show. It’s way better than Trump’s. My catchphrase is: ‘You’re deported!’ Thank you, and good night.)
(/Original here.)
So there continues to be a slow, steady trickle of comment spam into this blog’s DB.
It’s mostly dammed, now, good news is. Various measures were taken. Not sure I’m gonna reveal ‘em, here. Much as security through obscurity isn’t really my thing, well…
Well, it’s likely to bore most of you. Oh and other folk are probably more up to date on how to frustrate these asshats, anyway, so it’s not like I’d really be providing much of a service, there, either. Much as pissing in the spammers’ cornflakes in that additional way would just tickle me pink…
But I figure I can do this one additional thing. As… well… it’s a funny thing…
As one of the most common comment spam subjects that keeps coming up is this spectacularly dishonest evangelical wank from the US. He’s one of those truly, madly, deeply full-of-it types Glenn Beck would probably totally fucking love. All ‘bout how hey, said republic really was a Christian nation at the writing of its constitution, scout’s honour, actual facts of history be damned… The spambots keep trying to dump linkspam aimed at bumping up the ranking of his cesspool of a site, apparently.
Which, I’m assuming, means he’s hired them. I mean, I s’pose the other possibility is, actually, his enemies have, and they’re only spamming the sites of people like me who are likely to be motivated to find ways to make him regret it… But let’s not get pointlessly baroque about this. Even if getting pointlessly baroque about things does happen to be one of my chief joys in life…
Anyway. Now I’ve written on said subject previously. As have so many others. Not sure I’m gonna bother, therefore, doing so again. Nor will I mention the moron in question’s name. Seems to me if he’s trying to get attention with this constant hiring of spambots, even negative publicity that raises his web profile is somehow not what we’re going for, here.
Nay, on the contrary, I will do only this:
This is a link to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
They are a fine organization. Also, they have never spammed me. And I think on a semi-regular basis, now and then when I do catch this asshole spamming me, I’m gonna seek out them or some related organization, and give ‘em a free link, handwave, and kind promotional words.
Again, that’s Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Good people. Go visit them, give them money and links, and boost their coffers and search rankings. Thanks all.
It’s mostly dammed, now, good news is. Various measures were taken. Not sure I’m gonna reveal ‘em, here. Much as security through obscurity isn’t really my thing, well…
Well, it’s likely to bore most of you. Oh and other folk are probably more up to date on how to frustrate these asshats, anyway, so it’s not like I’d really be providing much of a service, there, either. Much as pissing in the spammers’ cornflakes in that additional way would just tickle me pink…
But I figure I can do this one additional thing. As… well… it’s a funny thing…
As one of the most common comment spam subjects that keeps coming up is this spectacularly dishonest evangelical wank from the US. He’s one of those truly, madly, deeply full-of-it types Glenn Beck would probably totally fucking love. All ‘bout how hey, said republic really was a Christian nation at the writing of its constitution, scout’s honour, actual facts of history be damned… The spambots keep trying to dump linkspam aimed at bumping up the ranking of his cesspool of a site, apparently.
Which, I’m assuming, means he’s hired them. I mean, I s’pose the other possibility is, actually, his enemies have, and they’re only spamming the sites of people like me who are likely to be motivated to find ways to make him regret it… But let’s not get pointlessly baroque about this. Even if getting pointlessly baroque about things does happen to be one of my chief joys in life…
Anyway. Now I’ve written on said subject previously. As have so many others. Not sure I’m gonna bother, therefore, doing so again. Nor will I mention the moron in question’s name. Seems to me if he’s trying to get attention with this constant hiring of spambots, even negative publicity that raises his web profile is somehow not what we’re going for, here.
Nay, on the contrary, I will do only this:
This is a link to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
They are a fine organization. Also, they have never spammed me. And I think on a semi-regular basis, now and then when I do catch this asshole spamming me, I’m gonna seek out them or some related organization, and give ‘em a free link, handwave, and kind promotional words.
Again, that’s Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Good people. Go visit them, give them money and links, and boost their coffers and search rankings. Thanks all.
25/04: Twelve rockets
The long weekend (so far) was mostly cleaning. And after I got my desk cleared to the point that it became practical, some repair.
As it’s warm enough ‘round here to be launching small missiles with the kids again. And our space program ‘round here has a pretty busy launch schedule. And constantly launching extremely light vehicles mostly of balsa and cardboard, they do take a beating. Taking stock yesterday, after cleaning, I realized I had more than a dozen rockets in here—only two of which were actually in flyable condition.
Missing and broken fins, mostly. So, between other things, yesterday, I made a point of coming back to the study regularly, cutting a new one out of balsa stock, gluing the one previous to that on, painting the one before that, lacquering the one before that… Little bits of ten-minutes-at-a-time stuff on a long, messy reassembly line.
I now have twelve launchable rockets in here. We are back at fighting strength again.
As it’s warm enough ‘round here to be launching small missiles with the kids again. And our space program ‘round here has a pretty busy launch schedule. And constantly launching extremely light vehicles mostly of balsa and cardboard, they do take a beating. Taking stock yesterday, after cleaning, I realized I had more than a dozen rockets in here—only two of which were actually in flyable condition.
Missing and broken fins, mostly. So, between other things, yesterday, I made a point of coming back to the study regularly, cutting a new one out of balsa stock, gluing the one previous to that on, painting the one before that, lacquering the one before that… Little bits of ten-minutes-at-a-time stuff on a long, messy reassembly line.
I now have twelve launchable rockets in here. We are back at fighting strength again.
18/04: Still 'round
Yeah, I know I went radio silent a bit.
Updates: season ended somewhat ignominiously, sans successful 360. Tremblant’s now closed, it’s unlikely I’m going to get anywhere elsewhere before it melts everywhere on this coast, at least. Too much else heating up.
Sigh. Managed some pretty good air, here and there. But I think the body was just getting tired. Lil’ injuries, here and there… it got awkward.
Think I’m going with that as an excuse, anyway. Anyway, mebbe next year. Or sometime this summer on Blackcomb Glacier, if I entirely lose my mind, I guess.
Updates: season ended somewhat ignominiously, sans successful 360. Tremblant’s now closed, it’s unlikely I’m going to get anywhere elsewhere before it melts everywhere on this coast, at least. Too much else heating up.
Sigh. Managed some pretty good air, here and there. But I think the body was just getting tired. Lil’ injuries, here and there… it got awkward.
Think I’m going with that as an excuse, anyway. Anyway, mebbe next year. Or sometime this summer on Blackcomb Glacier, if I entirely lose my mind, I guess.
