{"id":484,"date":"2008-08-05T01:21:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-08-05T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:21:49","slug":"haulin-gluteus-and-maybe-kickin-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Haulin&#8217; Gluteus, and maybe kickin&#8217; some!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this weekend was the weekend of much furniture and other Stuff hauling, helping Kr* move into the World&#8217;s Tiniest Apartment in Waltham. Here is where our childhood Tetris addictions paid off. Budget Rent-a-moving-truck was supposed to have the 10-footer we reserved, but, whoopsie-doodle, didn&#8217;t. So the options were either a smaller van, or a mondo 16-footer that couldn&#8217;t be brought around corners or parked anywhere. She went for the van, which was (in my book) good news since neither of us drives a giant windowless pedo-van much \/ at all.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/images\/tn_van_tetris.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are the van contents after we removed some stuff at the back. Insertion and removal of the mattress took multi-person pushing and shoving.<\/p>\n<p>Also, upon driving to the address for the first time, I discovered that it brings my <i>right<\/i> past a couple of local adversaries, old and new. The first is my <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=238\">ex&#8217;s ex<\/a>, my main source of threatening letters a couple years ago (now an obsolete adversary, but I still remember where the sucka lives)&#8230;the second, serendipitously enough, is this SPAMMER who&#8217;s been presumably running a dictionary attack* on my company&#8217;s mailserver, and whose first SPAM I received just a couple days before driving to Kr*&#8217;s place. (Why would a spam company ever put their street address on a piece of spam? To comply with the new US <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003\">CAN-SPAM<\/a> law. Basically, the law says that if you don&#8217;t forge the headers, have some kind of (however cumbersome) &#8216;Unsubscribe&#8217; process, and put your company&#8217;s street address on the mailings, you <i>Can Spam<\/i> all you want.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it&#8217;s right on the way, driving <i>right past it<\/i> once a week or more is just too much of an opportunity to resist! WhaddoIdo, whaddoIdo?<\/p>\n<p>* The spams are coming to a short address I have never actually sent mail from, but is there for the convenience of other employees.<br \/>\nEHLO a@example.com<br \/>\n  >> 550 No such mailbox<br \/>\nEHLO b@example.com<br \/>\n  >> 550 No such mailbox<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nEHLO tim@example.com<br \/>\n  >> 250 OK, ready the firehose<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I could jump through some hoops to &#8216;Unsubscribe&#8217;, but there&#8217;s principle involved here, and I think a letterbomb (of malarious mosquitos&#8230; fed on a steady diet of C-4&#8230; and covered in a mixture of anthrax and flesh eating bacteria&#8230; atop a stinky dead fish) would be a lot more fun. What is your proposal for dealing with a local spammer with a known address, probably operating out of a single (rented) studio in an office-park building?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this weekend was the weekend of much furniture and other Stuff hauling, helping Kr* move into the World&#8217;s Tiniest Apartment in Waltham. Here is where our childhood Tetris addictions paid off. Budget Rent-a-moving-truck was supposed to have the 10-footer we reserved, but, whoopsie-doodle, didn&#8217;t. So the options were either a smaller van, or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}