there are wraiths floating around the internet.
they leave comments on blog entries (older ones, mind you, so few people will actually see them) leaving links so that I can squander my money on online casinos or enlarge certain body parts...
the concept is simple, the execution - slight, the outcome - maybe 1 person in a million will suckered in by these ghostly ploys. (so altogether about 350 people in the US...) So really, all it is doing is pissing-off the rest of the population.
spam... telemarketers... junk mail...
the only kind of spam I like is pan fried with rice.
the only kind of telemarketer I like is an ex-telemarketer.
the only kind of junk mail I like has samples of cereal.
otherwise, I would like to keep my stuff as clear of that as possible.
how do these specters of the web find my comment boxes?
how do I stop them?
how does one stop anything?
is it pious because it pleases the gods or does it please the gods because it is pious.
one can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a higher power - that is why we have Faith.
one cannot consume terribly made coffee - this is why we have cream and sugar.
do ghosts exist?
ok.
do I think it was a ghost that spammed me?
no.
would I rather it have been a ghost.
yes.
at least that would give me something cool to rant and rave about...
"Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I`m glad they`ve begun asking riddles - I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least - at least I mean what I say - that`s the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that `I see what I eat` is the same thing as `I eat what I see`!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that `I like what I get` is the same thing as `I get what I like`!"
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "that `I breathe when I sleep` is the same thing as `I sleep when I breathe`!"
