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Have You Ever Been in Love?

You Have Been in Love a Few Times

You know all about love firsthand. You've experienced it more than once, and you may be in love right now.

Your heart is quite open, and you have few barriers when it comes to falling in love. You just let yourself fall.

You have also experienced your fair share of heartbreak, but you know that just comes with the territory.

You never like healing a broken heart. However, you know that your heart can love again no matter what. It's just a question of time.

Have You Ever Been in Love?

Well, If YOU Don't Know

Then I sure as heck wouldn't.

Calling All Angels - Train

Tick Tock Kit Kat

Unremarkable

The most remarkable thing about this 404 message on TuneIn.com (radio) is that it's so unremarkable;  no cutesy little joke or illustration, no snarky or clever comment, just this simple graphic:

OK, I Won't

I've been getting some strange emails in my spam folder here lately, but this one is one of the strangest:

Of course, I know it's some type of scam, but most of that type have some type of link in the body of the mailing.  A quick search showed a few other people had got this exact same one and other similar ones but they were like me, wondering what the purpose is of them.

The only thing I can think of is someone being freaked out and replying back to the mail and therefore verifying that theirs is a working email address, but checking the reply to addresses shows these:

sports@omgmaxi.net,
ezines@arcamax.com,
info@aweber.com,
reliablesources@turner.com,
ebay@ebay.co.uk,
security@nexusfox.com

Now, I don't care enough about it to check to see if those domains are all legit or not, but I sure ain't gonna send an email out to any of 'em.  

That doesn't look like a legitimate email address, but as I always do, I will post it so the email address harvester bots can pick on it as well as the others I post.  Spam the spammers! 
 
oman@dvitlms.icmwquvcob.fr

What's amusing is how the sender obfuscated the "F***k You...!!" but didn't do the others. (I cut out most of the other words)

Stop sending you my photos?  OK, I won't.  I don't even send them to people I KNOW, much less to a total stranger.  Besides, I don't know too many women named Jessica, but the ones I DO know would be the ones sending ME photos

At Least I Got a Banana

I watched a video earlier this evening on YouTube about how to roast a goose;  it was a good one w/ no talking and stupid music, just captions but they didn't list an oven temperature.  I've watched similar videos before and since the end result looked perfect, I wanted to know what oven temperature they used; some recipes call for a lower temperature (325 F.)for several hours to render the fat and then raising it up in the last hour or so of cooking to crisp the skin.  Other recipes say to heat the oven to 400 deg.

I saw a link in the description to the Kitchen Stories website, but a search didn't turn up the recipe and instead I got this:

Oh well, at least I got a banana.

Feeling Alright - Grand Funk Railroad

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Just go to VirusTotal and paste in the link of the file you want to download.  Note:  That means the direct link to the file, not the page the file is linked from.   (Right-click the link and select “Copy link address” in Chrome, “Copy Link Location” in Firefox, or “Copy link” in Edge. Check your own browser's Help section for instructions) The file will be scanned and the results will tell you how many, if any, of the antivirus engines had a problem with it 

There are also browser extensions for the service available for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

As always, don't depend totally upon one tool to protect yourself and your computer. Your best bet is to make sure you're getting your programs or files from trusted sources.

Just or Unjust?

You See the World as Somewhat Just

You don't see the world in simple terms. What's just and unjust is complicated.

You believe that justice is sometimes served, both in and outside the courts. But there is plenty of injustice to go around.

You don't expect anyone to treat you fairly or unfairly. You do your best to protect yourself from life's uncertainty.

You consider any justice you receive to be a bonus, but it's certainly not the norm.

Do You See the World as Just or Unjust?

Bummed, Not Buzzed

Not a 404 page, but close enough. Found on the TV Buzer page.

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Nope, no free honey, not even the sweet link I was looking for.

Different Dead Dog Links

Not different dead dogs, but dead links with different dogs.

Here's one of the Amazon 404 pages;  you can get a different dog by refreshing the page, but they're all on this page: Meet the Dogs of Amazon.

Say what you want about Amazon, it has to be a pretty good place to work that lets you bring your dog...unless you don't LIKE dogs, I guess.






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Are You Frank?

Frankenstein, maybe.

You Are Somewhat Frank

You are constantly balancing your deep desire to be truthful with your need to be polite.

Whenever it's easy, you tell the truth. When it's not easy, well, you at least hint at the truth.

You believe that people aren't as into honesty as they claim to be. And not as honest either.

You are an open book with the people you know best, but you you'll tell a white lie to smooth things over.

Are You Frank?

Thanks, Mavis!

From the spam folder:

Mavis Wanczyk Foundation

Re: Donation

Greetings To You,

My Name is Mavis wanczyk , the winner of the Power ball jackpot of $ $758.7 million  in the AUGUST 24, 2017, My jackpot was a gift from God to me hence my Entire family/foundation has AGREED to do this. My foundation is donating $500,000.00USD to you. please contac maviswanczyk123@gmail.com for full details and please accept this token as a gift from me and my family.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/news/powerball-700-million-jackpot/index.html

 Best Regards,
 Mavis Wanczyk


 I looked at the source of the original email and found this IP#:

182.71.169.4

A quick search gave me this information when I looked up the domain:

Hostname: mx2.combinabpmnet.com
Domain: combinabpmnet.com
Organization: Bharti Airtel
Location: Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India

And as I always do, I'm publishing the email addresses for when the spambots will trawl this post and hopefully the spammers/scammers will get loads of scam spam.

But yeah, if I ever win a huge lottery jackpot like this, I'm gonna dole out a half million bucks to random total strangers.

Maybe the spammer/scammers are trying to get enough money together to buy a convenience store?

May the Link Be With You

404 page from GitHub.

Goodbye, Facebook

Got this email yesterday:

Account Scheduled for Deletion
   
Hi Mike,

We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days.

If you did not request to permanently delete your account, please login to Facebook to cancel this request:

https://www.facebook.com/login.php


Thanks,
The Facebook Team

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I had deactivated my Facebook account several times over the course of the last few days but kept getting signed in, mostly by forums which use the Facebook comment module, but I had also signed in (and reactivated it) to let a few of my friends know about my decision, those who didn't have my email address.  I didn't want to make some grand announcement, just like those who proclaim "I'm leaving this group!".

There are multiple reasons, the main one being that of privacy and how Facebook tracks you across the Internet, namely with the aforementioned comment module.  Also, I found that Facebook had closed several groups and pages I followed and the only reason they had done so was because they were pro-conservative or anti-liberal/progressive. Their site, their rules, their reasons, but I don't have to put up with that and refuse to do so.  Privacy is rare on the 'net but I won't surrender any more than I need to.

Another important reason was an annoyance; why would people send you a friendship request and then ignore you?  They wouldn't even like a post of mine much less leave a comment under them.  Now, I don't desperately need the attention, but I would comment or like a post on their pages because I wanted them to know I was reading them and I KNOW they had time to at least click the "Like" button because some of them posted multiple times during the day. 

And, speaking of posting, right before I decided to get off Facebook, one woman I know posted 27 different links in the course of fifteen minutes.  That was a record but it was nothing to see a dozen or more posts in a day from her and thanks to Facebook's strange algorithm, they filled up my feed and I didn't see anything from anyone else.   I use an AdBlock extension plus a nifty Greasemonkey script from FB Purity that let me customize my feed, but Facebook was always changing some script to defeat the way I wanted to view their website. It just got to be a hassle.

Anyway, it was astounding how often some folks would post; an old classmate would post dozens of photos of a grandson's baseball game and while  I understand her excitement, I'm not sure why she expected ME to have the same enthusiasm.  I also didn't want to see endless photos of another woman's puppy - sure, it was cute, but not any cuter after 50 photos of the same damn dog.  I also didn't care about someone posting they were eating at a particular restaurant, esp. if they didn't do a review of the food or post a photo of it.

While Facebook is a good way to keep up with old friends and kinfolk, what's wrong with an email now 'n then? I know nobody is going to write a letter and they'd rather text than actually talk to someone but Facebook is akin to trying to be a sniper using a 12 gauge shotgun...you're going to scatter your shots so far apart you'll be lucky to hit anyone.

So, adios, Facebook.  I didn't waste a LOT of time using it, but I wish I had that time back. Oh well, live and learn.

My Sturdy Heart

Your Imperfect Heart is Sturdy

Your heart is imperfect because it is so self-controlled. You are patient and willing to wait for love.

You are not judgmental or biased. You love people for who they are, and you are very empathetic. You forgive easily.

You are lighthearted and optimistic, perhaps too much so sometimes. You would rather get burned than distrust someone all the time.

Your approach to love is both wise as the ages and modern as can be. You are likely to enjoy an untraditional relationship of some sort.

The Imperfect Heart Test

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I could go on and be very specific to each statement in the result, but will instead say that nearly all  of them are wrong.   I'd say my heart was "hard" now instead of sturdy;  even a rock can shatter when dropped from a lofty height.

What a Leg-acy!

American gymnast George Eyser won six medals during the 1924 Summer Olympics, despite having lost his left leg as a young boy after being run over by a train.   Wearing a wooden prosthesis,  he won gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard.

This is definitely one case of NOT having a leg up on the competition!

Passion Purpura

Passion purpura - the medical term for a hickey.

Ever played that "either/or" game when you were a kid?  "Would you rather be blind or crippled?" or things like that.   I remember this one:

"Which is worse?  Going to kiss your grandma and she slips you the tongue...or a hickey on a hemorrhoid?"