Another Episode of Adventures in Spam!
Aug. 19th, 2005 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinGmail has a great spam filter. I love it. Now, in Gmail, you get a little snippet of message text after the subject line, and the ones I see in the spam folder are always vastly different than any spam I've ever gotten before. I thought maybe it was a statistical quirk, but when I saw the message text "NASA I'm against it Men Just a moment! ??? ???? Greeting Cards" I had to see what on earth that was about – turns out it's someone trying to sell me discount software, and those words never appeared anywhere. Is this random gobbledygook that Gmail puts in so you don't even have to read the spam text? Or a secret message?
Hmmmm....
All right, you can go back to your otherwise interesting lives.
1:06 pm
Vampire in the Watch! Vampire in the Watch!!
THUD! BLURB
I think waiting three days longer than our friends to the south is an adequate price to pay for a Paul Kidby cover. 45 DAYS!! I am so glad it is a Vimes book.
5:28 pm
Drew this while listening to 'Stars' (on a tablet! A smaller brush size is less ugly!) ...![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tulanoodle and I had a conversation last night about actors, interpretation of roles, and three-dimensionality. This was especially in reference to the Javert in the cast I saw (who made the character actually sympathetic), and one who came to her Musical Theatre class last year, who talked about bringing depth to a character and how it's important not to play Javert all on one note.* So I'm paying him a bit more attention as I listen to the soundtrack today...
Anyway, I wanted to make his nose a bit straighter but the tablet wasn't cooperating. Next time.
*We never did conclusively decide if this was the same person... if he visited her school in the winter, he probably was, because he was part of the touring company, and the cast I saw was going to be in SLC in late December or early January or thereabouts – some time period in which I half-considered going again while I was there for Christmas. I wish I could find my programme...
Hmmmm....
All right, you can go back to your otherwise interesting lives.
1:06 pm
Vampire in the Watch! Vampire in the Watch!!
THUD! BLURB
I think waiting three days longer than our friends to the south is an adequate price to pay for a Paul Kidby cover. 45 DAYS!! I am so glad it is a Vimes book.
5:28 pm
Drew this while listening to 'Stars' (on a tablet! A smaller brush size is less ugly!) ...
tulanoodle and I had a conversation last night about actors, interpretation of roles, and three-dimensionality. This was especially in reference to the Javert in the cast I saw (who made the character actually sympathetic), and one who came to her Musical Theatre class last year, who talked about bringing depth to a character and how it's important not to play Javert all on one note.* So I'm paying him a bit more attention as I listen to the soundtrack today... Anyway, I wanted to make his nose a bit straighter but the tablet wasn't cooperating. Next time.
*We never did conclusively decide if this was the same person... if he visited her school in the winter, he probably was, because he was part of the touring company, and the cast I saw was going to be in SLC in late December or early January or thereabouts – some time period in which I half-considered going again while I was there for Christmas. I wish I could find my programme...
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Date: 2005-08-19 06:25 pm (UTC)I should get a gmail account...hmm...
you know, i emailed you....;)
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Date: 2005-08-19 07:10 pm (UTC)I think you should tell the BBC about your Gmail conspiracy theories; I bet they'd be very insightful and use big words ^_^ It would be very amusing.
Travesty!
Date: 2005-08-19 08:08 pm (UTC)I... have been passed up... for the ARE of Thud!...
I'm going to find a dark corner to cry in, now...
*sobbing inconsolably*
Re: Travesty!
Date: 2005-08-19 08:11 pm (UTC)(You had possible access to an ARC of THUD?! You know someone at HarperCollins, headquarters of coolness??)
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Date: 2005-08-19 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-19 09:04 pm (UTC)Well, maybe that drive makes it worth waiting thirty-six hours, doesn't it?
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Date: 2005-08-19 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-19 10:39 pm (UTC)I bet it IS a secret message. There wasn't mention of any ringing or bells, was there? :) By the way, how DO you get a Gmail account?
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Date: 2005-08-19 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 01:13 am (UTC)Actually, Javert must be a really fun character to play from a viewpoint focused purely on the acting, but it must be awful to be hated by the audience (although there are people like me who love him). When a friend of mine went to see Les Mis in London, the Javert there got booed during curtain calls, simply because he was the "bad guy", which seems to me to be in extremely poor taste. I guess that's the downside of the role...
Re: Travesty!
Date: 2005-08-20 02:15 am (UTC)The Terry Pratchett Author-Tracker at Harper Collins sent me notice of THUD!, and at the bottom, provided me this URL (http://www.harpercollins.com/firstlook/) to their FirstLook program. Sign-up if you like, but they only give out about 25 ARE's (ARC's?) per book.
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Date: 2005-08-20 02:58 am (UTC)"It started out as a perfect day -- the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch shaved himself without a single nick. And then he went to work.
THUD!
Suddenly, Vimes is in the thick of looming disaster -- he's got an unsolved murder to crack, an impending war born of age-old animosity to avert, a new recruit he'd really rather not hire, not to mention a pesky government inspector asking all the wrong questions."
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Date: 2005-08-20 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 11:20 am (UTC)Javert looks awesome! But please try another Eponine, I adore her! ;)
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Date: 2005-08-20 03:33 pm (UTC)100,000 Leagues under the Spam?
....I'll stop now, it's getting silly ^_^
Covers are . . .
Date: 2005-08-20 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-20 09:04 pm (UTC)I would say something about how spam senders are getting more clever, but they pretty obviously aren't. I'm already apparently best friends with Vanessa, who for some reason keeps on recommending Viagra to me. I think she's a bit confused about my sex and age.
Oooh, I love your tablet doodles! I never really liked Javert all that much, but he is a pretty neat guy.
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Date: 2005-08-20 10:32 pm (UTC)44 days! (41 for you!)
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Date: 2005-08-20 10:50 pm (UTC)Indiana Jones and the Temple of Spam?
Spam Wars?
Only Spam Can Save Mankind?
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Date: 2005-08-20 10:52 pm (UTC)ARC stands for Advance Reader's Copy. It's an early edition of the book that is distributed to booksellers and reviewers to stimulate interest in a title in the hope they will promote it. Is this the same thing as an ARE? (E for 'Edition' perhaps?)
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Date: 2005-08-21 04:50 am (UTC)on drawing javert
Date: 2005-08-21 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-21 05:13 pm (UTC)Citizen Spam
The Spamming
Three Men and a Spam
Clockwork Spam............ok, now I'm spamming your comments page, so I'll stop :D
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Date: 2005-08-21 08:06 pm (UTC)Wooo, count-down! It'll probably be more days for me, because I have it on reserve from the library, but still, SO EXCITED.
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:28 pm (UTC)Teach me! Teach me to chill people's BLOOD!