Re: Poor dragonflies....
 

What would be even better is if the dragonflies could home in on their target. Kinda like kamikazee bombers.....

....seilfnogard rooP :eR
 

AAAAAAAAnd so to make the 2200 and first post.

We made it!

to 2201 that is.

Try counting from 0 to twenty-two hundred and one aloud. I know I won't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: ....seilfnogard rooP :eR
 

Wait?!?!? Does that mean that I made the twenty-two hundredth post and didn't notice??? Interesting.........

Re: ....seilfnogard rooP :eR
 

Das ist interesting, ja? Zo. Tell me about your mozzer.....

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

I got a letter from a mother recently.....
Well, a mother something, anyway.....

Hmm.... anyone feel like baiting a scam artist?

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

I wouldn't bother. You'd probably just attract spam.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

I maintain four different e-mail accounts. That one is specifically for catching spam (actually, I dragged that out of the Junk-mail folder....)

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

My school address, which is NEVER posted on any sites or used for any sites, gets about 8 spam messages a day. Odd how something that's never been used on the internet except to e-mail other accounts gets spammed.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

Now a cynical man might say somone at the school or the IT supplier to the school has flogged off all the email addys to spammers ala Hotmail.

As I am a cynical man that's what I suggest. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

The Great E-mail harvest!
 

... or someone is sniffing passing packets for e-mail addresses, or someone who shouldn't have got their hands on the school directory, or someone felt like annoying you one day, or someone signed you up for some kind of offer, or someone's sniffing packets sent on a wireless network (as above, but don't need to have access to the equipment that's handling the packets - ever sent an e-mail to someone who has a home wireless network?), or someone got hold of the algorythm that generates the school's e-mail address (not usually difficult; commonly [first initial][middle initial][first X characters of last name]@[School'sDomain]) and plugged a name list through it, or....

There's actually a great many ways to get someone's e-mail address; it's even easier if you don't really care who's e-mail address you get.

!lacisnesnoN yllatoT !gnidnuotsA !gnizamA :eR
 

Or someone else does use his school e-mail on sites and the Internet as a whole, his adress got picked up by a spambot/spammer/spam with eggs and spam/whatever, it (whatever it was) went over that person's contact list and started sending spam. Now I may not know much about the mechanics of spambots or hacking or viruses or whatever, but I think that might be a distinct possibility. Or at least a possibility.

And now we return to your regularly scheduled insanity.

CHEEZEBALLS!!!

Re: !lacisnesnoN yllatoT !gnidnuotsA !gnizamA :e
 

The problem is that it's on my ISPs email address. And my other e-mail on my ISP I use all over the internet. Does it get spam? A little, but not as much as my school address does. I just want to know why the two differs so much.

Re: ?detcefni daerht siht sI
 

Yeah, that one is a distinct possibility (trojans/worms/viruses usually have the infected do the spamming, as otherwise there's a potentially traceable information drop address in the virus that could be used to track down who made it....).

It's also possible that the distinction is due to ISP level filtering.... school's a little less filtered.

Re: ?detcefni daerht siht sI
 

No. It's exactly the same as my other account. Just a different name.

Re: ...ecnahc yna yb
 

Perchance one has a more guessable name than the other? NullAshton isn't something that's likely to be hit by a name generator, but RLSmith is. Especially if RLSmith is gotten in a way that is known for assigning E-mail address in such a manner that all of them are of that format.

.drac elttil rooP :eR
 

Re: 6079 milimeter rounds
 

Yeah, those 6079 millimeter rounds pack quite a wallup.

If only I could find a way of dealing with the kickback ... some way to move the thing would be handy, too... ah well.

Oooh, shiny button! What's this "Continue" thing d

Re: 6079 milimeter rounds
 

By the way, there's something that I've always wondered about that I couldn't find a good explaination for so far:
Why are there two high tides per day?

I know that the moon's gravity pulls the water in the ocean so the sea level rises on the side of the earth that is facing the moon. That's OK, I understand that, but why does the opposite side of the earth also have a high tide? It seems to me that it would make more sense if there were a low tide on the opposite side of the earth because the moon would have pulled the water away, but that's not how it actually is, there's a high tide there.

Re: 6.079 meter rounds
 

'Cause the water on the opposite side isn't being pulled away like the water at 90 degree angles.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

High tide with moon overhead: water being pulled towards moon.
High tide with moon under feet: rest of earth and water being pulled towards moon more strongly than the water on this side.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

SO here's an interesting story...

I was at my local F.Y.E. music store today buying music/movies. I usually pay with my check card and they usually ask me for my photo id (standard procedure). So anyways, the guy at the register today, when I'm pulling my liscence out of my stubborn wallet, " I've seen you enough to know your the person on the card, you don't need your id". It was at that point that I realized that I spend to much time there browsing/buying music to the point at which the workers there know me..........


So now back to the regularly sheduled insanity...

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

I was once allowed to borrow books without a library card.

?og daerht esnesnon eht did erehW :TO :eR
 

AAAAAAAAAAAnd now back to your regularly scheduled insanity.....

Re: ?og daerht esnesnon eht did erehW :TO :eR
 

...Since when is insanity regularly scheduled?

?og daerht esnesnon eht did erehW :TO :eR
 

Eck zactly.

And now for your regularly scheduled insanity.

CHEESE!!!!!

Re: ?og daerht esnesnon eht did erehW :TO :eR
 

Since when do we have to be insane in this topic? I thought it was just a topic for people to pad their post counts.

sreneiw reyaM racsO :eR
 

Why do you think I keep posting "And now back to your regularly scheduled insanity"?

Re: sreneiw reyaM racsO :eR
 

Ohhhhhhhhh

I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener...........

Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer wiener.....

Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

SO as posted on the Wikipedia.........

And personally I don't believe this thread to be one that conatians post-padding. It is instead a highly developed conversation among very intellectual persons.









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Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img] Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Mayer wiener,
'cause that is what I don't want to be.
For if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,
there would be nothing left of me. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img]

n teg I nac erehw)gnixulf ton ,sroticapac xulF :eR
 

Geek Stoners:

Duuude like, pass me that joint, I betcha I can get a natural twenty on my "Get High" roll!

Re: n teg I nac erehw)gnixulf ton ,sroticapac xulF
 

Don't you hate it when you keep hearing a mysterious beep sound from somewhere and you don't know where it's coming from? It seems to happen randomly: there's a little beep and then silence, and it only happens once in many days. The sound stops after just one beep so it's hard to track down the source and it's the kind of sound that's hard to tell the direction it's coming from, but it seems to be something fairly close. It doesn't seem to be the computer or a watch or a phone or clock or smoke detector or anything obvious like that. But it hasn't happened now for many weeks.

Re: UPS?
 

Got an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) for your machine? Most models beep when they boost or block power to keep up with demand without blowing anything out - if the house power flickers, a UPS will often beep once, as it maintains steady power for a moment.

Re: UPS?
 

I had something like that...Then I remembered where my watch with the broken strap was.

Good battery on that thing. Kept it up for months.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

I think it's about time to let this thread die.

Re: (: ahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaH
 

Why? It's an excellent thread for a minor OT discussion not worth starting another thread over. And it can be a great place to just act silly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: (: ahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaH
 

KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!

Heresy!
 

Let the race die? Without a winner? That's crazy talk.

Not as crazy as post saying you think a thread should die, in the thread you think should die but it's close.

Anyway I hear the next stage of the race, through the mystical lands of Khaz Modan and the mountains of cheese, is especially exciting!

Re: Heresy!
 

Ooo, cheese. They better have sharp cheddar mountains.

Re: Heresy! Or Hearsay!
 

Don't forget the Swiss Cheese Caves...

Re: Mouse got to \'em already.
 

Sorry, but the swiss cheese caves are no more. There was a mouse infestation, and, well, by the time anyone knew about it, the cheese was all gone. Now they are just the Swiss Caves.

Re: Mouse got to \'em already.
 

hehehehe...

Where does cheese come from
 

Swiss cheese caves? Oh, so that's where they get cheese from. Those cheese caves and also from the moon. I know because I saw the Wallace and Gromit movie where they go to the moon to get cheese. Haven't seen the new movie though.

Re: Where does cheese come from
 

So *That's* where all the cheese on the moon went!

Re: Where does cheese come from
 

Hey! I only have three posts to a promotion http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Who moved the cheese?
 

Swiss cheese is the best
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...156-cheese.gif

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

I have, uh, 1990 posts. You have to wonder why swiss cheese is so full of holes. Is it because cheese has gotten into them, eating a bunch of holes in them?

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

No! It's because of Narf! See?! that mouse looks guilty!
/me ignores his cat avatar...

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

Narf is always guilty. That mouse was born guilty, even of things he didn't do. In fact especially the things he didn't do!