Travels with FatCatAir

Wednesday June 14, 2006

That's annoying

So I had a strange thing happen today. I came back from lunch to see I had a voicemail message. I wondered if it was the guy who was bringing my Velocity. I was hoping it wasn't because Alberto is dumping a lot of rain on us today. Well it turned out to be a guy from the local EAA chapter that was telling me about a picnic the chapter was having this weekend and whether I would want to do a presentation about my Velocity later this year.

That was pretty amazing since I don't even have the kit yet and I'm not a member of the local EAA chapter (though I ought to be). I wondered how he found me but suspected one of my friends that are members had passed on the info.

Well I called him and found that no one had ratted me out. He had been a recent flyin down in Laurinburg and Velocity was there showing the plane. He'd never seen one and when he got home he went to their web site and found the frappr map which showed me. From there he Googled me and found me. I'm not exactly sure how he got my office number but anyway.

So curious about how my office number was located so I Googled myself and the first hit was this submission I did to rec.humor.funny in '95. Here's where it gets annoying. When I submitted this story to r.h.f it had a lame subject like "Phone Company Humor". Well apparently this wasn't good enough for the moderator (it wasn't Brad Templeton) and when it got posted the subject got changed to what is now immortalized "Phone Lines aren't Transitive".

So what is annoying is after that posting went out to r.h.f I got lots of email telling me that I didn't know what transitive meant. Arggh! I'm a compiler writer for god's sake, I certainly know what it means. I hadn't thought about that for years and now I see I'm stuck with it forever.

Now the funny part  about this posting is that in addition to getting numerous emails explaining transitivity to me I got a few that said they didn't think it was funny at all because it did make a difference which end of the line the service originated at. I suspect they were phone company employees...
Jun 14 2006, 04:37:30 PM EDT Permalink