Schoolboy giddiness...
I am a lucky, lucky guy. Prior to hitting the sack last night, got online briefly to do a last check of e-mail and other housekeeping tasks, when who should IM me, but my new friend Jen, the (much) cuter half of the H&J team spoken of in earlier posts. What by all accounts should have been a 3-5 minute conversation turned into over two hours, and I find myself then and now, giddy like, well, for wont of a more apropos term, the aforementioned schoolboy. Then this morning (well early, early afternoon), awoke to a couple of very sweet e-mails from D again with the giddiness...I can't keep up! Now all I need is to see Lin again, and I will be officially overcome by the attentions of all these amazingly incredible creatures...no wonder we men are so weak in the face of their wiles. Now all I need is to happen across an obscenely large steamer trunk (make that a shipping container) full of hundreds, and life will be golden.
Finally found a sweet replacement for Suprnova, which shut down sometime last week or so? Reading Wired (which is the finest magazine on the face of the planet, bar none...I devour it from cover to cover in one sitting, it should really be a weekly magazine) yesterday turned me on to The Pirate Bay (inane name, I know), which shows much much more promise (and staying power) than Suprnova ever did. These guys have received cease-and-desist letters from attorneys for Dreamworks, Electronic Arts and Microsoft, and their ballsy responses are just insane, saying things like:
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
and:
Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.
Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(.
The inevitable downside, is of course, that I don't speak/read Swedish, and have a difficult time navigating the site...not so much that I haven't been able to download my secret fix of reality shows, (another good site for TV downloads is #TVTorrents) Reno 911, and Huff!. I accidentally got hooked on The Amazing Race and My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss while I was stuck watching TV in Indy...
Also need to re-establish my Wired subscription and get my garbage mens, car, and gun magazine subscriptions transferred to this address. The only reason I get crap like Maxim, Stuff, and FHM is for entertainment value...ok, and the eye candy contained therein. The gun magazines are largely useless, as not much happens in that field worth writing about month after month. Plus, magazine subscriptions are dirt cheap when you get them from the online clearinghouses. I mean $3.59/year for FHM, Maxim, or Stuff? I think I spend more than that on toilet paper! Seriously though, they're one of the few places you can find the tougher-to-get-through-clearinghouses titles like Wired, National Geographic, and AutoWeek, etc., and they're literally the cheapest game in town. They should put me on the payroll for extolling their virtues and bringing in the business...cheap bastards...
That's all for now, gotta test these formatting tags and embedded hyperlinks...man my HTML's rusty...
Finally found a sweet replacement for Suprnova, which shut down sometime last week or so? Reading Wired (which is the finest magazine on the face of the planet, bar none...I devour it from cover to cover in one sitting, it should really be a weekly magazine) yesterday turned me on to The Pirate Bay (inane name, I know), which shows much much more promise (and staying power) than Suprnova ever did. These guys have received cease-and-desist letters from attorneys for Dreamworks, Electronic Arts and Microsoft, and their ballsy responses are just insane, saying things like:
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats.
It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.
and:
Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.
Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(.
The inevitable downside, is of course, that I don't speak/read Swedish, and have a difficult time navigating the site...not so much that I haven't been able to download my secret fix of reality shows, (another good site for TV downloads is #TVTorrents) Reno 911, and Huff!. I accidentally got hooked on The Amazing Race and My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss while I was stuck watching TV in Indy...
Also need to re-establish my Wired subscription and get my garbage mens, car, and gun magazine subscriptions transferred to this address. The only reason I get crap like Maxim, Stuff, and FHM is for entertainment value...ok, and the eye candy contained therein. The gun magazines are largely useless, as not much happens in that field worth writing about month after month. Plus, magazine subscriptions are dirt cheap when you get them from the online clearinghouses. I mean $3.59/year for FHM, Maxim, or Stuff? I think I spend more than that on toilet paper! Seriously though, they're one of the few places you can find the tougher-to-get-through-clearinghouses titles like Wired, National Geographic, and AutoWeek, etc., and they're literally the cheapest game in town. They should put me on the payroll for extolling their virtues and bringing in the business...cheap bastards...
That's all for now, gotta test these formatting tags and embedded hyperlinks...man my HTML's rusty...
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