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Someday, I am going to write a memoir entitled Admins Should Have Kill Rights.

In this memoir I am going to include a transcript of the voicemail I got yesterday morning, which I wish I could post to you guys but could get in serious legal trouble for doing. In essence, a grandmotherly-sounding woman called in with a request for contact information for a client we supposedly serve, which is not so unusual, but from there it turned into some kind of bizarre comedy sketch, where she ranted with increasing rage about two women who had maybe stolen her identity or maybe were trying to sell her drugs or hook her up with strange men, and ended by her denouncing them for using her ID not because it was illegal but because they hadn't paid her for the use of it.

Anyway, she left her phone number. I've been told to pass it down the line to legal, so I don't have to get involved, but I will admit I googled her number. No wonder people have been ripping her off; the very first hit when you google her phone number is her full name and address. Googling her name brought up her LinkedIn profile with her educational and employment history and home address; googlemaps showed me her house.

Nobody knows better than I do the delicate dance of internet privacy, but I'm always astounded by just how much information I can gather about a person with a few mouse clicks and a phone number.

Out of curiousity I googled my new phone number, which thankfully has no associations, and my real name (Starbuck is not my surname). Fortunately my surname, while not exactly common, is shared by a few other Sams who have much more public facebook and myspace accounts than I do....

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Hey guys, bluejeans07 has joined the ranks of the Lulu Fabulous and self-published a sketchbook. She's a professional artist and the sketchbook itself is gorgeous, including reprints of her awesome pinups for Girls Drawing Girls. You can preview the sketchbook and it's available for purchase; she wanted me to let people know she'll also be selling it next month at Wizard World Anaheim.

I have a vested interest in Jean's success, because she promised to draw me doing the Barrowman fistshake I love her work. *solemn*

:D

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I got a letter in the mail this week telling me that I will get a letter in the mail next week about the census.

This is, btw, a huge waste of paper, money, and time -- the OMG CENSUS INCOMING letter, I mean, though in some ways I think the Census itself is given more weight than it should considering its information-gathering techniques. At any rate, I'm planning to Queer The Census (via synecdochic, thanks!) and if you're in America and receiving a Census form, you should do the same.

Among many other issues, if the government wants to tell you who you can marry, it should know just how many people it is depriving of the right to marriage and how many people are angry about it. The FAQ at the Queer The Census site has information on how to fill out the census -- including little factoids about data management, like how legally married gay couples can indicate that on the form itself, and how the race of the person designated "head of household" is the race the entire family will be designated in the Census data tables.

There's a petition which takes about two seconds to sign, and a free sticker available that you can seal your census envelope with, which includes checkboxes for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight Ally. My sticker is already in the mail to me!

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Apropos of nothing, I would pay good cash money to see ATARI: THE MUSICAL!

Someone should pitch that to the Penny Arcade boys.

(The Pong dream ballet would be heartbreaking.)