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You gotta love (?) sports forums:

I'm going out on a limb to say your not one of the most intelligent of people that I have ever seen and I have never heard you talk. You just seem to prove it by just typing. And that takes real work there stud.

Anyway... How 'bout them Lady Vols, huh? My boss went to Stanford, and she and a couple of others from work came over to watch the game. Good times. Of course, I had to treat them to Rocky Top at the end of the game to seal the deal.

Hey, I hear there's a football draft coming up in a few weeks, finally marking the halfway point of the off-season.

This is the first March Madness I've really given two shits about. Yes, I think I'm actually starting to become a college basketball fan (though the NBA still has absolutely zero appeal for me). As such, I find CBS/NCAA March Madness on Demand pretty friggin' cool, as I'm sure many desk slaves will agree. We need more free-to-the-viewer sports online. Apparently NBC will broadcast much of this year's summer olympics online via Microsoft's Silverlight system.

R. Neal at KnoxViews has named this humble site the Weirdest Local Blog You Should Be Reading But Probably Aren't. Apparently we're hit or miss, but I guess you can't have Japanese bikini rodeo pie fights all the time.

On behalf of all the local and ex-local nerds and assorted weirdos who make fortsanders.net what it is: Uh, thank you?

Web Drifter is a web-based show that profiles different internet weirdos. The latest episode profiles a real wizard named Oberon Zell.

It seems that everywhere I look on the tubes today, I see a link to this NY Times article about a "boot camp" for internet-addicted kids in South Korea. Is it somehow meta to continue this internet meme on internet addiction? Or ironic? Meta-ironic?

It being football season and all, I tend to read a lot sports websites. Occasionally I'll venture into the comments section or forums of these sites. That's usually a mistake. In addition to the omnipresent trolls and the poor schmucks who think they can actually win an internet argument with those fuckers (don't feed the trolls, you morons!), I'm driven mad by the constant homonym/heterograph errors. I'd probably pull my hair out if I could grab a handful of it.

Anyway, I wondered if there was a way I could fit in if I ever wanted to participate in these discussions. Well, there is!

For those of you who frequent Amazon.com for everything from books to food... Are you aware of Amazon's 30-day price drop refund policy? Buy something today, and if the price drops in the next month, you can get a refund for the difference. But the catch is that you have to request the refund. Who knew? I sure didn't.

To make the job of discovering such refund opportunities, there's the PriceDrop Firefox plugin. You can also use it to track those looking-for-a-bargain items.

No one is who they seem on the internet.. doubly duplicitous IM love triangle turned deadly.

(If you get tired of the Wired article, check out the Clif's notes version.)

Google Maps just added a couple of new features to their interface, the most impressive being the ability to dynamically alter a route to include waypoints via drag-n-drop. Way cool.

But in reading about this, I came across a link to a third-party Google Maps application called Map My Ride, which lets you plot and save bike rides (or, really any route.. it's just tailored toward bike rides). This is typically done manually, but if you got one of them fancy GPS things, you can import recorded route data. In addition to the obvious distance calculation, the application can display a pretty dang accurate (by my estimation) view of elevation changes along the way, plus it has a calculator for calories consumed. To top all this off, you can also search for routes in a given area that other users have saved and marked "public". Super sweet.

No word yet whether it works on iPhone, though.

Julie Amero, the substitute teacher convicted earlier this year in the infamous classroom porn popup case, has been granted a new trial after numerous sentencing hearing delays. It is said that, since the prosecution did not object to the retrial motion, she likely will not face further prosecution.

What a huge fuckup this has been by Connecticut state attorneys and her school district, but now Amero's situation finally seems to be heading in a less tragic direction.

I first saw this awhile back and it has now inserted itself into my subconcious. I've come to accept that it will always be quietly mixed in with the background noise of my mind.

Disclaimer: Don't blame me. Insanity will follow.

"I say sexy things to myself when I'm daaancing."

I am getting sick and motherfucking tired of spammers spoofing their From: fields to contain my school/work email address. Consequently, I get bombarded with mailer daemons' and spam filters' UNDELIVERABLE messages, many of which make it pass SpamAssassin even with my fairly stringent filtering threshold. Today one moron actually sent me, along with dozens of others whom he thought were spammers, the following message:

I don't buy ANYTHING off of the Internet. Please remove me from your mailing list.

This guy's sig contains his name, company name, phone number, and website address, wherein he tries to sell his graphic design services over the internet! I was this --> <-- close to sending him a kindly informative email that subtley implied he was an idiot, but I thought better of it. He would know who I was... I guess a better solution would be to create an anonymous hotmail account for the kindly condescending email, somehow incorporating goatse. (BTW, I'm also this --> <-- close to replacing with tubgirl a now defunct image hosted on this domain that some myspace kiddie linked to some time ago. I'm tired of seeing that "page not found" message in the admin logs.)

Thing is, I used to never get a single bit of spam at that email address until a professor of mine several years ago decided in his infinite wisdom to put a class roster, complete with students' email addresses, on his website. Goddamn it. I should go deface his wikipedia page in retribution.

Spammers, take note. As a pacifist and a coward, I don't think I could actually kill you if we ever met face to face, but I believe I could give you a lifelong limp without too much of a burden on my conscience. In this day and age, I also think a jury of my peers would have to acquit.