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The spam filter on the OSU physics email server is not that great. A lot of really blantant spam makes it through. Fred, Brandon, and I forward each other the funniest subject lines. I thought this one was amusing enough to post.

From Fred:

Check out who(the “from”) sent me the spam.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: God
> Date: August 29, 2006 4:51:44 AM EDT
> To: kuehn@mps.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Send

Past favorites include a threat from the solicitor to ‘kill his dog’ if you don’t check out his male enhancement pills. Another favorite is the spam sent to me with my own address as the sender. It told me I won the British lottery and needed to tell me my own bank account number to collect winnings. It was actually less creapy than getting an email from my full name at hotmail.com. Turns out it’s some guy from Canada whose full name is exaclty mine. Creepy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FWdJH69RRYc

Yarr, the above be a really cool animated short film made by some Germans. I saw it at Siggraph and really like it.

Oh right… those come afterwards.

I haven’t actually gone there yet. I almost feel like it might ruin it.

Here is some “news.” Please forgive the link to FauxNews.

MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is”a lie”and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be”a nation of secular laws.”The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected, politicians will”legislate sin,”including abortion and gay marriage.

Where’s my eye-gouging stick when I need it?
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Well, I was snooping around today trying to find an old comic I drew when I realized there’s some vintage funny stuff on www.sexylosure.com. J had commented earlier about reminding each other of funny stories and such, so… here you go. Enjoy. Again.

Oh yes, I suppose I should give Losure some credit. So… credit to you, Losure, credit.

I’m working at Fermilab in Chicago for the next 3 months. (map, cdf, the experiment I’m on). I’m an ‘ace’. My job is baby-sit the detector. It’s great. Thought I’d share my best anecdote so far.

Channel 13 is a closed-circuit TV system that has a display of the accelerator status. It’s especially useful when the accelerator is warming up. The warm-up has several stages. Channel 13 lets you know when each stage is beginning. It makes a noise and then tells you what’s going on in a Stephen Hawking voice. The announcement noise is the ‘door bell’ noise from Star Trek : the next generation. I asked the students training me, ‘The accelerator makes Star Trek sounds?’. They groaned, and said that that wasn’t the only star trek sound, and that it makes the ‘torpedo’ sound when they inject protons into the accelerator. I think it’s hilarious that science sounds like star trek. They assured me that the hilarity will disapate quickly.

I’m on owl shift for the first few weeks. If things are going smoothly there’s a lot of time for surfing the web. I’ll be sure to post anything interesting I find.

While attempting to cheer a friend recently, I decided to type out my past history with feces. Then I decided to post it here, so everyone could have fun reading it. I think a lot of you probably have already heard some or all of these stories, but you may enjoy hearing them again anyway. Who doesn’t like reading about myself and poop?

Exactly.

Here they are!

There’s a new blog in town; meet Sleeping in a strange bed, my illustrious travel blog. Go read it now!

In the bible. Oh, oh, so many problems.