Thursday, November 01, 2001

Thu
1
Nov
2001

New Virus

An email that greeted me in today?s inbox:
Sorry to bother you all with this, but this virus simply scares me to death and I thought all of you should know about it ASAP!

If you receive an email entitled "HOLYCOW", delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It not only erases everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only 900 numbers. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink ALL your beer.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING?!

It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings that grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.

If the "HOLYCOW" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows; it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk.

WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN!

And if you don't send this to 5000 people in 20 seconds, you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person nearest you. Send this to everyone...

**In case you are a blonde, this is a joke.

Wednesday, October 31, 2001

Wed
31
Oct
2001

Boooooooo

Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Tue
30
Oct
2001

Not In The Mood This Year

Tomorrow is Halloween. I'm undecided as the whether I should get a pumpkin and some candy to give out or just forget about it this year since I can't get to any of my decorations in storage. We put a bunch of stuff in there since we thought we were moving. It would take a couple of days to get to my stuff. I didn't get my decorations up last year (no time), so I got a whopping 3 trick-or-treaters that ventured into the mobile home park. The year before I had all my lights and stuff up. Several mothers told me they don't normally come in, but my decorations let them know from afar that they should. Damn. One thing I've noticed, though, is that people are not buying up pumpkins like they usually do. By now, you usually see pumpkins all over and finding one at a store is difficult. Every grocery store I passed today still had a huge pile of them. Is it that with the terrorist attack, people are not in the mood? Does it not seem like it's time for Halloween yet since it has been so warm? That's my dilemma. It feels like September, not the end of October. We've usually had at least one really bad snow by now and the leaves should be off the trees. I've got to get in gear and get a Thanksgiving feast prepared in three weeks. Aaaaargh!
Tue
30
Oct
2001

Whaaa?

Oh, I did remember another thing. Something called "Run a DLL as an App" tried to dial out of my computer. The little bit I could find about it through Google said it's a windows program that tries to report back to Microsoft or something. I wish I could find more about it. Well, I told my ZoneAlarm program to deny internet access to it until I can find out more. Stupid thing.
Tue
30
Oct
2001

Gone

Current mood: devilmood--angry irritated
I just made a long post, hit the Post & Publish button and it's gone. Damn. Someday I'm going to learn to compose these in notepad and then copy them over. Well, I'll try to remember what I said:

That lady Nancy at CollegeAmerica is a ditzy dumbass. I went into her office last month specifically to ask if I could take Unix 4 this month without being charged extra for it. Well, I ran into her outside the building on my way to class and she asks if I'm still going to school. When I said I was, she asked if I was taking a class. Hello! Why would I be anywhere near that building with all the trouble I've had if I wasn't going to school? Why would I specifically ask if I could take a class and then not take it? You would think such stupidity would not continue to amaze me, but it does.

My Linux kernel compilation at school was successful. Whoohoo! This is the kind of stuff I wanted to learn. Not Word, not access, real, honest-to-goodness computer stuff. Why couldn't I have classes like this all along? I would've been much happier.

I'm kind of glad I broke off from my original class, though. I formed some opinions of people based on another person's opinions rather than making my own. Now that the influence is gone, I'm discovering that some of these people I considered to be (annoying/scary/dumbasses, etc) are really neat. I've had the chance to become friendly with people from three different sets of class rotations rather than the one set I would've met had I stuck with my original classmates. One guy in particular, who wears a trenchcoat and seems kind of evil in appearance, is actually turning out to be a cool dude.

Well, that's enough for now. I'll try to remember the rest of it later. I'd better post it before I lose it.