I just totally got phished

I got an email from mail@egreetings.com telling me someone had sent me an ecard. I thought it odd that it didn't say *who* had sent me an ecard, but I get them so infrequently that I wasn't sure if that was normal now.
I clicked the link and it asked me if I really wanted to run this Windows executable file from somethingorother.ru. Noooo!
So I went to egreetings.com and pasted in the ID number instead, and it was invalid.
Hm!

Anyway, I don't usually pass along virus warnings, but I'll pass that one along.

It's so long since I had to worry about viruses, but now that my stupid Macbook is Intel I guess I have to worry about them more. Bleh. I'll let you know if my computer melts, but since I didn't run the .exe I might be OK...

I have lengthy and comprehensive updates to make later, but odds are I won't, so I'll just say here that it was a lovely if exhausting weekend, I slept over twelve hours last night, and I'm thoroughly not psyched to be going back to work today. Oh well, here I go...

lulz

I had been irritated, the other day, to realize that I did not have a current email address for my brother-in-law-- I had two on file for him, one of which was for the financial consulting company for whom he no longer works (Wachovia bought them and he quit because he doesn't like Wachovia), and the other of which was his old army.mil email address. I had assumed that likewise was no longer valid, because my sister Katy no longer uses hers, but apparently he does still use it.
Because when we finally got the email with attached baby photos, the sender was his army.mil email address, and the subject line was:
"Baby photos: UNCLASSIFIED"
I had assumed Adam was making some sort of joke, given that it took him nearly 24 hours to get these photos sent out and the family was all snapping their fingers in impatience, but apparently it's a setting he had to specify in order to include an attachment. Maybe it was just whatever computer he was using, but at no point within any of the email does he make any mention of whether the baby photos are classified information or not.

I wanted to share that, though I've completely ruined the joke, if joke it was, in the telling. Baby photos: UNCLASSIFIED.
I'd post them except they're sort of not very good quality, and he plans on putting them up properly on Snapfish or whatever service he uses shortly, so I'll link to them there.
Also, they're just low-res small pictures of a typical squinty newborn, and there's absolutely nothing in them to really recommend them to anyone. I told Katy on the phone last night that I was perfectly willing to give her time to adjust to her baby before I show up, and also I'd rather visit, since it's so hard to travel that far, once the child is actually recognizably human. In my defense, she was the first to say he wasn't really a baby yet, as he has neither opened his eyes nor cried nor really done much besides poop. But he'll get cute soon enough.

heartburn

Uh.
Quick question:
What causes heartburn? I don't mean the scientific mechanism behind it, I mean, why does a person, who's never had it before, suddenly start getting it all the time? What have I been eating? Am I doing something stupid?
Early last week I started having problems with heartburn in the evenings. I almost didn't skate Tuesday night because my stomach felt funny and I thought I might throw up, and kept having really acid-y feelings in my esophagus.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, even Saturday nights I had heartburn in the evenings, bad enough that I kept bumming Tums off my middle sister.
Today I've got it and it's only 3:30 pm. I had been writing it off because over Thanksgiving I just ate ridiculous things at odd hours. But all I've had today is 2 bottles of water, 2 cups of well-whitened coffee (and it started before the second, and several hours after the first), a cup of applesauce, a piece of cheese, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Maybe I should just take it easy and wait for the seasonal stress to settle down, but in the meantime, does anyone have any recommendations of what I should or should not eat? I'd fast for a day to help things settle down if I thought that would help, but me not eating is usually just generally badness all around. (Cranky + dizzy + overdramatic + nauseated, usually, = not really worth the effort.)

And I don't want to keep popping Tums! This is an alien concept to me. I'd never had one before. I didn't even know you could chew them...

Or is this one of those things that varies so much by person I might as well not even ask for advice?

oh my god Nicholas Valiarde is real

That's all I could think when I read this.
This group has been breaking into the Pantheon secretly to restore a clock in it.
They are a secret network of Parisians who use underground tunnels for their nefarious missions, most of which involve culture in some way.

(Link via rm.)

yay i'm writing!

Yay, I'm writing!!
I'm not writing well, mind you, and I keep having to stop to do things-- see, Z is busy programming on a project he's interested in, which means that when the cat is breaking something, he ignores it, and when the dishes are piling up, he ignores it. In fact he spent a great deal of time this weekend while my family was here sitting on the couch staring at his computer and ignoring us.
So I'm trying to finally write, and I keep having to stop and rescue the cat, and do some dishes as the house is a bit of a garbage dump now that everyone's gone (the ones that clean up after themselves left first). But he's getting a lot done...

Oh well. I digress. The point is that I'm writing.

Unfortunately, it's porn.

I'm serious, I'm going to start a website of erotica, and all of it is going to be outtakes from the "more serious" fiction I'm trying to write, with the names replaced. It will become a pastime, in future, of academics who study me, to try and take these snippets of erotica I write, and match them back up with the story they were excised from.

I'll start now.