{"id":2322,"date":"2007-03-27T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2007-03-27T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:31:38","slug":"invention-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Invention exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start designing mad science prototypes based on the subject lines of the spam I&#8217;ve been receiving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSubject: Re: stun progenitor<br \/>\nFrom:   ampcat@<overstrike>some damn spammer<\/overstrike>.com<br \/>\nDate: March 27, 2007 2:17:11 PM GMT-04:00\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You FOOLS!  You may think you have the upper hand now, but you&#8217;re no match for my <b>STUN PROGENITOR<\/b>!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The names they come up with are great too&#8230; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just an automated routine that yanks words at random from a dictionary file, but they do sound like Bond villains.  And it&#8217;s no wonder if they grew up with names like &#8220;Ampere Catalina&#8221; or &#8220;Feckless Delimiter.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t picture a happy family life.  And the schoolyard bullying?  It&#8217;s no wonder they turned to a life of crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start designing mad science prototypes based on the subject lines of the spam I&#8217;ve been receiving. Subject: Re: stun progenitor From: ampcat@some damn spammer.com Date: March 27, 2007 2:17:11 PM GMT-04:00 &#8220;You FOOLS! You may think you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}