Not even trying

Jul 26, 2005 17:28

I just received a phishing email, allegedly from Bank of the West's anti-fraud unit. You have to wonder why someone would take the time and trouble involved in such a scam -- crafting the web of hidden URLs and redirections, the official-looking HTML email, the obscure and protected servers -- and then send out the email with the subject line "COSUMER ALERT : Protect Yourself Against Financial Fraud !" ALL CAPS makes misspellings even more obvious. Nice job, there, guys.

My new niece Kylie is apparently thriving happily, as are the new parents. I'm really looking forward to visiting up there in September; meanwhile, we're getting plenty of pictures. I keep finding myself musing over who she might turn out to be; there is nothing in the universe so radiant with limitless potential as a newborn baby.

For various reasons I have been rereading parts of Schueler's book on the Enochian system. I have to say that it doesn't inspire confidence in an author when he claims that there are 72 Tarot cards (and that's not the only obvious blunder I've found, either). Still, it's reminding me that I really ought to do some serious experimentation with Enochian soon; I've dipped my toe into that pool, but never really gone swimming in it.

While pondering the arrangement of the elemental squares and their directional assignments, it occurred to me that the unofficial names for the four original dorms at my college, which were rectangles arranged in a larger rectangle, were West, East, North, and South (with South the northernmost of the four, by a couple of inches). Lo and behold, their arrangement is identical to that of the tablets. I lived in Air of Water, by this mapping. This falls squarely (ha ha) into my "Things that make you go 'hmmmmm'" file.

magick, family, humor

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