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Arg. Nothing taped right on Tuesday. So much for my plan to archive this season of 24 on tape for future viewing. I thought it would be nice to be able to say "Wow, I didn't see that coming! I wonder if there were any hints about it in a previous episode. Hey, what about that time when ________? Let's go see!" But no, that isn't going to happen. Taping already failed on the episode 2 weeks ago, and now the latest one, too. Thankfully I watch them live at Sarah's, so I've at least seen them once. My mom's kinda stuck, though - she depends on me to provide the tapes so she can see the show. I try to tape it here as a backup, but the reception is so awful it's almost better for me to just try to tell her what happened. We have a neighbor with cable who lets me tape at her house so we have watchable reception, but that's where it's been screwing up lately. Blah.
Look, more rant material - my email accounts have more offensive junk mail! Arg, the only thing worse than getting unsolicited, irritating email is getting unsolicited, irritating email about pornography or ways to increase the size of various pieces of human anatomy...sometimes for the wrong gender. It's infuriating to me that some of these have various words in their subjects broken up by extra characters to escape the filters that I have set up to delete these messages. Why do they do this? It must be to escape the filters. But if I'm auto-deleting email with certain words in the subject, it's probably because I'm not going to read or respond to emails regarding that subject. What makes them think that I'll read or respond to their message just because they managed to evade my filters? Do they just consider it a victory to have the email actually appear in my box? And what about the ones that have a deceptive subject designed to trick you into opening it? Why would _anyone_ reply to a message that they only read because they were tricked into reading it?! I just don't understand. I finally broke down a while ago and rearranged my website so that my email address only appears in one place, with instructions on what to put in the subject if someone wants to email me about it. I want to be able to get email from people who visit my site without having to read junk mail, too. Having a flag in the subject means that I can go back to deleting email from addresses I don't recognize if it's not obviously about the site.
Look, more rant material - my email accounts have more offensive junk mail! Arg, the only thing worse than getting unsolicited, irritating email is getting unsolicited, irritating email about pornography or ways to increase the size of various pieces of human anatomy...sometimes for the wrong gender. It's infuriating to me that some of these have various words in their subjects broken up by extra characters to escape the filters that I have set up to delete these messages. Why do they do this? It must be to escape the filters. But if I'm auto-deleting email with certain words in the subject, it's probably because I'm not going to read or respond to emails regarding that subject. What makes them think that I'll read or respond to their message just because they managed to evade my filters? Do they just consider it a victory to have the email actually appear in my box? And what about the ones that have a deceptive subject designed to trick you into opening it? Why would _anyone_ reply to a message that they only read because they were tricked into reading it?! I just don't understand. I finally broke down a while ago and rearranged my website so that my email address only appears in one place, with instructions on what to put in the subject if someone wants to email me about it. I want to be able to get email from people who visit my site without having to read junk mail, too. Having a flag in the subject means that I can go back to deleting email from addresses I don't recognize if it's not obviously about the site.
