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spam comments

February 25, 2007

althought ListYourList has pretty much been abandoned by yours truely (and therefore, everyone else), i still keep tabs on it using the RSS feeds. there’s one for lists and comments. occasionally someone posts a new list or comments on an old one, but the activity there pretty much crashed when i gave up on it.

but there’s been a new trend recently: spam comments! isn’t that exciting! so far it’s only been happening on THIS LIST, but as of this afternoon, it had 5 spam comments. this i almost can’t believe. i fully understand how and why wordpress gets spam comments: there are thousands of identical wordpress blogs and writing ONE spam program works for ALL of them. it’s worth the time and money of the spammers to invest in that. but ListYourList? come on now.

this means that the spammers have either come up with a spam-comment-spider that crawls the web and looks for general comment forms (name, email, comment), OR they have decided to target ListYourList specifically. i’ll tell you right now, it’s NOT the latter.

since the site is no longer mine and was passed off to shane a few months ago, we’ll see if HE can figure out a simple way to stop the spam.

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the difference between us and them

February 23, 2007

literally, the same kinds of thoughts go through my mind pretty much every single day. thoughts of the way we live our lives, the living and non-living. i’d say that most of these thoughts, however, focus on my own species, and how turned around we must be to not think twice about poison the very water we drink from.

It’s just a natural cycle of evolution.
Things are so much better now than than they used to be.
But what about all the amazing things we’ve created?

and i was trying to find that one thing that separates the civilized from the uncivilized, and i think that i’ve stumbled upon it. of course, there are many other ways to illustrate what i’m trying to say, but this is the most succinct and lucid way that i’ve found so far.

the “occupied-native-indigenous” uncivilized peoples of the world live in an environment that is compeletely alive, deep in it’s core. Not only are the human animals alive, but so are the non-human animals, the environment around them, the clothes they wear, the shelters they build, the tools they use, and the friends they have (both human and non-human alike). they are all part of something larger than themselves, together, and it provides for them. they all follow the same basic rules and everything goes pretty damn smoothly.

the civilized, on the other hand, are almost always acting in direct opposition to the world of the living. we are constantly breaking the rules. as a result, we are constantly fighting nature, poisoning this and poisoning that, raping this and raping that, destroying this and destroying that. most of us live in concrete boxes our entire lives and still can’t figure out why so damn many of us live fucking empty, meaningless lives, completely dispossessed.

the uncivilized are surrounded by life; the civilized are surrounded by death.

right now i am understanding what daniel quinn was talking about more than ever, especially when he referred to the above mentioned groups as the leavers and the takers. i know that my thought tonight is not completely original or earth shattering, but it makes more sense to me now than it ever has before.

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forced confession

February 20, 2007

i want to want to blog more. i need to need to blog more. i’d love to love to blog more. i’m beggin’ to beg to blog more. i keep thinking that things are going to shape up and i’ll start hitting this hard again, but something is continually getting in the way.

for instance, i had a great idea for a post about my reactions to a viewing of Contact the other night. i was really excited to write it, but i needed to actually quote a few lines from the film, so i would either need to 1) find a script online or 2) transcribe some sections from the movie. i found a script, but the same one seemed to be poping up EVERYWHERE and it wasn’t even the actual script that ended up in the movie. some parts were the same, but the parts that i needed were not. so, that’s on hold until i have the time to actually put the movie back in and start transcribing.

also, my beard is now longer than it has ever been before: at the jaw line and chin it’s getting pretty close 1 inch long. i wanted to post a picture of me and my beard and talk about that. i tried to upload the picture of that last night, but flickr was “getting a massage.” i’m uploading as i type this, but who knows how long that’s gonna take?

so… i guess i can talk about money!

i got my first credit card bill the other day for $943.52, and i immediately paid it off. after talking with quite a few people about this whole “credit” thing, i learned that the best thing to do is to use the card every month (for a lot or a little), and then pay it off entirely at the end of each month. that builds credit AND doesn’t cost you any extra in interest.

so at this point i’ve got a brand new camera that is totally paid off (and awesome!) AND i still have about $1500 in the bank. that puts me almost PERFECTLY on schedule for my summer of fun (read: lovin’). i need to save about another $2500 over the next 2-3 months, which i should be able to easily do, and i’ll be all set for the summer. i can’t explain in words how excited i am about this. oh yeah, and did i mention that taking the summer off is my 2007 new year’s resolution? BOOYAH!

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