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I've been getting more spam on my LJ lately – not to the extent that I have to enact anti-spam measures, but it's been a little annoying. Mostly they've been your typical one liners with an embedded link, but today I got one for an LED flashlight which sounded like it had been put back and forth through an online translator a dozen times.
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I have been rather impressed at the lack of pointed, vindictive smugness on the part of everyone who was not convinced the world was going to start ending yesterday. Well done, human race! You have exceeded expectations.
I am trying not to be vindictively smug myself, but something caught my attention today which amused me greatly. The apocalyptic prediction was made by a Mr Harold Camping, whose evangelical headquarters are in Oakland, California. One of the main points of his scenario was a massive earthquake that would ripple around the world at 6pm local time. Well, last night, not far from Oakland, at a few minutes after what would have been 6:00 had we not been on daylight savings time, there was an earthquake, just large enough to be felt, but not cause any damage or be noticed very far away. I can't help thinking it was a courtesy earthquake just for him, and God is like the mischievous dad in the Volkswagen ad.
The LED flashlight allows me to determine from three modes. Squiffed is for the purpose when I need wealth of light, like during a blackout, for the treatment of instance. Switching it to low enables me to lay batteries or when I don't need too much light, like when I lack to see the gas meter, on instance. Strobe is into when I constraint some rescuer's heed or to disorient an busybody or barbaric animal.I wish I had the time or the talent to do this myself, but if someone wanted to make a pastiche of an old-timey newspaper ad with that copy, I think the world would be a better place for it.
Righteous pattern month I was stuck in a jammed elevator and rogue was I tickled to have my trusty LED flashlight with me so I didn't bleed for so scared. As you can envisage from the pictures, the LED flashlight produces a moderately strong slight, to sunrise up the area when you most miss it.
I have been rather impressed at the lack of pointed, vindictive smugness on the part of everyone who was not convinced the world was going to start ending yesterday. Well done, human race! You have exceeded expectations.
I am trying not to be vindictively smug myself, but something caught my attention today which amused me greatly. The apocalyptic prediction was made by a Mr Harold Camping, whose evangelical headquarters are in Oakland, California. One of the main points of his scenario was a massive earthquake that would ripple around the world at 6pm local time. Well, last night, not far from Oakland, at a few minutes after what would have been 6:00 had we not been on daylight savings time, there was an earthquake, just large enough to be felt, but not cause any damage or be noticed very far away. I can't help thinking it was a courtesy earthquake just for him, and God is like the mischievous dad in the Volkswagen ad.
