I'm going through my inbox today, clearing out old messages, and I was reminded of this old spam email I got sometime in 2007:

This is an automated response. There is not a tone for your to leave a message. There is no one to return you message. This is it.

This email address has died a nasty, tortured death. There is no point in beating it now that it's dead. Please find some other address to electronically attack, stalk, and/or send graphically offensive email's to.

If you are the owner of this email address, then you should contact the owner of this domain so that we may take you out back, and flog you mercilessly for neglecting your email. Next time, remember to feed and water it.

If you know the owner of this email account and believe you have received this message in error, then you are sadly mistaken. Don't bother this administrator

It seems like the complete opposite of those typical spam emails designed at harvesting emails, you know? Anyone else ever get this one?

So, um...am I the only one who mixes up Warren Buffett and Jimmy Buffett?

*crickets*

Okay, never mind. Move along...

The CBC have been disappointing me lately with their noticable lack of crazy headlines (I think they must have fired the lackey who came up with ER delays tying up Edmonton paramedics). But good things come to those who wait, apparently, because this one is a true work of art. I have been laughing for ten minutes.

For the non-native speakers of English, this time.

1) Have you ever heard (or read) the expression "food porn"?

2) If your answer to question #1 is yes, do you know what it means?

3) If your answer to question #2 is no, what would you guess it might mean?

Okay, you know how people are up in arms about the new airport body scanners, saying that they're an infringement on both privacy and modesty? Well, I don't know about you, but I would actually prefer that strangers look at scans of my naked body than get a full-on pat-down from a stranger. I mean, I've had the latter, and if I compare the invasiveness of someone sticking their hand down my pants or patting their hands against my genitals with the invasiveness of someone seeing me naked for a few seconds--I'm sorry, there's no contest.

So far, though, whenever I've brought this up, I've been alone in this opinion. Anyone with me?

A Guardian article talking about federal government emissions.

Now, by analogy with the expressions "CO2 emissions", "greenhouse gas emissions", or "hydrocarbon emissions", that would mean...toxic substances being released into the air made up of tiny, invisible pieces of the federal government? I guess?

Consider the following hackneyed phrase, often attributed to Winston Churchill, but it's an idea so prevalent that an approximately equivalent saying exists in all three languages of this journal:

English: If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.

Deutsch: Wer mit zwanzig nicht links ist, hat kein Herz. Wer mit vierzig es immer noch ist, hat kein Verstand.

Nederlands: Wie op zijn twintigste niet links is heeft geen hart, wie het op zijn veertigste nog steeds is heeft geen verstand.

Do you think it's true in general? Is it true for people you know? And for those of you who've already made it over the proverbial hill: is it true for you?

And finally, for those of you who notice a distinction between those who this holds true for and those who it doesn't hold true for: what do you think makes for the difference?

Oh, my god, the pierogie thing is no longer a joke! Ha!

You know, I would totally make pierogies for the rally tomorrow if it weren't so much freaking work.

Hands up if you start craving pierogies every time you pick up a newspaper these days.

Are any of you folks using Google Wave? If so, what sort of things do you use it for?