“Weird Al” Yankovic’s song “Skipper Dan” has been stuck in my head on-and-off all weekend. Living near Disneyland makes it that much more funny. And did I mention there’s a video?
Tag: Tweets
Ada Pong
Just realized the “busy” animation in the ada (desktop Twitter client) titlebar is actually a miniature game of Pong.
Watch This Spam
Spam subject: “With our watches precious minutes will go slower.”
So it’s a selling point that they don’t keep time correctly?
Magenta Sunset
Watched the sun set, its disc tinged almost magenta by the smoke plume from the Morris fire near Azusa stretching along the horizon.
Hero, Headlines & Spam
- Just learned “Holding Out for a Hero” is cowritten by Jim Steinman. Explains why it keeps turning into “Good Girls Go to Heaven” in my head
- Writing for Twitter
- Spam vs SPAM. I suspect it’s way too late to close the barn door on this one. Kinda like “hacker.”
Competing Clanks
Standing in the movie theater lobby, listening to competing CLANKing from Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation.
Launching LOL Spam
- Does anyone actually start off email to friends with “Dear Friend”?
- All right! I always wanted one of those! “Delivery Status Notification 81% 0FF.” (spam subject) Who can resist at that discount?
- “Get rid of pests for good!” – if only it would work on the spammers themselves.
- That’s it! Time to find another surgeon! “The way to her heart is through her wrist.” (spam subject)
- Usually it’s the divorced parents using the kids against each other, not the other way around: “Use Mother Nature to beat Father Time”
After posting these today, I’ve decided to set up a Twitter account dedicated to posting funny spam subjects & commentary. I plan to keep the traffic low – 1 or 2 posts a day. Please check out @lol_spam!