Comments on: Religious Wacko http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/05/16/religious-wacko/ Ramblings about art, education, Linux and a lot more Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Gordaen http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/05/16/religious-wacko/#comment-12 Gordaen Sat, 27 May 2006 18:14:31 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/05/16/religious-wacko/#comment-12 Yeah, spam can be quite the nuisance. It is a lot like a gnat, flying around and annoying you while not really accomplishing anything. I don't understand why people continue to send out e-mails with subjects like "BuuYy Cc1aLLi15." Hopefully there aren't still people in the world who click on those things. The blog spam at least makes some sense (though that makes it no less frustrating), because they try to link to their site to improve their google search results. People and corporations appear to care less about a negative image and more about attention, thus spamming, popup ads, annoying flash ads, and the like have wasted bandwidth everywhere. I'm not too worried about whether the name of the school is known or not. I just try to keep my blog as a sort of universal perspective, so more people can relate to it, rather than associating it with a particular place. The groups do have a right to be there, and at least the guy was entertaining. I don't think he realized that the minor crowd who surrounded him was there just to laugh at his foolish claims. The pro-life group is another story all together. Regardless of whether one believes in their message, most would agree that they should not have had young CHILDREN with them all day, experiencing the growing tension (and minor violence) or the gruesome images on their signs. I tend to ignore most of the gatherings in Red Square though, because people tend to be entirely set in their perspective, and a bunch of signs and shouting the South Park "Rabble, rabble" is not going to change too many opinions. Of course I might be wrong since my viewpoint is from someone having experienced the "real world" prior to coming to the university. Yeah, spam can be quite the nuisance. It is a lot like a gnat, flying around and annoying you while not really accomplishing anything. I don’t understand why people continue to send out e-mails with subjects like “BuuYy Cc1aLLi15.” Hopefully there aren’t still people in the world who click on those things. The blog spam at least makes some sense (though that makes it no less frustrating), because they try to link to their site to improve their google search results. People and corporations appear to care less about a negative image and more about attention, thus spamming, popup ads, annoying flash ads, and the like have wasted bandwidth everywhere.

I’m not too worried about whether the name of the school is known or not. I just try to keep my blog as a sort of universal perspective, so more people can relate to it, rather than associating it with a particular place.

The groups do have a right to be there, and at least the guy was entertaining. I don’t think he realized that the minor crowd who surrounded him was there just to laugh at his foolish claims. The pro-life group is another story all together. Regardless of whether one believes in their message, most would agree that they should not have had young CHILDREN with them all day, experiencing the growing tension (and minor violence) or the gruesome images on their signs. I tend to ignore most of the gatherings in Red Square though, because people tend to be entirely set in their perspective, and a bunch of signs and shouting the South Park “Rabble, rabble” is not going to change too many opinions. Of course I might be wrong since my viewpoint is from someone having experienced the “real world” prior to coming to the university.

]]> By: Howard Muhlberg http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/05/16/religious-wacko/#comment-6 Howard Muhlberg Tue, 23 May 2006 15:46:10 +0000 http://blog.gordaen.com/2006/05/16/religious-wacko/#comment-6 Hi Ian, Thanks for stopping by Transcendental Floss and leaving a comment on the spam post. The huge attack has passed, but spam is still a daily headache. I will look into the remedy you suggested. Thanks. As for your post here, I work in the Admissions Office at the campus you attend (I sense you'd like the name of the university to remain confidential, and that's cool with me), and have the same reactions to the nutcases with the big signs. That said, it is a public university and I guess they have a right to be there, as did the pro-life group recently, and my friends who've been reading out the names of the U.S. and Iraqi war dead in Red Square. Great to "meet" someone else in our fair city who is blogging. Keep up the good work! I've bookmarked your site and will check in when I can. Hi Ian,

Thanks for stopping by Transcendental Floss and leaving a comment on the spam post. The huge attack has passed, but spam is still a daily headache. I will look into the remedy you suggested. Thanks.

As for your post here, I work in the Admissions Office at the campus you attend (I sense you’d like the name of the university to remain confidential, and that’s cool with me), and have the same reactions to the nutcases with the big signs. That said, it is a public university and I guess they have a right to be there, as did the pro-life group recently, and my friends who’ve been reading out the names of the U.S. and Iraqi war dead in Red Square.

Great to “meet” someone else in our fair city who is blogging. Keep up the good work! I’ve bookmarked your site and will check in when I can.

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