Here is the actual text of one of those stock spams that managed to slip past my spam filter. Marvel at the utter ridiculousness that comes from this spammer trying, I can only assume, to avoid spam filters. Note that I’m not trying to actually promote the stock mentioned here; in fact, if anyone actually buys stock based on a message that looks like this, I seriously pity that person.

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OK, so the Jeopardy! contestant test was being held on Jeopardy’s web site at 8:00 tonight.

So I logged in 30 minutes ahead of time, just like they suggested, and left the window for it in the background so that I could come back to it when it was actually time to start.

Yep, you guessed it… by the time 8:00 actually struck, I totally forgot I even had the window open. By the time I remembered I was supposed to be taking the test, it was already over.

I am such a scatterbrain… -_-;;

My PowerBook has returned to me, now with working power.

I am happy.

Well, I’m back in Athens for the spring semester at UGA, and my PowerBook’s been sent off to AppleCare to get serviced. And until that comes back (it’ll be shipped to me here in Athens), I’ve got my old Gateway, now reformatted to run Linux, to tide me through.

I just got the new power adapter in.

The problem was not the power adapter.

It’s the laptop. >_<;;

Edited 7:57pm to add: This bodes well. The power inlet is on a separate board from the motherboard on PowerBooks, so it will probably only be necessary for Apple to replace that particular board.