{"id":84,"date":"2001-11-08T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2001-11-08T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-08T21:30:00","slug":"84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh the places you’ll go…<\/em> Once again, where I’ve been today:<\/p>\n

The Spam-L FAQ: Blocking Spam<\/a>
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Believe it or not, I’m tired<\/em> of receiving offers for home refinancing and hair loss programs (see below<\/a>). I continue to filter them into my trash, but they keep coming back. Bear in mind, if you’re<\/em> the one sending this stuff to me, I am not amused.<\/p>\n

Ftrain.com<\/a>
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I’m on the update list. He added a photograph. So I went and looked. It’s very red.<\/p>\n

Phobias at UselessKnowledge.com<\/a>
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I followed a link from Mighty Girl<\/a>. Did you know: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of long words. Kind of ironic that, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

annotated: bec links<\/a>
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A weblog. There’s a link to me. What can I say? I check my logs.<\/p>\n

How Dare They?<\/a>
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Sometimes, I like to imagine we live in a democracy where everyone’s voice counts and government is not in the hands of the inept and the money-hungry. And then I follow links<\/a> from Alternet.org and the dream starts to fade.<\/p>\n

Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>: Scene 3, “Constitutional Peasant”<\/a>
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I was translating it into Russian and then back again. It’s probably best you don’t concern yourself why. The results, although amusing, were not what I would call drop down dead hillarious. “I’m thirty-seven, I’m not old!” became “I thirty-seeds, I not age!”<\/p>\n

The Most Awful Poetry in the Galaxy<\/a>
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Douglas Adams died too young. Yesterday’s e-mail discussion about “Jabberwocky” led, somehow, to a defense of Vogon poetry. It’s really not that bad once you get used to it. Here, let me recite some for you. Oh frettled gruntbuggly…<\/em><\/p>\n

Rhymezone Semantic Rhyming Dictionary<\/a>
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Every year, my fellow cappers<\/a> and I like to change our handles in recognition of the holidays. For instance, at Halloween, I went from UnReality to UnDeadality, and in the spring I may change again briefly to EasterBunReality. It’s silly, but it’s become something of a tradition. And it is next to impossible to find a Thanksgiving related word or phrase to rhyme with UnReality. Which, yeah, is what I was doing.<\/p>\n

Liquid Pong<\/a>
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Even if I almost never<\/em> win, I’m hooked. Just what I need–even more<\/em> games to distract me from the work I don’t want to do. The Ping Pong is kind of neat, too.<\/p>\n

Travels With the Snow Queen<\/a>
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An amazing excerpt from a short story by Kelly Link, found via Boing Boing<\/a> because I didn’t follow the link when I saw it this morning at Salon. I now have to go buy her story collection, Stranger Things Happen<\/em>, the first chance I get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh the places you’ll go… Once again, where I’ve been today: The Spam-L FAQ: Blocking Spam Believe it or not, I’m tired of receiving offers for home refinancing and hair loss programs (see below). I continue to filter them into my trash, but they keep coming back. Bear in mind, if you’re the one sending … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}