hope for the best, plan for the worst.

hope you're right, reks. I dont see it, but I hope you're right.

One of my partners just moved half of his 401K into some kind of zero interest bond thing to avoid the big dip. Might be a smart idea (might have been even smarter last week).

Edited August 4, 201114 yr by Voltron

Turtles fucking rock.

it's simply how it is set up to work. someday the dow will go up again.

You sure about that? That's awfully optimistic. What about the impending collapse? What if all the space aliens who have invested in earth try to collect their debt at once? Or the rapture?

Personally I f'ing hate the fact that I have to invest in the market and have no choice in the matter. I'd much prefer a bloody savings account but the way the tax code is setup I can invest and lose 30+% and still end up better off than I stated and that's without my works match (which isn't great)..... The whole market is like gambling down to the fact the house always wins.

Edited August 4, 201114 yr by Dreadhead

Spent the morning doing damage control when I realized that

a) my gmail was hacked,

b ) all my contacts were sent the standard "help I'm stranded somewhere; please wire me money!" scam email,

c) my entire inbox was stolen and deleted.

Shit on a bike, I'm going to start using lastpass for everything, and switch back to downloading emails to thunderbird.

It's the first time ever my kids have spent the entire morning watching cartoons. I now see why the 24-h cartoon channel is sometimes useful.

Edited August 4, 201114 yr by acidbasement

Sorry man, getting hacked sucks.

Just got an ER-4 triple flange stuck in my ear. I can't get it out....

the problem is that you have to go into space to collect, as they are space turtles. i figure space travel will be cheap by the time i retire. and they do rock.

That's why I received this today:

Spent the morning doing damage control when I realized that

a) my gmail was hacked,

b ) all my contacts were sent the standard "help I'm stranded somewhere; please wire me money!" scam email,

c) my entire inbox was stolen and deleted.

Shit on a bike, I'm going to start using lastpass for everything, and switch back to downloading emails to thunderbird.

It's the first time ever my kids have spent the entire morning watching cartoons. I now see why the 24-h cartoon channel is sometimes useful.

Whoa that sucks, how did that happen?

That is awesome, I used to love the old Creature Double Features - every Saturday morning, WLVI Channel 56 (Boston) I imagine the MST3K treatment is superb!

I got my Stax SR-003's today, in anticipation of Spritzer's SRM-Xh arriving likely next week.....

needle nosed pliers.

Tweezers work as well.

Tweezers work as well.

Along with an extra set of hands and eyes...

I noticed today that another Hadley institution has fallen. RIP, Aubuchon Hardware. I am torn between feeling regret at seeing another local business fail, or giving in to a great sense of schadenfreude because that store was staffed by the most egregiously cretinous asshats I have ever encountered in my LIFE. Seriously, it was a miracle they stayed open as long as they did.

^ Damn, I remember going there few times while I was at UMass. It's been couple of years since I stayed for any prolonged period of time in the area, but every time I do, I'm amazed how much change the are has gone through.

Whoa that sucks, how did that happen?

No idea, but revenge will be mine! The hacker sent the "please send money" email to my old hotmail account, so I changed my hotmail username and responded to him. He gave me the address of the Western Union in the UK where he'd like the money sent. I'm hoping I can line up a plainclothes law enforcement professional to rendez-vous with him there. I've got to call the Canadian anti-fraud centre tomorrow to report it, but I hope I'm not being naive in assuming that's how it can go down.

I'm going to start using lastpass for everything, and switch back to downloading emails to thunderbird.

Ouch on the situation, but good call on LastPass. Set up everything with stupidly long random passwords, and have your master password as something REALLY long, but easy to remember.

Doug, you can come to my place, I'll take out that tri-flange without harm

Posting now since I don't foresee another opportunity until late tonight. Today is day 1 of Lollapalooza. We have 26 bands on our list over the next 3 days. I'm expecting absolute craziness.

For today, the plan is: Wye Oak, Young the Giant, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Kids These Days, The Bloody Beatroots Death Crew 77 (what a name!), Tinie Tempah, A Perfect Circle, Ok Go, and Coldplay.

^^^ I'm getting old! Half these bands I don't know..... I also didn't know that MJK had joined A Perfect Ciurcle again, good stuff. Enjoy it!

Regarding funny band names, though, I had an old book from late 70's, called "Volume: A Complete Discography of the New Wave"

Had some great band names, like NASA and the Sputniks, and one of my favorites of all time: B.O. Smellie and the Honking Bacteria.

All day musics....make sure you hydrate like crazy.

No idea, but revenge will be mine! The hacker sent the "please send money" email to my old hotmail account, so I changed my hotmail username and responded to him. He gave me the address of the Western Union in the UK where he'd like the money sent. I'm hoping I can line up a plainclothes law enforcement professional to rendez-vous with him there. I've got to call the Canadian anti-fraud centre tomorrow to report it, but I hope I'm not being naive in assuming that's how it can go down.

Face-palm.

Anyways, did a layout for a PCB only to find out when doing the last minute checks that I made a mistake in the schematic. Grr..

Having spoken to the anti-fraud centre, I guess revenge won't be mine. If I told him I sent the money he'd be able to pick it up at any western union in the UK - they don't make you specify where it will be picked up at any smaller scale than country.

LastPass it is.

If you want to be extra paranoid you can enable google's two factor authentication as long as you have an android/blackberry/iOS device. Kinda like the RSA key fob's that generate a code that you enter in (though RSA isn't that great of an example for the moment).

Yeah, I looked into that, and I'd definitely do it if I had cell phone signal at my house. Since I don't, I'd have to choose between either checking email at home and authenticating via my landline, or checking email elsewhere and authenticating via my cell phone - wouldn't be able to do both.

Having spent a good part of today making sure I don't have a keylogger installed on my computer, I'm going to go with beefy's suggestion and LastPass everything.

As far as lessons learned go, this was an inconvenient one, but so far not disastrous, thankfully.