Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts

Cold...weird ads...spam...and a Birthday

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, January 06, 2010 24 Of Your Sparks

OK, I know so many of my guests live where it is cold all the time, but HECK-A-DOODLE!

11 degrees when I left for work today and it is still only 23 at 5:30pm...this is way to dang cold...I live in the South...


AND they are predicting snow tomorrow! Now the total amount being called for is only 1", but if you do not know the South, that means that every grocery store within 100 miles is just about out of bread and milk.

I have said this before, but sheesh folks...if you think you are not going to be able to drive, buy some REAL FOOD!

One inch of snow in Memphis equates to 10 inches up north as far as driving ability is concerned. Cars will be all over the road...drivers will continue to drive 60mph as they skid across the black ice and turn the roads into a real life version of bumper cars...

Man, I love bumper cars at amusement parks...seeing someone on the other side of the oval and gunning (LOL 1.2mph is gunning in those things) aiming right for their rear bumper and SMASHING into them causing their brain to ricochet around in their skull and their spine to reverberate like a window pane in a hurricane...

What says fun then trying to cause physical damage to an opponent in a bumper car?


Have you seen these new banner ads - talking about President Obama wanting mothers to go back to college to get their degree, or lowering insurance regulations?

When they first began, there would be a picture of a normal person saying "I did it, so can you"...

Well now they are using people who look like they have modeled their lives after Charlie Manson...I mean, seriously, do they expect us to be enticed with these scary dudes? Just two examples I was greeted with today:




shivers....


Have you been violated by spam text messages yet? It began for me the other day. I have received about 5 of them - all from a New Jersey number (well my cell phone still has a NJ area code), all offering money at low interest rates.

I am fuming over them and keep hitting reply and typing STOP as they request if you want them to leave you alone.

Now, I wonder, if by doing so am I just validating that the cell phone number is correct or will they actually stop. My next move is to jump all over Verizon to make them stop these messages.


Thanks to y'all who are boosting my hits over at Mangia Y'all..the last two days have been my highest hit counts so far (well 15 is a high number for me over there). If you can continue to do so, I appreciate it, and HEY...the food I am offering recipes on over there is pretty darn good if I say so myself.





Finally today...Go on over and visit
MS. KIMMIE of "Pretty Amazing Grace"
who is celebrating a BIRTHDAY TODAY!
Tell her Bond sent ya...


See y'all tomorrow!






Blogger, Apologies, Blogs & Music

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9 Of Your Sparks

Welcome To THE COUCH...Sit on Down and Get Comfy...

I am getting frustrated by blogger. As of last week, all of a sudden, I need to do a verification before I can post my blog.


I received the following message:

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (
What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

Before we can turn off mandatory word verification on your posts we'll need to have a human review your blog and verify that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review.

Well, so far, I have filled out the form every day (7 times) and still, no word from the "powers that be".

Do I look like Spam? Gosh, I have never even eaten Spam.

Well at least these incredible words of wisdom get posted, but what a PITA!

I send a slight apology for yesterday's posting. Not for all of it, but for the ramblings about credit cards and the like. My situation is such small potatoes compared to what some of my friends are going through.

Diana's father (Diana's Journal - linked on the front page), and her daily struggle to care for him is so much more important and critical... My friend Donna, who lives here is going through treatment for breast cancer...My niece Candice and her ordeal...Another friend who is going through problems at home with an abusive spouse...(this one makes my blood boil, but she has become strong and he currently resides behind bars as he should)...The soldiers who are overseas fighting an unwinnable war and losing their lives over it...My friend who is dealing with health issues with BOTH her mom and dad and needs to care for them as much as possible...And my wife's struggle with her chronic pain and now a benign tumor on her spine...

There is also good news out there...Gary's recovery from his scare with cancer...It appears he is on the road to recovery...Another friend who just completed her treatment for a rare form of cancer on her breast...And she is recovering nicely...Fred, just celebrating his 20th with the Missus...Matt is healthy...Mom is still in total recovery from her cancer of three years ago...

So, I need to focus on the positives more then the negatives in my life. I am the type that has always put my issues aside to focus on my friend's situations, and it bothers me that I have let my minor problems become the focus here once again.

That will stop my friends.. It is all good....


OK...Also linked on this site is the blog my brother Richard writes for the San Antonio Express-News MySA.com website called FAVORITE OFFICE TIME WASTERS. I have mentioned this many times before and will continue to do so, because - if you have not been there- you are missing out.


You MUST check out his link called "BUT DOES DIRK KNOW" on the site right now. Personally, I am upset it did not come with a warning label like they use on CD's and TV programs, that your eyes may spontaneously combust when looking at the site it links to.


I am also very very curious how many of my readers will get the context of the title "But Does Dirk Know" and ask you to tell me in the comments section if you did or did not get it.

I have to admit, it took me a few seconds, once I had seen the site, to get the connection, but when I did.. I laughed so hard a tear came to my eye.

Rich...Your sense of humor has always had a certain warp to it that I love!


If you go over to Fred's World, you will see his latest post about his 20th Anniversary and some nice shots from the wedding...Oh..Rich is the guy just to the right of the Missus in the group shot (your right not theirs)...His legs are no where near as nice as mine though!


Another site that, I think, I had previously recommended is the
OCEANGRAM.COM site where you can write a message, put it into a bottle and hoist it into the virtual ocean. Then you can wait for messages to come back to you (YES, I got this one from Rich's FOTW site also...)

But I must insist that, if your boss catches you on his site or on links you got from his site, that you don't blame him! LOL

I have also been spending some time going through my music collection...reaquainting myself with some of my all time favorite songs.

Still, to this day, Jackie Wilson's "Higher & Higher" makes me smile like a teenage boy in love for the first time.

Derek and the Dominos doing "Bell Bottom Blues" is another incredible song and another is Aretha Franklin doing "The Weight" (yes THE BAND song) with Duane Allman doing the slide guitar.

I also did some searching on Limewire the other night and found the most incredible live version of Sting with Jeff Beck doing the George Harrison song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Jeff Beck is one of the more unrated guitar players of our time, IMHO.

FYI ... My opinion is - if I have already purchased the song in analog (vinyl) I have no qualms about downloading a digital version, and any music that is live and not available on CD, well that is fair game also. I will not hurt an artist by downloading music I have not previously owned.

Just my opinion and I am sure there are those who will disagree...But please don't call the RIAA police on me...

Rock on....


Remember .. Nets For Malaria - UNFoundation.org/malaria - find the big SI's Nothing But Net logo ... Or call 202.887.9040. Every cent goes to buying nets to place over the beds of children in Africa to stomp out Malaria. PLEASE HELP.

Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.

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