The macrodont redeposit your barn

I SWEAR on all that's holy, unholy and in-between, this is a phrase I've seen in umpteen spam messages.

That leads me to believe there's some backdoor trick the spammers have discovered that tells them this is the phrase most likely to deliver results.

"The macrodont redeposit your barn"

It's rather poetic. It has a definite rhythm to it:

themacro DONT RE dep OS ityourbarn (stress the capitals... feel the rhythm?)

And somehow macrodont brings to mind a Mammoth elephant. Sounds like Mastodon, maybe?

Is this subliminal advertising? Will google be blacklisting me? (Pingoat already has but I'm darned if I'm going to give in to some SEO nonsense. I say what I say when I say how I say and if some idjuts in California with clout don't like what I say... well, I believe they have salt water quite close to hand and nostrils available to dip in the brine - chullu bhar paani mein doob ja, blacklisters)

Back to the macrodont. It redeposits your barn. A Mammoth elephant depositing again your barn (after having imbibed it, perhaps? ewww!)

I'd love to have a frank talk with a spammer some day. Obviously something they're doing is working, or they wouldn't keep at it in the face of even threats of legal action. Or there are more sad, lonely individuals on earth than we can ever fathom.

May the macrodont redeposit your barn.

Deepak

The best quote ever

The best quote ever, for me at least, is from MIB:

Kay: 1500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you "knew" that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll "know" tomorrow.

I think it's a powerful line. Kay's sarcasm underlines that we don't really "know" anything. We don't even "know" the earth is really round, for example. Currently we're exploring the possibility of parallel universes. So, what if we find a universe where the earth is flat? Or one where it's cuboid?

What will we "know" after that?

That there are many earths with as many geometrical 3D shapes as possible? Great, except we now "know" there's a 4th dimension. When will we know there's a fifth? Or sixth? Or infinitieth? (If that ain't a word, it now is. It's my world and I get to choose my words).

What do we really "know"?

Think about it.

Deepak

A TV Star in the Family!

My brother-in-law, Sean, is an actor in New York and he's acted in a made-for-internet video called "Street Fighter - The Later Years"

Episode 1 is up and can be watched at:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711287/

(Don't try it if you don't have broadband).

He's the cab driver.

If you do go there, however, make sure you watch the next video too. It's beyond hilarious.

Seth Godin says that video like this is the next entertainment and even educational or sales info dissemination tool. I can believe it. With broadband becoming more widespread and sites like YouTube, CollegeHumor, etc. becoming sites that are almost haunted by the young crowd and given the short attention spans we have due to info overload, stuff like this is what is zinging along in cyberspace.

Way to go, Sean.

Deepak