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[bubosquared]

Reunion Countdown: 15 days
No Longer A Pedophile Countdown: 180 days

The first thing I usually do upon arriving at work is check email. The general office account is usually littered with spam. Today was no difference. Usually I get some enjoyment out of it, since people offering me sex first thing in the morning is a Good Think. ;D However, today I got something a bit different:

From: Justin Ludwig [mailto:artem@fruitnet.inso.ru]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:56 PM
To: <work email>
Subject: Proposal

Dear Webmaster!

I have noticed that your target audience is students. (It isn't. - Ed) I have a great offer for you how to reach thousands of them.

Do you know about website called SparkNotes.com? It’s a very popular website (it has more than 500K visitors per month or maybe much more!) suggesting study guides, study notes and message boards for students. Yahoo has even placed it into the Education/Higher_Education/ directory. SparkNotes is run by Harvard alumni and is hosted on Barnes&Noble server. It is very possible that this website is the project of B&N or was bought by B&N, because the revenue is made on selling the B&N books.

Message boards are very popular on SparkNotes – they give students opportunity to ask for study help each other. However, student who wants to make a posting, is required to register. And when registering, he is to give his e-mail.

What I did is I got into SparkNotes’ database of profiles and extracted e-mails of all students who passed the registration in the last 2 months – there are 230,000 of them! And since your target audience is students, I thought you might be interested in purchasing this email list. All I want for it is $200. Compare that to SparkNotes’ advertising policy: they charge min. $10 for 1,000 banner exposures!

Notice: registered users of SparkNotes receive advertising from the website on a regular basis. So if you send them some bulk email messages saying that it’s SparkNotes advertising, it is very possible you will get NO complaints.

If you want to purchase the email database, simply reply to this message. I will send you out the payment link for you to make the payment by credit card. After that I will email or better upload to some URL the TEXT file with the e-mails (5MB, one e-mail per line). If you have any questions, please also reply to this message!

This is one-time mailing. Have a nice day!

Yours,

Justin Ludwig

I just. WTF? This bloke is basically offering do to something that's illegal, AFAIK, and most definitely highly unethical. This is me, reporting the fucker to his ISP, and to SparkNotes.

In other news, could someone with actual knowledge please tell me what the basic procedure for D&D is? I don't need the actual rules, just a vague description à la "Roll the dice, make a move, whatever." Yes, it's for a story. No, I'm not telling you which.

Today, we say goodbye forever to the Belgian franc. *waves bye bye bye*

Some random ideas for the tarot set:
0: The Fool
beginning, spontaneity, faith, apparent folly
Tjall, from VRStory. My quintessential Fool, ever since the first time I considered making a Tarot deck. He just fits, for some reason.
13: Death
ending, transition, elimination, inexorable forces
Nick and Sean kissing in the rain. Scene from Here And Now (and Easy).
21: The World
integration, accomplishment, involvement, fulfillment
Shinta, the planet on which The Shintaid takes place. As it's the only entire world I've ever created.

Oooh, squickgrrl posted which covers she'd like the pups to sing on their new tour. I figured I'd play, too.
Chris&Justin: The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK. Justin on bass, Chris "singing", decked out in shreds, hair dyed, a touch of make-up, snarling and yelling at each other à la HCL. I would be a puddle of goo.
Joey: Would play drums on the above, and for actual singing, I suggest Tom Smith - Superman Sex Life Boogie. Because I'd wet myself laughing, and yet it'd be oddly sexy.
Lance: John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom. Becasue yes.
JC: The Crew Cuts - Sh'boom. Because.

In other news, some photos from the Grammies:

That's all, folks.

Comments

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

D&D: there's different kinds, from simple game board to real game. Basically consists of several people creating characters with various statistics (strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution, charisma, sometimes more), some race (elf, dwarf, human, half-elf, half-orc, ...), some class (fighter, paladin, ranger, thief, assassin, druid, magic user, cleric, etc), some magical equipment or regular equipment, etc etc. Dice are rolled to determine the statistics. Normally keep the character for many games. Someone called the dungeonmaster is in control of the game and has maps and monster statistics and puzzles and treasures and such all figured out, and the characters go through the dungeon/wilderness/whatever adventure the dungeon master is using. Usually killing monsters, finding treasures, gaining experience points which improves their chances of killing more powerful monsters, etc. Generally intended to be more social and role-playing oriented than just mechanically hacking at monsters and getting virtual treasures.

Never played myself, just read the books and created things...

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

Didn't quite answer you .... basically the dungeon master (DM) tells the people what they see, then the people decide what they want to do. There might be random encounters where the DM rolls dice to see if a monster wanders by and attacks, or there might be a trap that a thief has to disarm by rolling a certain number or better, or there might be a fight where you roll dice to determine if you hit the thing you're fighting and how much damage (hit points) you caused, etc. Time is broken up into different lengths and people take turns rolling dice etc, with the DM playing for the monsters and non-player characters.

[izzybeth.livejournal.com]

TMBG!!! Melle! ::hugs Melle:: ::is incoherent:: Thank you!

My favorite dorks..... ^__^