‘No, no!’ cried Mrs. Gummidge, coming between them, in a fit of crying…

I got spam the other day with snips of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield in it which then prompted me to search to make sure those snips were really from David Copperfield. Once I actually found references for the quotes I received I started reading a bit of the book online.

After getting bored just like I was back in high school when I first read the book I started thinking about the economy of spam and how it may be changing. Or at least how it could possibly change to something a little more tricky than it is now. Since spam seems to be a kind of an evolutionary process of finding ways around spam filters it will keep changing from what it currently is until it finds a viable economic model and even then will probably continue changing.

I’m told the snips of Copperfield are in there so it doesn’t get caught by my spam filtering and the drug ad is done in an image to escape the filtering as well. But what if spammers actually delivered something interesting to me with their obnoxious ad placed in the middle? Like a real news story of the day or a weather update. It would be more like an email newspaper delivery, just one that I didn’t ask for, probably didn’t want, and can’t stop getting.

I don’t want any more spam than I already get, but I wonder… Would it be better if the spam I get was more interesting?

Weekend

My roommate did an excellent job with the Beer Can Chicken this weekend or as we called it, ‘Chicken on the Can’ because the chicken definitely looks like it’s squatting from a profile angle. It turned out moist and tasty and makes for an excellent center piece to any BBQ table.

Brian caught an sweet picture

Thursday I took the day off to meet with a good friend of mine who is in town for the week. He had a bike trip planned for us going from Mt. Washinton out to the seacoast.

The trip was about 85 miles total and we rode it in under 6 hours with an hour or so for a lunch stop. The google map link takes the wrong route and adds some miles for speed.

We went down through North Conway, over to Fryeburg, ME and into Hiram where I believe we had lunch. Then dropping down to Waterboro over to Biddeford and Saco. I blew two flats on the trip because of some bad rim tape on my front wheel but other than that my old bike seemed to hold it together, surprising as I have over 5500 miles on mostly original parts.

New Windsurfer

This weekend I should be picking up some new windsurfing toys. I’ve been looking at the Starboard F-Type, Aero, and Carve. Assuming I can find a good deal at one of the local shops or an ebayer I’ve been talking with I should have a whole new rig ready to go for this summer.