"Be the Tasmanian Lovemaking Devil..."

To be honest, I didn't know Tasmanian devils made the ideal lover.

Judging from real world pictures (see above) and from the general features of the animal's incarnation in the Looney Tunes cartoon (see below), I am tempted to believe that they are to be avoided at all costs. In fact, "lovemaking" and "Tasmanian devil" sound so far apart that combining them in a single noun phrase should normally be considered oxymoronic — unless of course the attributes of the ideal lover (or even the basic traits commonly expected in a tolerable partner) dramatically changed with the most recent partial lunar eclipse.

Viciousness and aggressivity on the one hand, tornado-style destruction and utter stupidity on the other — is this really something to be looking forward to???

Summer is watch season for everybody after all

This is an erratum to my previous post (Summer time is watch season), in which "losers" were denied the privilege of buying a tacky watch from a dubious website. Well, it turns out that I was mistaken, and that self-identified losers too deserve to fall for that!

See the last line of this screenshot of my spam folder, featuring a sample of the watch related spam I received:

"Our watch will look great even on any loser"

Hurray for non discriminatory, equal opportunity scams!

Summer time is watch season

All of a sudden, over the summer, I got flooded with spam wanting to sell me a watch. Watches seemed to be the new pills.

The pitch typically went like this:

With our [select your style] watches, [select who you are] will look [select your desired look]. Buy our [select your style again] watches, they are [select your price range].

With the following options to choose from:

[select your style]
stunning
trendy
designer
stylish
classy
fashionable
cool
luxury, luxurious

[select who you are]
a local or international customer
a teenager
an adult
a loser

[select your desired look]
irresistible look
look great
proud
stylish
classy
trendy

[select your price range]
low-priced
cheap
great savings
very low price

Summer has passed, and so has the wave of watch related emails. I wonder what the fall's fad will be.

Hotmail passwords

Oooops. Not clear how all this happened, though... A phishing scam able to fool 10,000 users at once sounds fishy.