The Odyssey Of Tanya The Scrupulous 2, episode 3

No plan survives contact with the enemy, but sometimes your worst enemies are pride and the sunk cost fallacy.

Verdict: Tanya should have learned by now that every time she sees a way to get a cushy job away from the front lines, she’s holding up a giant sign that says “kick me”.

Bumpkin & Harem 2, episode 3

Our Swordmage Haremette shows that while she’s not much of a teacher, she’s a solid fighter even without her magic, and far more stacked than I gave her credit for. Nimble little minx, too.

Anyway, that pleasant-but-minor fan-service doesn’t distract from a well-constructed episode that gives everyone something to do. Our Hero fights monsters and buys time, Our Age-Appropriate Potential Love Interest defends the innocent, Our Swordmage Haremette fights and rescues and destroys the macguffin and looks good doing it, and Our Loner Daughter leads her friends to victory over a straggler, bringing her further out of her shell.

Verdict: more, please.

(perhaps this episode will encourage someone to draw some decent fan-art of her…)

“I said unsubscribe, dammit!”

Sam’s Club spams members mercilessly, but if you click on the “unsubscribe” link in the email, it shows you as already not subscribed to marketing email. Then you get three more that week.

Turns out it’s not a proper “remove this email address” unsubcribe button, it’s just taking you to the account-management page for members, so it only works if you’re logged in on that browser.

Apple’s trust issues

Someday I’d like to connect my phone/tablet to my computer and have it say, “oh, hey, you’re logged into the same account, you’ve connected to this computer before, you’ve been using it for backups since the day you bought the device, and you’ve said “trust this computer” at least a dozen times. Maybe I don’t need to ask you again three times during a software update.”

Amusing spam email

“Your storage limit has been reached. Reactivate your cloud services today.”

Never mind that the message is completely generic and refers only to “cloud”, or that the link goes to a random googleapis.com page, I like the fact that the sender address is openly “support@wxc.edu.cn”, as if that would be persuasive. There’s no attempt to obfuscate the HTML or the links, either, making this the easiest-to-detect spam that’s landed in my junk folder in months.

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