Game of Thrones

People have raved about the HBO series, Game of Thrones so we cued up the series at Net Flix. Watched episodes 1 and 2 this weekend, won't be watching the rest. The story has plenty of intrigue and magic and so forth, but I am sick to death of make believe worlds in which women are evil, brainless, sex objects or property.

Let's see, we have the queen and her son. The former evil, the later evil and stupid. We have the "rightful heir" who is evil, stupid, and arrogant to a fault. His sister who has been sold to the barbarian for an army. We have the older sister from the north is all a flutter of the stupid son of the queen. And the youngest daughter from the north is plays the part of a warrior son. And the whores. And the obsessed and worried mother.

And we have the men. WAR, we want WAR and power and sex and money and property. And we want to join secret warrior clubs because we are a bastard son.

This show seems to be a teenage boys wet dream. But it is BORING and predictable. With a couple of minor exceptions (for the shock value), everything was telegraphed is dreadfully obvious ways. And the sex scenes are pathetic. I mean, if one has had sex, one would not be able to suspend disbelief.

I suppose if we really had story line set in a world in which the difference between the sexes was almost entirely which one gave birth, it would be so different that people would not be able to identify with the characters. Too bad, but can we at at least stop giving young men these kinds of role models?

just a short rant

To Whom it may concern,

When you call customer support with a problem, it is in you best interest NOT TO LIE about the symptoms you are experiences.

Thank you,

foo@bar.crap

Well, hell. That's the end of my trying to use archiveopteryx. I've spent a week working out the kinks in the configuration of postfix and archiveopteryx only to find that they don't play with each other all that nicely. I really like the idea of storing email in postgresql which what archiveopteryx is good at.

But to do that, I have to tell postfix to "relay" mail to it over either smtp or lmtp. And all that is fine, too. Except that if I set the mailbox_transport configuration to do that, postfix immediately stops rejecting unlisted recipients. As far as postfix is concerned it is just a mail relay. Okay, I can live with that, too.

But archiveopteryx does not doesn't reject, it bounces, mail for unknown recipients. And that I can't live with. I want mail to unknowns to simple fall into the bit bucket. I am not interested in becoming just another great backsplatter server for spammers to use.

I suppose I could try and modify archiveopteryx source. Hell, I'll go have a look anyway. But, damn that is the hard way.