Please reply immediately its very important..

from Ian Davies
reply-to [email protected]
to transmothra
date Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM
subject Please reply immediately its very important..
11:17 AM (18 hours ago)

I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a
subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private
equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.

I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to
assume the new
recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD

Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds
will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A
facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit
and
credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the
automated clearing house system.

Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice
will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account
within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD
as your
commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an
account
to
clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to
our
agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.

I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to
file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter
of the
financial fiscal year 2011

Looking forward to working with you.
Ian Davies
Accredited vendor
Alliot Groups PS
Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from Ian Davies
sender-time Sent at 2:34 AM (GMT+02:00). Current time there: 12:43 PM. ?
reply-to [email protected]
to transmothra
date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM
subject Hope to hear from you its very important.
hide details 2:34 AM (3 hours ago)
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a
subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private
equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.
I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to
assume the new
recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD
Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds
will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A
facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit
and
credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the
automated clearing house system.
Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice
will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account
within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD
as your
commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an
account
to
clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to
our
agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.
I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to
file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter
of the
financial fiscal year 2011
Looking forward to working with you.
Ian Davies
Accredited vendor
Alliot Groups PS
Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from transmothra
sender-time Sent at 4:47 AM (GMT-05:00). Current time there: 5:44 AM. ?
reply-to [email protected]
to [email protected]
date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:47 AM
subject Re: Hope to hear from you its very important.
mailed-by transmothra.com
hide details 4:47 AM (56 minutes ago)
My Dear Friend Ian,

I am so glad to hear from you! Twice in one night! I very much hope that you will forgive my vapid insolence, as it has been well over 12 hours since your first email was sent. I can certainly understand why you would send me another message. You were probably worried about my health, knowing, as you surely do, of my dire condition.

As you may remember from our rendezvous the other night, I am not well. The bruise surrounding the warty area on my penis has started to emit a strange brownish-orange discharge. Most likely it is bloody pus from the infection, although I fear I cannot satisfactorily explain the color. Since you were the last person with whom I had a romantic liaison, I must earnestly beg for you to seek attention from your local medical facilities. You don’t want to wind up with what I’ve got, Ian. It hurts like hell.

And that’s nothing compared to the fissures I’ve been developing on my anus. I had my nurse check them out, and he couldn’t find how deeply they went, since he couldn’t fit his arm in any further. If it’s as serious as I suspect it is, you’ll want to check yours out as well, for sure. You’ll want to do it fast, too, since it seems to be getting worse almost by the hour. Hell, if you have to, just tear off your trousers, run out into the street and ask the first passer-by you see to put his or her hand in there and feel around. Bring a flashlight too. It might help to spot the maggots, although you might not even need it. I can feel mine squirming around in there just fine without one. In fact, I shouldn’t think you would even have need of checking at all, if your excrement is like soured milk, in sight, smell, and texture, as mine is. If that’s the case, get yourself a doctor pronto, and probably a lawyer too. The smell of doom is that of sour milk. Indeed.

But, on to business. It is obvious to me that, aside from your warm and loving affection, you sincerely trust me a great deal, which I appreciate most sweetly; and of course I trust you like I trust my own brother (although, between you and me, he can be a real asshole sometimes – and I am starting to suspect that he may be a faggot, besides… he’ll be walking with a limp for a month after I show him what he gets for that). However, I will need a few details from you before we begin this mutually-lucrative transaction. Since this is surely destined to be a completely legitimate transaction, after all, I trust you won’t mind providing these little details one bit. I’ll make it worth you while, believe me. Believe me. Oh, believe me, Ian. Believe me!

If you would so please, my old friend, send me the following details. Once I receive the proper data from you, I will begin the process of forwarding the information to my nurse, who will begin to distribute any and all information you have requested back to you and any partners you specify. I thank you for your patience with me during these troubling times. Hopefully we can get this process completely quickly, as I fear my time is not long for this world. I feel that I am fading fast, Ian!

Full name:
Aliases:
Government ID#:
Street Address:
Date of birth:
City of birth:
Mother’s full name:
Father’s full name:
Telephone number:
E-mail address:
Current IP address:
MAC address (this is important so I can send you whatever you need directly):
Credit card number:
Credit card issuing bank:
Bank account number:
Bank account routing number:

Again, thank you Ian, for offering me the opportunity to partake in the fortune with which you are currently involved. My best to you and your whore wife and worthless children.

Your loving compagnon-au-nuit,
Thaddeus “Tad” Ghostal

P.S., I am most serious about getting yourself looked at. I have been throwing up what looks like partially-liquefied pig’s liver for the past 12 hours now. It smells almost exactly like the rotten corpse of a severely inebriated rotgut wino – about four days in, I surmise. There’s even a sort of stringy, thread-like substance running all through it that causes me no end of duress throughout this ugly process. So please, for the love of all that is sweet and pure, see your doctor ASAP. It appears to be catching, as my daughter is starting to take ill with it as well. I couldn’t give two shits about her, but I don’t want to lose you, Ian.

Some great legal FREE music download sites

Recently, a friend asked me (me: the master of all things electronical) for some recommendations for downloading free music legally. Although i was hard pressed to name any legit source of free major label music, i have enough links to some really amazing sites that feature and host very good free music. Much of it is licensed under various Creative Commons licenses, and most is both free (as in beer) and free (as in free speech). As always, read the fine print for exact details for each site and every download. Additionally, check your local laws if you’re unsure about the license (personally, i have not found any gray areas here, since most of the music is either offered by the artists themselves as free, or is licensed freely, or is in some cases even public domain).

Since many of these are blogs, i highly recommend getting to know RSS feeds, and adding their feeds to your favorite feed reader. If you have no favorite feed reader, Google Reader is a great place to start.

So, without further ado, here are my top picks for really cool free, legal mp3 sites, in no particular order…

Amazon.com

Here are some free albums and some cheap albums. A whole lot of really good free stuff. At the top right you can select “Price: low to high” to get all the free stuff listed first, but the default setting is “bestselling, so that one shows the most popular free stuff, mixed in with some good cheap deals too. You can also go to single songs, too, and browse the links on the right by price and genre, etc.

Archive.org’s free music and netlabels categories

I could spend days without sleep sifting through some of these really amazing collections. You can drill down by keyword and genre and popularity. Very little big-name artists, but some serious gems (also a lot of duds, too, but if you look at the download counters you can tell which ones are liked – or at least downloaded – the most).

BlocSonic

This netlabel has tons of free samplers and whole albums by nobody you’ve heard before but every minute is really good, and they have an excellent mix of genres. I guess you could call them a metalabel, since their compilations frequently feature artists on other netlabels. One of the best free music sources around.

Note: these next two exemplary sites, despite my egregious lack of better-apt descriptions, are among my very favorite resources, not only for the wonderful personal touch you can find, but also for the incredible variety and sheer scope of their blogs and the insight gleaned from reading their notes on each feature, which are like meta-liner notes. These are both, as they say, earnest labors of love for their respective curators. As i’ve noted in a comment below, the best possible thing to do in lieu of giving you a lengthy and drooling description, is to implore you to go and dig deeply and feel the fresh cool sand between your fingers, and linger, and wonder at how new and interesting things can truly be when experienced with fullness and vigor. And maybe leave a note of thanks whenever you see something really cool that you enjoyed.

Free Albums Galore

This site frequently features avant-jazz and minimalist techno, but you can also find some fantastic alternative, pop, rock, folk, et cetera. Another great resource.

Catching the Waves

Another great free music source. See Free Albums Galore above. Same thing applies here.

Bandcamp

Bandcamp has tons of music from indie bands. Some free, some not. It’s fun to sift through, and you can find some real cool stuff here, sometimes even some up-and-coming bands that are just beginning to fly above the radar. Try this link for free stuff. I don’t use bandcamp that often, since i’m usually directed there by one of the other sites above.

The Peppermill

I have not heard anything from this label that i didn’t fall in love with immediately. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. And try The Box: I cannot tell you anything about this record, except that it is freaky and weird and quirky, and yes, you DO recognize that tune.

I would be not only remiss, but probably also shamed before my peers, and quite possibly also drawn and quartered, if i didn’t point you to

Phlow

…who have awesome compilations and records, covering all kinds of genres, though a lot of it is maybe more techno and hip-hop and trip-hop oriented. Their massive year-end best-of mixes last year were pretty amazing.

Free Music Archive

Possibly the granddaddy of all free music sites, the FMA is a project of WFMU, “the most renowned freeform radio station in America”. They feature music of all kinds. This is one amazing resource that is just as much fun to sift through as it is to listen through.

Lastly, here’s one i just found out about:

Thomas’ Posterous

Having no experience with this one, all i can say is that it comes highly recommended from Catching the Waves.

Other great sites, archives, and blogs to check out

Oddio Overplay
The Silent Ballet
Netlabel Index
largehearted boy: daily downloads
RedFerret’s wikidump
3hive
FreeIndie
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:mp3s
Netlabels Noises
Ektoplazm: free music portal
FrostClick:Audio
Jamendo (the King of free music sites)

Lastly (ok, really lastly), here’s my Google Reader bundle: Free Music et cetera (OPML)

Happy sifting!!

Custom Post Type + Custom Menu

Screen Options tab

Here's where you find the damn thing already.

For those of you WordPress users wondering how to find your Custom Post Types in the Appearance >> Menus page (for your Custom Menus), look no further than your handy Screen Options dropdown panel, up at the top right of the page. No, your other right. Up further. Look – right there! See where my finger is pointing? Where it says “Howdy, [yourname] | Log Out”? Yeah, just below that. No, you’re looking at “Help.” I said it was Screen Options and i MEAN it was Screen Options, goddammit.

Menu options dropdown

Menu page options dropdown

I looked and looked and had a hard time finding these options (ok, actually i found it not long after i started looking, but i figured there’s got to be a whole slew of people out there having a hard time figuring this one out). So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

(Also note that until we get a decent UI, plugins such as Custom Post Type UI will have to do, unless you just want to code away your evening. Additionally, your theme must support Custom Menus in order to use them.)

Incidentally, if you have no idea what the hell i’m on about, and for some reason refuse to mind your own damn bidness, here’s the deal: In the recent WordPress 3.0 release, users now have the ability to create not only custom navigation menus (those things you click on to get to other areas of the site you’re on), but can also create something called a Custom Post Type. (Oh god i wish i could explain this really well.) Basically, instead of only being able to create blog posts (which are generally chronologically ordered) or generic Pages (which are the same thing, without the emphasis on time), WordPress administrators can also create types of content specifically geared toward a given theme… say, a real estate listing, a movie review, or a section of used musical instruments for sale. This also lets you enable or disable certain options. You know what? You don’t get it, do you? Mind your own beezwax if you’re gonna give me that look. Hey – hey! Why don’t ya try running a WordPress site yourself? Seriously. Give me a breeeeeaaaaaak!

Cool and Useful Stuffs

Here’s a list of some cool and useful stuff i’ve compiled for Holly’s brother. I thought i’d share it here.

You never have to worry about spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, worms, or other malware, because i’ve already used this stuff, plus i only use apps and sites that are already well-known to be pretty friggin’ excellent. Every one of these sites and apps come with a solid reputation.

All of this stuff is 100% free, except for a few that you can optionally pay for, like Reaper (audio recording). Naturally, i do not recommend downloading pirated software or media content.

Awesome free stuff you have to have, or at least need to know about:

System utilities and just plain excellent basics

Cool, useful stuff for your desktop

Audio, video, media

  • Audacity (audio)
  • Reaper (audio)
  • foobar2000 (music)
  • VLC (media player)
    • http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    • Great video player. Looks daunting, but all you have to do is play video or audio files. It’s one of the few that can open almost any file type. Can also convert, stream, save, etc.
  • GIMP (images)
    • http://www.gimp.org/
    • Like Photoshop, but a little scarier-looking. A couple of hours playing with it and you’ll get the hang of it. Powerful.
  • Irfanview (images)
  • DVDFlick (DVD authoring)
    • http://www.dvdflick.net/
    • Put your legally questionable downloaded movies on DVD with menus and everything! Not the best, but really easy to use.
  • uTorrent (downloading)
    • http://www.utorrent.com/
    • Download anything you want with this.
    • Best sites for searching are:
      • Obviously, use at your own risk. Read comments, look at details, and install anti-malware apps first. BTjunkie even has icons for # of ‘good/bad’ reports per torrent, so make sure to check them out.
        • You can use Peer Guardian to hide your IP address while you’re downloading legally questionable content. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
  • TVersity (media center)
    • http://tversity.com/
    • Like Windows Media Center, but free and better. Download podcasts and videocasts and share your video across your home network.
    • If you have an Xbox or some other device for your TV, you can even watch your hard-drive movies/music/photos on TV. Super awesome.

Web sites that you will presently become completely, slobber-mouth addicted to, because they are awesome and will make you WIN.

  • Google Calendar
    • http://www.google.com/calendar/
    • You can even remind yourself of appointments via email or SMS to your mobile phone! You can also share calendar events and add other people’s events to yours.
  • Lifehacker
    • http://lifehacker.com/
    • Learn how to make life easier, cooler, better, and awesomer. Comes in many flavors, from real-world DIY projects to digital shortcuts
    • I really cannot say enough good about this site. Some of the best tips, tricks, and suggestions i’ve ever found for all areas of life, both digital and in meatspace.
    • Seriously. Wicked awesome.
  • Facebook
    • http://facebook.com/
    • Find old friends. Avoid others. Lots of dumb widgets, and you can “poke” people until their brains bleed. Annoying, but awesome too.
  • Picasa
  • Flickr
  • Gmail
  • Google Reader
  • Twitter
    • http://twitter.com/
    • Like a micro-sized blog. Send “tweets” from your cell phone or via web.
  • WordPress
  • Indeed
  • LinkedIn
  • Craigslist
  • BoingBoing
    • http://boingboing.net/
    • “A directory of wonderful things” – weird, cool stuff, plus news you might not hear about elsewhere.
  • Digg
    • http://digg.com/
    • Social news site. Most popular submitted stories rise to the top. Addictive, interesting, and easy.
  • last.fm
    • http://last.fm/
    • Social networking, music-style. Also download their desktop player. With that you can play music tagged with descriptive keywords. For fun, try typing in “unlistenable.”

If you’re ever looking for killer software (or a web site) that does ‘X, Y, and/or Z,’ just let me know and i’ll point you to something good, safe, fun, and useful.

My username is “transmothra” on most sites – if you run into me online be sure to say hello!

Not no news

  • Just got back from the Emergeny Veterinary Clinic in Moraine. I had hit Speck full-force in the eye with his latest favorite toy, a Kong tennis-ball dumbbell. He likes daddy to throw it and bounce it off the wall at the top of the stairs so it goes bouncing all the way downstairs. So i threw it hard, but he’d gotten a head start and i popped him right in the eye. No permanent damage, just blunt trauma to the eye – mainly just discomfort. He seems fine now, but we’re out $164 – which digs into our rent, unfortunately. I feel like such an asshole right now.
  • I’ve just started playing Anarchy Online. It’s pretty cool, and you can play the non-expanded version for free. I’m a froobie.
  • I’ve STILL got that damn cough. It’s just not going away. It’s a little better now, though. And when i take my antibiotics, which i’ve been on for a couple of weeks now, i get nauseated and sleepy. I hate this.
  • And i’ve been depressed as hell lately about my life. I’m trying so hard, but i’m going nowhere. I’ve applied at so many places in the last few months that it’s not even funny. I rarely ever seem to get any response. I’ve had a single interview in the last couple of months. It went well, but it looks as if that employer is going to be extending an offer to an earlier candidate.
  • My voter registration has FINALLY been processed. I’m all set to help Obama get elected to the Presidency of the United States.

And, if you haven’t seen it already, check out the Sarah Palin prank call: