Found in a used book

Weekend at Forest Lawn Scout Reservation

We're up here for a weekend winter camp. There's just enough snow for sledding, on the north sides of the hills.






- Posted at great expense from my iPhone

Spam :(

I use Hotmail for a main email account. They generally have good spam filtering on the incoming email. Unfortunately they don't do so well on outgoing.

"I" ended up sending spam. Out to my whole email list. I don't know how it happened, since I am quite careful and well aware of various net pitfalls.

I suspect that my son browsed to an unsafe site while I had an open Hotmail window. I was using Internet Explorer of course. Thank you, Bill Gates!

I ran a virus check (definitions were only 24H out of date on my previous scan less than 12 hours before), nonetheless I had to check. No virus found. Also changed my Hotmail password from a wired computer in case of wireless intercept. I use 128bit WEP, have IP-selective service, and my nearby neighbors are idiots by all indications, so a wireless intercept is unlikely. Still, you can't be too cautious.

I had used IE because certain people in my house don't seem to get Firefox with Noscript. Now they will have to learn to love it.

Jazz and symphonic bands

I was an adult helper at the jazz band concert on Tuesday. My son thought I wasn't cool.

One of the kids liked my iPhone.
Is it fast?
The fastest you can buy, I said.

Then I was cool, at least in one kid's eyes. He'll soon realize that you can't buy your way to cool at all stages of life.








- Posted at great expense from my supercool iPhone

Nephew

- Posted at great expense from my iPhone

Kids these days

Around 1580 the clergyman William Harrison grumbled about the new generation, so self-indulgent with their feathers and pillows. In his day "If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. Pillows were thought meet only for sick women. As for servants, they were lucky if they had a sheet over them, for there was nothing under them to keep the straw from pricking their hardened hides."

Build the first for an enemy...

Build the first for an enemy, the second for a friend, and the third for yourself.


McArthur's Corollary:
If you think about it hard enough, you can usually skip the first step.