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Dream

11:34am JST Friday 09 December 2005

I had a secret love affair with a girl about 16 years old. she was too small to actually have intercourse, but everything else was okay. I was carrying her nakedly through the halls with some magic spell so we couldn't be seen exactly, and carried her up stairs to a room where we could get to business without having to deal with magic spells.

I told her to lock herself in the bathroom while I went to answer a knock at the door. It was Jason Fricke, who was with Shawn from Austin and I was like, "woah!!" cause it was so great to see them, but I was like, "yo kids; I've got to go to sleep; I'm really sorry" and I felt bad about it, cause I was choosing sex instead of my friend, but there was nothing that could be done about it at that moment. Jason was showing me some cool stereo equipment and basically wanted to throw a rather bumpin' party in my room, but it was late so he didn't mind being turned down.

I locked the door and went into the restroom to find my sexfriend waiting loungingly waiting in the bathrub as it filled with sudsy warm water.

We were there as the scene shifted to her being a (legal age) woman who I had just recently noticed. She was with her friends sitting on a large fluffy pilow as they told her about a new experience they were going to induce for her. They had a guaranteed method of bringing one's awareness into a parallel dimension. She was a bit nervous and mentioned that she would be happier to go with a friend. I didn't say anything, though I was interested; I didn't want to appear too interested, but someone was like, "Rob? would you like to go? you had mentioned interest before." and I was like, "woah!" because I would really like to have such a mind altering experience with her, so I was like, "really?" and said "okay, are you sure it doesn't matter what we do, and the experience is guaranteed?"

"yep"

"Cool, cause I gots to go peeeee..."

They laughed and I ran out of the room and down the hall and busted into the bathroom from the previous scene and there were people inside, so I quickly turned round and checked the gender indication on the door. I saw it was community as they were saying "it's okay, this is a community bathroom.." so I went back in. There were no stalls, but two guys sitting on the toilets and a huge bathtub behind them, big enough to have wind driven waves in it.

I realized I shouldn't bee in such a large tub because it would be quite wasteful to drain it all.

I noticed I couldn't pee, and then realized that's cause I was dreaming.

Rob Update Mailer.pl

8:21pm JST Friday 09 December 2005

Today I have declared my rob_update_mailer done enough to transfer all 191 names to the new database. I even have a mechanism for making opt-outs from the old list remove them from the new list. It's a manual one, but it should work; I don't expect many optouts from the old list; they usually hit pretty quickly after I send out emails.

The new db has a way to let me specify (to a rough degree of precision) how long until they should get the question, "are you sure you want to keep receiving these messages?" It amounts to an equivalent of Angelique's mass-email cleansing line:

If you no longer want to receive these messages, simply Do Nothing.

or something like that. My db keeps track of when they were added (everyone was added today, but after this it will remember new people) and until when they should not receive the This Is Your Last Message warning. It will also keep track of when they dropped off the list, but doesn't remember if they dropped themselves or they fell off the end of their 'subscription'

It allows opt-outs to be in English or Japanese, and could be easily extended to other languages. It specifically does *not* do the list purge message in any language but English, because maybe the person isn't enjoying the list because they can't read English well enough.

That certainly happens for me and Japanese emails. Sheesh.

I'm pretty happy with the code, and invite people to use it if they want.

It's not the crystal clear perfection of an alpha release, but here is the source code of rob_update_mailer.pl