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Fun With CAPTCHA; Including the Most Difficult CAPTCHA Image In the Universe.

Published on November 12, 2008 in Baby Boomer. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .


Google ™ loves CAPTCHA, which puzzles me because Gmail Beta ™ does a fantastic job of sorting out Spam.  I don’t understand why it won’t do as great a job on blog comments. Google(tm) runs Blogger(tm)/Blogspot(tm) which hosts a whole caboodle of blogs. But they insist ™ that before I ™ can comment, I have to decipher a mumbo-jumbo of letters and numbers.

I hate CAPTCHA and I don’t even care if they are deciphering and digitizing the Great Books of The World via CAPTCHA.

The toughest CAPTCHA is courtesy of Dvice.com.

Editor: Peter Pachal
editor@dvice.com

doesn’t respond to my complaints and therefore shouldn’t even have comments enabled because he is too busy spinning his propeller beanie. Nyeah.

What’s really odd is that if I look at his blog using FireFox, the preferred browser for propeller heads, the CSS doesn’t fully render the page. And they are giggling and saying, the dipwad has ____________ turned on/off and doesn’t even know it.
Well, Nvidia-lovers, I don’t have anything turned on/off that effects/affects (pick correct usage) any other blogs I visit. nyeah.
IE/Safari:

FireFox:

The toughest CAPTCHA in the local universe!   Note: There is NO IMAGE. Tough, tough CAPTCHA.

I also like to have Fun with CAPTCHA ™. When a CAPTCHA shows up, I like to make up words and definitions. I’ve noticed that Google ™ CAPTCHA is now more “word-like.”

Word Verifier: SWasi; n. the act of walking after visiting Tower of Terrier. eg: “When I came off the Tower of Terrier, I was all swaysi.

Turns out the joke is on the people who use CAPTCHA to prevent spam. The spammers won. Quite a while ago.

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes.

If Microsoft Emails Me, I am SO Screwed.

Published on July 22, 2008 in Holy Shit! Lookit This! and Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Google and our cable system – Insightcom.com both have communicated with me today. Both have been very nice conversations. I am better off because we communicated.

Google wanted me to know that our secret deal is still OK and is progressing nicely. They will be in touch in the next few weeks with the details. I removed the post about them as they requested too. Sergey and Brin, buds, I’m still your man in Kentucky.

Insight decided that I needed another video camera. So they are sending me one.

Congratulations! You are one of our four lucky winners to receive a Flip Video Ultra Camera just for being an Insight customer!

Attached is the winner release form. Please fill it out and return to me by email or by fax to 917-XXX-23XX.

Yeah, that had scam written all over it, right? So I called the local Insightcom.com office and got a really nice CSR. She said she would check because if corporate sent out emails to local customers, they usually got a copy. She checked, no dice. She said it didn’t come from them.

Yikes! I opened the attachment in Google Docs, so felt safe from any malware.

Then the CSR did the unthinkable.  She said, “give me the number and I’ll call it.” Wow. Great idea. As she is calling, I’m Google (R) searching the name. Found it! And Google told me alot about the person from Insight.

Google affirmed the identity of another Giant Media Corporation’s employee.

Kewl.

AND – get this! The person is an adventure racer.

Adventure racing is one of the few sports where just completing a race is considered a victory. It allows runners, hikers, climbers, bikers, and paddlers to participate and compete in new and challenging events. Large expedition competition races are over 300 miles and can take up to 10 days to complete, while sprint races can take only an hour or two. Adventure racing not only challenges the body but the mind as well. Competitors must always travel together as a team, putting an emphasis on teamwork rather than individual achievement.

I love the innerwebs!

Google is working for me. Google is working with me. I got a free video cam from a person who works for Giant Media Company who has a hugely exciting hobby.

I love the innerwebs. I’m glad I have Insight as my connection to the innerwebs.  We’ve had our setbacks in the pass, Insightcom.com and I. But send me a gift and all is well.

But if Microsoft contacts me, I will be so screwed. Bill Gates is a Prick. If Microsoft contacts me, it probably will be to upgrade me to Vista.

Blowing My Google Earnings on Phone Tunes

Published on February 6, 2008 in Entertainment, Shopping and Technology. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

Here’s a website that is about to crash because it will be overloaded soon. TajTunes.com called Brian and sang him a little tune.

There are a variety of songs to choose from to suit all manner of occasions, and they customize the song with the name of the recipient. You can hear a sample of each of their songs at their website.

If this site isn’t a smash hit, I’m nuts. Here are a few of the songs I liked – they are all good.

  • Birthday Superstar “Birthday Superstar”
  • What’s up “What’s Up”
  • Romantic “I’m So Happy”
  • Congratulations “You Deserve a Cookie”

I don’t care if these guys are in Bangalore or Brooklyn, it’s fun. It’s a Yahoo store, so hopefully the site won’t really crash and burn and these guys find fame and fortune. It’s the new Jib-Jab!

UPDATE: The two phone calls I had placed could not be understood by the recipients. On the form I indicated the recipients were female and the call was from a female. Brian says his  was from a male and very understandable.

The Next Decayed Decade Will Be Significant

Published on January 23, 2008 in Baby Boomer, Family, Food, Holy Shit! Lookit This! and Technology. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

The next ten years of my life are sure to be my decayed years. (Pronounced in this case dec-AID – as in decade. Decayed Decade or DD.)

Tomato. Tomato.

I’ve already laid out my game plan for when I actually turn seventy years old. So I have established my reward for getting there.

I’m working on my plan to reach my reward.

In the meantime, some significant changes will occur. I’m trying to anticipate them so I can work them into my plan for the DD.

My Million Dollar 20 year term-life insurance will expire. Looking over my shoulder will be imperative. What do food tasters go for these days? Are spouses informed of firearms purchases?

I will be a patient in the hospital. That’s scary. I think it will be a physical ailment. I haven’t been in a hospital overnight since I was twenty-something. That will change during this DD. Previously, I was in a car wreck and spent a couple months in bed in traction because this is all they had to treat a splintered femur.

UPDATE: Done – had a knee replacement. Two nights in horspital.

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I also had a head injury (duh!) and had to wear a jerry-rigged thing-a-ma-bob. The docs figure I punched myself in the forehead and caved in my sinuses.

So think of head gear for braces, except the wire went thru the bridge of my nose and attached to a plaster cast with a coat-hanger hook poking out the front.

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TMI. We have a boomer friend who just became and R.N. I may hire her to stay with me. Unless I can’t wipe myself, at which time I will just die.

I will get in a fender-bender with a twenty-something and have to prove I am not too feeble to drive. Have you seen how young cops are these days? I know the punk and the pig will gang up on me and swear that I was tailgating the punk at 40 mph. Which will be correct, but still… Why aren’t there old patrol cops anymore? Hemorrhoid disability pay kick in?

I will collect the last nineteen cents left in Social Security. President Gomez-Gonzales will give me a large Publisher’s Clearing House-type check. He will then whisper, “don’t deposit this right away.”

Technology will finally get the best of me. I will break down and buy a cell phone and obsessively check for text messages. I will not be able to answer because my old man shaky hands will make every response incomprehensible: LOJ, TTFO, LMCM, 309J. The only message I will send successfully everytime is 4Q.

Steve Jobs will have me arrested. It will be a felony charge, so I won’t be able to vote anymore. After all the years of calling Bill Gates a Prick and using Macs, it will be Jobs that will Job me. My time in the county-hooscow will enable me to make great connections for HGH, so it will be time well spent. My candidates never won or Nancy and I canceled each other, so no biggie on the voting rights loss.

Wal-mart will stop hiring old farts as greeters. There will be no more Wal-mart, it will be Google-mart ™ and they will not hire anyone over 21. Sergey and Brin will no longer exist as homo-sapiens.

The company mantra will be “Do Evil. F*ck ‘em.”

I will adopt their mantra, and live until my 70th birthday.