February, 2009

Internet / scams / Wall of Shame — 38 Comments
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Feb 09

Gone Phishing, Pt 2

Here is the second letter Avril sent me. Like the other one, it’s incredibly verbose with over the top descriptions to show what a great company they are. Also, they have the most bogus name ever, which is apparent from the first line. If S&E is shady, then MS is one giant shadow. I googled them and no MS inc shows up. That’s the commonly accepted abbreviation for Microsoft. They must think their recipient are stupid if they buy that. Here is the letter and more skewering will come later.

From: nellireid34@live.com
Sent: 09 February 2009 19:58:26
To: avril (e-mail withheld)

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for reviewing this letter. We are happy to let you know that MS inc company online recruiting management has chosen your resume at one of the job seeking webpages. You could be a perfect candidacy for the financial department employee position in our company.

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art / fiction / NSFW / Resplendence — No Comments
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Feb 09

Resplendence: Gold Dust Woman (Feuille 36)

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Internet / scams / Wall of Shame — 2 Comments
11
Feb 09

Gone Phishing, Pt 1

It’s been a while since I’ve posted something to the Wall of Shame. Personally, there hasn’t been much to get my attention lately. I know far too well not to respond to e-mails from Nigerian heiresses who desperately need to place their money in a US bank account or submit any more poems to Poetry.Com and accept an offer for them to print my book. Speaking of banks, perhaps some in Africa and Europe with their e-mail scams have helped contribute to the collapse of the US financial system. It would be a brilliant form of terrorism, attack Americans where it hurts without even entering a single airport. But, that’s just a bad joke. What happens to people who fall for these scams, however, isn’t funny.

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10
Feb 09

Submit to ShindoTV


I’m not asking for your soul. I just want your story. Here are the submission guidelines.

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Feb 09

Resplendence: From The Lipstick That’s Used (Feuille 35)

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art / creative writing / writing — No Comments
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Feb 09

Contest: Picture Worth 1000 Words?

n1045106520_30348048_7183My friend Avril (via Lance) has some interesting images in her collection, such as this man with a big, um, gigantic… you know.

There is the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s a first on ShindoTV, a writing contest. I can’t give away any cash prizes, gasoline for a year, or even a car. However, you can have a broadcast on ShindoTV. Essentially, I’m putting up a contest for the best vignette (actually less than 1000 words) based on this picture. I will publish the best submission.

Here are the rules:

  1. Written piece must be based on the picture above.
  2. Entries must be brief written pieces:  prose (100-300 words) or poem (20 lines max).
  3. Check your work before you send it. I cannot make corrections.
  4. Submissions must be sent by e-mail. Send all entries to shinichi@shindotv.com and put “Vignette for ShindoTV” in the subject line.
  5. Include your name, location (city, state, country), and website URL (if available) in the e-mail. Put “Copyright” or © next to your name at the bottom of the work.
  6. Vignettes must be submitted by February 20th, 12:00am PST.

The winning entry will be posted on March 3, 2009. Be creative.

Missed this contest or would like to try again? The next photo and vignette contest will be posted on Feb 23, 2009.

science fiction / television — 11 Comments
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Feb 09

Battlestar Galactica: Blood on the Scales

So Say We All! Warning: Spoilers Ahead. This video, courtesy of Sci Fi Channel and Hulu, is temporarily available for you to catch up.

The Gaeta-Zarek revolution doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Gaeta’s rounded up the malcontents, brig rats,  and those who were from the Pegasus versus those who really mutinied on principle. Plus, there were little opportunities for advancement here and there (when was the last time Gaeta was up for a promotion? He’s gone from Batlar’s right hand man in the government to Adama’s switchboard operator, which is one hell of a demotion. But the Peter Principle is in full effect when Gaeta and his minions promote themselves to ship’s management). Adama seems to be counting on this in hatching up a plan to take back the ship, but is he right?
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blogging / Internet — 2 Comments
8
Feb 09

My LiveJournal, RIP

I wish I could say that I was blogging continuously on my LiveJournal page since 2001. Far from the truth. I’ve only had a small handful of posts from the time I used LJ and I retconned them to ShindoTV. Perhaps the next thing I should do is delete the MySpace account. Take those digital horses out to pasture and shoot them.

PS 1:50am
I put the MySpace pages to rest. I had two accounts that were collecting virtual dust. Good riddance.

Internet / NSFW / sex — 2 Comments
7
Feb 09

Masters Degree…


Warning: Do not watch the video if you’re offended by talk about body parts, etc.

Gotta love public access TV and the people who broadcast on them. YouTube’s more or less supplanted that, but somewhere, there’s someone out there who’s captured some of the most whacked out moments on tape and then share it with the rest of us. Tamika shared this vid on Facebook, but it’s been around for a while.

Alexyss K. Tylor pontificates on the penis, which seems to start out ok, but quickly becomes an incoherent rant where she more or less repeats the same thing (she seems to have an obsession about rectums). Mainstream relationship experts like to trot out their credentials if available, but she has no degree. However, Tylor has “masters degree in being played by men, used by men, told everything I want to hear…”

Needless to say, not safe for work at all. This clip is a trainwreck for sure, one where you can’t stop laughing either. Funny thing is that Tylor’s guest/cohost/? (who doesn’t get in a word edge-wise) says she’s got to “stay prayed up… keep standing in the Lord.”

blogging / teaching / writing — No Comments
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Feb 09

The Paragraph Beehive

beehiveI’ve been in a paragraph beehive of my own during the past two weeks. I’ve waited it out with crashers who wanted to get into my classes, said no to the ones who thought they could just waltz right into my classes without attending the first day, and expelled the no shows. Also, I’ve been back to the grind of preparing lessons on the paragraph and other writing skills-related topics (along with turning in this form or that), which brings me to the bees.

In reinforcing some of the basic ideas taught last week on the paragraph, I decided to use the quirky analogy of a beehive. It may not be scientifically accurate, but I figured comparing the topic sentence to the queen bee, the supporting ideas to the drones, and the details to the worker bees would be a way these concepts would stick in my students’s minds. Or, somehow the 15 year old Shindo who wrote short stories about the facts about plants while his biology teacher lectured about them was channeled.

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