Date: April 7th, 2010
Well, they can't all be winners.
Now, here's the thing - I had a great day on Wednesday. I got a ton of studying done, did my laundry, cleaned up my house and got a nice dinner with my dad. Wednesday was a good day. When class got out, I realized that I had a lot to do to make sure I'm ready for finals so I decided to do one of my back-up projects. So far, the back-up projects have been rarely touched, but thoroughly enjoyed. I made a nice necklace. I love it. I bought land on Mars. That was fun. If we ever settle there, I will be exercising my right to claim that land. Its Martian-tropical... not that it means much to be Martian-tropical since there isn't really, ya know, water at the tropics. There is plenty of ice for my umbrella drinks though.
In any case, I decided to hit up one of the back-ups and have an otherwise productive day. So I scanned down the set of links that I found a couple weeks ago and picked out one that I thought was pithy, unique and fun. How weird and cute is it that someone set up a camera to watch paint dry. Ha. Ha. Ha. Turns out its not cute. Or fun. Or interesting. Its just boring. And a scam. There aren't cameras. There are six year old JPEGs.
I suppose I should change the title to "Fall for an Internet Scam". I honestly hadn't done that before either. I generally heard about all the awful dark corners of the internet before I made my way to them. The lovely video that circulated where a hideous screaming face popped up halfway through the video - I got tipped off. The Nigerian money scams... can you say "too good to be true"? You have $15,000,000 for me in a Swiss bank account and all you need is my account number and social security number and pin code so you can transfer it? Awesome. Tomorrow I'm buying a boat.
If you want to see the JPEGs that duped me, you can go here. Come. Witness my internet shame.
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