Monday March 17, 2008
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Monday March 17, 2008 | Junk Mail Irony | Life |
There was a time when I tried to track where my junk mail was coming from. Whenever I filled out my address, especially online, I would put a TAG into the second address field that identifies who I gave this address to. Example:
Kevin Chu
Street Address
Attn: Paypal
City, State ZIP
It never worked.
Not once have I ever received any kind of mail, junk or otherwise, that had my TAG in it. Even when I receive regular mail from places I know have tagged the TAG isn't there. Perhaps the computers filter it out; I really don't know.
Then today, I received an order I had placed online and had paid with Paypal. The merchant used my Paypal address for shipping. Lo and behold, there it was:
It was hand-written!
After hundreds of automated systems had ignored or filtered that tag, some diligent human copied it by hand.
Technology! Its catching on!
Tags: junk mail spam
March 17, 2008 06:49 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [3] |
Saturday October 20, 2007 | I Win the Telemarketer Standoff | Humor |
Telemarketer called. I put the phone in front of the TV playing Sesame Street. I checked on the phone a few minutes later and he had put me on hold (spewing more of their spiel). Fine, it's your dime, dumbass! I'm not paying for this, you are.
Twenty minutes later (Sesame Street ends), I'm still on hold. Put phone on mute since TV is going off. Toss phone under couch cushion so I don't have to hear it.
40 minutes now and I hear the faint beeping of the "off the hook" noise.
I win!
Tags: phone spam telemarketing
October 20, 2007 10:22 AM PDT Permalink | Comments [3] |
Sunday August 12, 2007 | Flickr Spam | Computers |
If you're going to spam my flickr comments just to get me to click on your link, it's best to use different comments each time. Several of my photos were given this "compliment":
Wow great photo. What a special moment.
What were they hawking? Toilet paper.
I don't want to see that special moment.
Tags: flickr spam
August 12, 2007 09:32 AM PDT Permalink | Comments [1] |
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