Interesting

People who I have talked to think that I have changed since 2005. I may have changed somewhat but my circumstances have changed a lot more than me. You go from hanging out on the beach in Santa Monica to living in very hostile environments and it changes you. No one is getting killed around me, but that about it...

I was thinking about a conversation that I had with someone a while ago. This is not the exact conversation...but generally the same idea. I told someone that I had an omelet for breakfast and they didnt believe me. I was taken aback by this: Why didn't this person take my word for it? I said, "You dont believe that I have eggs at home? What's the deal with that?" I still think that that was a bit excessive, but i think that guy might have been onto something: Plenty of lies are told...Lies are told about things that there is no apparent reason to lie about all of the time. If you take someone's word for something and they lie to you once or twice it probbably doesn't matter. It all adds up over time, though...

Recently, I was thinking about a show called TV Funhouse that aired on Comedy Central circa 2000. That show was an interesting example of how animation makes concepts less menacing. They literally turned "going there" into an artform. Every skit...I was sitting there thinking "OMG..they are going to go there!!" No topic was off limits. If you have animation and/or handpuppets airing in the evening, you can get away with a lot...

Experts...

Its interesting that you need an expert to verify/ support anything that you say. If you say that you saw someone Littering, you might have to get an expert to verify exactly how plausible that is. I was watching a story on television about Octuplets and they had an expert verify that 8 babies is a lot of babies to have at once...

Recently, I received e-mail from a bar and a clothing store. The interesting thing is that I actually requested that they send me e-mails. This made me think about the thousands of e-mails that I receive every day that I did not request. I receive so much unrequested junk e-mail that I can't receive any e-mails at my UCLA account: That account literally gets flooded and cannot be opened within 1 1/2 days of Emptying it. This caused me to think of a funny cartoon about a guy who is fed up with receiving unrequested spam e-mail...

THIS CARTOON CONTAINS PROFANITY. DO NOT OPEN IT IF YOU ARE AT WORK OR ANYWHERE WHERE PROFANITY MIGHT CAUSE A PROBLEM.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/play/749/

Custom..

I am sure that this "Suggestion " thing is not something that everyone does. If you hear a lot of BLATANT suggestion around you, it is probably somehow indicative or informative about who you are dealing with. I havent figured out "where a person is " if that is going on: But I think its probably a good idea to figure that out.

I think that if you live a couple of apartments away from, a floor above, or a floor below someone who looks exactly like you (and you dont know this person), its probably a good idea to investigate and figure out who that person is. You have to be objective about this though: I think most people disgree about whether they look like someone else or not...

I dont believe in profiling people, but I think its a great idea to learn how to profile a person who would hack into your account and change your phone numbers and contact info. Certainly there are some warnings signs as to when you are dealing with someone who has no inhibitions about stalking you...

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My problems with my e-mail accounts getting hacked into have persisted. My accounts literally get hacked into at will. I have attempted to get help from authorities in regard to resolving this problem but have not received any cooperation. I would appreciate anyone who knows who to contact in regard to resolving a problem like this to call them on my behalf...SERIOUSLY....

Happy New Year!

In a previous blog, I said that if I had to watch the ball drop at home again i was goin got be pretty unhappy: I watched the ball drop at home again for New Years so and this blog will probably reflect that aggravation. As I think back on the last year, a lot of outrageous things happened in my life. Interestingly enough, the 20-30 Story 3-dimensional rendering of the poster from Eddie Murphy's last movie was one of the most unsettiling things that I saw last year. It actually had the Optical Illusion where the eyes seemed to follow you. The first time i saw that, my only thought was "Aw Man!"

On an unrelated topic, this is interesting... If you ever have a chance, when you are in Barnes and Nobles or a similar store/ a library, Check out a book on Hypnotic suggestions. It changes the way that you see the world a bit. It seems like one of those things that you are supposed to be discriminate in who you tell ab0ut it, but then everyone knows about it except the guy who you decided not tell in the interest of ethics. Its interesting how many people very blatantly use suggestions and you wouldn't know unless you had some knolwledge of this. A lot of times it is harmless, other times it is a way to convey messages that would cause a brawl if the message was conveyed directly. Interesting to think about...

Online Account Problems

It has become very apparent to me that whoever was/ is hacking into my online accounts wasnt just reading e-mails. Contact information in my online address books and e-mail addresses on my instant messenger accounts have been altered. I am not sure exactly when this started and I am not sure how to get in touch with a lot of my friends at the moment. If you have tried to contact me but havent been able to, I can be reached at adshanno@gmail.com. I dont use that e-mail address the most but I check it relatively frequently. If I dont respond it is probably because of the problems that I have been having with my accounts...I am working on fixing the problem. You can always attempt to contact me at the Southfield number where i have been reachable for the last ten years (Even though I havent generally been here)...

When I realized what has been happening with my account, i wasn't quite sure how to feel about it. Its not really something to be impressed by as much as it is a crossing of the line that I only fathom because it has occured. While most people are hesitant to litter, someone has no inhibitions about hacking into my accounts and has already built upon that decison by altering information. To the best of my knowledge, this can only be done administratively: Its more an issue of being in a position to steal someone's password than having a lot of "know-how."

Social Vacuums...

I realize that I rarely blog anything that happened very recently. My life is such that I wouldn't blog much of what happens until years later. This is because of two reasons 1) My life is so exciting at that moment that I wouldn't mention it or 2) My life is so boring at that moment that it doesn't seem worth blogging at all...

We end up in Social Vacuums a lot in life. By Social Vacuums I mean that everyone is similarly situated enough that, from a Social standpoint, the only thing that matters in the characteristics that you ring to the table. Everyone is similarly situated enough that you are free to make certain assumption about people just based on the fact that they are there. To the extent that certain assumptions might be wrong about certain people its not usually something that matters.

It seems like what a person assumes about a person in a Social Vacuum is usually about true of about 80% of the people. Like someone who is outside of the realm of what you would assume exists, but it is so unlikely that you don't walk around thinking about it. I feel that, for better or for worst, I encounter the 20% fairly often in life. Occasionally its an issue that is very important and obviously would matter. I constantly find myself saying, "I can't believe that they didn't tell me that..."