Dear Sándor

Thanks for your mail and the contents were quite noted, iam contacting you to assist me because i have a problem here and i need to relocate out from here as soon as possible. I don’t know much about your past but I believe that God have his special ways of doing things.

I have contacted the security company and informed them about you that I will like them to transfer the trunk box to your address in your country to allow me come over and stay with you forever and they have agreed to help me get the trunk box to your address and as soon as I hear from you I will give you their contact address so that you can contact them on my behalf.

I really have trust and confidence in you although its true that we have never met before but for you to tell me the truth about your past shows me that you are not going to betray me please do try and keep everything confidential. I will give you the details when I hear back from you.

Thanks and waiting for your urgent response.

Best regards

Yannis

This is first mention of stay with me forever. You are not saying this before. I would much like getting to know a person before inviting person into my home. I would like to know them better still if I am to inviting them to stay. God does have special way of doing things, but practical concerns must not be overlooking.

are you considering using family valuable to living in hotel. many hotel are more comfortable than my poor home. many hotel are most accommodating. security company can transfer box to my country, where you can retrieve and liquidate funds for living place.

i am most grateful for the faith and trust you have in me, but I also have concern because your urgent needs are changing from our first talk. my first understanding was only help with package.

at this time, I am having increased discomfort about our correspondences. please consider my good advice, as i think it meets your needs better than I could. I am wishing you much good luck in your escape, but I am unable to helping you.

Sándor

Dear Sándor

Thanks for your mail and the contents were quite noted, its not easy trusting somebody with the contents of the trunk box but i have the feeling that you are

such a trust worthy someone that will help me out in this transaction, the money was deposited in the security company here by my late father and he deposited it as a family valuable and treasure. I don’t have anybody that i can trust with here with such money as the people i have here are very wicked and my father advised me before his death to seek for a trust worthy someone abroad that will help me out that is the reason why i contacted you and you need to give me the full assurance that you are going to help me out so that i will give you all details concerning the trunk box deposited with the security company here.

Please try and understand my point I need to leave this country to continue with my life with ever present political crisis that is going on the country my inheritance funds is not safe and I have told the company that I want them to transfer my trunk box abroad and they have agreed to help me transferred the box abroad as soon as they hear from you they will ship the consignment to your country so that I will be able to come over and continue with my education and invest with the money.

Do try and let me know more about you as in your age occupation and marital statue and also send me your private telephone number for easier communication. Do try and keep everything confidential as I have not revealed this secret to anybody but you and I have trust and confidence that you are going to let me down. Thanks and waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards

Yannis

it is of utmost interest to me that you are trusting in me, as I have had legal troubles not too long ago. I have troubles with fraud and embezzlement as well. I am glad someone is trusting in me again, but I am not sure why, because of my past history.

Sándor

Dear Sándor,

Thanks for your urgent response to my mail, I want you to know that transferring of this box from Abidjan (Ivory Coast). to your country will be arranged by the security company diplomatic agents, the transferring of the box will be effected from the company head quarters here in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). to your country, I have the necessary documents of claim such as Certificate of ownership and certificate of deposit with me here and this will be sent to you as we progress but I want you to know that there is no problem or danger associated with the release and transferring of the box because everything has been arrange just the way it has to be.

the first process is that I will need to submit your details to the management of the security company so that they can edit your profile in the database of Company as my foreign beneficiary of claim after which I will send to you the company contact information so you can talk with them on my behalf as my appointed beneficiary, but before we can move ahead with this arrangement, I will need to know you better and the details I will require from you are as follows,

(1) Your Full Names.

(2) Your Home or Office Address.

(3) Your Phone Number.

(4) Occupation.

(5) Age.

As soon as I receive the required details, I will then submit it to the management of the company so they can start the process of editing your name and details in the company database. my call her [phone hidden by editor to maintain confidentiality] ok

Sincerely,

Mr. Yannis

what sort if thing are in package? what sort of documents are needed, and what are these documents that you have? how did you learn that I would help? you are very trusting to trust such valuables to someone you have not met. would it not be more safe to take valuables with you and leave country?

Sándor

From Yannis
Good day, I am Yannis 23years the only son of my late parents late Chief David Franklin My father was a highly reputable business magnet who deal on gold and cocoa mercahnt based in accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast).
I wish to request for your assistance in moving my inherited family valuable consignment that whort USD$ 7,500,000.00) my late father deposited with a security company here in Abidjan cote d’ivoire as family values not as money for the security of my life,for my investment I obliged to do.
I will give you details when I get a favourable response. However, I need you to confirm the below request.
1. Can you honestly help me from your heart?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total money will be aceptable by you?
Respond immidiately I confirm your willingness, I will give you more details involved in this matter.
Best Regards.
Yannis,

this is sounding upmost urgent. how can I helping you?

Sándor

Dear motorcycle riders,
I feel it is important that I clarify what appears to be a common misconception: just pointing at a spot on the road does not make it your spot. Our highways and roads are not the wild west frontiers, they are not vast expanses of native American lands that you can lay claim to. You must actually be able to safely transition into the spot, and cannot expect all other drivers to bend to your whim, simply because “your finger points.” When you ride like an ass, you cannot go crying to everyone about how motorcyclists are dropping like flies, because YOU’RE RIDING LIKE AN ASS!

Thanks for your consideration,
the operator of a LARGER VEHICLE

This weekend in Atlanta was absolutely amazing. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to embrace my inner geek.

I don’t usually deal well with new situations, lots of people and/or new people, but I felt surprisingly comfortable surrounded by all the nerds of different shapes and sizes. It’s refreshing to see how many people actually feel the same passion I feel about a great many things.

The event was pretty well organized, all things considered. The entirety of four hotels was dedicated to Dragon*Con events. A handy booklet listed events, times and locations for the weekend. Despite this organization, we still felt a bit lost for a majority of the time; trying to plan panels, find rooms and work out timing issues. Alex, Kenneth and I are in agreement that this trip is best described as a learning experience: we are compiling a list of things we need to do or do differently for next time (yeah, we’re already working on “next time”).

We attended a Miss Star Trek Universe Pageant, which featured a green belly dancer and Seven of Nine (or is it Six or… whatever) dancing to “All the Single Ladies,” hosted by two Klingons. It was fun. We attended a panel called “Adult Themes in the Star Wars Universe,” which didn’t sink to new depths of perversion, it just started there. Apparently, everyone in Star Wars is fucking everyone else. We touched on issues including getting Twi’leks off by incorporating their head tales during intercourse. Ewoks apparently started the furbie movement. Artoo has MANY attachments not displayed in the movies.

The Battlestar Gallactica panel was actually really good. Edward James Olmos was very engaging and informative. Dean Stockwell was pretty funny. Richard Hatch got to be a bit of a bore, as he spent most of his time defending himself and his character. Oh yeah, I took a piss with Edward James Olmos.

And the costumes…. I knew that many people would be dressing up, since that is kinda what you do and I expected to see several genres represented, but I think what surprised most was how varied the quality of costumes was. I guess since the interwebs showcases the best outfits, I must have figured that that was the standard, but I was wrong. Some of the better ones included an 8′+ Chewbacca, several slave Leias, between 5 and 7 Indiana Jones’, a handful of Kara “Starbuck” Thraces, a shit-ton of Jedi, a Grand Admiral Thrawn, a Leeloo, a Zorg, a couple of “Up” kids, stormtroopers, predators (including a female predator), at least one alien and a variety of steampunk get-ups.

The following is a selection from this weekend’s events.

Setting out on our great adventure

Chewbacca (I’ll let Alex estimate his height).

Viet and Alex with Captain America.

Viet and slave Leia.

YAY! We have permalinks… links that make sense instead of random post IDs.

I propose to you that the wolf-man myth is an allegory (yeah, you like that one? Its my fifty cent word of the day) to teach us ignorant men-folk of the female condition.

So check it out: this (traditionally) male individually is finely attuned to the lunar cycle; their biology and body chemistry change drastically for a brief period of time every twenty-eight or so days (at least in the original lore when the transformation was involuntary and controlled by the phase of the moon rather then the will of the affected individual). I guess the specific application of this mythos would determine whether this transformation is meant to illicit a sense of fear or terror from the viewer or one of compassion, sorrow and awe.

I hate job interviews, so much so that I actively do my best to minimize how often I have to participate in them [editor's note: Dear BBY, I am comfortable in my role as SWAT at 1120 and am NOT, and have NOT been seeking employment elsewhere! I am not wanting this post or its opening to get passed around as a rumor. Please read on for content which will put this opening into perspective...]. I am at a crossroads in my life (have I mentioned my hatred for and dread of change?) having just concluded schooling, round two. The resultant degree makes me happy and leaves me with an amazing feeling of accomplishment and pride, as well as a substantial amount of debt to repay.

When taking note of my aforementioned phobia, it becomes clear that I need to transition from my current role of ‘knuckle-dragger’ to that of ‘web designer’ at my own pace, but that the previously mentioned moneys must still be re-paid. I currently have a great job, where I work with (and for) some amazing people, earn an honest wage, keep GREAT hours, and am given great benefits, and all this while working for a great company where I really feel valued and taken care of (this is not b.s., or one of my trademarked sarcastic tirades: I really do have a great job, despite my occasional bitching). Phobia or not, I plan on keeping my current job for a long while to come. These two factors (debt and existing job) make a few things clear: first, I need to find additional income, enough at least to cover the additional expense of tuition; second, I need to do this on my own time, so as to not interfere with what is still my primary source of income. I am left with one clear course of action: freelance work. This course certainly has both advantages and disadvantages. On an up note, I am able to gain valuable experience, build my portfolio and get involved in all kinds of cool projects. On the down side, I have to find work. I’ll repeat the title: I can’t sell myself. You can know everything about how to interview well, having read articles, research tips and watched videos, but that doesn’t change the fact that you have to sell yourself. And don’t be fooled, meeting with clients is an interview (reference first line: see, its all coming together), regardless of what one might label it as.

The only reason I’m going off on this rant is because for the better part of the morning I was doing everything in my power (including a shave and a haircut, see post I from today) to take my mind off the fact that I had a meeting early in the afternoon with a client. None of my distractions worked: I had a crap-tastic headache and felt like vomiting all day. I felt unprepared and inadequate during the meeting, second guessing myself and my skill level before and after. My first official meeting with a client in a web developer capacity having ended (whether it ended well or not is a matter of perception), and it being one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in a while, I’ll chalk this day up as a win and write the rest of the night off as ‘me time’… or rather, ‘me and beer time’.