Bits and Pieces

[firstfrost]

• Last night, a spammer sent a million billion (well, I don't know the exact number, but I got ~1800 myself) messages to a bunch of MIT lists. Many of them went to RT, which flooded it enough that it's thrashing and failing, preventing people from being able to respond to the other many messages complaining about having gotten a million billion spam messages.
• And the heat is off in N42!
  
  
• Craigie on Main has changed their bar and dining room to not use each other's menus. Sniff! No more tasting menu at the bar. I bet the bar has gotten too popular, what with all the recent articles about their Most Amazing Burger Ever; there's always a line for the bar at 5:30 when it opens. The other night, ilhander asked for something "dark and brooding" and got a drink titled "Living to old age and dying happy is a hope, not an inevitability." (For those reading now without reading comments, the change has been reverted. (the best bartenders ever plus all the choices of the best food ever, so yay!))
  
  
• Last night, mjperson was meeting Mirris & others for dinner at Journeyman, when I got a phone call from him.
  "I'm standing where my iPhone tells me the restaurant is, but I can't find it. Help!"
  "Are you in the alley already? Go down the alley, there's a door on your right."
  "I see a door for (some other restaurant)."
  "No, go farther than that. It's an unmarked big door."
  "There's a plain wooden door... ahah!"

  Later, tirinian noted that listening to the conversation on my end, he couldn't tell whether it was about real life or a video game someone was lost in.

Comments

[hr-macgirl.livejournal.com]

I wondered what was wrong with RT this morning. The spamming explains it!

As for the heat being off, just think of the wonders of your new abode. The HVAC will work better, I promise you that.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Wow, did you *not* get hundreds of messages advertising spam software? The lists must have been much more clumpy than I realized.

I certainly will be happier in a better-behaved HVAC system - I've kind of gotten resigned to the random 80+ days in the summer, but this was the first no heat day I could remember.

[hr-macgirl.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a single spam message. I only have four new messages in brightmail and one is a mailman bounce. I wonder what lists they targeted. I manage 300+ moira lists and a whole pile of mailman lists, not to mention a dozen or so RT queues. Evil spammers!

[kelkyag]

I didn't get more than the usual one or two that sneak past brightmail, and not much more than usual in brightmail. I guess I'm on all the right (wrong?) mailing lists?