{"id":569,"date":"2009-03-16T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/laptop-walk-email\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:13:00","slug":"laptop-walk-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/laptop-walk-email\/","title":{"rendered":"laptop, walk, email"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on a laptop here this morning. \u00a0No word yet on how soon the replacement board will come in for my dual monitor machine, so, to avoid the wrath of my cube neighbors, I decided to borrow a laptop and work quietly. \u00a0Not a big deal – though I don’t have admin access on this machine and ran into some flash-issues because I couldn’t install it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


I also recently got the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite – but that’s on the main and still very noisy machine. \u00a0I would have liked to take that for a spin today, but there’s other work to be done anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Over the weekend I went for a long walk. \u00a0 My room-mate needed a prescription picked up and Rite Aid was within my effective range. \u00a0 Took me about an hour round trip and though the weather was nice, there were two problems.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

1. The trash. \u00a0I was amazed and dismayed at how much litter was along side the roads. \u00a0 Beer bottles, plastic bags and wrappers and one very obviously used diaper. \u00a0 Seriously, what kind of a person throws a used diaper out the window of a moving car?<\/p>\n

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2. I was wearing short socks and the left one kept sliding down. \u00a0 By the end of my walk, my shoe had rubbed the back of my ankle raw and I was bleeding pretty good. \u00a0 When I got home I put some alcohol\u00a0on it, then swore with some powerful intensity, and put a band-aid on it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Finally, I got a very strange email over the weekend. \u00a0No subject line. \u00a0It was from: \u00a0MR. “Tony” [sdsaf.34634@gmail.com] and addresses to my alias email address at work. \u00a0 \u00a0The content of the message was this:<\/p>\n

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Hi,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Give me a call right now.<\/p>\n

Regards
Tony\u00a0
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That was it. \u00a0 Now, I know a couple of people named Tony and neither of them would have used an address like that – nor left such an obscure message. \u00a0 \u00a0 I did a look up of the address and couldn’t find it.<\/div>\n
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So, clearly spam – but weird spam none the less. \u00a0 \u00a0No links, no embedded email. \u00a0 Just the request to call – and no phone number. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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And there’s that reference to Tony – a name I have considered using, but never have. \u00a0Could the message be from me – from the future? \u00a0Some kind of recursive temporal request? \u00a0Tachyon bombardment of the email server? \u00a0Was I trying to warn myself of something that was going to happen Saturday morning?<\/div>\n
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…<\/div>\n
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Nah, it was probably spam.<\/div>\n
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That’s it for now, back to work…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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