I'll start a new segment called IDOL TALK! ~ Since I'm helplessly fused into the show.
What a good season this has been...yet the American Audience (partially consisting of Bush voters? Gee coincidence) has effed up on some of the elimenations. Just in the top 12 alone, we've had a few people who were voted off earlier than they should've been out. And then there's the whole situation/disease with the Sanjaya bandwagon, which could damage the show's reputation. (Simon Cowell has even stated he will quit the show if this little beeyotch wins) Luckily, there is a site where anti-sanjaya fans can go and support the cause to ship this little boy back to wherever he came from: http://www.votesanjayaoff.com/
GO AND SUPPORT IT! OR AT LEAST CHECK OUT WHAT'S ON IT...
JUST SAY NO
As for myself, at this point, I just want him to be gone by Idol Gives Back week. (Which is actually a prestigious event combating a couple issues plaguing the world...and even though still keeping him around by then might be a good source of dark humor, this is for mankind, and we don't need a little "letz play dwess up" bitch who doesn't try when it comes to vocals + quality performances. He's a threat to this operation/mission, and judging the demographics of Sanjaya supporters, most of them won't even pledge/donate anything out of their own pockets to the cause.)
Departed too soon: Gina Glockson
One of my favorite "Under Dogs" of this season was this girl. I liked her mainly for her rock/pop vocal abilities, and the fact she was a genuine/honest/grateful soul.
It sucks that she was booted after a simple and graceful performance of "Smile," and yet 2-3 others struggled/sucked with their songs.
The only thing I can do now is show my top 3 favorite performances from her time on Idol:
I think Gina should've done CBS' Rockstar competition instead of American Idol, she would've done a lot better over there.
In fact I'd like to see her take over as host or a correspondent on Rockstar. But no matter what, I'll be googling her every once in awaile to see where she's at.
She actually wanted to do Who Knew but pink doesn't clear songs. Her singing Evanescence won me over, even if it did suck -- I don't know, I was too busy clapping
Need some opinions, my ebay account was hacked ...
...or something like that tonight. (or last night now)
I have no idea how this user was able to get into my account, and was able to figure out my username ID and password.
Everything is fine now, I talked with a cool Ebay rep who went by the name of Diego. He restored my account, which I haven't used for awaile now. I changed my password to something more elaborate, and I haven't been charged with anything from this user's activity, who pretty much bidded on or did something with a pair of jeans and that's it. I even changed my paypal password and security questions. Everything seems to be very fine and secure as normal at this point. I have yet to uncover any further damage.
I'll be keeping a stricter eye on my account and my other personal info/stuff for the next few weeks. (Bank account, email, etc.) I'm even thinking about closing my ebay account down, and starting a new one in the future on a more secure e-mail address that isn't flooded with SPAM/junk...
But when I logged into my Ebay account tonight, I found the shipping address and the person's name (which I copied and pasted onto a word document, which I have saved) . I took this person's name and searched it onto myspace, and discovered that this person was a 34 year old female from massachusetts. (Which also matched the address I found on my account.)
Question(s): What would you do now? Should I confront her to at least warn her and say what happened? Should I not do anything at all? I also have a phone number from this address change... This attempted activity could be coming from her kid or someone else who's using her name & address?
PS
I just dug out the email notification from my email inbox from earlier tonight.
The item that this user was bidding on had the title: G-STAR "96 ELWOOD" Men's Denim Jeans W34
I am totally not familiar with G-Star products at all...
...And, ironically (or possibly not? '~"), W34 is one of my pant sizes...
It would be a really awkward phone call, considering you don't have a real purpose other than to say "I caught you" and "why did you do it" which really isn't going to do much for you anyway. If you find out that they did anything harmful though then obviously take action but I would just leave it for now. Really odd that they'd pick you of all people considering that you're nowhere near MA? Like I wonder how they found you/your account. Even that would be weird to ask someone though
I have no clue how this happened, and why the hell they were/she was just bidding on a pair of jeans... She could've been both the buyer (going through my account) and seller for all we know, trying to make some $$$.
I just looked at my ebay account, and everything seems to have returned back to normal. (My home address, phone #, etc.)
But I did sleep on this matter, and I've decided to mostly just ignore it/do nothing. Set aside what this fat gyp looks like, I have bigger whales + fish to fry at this point in time. I didn't lose any money, I just had my account info messed with, and I was put down to be buying a pair of jeans that I had no idea about. I don't think I even put any credit card information on my ebay account, because I've done everything through paypal; so she couldn't have seen my financial info. Then I spent over an hour with customer service + a friend on the phone and their chatrooms. I'll still be keeping a couple hawk eyes on my ebay + other account info while holding onto this user's information just in case. Unless something comes up (which it likely won't... I hope) I'm not going to take any law enforcement action, or contact this fat "bitch."(i likely know already the dumb reactions she would give anyways).
...But for fun, I might post her myspace here...and maybe go "Perez-Hilton" on her main profile picture.
I did it Travis ... it was me ... nah ... I'm just joking ... but I go to college in MA so I'll hunt the b!tch down ... but seriously ... I think you should take action ... teach this b!tch a lesson ... I do think it would be funny if you sent her a message on myspace with the title: Gotcha BITCH! ... she would probably be stunned
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I would, but I'm just going to wait it out. I have reviewed everything needed + wanted, and she didn't cause any $$$ damage towards me. (She attempted, but it was caught by ebay Security.) She just took my ebay identity, and that's it. Everything is fine and checks out. Plus, I really don't want to do something like that during the time I'm in right now. (Finals, Big Papers/Projects, my parents' 30th anniversary this weekend, and the planned time off I have from school.) If she tries to return and do something with my identity, then this hacker isn't going to like me at all. I have her info, ebay has notice of what happened, and everything is rather secure now.