Couple funny twitters tonight:

Eran

Mike Monteiro

[The latter one is actually serious, which is why it gave me an extra LOLz]

I think I’m just going to start posting some of the ridiculous email I get. I seem to be a magnet for phishing expeditions and scripted anomalies.

from J***** H*****
to ted@spideysens**.com
date Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM
subject Reminder : An interesting Business Offer.
hide details 8:44 PM (1 hour ago)

Hi Ted Rheingold,

I am basically interested for business reasons. I had written to you about the offer a few days back. Perhaps you never got the mail in the first place. Anyhow, here is the deal. I found your site http://www.spideysenses.com/ really enchanting and would like to buy a number of text-links on your site.

Let me know if you would like to hear more of this.

Best regards,

John

My site serves like 1,000 pages a month. Who could possibly be following up on an email to sell ads on it?

Perhaps I’ll even take this opportunity to write him back.

Hi John,

Thanks for reaching out. I’m not considering placing contextual advertising on my site - nor even replying to you so you can confirm you have my personal info - so there will be no need to send a third email inquiring about the opportunity.

k? thx, bai!

Today’s my birthday

Originally uploaded by mollygolightly

ZOMD! Molly posted a sugary sweet photo from her bithday when she was 9. That’s my wife! Happy Birthday honey!

Molly and I are going to visit my folks in New Hampshire. Here’s the forecast…. Paws crossed it’s wrong.

My good friend Ryan Junell teamed up with Double Triple again to make another beautiful animation for a music video.

This time it’s for The Octopus Projects‘ song An Evening with Rthrtha, which is as lush and full a song as it’s name is difficult to pronounce.

Click thru to see the video full size, or watch a smaller version here:

If you haven’t seen the animation Ryan and Double Triple made for the band Spoon, you’ll definitely enjoy watching it.

The Germs are the late 70’s LA punk band that influenced everyone you liked in the 80s from LA and were as demented and genius as the Sex Pistols. I can’t wait to see the movie What We Do Is Secret which has practically been as punk a production as the band itself.

Here’s something to get you started from the definitive punk documentary from the era, The Decline of Western Civilization

Here’s a live song with kooky local news intro

Here’s Forming (audio only) from their one studio album (produced by Joan Jett)

This sums up pretty well the eyes wide shut attitude going on right now by people not really trying to make a calculated decision about who to vote for U.S. President

[Cartoon by Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle]

Six months ago a woman’s cat (Mr. D.) went missing in New Zealand. The owner did not stop looking for him, up to and including standing in a rented Puss-n-Boots costume at a business intersection with big photos of Mr. D.!

It sounds a pretty kooky, but once you listen to her being interviewed you’ll hear a very rational, thoughtful and saddened person simply trying to get a loved one back home. The owner was very sure (correctly so as it turns out) that the cat had simply gotten lost and may now been getting fed by someone, or even re-homed by a loving family. (This is New Zealand afterall, where nothing like Pogo’s murder happens.

Watch the video (click through if you don’t see it). It’s been the most watched video on Catster for the last couple of months.

6 months after the separation, the owner got a call from someone who said they saw Mr. D. in their neighborhood. Walking around the owner came across her cat! But being so thoughtful she even knocked on doors in the area in case anyone has taken the cat in and would be upset if he disappeared. If you’re on Catster you can stop in and say welcome back to Mr. D.

This summer is starting to have a feel of one of those “Son of Sam” simmers to them. Hard times, people losing homes, means people lose their marriages and families, and worst of all, start losing their hope that life will get better. I’m entirely speculating here, but these two stories show people who simply do not care about living amongst society anymore and, in fact, want to ruin society with them on their downfall.

Grim.

1. Man Decapitated ‘Beheaded’ Aboard Greyhound Bus - Canada

“We put our bodies up against the door, waiting for him to come out … and he went back and brought the head to the front and pretty much displayed it … and dropped it on the ground in front of us,” Caton said.

Friends identify the victim as a 22-year-old carnival worker named Tim McLean, though authorities won’t confirm his identity.

2. Man kills teens at Wisconsin swimming hole: police

A man described by witnesses as wearing camouflage clothes and carrying a rifle emerged from a wooded area along the Menominee River on Thursday and opened fire on a group of young people near the swimming spot under a railroad bridge.

…. Be safe out there people

Tom Sepa, who has a job, car, laptop, headset and prefers the term urban outdoorsman regularly sleeps in Golden Gate park because he can’t afford an apartment.

He makes $2k to $3k and month yet he and his wife can’t make $F rents. He washes up in Starbucks bathroom after he buys a coffee.

It is also worth noting that Sepa couldn’t have done this five years ago. With his Wi-Fi card, cell phone, and PayPal account, he can conduct business, collect a paycheck and apply for his next job from a laptop in a tent in the park.

“This is the most liberating thing of the Internet,” he said. “The birdcage is open.”

Perhaps his only concession to the traditional world is a postal box he keeps downtown. What, I asked, does he use that for?

“My Netflix movies,” Sepa said.

Also of note in the article is a 1999 stat that 20% of people sleeping in SF shelters are employed.