*** Special bulletin from the Ginrai News Service ***

The weather forecast for today in San Francisco is:

REALLY FUCKING WINDY!

It's so windy that my window has been rattling all night and all day despite being constructed entirely out of stainless steel and what I assume is plexiglass. The pressure this shit causes means that my door rattles in its frame when it's closed. When I walk outside I have to push against the wind pretty hard to actually go the direction I want to. It's a good thing there's no kittens around here or they'd be sailing through the air.

It's been almost this windy a couple of times before since I've been here, but never this windy. Looks like the first really good storm of my life in San Francisco is coming. It's been building towards this all week.

I figure about halfway through tomorrow the ocean is going to swallow my school up entirely and wash us out into the briney deep.

Update: eshieh got himself deleted from the UC Davis server. HAW HAW!

Fan mail time!

From: Garon99@aol.com
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:03:36 EST
Subject: Matsushiro Jetfire
To: jetfire@masterforce.org
X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 121

I was just curious if you think a mint painted symbol version and not the sticker version is a good investment. I want to buy a few collector pieces and decided to go all out on just a couple Mint pieces and was going to start with this one. Also I was wondering if you have any advice as how to keep the white perfect white in the years to come.

Painted UN Spacy logo and sticker UN Spacy logo Matsushiro Jetfire are really of equal value and all, but my concern is that the sticker is a lot easier to wear off than the paint. At least, that's what I'd imagine. Don't have a sticker one. But still, no toy is a good investiment. Try the stock market. Toys are no way to make money. If you want the toy, get it because you love it, not because of some imagined dollar value.

As for keeping the toy white, keep it out of the sun and other ultraviolet ray situations, and out of really hot places, too. Cool and dry is the best bet.

Speaking of spam, I got some from: eshieh@ucdavis.edu. Yes. A University of California, Davis email address. Way to use your free school account, buddy. I'm going to reply with an entire fanfic... translated through babelfish.

Spam is great, right? Check this out.

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:59:00 -0500
From: zudzug@pc-dimension.com
X-Authentication-Warning: ensim.xsvision.com: apache set sender to zudzug@pc-dimension.com using -f
To: ginrai@masterforce.org
Subject: Stuff you wanted to know about Pr0k
REPLY-TO: zudzug@pc-dimension.com

Hello, for those who don't know me I am Zudzug, an old timer from The Baitshop. I am writing an email to each and every members of this forum to see if anyone would be ready to help fund the forum out of good will. If you still visit The Baitshop you may have noticed it's full of pop-ups, noise spam and it has became a general disgrace to it's foundator ChrisXS, who still refuses to receive payment. I do not ask for much, just give what you can and what you think it's worth. Chris has an ID on eBay (cdavid79) and I know he's using a similar one on paypal, which is cdavid@hotmail.com. He doesn't
have any items to sell right now, but I will soon send him money for the forum and I think it would be nice if we, The Sons and Daughters of The Pr0k, did our part to maintain the forum and absorb the fees for the hosting, the forum software and the bandwidth. Maybe the ads will stop, at least it's worth a shot. For those who don't have a credit card or simply don't want to use paypal I accept payment. Just email me back and we'll work it out. Unfortunately I failed at finding ChrisXS' real address, but I am still working on it. Keep it in mind no one is forced into this, it's up to You, Pr0kker. Have a good day and may The Childe pee in your general direction! Zudzug, The Orcist One

A normal begging for money from some website for its members, right? Well, here's the fun part. I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHO THIS GUY IS OR WHAT THIS WEBSITE OR FORUM OR WHATEVER IS! I never heard of Pr0k. I have no idea what any of this is. What the fucking hell, man?

So I sent him this email:

To: zudzug@pc-dimension.com
From: Ginrai (ginrai@masterforce.org)
Subject: Re: Stuff you wanted to know about Pr0k

What the hell are you talking about? I don't even know what this "Pr0K" thing is.

We'll see if he replies. Curious, ain't it?

Good morning, San Francisco! You motherfucking pieces of shit!

So it was 3 AM this morning. I'm writing my final essay for my class. It's due at 9:10 AM. What happens? FUCKING FIRE ALARM. Now, I know what you're thinking... fire alarms aren't that bad. We had that shit all the time in junior high school.

NO.

This is like fucking terrorists are smashing airplanes into that stupid pyramid-looking building downtown (Transamerica... fine... whatever...) sort of deafen everyone for miles loud. Guess where the speaker is? RIGHT OUTSIDE MY FUCKING DOOR! YAY! WHILE I'M WRITING MY FINAL PAPER!

So we all go outside. At 3 AM. And stand around in the cold while TWO firemen go inside at a leisurely pace to shut off the false alarm... half an hour later. They weren't even wearing helmets.

Whoever pulled that alarm and cost me nearly an hour of typing time... I'm going to shit in your slimy eggs and dry, nasty hashbrowns at Denny's one day, you motherfucker. Be watching for me.