Daily Archives: January 22, 2005

Blizzard of '05?

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StormWatch (weather.com):

…watch for the storm to intensify rapidly as it parallels the coast of Long Island and southern New England. Because of this intensification, snow totals by Sunday afternoon from eastern Long Island to Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts may be in the 1 to 2 foot range (and that may be conservative.) Look for extremely strong winds across eastern Long Island and Cape Cod on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Wind gusts may exceed 60 mph along with the heavy snow. Blizzard warnings are in place from Long Island and into much of southern New England including New York, Hartford, Providence, and Boston…

Pisser.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam!

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Spam sucks hairy dog balls.  Okay, I'm not referring to the Hormel Product innocently lampooned by Monty Python all those years ago and then trampled by popular culture.  I'm referring to e-mail spam…

At home it isn't much of a problem because RegisterSite.com allows me to set up new email addresses on the fly and ditch them just as easily.  At work I get all the spam sent to my work address, but our spam filter here is pretty good, and at least it all gets labeled, ignored and tossed in a folder.  It can be misleading to check my mail and see “Receiving message 1 of 67″, because usually after all the mail has been downloaded, the messages which weren't spam number perhaps 2 or 3 in total.  That's a lot of spam.

Anyway, why am I talking about this?  I just checked the spam folder for my work email.  I like to clean it out every now and then.  The last time I cleaned it was December 8, 2004 — 45 days ago.  There are now 2014 messages in the folder.  The total number of legitimate messages in my inbox for the same time period? 326.

This means I receive on average about 52 e-mails a day, and of those, about 7 are legitimate.  The remaining 45 messages a day are spam.  This means that 86% of the communications in my mailbox is crap from annoying fucks who want my money.

Welcome to the information age, we have assholes here too.

Note: in the time it took to write this post, the number of messages in the spam folder increased to 2016. Deleting this crap will be a pleasure.

End of an Era

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I decided back in November of last year to stop collecting license plates.  It was just getting too expensive.  My plan was to look for the one last plate I needed and then call it quits.  Well, in December I found that last plate, a 1967 Nevada plate.  Never got around to reporting it until now…

I figure I'll probably continue to look for 1967 plates from other countries, as those only come up very rarely and therefore consume a lot less money spread out over a much longer time.

So, here are last three plates in my license plate collection (click these thumbnails to see more info):

Last 1967 Plate: Nevada CJ7461

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This is it.  The final plate needed to complete the 1967 set of US States. I acquired this from a collector in Los Angeles via eBay in early December 2004.  It cost $13.47 shipped.

At this point I have decided to stop collecting license plates.  It was fun for awhile but it is too expensive a hobby.  I think from now on I'll just keep my eyes open for 1967 plates from other countries.  Those come up only very rarely.