this guy I feel sorry for – tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk

Recently someone has been posting very strange comments on one of my blogs, one of my many projects, it is titled, amazing peeps & can be found at http://amazingpeeps.wordpress.com. It’s a site I started building because i was so inspired by people, whilst loathing those in life who have nothing to do other than complain & feel sorry for themselves. I basically just post links to real life people i discover whilst surfing the net..

Recently in the last two days, i’ve had this guy tikaman trying to post all sorts of wierd comments to my page. Spam is everyday, so I wouldn’t bother posting about it here, but this guys is different.  Here’s what he wrote, a sample of his intelligence?

1st Post

Author : miter bini sdirty (IP: 82.198.250.76 , 82.198.250.76)
E-mail : currypot_1@hotmail.com
URL    : http://punjab
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.76
Comment:
hello i think it is beautiful you re so fat so when i i go mac donalds i think about you loose weight have i heard of kellogs watch ya weight so nice to talk to you and your rolls im out blud clut… p.s ur so un happy,dont say food makes u happy. later on -1- how comes ur so poor but ur a whale sort it out mate 1 time gangsterI actually let this one roll, i figured everyones entitled to their opinion, however weird it be.

2nd post

Author : hindipoo (IP: 82.198.250.9 , 82.198.250.9)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.9
Comment:
You are a fat prick and you need to lose weight you fat fucking cunt stop eating food you fat mother fucker your mum is not proud of you because you ate her.Everytime you press your belly button a pork chop falls out your ass
PS your a fat cunt
Conor Mcsweeny

3rd Post

Author : Ben Dover (IP: 82.198.250.76 , 82.198.250.76)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.76
Comment:
Fat cunt is it true that you ate a hole house?

4th Post

Author : Ben Dover (IP: 82.198.250.76 , 82.198.250.76)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.76
Comment:
is your girlfriend a sumo?

5th Post

Author : Ben Dover (IP: 82.198.250.9 , 82.198.250.9)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.9
Comment:
What happends if you want to go abroad because you are over the weight limit!

then Today

6th Post

Author : miter bini sdirty (IP: 82.198.250.76 , 82.198.250.76)
E-mail : currypot_1@hotmail.com
URL    : http://punjab
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.76
Comment:
hello i think it is beautiful you re so fat so when i i go mac donalds i think about you loose weight have i heard of kellogs watch ya weight so nice to talk to you and your rolls im out blud clut… p.s ur so un happy,dont say food makes u happy. later on -1- how comes ur so poor but ur a whale sort it out mate 1 time gangster

7th Post

Author : Ben Dover (IP: 82.198.250.5 , 82.198.250.5)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.5
Comment:
steven condon was here reking this fat fuking prick loose weight you already way 30000 sone you fat cunt

 8th Post

Author : Ben Dover (IP: 82.198.250.72 , 82.198.250.72)
E-mail : tikaman_1@hotmail.co.uk
URL    : http://www.currypot.piczo.com
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=82.198.250.72
Comment:
joe waterton is gay just like this fat cunt im writing to

Having enough, to which I replied

seriously man, whats your problem? or are u just some stupid punk kid making fun of the world ’cause it’s too confusing for you to  understand.?

either way i do hope u get a life, if not for yourself, then for those around you!

Has anybody else had similar experiences? Or is it just me whose the target of someone who obviously needs a hug.

Some writing advice by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Taken from blog they must need bears via boingboing but worthy of being distributed on my blog, as I find Kurt’s writing style to be amazing.

Some writing advice by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on the subject of short stories, from Bagombo Snuff Box:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.*

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

how NOT to backup data

ok, so here is a serious assumption on my part, which I’m sure many others have also encountered.

Being a geek for many years has left me with about 5 computers, all of various ages, all containing both my own & clients artwork. I recently decided to go Zen on my room, & clear out all this old equipment, so I purchased a 240gig external HDD & spent many hours backing up my data from all these machines, into this one convenient location.

It never occurred to me that centralizing data backups to one source is inviting disaster (IE:// a load of eggs in one basket). Last nite, I accidentally tripped on the HDD power cable & this external HDD went flying off my table, where it fell to the floor with a big THUNK! Now when i plug it in, it whirs & makes a loud click, a sure sign that this has been destroyed.. No computer, be it mac, pc or Linux will now recognize this drive (even in the bios!).

The one thing i am thankful for is the fact that I still have all these old machines, & haven’t as yet reformatted the drives, as i was planning to do!! Failing this I would have had to spend Hundreds of Dollars getting a data recovery service to attempt to fix my problem.

Now I am going to have to spend many hours again, moving all this data back onto a new external HDD, but this time I am going to purchase another HDD, which i am going to pack away very safely, as my ultimate secure backup!

Sure I could have backed it all up to DVD also, but last time i did that, years later, when requiring some old data, I opened my cd case to discover these DVD’s had suffered a bad case of Techno Rot, thus rendering all data useless!

So a word to the wise, from my stressful experience, backup essential data MANY TIMES, & in MANY DIFFERENT WAYS!

beer & computers never mix

ok, so last night i was rockin out to some music, drinking beer & generally enjoying that which was the end of my working week.. All was great until i spashed some beer over my macbook pro, which wasn’t that bad, it didn’t seap inside, or so i thought.

So then i wake up, next day, go to check my email & discover this beer stain on the INSIDE of my screen, & am now like shit, this big splotch sux, if only it looked like the virgin mary, or elvis or someone then i could sell it for heaps on ebay..

the computer runs fine, everything is good except for the stain, which although it isn’t shocking, it’s really not going to help me as a designer.

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Does anybody have any suggestions on how i fix this? I seriously doubt apple will cover this with my warranty & i don’t really want to buy a new lcd.