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Amazing discoveries

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I’ve made two amazing discoveries lately.  1) Being sick sucks.  I’ve had this nagging cold/flu thing that’s been on the verge of going away for several days, but just a little bit keeps hanging on and tormenting me.  It’d be nice if it would go away so I can stop annoying my coworkers with my constant coughing.

And 2) Dropping a large piece of plywood on your toe is not a good idea, though it will turn your toenail into colors you never thought were possible.  It’s kinda cool to see, but not worth the pain.

*cough* Grrr…where are my cough drops?

The lengths some scammers will go to…

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This has to be the longest scam email I have ever seen.  It’s amazing how much time some people have on their hands and the lengths they will go to to swindle you out of your money.

I wasn’t aware of this before I found this sitting in my spam folder today, but apparently “Ma Delun” has been at this for quite some time.  I found posts online going back about two years.  He (or perhaps she?) has apparently become somewhat famous due to the sheer length of this email.  If you don’t care to read the whole thing, the short version is he claims to be from the Bank of China United Kingdom (which does exist) and has access to an account from some dead guy in an amount of over $8M USD.  If you’ve seen a typical Nigerian scam email before, you know the drill from here.  He needs your help in getting access to this money and is willing to split it with you 50/50 in exchange.  In the email, he asks me to contact him at some yahoo.com.hk address, although the email listed in the header is madelun@ub.cn.  I looked up ub.cn, and it looks like some Chinese machinery company.  Why on earth would a banker have an email address at a machinery company?  The icing on the cake (as if you needed any more proof that this was a scam) is the originating IP address listed in the header is 41.138.178.89, which would place “Ma Delun” in–where else–Lagos, Nigeria!

Oddly enough, this is only the second Nigerian scam email I’ve ever received.  I inadvertently deleted the first one before I could do anything with it.  This one I’m saving for a bit, because I’m seriously tempted to fuck with the guy for a while.  Anyway, if you want to see the full text, check it out below.  A word of warning:  Grab a snack or beverage before you start reading.  You’ll be here for a while.

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Review: “The Descent, part 2” *WARNING: SPOILERS*

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I saw The Descent in theaters back in 2006, and I remember liking it quite a bit. I liked it because it did exactly what a horror movie is supposed to do. Horror seems to exist today as little more than a reverse action movie, where you cheer for the bad guy instead of the good guy, often because the so-called “victims” are really a bunch of assholes who deserve what’s coming to them (see: Roth, Eli). This wasn’t the case with The Descent. You actually felt sympathy for the characters, and you experienced the same fear and claustrophobia that they did. It was also one of the few films that legitimately made me jump. The moment when they first encounter one of the “crawlers” face-to-face came out of nowhere and totally caught me off guard. That’s not easy to do. Most horror films of today aren’t really designed to be scary, and when they do attempt to scare the audience, you can usually see the scare coming a mile away and it loses its effectiveness. With The Descent, of course I knew the crawler would show up eventually, but I didn’t know when. When it finally did show up, it did so at an unpredictable moment and it scared the shit out of me. Even my friend that I saw the film with jumped at that moment, and she’s a horror fanatic who is probably as desensitized to the “jump scare” as one can get. As far as horror films go, it was very well done.

I was quite surprised when I found out that a direct-to-DVD sequel had been released. (Technically it was released in theaters, but not on this side of the Atlantic.) I never thought for a moment that The Descent needed a sequel. It was fine on its own. But I decided to check it out. I was quite certain that it would not live up to the original. What surprised me was just how inferior it was. The ending especially tarnished it…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning. It’s a very good place to start, or so I’ve been told.

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March Madness

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Holy shit, this tournament is off to a great start! So many close games, a couple of big upsets, and it’s only the first day! Thank you NCAA for reminding me why I love basketball. I thought I’d have trouble enjoying this tournament since Arizona didn’t make it for the first time in many years. Fortunately, that has not been the case so far. I wish I had known that the games in SJ were going to be so good. I would’ve called in sick. LOL! I wonder if I can still get tickets for the games in SJ on Saturday.