{"id":78,"date":"2002-04-11T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/outrageous_lies"},"modified":"2002-04-11T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T13:01:19","slug":"outrageous_lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/04\/outrageous_lies.html","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n So I got some spam yesterday from some company offering to “fix my
\n website”. They informed me that one of my links (to drugfreeamerica.org<\/a>) was broken, and that
\n their services could help.\n<\/p>\n

\n I admit, at first I felt a rush of guilt. I haven’t bothered to install
\n linklint<\/a>
\n on this site yet, and I’m well aware I have broken links. For example,
\n there’s the broken HTML tutorial<\/a>. And of course,
\n I foolishly linked to the San Jose Mercury News and the Washington Post
\n a few times, and those people let their links rot after a couple of weeks. Jerks.
\n Forcing me to link to the Chronicle<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n Anyway, I had linked to drugfreeamerica.org in my entry about the
\n anti-terrorist
\n commercials during the Superbowl<\/a> (as you might recall, I sided with the
\n government… sort of). I was stunned. That link is broken? Just two months
\n later? I was all set to write a scathing little essay all about the clueless
\n Feds and how they’ll never understand the Internet
\n and why-oh-why did I ever give them any credence at all… but
\n it turns out that the drugfreeamerica.org link is working just fine. So there
\n you have it folks: spam sucks<\/a>. I’m willing to take a
\n stand and say it’s not good.\n<\/p>\n

\n In the legitimate<\/em> mail department, I received an email from
\n Brian about the reunion. This is attempt #3 on his part to email all his friends
\n and say, “You’re going to the reunion! You’re going, right?” (I wonder why
\n I classify this unwanted mail as “legitimate”?) Well, I think I’m actually going
\n to go. It’s because of Brad Hyslop. Brad sends this response:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nI have a reminder set for about a week ahead of the reunion. If I feel like it, I might crash. I’m sure they won’t mind as long as they get the right tithe. The only event I really care about is telling lies over late night Sanam Long Thai iced tea…\n<\/p>\n

“20 pounds less, really!”<\/p>\n

“Even living off of interest, I can still make the mortgage payments on my 3000 square foot San Jose home.”<\/p>\n

“He sez, ‘Can’t we just leave Saddam alone?’ and so I sez, ‘Dubya, don’t make me repeat myself.’ “<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n So now I have<\/em> to go to the reunion, if only to compete in
\n the outrageous-lies department. Although, affording a house in San Jose…
\n that one’s gonna be tough to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there you have it folks: spam sucks. I’m willing to take a stand and say it’s not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}