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Spam through Amazon.com

Well, this is a new one (for me anyway). Spam coming through Amazon’s seller contact form. Like lots of other people, I sell some of my unneeded books on Amazon. The profile page has a ‘Contact this seller’ link that sends you to a form where you can send a message to the seller asking questions. Today this obviously spammy message was waiting for me in my mailbox

How are you! I am very interested in this production. Is it new or secondhand ? I used to buy something on ‘_______________’, Because I found that most of the goods on the website are more cheaper than on the amazon. I would like to buy what I need if you can list the goods on it.

I removed the mangled URL (no doubt mangled to escape whatever URL filters Amazon might have in place), since the last thing I want to do is help the dumb spammers along. I wonder how many other Amazon sellers have this problem.

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Wisdom from a cartoon kid

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

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Getting a little too friendly with Nala

There’s this big white male poodle that shows up at the dog park every now and then. The dumb poodle must have a thing for labs, because every time he sees Nala, he’s always running after her trying to mount and hump my poor little puppy. One of the other lab owners said his dog was victimized the other day too. There are plenty of other dogs around, but the poodle only goes after the labs. It doesn’t seem like a dominance kind of thing, because as far as the poodle seems to be concerned, the only dogs around are himself and Nala, and he doesn’t seem to go after any of the other dogs. It’s a full time job just keeping the dog off Nala. Turn around and there he is again trying to climb on top of her.
Stupid horny dog.

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Foggy morning

Time: 0700

Temp: 15°C

Distance: ~2.2 km

Time: 30 min

Out for a brisk walk with the dog on a very foggy morning. Otherwise it was a nice morning and a nice comfy temperature. More like what I’m used to for a summer morning. It’s always interesting to be out in the fog.

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(Almost) Everything Trek

Just in time for the Christmas shopping season: The Ultimate Star Trek Collection. Even though it hasn’t been released yet, there are already 7 reviews of it at Amazon, most of them complaining about how it can’t be the Ultimate collection because the animated series isn’t included.
At Amazon’s discounted price $2500, it’s a little bit of a spendy gift for someone, but definitely something I wouldn’t mind having in my collection. 212 DVDs all in one collection…I’ll need to get a comfy chair for this one.