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We all got pwned.

Hmmmm, I can think of some uses for that…..

I know where that facility is!

If you can’t come up with time to put your kid to bed, why do you have kids?

Counter protest.

Wonder how many chases will have the excuse “but I didn’t think he was a REAL cop??”

Why yes, I trust the TSA to do their jobs perfectly?  Why do you ask??

This is why you do not prank a gun owner.

Might want to think twice about that scrap you just stole….

Stay away from my food dammit!!


Note to self

If we’re ever in the market to buy a house again, check and make sure all sinks, water heaters and other places where water is managed have their own individual shut offs.  If not ask why.  Also confirm correct pipe used in all instances, if not ask why.  If the above are partially or all “no” and we decide to buy the house anyway budget to fix the issue within the first month of moving in.


Who the H*ll is Nexon games?? And why are they sending out Phishing emails??

And why do they have my email??

Husband and I have about figured out they probly got my email through Steam…..which I use very occasionally, but that doesn’t excuse the “OMG, we saw SUSPCIOUS ACTIVITY on your account!!!! Click HERE to fix your account!!!!”  Can you say PHISHING?!?  The worst of it is they really DID create an account in my “name” too, manually typing in the web address, and using the password reset provides me with account information….yah, not amused.

A basic “hey lookit our games!!” email I’d have been ok with, ok, annoyed and demanding to be removed from the mailing list, but understanding of what happened anyway.  But instead a “OH NO!!!” email in an attempt to get me to use their service, and their website blatently says that if you got an email asking to “reactivate your account” if you don’t want the account just ignore it and we’ll delete it after X period of time….Yah, no.

Stay away from Nexon games….


Fricking recalls

I’ve posted a couple times about the pet food recalls in the last week or so.  Of course it was a week in before it occurred to me that I feed the CATS Taste of the Wild kibble….course, the media keeps saying its a DOG food recall, and certainly most of the specific formulas mentioned are dog food.  But some of them don’t specify.  So two days ago I called TOTW, and sure enough, not only is cat kibble included, the bag I have on hand is ALSO included.

ARG!!  Getting Janie to eat something new is HELL, even when I can use the old food to gradually intro the new.  But with her poor kidneys I don’t dare feed her any more of the potentially contaminated food.  So that means a cold turkey switch.  Picked up a small bag of Earthborn (since as far as I can find out they don’t have any relationship with Diamond), and made note of a couple other brands I’d be willing to try. 

Well, she ate some last night….and now she’s puking flem.  Pancreatitis most likely.  Quite possibly set off by the new food.  Whether because of something about the food itself, or just the cold turkey change I have no idea.  And of course the vet is closed for the night.  I could make it an ER visit, but I know from experience that if it IS a pancreatitis flairup none of the standard treatments will help her, and since she isn’t otherwise acting in poor health its not worth dragging her down there.


Email spam

Just a warning for folks.  I was cleaning out an old yahoo account today, I keep it around just to keep it mine and make sure no one hacks it, but haven’t actually used it in years.  So imagine my surprise when I opened it up today to clean out the spam and discovered 5 very realistic looking emails.  One from appeared to be from Foursquare with a friend request, two apparently from Youtube with notices about video’s uploaded, and two apparently from Amazon about order cancelations.

At first glance I was a bit concerned that someone had hacked the email, but after a second look I realized it was an experienced spammer trying to get personal information.  Please note that I said in all cases above “appeared”.  Even the sending email addresses had been spoofed to appear identical to those actually sent from the companies.  However a quick look at the LINKS in each email showed the actual addresses linked to were NOT those from the companies.  Just to be sure I hit all three company websites (by typing in the addresses thank you very much) and attempted a password reset using my Yahoo email.  All three stated no account with that email.

Moral of the story and a reminder to everyone:  DO NOT EVER CLICK LINKS IN EMAILS.  ALWAYS TYPE IN THE ADDRESS YOURSELF, EVEN IF THE EMAIL APPEARS TO BE REAL.  If its a real notice from the company you will be able to find the information with out to much fuss from your account page.