Yay! Only my favorite TV show EVER starts tomorrow!

The Amazing Race 7. Tuesdays at 9. Only on CBS.

For those of you who've never heard of it, it's a competition-type reality show. These teams o' 2 race around the world, completing tasks as they go. The last team to check in at the Pit Stop, the ending point of a leg, is usually eliminated. (NON-ELIMINATION LEGS! DUH!)

My pre-favs are Debbie and Bianca, the "lifelong friends". I'm a sucker for all-girl teams. Pre-hates include Brian & Greg, Ray & Deana, Rob & Amber (the media hos), and Ron & Kelly. Yes, I usually hate on the Young Dating Couples.

This is now my desktop wallpaper:



Bianca's on the left, Debbie's on the right. There's something I just love about this picture. Maybe it's Debbie's too-kewl-4-skewl outfit. Maybe it's the bleak background. I dunnoe.

Here are my (probably completely inaccurate) predictions:

1st: Debbie & Bianca
2nd: Lynn & Alex
3rd: Ron & Kelly
4th: Uchenna & Joyce
5th: Megan & Heidi
6th: Brian & Greg
7th: Rob & Amber
8th: Meredith & Gretchen
9th: Ray & Deana
10th: Susan & Patrick
11th: Ryan & Chuck

OMG! I'M POSTING THIS ENTRY FROM SCHOOL!

Hi.

I know! I know!

www.sorryeverybody.com

I am so going to put myself on there. I'll be holding a notebook over my face, in the fetal position. On the notebook it'll say:

"Sorry Afghanistan"
"Sorry Albania"
"Sorry Algeria"
"Sorry Andorra"
"Sorry Angola"
"Sorry Antigua and Barbuda"
"Sorry Argentina"
"Sorry Armenia"
"Sorry Australia"
"Sorry Austria"
"Sorry Azerbaijan"
"Sorry Bahamas"
etc. . .

I just need someone to take the picture for me. Both of my best friends are pro-Bush, so I doubt it. But you never know.

Maybe I can set my T-Mobile (I have the same service provider as Paris Hilton. Is that good or bad?) phone to like a 10-second delay.

Wow. It's been a week since I blogged.

I assume you've all heard about Paris Hilton's phone being hacked. Sad. Grim. Pathetic.

What scares me most is that this just happened a little after a guy pleaded guilty to hacking into the entire T-Mobile database and gaining access to pretty much everyone's stuff.

I have a T-Mobile phone :o( My profile pic was taken with it, which explains the grotty quality.

Gosh, I can't think of anything to talk about.

HA! HA! HA!

We had to examine dead frogs in biology today :'(

I'm supposed to be working on a World History assignment, but I was surfing the net (dude!) and thought this was mildly funny.

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"Why do only 0.01% percent of people succeed on eBay? BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE OUR PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1one"

Yay, a response from noontide!!!

Read my post below if you don't know what's happening.

"We're testing out a method for demographic profiling based on emails. You seem to have been caught by this profiling. We're sorry about that and we'll delete you, it's actually a temp file generated by one of our scripts. You seem to have been caught for area code search in Toronto."

:shiftyeyes

Hee hee!

I was searching for my old email address on Google just now. One of the results was a web page containing a yooge list of emails. I thought to myself, "Gosh, this looks suspiciously like a database of email addresses for spammers to use." The page is even downloadable via a .csv file, or data table. Of course, I'm smart enough to never put strange files I don't know on my computer.

So I go to the main website, http://noontide.ca/. Apparently, they are "a Toronto web design company that has extensive experience in dynamic site design and compatibility". Fair enough. Nothing about "providing our opt-in customers with the best daily deals from exclusive vendors" or somesuch.

Then I type in http://user.noontide.ca to get a little more specific. A fairly large directory. I click on Apps, the next folder in the web page name. There are three folders, CSV to SQL loader, Email Emailer, and GooglePage. Email Emailer sounds suspicious, so I click on it. Voila! A bulk email program called PointerPro.

I'm definitely getting weirded out now. I go back and click on CSV to SQL loader, and then Compilation.csv. I use GoogleCache to view the page. TA-DA!!!!!!!!!! Another! David! Victory! More email addresses. Next, I click on Loader.php. Looks like the output of a program putting these emails into an SQL database.

I have no idea what Principals-Maybe.csv is supposed to be.

Finally, Toronto - M4N - MRT - Amalgamation.csv is the list where I found my email. No, you cannot know what it is.

I poked around the rest of the site for a while, then left.

I am definitely writing Noontide an email about this. It's all just too weird.

Oh yes. One other thing.

The trip to Europe got cancelled this summer :(

Every cloud has a silver lining, of course. Since the trip revolved around this conference my dad was organizing, and there was a definite lack of interest, it got moved to next summer so people can make plans far in advance. My dad's also going to attend another conference in Austria (AUSTRIA! YAY!!!!!!111111) a few weeks after that in Salzburg, which looks like a beautiful city.

While we're there, I also want to see Vienna (duh) and the Salzkammergut (the lake region), because they're supposed to be the highlights of the country. Plus the peeps in Amazing Race 4 went there. There are are also supposed to be the largest ice caves in the world (Eisriesenwelt) in Werfen, south of Salzburg.

Mappy of this whole thing.

Needless to say, I'm already learning German.

I just wish it could be sooner :(

Yeah, so I'm posting here instead of doing my homework. So what.

I just remembered this a few minutes ago and wanted to share with you.

Scene: at a basketball game.
Characters: DAVID, a teenager
DREW, a teenage friend of DAVID

DAVID: (smelling brand-new travel suit) It smells very. . . fabric-y.
DREW: (rolling his eyes, I'm sure) Yes, that's what clothes are made of.
DAVID: Not all of them! Some are made out of, like, dirt.

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever said.

Cream cheese is the yuckiest food ever, n'est-ce pas?

Bleah. It's squishy and yucky and cold and it makes me gag.

I remember this one time in fifth grade. A couple of sixth-graders were doing a science project on whether color affects perception of taste. They spread cream cheese on these little crackers and used my class as a test subject. Of course, I didn't realize what it was until it was too late.

:( I preferred the blue cream cheese the best.