Funk Babblings

Turkish coffee three hours before bedtime is not necessarily the smartest idea ever. Especially when the muck at the bottom of the cup is included.

I'm not sure whether adding 2/3 of "Anansi Boys" to the insomnia helped or hurt....


On a possibly related note, my fortune for today at MyWay.com is "Just slack off today."

[Warning: excessive mundanity. Please be advised.]

I like to sleep with the curtains open so that the morning sun helps wake me up. But today it was the moon, high in the southern sky, that helped wake me at 5:30am, 90 minutes before my alarm, and two hours before I usually manage to roll out of bed. So I've passed the time doing more than the usual amount of morning net-surfing.

Once I'm awake, I kinda like being up early, except that I know I'll regret it later in the day at work. For some odd reason siestas and afternoon naps (not even with little squares of carpet to lie on) haven't really caught on at the American workplace.

Maybe I'll get a decent breakfast for a change.

Lately I've been really amazed at how little spam makes it to my inbox. (Knock on wood...) I use a Bayesian filter, bogofilter, plus some additional filtering to get rid of virus attachments and a particular spammer that's good at getting around Bayesian filters (though I think my filter is finally getting trained well enough on those).

I have gotten some fax spam recently though. No, the laws against that haven't eradicated it. At least there was an 800 number to get off the list; it felt good that it might be costing them a bit of money for me to make that call, even if calling them only verifies that I received their spam so they send more.

Anyway, today I got a new one in email. Well, sort of new. We've all seen the "419 scam" in which some Nigerian supposedly needs help to discreetly transfer a lot of money. This one was similar, but instead of Nigeria it purports to come from a U.S. Army officer in Iraq, claiming to be trying to help an Iraqi businessman move millions of dollars out of Iraq. If I had more time on my hands I might actually mess with this one like some people do.

Do people actually fall for this stuff?

Yesterday I realized just how much my awareness (paranoia?) of scams has invaded my psyche. ( Scam dream.... )