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		<title>Passive aggressive spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just checking my spam filter, as I occasionally do, to be sure that I haven&#8217;t overlooked some real people making real comments. Some of these bots are getting to be nearly indistinguishable from real people if you weren&#8217;t really paying attention to the URL attached to the comment and weren&#8217;t that great at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just checking my spam filter, as I occasionally do, to be sure that I haven&#8217;t overlooked some real people making real comments. Some of these bots are getting to be nearly indistinguishable from real people if you weren&#8217;t really paying attention to the URL attached to the comment and weren&#8217;t that great at English to begin with. But sometimes they&#8217;re just a work of passive aggressive art, and I thought you&#8217;d get a kick out of the best specimen or two.</p>
<blockquote><p>I haven’t checked in here for some time because I thought it was getting boring, but the last several posts are great quality so I guess I’ll add you back to my daily bloglist. You deserve it my friend <img src="../wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" /></p></blockquote>
<p>I love how I &#8220;deserve&#8221; their attention now that I&#8217;m no longer boring.</p>
<blockquote><p>Exactly. I imagine it is. Very good stuff, I agree totally.</p></blockquote>
<p>Exactly what &#8220;it&#8221; is this spammer is agreeing totally with, I have no idea. But they think I&#8217;m dumb enough to approve their comment so they can link to a spammer directory.</p>
<p>The one below that was a comment telling me that Apple was much preferable to the Zune&#8230; which Microsoft killed how long ago??</p>
<p>And in the &#8220;flattery will get you nowhere, especially when you make no sense&#8221; category:</p>
<blockquote><p>Im a huge fan already, man. Youve accomplished a brilliant job generating positive that people have an understanding of where youre coming from. And let me let you know, I get it. Excellent stuff and I cant wait to read extra of one’s blogs. What youve got to say is significant and needs to be read.</p></blockquote>
<p>And, of all things, a new one is trying to tell me they posted certain posts on Reddit! Really?</p>
<p>By the way, the new version of WordPress has a nice preview feature when you hover over a URL in the spam filter, so you don&#8217;t have to click on the link and worry about infecting your computer with a virus or something. VERY nice feature, WP!</p>
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		<title>Foxy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend shared this article with me recently, delving into a decades-long experiment trying to recreate the domestication of pets in foxes&#8212;and succeeding, faster than they had anticipated. I found it fascinating, especially because I&#8217;d just recently seen something about the discovery of a burial site that dates back to before pets were domesticated, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend shared <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/taming-wild-animals/ratliff-text/2" target="_blank">this article</a> with me recently, delving into a decades-long experiment trying to recreate the domestication of pets in foxes&#8212;and succeeding, faster than they had anticipated. I found it fascinating, especially because I&#8217;d just recently  seen something about the discovery of a burial site that dates back to before pets were  domesticated, and foxes were buried with all the care that a family  member might be along with their owners. It  makes me wonder why they gave up on domesticating foxes if they are  capable of being domesticated. The article I read posited that foxes  could only be domesticated up to a point, which would have explained why people turned to wolves.</p>
<p>Now I can&#8217;t find the original article to link, though. But <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/21/was-mans-first-best-friend-a-fox/" target="_blank">here&#8217;s a Time article</a> that covers the same thing.</p>
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		<title>Absentee blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.stacylwhitman.com/2009/09/01/absentee-blogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been rather absentee from the blog lately. I&#8217;ve been working on a number of things&#8211;catching up on critiques (for those waiting, thanks for your patience), finding a day job (paying the bills is a good thing!), apartment hunting and then rearranging my apartment to allow for a roommate, and a few other things. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been rather absentee from the blog lately. I&#8217;ve been working on a number of things&#8211;catching up on critiques (for those waiting, thanks for your patience), finding a day job (paying the bills is a <em>good</em> thing!), apartment hunting and then rearranging my apartment to allow for a roommate, and a few other things. I don&#8217;t like to talk much about any of those things in detail on the blog&#8211;I have tweeted some about some of them, but not much&#8211;so I&#8217;ve been quiet here and bordering on inane on Twitter/Facebook.</p>
<p>None of those things have been resolved quite yet, either, so I&#8217;m probably going to continue to be quiet here for a while. It&#8217;s all I can do to just try to get everything done in a day, and then in the evenings I tend to be watching TV or doing similar things to decompress, which is what I&#8217;ve been tweeting about recently.</p>
<p>I did read <em>Catching Fire</em> as one of those decompression activities, though, and perhaps later this week I&#8217;ll post a review of it, if I get the time. Hopefully by mid-September things will have settled down a bit and I&#8217;ll have some news for you.</p>
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		<title>Busy is good, but bad hair days are the pits</title>
		<link>http://www.stacylwhitman.com/2009/07/14/busy-is-good-but-bad-hair-days-are-the-pits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy finishing an edit for an author, working on a proofread, and getting submission packet critiques back to the authors who have been waiting for them for what probably feels like an inordinate amount of time. If you&#8217;re waiting on me for a critique, hopefully I&#8217;ll be catching up to you in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been busy finishing an edit for an author, working on a proofread, and getting submission packet critiques back to the authors who have been waiting for them for what probably feels like an inordinate amount of time. If you&#8217;re waiting on me for a critique, hopefully I&#8217;ll be catching up to you in the queue soon. It&#8217;s been so good to have work to be busy with &#8212; the bills are actually getting paid this month! If you&#8217;re a freelancer, you know what I mean &#8212; you start to panic when the workload starts to decrease, because who knows whether it will increase again?</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m taking a break this evening. I have a confession: A few nights ago, I got it into my head that if I just trimmed up the little wisps on my hair around my face, I wouldn&#8217;t have to dip into my meager funds to pay for a haircut. I mean, I&#8217;d rather pay the power bill and have groceries, you know? But the scissors slipped, and I ended up trying to even it out, and&#8230; well, awful story short, I think I have given myself a mullet. It&#8217;s bad, guys.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m off in a few hours to go have someone fix it &#8212; and yes, I&#8217;m paying for it, don&#8217;t worry. It&#8217;s going to probably end up pretty short. Which is *really* scary for me, because short hair on me usually just emphasizes how much weight I&#8217;ve gained in my adulthood. I&#8217;ve picked out a few pictures off the internet that might work, but those pictures are always of really skinny models and I&#8217;m just not sure how they&#8217;ll look *on me*, and I want as professional and modern a look as possible.</p>
<p>If you have any ideas for cute short hair, especially medium-length hair that&#8217;s relatively short in the front (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/lvv23h" target="_blank">here&#8217;s</a> an example of what I mean by that, or perhaps the one on the right <a href="http://www.hairstyle.com/datastore/0/medium03.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>), by all means, please give me a link in the comments (but do it by 4:30 MST, because I&#8217;m heading out to get it all chopped off after that).</p>
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		<title>Just seen in Salt Lake</title>
		<link>http://www.stacylwhitman.com/2009/06/23/just-seen-in-salt-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home the other day, I saw this sign and just HAD to turn around and get a picture of it:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Driving home the other day, I saw this sign and just HAD to turn around and get a picture of it:</p>
<div id="attachment_1125" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 514px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1125" title="low-res-random-june-2009-003" src="http://www.stacylwhitman.com/http://www.whitmanstacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/low-res-random-june-2009-003.jpg" alt="Plus 5 charisma with costumes" width="504" height="378" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Plus 5 charisma with costumes</p></div>
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