Friday, October 27, 2006

JC's Wanderlodge Motor Home

Here are the pictures of JC Wilkinson's 1978 36 ft Bluebird Wanderlodge motor home with a 3208 Caterpillar diesel V8 engine & 4-speed Allison automatic transmission. The generator is a 15kW gas powered. It has power steering, airbrakes, aluminum wheels and good tires. It also has a built-in combination safe. It has been driven all around the United States for the last few years. There are 16 pictures total (including a 12' trailer). Contact JC if you want more information, or fill out the contact me form on this page to talk to me.

Front view of Bluebird


Side view with awning


Another front view


Rear view


Gas generator (15000 watts)


View from front door looking towards driver's seat. Two couches are used as twin beds and are comfortable for adults. Driver's side couch has built-in cabinet with storage behind driver's seat. Other side has cabinet at foot of couch and has storage.


View from driver's seat showing couches and looks to the back of the RV.


View of kitchen with sink and microwave. The stove is on the right of the sink. It has four burners and an oven. Across from the sink is where the table goes. It can also be a bed. We used it for storage while at craft shows.


Looking from front, left side shows table space, right side the kitchen.


Bathroom has under sink cabinets, a new toilet, three mirrors and medicine cabinet storage


Sink with storage cubes. Window opens for ventilation. Cubes are easily removed.


View of kitchen from back of trailer shows big table at door, closer to the front of the picture shows where additional cubes were placed for storage. This was originally another small table, but is perfect to install a closet.


View of kitchen from back showing all automatic gas/electric refridgerator with wooden door. Ice maker (not connected) is in lower left corner.


Picture of both twin beds with stand for TV in the middle. Storage underneath beds and cabinets overhead. For Queen bed put plywood across the width of RV.


Better view of single bed.


Side view of trailer


Side view of trailer

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Spammers are Morons

Yeah, I know.... tell you something you don't know.

This is more of a rant than anything. I provide a quick contact form to communicate with me without providing my email address for bots to illegally harvest. Due to the increase in popularity of this site, the spammers have now started using my contact form to submit spam to my email account.

There are several ways to prevent this type of spam. The best method would be to implement a graphical verification system which cannot be interpreted by the spammer without human intervention. These systems work well, and they are easy to implement, but I do not have the desire to implement this type of protection at this time.

My comment related to this type of spam is simply to ask the spammer what they expect to achieve by spamming my account in this way. Obviously there is money involved in annoying the general populous, and one spammer even attempted to relay from my contact form. Such tactics do not work, and they simply waste everyone's time.

Played as a game of tag, I can create a quick filter to prevent the spammers from submitting information through my form. This process takes less than a minute to filter anything I find inappropriate. The spammers can attempt to circumvent my filters, but it certainly takes more time to verify the spam was accepted than it does for me to filter it out. In the end, I win!

The best part of this type of anti-spam process is the wasted time (manual tar-pitting if you will) spammers consume trying to send a single spam message to little ol' me... I'll bet there are much easier methods to make a buck. Standing on a street corner with a bucket would produce more money based on the time involved.

I will admit, I do enjoy the game a little. It becomes my own personal battle with spammers, in my own little world. The most satisfying part of the game is knowing I always have a trump card waiting to be played...