I think that one big reason people buy from repeat advertising is that they (consciously or unconsciously) hope that by buying the product, they’ll stop being inundated with ads.
After seeing an ad for the Paypal credit card EVERY FRIGGING TIME I logged in to Paypal, I relented for the above reason. Of course, now I get ads for some other Paypal service instead.
So if I bought from all of those enis-pay enlarging spammers, do you think they’d go away?
Today we have a poem in two parts. These emails were sent to me a few hours apart by the nice folks at VP-RX. Please pause between the two parts for maximum effect.
I
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Your partner will be astounded
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II
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Your penís will grow up to 3 ínches
Your erectíons will be rock hard
Your sex drive will be supercharged
Your orgasms will be more intense
Your partner will be astounded
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My interview at Informedia Group went very well. They’ll get back to me at the beginning of next week.
Ad Hominem
Description of Ad Hominem [from this site]
Translated from Latin to English, “Ad Hominem” means “against the man” or “against the person.”An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of “argument” has the following form:
1 Person A makes claim X.
2 Person B makes an attack on person A.
3 Therefore A’s claim is false.The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).
Example of Ad HominemBill: “I believe that abortion is morally wrong.”
Dave: “Of course you would say that, you’re a priest.”
Bill: “What about the arguments I gave to support my position?”
Dave: “Those don’t count. Like I said, you’re a priest, so you have to say that abortion is wrong. Further, you are just a lackey to the Pope, so I can’t believe what you say.”
I applied for a job at my sister’s company. They make templated websites for real estate agents. I’d likely be some sort of tech support / client engineer guy. It felt nice when my sister told me they said I was probably overqualified. I’ll have an interview soon.
I saw this story on power-assist@yahoogroups
I commute daily (only a few miles)from my home to my job with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in Olympia Washington. I got into an Ebike (2000 Currie USPD) mainly because I sweat even thinking about exercise and didn’t want to get to work sweaty. At the headquarters building where I work on the State Capitol Campus, there are many dedicated bike commuters, some of whom are lycra types, and many of whom are certainly “purists.”
We have these nice bike cages at work inside which you can securely store your bike. These cages hold about 15-20 bikes and are located in different areas across the campus. You access them through an electronic keypad. One day, while locking-up the bike and going through my shutdown routine in the bike cage, a couple of dedicated purists came in to lock-up their bikes. While doing so, they started glancing at my bike, snickering, and generally making fun of my nerdy bike (and its owner). Although a little embarrassed, I took it in stride.
A few days later, while pulling the not-so-steep but long hill home, I spotted one of the offenders up ahead in my sights. I can’t tell you the pleasure I experienced when I passed him while I was sitting and he standing. I came-up on him and said (without panting, of course) “passing on the left” while simultaneously ringing my little dainty and nerdy bell. He looked back over his shoulder but I was already pretty much past him which made him do a double-take of sorts. He looked shocked.
The next morning, while locking-up my bike in the bike cage, the guy I passed came in with his bike. I didn’t say a thing about the afternoon before. After he locked-up his bike and was heading-out of the cage, he came over and said very seriously and respectfully, “so…what kind of bike is that anyway?”
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Cheers
Eric
These cards were made by an old classmate of mine. They depict the people that some think are the real perpetrators of war and destruction of late, George W. and company. I think they’re pretty darn funny.
You’ve seen them before. Many times. That now infamous deck of playing cards detailing the images and job descriptions of the “most wanted” in the Iraqi leadership, according to the U.S. military.
Now you can have your own personal deck describing the truly scary people: the members and facilitators of the George W. Bush Administration!
Every year around this time I become sad and wistful that I am, again, not going to Burning Man. I should go. I must go before I die. It is one of the shapes of perfection. I was going to put a Burning Man picture here, but there is no way that a single photo can do it justice. The BurningMan.com site does it up with over 4,000 photos.
Neurotheology*************!
I saw this thing on Tech TV… an episode of Secret, Strange & True.
God, Ghosts, and Magnets
Is religious experience merely an electronic impulse? “God, Ghosts, and Magnets” asks this question. Some of the world’s top neuroscientists have found a link between a specific part of the brain and moments of religious experience. If their theory about the brain is correct, faith and religious experience may simply be an electromagnetic field in the brain.
This new science, neurotheology, began when scientists explored a condition called “temporal lobe epilepsy.” Epileptics often report profound religious experiences. Scientists began to wonder: Could there be a connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and divine revelation?
Neuroscientists began to examine the life stories of celebrated mystics, including Joan of Arc, St. Paul, and the founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Movement, Ellen White. They also monitored the brains of nuns as they sensed unity with God and the brains of Buddhist monks as they achieve oneness with the universe. All exhibited very similar patterns of brain activity.
Explore this controversial theory on TechTV’s presentation of “God, Ghosts, and Magnets.”
I thought I got a lot of spam. I’m around 40 a day… A discussion on the ARL list about spam brought out one person that gets about 400 spams a day! Another found that their Earthlink Spaminator filters 1,800 messages a day! I’m not worthy!
Remember that ad I put in the Panther? (Journal 7-11-03) Well, it’s working! The ad came out about 2 weeks ago and I’ve had a bunch of people call me, saying, “Help, Help! My computer/TV/cable modem/… is broken. Come fix it and I’ll give you money!”
I have a pile of 20’s and 50’s sitting on my desk from the jobs I’ve been on. Real money from my real startup business! This has the makings for a real business! Wow!
Today’s spam poetry make very interesting use of rhythm, playing with the form and pushing the reader’s attention in exciting and edgy directions. I find that the author’s use of nonstandard capitalization, spelling and punctuation allows drips and drops of the ‘true’ meaning of the piece through like a used canvas bag allows light through when held up to the sun.
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TJIC’s Project SHERPA project sounds excellent. I really think he’s got something there.
This month’s top photo is of my niece Julia and I at the NJ Festival of Ballooning on July 25th. It was really something to see!
My Statistics textbook, “Understandable Statistics, 7th Edition” by Brase and Brase is an AWFUL TERRIBLE WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP. There are so many things wrong with this book I’m going to turn this journal entry into a rant shortly. Suffice to say for now that this book should never be used in a statistics classroom. Never. I’m not joking in the slightest here.
This has disturbed me to no end. So I share it with you!
Here is, without doubt, the coolest PC-related illusion, i’ve come across.
To enjoy it, just follow the instructions:
- Relax and lazily stare at the 4 tiny dots in the picture below, for at least 30-45 seconds.
- Slowly, shift your gaze from the screen to a wall near you.
- You will see a circle of light formed on the wall.
- Start blinking and continue till u see a figure within the circle.
- What do u see? Rather whom do u see?
I tried this a couple of times, to reconfirm.. man o man… freaky!
Freaked out?
Yea. Me too.
A whole lot of sci-fi (and some other) memorabilia is being auctioned off on eBay. Most of the items are expensively out of my reach… But if I won the lottery today, here’s what I’d buy: Link to My Auction Wish List
I also took this opportunity to build-up my Colonel Deering shrine a bit. Link to my Colonel Deering Shrine
A very nice Tivo Mod: SORT
You can sort the entries in the Now Playing List
In Now Playing, Enter: (S)low (0)Zero (R)ecord (T)humbsUp
Press enter to switch sorting options.
Short cut keys are
1 for normal
2 for expiration date
3 for alphabetical
