Archives: 2007   January

Nigerian 419 scam

As I was saying, here is a sample of the kind of 419 Nigerian spam that I regularly find in my inbox. Did you know that some are saying the scam is the third-largest industry in Nigeria?   
FROM:MR. HASAN  KUDE
AFRICAN DEVLOPEMENT BANK
ACCOUNTS & AUDITING DEPT  (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
WEST     AFRICA                                       
                                                   Assalamualaikum
                          GOOD DAY FRIEND,
IT WILL BE A SURPRISE [...]

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Posted in nigerian 419 spam, nigerian scam, true believer syndrome on Jan 30th, 2007, 4:03 am by centaur     

True believer syndrome and Nigerian scam

Wanted to write a post about magical thinking and found such wonderful info about it on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking
Will get back to it later.
But it led me to a link on True Believer Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome and from there, a link to John W. Worley, renowned psychiatrist, and victim of a 419 scam.
Along with the scam and [...]

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Sometimes Love is only Sleeping and Anorexic Demons

She looked at me
And the emptiness in her eyes was cruel to see
Then she turned away and said,
Once I loved, but love is dead
And I whispered, sometimes love is only sleeping
She said, I cannot cry
And I cannot give or feel or even try
And her voice was hard and cold
Then her sweet young face looked old
And [...]

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Posted in angel, anorexia, black dog, inner demons, music, the monkees, whirling dervish, winston churchill on Jan 13th, 2007, 9:19 am by centaur     

Penmanship, Handwriting is a vanishing skill

Found this article by Josh Freed in our Montreal Saturday Gazette, and just had to post it. I could have just linked to it, but I fear in a few months time, or even earlier, it may be removed from the Gazette site. So here it is, in its entirety.  Here too is a copy of the [...]

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Posted in humour, josh freed, montreal gazette, penmenship, public education on Jan 9th, 2007, 4:25 am by centaur  2 comments   

WrongPlanet Asperger’s and the Cheshire Cat

WrongPlanet.net – my birthday is for everyone else. http://www.wrongplanet.net/article350.html
The person making the post, and many of the people commenting, are ranting about not being party animals. Hate to break the news to these guys, but I don’t think it’s exclusively an aspie problem. Wonder if they even are aspie, considering all the parties they’re being invited to that they don’t want to [...]

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