Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Snooping
Recently, I mentioned that my girlfriend, Aelys, snooped around in my browser history and found an interesting picture of a nude girl in bluelight's Lounge forum. After that, I didnt' know if she'd found my account name or password. My activity here is something I'd rather have her not know about, and I didn't know what to do. So, I've been laying low, too bugged out about my girlfriend's spying behavior to deal with anything online for a while.
Aelys' snooping, and to make matters worse, someone on here, I believe, is friends with my x-girlfiend, the lovely but tragically insane Psycho Suzie. Not only do I think she on here, but Suzie, in one of her 100s of voicemails that I will never answer, told me that she recently moved to the same city as me. I will refer to her "Moira." Moira is quite a lurker in real life and is the kind of person you would spot downtown somewhere. I dread that she will spot me walking down the street or on my bike and call back to Suzie and tell her what city I live in. Suzie keeps asking (leaving messages on my voicemail- I don't answer and havent' returned her calls for over a year) where I live and work. If Suzie finds out what city I'm in, she will find me.
Some background: Moira's dad is a psychiatrist, her mom is a divorced. She went to art shcool in San Francisco, got into opiates. Having no job prospects as an artist (my guess is that she wasted her college experience partying and didn't learn anything or develop any valuable skills), she went back to work in her hometown doing odd restaurant jobs and generally being a grifter and dope fiend. Then she came here with a boyfriend, living in her pickup truck at first, to have access to the abundant supply of opiates that this city has to offer. Moira and boyfriend were such fiends, that her boyfriend would maim himself (burned his hand on a stove, another time deliberately smashed his own leg, breaking it with a cinder block, for a script).
.... My gf had asked me to look at her computer and see why it's been slow recently. Sometimes when it boots, for example, it's extremely sluggish. Programs start slowly or hang, the web browser is very slow to respond. Words you type take several seconds from the time you finish pressing the keys until they are finally displayed.... Other times, when you just turn it on, it runs fine and is fast. The sluggishness really seems random, like maybe windows didn't load correctly. So I scanned for viruses with an av progrom and some trojan/spyware checking software, did the windows updates, checked system resources and processes, memory use, etc. I didnt' see any big problems that I thought could be causing it to malfunction. So, I'm not sure what's doing it. maybe the windows installation is broken and only works normally sometimes. Some bad system files possibly. This is somethint re-[installing windows should fix. Maybe it's a hardware problem. I tried swapping out the memory with some theat i know to be good, and I couldnt reproduce the sluggishness. So, maybe it's memory. but can't rule out hard drive glitches or bad capacitors or anythikgn yet.
So, while I was trying to fix it (it's workign fine for now), I snooped, just a little, on her browser history. I mentioned before that I believe snooping is extremely bad adn a violation of trust, but I did it. But I had her permission. She said she doesnt' care if I look. I still feel kind of bad for doing it. Mainly becasue she had snooped on me and and I have been worried that she'd been into my bluelgiht accoutn, even figured out what bluelight is. I didnt' even open her browser history. But I went to the url bar, her's has auto-completion feature where you type in the first 2 or 3 letters of a website and it will fill in the rest. So, I typed in "b", then "l", and then a "u". All that came up was the address for her univesity email account (I stayed out of it). But no bluelight. That and the fact that she hasn't started asking me about bluelight or asking me who the girl in the picture was are leading me to believe that she was so shocked at seeing the girl's photo in the Lounge section, that she didnt bother noticing the name of the website..
Anyway, that's as far as I went - using the auto-fill-in feature of the firefox address bar to snoop on her to try to see how far she has gone in snooping on me.
Monday, Sep 27
Music: Streaming SOMA FM. Music to slit your wrists by.
More snooping, the same way I did before. No spying on her browser histroy, jsut go into the address bar and type a few letters: b ... l.... u.... Nothign. Just the usual email account. I'm starting to think and feel some relief at the idea that she's not spying on my bluelight accoutn. Funny how the whole world, even Law Enforcement, can freely read this, but as long as I have soem degree of anonymity, that doesn't bother me as much as the idea that Aelys could be snooping without my knowledge.
What's with the Tents?
While walking through my neighborhood yesterday for a picnic, my girlfriend and I noticed that many of the houses had tents set up in their yards. The deign of the tents was similar and unusual. It's not something meant to be packed into a backpack and taken camping. Each one was built in the shape of a block.They were made from several tarps tied to a frame, were rectangular, about 8 feet high, 6 feet wide, and maybe 10 feet long. At least one of them had pine branches on the roof.
Snooping
Recently, I mentioned that my girlfriend, Aelys, snooped around in my browser history and found an interesting picture of a nude girl in bluelight's Lounge forum. After that, I didnt' know if she'd found my account name or password. My activity here is something I'd rather have her not know about, and I didn't know what to do. So, I've been laying low, too bugged out about my girlfriend's spying behavior to deal with anything online for a while.
Aelys' snooping, and to make matters worse, someone on here, I believe, is friends with my x-girlfiend, the lovely but tragically insane Psycho Suzie. Not only do I think she on here, but Suzie, in one of her 100s of voicemails that I will never answer, told me that she recently moved to the same city as me. I will refer to her "Moira." Moira is quite a lurker in real life and is the kind of person you would spot downtown somewhere. I dread that she will spot me walking down the street or on my bike and call back to Suzie and tell her what city I live in. Suzie keeps asking (leaving messages on my voicemail- I don't answer and havent' returned her calls for over a year) where I live and work. If Suzie finds out what city I'm in, she will find me.
Some background: Moira's dad is a psychiatrist, her mom is a divorced. She went to art shcool in San Francisco, got into opiates. Having no job prospects as an artist (my guess is that she wasted her college experience partying and didn't learn anything or develop any valuable skills), she went back to work in her hometown doing odd restaurant jobs and generally being a grifter and dope fiend. Then she came here with a boyfriend, living in her pickup truck at first, to have access to the abundant supply of opiates that this city has to offer. Moira and boyfriend were such fiends, that her boyfriend would maim himself (burned his hand on a stove, another time deliberately smashed his own leg, breaking it with a cinder block, for a script).
.... My gf had asked me to look at her computer and see why it's been slow recently. Sometimes when it boots, for example, it's extremely sluggish. Programs start slowly or hang, the web browser is very slow to respond. Words you type take several seconds from the time you finish pressing the keys until they are finally displayed.... Other times, when you just turn it on, it runs fine and is fast. The sluggishness really seems random, like maybe windows didn't load correctly. So I scanned for viruses with an av progrom and some trojan/spyware checking software, did the windows updates, checked system resources and processes, memory use, etc. I didnt' see any big problems that I thought could be causing it to malfunction. So, I'm not sure what's doing it. maybe the windows installation is broken and only works normally sometimes. Some bad system files possibly. This is somethint re-[installing windows should fix. Maybe it's a hardware problem. I tried swapping out the memory with some theat i know to be good, and I couldnt reproduce the sluggishness. So, maybe it's memory. but can't rule out hard drive glitches or bad capacitors or anythikgn yet.
So, while I was trying to fix it (it's workign fine for now), I snooped, just a little, on her browser history. I mentioned before that I believe snooping is extremely bad adn a violation of trust, but I did it. But I had her permission. She said she doesnt' care if I look. I still feel kind of bad for doing it. Mainly becasue she had snooped on me and and I have been worried that she'd been into my bluelgiht accoutn, even figured out what bluelight is. I didnt' even open her browser history. But I went to the url bar, her's has auto-completion feature where you type in the first 2 or 3 letters of a website and it will fill in the rest. So, I typed in "b", then "l", and then a "u". All that came up was the address for her univesity email account (I stayed out of it). But no bluelight. That and the fact that she hasn't started asking me about bluelight or asking me who the girl in the picture was are leading me to believe that she was so shocked at seeing the girl's photo in the Lounge section, that she didnt bother noticing the name of the website..
Anyway, that's as far as I went - using the auto-fill-in feature of the firefox address bar to snoop on her to try to see how far she has gone in snooping on me.
Monday, Sep 27
Music: Streaming SOMA FM. Music to slit your wrists by.
More snooping, the same way I did before. No spying on her browser histroy, jsut go into the address bar and type a few letters: b ... l.... u.... Nothign. Just the usual email account. I'm starting to think and feel some relief at the idea that she's not spying on my bluelight accoutn. Funny how the whole world, even Law Enforcement, can freely read this, but as long as I have soem degree of anonymity, that doesn't bother me as much as the idea that Aelys could be snooping without my knowledge.
What's with the Tents?
While walking through my neighborhood yesterday for a picnic, my girlfriend and I noticed that many of the houses had tents set up in their yards. The deign of the tents was similar and unusual. It's not something meant to be packed into a backpack and taken camping. Each one was built in the shape of a block.They were made from several tarps tied to a frame, were rectangular, about 8 feet high, 6 feet wide, and maybe 10 feet long. At least one of them had pine branches on the roof.