Watched the sun set, its disc tinged almost magenta by the smoke plume from the Morris fire near Azusa stretching along the horizon.
Tag: Tweets
Hero, Headlines & Spam
- Just learned “Holding Out for a Hero” is cowritten by Jim Steinman. Explains why it keeps turning into “Good Girls Go to Heaven” in my head
- Writing for Twitter
- Spam vs SPAM. I suspect it’s way too late to close the barn door on this one. Kinda like “hacker.”
Competing Clanks
Standing in the movie theater lobby, listening to competing CLANKing from Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation.
Launching LOL Spam
- Does anyone actually start off email to friends with “Dear Friend”?
- All right! I always wanted one of those! “Delivery Status Notification 81% 0FF.” (spam subject) Who can resist at that discount?
- “Get rid of pests for good!” – if only it would work on the spammers themselves.
- That’s it! Time to find another surgeon! “The way to her heart is through her wrist.” (spam subject)
- Usually it’s the divorced parents using the kids against each other, not the other way around: “Use Mother Nature to beat Father Time”
After posting these today, I’ve decided to set up a Twitter account dedicated to posting funny spam subjects & commentary. I plan to keep the traffic low – 1 or 2 posts a day. Please check out @lol_spam!
Spamming Tech Support
A real “white hat SEO” wouldn’t spam their sales pitch to a tech support contact form.
Trying Sherpa for Android
Trying out Sherpa. It thinks I’m still in San Diego. And local search turns up several places that have been closed for years. It also has lots of miscategorized stuff. It’s a Grind as groceries instead of coffee? And it lists the “Irvine Meadows Amphitheater.” Where are they getting their data?
Tori at the Greek
Missed the opening act, but here in plenty of time for Tori Amos.
Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, turned out to be a great concert!