oh, wonderful spam

I’ve been looking closely at the spam that Google manages not to block lately. On one hand, I’m disappointed Google missed one out of nine thousand this month, but I’m also a little glad, as this kind of thing shines a bit of happiness onto my internal image of spammers. I mean, this is nearly poetry! I can picture literary snobs in a thousand years or so trying to analyze this kind of thing. This will be normal, and all emails that don’t contain gibberish will be put into a folder by themselves by future-Google.

Wait, who am I kidding. Google probably will append a few smaller companies they acquire onto their name for good measure. Like, Googlesofthoo - Mart.

Anyhow, here’s the message:

From: “Michelle Swain” <KathleenurbanHolley@cantonrep.com>
To: <webmaster@razorfrog.com>
Subject: shattuck darwinian cockatoo cockatoo darwinian
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:31:56 +0800

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Happy Belated Birthday, Alfred

While I might be a tad late on this, it appears the crazy success of The Dark Knight brought some Michael Caine attention to the media. And thus, I realized I missed his 75th birthday. Shame. In honor of one of my favorite actors though, a picture. Just stare at this for a while, and take in the awesomeness. (taken from here)

Photos!

I’ve put up the first round of photos from Europe in my new web-gallery:
photo.maxelman.com

Have a look!

away message

Apparently I forgot to let this blog know that I’m cheating on it.. I’ve made a new travel-blog or sorts for my trip to Europe - check it out at europe.maxelman.com! I’ve been updating it daily (hourly, even), and I think it’s pretty exciting. You have to love technology - the iPhone in particular made this all happen.

Graduation!

A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Had my Mom take this picture up by the squiggle:

And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:

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