I keep getting emails asking me to commit crimes. Do these spammers just trust that human nature means that a fair percentage of humans will do something illegal with a total stranger if it looks lucrative enough?
It reminds me of a time when I was in Chch and walked out of the mall to see a group of four people standing around the back of my car. Thinking that it this had to be a bad thing (oh no! the precious tapedeck!) I hurried over, only to find that they were passing a cone around. They attempted to hide it, but as I know from experience, hiding a hot pipe is not easy. Shove it in a pocket and you'll burn your jacket, hold it in your hand and you'd better have an excuse for the barbeque odour.
So I winked and said something along the lines of "Always happens, huh? You just find a quiet spot for a smoke and some bastard interrupts you!" so they knew I wasn't going to spring them. They smiled and offered me a toke.
Well, it was nice of them, but 1) I was obviously just about to get into a car and drive it and 2) I'd just caught them, so they perhaps aren't the most security-conscious dopers around and 3) What if it was a bust? And 4) What if I was a cop? It just didn't seem like a good risk, since I only knew the answer to number 4.
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TV3 News had a 2-or 3-day-old story on last night. I'd read 2 days worth of articles about in the Herald, and then Hillary flipping reads out the item with no date references (i.e. No "this happened on Wednesday morning and we're only reporting it as 'news' on Friday night" or anything) yesterday! They should be ashamed. I thought they told us they got us the news first, from all over the world? But they can't adequately cover a story in the CBD of Auckland.
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It is delightful to eat Vogels toast with good coffee on a Saturday morning, in a big chair in the sunshine, while reading decent journalism from all over the world. I hope the gods grants Steve Jobs and Bill Gates their own personal spot in paradise, and whoever invented sliced bread gets a prime possie too.
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Reading: No Star Too Beautiful - An Anthology of Yiddish Stories From 1382 to the Present - Joachim Neugroschel
Just Read: Victim - The Secret Tapes of Marilyn Monroe - Matthew Smith
Listening to: KiwiFM - Streaming worldwide! 91.7fm in Wgtn
(I like Kiwi. The morning show host signed off with "I'm going to kill myself" the other day. And they don't employ a second-banana morning guy whose job description is "Laugh irritatingly and inananely at everything the first-banana says".)