I wonder if there is a name for something like this

Sangria, I rang as grains, as gas rains in ragas’ gain, as rings air arias’ nag.

It’s anagrammy… and maybe that is all that it is, after all. You take a word or phrase and then use all its letters in following words and phrases, attempting to craft a reasonanbly coherent thought.

SANGRIA
IRANGAS
GRAINSA
SGASRAIN
SINRAGA
SGAINAS

ok, i borked this one i now see. Ah well

I’ll try again

Last Vegas sage, vast leg as vast laves gas ….

Ah crimminy, this was easier when i tried it in my mind..

Las Vegas gave Sal’s gals veal.

Perfect.

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I spent a pointless few hours poring over Amazon’s seemingly mysterious naming scheme for its lockers that I love so. It turns many of the lockers are named for rivers… That makes sense. Amazon is a river, after all, so why not give a shoutout to the lesser rivers of the world in this ingenious way. Other of the lockers are named for mountain ranges and lakes, with a number of them either referring to no specific location or to no specific location that I can divine through Internet searches. Vardar, the locker i use most frequently, is a river…somewhere. can’t remember offhand and do not feel like looking up another river name at the moment. My hands are actually tired form typing, which hasn’t happened in a while. All for what? An amusement which I thought would take 20 minutes but that took longer, but it’s all good. I think i’m covering something no one else has thought to look into.

I thought there were only 20 lockers in the NYC area, but there are about 67. For a while I was afraid there were over 150 but that was not so. I thought there were 20 because when you search Amazon for locker locations near you it only returns 20 locations.

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Last week some hack0r phreaks from the Boston area infiltrated my accounts, gaining full access to my checking and savings and investments, only to turn back and do nothing. I suspect they are expecting to sell my passwords and logins, which I have changed, but I should change then again now that I know what happened.

I appear to have downloaded an upgrade for the Opera web browser during a small window of time in which a corrupt security certificate was attached to it, allowing someone to deposit a piece of malware that glommed off the opera browser, instantiating itself as Opera.exe and appearing to be a legitimate process that queued up on startup. It was a Trojan designed to intercept passwords and logins for bank accounts and social network sites, and it appears to have done so with amazing precision.

Long story short, I don’t think there are lessons to be learned here for any but the few who happen to have downloaded Opera during that brief window of opportunity. Many people’s machines are upgraded automatically so the numbers could be higher than you might expect for the relatively marginal population that uses Opera.

Norton 360, Microsoft Security Essentials, these bloated piles of fuckware found nothing. At the time I got it only Kaspersky (sp?) found it. But these security software vendors implore you not to use more than one virus scanner package at a time. Who to believe? I thought I was dangerously double-dipping just having the above 2 aforementioned packages.

The antivirus industry should not exist in the first place. Core operating systems should be secure enough and Windows in particular should not be a breeding ground for virii, and a springboard for the likes of Norton and McAfee to claim they have you covered when they do not and can not. No liability is possible. You are on your own. Just give us your money to cover advertising expenses and shutthefuckup.

I had other bad experiences with McAfee, a company which labeled me and my web sites as spammers and malware propagaters, bullshit claims which only the robots understand. Humans were not allowed to intervene.

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