Category Archives: Randomness

More Spam Poetry (free form this time)

Three examples of SPAM text that reads like free form poetry.  The bold content is the subject, and the text below is the actual email contents…

…and gathered about two handfuls of flower
   unconnected
   In twenty years or more

‘N now he’s silent, he is dead.
   acoustician
   flu
   And they went to sea in a Sieve

Did not fall into the little hand
   appearing
   Sleep in your little bed

The anger, we all have it
   beseeches 
   And the Orient Calf from the Land of Tute

Far and few, far and few
   Alabama Holding
   fast upon his shell

This Is Just To Say

I have deleted
the spam
that was in
the inbox

and which
you were probably
hoping
I would click

Forgive me
they were outrageous
so fleet
and so bold

The Web, Circa 1994

I was recently going through some old file archives, and discovered a complete copy of a website I started in 1993 to host information on OSU Oceanography’s research ship R/V Wecoma.  It ran on a Solaris box on my desk at Oregon State University and used the NCSA HTTPd server. Think pre-Linux, pre-Apache, pre-PHP and pre-Perl.  Think when Yahoo’s address was at Stanford and hosted on Akebono. read more »