From: postcards1001
To: me
Date: Dec 29, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: You’ve received a greeting from a family member!You have just received a virtual postcard from a family member!
You can pick up your postcard at the following web address:
http://www2.postcards.org/?string-of-strange-words
If you can’t click on the web address above, you can also visit 1001 Postcards at http://www.postcards.org/postcards/ and enter your pickup code, which is: string-of-different-words
(Your postcard will be available for 60 days.)
unfortunately, clicking the direct link attempts to download a file called postcards.exe (?!), and attempting to manually retrieve the postcard with both ‘string-of-strange-words’ and ‘string-of-different-words’ results in a postcard-doesn’t-exist error.
the deliberate vagarity of the sender’s identity combined with the non-functionality of it all makes me curious if i have just confirmed my email address to a spammer whose address-harvesting scheme is more clever than “EMAIL TO UNSUBSCRIBE.” alas. it’s sad that i’m so gullible.
oh well. back to my previously scheduled vacation from work, which involves watching movies and playing warcraft. (III, if you’re interested. i never got into WoW.)
yesterday’s movie: boogie nights, a movie i quite enjoy, and one that showcases well why i love william h. macy so much. of course i also like don cheadle and, contrary to all my expectations when he first began acting, mark wahlberg. even heather graham (who normally does things i find more than slightly tedious; e.g., Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
