17 tweets for 2010-5-2

[azurelunatic]

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Sunday, 1156: @CaptianRobert That 'snot a good idea. :-P
• Sunday, 1205: RT @TheRealNimoy: I'm appearing at Star Trek IV screening followed by Q and A. Friday, June 11. Mann's Chinese 6 in Hollywood. Sponsore ...
• Sunday, 1209: @phoenixdreaming If that were TVTropes would it be "Our Muggers are Different"? *flippant* (suspect article would make me rage too, wtf man)
• Sunday, 1212: @phoenixdreaming That person sounds as if she is on way too many of the wrong drugs & lives in a world where axemurderers should walk free.
• Sunday, 1214: RT @the_tonberry: At some point, it stops being for science and starts being for explosions. That might be why I love this show so much. ...
• Sunday, 1220: @omnivorously I am not at all familiar with J&J. so I barely notice; it would indeed work with the serial numbers filed off.
• Sunday, 1221: Hair is brushed! (It works better when I'm not trying to type at the same time.)
• Sunday, 1237: I have done the hard part of reconciling my cross-site icons: seeing what I have where. Now just to upload the missing ones.
• Sunday, 1316: Whisks washed. Milk checked. (Still good.) Pudding made. Pudding eaten. Strawberry eaten. Clothes mostly on (still lack skirt, shoes).
• Sunday, 1318: @tiferet93 http://archiveofourown.org/works/61002/chapters/80646
• Sunday, 1320: @maureenjohnson Lack of indoor plumbing is overrated. It reminds me of GROWING UP in the WOODS surrounded by MOOSE.
• Sunday, 1344: Ex-BNP Simon Nicholson leaves party, shocked that they're a bunch of racist creeps: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/02/bnp-star-simon-nicholson-quits-to-expose-racist-party-115875-22227237/ I'm a foreigner & I know this!
• Sunday, 1822: Via autopope in james_nicoll's comments, a bizarre and WTF headline: http://current.com/entertainment/wtf/88862229_i-kicked-burning-terrorist-so-hard-in-the-balls-that-i-tore-a-tendon-in-my-foot.htm
• Sunday, 1824: RT @semanticist: No, really, Mail.app. I'm never going to get legitimate email from 'Doctor Spermvolume'. You can put it in junk.
• Sunday, 1824: (That last RT almost makes me want to go for a doctorate and a namechange just to prove @semanticist wrong. Almost but not quite.)
• Sunday, 1827: @maureenjohnson I've never associated your name with Rent, mostly because you're Maureen *Johnson*, and my misspent youth involved Heinlein.
• Sunday, 1828: @Samuraiko SA denizens are not known for any form of decency, ever.

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Comments

[pauamma]

my misspent youth involved Heinlein.

If it involved Heinlein, it was hardly misspent.

SA denizens are not known for any form of decency, ever

SA as in South Africa? (Tnat sounds like an unlikely expansion in context, but it's the only one I can think of.)

[wibbble]

Something Awful, I suspect.

[pauamma]

Thanks.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

No, really, Mail.app. I'm never going to get legitimate email from 'Doctor Spermvolume'. You can put it in junk.

But... but... but... how do you know? FOR ALL WE KNOW, THAT COULD BE A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE SURNAME! *Wonders if the first name is "Semen," which IS actually a valid first name in some languages.*

Silliness aside, the spam filters aren't catching that, even after you've already reported/flagged it as spam? O_o At least, that's what it's sounding like.

[wibbble]

Yes - the spam filters in Mail.app have really been letting me down for the last few months. I'd hoped that upgrading to 10.6 would improve it, but it doesn't seem to have made much difference.

Having said that, I reckon that out of 20500 spam messages I've received in the last month it's caught around 19000, but having to mark those extra 50 a day as spam is a chore.

(I'm @semanticist on Twitter. :o) )