I found this article really interesting and felt it should be brought into recinidation.  It is from webopedia and everyone should read and bask in SPAM’s origin!

 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.htm

Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it’s unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

In addition to wasting people’s time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.

There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, “Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…” Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:

• Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.
• No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.
• Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.

With that said, much to Erick and RJ’s dismay, I think I might bring back the SPAM OF THE DAY.  I do have a purpose for doing it, but it will involve much more spam brought to the table.  I had stopped for a short while because Erick drove in a shitload of traffic and I didn’t want to cause any harm to that flow.  Since we are in a slow spell again, it might be time to bring in the SOTD greatness!  Time will tell!

Koopa and I here in the blog have a little friendly competition. We’re trying to create blog posts that create lots of hits. So far, I’m totally kicking his ass, but I’d like to continue doing that, and I’d like to ask for your help.

Actually, you’ve already helped, and thank you. You are being counted as one of the people who viewed this post, and given it a hit. You can count once every day (based on London Time), so bookmark this page and check it often. I will post updates in the comments section, and I’m sure Koopa will post telling us it won’t work. I don’t think he likes to lose.

If you want to help kick Koopa’s ass even harder, ask as many people as you can to do the same thing. Send this link to your friends. Put this link in your message board signature. Digg this story, or whatever you use. Add it to your own blog. Be creative.

Again, thank you very much for your help.  Together, we are going to kick Koopa’s ass really, really bad.

As I am driving down the highway in this morning’s commute, I look to the right of me and notice a van with lights on it.  Immediate warning signs flash on in my head and I slow down.  I check my speed limit and this damned thing made me go from 80 mph to 67 mph.  Slightly irate that I have a fellow cop on the highways with me, I wanted to further inspect this van to find out where it is from.  I mean, if it is a NY cop, I just entered CT again and can travel back at normal happy speeds.  If it is an interstate police car, I figured I would get pulled over in another few minutes.  It was very important to know what I was getting into.

This all happened in about 30 seconds.  My mind began to slow down and I started processing real thoughts again.  I take a second look at the van and it is not a cop at all!  I continue to study the van as I take my car up to 73 mph.  I notice that it is an Adopt a Highway  van.  This makes me wonder first, why adopt a highway has vans in the first place?  What are they vanning? Highways?  Mexicans?  Drugs? Aliens?

Well, as my civic duty as an American, I decided to follow said van, of course, until it doesn’t go the same direction that I was going!  Well, I get off of 684 with this drug cartel van and notice that it wants to take a service road entrance.  I figure, well, that may be why it says “Do not follow”  I started to relax a bit but then it quickly turns off its blinker and keeps driving straight!  I wonder why?  It looked like it was going down that service road.

As I approach the service road, I notice something that I fear more than aliens.  It is a cop with a speed gun!   I slow down to suggested speeds on an off-ramp and wonder again…Mexicans, drugs, aliens, ZOMBIES?!?!? I continue to track this zombie carrying van as we get onto 284 and happens to take my exit.  THANK GOD!  It is slightly strange though, since my exit is not the popular one to take.  My exit goes towards Rye instead of NYC.  Everyone is driving to NYC, except for me and the drug cartel van!

At this point, the van knows that I am in hot pursuit and pulls a fast one on me!  It gets off 287 on an exit that isn’t the one I am getting off of!  I will find more information out about this adopt a highway scam with or without the van!  Just you wait!

The Sillican Files are on the case!  Part two will be to find out more about this scandal and expose them for who they are!

I keep going off about it, but I think it’s worthy of going off about.  GPokr.com is the best place on the internet to play poker for free.

I keep trying to get up into the higher tables, and I succeed enough to play for a couple hours every month.  But I always get overanxious and take a risk and end up handing my hard-earned winnings to another person at the table.  Then it’s back down to the newbie tables for me!

We’re halfway through the competition this month, and I need to really step up my game play if I’m going to have a chance at getting a medal this month.

So, I finally played it.  Some friends invited us over last weekend, and they had two guitars for the XBox 360 version of Guitar Hero.  So, this was also the first time I played XBox 360.

The game was a lot of fun.  The songs were cool.  I really enjoyed the game.  We played in co-op mode and flew threw about four or five songs doing great.  I struggled a bit at first, but once you find the pattern for each song, you can start to predict the rhythms coming down the fretboard.  I guess it helps that I had exposure to music.