{"id":41,"date":"2002-06-26T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=41"},"modified":"2002-06-26T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T13:05:00","slug":"sad-states-of-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-06\/41-sad-states-of-affairs","title":{"rendered":"Sad States of Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>1. Working too hard?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when I&#8217;m being so productive at work that I don&#8217;t have time to goof off! It&#8217;s terrible, just terrible, I tell you!<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Hotmail or Junkmail?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when the majority of my e-mail is <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/~ddgarcia\/spam.html\">spam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Well, there&#8217;s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>PLEASe!<\/b> I do <b>NOT<\/b> have <b>ANY<\/b> need for <i>Viagara<\/i>! Nor do I want to see nubile pregnant lesbian teenage cheerleaders taking on the entire football team and their mascot in the back seat of a &#8217;57 Chevy with Tuck-and-Roll upholstery that they paid for with the savings of switching to an internet mortgage! <b>Really!<\/b> (hehehehehe)<\/p>\n<p>It probably wouldn&#8217;t be quite so bad except that all of the sites they point you to are nothing more than pages of links to other sites which pop-up in a new browser window&#8211; and then open up six others when you try to close them!&#8211; then ask for your credit card number and don&#8217;t show you anything good anyway&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s an <i>e-mail guru<\/i> out there who can help me figure out what to do about all this damn spam? I&#8217;ve heard you can do something with the <code>.procmail<\/code> file on your shell account, but I haven&#8217;t found sufficient explanation\/training yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Working too hard? It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when I&#8217;m being so productive at work that I don&#8217;t have time to goof off! It&#8217;s terrible, just terrible, I tell you! 2. Hotmail or Junkmail? It&#8217;s a sad state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-06\/41-sad-states-of-affairs\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}